Comic Quiz at The MACE Quiz Club, Kothamangalam, Kerala on 31 Jan 2019

2.  Shown on the left is a panel from Amazing
Fantasy #15 (1962) in which X has been
blanked out.
 There have been many references to X with
some examples being Deadpool, Jessica
Jones and Agents of SHIELD.
 Fans had mixed responses to whether X
and its related events should be part of the
MCU.
 What is X?
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3. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

4.  X originated from a discussion between Daniel Baxter and Tommy Watson
when they returned home after watching a movie. Daniel proposed the
idea of making short animated video clips. X was finally launched in 2005,
after which Tina Alexander, a former colleague of Daniel, joined their team.
 In July 2005, www._________(x)_________.com was born which became an
instant hit. Currently going on at it’s 10th season, X has over 8.5 million
subscribers on YouTube.
 What is X?
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6. Connect 3

7. Alan Silvestri

8.  X is an American actor who became the first person to get a million dollar
paycheck for a movie. He is also a two time Oscar Winner, one of which
was for On The Waterfront(1954).
 X portrayed Kal-El's father Jor-El in the 1978 film Superman. He agreed to
the role only on assurance that he would be paid a large sum for what
amounted to a small part, that he would not have to read the script
beforehand, and that his lines would be displayed somewhere off-camera.
It was revealed in a documentary contained in the 2001 DVD release
of Superman that he was paid $3.7 million for two weeks of work.
 X also filmed scenes for the movie's sequel, Superman II, but after
producers refused to pay him the same percentage he received for the first
movie, he denied them permission to use the footage. "I asked for my
usual percentage," he recollected in his memoir, "but they refused, and so
did I."
 Who is X?
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9. Marlon Brando

10.  On Earth 616, Level 10 is the highest level of clearance in SHIELD. X, at the age
of 17, became one among the three people who have ever had a Level 10
clearance, the others being Nick Fury Sr and the Black Widow.
 A protégé of Fury, X’s skills in espionage, combat and marksmanship were on
par with the likes of Mockingbird and Winter Soldier. X is also an Avenger and
a former director of SHIELD, while being barely out of high school.
 Though initially thought to be a mutant, it was later revealed that X’s abilities
(which could take down Magneto and Wolverine in a moment) were a
combined result of X’s mother’s lineage and father’s experiments.
 The role of X was recently voiced in a December 2018 movie by the same actor
who played the role in live action. ID X, who has the second highest screen-
time in all of Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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12.  X’s first appearance in 1962 was in a grey shade, and this was to ensure
that X was not associated with any particular ethnic group. However,
colorist Stan Goldberg found the printing press having trouble with the
shade as it couldn’t be kept consistent. The shade grew light to dark and
back again during the debut appearance itself. The only advantage of this
was that it accurately helped in portraying the schizophrenic persona of X.
 How was this issue solved?
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13. They changed the color of the Hulk from grey to green.

14. FITB
 Josh Brolin – Milk
 Robert Downey Jr – Tropic Thunder
 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
 Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
 _____ ______ – ___ ____ ______
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15. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Oscar Nominees for the Best Supporting Actor, 2009

16.  From October 2014 to April 2015, DC Comics published a six issue story arc
featuring the caped crusader and the clown prince of crime. The story was
planned as the conclusion of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s work on “Death
of the Family”.
 Snyder wanted to convey that Joker and Batman’s bond had been broken by
having Joker turn his closest allies, the Justice League, against him. It was
described as a horror to the DotF’s comedy.
 One of the most gruesome Batman stories ever, with Mister J chopping off
Alfred’s hands and ending with the apparent death of both Batman and the
Joker, it was also one of the major storylines leading to the following year’s
“Dark Nights: Metal”.
 Give the name of the storyline which recently got huge attraction in a different
scenario last month, but earlier references to this were made in April 2015 and
2018. Image follows.
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19.  A loosely grouped team with rotating members which operates out of
Platinum Flats, California, the official name of the team is never used (and
not even mentioned) until issue 86. Some of its prominent members are
Barbara Gordon, Helena Bertinelli, Zinda Black and Dinah Lance.
 Though they have had many male allies, the first male member to join this
team was Hank Hall who was probably chosen for his name rather than his
credentials.
 Hank was recently portrayed in his first ever live action adaptation by Alan
Ritchson, who has played Aquaman in Smallville and Justice League: The
New Frontier.
 Identify the team and the name by which Hank Hall’s alter ego.
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20. Birds of Prey; Hawk

21.  One of the famous scenes in the movie X was shot a day after the
Hollywood premiere. The scene involves Y, based on a comment made
previously in the movie.
 It was shot in California at Elat burger. The popularity of the scene was
such that the sales of Y and related products skyrocketed in the following
weeks.
 It was not the Y’s first brush with fame, as there was a bump in sales earlier
when “You Don’t Mess With Zohan” hit the theatres in 2008.
 Identify X and Y.
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22. X – Marvel’s The Avengers
Y - Shawarma

23.  “We became what we are, we are surrounded by them, we’re among them
and when we finally give up, we become them. We’re living on borrowed
time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them. You
think we hide behind walls to protect ourselves from them? Don’t you get
it? We are ___ _______ ____!”
 X is a black and white comic book series by Image comics which was later
adapted into novels, games and more. It starts in Kentucky with a
wounded cop in a coma who wanders into Atlanta in search of his family.
Some of the antagonists in the story are classified into walkers, roamers
and lurkers.
 Fill in the blanks.
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24. The Walking
Dead

25.  Andrew Romatz: Developing the right consistency and behavior of the
fluids was definitely a tricky process. Getting the scale to feel right was
something that we had to play with quite a bit in simulation and also in
lighting and texturing. Patrick wanted the sculptures we were forming to
feel like miniatures, so we did a lot of experimenting with scene scale and
with camera settings, simulating depth of field to achieve that look.
 Miguel Salek: Each shot required custom flow maps to be painted on the
sculptures, along with small attraction fields and thousands of tiny
adjustments to achieve the shapes and behavior Patrick was looking for.
 Patrick Clair: It was important to me to keep the fluid ambiguous. It was a
reference to poison, it was a reference to blood, but it was probably
matching the tempo of the music that set the pace for how it should
behave.
 What is being described here?
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26. Daredevil Opening Credits

27.  Created by C. C. Beck and Bill Parker, X is the most popular superhero of
the publisher Y. It was so popular that it outsold its rivals by miles. Y
ceased publishing X related comics due to copyright infringement suits.
The character was later licensed to another company who returned it to
publication but had to change the name due to trademark conflicts.
 “The Adventures of X” is the first live-action adaptation of a comic book
character.
 Identify X and Y.
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28. X – Captain Marvel
Y – Fawcett Comics

29.  A native of Burning Galaxy, he is a Korbinite.
 Goes by the alias Simon Walters.
 Travels on the sentient warship Skuttlebutt.
 Base of operations include Knowhere.
 His life force and consciousness were transferred by the scientists of his
race into the body of an alien carnivorous equine-like beast that had been
bionically restructured into a cyborg.
 His weapon became popular recently for a whole different reason.
 Identify the character.
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30. Beta Ray Bill

31. Who played these roles?
 The Trickster, The Flash (1991)
 Maximus the Mad and Sentry, Fantastic Four (1994-95)
 Hobgoblin, Spider-Man (1995-98)
 Wolverine, X2 – Wolverine’s Revenge (2003)
 Solomon Grundy, Justice League (2002-03)
 The Spectre, Batman: The Brave and The Bold (2010)
 Ulysses Klaw, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010)
 Red Skull, Marvel Super Hero Squad (2011)
 Arnim Zola, Avengers Assemble (2013-)
 Shao Lao and Nightmare, Ultimate Spider-Man (2012-16)
 Swamp Thing, Justice League Action (2016-18)
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32. Mark Hamill

33.  The speaker in the distress call of the first scene of
Avengers: Infinity War was a cameo role.
 He is also an actor whose previous roles include a
obsessive-compulsive detective, a vane professor who
turned out to be a cowardly charlatan, and a few other
characters by Shakespeare.
 ID the Marvel movie which was directed by this British
director.
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34. Kenneth Branagh - Thor

35. Connect
 Football
 Sneaky
 Hammerhead
 Casanova
 Red Snapper
 Shades
 Hotrod
 Bones
 Python
 Igor
 Heartbreaker
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36. Iron Man Armors

37. From the pages of Uncanny X-Men
#5 (2019), the third panel of this
page recently caused a lot of
outrage among the Hindu
community all over the world.
The event happens when an AU
Cable follows Apocalypse’s wishes
and “cleansed the world of its fake
houses of worship and false
prophets”.
What famous structure in God’s Own
Country went up in smokes in the
next panel?
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38. Padmanabhaswamy Temple

39.  One of the scenes during the prologue in Justice League (2017) shows a
building in Gotham city with “Janus” written on it. This is a reference to
Janus Cosmetics run by a major DC villain X.
 X had assembled a group of dozens of criminals called the False Face
Society, using his family crypt as their base of operations. Each member of
the False Face Society wore a distinctive mask, and the gang's crime spree
spread rapidly throughout Gotham.
 X was kidnapped by someone else who used his identity to hire eight
assassins to kill the Batman in Arkham Origins.
 Identify X, who was very recently seen in the DC Extended Universe.
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40.  Roman Sionis / Black Mask

41. Why were these tweets (along with a number of others) in
the news last year?
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42. James Gunn’s tweets that got him fired

43. Thank You