8. This band started largely as a joke as Wilson was preoccupied with his other project, No-Man. Wilson created an 80-minute-long cassette titled Tarquin's Seaweed Farm under the name of __________. Still showing the spirit of his joke, Wilson included an 8-page inlay containing information about fictitious band members such as Sir TarquinUnderspoon and Timothy Tadpole-Jones. He fabricated details such as band members, album titles, and a back-story, that purportedly included events such as a meeting at a '70s rock festival and several trips in and out of prisons. Also the band drew heavily from the psychedelic rock band of the seventies including Pink Floyd
12. Evidence of the consumption of X can be found as far back as the 3rd millennium B.C., as indicated by charred seeds of X found in a ritual brazier at an ancient burial site in present day Romania. The most famous users of X were the ancient Hindus of India and Nepal. Some scholar claims that X was used by religiously by Jews probably due to similarity of X with Hebrew phrase "qenébósem" ("aromatic cane"). It was used by Muslims in various Sufi orders as early as the Mamluk period, for example by the Qalandarsthe consumption of which probably was the cause of their frenzied singing.
14. Originally the Aztecs called this fruit ahucatl after their word for testicle. This is may be partly due to the fruit's resemblance to a testicle, but also because it was supposedly believed to be an aphrodisiac. These fruits are sometimes also called Alligator pears.The etymology of this is far more obvious; the skin of these fruits is dark green, thick, leathery, and knobbly, rather like that of an alligator.
16. Bill and I created _________. Bill was the writer. That's the way I sum it up. __________ looks like Conrad Veidt — you know, the actor in The Man Who Laughs, [the 1928 movie based on the novel] by Victor Hugo. Bill had a book with a photograph of Conrad Veidt and showed it to me and said, 'Here's _________'. Jerry Robinson had absolutely nothing to do with it, but he'll always say he created it till he dies. Fill in the blank. What was Jerry Robinson's contribution?
17. The joker Jerry Robinson brought the trademark playing card of the joker
18. Since X's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life, his grandparents influenced his early development very strongly. His grandfather, whom he called "Papalelo", was a Liberal veteran of the Thousand Days War. X's political and ideological views were shaped by his grandfather's stories. "My political ideas probably came from him to begin with because, instead of telling me fairy tales when I was young, he would regale me with horrifying accounts of the last civil war that free-thinkers and anti-clerics waged against the Conservative government.“ Due to his newfound fame and his outspoken views on U.S. imperialism he was labeled as a subversive and for many years was denied visas by U.S. immigration authorities. However, after Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president, he finally lifted the travel ban and claimed that Y was his favorite novel. There is a street in East Los Angeles, CA bearing his name. Identify X and Y.
20. To qualify for the Forbes Fictional 15 list, members must be "both fictional (in the sense that excludes mythological and folkloric figures) and characters (meaning they are part of a narrative story or series of stories)." And of course, rich. The one exception to the rule was X, a mythological character, whom Forbes decided was an "irresistible" addition. Although, beginning in 2007, he is absent from the current list. Forbes stated, "We still estimate X's net worth as infinite, but we excluded him from this year's rankings after being bombarded by letters insisting that X is "real." We don't claim to have settled the ongoing controversy concerning X's existence, but after taking into account the physical evidence we felt it was safer to remove him from consideration." Identify X.
