He proposed that someone was first here. Who and what?

ANSWER
Thomas Pynchon in V. proposes that Kilroy was originally part of a schematic for a band-pass filter.

Complete answer by Paritosh(Dada was here!)

Doo-wop

This picture, or its title at the very least, was brought into pop-consciousness in 1976.How?

ANSWER
This Picture is titled Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war. The 1976 Single by Paul Simon takes its name from the picture and purports that Rene Magritte was a secret admirer of doo-wop music. Uncracked again.

Either-Or

The events leading to the end of her marriage resulted in an inspired bit of conflagration. What?

ANSWER
The Woman in the picture is Nina Paley. Her film SITA SINGS THE BLUES mixes biographical elements with Ramayana and Annete Hanshaw’s Blues for its three-fold narrative structure.

Uncracked again. Is it the low traffic or are the questions too arbitrary?

I am afraid this isn’t a practical joke

The sound made by this object lends itself to something that has been in place since the 16th century. What?

ANSWER
The object in picture here is called the battachio. When struck, the battacchio produces a loud smacking noise, though little force is transferred from the object to the person being struck. The term Slapstickcomes from this. Surprisingly uncracked.

Kingdom of Heaven

What does the picture show?

ANSWER

Anton Bruckner arriving in Heaven. Cracked by Prasanna.

The Shock

Connect

ANSWER
Pic 1 is Elsa Schiappareli(or Schiaparelli?)
Pic 2 is Lili de Alvarez
The connect is divided skirts. Wonder how? Google, fucker.

Eschaton

Identify this interpretation of a concept from the New Testament by the painter X. There are many others as well including one by a now unfashionable band.

ANSWER
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer. Correctly answered by Teki.

A Supposedly Amusing Thing That Would Be Funny Only If It Weren’t So Tragic

Title is a big hint, so is the bandana and ,despite the parody, the style of the sentence with its prolixity, fracturing to parallelize the sentence and reliance on footnotes,if you really think about it.ID.

ANSWER

Went surprisingly uncracked.This is the late David Foster Wallace.

The Pope loves him..

Identify.Who is the designer and what does it explore?

ANSWER

Mystery Park located in Interlaken,Switzerland.Designed by Erich Von Daniken to explore the seven mysteries of the world.

cracked solely by ashwini_nit

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2 is a spin-off of 1.Give me the latest offspring of this unbeleivably dumbass concept.

ANSWER
Rakhi ka Swayamvar is correct. 1 and 2 are The Bachelor and The Bachelorette respectively.