Pop=Culture Quiz held as part of IIT Kharagpur Quiz Week

2. 1.*
■ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a series on Netflix which takes it name and
inspiration from the novel series by DouglasAdams.
■ In season 1, at a very crisis moment in one of the final episodes, Dirk, having
completely lost his cool with how fast events have been moving, ironically says ____
_____.This, not only being excellent advice to give to anyone, is also a tribute to the
other very famous creation of DouglasAdams.
■ The QM, in addition to the above clues, would like to say ____ _____ to all the first
timers in the crowd as they get started with this 

3. Don’t Panic

4. 2.
X was originally known as MrVideo, and then Jumpman. However, the creators arrived at
X’s current name when they were trying to think of a better name and were interrupted by
their landlord X Segale, after whom they named X.
ID X.

5. Ans: Mario

6. 3.
The Reliant Regal Supervan III (right) has
a history of being unstable and easily
tipped due to it having only three
wheels. It is then not surprising that the
model was chosen as the “accident car”,
which X often encounters and causes to
go into accidents in some episodes.
ID X

7. Ans: Mr Bean

8. 4.
Theme naming is a very frequent occurrence in Japanese media, with perhaps the most
recognizable being the professors being named after trees in Pokemon.
Another recognizable instance is a Japanese series’ obsession with vegetables which
shows in the origins of its characters’ names ranging from a carrot to a spring onion.
Which show?

9. Ans: Dragon Ball Z

10. 5.
Artist John Byrne sketched a face for
what he thought X would look like under
his mask, not knowing artist Dave
Cockrum already revealed X's face in an
earlier issue.When Byrne discovered
this, he used what would've been X's
face as X’s future arch-nemesis’.
Whose face was it intended to be?

11. Ans:Wolverine

12. 6.
We’re familiar with Bart’s long list of chalkboard gags, full of classics such as “I am not
Charlie Brown on acid” and “We DO need no education”.
However, on one poignant occasion, Bart writes, “We’ll really miss you, ___ _”
What is this in reference to?

13. Ans: Death of MarciaWallace, the
woman who played Mrs Krabappel

14. 7.
The tortoise-like character appearing in
Ben 10 is an ancient sorcerer that is
thousands of years old. Fittingly, he is
named X.
What is his name, and why is it fitting,
bearing a Kolkata connect.

15. Ans: Adwaita, named after the 200+ year old
tortoise that lived and died in Alipore zoo.

16. 8.
■ Identify the
movie, where
this warning was
put in a single
frame right at the
beginning of it:

17. Fight Club

18. 9.
ID the popular song from refined the English rendition of its lyrics

20. Ans: Gucci Gang

21. 10.*
We hear this phrase in the Dexter’s laboratory episode, “The Big Cheese”, when after
listening to a French recording overnight to learn the said language, he is stuck with this
phrase, which helps him through all his endeavors the next day.
The phrase, however, literally means an egg preparation with cheese, and even so, with a
grammatical error.
What is the phrase?

22. Ans: Omelette du fromage

23. 11.*
The first time the word came to closely resembling the manner in which it is used now is
perhaps in an episode of the famous show X.
In the episode, the food itemY was still a food item, however it was incorporated into
every item of a restaurant menu, and the characters were spewing it to the point of it
drowning all other conversation, much like the modern day equivalent usage in reference
to unwanted and unsolicited junk.
ID the show.

24. Ans: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
(Spam sketch)

25. 12.
WhoseTwitter account?

26. Ans:Ted Cruz

27. 13.
Whose acting credits (not exhaustive)?
1989 – Jury foreman 2007 – Man in times square
2000 – Hot dog vendor 2007 – Rejected wedding guest
2002 – Man in fair 2008 – Man drinking from bottle
2003 – Old man at crossing 2011 - General
2003 – Security guard 2013 – Pageant judge
2004 – Man dodging debris 2014 – Smithsonian guard
2005 –Willie Lumpkin 2014 – Graduation guest
2006 –Waterhose man 2015 – Bartender

28. Ans: Stan Lee

29. 14.
Excerpt of who interviewing whom?
X:You’ve stated that you believe there could be an infinite number of parallel universes.
Does that mean there’s a universe where I am smarter than you?
Y:Yes.And also a universe where you’re funny.
X: If you’re so smart, what number am I thinking of right now?
Y: 13.
X: Okay, what am I thinking about right now?
Y:That you’ve been a huge disappointment to your family.

30. Ans: John Oliver interviewing Stephen
Hawking

31. 15.*
In this episode ofWhose Line is it
anyway, for the gameThemed
Restaurants, the theme being horror,
Wayne and Drew sit down and order
drinks. How does Collin’s reply tie down
to the theme of the restaurant?

33. Ans: Redrum reference from Shining

34. 16.*
ID the popular song, rendered here
as a Shakespearean sonnet.

35. Ans: LoseYourself

36. 17.
■ As a young boy, X was very fond of collecting and studying insects and when he got
older, this gave him the imagination and depth of skill needed to build multiple new
creatures for a project that has since then become the biggest media franchise in
existence.
■ What is this, that people all over the world have been following for the past 22 years
and has had multiple expansions and additions to the world of the creation?

37. Pokemon

38. 18.*
■ So, this is the xkcd comic’s edition on
Sorting.
■ In addition to this, they put a
hovertext which talked about
StackSort.
■ Looking at this image, tell me what
StackSort could be?

39. Searches sort on stackoverflow and runs the
found code snippet and returns the output

40. 19.
■ This game was released by Hasbro in
the 60s and over the years received a lot
of makeovers such as getting a very sci-
fi futuristic makeover when StarWars
came. However, the biggest change that
happened in terms of a makeover that
changed their popculture connect
completely happened in the 90s and the
2000s.
■ By what name are today’s versions of
this sold today?

41. Beyblade

42. 20.
■ In 2012, X was listening to a song by DavidWhistle (formerly known as DJ Ness), and
reached out to the Italian DJ to find out how he produced his music. He was inspired by
EDM producers K-391 andAhrix, and is also influenced by film composers like Hans
Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky. He started all his music on his laptop with FL Studio. In
July 2012, with the help and feedback from his fans online, he began pursuing his
music production career and slowly began posting his music toYouTube and
SoundCloud.
■ X released the track “____" on 17August 2014.The track gained attention after its re-
release via the record label NoCopyrightSounds on 19 November. X stated that the
creation of the track was inspired by K-391 andAhrix, whose tracks were also picked
up by the record label.The track has over 300 million views onYouTube, 70 million
plays on Spotify, and 20 million streams on SoundCloud. It has become the most
popular track on the channel, and is widely used byYouTubers in their videos.

43. AlanWalker