This document provides 12 trivia questions related to cartoons, comics, and Disney movies. Each question includes clues and fill-in-the-blank details about the characters, stories, or works being referenced. The document also announces the quizmasters for the trivia competition and reminds participants that there are no safety nets or easy questions. It awards 20 surprise points for correctly guessing the two underlying themes connected to the 12 trivia questions.
3. 1.
• After the 2011 relaunch of X as part of DC's The
New 52 publishing initiative, X's origin is revised
as she discovers she is the daughter of Y. Y and
Hippolyta engaged in combat, and their fight
ended with the couple making love, and thus X
was conceived. This encounter was hidden from
X, who was raised to believe that she was born
out of clay, in order to protect X from Hera (Y‘s
wife).Lennox (another illegitimate offspring of Y)
commented that Y has been "scarpered off the
immortal coil", hinting that he has apparently
died.
5. 2.
• In the original version, the _____feels an
indescribable amount of pain every time she takes a
step - due to a curse the witch put on her.
• The Captain that the ____ falls in love with marries
another woman (whom he had been in love with in the
first place)
• The ______ sisters offer her a knife to kill the prince so
she can return to the see in the original.
• The ______dies at the end (turns into sea foam) - she
kinds of commits suicide - because she cannot bare to
see the captain with someone else.
• FITB. All Blanks are the same
7. 3.
• Cessily Kincaid aka X, an Irish American, was raised in
Portland, Oregon by her parents Mark and Jill, who,
according to DeFilippis, used to dote over her. When
Cessily's powers manifested, her parents were
disgusted and made her stay indoors so as to hide her
mutation. In response, she was sent to the __________
where she befriended Julian Keller and was placed as
Laurie Collins' roommate for a while. After the school
was rebuilt, she was selected by Emma Frost to be on
her Hellions squad.
• Abilities: Body is composed of a non-toxic form of X ,
which she can reshape and stretch at will.
10. 4.
• In the original story, the antagonist asks Her
servant to also bring her back ____ heart and
liver. He can't kill ____, and so brings back a
boar's heart and liver as well. The antagonist
eats the heart and liver, believing them to be
______'s.
• As a punishment, antagonist is forced to wear
burning-hot iron shoes and dance until
dropping dead.
12. 5.
• In the late 19th century, a wealthy merchant named Cyrus
Gold is murdered and his body disposed of in Slaughter
Swamp, near Y. Fifty years later, the corpse is reanimated as
a huge shambling figure (composed partly of the swamp
matter that has accumulated around the body over the
decades) with almost no memory of its past life. Gold
murders two escaped criminals who are hiding out in the
marsh and steals their clothes. He shows up in a hobo camp
and, when asked about his name, one of the few things he
can recall is that he was "born on a Monday". One of the
men at the camp mentions the nursery rhyme character X
(who was born on a Monday), and Gold adopts the
moniker.
14. 6.
• One of the antagonists cuts of her toe another
chops off her heel for a deception
• The bleeding, noted by carrier pigeons gives
their game away
• As punishment their eyes are pecked out by
the birds at a wedding
16. 7.
• The Jack Kirby _______‘s family and people were slain
by the raiders of Hyssa the Lizard King. _____ was
raised by a wise and mysterious traveler named
Chagra. Because of an alien crystal carried by _____,
Chagra theorized that _______ was one of the people
of the Crystal Mountain. Chagra agrees to help
_______ achieve his revenge, but only if ______ leads
him to the Crystal Mountain. _______ grew up to
become a protector of the innocent, but once King
Hyssa was defeated, his petulance and darker nature
came to the forefront.(Image in next slide)
18. 8
• The original was there is no happy ending featuring two
baby animals.
• The ______ is based on a 1967 novel written by Daniel P.
Mannix. In the book, X is raised by Y owner's/hunter's
family, but eventually returns to the wild.
• One character ends up getting hit by a train. The hunter is
devastated, and vows revenge on X. He becomes obsessed,
but can never catch him (although he does kill X's first
mate, second mate, and children). Eventually, X DOES die,
but of exhaustion from being chased so much. Y is so old
that he needs to be shot, and that is the end of the book.
• None of this needless to say made it to the big screen
• Name the movie or give me X and Y
20. 9.
• Born of a mortal, Peleus, and a goddess
Thetis, X is a demi-god. His mother decided to
make her newborn baby invulnerable, so she
went to the river Y, in where she held the
young child by his heel. The river gave the
child invulnerability except in his heel. X
became a great warrior, and fought in the
Trojan War, where he was hit in his vulnerable
heel with a poisonous arrow shot by Paris I,
killing the great warrior.
22. 10
• In the Original version, X gets knocked up by the
hero before she escapes, and the evil sorceress
figures it out.
• The hero is then lured by the sorceress and
trapped in the tower
• He jumps out the window in despair and is
blinded from the thorns below. He wanders
around aimlessly (he is blind). X gives birth to
twins.
• He is eventually guided back to her when he
hears her voice. Her tears restore his sight.
24. 11.
• X first appears when pulled from the past by the villain Immortus to
battle the Thunder God Y. This story is not referenced in the
character's next appearance, which depicts X and Y as apparently
meeting for the first time. The discrepancy is eventually explained
when it is revealed that the first “X" encountered was actually an
alien Space Phantom in disguise.
• X guest-stars in an extended Y storyline, defeating a depowered
Thunder God (punished by Odin for loving the mortal woman Jane
Foster). X unwittingly becomes the slave of fellow Olympian god
Pluto when he signs a contract which he thinks is for a film, but
actually states that he will now rule the Netherworld instead of
Pluto. X is eventually rescued by Y (now at full strength) who battles
and defeats Pluto's underworld minions. Pluto opts to void the
contract rather than accept the destruction of his realm. X also has
a brief encounter with the Hulk, fighting the monster to a standstill.
26. 12
• In the Original version, X gets knocked up by the
hero before she escapes, and the evil sorceress
figures it out.
• The hero is then lured by the sorceress and
trapped in the tower
• He jumps out the window in despair and is
blinded from the thorns below. He wanders
around aimlessly (he is blind). X gives birth to
twins.
• He is eventually guided back to her when he
hears her voice. Her tears restore his sight.
28. 20 point surprise. Write it Down
• 2 Themes in the past round. 6 questions from
one theme 6 from the other in no particular
order. 10 points for each
29. • Solomon
• Hercules
• Atlas
• Zeus
• Achilles
• Mercury
• The other theme
Is Disney Movies