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!)

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.

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the 6th

Character depicted and described in the life and writings of A ,first appearing in B. C,D,E show more examples

Tread softly

Sad that the Lady on the left couldn’t stay, but she had the gent on the right anyway.The upshot of this was pronounced mourning over X’s grave.

Give me all.

ANSWER

X–William Butler Yeats

Maud Gonne and John MacBride.

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Connect

A funny question occured to me. Shouldn’t be too tough. So connect –

1.

2. বিশাল আকৃতি

3.

The give away

Answer
Yet another unsolved question! The connect was Chief Vitalstatistix. Doublehelix is his brother who lives in Lutetia, Bishal Aakriti is his name in the Bengali translation, and he appears in Asterix comics in which, as Pande rightly noticed, the pirates are parodies of those in the Barbe Rouge comic. Ill post the next question tomorrow. Later.

Wha happened next?

well there is something legendary related to this specific comic strip.What?

Answer

This is the Publication of peanuts  which was published on March 30, 1993 in which Charlie Brown finally scored a home run after 43 years of peanuts.

AND Please give a big round of applause to Pankaj for giving the second angle to the question, i.e.

the second legendary thing about this strip is Exactly 15 years later Ryan Zimmerman hit the homer in the ninth innings in the Opening baseball night at the National Parks with the Washington Nationals beating the Atlanta Braves 3-2 and this being the first homer on this park.
Also Bush threw out the first pitch that night.

Cracked by:- Everyone but Katoch (yes)

Whatwashesmoking?

Connect the man(1) to the incident(2)

ANSWER:

Ambrose Bierce(pic1.) wrote the poem below following the assassination of Governor William Goebel of Kentucky in order to express a mood of dismay and fear but William Randolph Hearst’s opponents turned it into a cause-celebre following the assassination of President William McKinley(pic 2.)

“The bullet that pierced Goebel’s breast

Can not be found in all the West;

Good reason, it is speeding here

To stretch McKinley on his bier.”

Went uncracked although Chithanand identified both the pics, and Viswanathan had something to say about a poem by Bierce…

Connect the three…

(order is c,b and a)

ANSWER:

Correctly answered by sam.
Quoting him –
This is the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

1. The Amulet of Samarkand (amulets in the Asian region shown)

2. The Golem’s Eye (an ugly golem shown)

3. Ptolemy’s Gate (Ptolemy in the pic)

ABCD Chahida mainu…lal mercedes chahidi mainu!

A’s famous work 1 was named after B. But some sources say that it was after C, who was the business partner of D – famous for his invention 2.
E’s complicated rendition of 1 named 3 (after surname of B & C only) is a recognized masterpiece of literature.
3 has inspired many famous works like F, G and H to name a few.
Give me everything.

Hint: last pic ofcourse!

ANSWER:

A – Christopher marlowe
1 – The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
B – Johann Georg Faust
C – Johann Fust
D – Johannes Gutenberg
2 – Printing press.
E – Goethe
3 – Faust
F – Frankenstein (borris karloff it is)
G – Phantom of the Opera
H – Dorian Gray

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(hint – faust means lucky in latin!)