1. The document is a quiz containing questions about various topics such as Alcatraz Island, The Matrix movie, George Orwell's novel 1984, the Lamborghini concept car Terzo Millenio, and Spongebob Squarepants.
2. It asks the participant to identify things, people or concepts referenced in each multiple choice question.
3. Many questions reference popular culture topics from movies, books, video games and historical events.
6. Q.1
X is located in San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore
from San Francisco, California. The small island was developed
with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a
military prison, and a federal prison.
During its 29 years of operation, the penitentiary claimed that
no prisoner successfully escaped, that is, until 1962, when
Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin arguably
escaped in one of the most intricate escapes ever devised.
This event was also adapted into a 1979 movie starring Clint
Eastwood, among others, which implied that the escape had
been successful, despite the fact that the prisoners had never
surfaced.
8. Q.2
A movie, X, released at the turn of this century,
contains a cryptic message in the opening
sequence which when translated, is the recipe
of a Japanese sushi.
The movie introduced the Hong-Kong style of
fighting for the first time in Hollywood and most
of the fighting is done by the lead actor, Y
himself.
Id X and Y.
10. Q.3
X is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by the English author Y.
In the novel, it is never made clear whether Z is or had been a real
person, or is a fictional personification. Z is described as appearing on
posters and telescreens as a handsome man in his mid-40s.
The magazine Book ranked Z No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in
Fiction Since 1900 list. Wizard magazine rated him the 75th greatest
villain of all time.
The iconic image of Z (played by David Graham) played a key role
in Apple's television commercial introducing the Macintosh.
In 2008, the Simpsons animated television series spoofed the Apple Z
commercial in an episode entitled "Mypods and Boomsticks”.
Id X, Y and Z.
12. Q.4
Lamborghini unveiled its vision for the ‘super sports car
of the future’ on November 6th, in partnership with X.
Stefano Domenicali, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
of Automobili Lamborghini said:
"We want people to think of us more and more as a
trendsetter in the super luxury and sports car segment. X
has always been a pioneer in innovation and we are
proud to have signed this general agreement with such
an illustrious ________, which will lead to the study of
issues of mutual interest relating to the super sports car
for the 3rd millennium".
Id X and also give the name of the concept.
15. Q.5
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. carried out
nuclear tests over an atoll in the Marshall
Islands, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is
believed that the creators of the T.V. show X
used this idea to make the characters in their
show, primarily fish, mutated due to the
radiation, hence giving them human-like
behaviour.
Id X.
17. Q.6
X was a 15th century Romanian ruler who
enjoyed sopping up his enemies’ blood with
bread and eating it. This disturbing practice,
along with his family name of Dracula and
birthplace of Transylvania, inspired Bram
Stoker’s Dracula.
Id X.
19. Q.7
• NASA often shows the Hollywood movie X as
part of its management training program and
then asks its new staff to identify as many
scientific inaccuracies as they can.
• There are said to be at least 168 of them.
• X is a science-fiction film released in 1998.
Despite generally negative reviews from
critics, it had become the highest grossing film
of that year.
21. Q.8
X is a 1982 adventure videogame developed for the
Atari 2600 console. X is often cited as one of the
worst videogames of all time and one of the biggest
commercial failures in videogame history. It is cited
as a major contributing factor to the videogame
industry crash of 1983, and has been frequently
referenced and mocked in popular culture.
X had also led to an urban legend stating that
millions of unsold cartridges were buried in an
Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill, which was found
out to be true after an excavation in 2013.
23. Q.9
X are horror-related legends or images that have been copy-
and-pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are
often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to
scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide,
and otherworldly occurrences. According to Time magazine,
the genre had its peak audience in 2010 when it was covered
by The New York Times.
Arguably, the most iconic X character which gained public
attention is the Slenderman, a thin, tall man with no
distinguishable facial features who wears a black suit, and is
said to stalk, and traumatize people. The character originated
in a 2009 SomethingAwful Photoshop competition, and X
were written shortly afterward.
25. Q.10
X was a United States Delta and Navy SEAL-
operated plan conducted in 1989 designed to
capture Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega.
When Noriega took refuge in the Apostolic
Nunciature of the Holy See, deafening rock
music was used to convince him to exit and
surrender himself.
Name X.
27. Q.11
X, incorporated on 18th of January, 2000, is a web
services company. It is one of the largest internet
companies.
X has the second largest search engine in the world,
as of April 2017.
In 2017, X announced that its Y autonomous driving
program (often called the ‘Android of the
autonomous driving industry’) has over 50 partners,
including the auto companies Chery, Volkswagen,
General Motors, Hyundai, Daimler AG, Ford and
others.
29. Q.12
X was a motivational poster produced by the
Ministry of Information of the British
government. It was produced as part of a series
of three “Home Publicity” posters. The others
read “Your courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your
Resolution Will Bring Us Victory” and “Freedom
Is In Peril Defend It With All Your Might”.
What does X read?
33. Q.14
X is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone
and Sue Rose. Rose first developed the character in
1985, on a napkin in a restaurant.
X was licensed to PepsiCo in 1987, but the character
did not receive much attention or popularity until
the early 90s, when he appeared on numerous
products, particularly stationery.
X reappeared in the 2000s, as the mascot for 7-Up,
until it was replaced with Cool Spot.
36. Q.15
X was a Seljuq satirical Sufi, born in Hortu Village
in Sivrihisar, present-day Turkey and died in the
13th century. He is considered a populist
philosopher and wise man, remembered for his
funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in
thousands of stories, sometimes witty,
sometimes wise, but often a fool. A typical X
story usually has a subtle humour and a
pedagogic nature.
38. Q.16
On 22nd September, 2015, Robert Lewandowski
broke a host of records in a Bundesliga match
between Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg. Robert
came off the bench at half-time leading Bayern
to a 5-1 victory.
What exactly did he do?
40. Q.17
X (17 December 1556 – 1627) also known
as ______ was an Urdu and Hindi poet who lived
during the rule of Mughal emperor Akbar. He
was one of the nine important ministers
(dewan) in his court, also known as
the Navaratnas. X is known for his Urdu couplets
and his books on astrology.
Identify. What was he a minister of?
43. X was an Indian woman who was the first
female graduate from Bombay University, the
first woman to study law at Oxford University,
the first female advocate in India, and the first
woman to practice law in India and Britain.
45. Q.19
Yagi Double is a font created by Robert Trogman
in 1968. The Yagi Double has a distinct style: the
letters are made from two parallel lines having
no breaks, giving it the appearance of a circuit
track.
A tech-related company has used this font since
the 1970s, albeit with a change in the letter ‘G’.
Name the iconic company.
46.
47. Q.20
X is a microgenre of electronic music and an Internet meme that
emerged in the early 2010s. The music typically features a fascination
with 1980s and 1990s styles of mood music such as smooth
jazz, elevator music, R&B, and lounge music, often sampling or
manipulating tracks via chopped and screwed techniques and other
effects. The subculture surrounding X is often associated with an
ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and popular
culture, and tends to be characterized by
a nostalgic or surrealist engagement with the popular entertainment,
technology and advertising of previous decades. It also incorporates
early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art,
and cyberpunk tropes in its cover artwork and music videos.
X visual art, simply referred to as “aesthetics,” is varied but tends to
honour some core tenets. For example, an X song title would usually
be written in a stretched-out font like:
aesthetic