Pop culture Quiz, IIT Guwahati

3 HOURS OF MUSIC,
MOVIES, TV SHOWS
AND OFC MEMES

PRELIMS
• There are a total of 20 questions amounting to 25 points
• Questions 1-15 carry 1 point each
• Questions 16-20 carry 2 points each
• Questions 11-15 are starred
• Give your team a cool name and write your and your team member’s name on the sheet
• The star marked questions throughout the prelims which will be used as tie breakers.
• In case of a tie after factoring in the star marked questions too, sudden death will be come into the picture.
• Eight teams in the finals
• Hints on my discretion
• In case of a tie in the finals, Prelims scores will be considered

Q.1
• While Jack Gleeson’s ( Joffrey Lannister/Baratheon ) cameo in Batman Begins is
well known among the GoT fandom, it is a cameo by another actor from the
series in the Nolan trilogy that goes by unnoticed. X, who plays Y in the show,
plays the role of a CIA operative, “Bill Wilson” who is killed by Bane in the opening
moments of the movie.
• Identify Y i.e the character played by this actor.

Q.2
• The 2016 Bollywood movie, Ki and Ka, featured the return of a famous pair on
screen 15 years after their last appearance together.
• Among the more memorable films they did together are, Abhiman (1973), Chupke
Chupke (1975) and Silsila (1981).
• Identify this pair.

Q.4
• “The idea that these lyrics could be deemed objectionable is extremely hurtful to me,
and misleading. The song in fact is about the pain of prejudice and hate and is a way
to draw attention to social and political problems. I am the voice of the accused and
the attacked. I am the voice of everyone. I am the skinhead, I am the Jew, I am the
black man, I am the white man. I am not the one who was attacking. It is about the
injustices to young people and how the system can wrongfully accuse them. I am
angry and outraged that I could be so misinterpreted.”
• Michael Jackson talking about which extremely controversial song of his which
supposedly had Anti Semitic lyrics?

Q.6
• The Four Ladies of Hollywood gazebo—known officially as the Hollywood and La
Brea Gateway—stands upon a small triangular island formed by the confluence of
Hollywood Boulevard, Marshfield Way, and North La Brea Avenue at the
westernmost extension of the Walk of Fame.
• The roof is an arched square supporting a circular dome, which is topped by a
central obelisk with descending neon block letters spelling "Hollywood" on each of
its four sides. Atop the obelisk is a small gilded weathervane-style sculpture of
_________ in her iconic pose from The Seven Year Itch.

Q.7
• Connect the following people
Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, X and Ralph Fiennes
X is a seven time Oscar nominee

Q.8
• Ashutosh Kaushik and Prince Narula are the only two people to have achieved
this feat.
• Identify this common feat between the two of them.

Q.9
• "slimy piece of worm-ridden filth“
• "a cross between a toad and the Cheshire Cat.“
• “lardaceous body seemed to periodically release a greasy discharge, sending
fresh waves of rotten stench“
• All of the above are quotes about which well known character?

Q.10
• How was Silsila different from other movies like Deewar, Suhaag, Do Aur Do
Paanch and Namak Halaal where Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bacchan have
acted together?

Q.11
• The next slide features an image showing a timeline of the most susbscribed
Youtube channels over the course of the site’s history.
• One channel is blocked out which has taken the No. 1 position twice – For 12
days starting from September 24, 2008 and for 677 starting from August 20, 2009.
• Identify this channel or the content creator behind it.

Q.12
• On the next slide is an image of Maungakiekie, a (597 ft) volcanic peak in
Auckland, New Zealand. It is an important memorial place for both Māori and
other New Zealanders.
• What is the other name for this peak, prominent in both music and TV?

Q.14
• Connect the following people with the proper funda (Exhaustive List)
• Jimmy Kimmel, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Stewart, Steve Martin, Whoopi
Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Chevy Chase, Johnny Carson, Richard Pryor, Jane
Fonda, Walter Matthau, Goldie Hawn, Sammy Davis Jr, Frank Sinatra, Jack
Lemmon, David Niven, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Conrad Nagel

Q.15
• The next slide features the filmography of what or whom?

Q.16
Music composer-singer X has accused Y of copying the song “Character Dheela
Hain” from his original number “Mohabbat Naam hai kiska”.
The above is a quite ironical headline from ToI. Identify X and Y.

Q.17
• X is a prank and an Internet meme involving an unexpected appearance of the
music video for the 1987 Y’s song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a
type of bait and switch using a disguised hyperlink that leads to the music video.
The victims, believing that they are accessing some unrelated material, are said
to have been X-ed. The trend has extended to disruptive or humorous
appearances of the song in other situations, such as a live appearance Y himself
in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
• Give me X and Y.

Q.18
• After finishing the music for the album, the band decided that the artwork needed to
reflect the themes on the record, likening the change of image to a political campaign.
The band drew inspiration from Chinese communist propaganda art that they saw in
art galleries on Melrose Avenue and recruited artist Chris Bilheimer, who had
designed the art for the previous records Nimrod and International Superhits! to
create the cover. The band aimed for the cover to be "at once uniform and powerful“.
The album's artwork—"a Posada-stark print of a heart-shaped hand grenade gripped
in a blood-soaked fist"—is representative of its political content.
• Identify the band and the album being talked about here.

Q.19 – WHICH TV SERIES AND THE NAME OF
THE RELEVANT EPISODE REFERENCED HERE?

Q.20
• Coldstream Guards, Status Quo, The Style Council, The Boomtown Rats, Adam
Ant, Ultravox, Spandau ballet, Elvis Costello, Nik Kershaw, Sade, Sting and Phil
Collins, Howard Jones, Bryan Ferry, Paul Young, U2, Dire Straits, _____, David
Bowie, The Who, Elton John, Freddie Mercury and Brian May, Paul McCartney,
____ ___
• Give me the show (along with the stadium) which featured the above
performers.
• Also give me the name of the supergroup (second and third blank) which
shared a part of it’s name with the show.

LAST TWEETS OF THESE CELEBS
BEFORE THEY DIED

THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US
• Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad
• All I want to say is that
They don't really care about us
All I want to say is that
They don't really care about us

PEOPLE WHO’VE PLAYED M IN THE BOND
MOVIES
• X is Judi Dench

THE TWO ARE THE ONLY ONES TO WIN
ROADIES AND BIGG BOSS BOTH

ONLY TIME SHASHI KAPOOR PLAYED AN
ELDER SIBLING TO AB

PEOPLE WHO’VE HOSTED THE OSCARS
MULTIPLE TIMES

X – RICKROLLING
Y – RICK ASTLEY

BLACK MIRROR AND THE NATIONAL
ANTHEM

FINALS
• 6 Rounds, 41 Questions, 950 Points on Offer
• Written Round 1
• Dry Bounce Anticlockwise
• Written Round 2
• Long Connect
• Written Round 3
• Dry Bounce Clockwise

EXPLAIN A FILM PLOT BADLY
• Plots of 5 Hollywood movies explained in a rather unconventional way
• Identify the movies
• +20 / -10 on Stake
• +10 / 0 Otherwise
• +50 on a Full House

Q.1
•Three severely handicapped individuals
each lacking a vital organ, are able to
pool their resources to help a tourist find
her way home.

Q.2
•Government agencies from two different
countries have to rescue a man because
he ran out of potatoes.

Q.3
•Brothers try to kill their sister. Their
friend kills the sister's dog. Brothers
claim victory by burning down their own
home with their sister in it.

Q.4
•A fun girls trip is nearly ruined by a
clingy S.O., a bumbling truck driver, and
ruggedly handsome Australian.

Q.5
•A man with a lot of time on his hands
saves Hong Kong

DRY BOUNCE
• Standard Bounce and Pounce
• +20/-10 on Pounce
• +10/0 on Bounce
• 10 Questions in total; Anti-Clockwise

Q.1
• Hindi : Bollywood
• English : Hollywood
• Bengali : Tollywood
• Odia : Ollywood
• Kannada : ?

Q.2
• X, is a Japanese honorific term used when speaking to someone of an elevated
social status in schools, dojos or sports clubs. The term is usually reserved for
mentors, and does not apply to authority figures such as teachers or bosses.
Romantic anime and manga often feature stories involving infatuations with X.

Q.3
• To keep the design of X within budget it was decided to make it resemble a police
telephone box. This was explained in the context of the series as a disguise
created by the ship's "chameleon circuit", a mechanism that changes the outside
appearance of the ship the millisecond it lands in order to fit in with its
environment.
• Y (The TV Show featuring X) has become so much a part of British popular
culture that the shape of the police box has become associated with the X rather
than with its real-world inspiration.
• Identify X and Y.

Q.4
• In the world of movies and entertainment, how else do we know better the movie
moguls Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack?

Q.5
• This meme gained initial popularity captioned "I Hate Sandcastles", suggesting that
the boy had just destroyed another child's sandcastle.
• After this meme became popular, Laney Griner licensed the picture to Getty Images,
a stock photo agency, but decided that there were too many contracts involved in the
process, and began to license it herself instead.
• In addition to popular use on social media, the image has been licensed for
commercial use, and was used by the White House to promote immigration reform. In
2015 the Griner family used it to promote a GoFundMe campaign for money to pay
for the father's kidney transplant.
• Identify the Meme

Q.6
• X is a 1981 Pakistani pop–disco album by the duo Nazia and Zoheb, consisting of
Nazia Hassan and her brother Zoheb Hassan. The music was composed by
Zoheb with Indian producer Biddu.It charted in fourteen countries worldwide and
became the best-selling Asian pop record to-date. It changed trends in music
across South Asia, where it broke sales records. In India, it sold 100,000 records
within a day of its release in Mumbai alone, went Platinum within three weeks,
and went Double-Platinum soon after. X went on to sell 14 million units worldwide.
• X rose to prominence again in 2012. Give me X and the funda.

DISCO DEEWANE
STUDENT OF THE YEAR HAD THE SONG

Q.7
• X (officially Alecia Beth Moore) is a singer/songwriter who isn’t afraid to tell it like it is.
All her songs offer bold lyrics that make this leading lady fearless in our eyes.
• It’s hard to imagine that she got her nickname from being shy, but apparently
whenever she was embarrassed as a child her face flushed. That’s not the only
reason this name stuck. She was also taken by the character Y in Quentin Tarantino’s
flick, Reservoir Dogs. So taken, in fact, she used the name as her own.

Q.8
• Fritz Leiber's Gather Darkness (1943): the priests' "rods of wrath" (energy projections) only end
where they cut into solid matter, so that a single duel led to numerous casualties of bystanders
and charred scores across all nearby walls.
• Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series (1952): The force-blade is "a short shaft of stainless steel"
which can project a force field that can cut through anything, making it "the most vicious
weapon in the galaxy." Asimov's force-blade expands on his earlier invention of "a penknife with
a force-field blade," first used in his Foundation novel (1951).
• M. John Harrison's The Pastel City (1971): the energy baan are used by the Methven, an order
of knights sworn to protect their empire.
• The origins of what?

Q.9
• X is a protest song by the rock band, Y. It is about the 1993 IRA bombing in
Warrington, and in memory of two young victims, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry. It
was released in September 1994 as the lead single from their second studio album,
No Need to Argue (1994).
• In the video, Z is covered in gold makeup and appears in front of a cross with a group
of boys also covered in gold makeup. The video also includes clips of children playing
war games, and of British soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (as
evident from their thin red line tactical recognition flashes) on patrol in Northern
Ireland during the Troubles. It also features shots of various murals.
• Identify X and Z.

ZOMBIES BY THE CRANBERRIES
DOLORES O’ RIORDAN

Q.10
• Prem Adib
• Shammi Kapoor
• Manoj Kumar
• Sonu Sood
• Bobby Deol
• Ajay Devgan
• Siddharth
• Connect these 7 people. Exhaustive and arranged chronologically

ACTORS WHO’VE PLAYED
BHAGAT SINGH IN BOLLYWOOD

BOLLYWOOD – EK SAFAR HAI SUHANA
• Identify the Twitter Bios of the celebs (Actors, Singers, Directors etc)
• 5 Celebs all born in different decades
• +20 / -10 on Stake
• +50 on a Full House

LONG CONNECT
• 6 Questions
• Each Question will have connects displayed subsequently
• The points for the question decrease with each connect shown
• Teams are supposed to Pounce and write down their answer
• Teams can pounce only once

PLANNED MARVEL DISNEY+ TV
SHOWS

THE PLETHORA OF MIHIR
VIRANI’S IN KYUNKI SAAS BHI…

EMINEM’S ALBUMS
• The Marshall Mathers LP 2
• The Slim Shady LP
• Revival

INDIANS WHO’VE WON
INDIVIDUAL OSCARS
• Resul Pookutty (Sound Mixing)
• Bhanu Athiyah (Costume Design)
• Rahman and Gulzar (Best Original Song)

EPISODES OF SACRED GAMES
• Sarama (Mother of all Dogs)
• Yayati
• Rudra
• Ashwathama
• Atapi-Vatapi

SIMPSO-DRAMUS
• The Simpsons are notorious for predicting events that would happen in the future
• The following 5 slides contain images or text related to what was predicted
• You have to give me the predictions thus made inadveretently
• +20 / -10 on Stake
• +50 on Full House

Q.2
• Beat Up Martin -> Eat up Martha

Q.3
• So what exactly led to this crazy, accurate prediction? The writer, Dan Greaney
told Washington Post, “He seems like a ‘Simpsons’-esque figure — he fits right in
there, in an over-the-top way.” He continued, “But now that he’s _______ ___
_________, I see that in a much darker way. He seemed kind of lovable in the old
days, in a blowhard way.”

VOTES FOR OBAMA BEING CHANGED TO VOTES
FOR ROMNEY IN 2012

AUTOCORRECT
• In fact engineers at Apple were inspired by the episode

BENGT R. HOLMSTROM WINNING THE NOBEL
PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS (2016)

HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE
• The equation which Homer wrote is for the mass of the particle

DRY BOUNCE
• Standard Bounce and Pounce
• +20/-10 on Pounce
• +10/0 on Bounce
• 10 Questions in total; Clockwise

Q.1
• Jake Perralta (Andy Samberg) might be a genius detective but, at his core, he’s
just a giant goofball. Adopting some modern slang, he constantly riffs on the
words “nice” and “tight”, making them more playful and exciting. The rest of the
gang has gotten into Perralta’s spirit as well, using the words on occasion to
express their excitement on various occasions. He’s even sold his by-the-book
fiancee Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero) on the expressions, joyously referring to
their upcoming wedding as, “____ nups.”
• Give me the two words.

Q.2
• Hollywood’s prominent Y-ist experienced quite the change of faith. During his early
years, X sought to pursue the priesthood in the Catholic Church. The Francis
Seminary School in Cincinnati took in X at the age of fourteen where he attended
school and became passionate about the Catholic faith. His passion took a turn when
himself and a classmate decided to steal liquor from the priests at the seminary. You
could say X’s risky business started a little earlier than planned.
• Y is a body of religious beliefs and practices launched in May 1952 by American
author L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86). Hubbard initially developed a program of ideas
called Dianetics, which was distributed through the Dianetics Foundation.

Q.3
• The X-Men cameo in Deadpool 2 was quite well received among the fans of the
merc with a mouth. The cameo lasted few seconds featuring Beast, Cyclops,
Storm, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, and Professor X.
• Although fans were excited to see all the superheroes in one frame, there was a
caveat attached which was made public later.
• Put Funda.

THE X-MEN CAMEO WAS FILMED IN FRONT OF A GREEN
SCREEN DURING THE SHOOTING OF X-MEN PHOENIX

Q.4
• So here's to my Sweet Satan.
The other's little path
Would make me sad,
Whose power is faith.
He'll give those with him 666.
And all the evil fools,
they know he made
us suffer sadly.
• The lyrics of what? (Not a conventional song)

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN PLAYED
BACKWARDS
• The song by Led Zeppelin when played backwards is rumoured to have
Satanic verses

Q.5
• Jagdish Raj Khurana has a unique Guiness World Record to his name for being
the “Most Typecast Actor”.
• He got the record for a particular role he played 144 times (For Eg, playing the
role of a Hermit 144 times)
• What was this role which Jagdish immortalized?

Q.6
• X’s first album was Dilruba (1990), followed by Alibaba (1991).Then came his
biggest hit album Thanda Thanda Pani (1992), which sold 5 million cassettes,
making it the first successful Indian rap album.
• 'Thanda Thanda Paani' sampled Y’s "Ice Ice Baby", which in turn sampled Z's
"Under Pressure“.
• Identify X, Y and Z.

X - BABA SEHGAL
Y - VANILLA ICE, Z - QUEEN

Q.7
• The word X was allegedly coined by English freelance video game journalist Jim Sterling, who would often use it in various meanings
without a set definition. The exact date when the word was first used is currently unknown, but is estimated to be prior to December
2012.

Q.8
• "People always ask questions about where the name ___ _____ came from", said
former President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews; "and, when I recently
asked (co-founder) Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me...literally
that his uncle said he should call it ___ _____ when he saw him and Chris
Johnson eating an _____ sandwich. They had literally just cut up the _____ and
put it on bread." According to former editorial manager, Chet Clem, their food
budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white
bread and _______.
• FITB

Q.9
• X (Meaning “Madness” in English) is an Indian Romantic-Drama film directed by
Abhishek Kapoor. Rekha was supposed to play the role of Begum but Tabu finally
played it. This movie is said to have been an adaptation of a famous literary work,
Y.
• The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th centur and contains
some of Z's most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard.

X – FITOOR
Y – GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Q.10
• Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation is an American manufacturer and supplier of
metal machine tubes and pipes that is based in Perrysburg, Ohio. Founded in 1985, the
company specializes in buying and selling tube mills, pipe mills, and rollforming machines.
• The company became known to much wider audiences because its original domain name
Y.com appeared to be very similar to X.com. The company had purchased the domain name in
October 1996. In August 2006, the company's website received 68 million hits which led to its
servers crashing. Many of the users intended to go to the website X, but typed the homophonic
“Y.com" into their browser instead. On October 30, 2006, the company took legal action against
X over the website confusion.

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