Geek Quiz ♯2

Ok, time for the next Quiz. As with last week, 10 questions. You answer a question right, you get a point. Person with the most points wins. The answers will be below a page break, so I'd advise viewing this post through the blog front page so as you don't get spoiler when you view the later questions. And please refrain from posting answers in the comments. Anyway, lets get on with it.

1. What is Stan Lee's real name (1 Point)

2. Name the main character in Neil Gaiman's masterpiece American Gods. (1 point)

3.In the Harry Potter books, where does Dumbledore's pet phoenix get his name from? (1 Point)

4. Tom Baker is famous as the longest serving Doctor in Doctor Who history. But what was the name of his first full serial as the Doctor? (1 Point) [not including his first, post-regeneration, appearance]

5. Name the Sith Lord who trained Emperor Palpatine/ Darth Sideous. (1 Point)

6. Name the character who takes the role of the Twilight Princess in the Legend Of Zelda game of the same name. (1 Point)

7. Which of these 4 legendary Pokemon from the Hoenn region has not featured in one of the Pokemon movies? (1 Point)

a) Kyogre

b) Groudon

c) Rayquaza

d) Deoxys

8. What is Captain Jean Luc Picard's birthday? [year as well please] (1 point)

9. The Watchmen was originally meant to star the superheroes of the defunct Charlton comics brand, but this plan was changed when DC decided to use the characters in its mainstream universe. Name the Charlton heroes originally intended to feature. (1 point for each character, 6 characters in total- Rorshach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Doctor Manhatten, Ozymandias, The Comedian)

10. Name the 5 Istari (wizards) of Middle- Earth in J.R.R Tolkien's works. (1 point each, +1 bonus point if you get all 5) [You may give Elvish names if nessescary]

Answers after the jump, so no peaking.

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HM3: More Stuff From The Thrift Shop

As promised, here a few more new items for the 'machine. Enjoy! (That's an order!) 😉

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They are online now, but you might have to clear your cache to see them ...

Kaldath’s Caption Contest #55

Once again we find ourselves facing another Wednesday, and that means aanother caption contest! So your challenge this week is to give me dialogue for BOTH word bubbles in the following image:

Bucky and Cap 1

 

The normal rules apply, which are: You are limited to Three (3) entries which are due by 5:00 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday December 16th. Of course I as always expect you to keep your entries no worse then PG-13 in nature and that you follow all the normal rules of the forum when writing your caption for the above image. That being said I wish you all Good luck!

Kaldath’s Caption Contest #54: Results

Last Week I asked you all to give me you best dialogue for this image:

image

and the top five are:

Herr D

Guys? I can break this streetlight without hitting it . . .

******

Herr D

Oh, good; I thought my Spidey sense wasn’t working . . .

*****

Sabrina
My what a big chin you have, my dear! And don’t tell me it’s all the better to smash me with.
*****
Skoul 
Shut up! I’m the one who talks to the viewers!
******
redligerwing59
Listen! calm down its Betty Brant I’m trying to hook up with not Betty Ross.
*****
And the winner is .....................................................

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Character Building With JR19759

Hey guys, sorry this is late. As I explained in the last post, I just haven't had much time this week. At least I got it done. As requested, this week I'm tackling anime style faces and hair, along with Japanese honourifics and the custom colours. I apologise for the horrible loud sound right at the beginning, I got carried away and clapped during the intro, completely forgetting I wasn't on camera.

Also, if you want a step-by-step guide for how to do anime style faces amongst other stuff, you can find one here- http://www.heromachine.com/forums/topic/manga-style-tutorial/

Character Building Delayed

Sorry about this guys. I haven't actually had a chance to record it yet. Usually I'd try to get the episode recorded on Sunday when I'm not doing anything and then I'd edit it all together and pre-post it on Monday, ready for Tuesday. But this Sunday my family were putting up our Christmas decorations, so I was busy for most of the day and when I wasn't it was still too noisy for me to record my audio decently because Xmas decorating round my house makes a loooooooooot of mess. Then yesterday I was at work and when I got back I had other things to sort out, what with it being my Mums birthday tomorrow. So yeah, long story short, I'm going to record the episode when I get back tonight (when this is posted I'll be at work) and depending on what else happens today, I'll try to get it edited and uploaded for you today, but it will be up much later than usual, afternoon sometime. But it might end up being delayed until tomorrow. Sorry 'bout that.

HeroMachine Hall Of Fame Nomination Reminder!

Greetings everyone, I would like to take a moment of your time to remind you all that we are looking for Nominations for the HeroMachine Hall Of Fame . Please take a moment to nominate your favorite HeroMachine creations from one of our community members! Find out what you need to do to nominate in the Link Below

HEROMACHINE HALL OF FAME OPEN NOMINATIONS  

 

Character Design Contest ♯102- A Tree-mendous Contest

*bad puns*

So, we did snowmen last week,what festive fun are we having this week? Well, if the title didn't give it away, I might as well say now. This week your task is to find a nice Christmas tree and decorate it. Presents are compulsory (what sort of Christmas tree would it be without presents), but I don't mind how you decorate it otherwise, you can go fairy lights, baubles, tinsel (joke: what do you get if you eat Christmas decorations? Tinsel-itus………….. anyway) and you can have either a star or a fairy on top. Just make it look good. Make it look like the sort of thing you would put up in your house for the festive season.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post pictures and images that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

HM3: It’s cold outside, you should cover your head.

So, after a longer hiatus I finally managed to put a few new items in the 'machine. More to follow soon ...

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Hope you like them! 😉

Character Of The Year- 2014

Ok guys, as with last year, it's time for our Character Of The Year contest. The idea is very simple, I take all of the CDC winners from throughout the year and put them into a number of polls. Who goes in which polls is decided using a Random Name Selector, so I have not control over who goes where. The winners of these polls after a weeks worth of voting then get put into a final poll that will run from next Sunday until Christmas Eve, where the winner will be announced and put into the Hall Of Fame (I am aware that two of these CDC winners have already been entered into the Hall Of Fame, so obviously if they win they won't get entered again, we'll just go with who ever gets second place).

Anyway, without further ado, lets get started.

Polls below the jump.

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