1. Answers

2. 1. Name the manga. What did it inspire in
Hollywood? (0.5 +0.5)

3. Or Shurayuki-hime

4. 2. Who is the
subject of this
novel?

5. Charles Sobhraj
The book is The Bikini Murders

6. 3. Hermann ________ (picture below), a Swiss
psychologist, created an experiment in 1921 in which
subjects’ interpretations of a particular thing are recorded
and then analyzed using psychological interpretation and
complex algorithm. It was the most popular projective test
in the 1960’s. What is this experiment and what is its
connection to the world of comics?

7. Rorschach inkblot test. Roschach’s mask from
Watchmen displays a constantly morphing inkblot that
is based on the ambiguous designs used in Rorschach
inkblot tests.

8. 4. Inspirations behind which character?

9. James Gumb/Buffalo Bill

10. 5. TheMoon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre
of Marvels is a group of occultist performers who perform
occult “workings” – occult prose and poetry set to music,
sometimes accompanied with dancing. The group consists of X,
who does the talking/speaking, and musicians David J and Tim
Perkins, who provide a musical backdrop to X’s monologue and
X is also a Neopagan, ceremonial magician and
verse.
anarchist. X is however more famous in a different field. ID
X.

11. Alan Moore

12. 6. The name of which film was initially Black Mask,
before being changed?

13. Pulp Fiction, after the pulp magazine Black Mask

14. 7. Name this character.
What is the musical connect
of one of its creators? His
name is not required.
(0.5+0.5)

15. Tank Girl. Jamie Hewlett, it’s co-creator, is also
the co-creator of Gorillaz

16. 8. The brutal murders of a farmer, his
wife and two of their children by these
two people formed the basis of which
pioneering book?

18. 9. He is more powerful and older than God, and his
appearance changes depending on the person who is
seeing him. He is the protagonist of which acclaimed
comic book series? Also name the character.
(0.5+0.5)

19. Dream/Morpheus/Oneiros from Sandman

20. 10. X was a writer and filmmaker born in 1932. He
had a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of
London, and had won many awards including the
Sahitya Academy Award, the Rajat Kamal at the
National Film Awards and the Padma Shri. Y is a
detective novel written by X when he was still a
teenager and its publication helped him gather the
money he required to travel to Calcutta for higher
education. X and Y please. (0.5+0.5)

21. X- Bhabendranath Saikia
Y- Atonkor Xexot

22. 11. This comic book character made his debut in
January 1983. Unlike other characters in the
magazine, this character was not originally
conceptualized by the creators of the magazine.
He grew out of three stories sent to by the
magazine by a certain Sameer Salman. Artist Ram
Waeerkar illustrated the stories and continued
drawing this character until 2003. Identify.

24. 12. The title of this 2010
novel refers to the way children
in rural Mississippi are taught to
write the letter S. It was
nominated for the Edgar Award
for best novel, but lost out to
The Lock Artist by Steve
Hamilton. What is the name of
this brilliant but
underappreciated novel?

25. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom
Franklin

26. 13. In American popular culture, what name is given
to people who claim to be government agents and
harass UFO witnesses to keep quiet about what they
have seen?

28. 14. Which forthcoming film is
based on this Greek thriller
novel of the 1960s?

29. Shanghai by Dibakar Bannerjee. There was an
old Greek film too, but the new one is Shanghai

30. 15. X and Y, two giant figures in the world of comics, were
high school friends. In 1936, it was Y who encouraged X to
sell cartoons to the new comic book Wow, What A
Magazine! X went on to create the character shown in the
next slide, write one of the first graphic novels, help
establish the graphic novel as a form of literature, and have
the most prestigious award in the industry named after him.
Y went on to create one of the most enduring and popular
characters ever. ID X and Y.

32. X- Will Eisner
Y- Bob Kane

33. 16. This 1982 film, a
homage to noir films and pulp
fiction, is based on and
named after which real-life
person?

34. Dashiell Hammett
The film is Hammett

35. 17. Vladek Spiegelman was a Polish Jew and holocaust
survivor. His son wrote quite a unique biography about
him. What is its name?

37. 18. Identify this author.
Her books have heavily
influenced such forensic-
themed detective series as
CSI.

38. Patricia Cornwell

39. 19. Which term, often used in context with
superheroes, is derived from the Spanish for watchman
or guard? Also the name of a comic series.

40. Vigilante

41. 20. The following lines are from the last chapter of a novel. Fill
in the blanks. The blanks also give the name of the book:
You just slept ___ ___ _____, not caring about the
nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of
the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
But the old man didn't have to be. He could lie quiet in his
canopied bed, with his bloodless hands folded on the
sheet, waiting. His heart was a brief, uncertain murmur. His
thoughts were as grey as ashes. And in a little while he too, like
Rusty Regan, would be sleeping ___ ___ _____.