Finals for the Open Entertainment Quiz conducted at ISI Kolkata as a part of Integration 2020 6 team finals Highest Score: 380

2.  4 rounds of finals
› Clockwise Bounce-Pounce
› Written SVC
› Counter-clockwise Bounce-Pounce
› Written AV

3.  +15 for correct on bounce
 +15/-10 for pounce

4.  In an older version of the game, billiards used to be played
with a mace, an implement similar to a light-weight golf
club
 When the ball is frozen to the rail cushions, the use of the
mace was difficult, so experienced players used the slender
tail or butt end of the mace instead
 What is the French word for tail, that you may have seen in
a computer science context?

6.  Queue
 Gives rise to the term “cue”

7.  Mr. Bungle is an experimental rock band, known
for their very eclectic mix of heavy metal, ska,
jazz and disco
 The band signed to Warner Brothers’ Records in
the early 90s
 As a tribute to the support given by Warner
Bros., Mr. Bungle changed their logo
 What was their new logo?

9.  Warner Bros. logo upside down

10.  X is a wellness and lifestyle company founded by
actress Y
 Known for its pseudoscientific products, and
“new age advice”, it has been ridiculed on shows
like Modern Family, with a parody company
called Nerp, founded by Nicole Rosemary Page
 In an interview about the name X, Y said all
major tech companies have two o’s
 Give me Y and X, the subject of a Netflix
documentary

12.  X- Goop
 Y- Gwyneth Paltrow

13.  Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-
adventure video game from From Software
 Set during the Sengoku period, you don the role
of a shinobi seeking vengeance on a samurai
clan that attacked you
 It has received critical acclaim for its difficulty,
gameplay, and realism
 As interaction with NPCs is important to
progress the story and get secrets, players can
use a special item in these cases, that help them
get more information from NPCs
 What, relevant to where the game is set?

15.  Sake
 Drunk NPCs tend to reveal more information

16.  In the season 4 premiere of Rick and Morty,
Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat, Morty gets
a crystal that shows him all his possible future
deaths
 A series of misguided decisions leads to Morty to
causing chaos as he kills numerous people and
uses special ferro-fluid to turn himself into a
cyborg abomination to pursue his desired future
 What is he compared to throughout the episode?
 Pics on the next few slides

21.  Akira

22.  This device, that may remind you of an old-time
singer, is used to provide smooth mobilization of
camera equipment
 One ingenious use of this device is to move towards a
given subject, while transitioning from a close shot to
a wide angle
 This type of zoom is named after the device, and was
first used in a 1958 movie to provide a disorienting
effect
 What is the device called? Which movie was it used
in? Pic on the next slide

25.  Dolly Zoom from the camera dolly
 AKA the Vertigo Zoom

26.  Location: Vienna, Austria
 Sponsored by: Ineos, a multinational chemicals
company
 Average Speed: 21.18 kmph
 Used V-formation to reduce wind resistance
 Used “mobile hydration”
 Laser guidance for precision and energy
conservation
 What is being described here?

28.  Ineos 1:59 Challenge
 Eliud Kipchoge’s sub-
2-hour marathon

29.  Teach Beside Me is a website to providing
creative methods to educate children
 In order to teach the periodic table, and the
relative position of the elements, it has been
combined with a certain 2-player game, which
originated during WW1
 What game?

32.  On his latest album Music to be Murdered By,
Eminem has a song called “Godzilla” featuring
Juice WRLD
 With this song, what was 6.46 became 7.13.
What am I talking about, and what does the
former refer to?

34.  Eminem’s record for most words in a second, the
former being the 15 second “supersonic speed”
section from Rap God

35.  When X had approached TV dynamo Alec Berg,
he thought the idea was fresh, however, was
taken aback when X wanted to play the main
antihero
 The anxieties the main character has about
killing people mirrors X’s fears about SNL
 What show did X create, which he describes as a
mix between Taxi Driver and Waiting for
Guffman?

37.  Barry

38.  Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs published an extensive new
scheme for the classification of musical instruments in Zeitschrift
für Ethnologie in 1914
 The original Hornbostel-Sachs system classified instruments into
four main groups:
› Idiophones, which produce sound by vibrating the primary body
of the instrument itself
› Membranophones, which produce sound by a vibrating a
stretched membrane
› Chordophones, which produce sound by vibrating one or more
strings
› Aerophones, which produce a sound with a vibrating column of
air
 However, Sachs later added a 5th category, due to a specific
instrument introduced in 1928
 What is this new category called, and what was the instrument?

40.  The 5th category is electrophones, necessitated by
the creation of the theremin

41.  On the next slide is John Kennedy Galbraith, a
Canadian-born economist, public official and
diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th century
liberalism
 As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian
economics from an institutionalist perspective
 He served as the United States Ambassador to India
under the Kennedy administration
 Impressive background aside, he was a clue in a
certain literary mystery that was resolved in 2013,
with a person taking “inspiration” from him
 What was the mystery?

44.  JK Rowling used the pseudonym Robert
Galbraith

46.  Written Round
 Every answer is connected to each of the pictures
 Stakes:
› +10/-0 for unstaked
› +20/-10 for staked

55.  XY, or (X&Y)

58.  Salman Khans

61.  Characters who had taken the mantle of Robin
 Nightwing, Red Hood, Spoiler, Red Robin

64.  Spielberg movies without John Williams score

67.  Songs about Marilyn Monroe

69.  +15 for correct on bounce
 +15/-10 for pounce

70.  In the TVF show, Hostel Daze, one episode
follows the protagonist trying to court Akanksha,
one of the few girls in his class
 By the third act, he realises that people had
played a prank with him, and Akanksha did not
actually like him back
 The title of the episode is F.O.S.L.A.
 Expand

72.  Frustrated One Sided
Lovers Association

73.  Jonathan Glazer said in an interview, “The point
was to give the effect of the floor moving”
 “In fact, we had the whole set on wheels, and
would yell NORTH! Or SOUTH! to move it,
while Jay Kay kept dancing the music”
 “The sofas were on separate wheels, that we
could lock and unlock on command”
 What is he describing?

75.  Virtual Insanity video by Jamiroquai

76.  ID this group, that recently lost a second member

78.  Monty Python
 Terry Jones had died recently

79.  Below is a picture of the Soup and Thai
sandwich
 It has Ramen Noodles, Bok Choy and BBQ ribs
in one sandwich
 Who is this sandwich dedicated to?

81.  Justin Timberlake

82.  This was started by Dolly Parton last week
 She posted 4 photos with the caption, “Get you a
woman who can do it all”
 This trend caught on, with many people sharing
their different personalities
 What trend?

84.  LinkedIn,
Facebook,
Instagram,
Tinder

85.  The Haunting of ______ ____ is a
2019 drama thriller following the
titular character, who has terrifying
premonitions, before being the
victim of a home invasion
 The same character was featured in
another 2019 movie, this one a
comedy, although to an ambiguous
effect
 Who is this character? What is the
latter movie?

87.  Sharon Tate, whose character appeared in The
Haunting of Sharon Tate and Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood

88.  In a 1994 Bollywood cult classic, X’s name has
the ‘S’ stricken out and replaced with a ‘T’
 This is because X’s character Y cannot say ‘S’,
and thus replaces it with ‘T’
 X & Y?

90.  Shakti Kapoor as Crime Master Gogo, in Andaz
Apna Apna

91.  Whose star on the walk of fame and why?

93.  Muhammad Ali
 He didn’t want anyone to walk over Muhammad

94.  ____ usually means drawing on a genre and
using its stylistic and rhythmic elements in a
newly envisioned way
 While this prefix is used for rock, punk and
hardcore, electronic music producer OneOhTrix
Point Never punningly added it to another genre,
and uploaded the song “Zebra” to a real estate
site
 What is the prefix, and what genre did OPN
make?

96.  The prefix is post, i.e. post-rock,
post-punk, post-hardcore
 OPN made a post-house song, and
made a post about a house

97.  Comedian Krish Ashok made an instrumental
cover of a 2011 song by a “convicted” singer
 The name of this cover is a pun on the original
name and the instrument Ashok plays
 What is the cover called?

99.  Chamak Cello

100.  The pose, pictured on the next slide, usually used
to assert dominance, comes from in kenebowe in
Middle English, probably from Old Norse
 However, it has been misappropriated to go with
a certain “tool”
 What is the word, the name of move by Cassie
Cage in Mortal Kombat X, and an upcoming
movie starring Daniel Radcliffe?

103.  Akimbo
 Guns Akimbo

104.  Dostadning is a Swedish practice for clearing up
clutter, in a far more permanent
 Marie Kondo recommends a more tame version
of this in her organizational show
 What is this better known as, which is similar to
another export of Sweden?

106.  Swedish Death Cleaning

107.  5 Audio-Visual questions
 All are two part questions
› +20 for both parts, +10 for each individual part

108.  This is a YouTube video called “How
__________ saved Jazz”
 Identify the singer, singing Nessun Dorma, and
how does this relate to Jazz?
 Note what modification has been made in the
video?

110.  This is an upcoming HBO documentary on a
large-scale fraud involving a corporation X,
using a game Y
 Give me X and Y

112.  This is a very short clip of which group is singing
what song?
 Vid on the next slide

114.  This is widely panned ad from a certain company
in wake of the #MeToo movement
 Being a preachy ad aside, it did give some
internet fodder
 What happens right after the clip is cut?

116.  ID the taller person
 The other boxer administers a punch that knocks
down the first boxer
 What is the name of such a sudden punch, from
the Filipino word for machete?

119.  This is a YouTube video called “How
__________ saved Jazz”
 Identify the singer, singing Nessun Dorma, and
how does this relate to Jazz?
 Note what modification has been made in the
video?

121.  Luciano Pavarotti, part of the Three Tenors
 His voice is edited to do “the lick”, the biggest
meme in Jazz

122.  This is an upcoming HBO documentary on a
large-scale fraud conducted by a corporation X,
using a game Y
 Give me X and Y

124.  X is McDonalds’
 Y is Monopoly

125.  This is a very short clip of which group is singing
what song?
 Vid on the next slide

127.  Barenaked Ladies
 The Big Bang
Theory theme song

128.  This is widely panned ad from a certain company
in wake of the #MeToo movement
 Being a preachy ad aside, it did give some
internet fodder
 What happens right after the clip is cut?

130.  Gillette
 This meme

131.  ID the taller person
 The other boxer administers a punch that knocks
down the first boxer, after his stupid idea to get
down on his knees
 What is the name of such a sudden punch, from
the Filipino word for machete?

133.  Shaquille O’Neal
 This is called a Bolo Punch

135.  Thank you!