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MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LITERATURE ART

39 Questions+1 Bonus Q in total.
20 CW, 19 ACW.
+10/0 on bounce, +10/-5 on pounce.
Part-points apply on some questions, as and when
necessary.
In case tie persists, sudden death to be applied. Please
refrain from using unfair means.
QMs are GOD.

BONUS Q just bec BoJaaaack is da real OG
BoJack Horseman is laden with easter eggs and inside jokes in every episode of
the show. An episode of the show takes us back to the ‘80s during a flashback
sequence. In the scene, the streets are filled with billboards referencing things
from the ‘80s like The Walkman and a sign reading “The Cola Wars are over.”
One such billboard reads out “___ _______ __ _________ ___”, referencing something
that actually came about three and a half decades earlier from its time, and was
used heavily in advertising during the Apple-IBM rivalry of the ‘80s.
FITB/What did the sign read?

(forgot the safety slide again ffs)

ANSWER
Big Brother is Watching You

1.
Shirley: Visions of Reality is a 2013 indie movie made in the documentary style by Gustav
Deutsch. Through the biography of a fictional actress named Shirley, Deutsch documents 30
years of US History, between the 1930s and the 1960s. To tell his story, Deutsch recreated
13 masterpieces of an American painter who worked during the same period, as set pieces.
Although it doesn’t reference his most famous creation from 1942, the style and colors
employed through the different paintings make the artist easily identifiable. Whose works
did Deutsch use as his set pieces? (images follow).

2.
Following are translations of an iconic English line in different language versions of the
movie. The scene being the turning point of the movie and the first revelation of the mind
state of the character, the director X wanted the line to have different meanings in different
versions.
The German version translates to: “Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
The Spanish version translates to: “Although one will rise early, it won’t dawn sooner.”
While the Italian version translates to: “He who wakes up early meets a golden day.”
Give me X and the line. Bonus points for the movie.

ANSWER
X- Stanley Kubrick
Line is: “All work no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
Movie- The shining

3.
This is the cover of the first volume of
which publication by Dark-Horse
comics?

4.
After shooting to cinematic fame with his portrayal of Natha in Peepli Live, Omkar Das
Manikpuri went back to his home in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, and didn’t appear in any feature film
for the next several years. This changed a couple of years back when he appeared in a
movie telling the story of his native region, as one of the local policemen assigned to protect
the protagonist. In 2019, Manikpuri is slated to appear in Mammootty’s Unda. He also
appeared in a relatively obscure Hindi movie called Chaturnath in May this year.
Which 2017 movie brought Manikpuri back to Bollywood?

5.
When approaching the investors prior to filming, ___ did not mention the _____ to ____ aspect of the plot,
fearing it would put off potential backers. The financiers of X did not discover the full nature of the film
until it was complete.
Two sequels titled Full sequence and Final Sequence were released in 2011 and 2015 respectively. The
entire trilogy was compiled into a single movie in 2016 and was named as the Full Sequence.
The director named the trilogy as a “movie Y” due to each movie leading into its successor while
simultaneously being independent.
The movie is also referenced in an episode of South Park with the same name but with a pun on of the
biggest tech companies of all time.
Id X and Y and FITB.

ANSWER
X= The human Centipede
Y = Centipede
Mouth to Anus

6.
Bhupen Khakhar became India’s first openly gay artist when his work, Two Men in Benares,
was unveiled in Mumbai in 1986. That work was recently sold by Sotheby’s for a personal
record of ₹22cr.
In the 1990s, after being portrayed as “the accountant” in a 1995 piece of literature that
looked at various events of Indian and world history, Khakhar decided to return the favour by
painting a portrait of the author of the work, and aptly titled his creation after the titular
character of the 1995 book.
What two-word title does the painting go by? (image follows)

7.
During the shooting of a film, Dev Anand once went to Taj Mahal Hotel to meet Sheila
Ramani who was playing the club dancer, Sylvie. Funnily enough, a foreigner approached
him and repeatedly told to take him to the nearby red light area. It took a good few minutes
to convince him that they were shooting a film following which the foreigner rendered an
apology.
Convincing portrayal of which role by Dev Anand made the foreigner to commit the
mistake?

8.
According to some experts , His decision to paint a ____ to emphasise this point – an image
was as capable of expressing thought as poetry – may well have been down to the fact that
shortly before he began work on this , André Breton and Paul Éluard, two leading figures of
the movement this individual was aligned with , published Notes on Poetry in their journal , in
which they declared “poetry is a ____”. His declaration on the work could then be seen as a
claim that it is something different, but equally valid.
The original title of the work was “L’usage de la parole I” (The Use of Speech I), which
implies that we should question the veracity of the words, not the image.
Which 1929 work am I talking about?

ANSWER
The Treachery Of Images

9.
As part of celebrations to observe the artist’s 350th Death Anniversary, the X House
Museum is running an exhibition titled X’s ______ _______ from February 1 to May 19 this
year. The exhibition draws from an ostensibly contemporary theme and explores how the
artist made use of contacts to acquire commissions and sell art, and people he turned to for
support during financial difficulty.
Who is the artist? What 2-word trendy title, that one would also associate with a 2010 movie,
has been given to the exhibition by the museum?

ANSWER
X – Rembrandt, Social Network

10.
Daria is a recurring character in American animated sitcom Beavis and Butthead, who was later
featured as the protagonist of an eponymous spin-off. The eldest daughter of the Morgendorffer
family, Daria is a student of Lawndale High who is described by its creators as a disaffected and
misanthropic character.
Daria's best known characteristic is her deadpan sarcasm; her usual reaction to almost anything
and everyone being a dry, witty remark at their expense. Described as a naturally intelligent but
immensely lazy girl who likes to get away by doing the bare minimum, she is commonly perceived
as being very unhappy.
Due to these character traits and her appearance, another character from a TV Show is compared
to her in of the episodes of the newer show, calling her a version of Daria from a different
continent.
Which character? (image follows)

11.
The movie X was produced in collaboration with the Pentagon to rebrand the US Navy’s
image post-Vietnam war, and attract new Navy recruits.
X was the first full blown collaboration between Hollywood and the US navy.
ID X.

12.
X was honoured by Variety Magazine as the first producer in Hollywood history to produce
the top two highest grossing films of a single weekend, the buddy-cop Bad Boys 2 and the
Disney theme-park spin off, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl.
According to variety, the “X touch” is characterized by a “consistently edgy, high-octane
visual dynamic and equally distinctive storytelling driven by the triumphalism so popular
with Madison Avenue.”
X is known for movies like Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, The
National Treasure franchises.
ID X.

ANSWER
Bruckheimer(Jerry Bruckheimer)

13.
The Guardian in a 2017 editorial on the occasion of their 200th Death Anniversary discussed
how snobbery has continued to cloud the celebration of one of Britain’s greatest writers. The
article goes on to discuss how they would have flipped in their grave given the popularity
their most famous work enjoys, with Zombie spin-offs and umpteen TV adaptations, as well
as spawning off another literary series.
The article laments the celebration of their stories as romantic ideals, and goes on to say,
“Much as their heroes save their heroines from poverty or reliance on grim relations, so
respectable admirers must rescue the author from these fans.”
The article is aptly subtitled as X taking inspiration from their bestselling work. Give X.

14.
“There were many people killed, but everyone worries about the _____. When the head
arrived, it upset many members: who were animal lovers, who liked little doggies. What they
don’t know is that we got the head from a pet food manufacturer who slaughters two
hundred _____s a day just to feed those little doggies.”
Which animal is being talked about here, whose death seems to be more important than that
of even human beings?

ANSWER
Horse-head scene, The Godfather

15.
The strong impact of Minimalism, Abstraction, Cubism and especially Picasso on X can be
seen by comparing Picasso’s Guernica and X’s Y.
Although the symbolism of the bull and horse in Guernica remain ambiguous, the bull in Y
can be seen to symbolize the artist’s attempt to shed light on the culture and predicaments
faced by the Indian subcontinent and its people, becoming in essence a symbol of the pain
and struggle, yet simultaneously of survival. An oft seen image here Y’s embrace symbolize
his eventual mergence with his Vanquisher.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
X – Tyeb Mehta, Y – Mahishasura

16.
When Michael Jackson granted X permission to do “Fat”, Jackson allowed him to use the
same set built for his own “badder” video from the Moonwalker Film. X said that this helped
him gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
Known for his parodies of “fancy” by Iggy Azalea, “Beat it” by Michael Jackson, who is X?

17.
De architectura is an ancient treatise comprising of ten books on Classical Architecture written
during the 1st Century CE. It discusses the concept of proportion in length and its rediscovery had
a profound influence on architects of the Renaissance, prompting the rebirth of Classical
architecture in subsequent centuries.
In Book III, the author goes on to define the _____ ____ as the principal source of proportion,
explaining how different parts fit in in his theory. His work would later go on to inspire a
renaissance polymath to create one of their very popular works, which is now often used as an
implied symbol of the essential symmetry of the _____ ____, and by extension, of the universe as a
whole.
What was cited by the author to be the principal source of proportion? What was created by the
renaissance polymath?

ANSWER
Human Body; The Vitruvian Man by Da Vinci

18.
Named for its previous owner, the Quinta Del Sordo (Deaf Man’s Villa) stood on the banks of
the River Manzanares and was acquired by its most famous resident in the early 19th
century. Seeking to escape public attention, he used the villa as his studio where in his later
years developed a series of painting in the different rooms of the villa. The dining room,
disturbingly, hosted a very peculiar work from this series.
Who was this artist? What SPECIFIC work was present in his dining room?

ANSWER
Goya; Saturn Devouring his Son

19.
The third episode of the very first season of The Simpsons is about Mr. Simpson deciding to commit
suicide by jumping off a boulder after facing public embarrassment in front of Bart and his friends during
their field trip to his workplace, where he is fired for his incompetence. The episode then goes to portray
an epic journey that he takes, from being stopped from committing suicide to stealing money from Bart’s
piggyback to buy alcohol, to eventually him seeing the error of his ways and decide to be the Green
Crusader of Springfield, till he is finally offered the job of safety inspector by the evil Mr. Burns against the
condition that he stops his crusades. What is the episode aptly titled, that might also remind of an
antiquarian work?
In its United Kingdom home video collection, this episode was paired with the sixth episode of the season,
which deals on a very sad, depressed daughter of The Simpsons family, and her attempts to sublimate it
with playing the saxophone. The first episode to specifically focus on her, what is this episode titled,
much to her anguish, and punning on a world-famous creation from early 16th century Italy?

ANSWER
Homer’s Odyssey; Moaning Lisa

20.
Also known as the Hippie Van, the Volkswagen Type 2 makes an appearance in the 2004 video game
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. A very difficult to obtain vehicle in the game, the game version of the
hippie type 2 is called The Mothership and appears only in three specific missions in the game. It is owned
by The Truth, a larger-than-life character who smokes copious amounts of weed and believes more in
Conspiracy Theories than actual facts. Owing to his appearance as well as him owning sizeable
marijuana farms, The Truth is believed by many fans to be a reference to a famous country singer, whose
songs incidentally also feature in the GTASA soundtrack. Who is The Truth believed to be a reference to?
(image follows)
Due to obvious copyright laws, the makers at Rockstar could not use the Volkswagen logo on The
Mothership. They thus replaced the VW logo with something similar, which was way more telling of its
use as a “hippie”-van. What did they replace the Volkswagen Logo with?

ANSWER
Willie Nelson; Peace Symbol

21.
Given is a short extract from X’s interview by Terry Gross.
X- It was a cinch because it was the first time I’d ever written a screenplay, so I didn’t know
what I was doing. You know, it’s- and it came out right. And the story I tell is that after I had
won two Academy Awards, you know, for the first two “__________”, I went out and bought a
book on screen writing because I figured I’d better learn… And then the first chapter-the book
said, study “__________.” It’s the model of a screenplay. So I was stuck with a book.
ID X and FITB.

ANSWER
X = Mario Puzo
Godfathers / Godfather 1

22.
Liberty leading the People is a painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the July
revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France.
The artwork is used as the cover of album X by Y. The album contains references to love,
life, death and war.
Id X and Y. (image follows)

ANSWER
X= Viva la Vida
Y= Coldplay

23.
Careful consideration was given to X’s title, with the three contenders being Signs of Life, Of
Promises Broken and Delusions of Maturity. The final title appears as a line in the chorus of
one of the songs. The designer Storm Thorgerson was employed to work on the album
cover. His finished design was a long river of Hospital Beds arranged on a beach, inspired by
phrase from “Yet Another Movie” and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ vague hint of design that
included a bed in a Mediterranean House, as well as “vestiges of relationships that have
evaporated, leaving only echoes”. The cover shows hundreds of hospital beds, placed on
Saunton Sands in Devon.
The album was recorded on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ converted houseboat.
Id X and FITB. Bonus for name of the song.

ANSWER
X- A Momentary Lapse for Reason
Blank: David Gilmour
Song: One Slip

24.
An image from one of the episodes of the Powerpuff Girls Reboot named “Puffdora’s Box”
follows. ID the duo being referenced in the image.

25.
Released in Netflix in 2017, Trevor Noah tackles with issues of racism and immigration
politics in his hour-long stand-up special Afraid of the Dark. One of the acts in the special
involves Noah discussing the practical unviability of a rumored casting choice involving one
of his favorite characters, stating that it would be an immensely difficult task to operate as a
spy in Northern European countries where most supervillains operate, being the only black
guy in the whole town. What rumored casting choice that saw the internet erupt a couple of
years ago does Noah talk about thus?

ANSWER
Idris Elba as James Bond

26.
Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An are Taiwanese artists who decided to collaborate together
to make a mural containing famous faces of the world across histories of different period.
This 2006 work has a total of 103 faces from history figuring in it. The artists probably had a
problem with the under-representation of Asians in World History, with a significant number
of Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese and other Asian icons featuring prominently in the artwork.
The artists decided to paint themselves too, and they can be seen on the top-right corner of
the piece, with a person belonging to the late 13th and early 14th centuries (not necessarily
Asian), discussing something.
Who is this figure the artists are with? What are they discussing?

ANSWER
Discussing the
Divine Comedy
with Dante

27.
Cesar Peli is an Argentine-American architect who has designed some of the world’s tallest
buildings and major urban landmarks, including the World Financial Centre at New York City.
In 2007, Peli was honored with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for one of his most
famous works which was completed more than a decade earlier, and which had a glass and
steel facade designed to resemble motifs in Islamic Art. What did Peli design?

28.
Quiksilver is an Australian-American retail sporting brand. Founded originally in Torquay,
Australia, it is now headquartered in California, USA. It is one of the world’s largest brands of
surfwear and other sports-related equipment.
The brand’s logo (image follows), designed by founder Alan Green and John Law, depicts a
large wave with a mountain on a red background.
Take a close look at the logo and tell me which 19th century work is the logo inspired by?

ANSWER
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

29.
Euclid and his Modern Rivals is an 1879 book written by an English mathematician who is
also known for their literary exploits.
Despite its scholarly subject and content, the work takes the form of a whimsical dialogue,
principally between a mathematician named Minos and a "devil's advocate" named
Professor Niemand (German for 'nobody') who represents the "Modern Rivals" of the title.
A quote from the preface of this book was used in the first official Wikipedia logo which was
kept in use for eight months, during the course of 2001.
Who authored this book?

30.
The US Patent for an “Exhaust muffler for engines” was awarded to Milton O. Reeves and
Marshall T. Reeves of Columbus, Indiana of the Reeves Pulley company on 11 May 1897. US
Patent Office application No 582485 states that they “have invented certain new and useful
improvements in Exhaust-Mufflers for engines”.
Around a century later, increased automobile junk disposal, including mufflers in the oceans
was subtly incorporated into what became one of the most iconic pop culture phenomenon
of all time and was in news again in late 2018, albeit for an unfortunate reason.
Put funda. Image follows.

ANSWER
Houses in Spongebob Squarepants.

31.
As a sheer example of counter propaganda this leaflet was distributed to polish civilians,
imploring them to find the fifth pig.
Give funda and who is the fifth pig being referred to here? Image follows.

ANSWER
Adolf Hitler.
On folding the paper accordingly
the image of Adolf Hitler forms.

32.
__________ and Other Queer Tales That They Don’t Tell You is a book that deals with stories
of LGBTQ+ people inside Hindu Mythology. The book came to the limelight again a few days
back thanks to its author coming out of the closet during an interview.
The book interprets the story of the titular character as that of a transgender and goes on to
comment that while Bhishma never accepted them as a man, Krishna saw them for who
they were and treated them with respect.
Who is the titular character of the book? Who is the author?

ANSWER
Shikhandi and Devdutt Pattanaik

33.
Katz Delicatessen is a kosher-style deli located in 205 East Houston Street, New York City.
The deli, operational since 1888, came up with the “send a salami to your boy in the army”
catchphrase during the Second World War, and has also scene a lot of famous TV and
Movie shows being shot here.
One such scene to be shot in this deli has been forever immortalized with the words, “hope
you have what she had” above the exact place where it was enacted.
Which scene? (Image follows)

ANSWER
The fake orgasm scene from
When Harry Met Sally

34.
A Guardian article discusses how rock music from 70’s and 80’s era is much different form
the one in the modern times. The article talks about how it modern rock misses something
which the old classic rock songs had but we rarely observe them in modern rock.
The article has stated the reason for this change as the pressure to catch the listener’s
attention in the first 30 seconds of the song.
What 30 second phenomenon is being talked about here and what change has been
observed?

ANSWER
Spotify only pays the artist for a song if it played for more than 30 seconds. In
order to catch the listener’s attention rock artists have started to reduce the time
of intro and keep it under 30 seconds thus making good long intros a rare luxury.

35.
Originally named as Montauk, the director(s) of X started by using a copy of Stephen King’s
novel Firestarter novel to consider the title’s font and appearance, and came up with a long
list of potential alternatives of X, which sounded similar to another King novel, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _.
To pitch the series, the director(s) used images, footages and music from movies like ET,
Poltergeist, Jaws etc. to set the tone of the theme.
Give me X and FITB.

ANSWER
X – Stranger Things
Blank: Needful Things

36.
On September 19, 1985, a hearing about rock music rock music lyrics captured everyone’s
attention. Over the course of 5 hour, musicians like Frank Zappa, Dee Snider and John
Denver along with groups like PMRC(Parents Music Resource Centre), a group led by the
wives of Washington politicians discussed the “Lack of Morals” in the music industry due
factors like launch of MTV in 1981 and increased demonic influence in rock songs. This 5-
hour long discussion and just an instance of the war on rock music gave us one of the most
recognizable images in the American music industry. This image is often taken for granted
and means that the content is meant for “a particular set of audience”.
What image is being talked about here?

ANSWER
PARENTAL ADVISORY STICKER

37.
Expected to fetch between $6,340 and $7,609, this particular thing belonging to Winston
Churchill would go on sale in December.
Seen very close to Churchill in his photos, which belonging of his is expected to bag such a
large amount?

ANSWER
Winston Churchill’s smoked cigar thrown by him in a theatre.

38.
On the left KISS’s original logo is given with the double ‘S’ resembling two lightning bolts. On
the right is given KISS’s logo for German market.
Give me the reason.

ANSWER
The lightning bolt symbol resembles Schutzstaffel Logo.

39.
For X’s 75th birthday last year(July), Arnold H Staniczek, entomologist at Stuttgart State
Museum of Natural History and long time hardcore fan of Y, paid a very special homage to
his rock heroes. During a collaborative project on fossil stoneflies, he persuaded his
colleagues to name their newly discovered ancient stonefly family after Y and seven fossil
species after each present and past member of the band. So one of the seven “Z” preserved
in amber now bears the name Petroperla X, derived from the Greek petra that stands for “_ _
_ _ _”.
ID X,Y and Z.

ANSWER
X= Mick Jagger
Y= The Rolling Stones
Z= Rolling Stoneflies

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