Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

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    Didn't get this one.
    I propose that if someone solves the puzzle, and is confident that they are right, they just add a clue, and so on until the solution is bright as day.
     
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    I propose a 24 hour time limit on all puzzles. If it isn't solved in 24 hours, simpler, more direct clues must be provided. If one puzzle drags on for days on end, the thread will die an early and quiet death. Also, I think we need to open up the playing field to a wider audience. Perhaps the occasional pop trivia is in order.
     
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    Aye, aye!

    Puzzle#2 (deck of man, woman, script) clues below

    Clue #1 : "Sunset boulevard"

    Clue #2: People wonder the difference between bouillon and bullion but what is the similarity?

    Clue #3: Chameleon man
     
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    Gauri may be good to add a note to anyone who wants to host the questions to ensure that the images we post here are 'free to use'.

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    Aaah, the eternal tug-of-war between the destination and the journey!
    But you may be right, not everyone may go for the dog-with-a-chew-toy 'pleasure'.
     
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    Chameleon man is Frederic Bourdin. Can't take too much credit for that one. A simple search reached a New Yorker article about the man. The script pattern is a boustrophedon, something I vaguely remembered. Is 'bou' the pattern in the puzzles? Don't the 'bou' in boulevard, bullion and bouillon have different origins? I figured the 'bou' lady is Joan of Arc. Ha! Apparently not.
     
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    Whack me for not the obliqueness but tenuous phonetic link between the clue and the answers. Usher and Alicia Key's 'My Boo' was playing when I was thinking what to post. And it was playing as boo boo , the boo series.


    Gauri, you are right, 2 out of 3.


    Answer#1: Frédéric Bourdin, who is notorious for impersonations as a chameleon. The New Yorker printed a full article on his exploits.


    Answer#2: Bouddica, the queen of Iceni people of Eastern England who lead a rebellion against the mighty Romans.


    Answer#3: Boustrophedon (from Greek boustrophēdon , bous (ox) + strophe (turn)) script, unlike conventional scripts that read from left to right or right to left, BS is bidirectional that is read [L-R]-[R-L]-[L-R].
     
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    It's pop trivia this time! So come on movie lovers, name the movies from the stills.


     
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    Graduate
    Fight club
    To Kill a mocking bird(?)
    Thelma n Louise
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
     
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