The document provides details about 20 questions for a quiz fest. It provides clues and context for identifying people, movies, songs, artists and other topics represented by X in each question. The questions cover a wide range of topics including spaghetti westerns, Iron Maiden, David Lynch films, authors, movies posters, composers, Arabic pop music albums and more.

1. Presents
The NSIT Quiz Fest 2013

3. • Total of 20 Questions.
• 5 star marked
• 1,4,17,18,19
• 1 point per question

4. *1. X
• X is a character who appears in a number of spaghetti
western films. He appeared in thirty-one films in all.
• X was created for the 1966 movie with the same title, directed
by Sergio Corbucci. Like Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, it was
inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. He enters the movie walking,
trailing a coffin through the mud, carrying his saddle on his
shoulder.
• X is not a passer-by who stumbles upon a situation that, for one
reason or another, attracts his attention. He is a man with a
mission, and the mission is: revenge! He’s a veteran from the Civil
War (it’s strongly suggested he fought for the Union) and his wife
was killed – when he was far, too far away – by the racist
Confederate Major Jackson. He’s also a bit of a conjuror:
outnumbered by his opponents in the main street, he outsmarts
them by whipping out a machine gun from his coffin, and after his
hands have been crushed, he miraculously balances his handgun on
a metal cross. With his black cloak and dirty tricks he is like no other
cowboy had ever been in the history of filmmaking.

5. 1. X= Django

6. 2. X
Some facts about X:
• X was originally a papier-mâché mask
incorporated in their backdrop which would
squirt fake blood during live shows .
• X was first seen in his present form in 1980.
• Derek Riggs was exclusively incharge of X’s
appearance until 1992.
• X makes an appearance in Tony Hawk's Pro
Skater 4.

7. 2. X = Eddie, Iron Maiden’s mascot

8. 3. X
• The 1967 X spoof may not be a very well-remembered
moment in ‘_____-movie history, but it bears a peculiar
distinction: in May 1967, the X parody incited a mob riot.
Boston radio station WRKO sponsored a 4 a.m. screening at
the Sack Savoy Theater, with free admission — and snacks —
for folks in the typical spy gear of a trench coat. When people
began to queue hours in advance, the theater decided to run
the screening at 2 a.m. instead of 4. The crowd did not take
the news well.
• The New York Times reported that morning that the
moviegoers numbered in the thousands (between 8,000 and
15,000) and that every Boston police officer available was
needed to calm the crowd. About 30 people were hurt,
including two reporters, and 15 arrests were made. Two fires
began inside the theater, and the extinguishing effort soaked
the audience. But, for fear of what might happen otherwise,
the show went on.

9. 3. 1967 Casino Royale

10. *4. X
• X has said: “All my paintings are
organic, violent comedies. They have to be
violently done and primitive and crude, and to
achieve that I try to let my nature paint more
than I paint.” X was also the author of a comic
strip published in the LA reader from 1983 to
1992. X?
• <pic in next slide>

12. 4. X- David Lynch

13. 5. X
Some of X’s non-fiction essays are listed below -
• Patake
• Deewaron Par Likhna
• Karchi Aur Karchiyan
• Khansi Par
• Log Apne Aap Ko Madhosh Kyon Karte Hain
• Naak Ki Kismein
Identify this author, whose self-written epitah reads,
"Here lies buried X in whose bosom are enshrined all the
secrets and art of short story writing. Buried under
mounds of earth, even now he is contemplating whether
he is a greater short story writer or God."

14. 5. X- Saadat Hasan Manto

15. 6. Minimal movie poster of?

16. 6. Cool Hand Luke

17. 7.
• This track called “Crime”, features X and
Smokey Robinson on vocals. It appears on the
upcoming MotorCity from X’s band Daddy.
• Identify X.

18. 7. X – James Franco

19. 8.
• Composition by whom dedicated to whom?
• Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZoiQl5J
Mo

20. 8.
• Victims of Aurora shooting tragedy, Hans
Zimmer.

21. 9. X
• The title of the book X is a reference to John Donne's
series of meditations and prayers on health, pain, and
sickness that were published as a book in 1624 under
the title Devotions upon Emergent
Occasions, specifically Meditation XVII:
• "No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a
peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if
a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the
lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if
a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any
mans death diminishes me, because I am involved
in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know X; It
____________ ."

22. 9. For Whom The Bell Tolls

23. 10.Connect these paintings

25. 10.
• These are the paintings used in Amour(Best
foreign film oscars).These actually belonged to
the parents of Michael Haneke(director of the
film),and the movie is loosely based on
personal experiences of the director.

26. 11. X
• This album was released Nov 02, 1999 on the
Hemisphere label. X collects Arabic pop music by
artists hailing from
Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, and Morocco.X music
CDs has tracks like Amr Diab's "Nour El Ain," Mayada
El Hennawy's "Min Ger Loka," Dania's "Yalla Ya
Habibi," Samira Said's "Kol de Eshaat," and Hamid El
Shari's "Tohgorny" capturing the lush
arrangements, hypnotic rhythms, and passionate
vocals of contemporary Arabic music. Like strolling
through a crowded bazaar filled with vendors selling
mix tapes from all over the Middle East, an ear-
pleasing mix of expressive singers and
passionate, exciting urban music.Unless you are an
arabic pop music fan,only way to get to the name of
the album is by looking closely at the album cover.

28. 11. Camelspotting

29. 12. X
• The “X myth" is the rags to riches message in
books by X. X wrote over 100 books for young
working class males, beginning with ‘Ragged
Dick’, which was published in 1867. His books
have been described as rags to riches stories.
“By leading exemplary lives, struggling
valiantly against poverty and adversity,” X’s
protagonists gain both wealth and honor,
ultimately realizing the American Dream.

30. 12. Horatio Alger

31. 13.
• Identify the documentary.
• Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcmcEZxdl
v4

32. 13.
Marina Abramovic:
The Artist is Present

33. 14. X & Y
• The scene in this video is from X and is a
recreation of the scene from Y.
• Identify X and Y.
• Youtubelink:

34. 14.
• X= I Love Lucy
• Y= Duck Soup

35. 15.
• What is so special
about this section
of “The Last
Judgement”?

36. 15.
• St Bartholomew displaying his flayed skin
(considered by many art historians as a self-
portrait by Michelangelo) in The Last
Judgment.

37. 16. X & Y
• Y is an Iranian documentary film by X and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb.The
two men are filmmakers so, with nothing else to do, they are filming
each other as they have this conversation in X's kitchen, with
Mirtahmasb holding a professional camera while X records on his
iPhone. This is the only type of filming that X can get away with.
• What emerges from Y is a fascinating portrait of a restless artistic spirit
trying to find an outlet for his creativity. Mirtahmsasb likes the idea of
making a documentary that goes “behind the scenes of Iranian
filmmakers not making films." The man X,tells us about his work,
studies and family, but we never find out his name; in fact, we don't
discover the names of anyone involved in the film beyond those of X
and Mirtahmsasb (who has now also been arrested) as the closing
credits are redacted in a grim reminder of the danger an endeavour
like this brings.The movie is hence rightly called Y,and the film was
smuggled from Iran to Cannes in a flash drive hidden inside a birthday
cake,for screening at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

38. 16.
X: Jafar Panahi
Y : This is not a film

39. *17.
• Identify the voice and the movie.
• Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxqsN1h
pY4

40. 17.
• Voice- Martin Scorsese
• Movie - The Color of Money

41. *18.
• Jim Carrey doing an impression of whom?
• Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja90EpsZ7
Zs

42. 18.
• James Stewart

43. *19.
• Identify the artist and it’s creation.

45. 19.
• Selma Lagerlöf
• Nils Holgersson

46. 20.
• The 1993 music video for R.E.M.'s song
"Everybody Hurts" draws heavily from X's
opening dream sequence, with the band stuck in
a traffic jam. Subtitles of the thoughts of people
trapped inside cars appear on screen until
everyone abandons their vehicle to walk instead;
then they vanish.
• Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQc

47. 20.
• X- 8 1/2