The prelims of the MTV Quiz conducted by Manavi Muralidhar, Vishal Ramesh and Brishti Mukhopadhyay on 21/Sept/2016 in association with VIT-ELA and VIT Film Society.

1. THE MOVIE AND TV SHOW QUIZ

2. QUESTION 0
• An X is a child who, through overexposure to TV, movie and music, grows up too
quickly. By the time they are around 13 they believe they are ready for sex,
drugs and alcohol. They later feel remorse for the childhood they skipped over,
as defined by the Urban Dictionary.
• Also a song by Arctic Monkeys.
• Considering the definition is apt for most people attending today, this will also
be the name of the quiz from the finals onwards.

3. • X – Fluorescent Adolescent

4. QUESTION 1
• According to a franchise veteran, “If you know how to handle a X, like we did, you
don’t need a ____. That’s just one thing that I think they might have got wrong.”
• The X in question was given an official canon explanation: it’s source is damaged,
leading to it requiring extra vents for the excess heat to escape.
• The damaged source also gives it its unconventional, flickering, unstable appearance
and annoying buzz.
• The explanation did not save it from widespread ridicule, with fans complaining that
the “protective” vents are most likely to cut off the owner’s wrists during use.
• What is the X being talked about?

5. • Kylo Ren’s lightsaber

6. QUESTION 2
• The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption is a legally recognised American
church, created in an attempt expose how scam-y the whole televangelist and tax-
exemption for churches business is.
• The church was founded on “seed faith” – also called prosperity theology.
• Despite the founder’s explanation of the idea, the church had to be shut down after
people started mailing items like actual plant seeds, semen, and a giant wooden
penis.
• The founder has stated, “When someone sends you jizz through the mail, it’s time to
stop whatever you are doing.”
• Who was the founder and reverend of this church?

7. • John Oliver.

8. QUESTION 3
• X improvised the act he finally performed in the infamous scene. To adequately
convey the violent nature of the scene and the sinister nature of the character, the
director asked X to do something outrageous—like dance around. X then began
humming while dancing, and eventually performing the controversial act.
• This improvised move was not free of controversy, including the original owner of
the act performed snubbing X at a party a year after the release of the movie, as
a result of the director being ‘too cheap’ to buy the rights.
• Which movie and what scene?

9. • Clockwork Orange, the scene with Malcolm McDowell singing Singin’ in the
Rain

10. QUESTION 4
• According to a Reddit user who had attended an informal Q&A with George RR Martin,
“He said he came up with the X idea in 1991 and seemed depressed that the show got to
reveal it before he did. He said he had no one to blame but himself for his slow writing...”
• “He said that his X reveal in the books will differ in the context and how it happens. So
while the X will still mean the same ... it will be very different from the show’s reveal.”
• According to Weiss, “It was just one of the saddest, most affecting things—even sitting in a
hotel room—having someone tell you that this was going to happen in the abstract in some
way. The _______ was the origin for X. We just thought that was a really, really
heartbreaking idea.”
• ID X.

11. • The origin of Hodor’s name.

12. QUESTION 5
• The following images are of a restaurant called as Gonpachi that is located in
Tokyo.
• The restaurant has earned the nickname The X Restaurant due to shooting of
one of the most iconic movie scenes in the restaurant. (X being the name of the
movie)
• Which movie?
• (images follow)

14. • X – Kill Bill
• The Kill Bill Crazy 88 scene was shot at Gonpachi

15. QUESTION 6
• In addition to the many other things about the show X, the font in the title card has
caught the attention of the viewers.
• It’s not such a surprise when you consider that font, called ITC Benguiat, is a
hallmark of the era X so dotingly pays reverence to. It graced the cover of
countless Stephen King novels, as well as an album cover by The Smiths.
• A website has been started dedicated to allowing fans to type things of their
interest in the same font.
• Give X. (Picture follows)

17. • X – Stranger Things

18. QUESTION 7
• Put funda
• 2002 – 81 Kgs
• 2002- 83 Kgs
• 2004 - 55 Kgs
• 2005 - 86 Kgs
• 2006- 61 Kgs
• 2008 – 86 Kgs
• 2010 – 66 Kgs
• 2012 – 90 Kgs

19. • Christian Bale weight transformation

20. QUESTION 8

21. • X has been blanked out from this photo with Taylor Swift, who invited the 52-
year-old actress on stage during her tour for 1989.
• Swift and X sang one of X’s most famous songs from the sitcom Y, where she
plays a musician.
• Give X and Y.

22. • X – Lisa Kudrow
• Y - Friends

23. QUESTION 9
• “What was amazing about the scene is that it’s somewhat visual effects, but it is mostly
special effects and camera work. Meaning we had a high-speed camera – a bunch of
cameras – that were on rigs that were circling with him. So most of that [scene] was shot in
camera. Yeah, because it was shot at super-high speeds. If you go on the Internet and search
super-high-speed photography, it’s all of those effects like where he touches the guy’s cheek
and it bends. It’s just because the camera has been so sped up. It’s not a visual effect. The
only visual effect in that movie is some of the stuff in the air. I mean, some of the stuff that’s
flying through the air isn’t real, because we couldn’t control rice particles. But some of the
things in the air ARE real. … _____ had a very clear focus on what he wanted in that
sequence. He had been showing us photography tricks online [for a while]. “
• What scene from a 2014 movie is being talked about here?

24. • Days of Future Past slow motion scene

25. QUESTION 10
• In the modern series, X used to be a Captain serving with the 5th Northumberland
Fusiliers deployed to Afghanistan.
• The 5th Northumberland Fusiliers did indeed serve in Afghanistan in the Second
Afghan-Anglo war (1878-1880). The first story of the old series took place in 1881.
The 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, however, was renamed into the "The Northumberland
Fusiliers" in the year 1881 (no 5th left in title), which means the retention of the 5th
Northumberlands is a nod to its old heritage.
• Another quirk involving X’s character is the psychosomatic pain he experiences on the
show at a different location from his war wound. This is a reference to the ambiguity
surrounding X’s war wound in the old series.
• X?

26. • X – John Watson

27. QUESTION 11
• “I love that twist, and I love that it provokes such a strong reaction from the audience. I
know I'll lose some audience there, but others will fall deeply in love with the film right
there.” says director Fede Alvarez about his movie X.
• During a recent Reddit AMA session, a fan asked Fede Alvarez about his decision to
include such a grotesque sequence in Y. The Redditor who posed the question specifically
voiced distaste for the twist, citing the fact that it felt more like an Eli Roth scene than a
Fede Alvarez scene. However, Alvarez stood by his decision, and admitted his own
personal love for it. He knew from the beginning that the sequence would turn off a large
segment of the audience, but in the end it would also win over others, and that's what he
wanted.
• ID the 2016 movie being talked about here and the scene.

28. • X – Don’t Breathe

29. QUESTION 12
• Although the origins of the modern version have been completely
independent, one cannot disregard it’s similarities to a show from the 80s.
• The show from the 80s, called ‘Puttin on the Hits’, has gone to show that X, a
recent show on Spike Network, though a completely original idea, may not be
a unique one as perceived so far.
• What has been done on Puttin on the Hits, as seen in the video, which is similar
to X? Or give X.

30. • X – Lip Sync Battle

31. QUESTION 13
• This is a shot taken on the set of
a famous 1960s movie.
ID the movie from the house in the
background and the actor.

32. • Psycho

33. QUESTION 14
• The show chronicles the happenings during the Korean War in South Korea.
Shooting locations, however were restricted to Southern California, which has
now converted the shooting location into a five mile hike.
• What show?
• (Images follow)

35. • M*A*S*H

36. QUESTION 15
• There is a # that is currently trending in twitter called “Y explains movies”, which
explains the plotlines of famous movies as viewed by Y.
• This is the entry about the movie X.
• “ X is about a boy abandoned by liberal parents who meets an American hero! “
• Here, the American hero in question is Y himself.
• ID X and Y

37. • Home Alone 2

38. QUESTION 16
• Who lives here?

39. • Jerry Seinfeld

40. QUESTION 17
• ID the 4 movies
(Clockwise)

41. • Captain Philips, Castaway, Terminal, Apollo 13

42. QUESTION 18
• Noting that standing up straight for hours at a time proved difficult, X often found
herself hunched over on set. "It started to hurt so bad that I couldn't take the pain,"
admits the young star.
• Speaking about the change, she said ‘There was so little that I could wear that was
age-appropriate. Everyone would say, "Why is she dressing so mature? That's so
inappropriate for her age!" ’
• X further stresses that the decision was entirely her own and not the result of online
bullying. "I got it for myself. I can't even really put it into words about how amazing it
feels to really feel right.“
• Who is X and what is the change being spoken about?

43. • Ariel Winter and breast reduction surgery

44. QUESTION 19
• On Memorial Day 2009, homemade bombs were set off in various locations around
the city, including a Starbucks. A teenager named Mr. Shaw was arrested for the
above crime near his home, and the authorities found on him a DVD of X.
• Mr. Shaw had told a friend to “watch the news on Memorial Day”
• The bombing was apparently modelled after the movie X, which portrays destruction
of businesses considered symbolic of oppression.
• ID X , which is a cult movie owing to which a lot of ____________s have been formed
around the world consisting of members as diverse as American software developers,
Australian schoolboys, and British prisoners.

45. • X – Fight Club

46. QUESTION 20
• The audio clip attached is one of an actor ranting about Donald Trump in the
style of one of his most famous characters on TV show X.
• The clip shows similarities to a rant by the actor in the opening sequence of
the show.
• Which show X?

47. • X – The Newsroom
• Voice of Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy