QRIOSITY 2018: The Nerd Stereotype [U-25]

Disclaimer
 Nerds are unique. Nerds are diverse. This set is for
all types of nerds (and also for everyone else).
 Questions are on science fiction and fantasy,
comics, video games, TV shows, and movies.
 While we have named our quiz THE NERD
STEREOTYPE, we are also poking fun at the
stereotype. So the questions are general-ish (on
said topics) in most cases. Keep that in mind.

Format
 24 questions. Multiples of 4 are starred. Stars are
already marked on your answer sheet.
 For starred questions with 2 parts, you need to
answer both parts to get the star. Half points, if
any, are QM’s discretion. Half stars don’t exist.
 For questions with 3 parts, 2 correct parts for half
a point.

As with all quizzes these days..
(Also, Saswata is God)

Whose statue is this,
holding a book,
which is quite
ironical considering
his most famous
work?
1.
Saswata QRIOSITY 2018: THE NERD STEREOTYPE23rd September, 2018

Answer
Ray Bradbury
1.

2.
 X had a long association with ice sports which also
featured prominently in his works.
 He owned the Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa
which featured a snack bar aptly called- ‘The Warm
Puppy’.
 In 1975, he started a major amateur senior ice
hockey tournament at that arena and called the
tournament:- ______ tournament.
 Give me X, who is cited as the inspiration behind many
later cartoonists and while at it, name the tournament as
well.

Answer
Charles Schultz Snoopy
2.

Who made this dance from ‘FORTNITE’
famous among Sports enthusiasts?
3.

Answer: Antoine Griezmann3.

*4.
 Sculptor Liz Moore initially created a two-and-a-half
foot tall creature out of clay, and then a final version
was made from fiberglass and outfitted with
mechanisms to make the eyes movable.
According to Heptner- “Inspiration for the prop came
from an illustration in Robert Ardrey’s book, African
Genesis, and through the intra-uterine photographs by
Lennart Nilsson which were published in 1965 in LIFE
Magazine.”
 What iconic prop form the world of Entertainment is
being talked about?

Answer
Star Child from 2001: A
Space Odyssey
*4.

 Throughout his post 2000s
movie, the director used the
works of these two gentlemen
extensively to create the desired
effects.
 Another spark of brilliance from
the director was naming the lead
characters – Dom, Robert,
Eames, Arthur, Mal, Saito, Peter,
Aridane, and Yusuf in order to
reflect the underlying theme of
the movie.
 How did the names reflect the
underlying theme of the movie?
5.

Answer
First letters of the names read:
DREAMS PAY
(movie - Inception)
5.

6.
 On 1st Sept , the World Beard Day , t2 campus team
had chosen 4 TV characters having the best looking
beards.
 The list included:- Khal Drogo (GOT) , Ragnar Lodbrock
(Vikings), X, and Y.
 While X’s facial hairs changed from a run-of-the-mill
moustache to a baldie with goatee to an unkempt
beardo; Y’s beard is said to be befitting of royalty.
 While X is completely fictional, Y is still alive in real life
and is 3 springs away from a century.
 Give me X and Y.

Answer
X - Walter White (Breaking Bad) Y - Prince Philip (The Crown)
6.

2000. 2016. 2019.
While the first one was named after an apparent
physical characteristic of the protagonist, the
second took its name from a physical (and to a
great extent, mental) characteristic of the
antagonist. The third in this series, which will
release next year, is named after one of the main
antagonists.
What (alt. which series)?
7.
Balagopal QRIOSITY 2018: THE NERD STEREOTYPE23rd September, 2018

Answer7.
Unbreakable,
Split, and
Glass – the
Eastrail 177
trilogy.

*8.
One of the lesser known real-life inspirations
behind the development of superhero comics is
described thus in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier and Klay:

*8.
“To me, Clark Rent in a phone booth and X in a packing crate, they
were one and the same thing,” he would learnedly expound at
WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of The Comics Journal.
“You weren’t the same person when you came out as when you
went in [...] It was called ‘Metamorphosis.’ It was never just a
question of escape. It was also a question of transformation.” The
truth was that, as a kid, Sammy had only a casual interest, at best,
in X and his legendary feats; his great heroes were Nikola Tesla,
Louis Pasteur, and Jack London. [...] His dreams had always been
Xesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind
cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air. X was a hero to little men,
city boys, and Jews; Samuel Louis Klayman was all three.”
Identify X.

Answer
Harry Houdini
*8.

9.
A 60-year old, Jiansheng Chen, was shot dead on
January 2017 by Jonathan Cromwell, a security guard
at a community clubhouse in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Chen was at the driveway of the parking area of the
clubhouse when he was confronted by Cromwell who
stopped his vehicle in front of Chen’s. Subsequently he
was shot by Cromwell who felt threatened by his
driving around in a blue van (possibly) with a mobile
device in his hand.
What was Chen doing at the time of his death, an act
described by his family attorney as an attempt to bond
with his nieces and grandchildren?

9.

Answer9.
Playing Pokémon Go.

10.
Inspired by a 1982 film, an American computer
programmer, Jay Maynard created a revealing
electroluminescent costume in 2004. Once he debuted
at Penguincon in his new creation, he began attracting a
lot of media attention and this resulted in his now
infamous moniker, ____ Guy. When the original movie
saw a reboot in 2010, Maynard was banned from visiting
the local movie theatre in his suit because the lights on it
would have caused immense distraction to other
members of the audience.
Which movie inspired Maynard?

10.

Answer10.
Tron

 When Pammi Bakshi met Amitabh Bachchan in
1983, on the set of Pukar, they ended up with a
plan for a superhero comic series featuring
Supremo, Bachchan’s vigilante alter-ego.
 Adventures of Amitabh Bachchan, published by the
Indian Book House, is peppered with a lot of
references to Bachchan’s film career.
 In this vein, what were the names of the two
young boys who assisted Supremo in his crime-
fighting endeavors?
11.

Answer11.
Vijay and Anthony Gonsalves

*12.
Game developers Gale Force 9 has announced a
tabletop RPG of X, a classic of the sci-fi genre.
Although an RPG of X already exists, having been first
developed in 1996, the new version is set to coincide
with a reboot of the movies, slated to be released in
2020. The original movie was developed by an
American director, after a series of failed attempts by
Y, a Chilean-French filmmaker who finally created Z in
collaboration with a French artist, the first in a series
of works that borrowed concepts heavily from X, so
much so that it can be considered to be a loose
adaptation of X.
Give me X, Y, and Z.
Rushati QRIOSITY 2018: THE NERD STEREOTYPE23rd September, 2018

Answer
X: Dune by Frank Herbert
Y: Alejandro Jodorowsky Z: The Incal
*12.

13.
The name of the TV show for which X is most famous
comes from the name of the 1961 movie, Y. The TV
show was inspired by the stories of an author whose
99th birthday was celebrated on September 15. Y
was an adaptation of one of the author’s stories,
involving a crime committed on a train and
witnessed by a passenger on another train.
Coincidentally, X had acted in other adaptations of
the same author’s work, including the character that
inspired X’s role in the show.
Name X, Y, and the author.

Answer
X: Angela Lansbury
Y: Murder, She Said [The TV
show is called Murder, She
Wrote]
Author: Agatha Christie
13.

14.
X was a 2013 movie developed by Studio Ghibli as an
adaptation of one of the world’s oldest SFF stories, Y.
The story has been passed down orally in Japan for
generations, since at least the 9th century. The story
was first written down sometime around the 15th
century, and one of the manuscript versions contains
details that suggest extraterrestrial life, including what
appears to be a flying saucer. The main character in
the story has also inspired characters in mangas and
animes, including Naruto, in which the clan of the
main antagonist, Z, is said to have come from the
moon. Identify X, Y, and Z.

Answer
X: The Tale of the
Princess Kaguya
Y: The Tale of the
Bamboo Cutter/The
Tale of the Princess
Kaguyahime
Z: Kaguya Ootsutsuki
14.

15.
 X is truly one-of-a-kind role-playing video game for both
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. it is inspired by the life and
works of a 19th century Western classical music composer,
Y, who is famous for his nocturnes, etudes and waltzes. The
idea is that Y is dreaming in the last few hours of his life
and the player joins him on quests, battles, and magical
adventures with a band of characters in a fantasy world. It
even features him as a playable character. Many of his
compositions are featured in the game, and the
background music for the final battle is a remixed version
of one of his most famous compositions, the
“Revolutionary” etude that was inspired by the 1831
November Uprising of Russia. Identify X and Y.

Answer
X: Eternal Sonata
Y: Chopin
15.

*16.
Arunava QRIOSITY 2018: THE NERD STEREOTYPE23rd September, 2018
 “Killswitch” is a very strange entry in the history of video game
legends. It is the story of a woman who wakes up mysteriously
injured at the bottom of a coal mine who must fight her way
through demons, specters, undead miners and possessed
machinery to make it out alive. It gave you the choice to play as
Porto, the girl, or Ghast, an invisible demon whose gameplay was
nearly impossible due to most of the challenges requiring you to be
able to see where your character was. There are highly detailed
accounts of everything from gameplay to plot, to specific puzzles,
graphics style, soundtrack and everything in between. The game
could not be copied, and reportedly only around 5,000 copies were
ever created.
 What is the urban legend surrounding this game? And why can it
never be verified one way or the other?

Answer*16.
 Despite all this, no one can verify that it ever
existed.
 The reason that it’s impossible to verify that the
game ever existed (other than it probably never
existing) is that upon completion of the game, it
would supposedly erase itself from the user’s
computer, leaving no trace behind.

17.
 The following is a page from the first issue of a
comic book released recently that introduced
major, timeline breaking changes to the origin
story of a character, making it significantly
independent from the other major superhero
character to whose story their origin had been
significantly been connected to till this point, as it
was revealed here that It turns out that their
presence on Earth actually predated to ancient
times. Using this, and the visual cues given in the
picture), identify the character.

17.

Answer
 Venom.
 It turns out that there were
symbiotes on Earth long
before Spider-Man returned
from Secret Wars wearing a
black-and-white suit that
turned out to be a symbiotic
alien creature.
17.

18.
 Nick Bostrom, a philosopher of artificial intelligence and
consciousness (widely known for his views about whether or not
we live in a simulation), has recently defined the term X, which is
fairly popular in futuristic sci-fi as well, with the following words:
 "The term X has been used in very different senses by different
authors. I am sympathetic to the view that the word often causes
more confusion than clarity, and that we might be better off
replacing it with some alternative vocabulary. However, for the
purposes of this paper, I shall define a X as a being that has at least
one X capacity. By a X capacity, I mean a general central capacity
greatly exceeding the maximum attainable by any current human
being without recourse to new technological means.“
 Identify X.

Answer18.
Posthuman

19.
 The return of X is one of important aspects of their legend, no
matter how and where it is adapted.
 It has proven to be attractive to a number of modern writers from
John Masefield to C. S. Lewis along with crossing over with great
success to mediums like comics with instances ranging from
returning in the far dystopian future to save the planet from an
alien invasion in one to restoring a monarchy as it is about to be
abolished in another.
 This has also occasionally turned them into a politically potent
figure through to the present era. In the 20th century, a
comparison of John F. Kennedy and his White House with X’s
context, made by Kennedy's widow, helped consolidate Kennedy's
posthumous reputation, with Kennedy even becoming associated
with an X-like messianic return in American folklore.
 X?

Answer
King Arthur
19.

*20.
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 X is a dark fantasy children's novella by a certain
British author, published
by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins in 2002.
 The titular character's name came from a typo in Y.
According to the author, "I had typed the name Y,
and it came out wrong. I looked at the word X, and
knew it was someone's name. I wanted to know
what happened to her.”
 Identify the novella.

Answer
X = Coraline
[Enough for points]
Y = Caroline
*20.

21.

X is a 1988 computer game by John Romero.
 The object of the game is to collect gold cups to move
on to the next level. The idea for X came to John
Romero influenced by Y. There are similarities between
the two games, such as the secret levels, the level
design, the monsters, and the jumping. According to
Romero, he was "on purpose trying to make
a Y game.” The mission is to guide X through ten levels,
collecting trophies in the hideout of his enemy, Clyde.
 Identify X (two word alliterative name) and Y.

Answer
X = Dangerous Dave Y = Super Mario
21.

 Breakdowns is a collected volume of underground
comic strips by American cartoonist X. The book is
made up of strips dating to before X started planning
his graphic novel Y, but includes the strip “Y" which
presaged the graphic novel, and "Prisoner on the Hell
Planet" which is reproduced in Y.
 The original edition of 1977 is subtitled From Y to Now.
The expanded 2008 edition is subtitled Portrait of the
Artist as a Young %@&*!.
 Picture follows.
22.

22.
Give me X & Y.
No part points.

Answer22.
 X = Art Spiegelman
 Y = Maus

23.
 Futurama: Bender's Game is a 2008 American direct-
to-video adult animated science fantasy comedy
film and the third of the four Futurama films that make
up the show's fifth season.
 According to the Beast with a Billion Backs (second
film) DVD commentary, the film, which spoofs X, was
in production when its creator died. The film contains
a post-credits tribute to said creator in the form of a
title card and a clip of him from the episode
"Anthology of Interest I".
 Just identify X. A picture follows.

Answer
This is the
creator.
Look at the
picture
carefully.
23.

Answer23.

*24.
 X, Y, and Z are three terms. X is generic, while Y and
Z are fandom specific. They are also the names of
Facebook groups and other online forums.
 X is an internet slang which means posting large
amounts of content of "aggressively, ironically, and
trollishly poor quality" to an online forum or social
network, in some cases intended to derail
discussions or otherwise make the site unusable to
its regular visitors.

*24.
 For Y, there’s a certain tweak in the spelling (but
rhyming) because it is X related to a gradually
expanding franchise spanning more than 40 years
whose fans are never happy.
 For Z, there’s a certain tweak in the first word
because it is X related to a gradually expanding
comic book franchise and related media. The first
part of the word is an acronym.
 Identify all 3. Incorrect spellings will not fetch you
points.

Answer
X = Shitposting | Y = Sithposting (Star Wars)
Z = SHIELDposting (Marvel)
*24.

Written Round.
+10/0 on correct/incorrect answer.
+15/-05 on correct/incorrect stake. To stake,
just write S in parentheses next to answer.
Round 1 (8 questions)

THEME
Is It A Revision? A Reboot? Does It Do Revival-y
Things? Or Simply Reimagine?
Let's find out!
And other things that could have been.

Something else was forgotten. What?
 "One More Day" was a four-part crossover in the Spider-
Man comics in 2007, as a part of the ongoing original Civil
War storyline, that infamously erased the marriage
between Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Written by J. Michael
Straczynski and Joe Quesada, this has proven to be one of
the most polarising stories in the history of the comic book
medium. After Aunt May is shot, Peter seeks help to save
her life from none other than the devil Mephisto who
offers to save her life in exchange for their marriage. This
led to reactions ranging from heavy criticism to fandom
backlash that has not died out even as you hear this being
read out.
 That was, however, not the only thing Peter received in
return here.
1.

This one didn’t happen. Name it.
The original movie was a masterpiece of psychedelic animation. Having
experimented with motion capture in The Polar Express and A Christmas
Carol, director Robert Zemeckis intended to use the same techniques to
mount a dazzling 3D remake. He even hired tribute band The Fab Four for
motion capture purposes, while David Tennant, Peter Serafinowicz, Cary
Elwes and more were in talks to voice these characters.
Then Mars Needs Moms (2011) happened. The mo-cap sci-fi comedy has
the dubious honour of having one of the worst openings of all time for a
major movie. It was a cataclysm for Disney, who promptly canned this
reboot in response.
2.

They thought this one shouldn’t
happen. Say why.
Forrest Gump was one of the '90s biggest – and most critically
lauded – hits. And while the ending doesn't exactly scream
sequel, there was still potential there. Winston Groom – the
author of the original novel – certainly thought so. He penned
a novel, Gump & Co, that would act as both a sequel to his
book and the movie. It saw Tom Hanks' loveable savant
stumble through the '80s and '90s, helping to bring down the
Berlin Wall and fighting in Iraq along the way. Both Hanks and
the original director, Robert Zemeckis (yes, him again) were
interested in making the follow up.
But they ultimately decided not to make it in light of recent
circumstances.
3.

How did the game reboot itself?
In 1989, the world was introduced to a little (and at the time a really
tough) game on the Apple II called X. Created by Jordan Mechner, the
game used rotoscoping (that is, taking a source material and tracing
over it) to create realistic animations, and followed the titular
character`s efforts to save an unnamed Princess. It has had many
sequels and iterations across platforms.
Yet the most game-changing (pun intended) and notable of these was
the one released in 2003, with a completely new story in a completely
new environment with completely new characters with completely
new gameplay. It retained the core features of platforming and
combat as the central focus but added one iconic gameplay mechanic
that forever changed how one could play, fail, or correct themselves in
the game.
4.

Reboot? Give me X.
X: The Guardian Code is a CGI/Live-Action reimagining of the
groundbreaking 90s animated series X. Initially meant to be a more
traditional and fully-CGI continuation about the lives of "little
computer people" (who literally live inside a computer), it turned out
to be a lot more.
In a hidden lab in the basement of Alan Turing High, an artificial
intelligence named VERA watches over cyberspace. When its stability
and security is threatened by a deranged hacker known only as "The
Sourcerer", VERA recruits four teenagers to travel into the digital
world and stop him. These five must balance their personal lives with
saving cyberspace from his viral army, including the dangerous virus
villain known as MegaByte who has been resurrected to ravage the
Net once more.
5.

To some this was an outrageous revision. What?
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story is a 1978 Sherlock Holmes
pastiche novel by Michael Dibdin.
The book is similar to other similar efforts insofar as it to
appears to pit the titular detective against the infamously
unknown murderer. But that is where similarities end.
One of Holmes startling revelations here is that the Ripper is
none other than his nemesis Moriarty himself.
However this was not the twist in this story that eventually
shocked (and even enraged) many of its readers.
6.

NOT the Fantastic Four. Name the rejected name.
Lost in Space (1965-1968) is an American science fiction
television series created and produced by Irwin Allen. It follows
the adventures of a pioneering family of space colonists who
struggle to survive in a strange and often hostile universe after
their ship is sabotaged and thrown off course. It has had quite a
history of revivals - with a reboot film in 1994 and a successful
2018 Netflix series after some failed attempts.
However, initially the series was to be named something else in
reference to and as a futuristic update of another famous
literary family that also found itself lost. This was scrapped
when a comic book with the same name and central conceit was
found to be existing already.
7.

This isn't technically about the movies. Give me X.
Despite several attempts and rumours over the decades, the
popular movie ‘X’ never really got a sequel, although it does
have the distinction of popular perception of a continuation
in the form of a game. However, ‘X II’ for the Nintendo
Entertainment System (NES) was not based on a movie
sequel at all. Instead, it was simply a direct sequel to a game
based on the movie that was never officially released in the
U.S. other than as an arcade port.
There’s not even really a story to speak of, other than you
play as one Mikey saving the rest of the team who have been
captured by the Fratellis. You also rescue a mermaid, if that
interests you.
The answer is a movie, ofc,
8.

Answer
Mephisto also erased
the world's collective
memory of Spider-
Man's secret identity,
which had been
exposed in Civil War
#2.
1.

Answer
Yellow Submarine
Redux
2.

Answer
Because 9/11 happened.
Screenwriter Eric Roth told Slashfilm:
"I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And
we sat down, Tom [Hanks] and Bob [Zemeckis] and
I, looked at each other and said, we don't think this
is relevant anymore. The world had changed. Now
time has obviously passed, but maybe some things
should just be one thing and left as they are."
3.

Answer
The ability to rewind time
to correct a mistake
(In Prince of Persia : Sands
of Time)
You could say the story in
the game could almost
literally reboot itself every
time the player made a
mistake.
4.

Answer
ReBoot: The Guardian Code is a CGI/Live-Action
reimagining of the animated series ReBoot.
The first half hour TV cartoon ever to be fully
computer generated, this show is actually set
inside a computer.
5.

Answer
Holmes was revealed to be Jack the Ripper.
Not entirely elementary, no.
6.

Answer
Space Family Robinson
A riff on The Swiss
Family Robinson, the
famous 1812 novel by
Johann David Wyss
about a Swiss family
shipwrecked in the East
Indies en route to Port
Jackson, Australia.
7.

Answer
The Goonies
8.

Audience Question
 In late-2015, a certain Ed Piskor, (till then and even
now) famous for his serialised comic book telling of
the history of Hip-hop and its proponents, Hip-Hop
Family Tree, put the word out on twitter that he had
the intent and the pitch to put out a similar treatment
to a long-running comic franchise. He proposed to put
together 50 years and 300 issues and convoluted
continuity of this series into a condensed 300-page
epic, should the franchise owners be interested.
 What came of it? / Which characters?

Answer
 Ed Piskor’s X-Men:
Grand Design project
(Vol. 1 and 2 out
already)

Infinite Bounce and Pounce
+10/-05 on correct/incorrect pounce.
+10/0 on correct/incorrect bounce and direct.

1.
 L . H . Gross revealed in an interview that Robin Hood,
who was often depicted as wearing tights, inspired
the skin-tight costume of X.
 He also said - the old Greek busts had no eye pupils,
which he felt gave them an inhuman, interesting
look and this served as the inspiration behind one of
the characteristics of X.
 It is also probable that the look of X inspired the look
of what has today become known as the "superhero".
 By what name is L H Gross better known to us?
 Id the character X.

Answer
LEE FALK PHANTOM
1.

2.
 Last year, in light of the sexual abuse allegations
surrounding Kevin Spacey , several social media users
made connections to a 1999 movie which gave the
actor an Oscar.
 The character played by him in the movie, was named
brilliantly as a hat-tip to a character from a 44 year
(from 1999) old project who possessed similar desires.
 Give me the character played by Spacey and tell me
what the name of the character was an anagram of.

Answer2.
 Lester Burnham
 Humbert learns
 Hat-tip to Humbert Humbert (Lolita)

3.
 Metal Gear Solid is an action adventure video game
which revolves around the story of Solid Snake, a
soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to
neutralize the terrorist threat from FOXHOUND.
Gray Fox, who was believed to be dead , was a former
ally of Solid Snake and provided him important
information through out the series using a certain
pseudonym.
 What was the pseudonym used by Gray Fox , which
was originally coined by a certain Howard Simons in
the 1970s alluding to both the background status of
the informant as well as a popular pornographic film?

Answer
Deep Throat
(Watergate Fame)
3.

4.
 The role of lead character of this TV series was originally
offered to Ray Liotta because of his involvement in a similar
project 9 years ago but he said he was not ready to be a part
of a TV series and thus the role went to someone else who
made it iconic.
 Which TV series?
 The opening scenes of the first three seasons were different
from rest of the seasons as the creator omitted something
because it was not there any more.
 What caused this change?

Answer4.
The Sopranos
Opening scene initially featured WTC
(omitted after 9/11)

5.
 The latest work of this writer is named after the Greek
goddess of the hunt, forests and hills, the moon, and
archery.
 The writer, who always prefers to maintain scientific
accuracy in his works was busy in estimating the cost
of Chinese foods on Moon in 2080 as said by him in an
interview early 2018.
 Who is this author, gained limelight after a 2015 sci-fi
project for which Wadi Rum was extensively used?
Also, give me the name of the latest book.

Answer
Artemis
Andy Weir
5.

6.
 Many years after 1971 , when X met Gene Kelly in
a Hollywood party , Gene Kelly turned and walked
away in disgust as he was deeply upset about the
way his 1952 masterpiece being portrayed in X’s
most famous work.
 X , the actor said , the director told him to dance
with a song and that was the only song he knew all
the lyrics to.
 Who is X?
 What is the 1952 work?

Answer6.
Malcolm McDowell
Singing in the Rain

 On the next slide is a picture from Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic, a 2006 graphic memoir by the American
cartoonist Alison Bechdel. It chronicles the author's
childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United
States, focusing on her complex relationship with her
father. In this chapter, Bechdel addresses the
somewhat controversial death of her father.
Controversial in the fact that she believes that it was
a suicide although it was never proven. A reference
to an Albert Camus work is used as a parable.
 Fill in the blanked out part with a french phrase or its
English translation.
7.
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7.

Answer
A Fool’s
Death/une
mort
imbecile
7.

On the next slide is a famous song from Guru Dutt’s
Pyasa. A 2009 work was inspired from the song and
was dedicated to ‘X’.
The 2009 work was shrouded with controversy and
has a rather colourful feel.
Identify ‘X’ and name the work.
8.

Question.mp4
8.

X - Sahir Ludhianvi/Sahir
Gulaal
8.

______________ is a 2009 romantic musical drama
film directed and produced by Rob Marshall and
written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella.
The film is an adaptation of the 1982 musical of the
same name, which in turn is based on X's semi-
autobiographical 1963 film Y.
The blank and Y differ by half.
FITB and give me X and Y.
9.

Blank - Nine
X - Fellini
Y- 81/2
9.

Identify this 1972 film from this image of its opening
credit.
Picture on the next slide.
10.

10.

Last Tango In Paris
10.

The magazine "created a sensation" on its launch with its
"canny mix of rumour and review, observation and opinion"
and Baburao Patel became a "celebrity" equal to the film
stars he wrote about. The magazine’s reading target was the
"elite readership", including college going youth.Termed a
status symbol with college students, actor Dev Anand said
of his Lahore college days, "boys in the campus used to carry
copies of ___________ along with their textbooks. It was
their Bible". Ramachandran and Rukmini state that
"________ was the only magazine that counted in those
days". It remained in publication from 1935 to 1961.
FITB
11.

FILMINDIA
11.

On the next slide is an image from Saving Private Ryan.
One can see Tom Hanks launching an explosive.
Primarily called a ___________ torpedo it is an explosive
charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is
used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would
otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly
under fire. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a
"___________ mine", "banger" or simply
"___________".
FITB.
Picture on next slide.
12.

12.

Bangalore
Primarily called
Bangalore
Torpedo.
12.

The Candy Lady, a boutique candy store in
Albuquerque, New Mexico sells its most popular
product The ________ Candy Lady line. Something
which has achieved pop cult nirvana, in the literal
sense of the word.
FITB with the second word of the pop cult
phenomenon and also identify the colour of the
candies in this line.
13.

The Bad Candy Lady
Line
Blue
These were used as the
Blue Meth in Breaking
Bad.
13.

Written Round.
+10/0 on correct/incorrect answer.
+10 for a full house.

THEME
“It’s Alive!”
On monsters and creatures from the
dark side.

 A X is a folkloric mischievous creature that causes
malfunctions in aircraft or other machinery. While
depictions of these creatures vary, past findings
present the animals to be similar to the Y with spiky
backs, large strange eyes, and small clawed frames
that feature sharp teeth.
 A 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, "Nightmare at
20,000 Feet" featured a X attacking an airliner. In the
original television episode, the X appears as an almost
non-human ape-like creature which inspects the
aircraft's wing with the curiosity of an animal and then
proceeds to damage the wing.
1.
Bala & Ananyo QRIOSITY 2018: THE NERD STEREOTYPE23rd September, 2018

 Y derives its name
from Spanish (literally
meaning goat sucker)
with purported
sightings reported in
Pureto Rico.
 Picture of Y here.
 Identify X and Y for 5
points each.
1.

 On Conan, the creator of the black and white comic
strip Robert Kirkman said, “Well, X lore is very popular.
We wanted to avoid that notion of, ‘Hey, why doesn't
that character just shoot that X in the head because it
saw all those movies I saw.' We wanted to kind of give
you a sense that Y (the comic strip) takes place in a
universe where X fiction doesn't exist.’
 Give me X and the name of the comic strip Y, which
also has a television show and video game by Telltale.
2.

One of the many stories of unfinished films
recounted in Shamya Dasgupta’s Don’t Disturb the
Dead: the Story of the Ramsay Brothers concerns
the making of Maut ka Saya, a film announced in
1982. Speaking on the reasons for cancelling the
production, Arjun Ramsay notes:
3.

“All of it practically was going to be shot underwater.
We had the monster all prepared with full-body
costume and mask. We were going to shoot it in
Murud-Janjira. It should have been a high grosser.
But the production was going to be expensive, so it
was put in the backburner and then it never got
made.”
Which iconic movie was Maut ka Saya admittedly
meant to be a rip-off of?
3.

 The truth is that the artist (X) did not title this painting Y
although it is commonly called Y. He called it "Love and
Pain" and it was only later that it picked up the name and
interpretation of a man locked in a Y’s embrace. The Nazis
declared it morally 'degenerate.'
 In the painting, we see a man in anguish, arms around his
love, while she tries to comfort him. Perhaps she is laying
her face on his shoulder even. Some thought it was about
his visits to prostitutes, yet others saw it as some sort of
macabre fantasy about the death of his favorite sister.
Evidently X remained ambiguous about the deeper
meaning behind it. Give me X and Y.
4.

4.

 ____________ in Baghdad is an Arabic war novel
by Ahmed Saadawi which tells the story of what
follows when the soul of a guard who died in a
truck explosion slips into a body kept at the home
of Hadi, a junk-dealer. Complete the title of the
novel so as to justify this review of it published in
the Guardian, "Saadawi stitches the narrative
together from so many points of view and points in
time, one often overlapping the other, that the
tension has a tendency to dissipate."
5.

 Generaly around 7-8 feet, with a long, muscular
tail and a large, curved, oblong head, their name
roughly translates to “strange form” in Greek.
Throughout the thirty-nine year old franchise, they
are referred to as “The Perfect Organism,” with
their evolution being changed thus: Engineer 
Human  AI Synthetic  X.
 Give me the good name of X.
6.

Answer
X = Gremlin
Y = Chupacabra
1.

 On Conan, the creator of the black and white comic
strip Robert Kirkman said, “Well, X lore is very popular.
We wanted to avoid that notion of, ‘Hey, why doesn't
that character just shooting that X in the head because
it saw all those movies I saw.' We wanted to kind of
give you a sense that Y (the comic strip) takes place in
a universe where X fiction doesn't exist.’
 Give me X and the name of the comic strip Y, which
also has a television show and video game by Telltale.
2.

Answer
X : Zombies
Y : The Walking Dead
2.

Answer
Jaws
3.

 The truth is that the artist (X) did not title this painting “Y."
He called it "Love and Pain" and it was only later that it
picked up the name and interpretation of a man locked in a
Y’s embrace. The Nazis declared it morally 'degenerate.'
 In the painting, we see a man in anguish, arms around his
love, while she tries to comfort him. Perhaps she is laying
her face on his shoulder even. Some thought it was about
his visits to prostitutes, yet others saw it as some sort of
macabre fantasy about the death of his favorite sister.
Evidently X remained ambiguous about the deeper
meaning behind it. Give me X and Y.
4.

Answer
X: Edvard Munch
Y: Vampire
4.

Answer
Frankenstein
5.

Answer
Xenomorph
6.

Audience Question
 A human cell with 45 or 47 chromosomes, instead of
the usual 46, is an example of aneuploidy. Usually,
such cases result in an increased risk of learning
problems, acne, while also affecting the growth and
fertility of an individual. However, in case of this
particular individual, the presence of an extra
chromosome, combined with the harvested DNA of
dangerous criminals, resulted in levels of strength,
speed, stamina, and intelligence significantly above the
human norm. While the other clones faced extremely
short life-spans (often living up to only 18 months),
who was the lone survivor from Dr. Ort-Meyer’s fourth
series of clones?

Answer
Agent 47

Infinite Bounce and Pounce
+10/-05 on correct/incorrect pounce.
+10/0 on correct/incorrect bounce and direct.

1.
The premise of the sci-fi adventure/disaster movie X is absurd, and yet it
was one of the blockbuster hits of the late 90s. The large ensemble cast
that included Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson and Steve Buscemi certainly
contributed where the story failed, as did its director's penchant for big,
showy scenes filled with explosions. Urban legend has it that the movie
was so riddled with plot holes that NASA apparently shows this film to its
new managerial recruits, trying to get them to spot as many errors as
possible.
On the other hand, another movie, Y, with an extremely similar premise,
had released only one and a half months previous to X and had a much
quieter run at the box office, ironically in direct opposition to its name. Y
features, among others, Elijah Wood and Vanessa Redgrave, and is
generally held to be much more scientifically accurate. The director of Y is
known for her work on the TV show ER, in which she pioneered the
typical high-energy walk-and-talk scenes seen in later medical dramas
such as Grey's Anatomy. Name X and Y, as well as the directors of X and Y.

Answer
X: Armageddon, directed by Michael Bay.
Y: Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder.
1.

2.
The inspiration for the film X (English title), according to the director,
came from Persian miniatures or Armenian illuminated miniatures. He
added that he “wanted to create that inner dynamic that comes from
inside the picture, the forms and the dramaturgy of colour.” As a result,
the movie, which has been described as a series of moving tableaux that
aims at a poetic interpretation of its subject’s life, became nearly
incomprehensible to viewers who watched it without context, although
now it is often considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. The
subject of the movie is a poet. Famous images from the movie include the
bursting of ripe fruits to make a red stain in the shape of the poet’s home
kingdom; the poet as a youth standing holding a white rose and a candle;
and dyers at work dying wool in the colours of the flags of the poet’s
country.
The movie is also noted for featuring actress Sofiko Chiaureli in multiple
roles, both male and female.
Give X (again, the English title), the subject of the film and for no points
but extra pyaar, the director.

Answer
X: The Color of Pomegranates
Subject: Sayat-Nova
Director: Sergei Parajanov
2.

3.
The movie, Inglourious Basterds was inspired by the
1978 Italian film X (the English title), whose original
Italian title literally translates to “That Damned
Armoured Train”. X, in turn, was a remake of Y, a 1967
American war film. Inglourious Basterds features a film
within itself, Stolz der Nation, reportedly made in
1944. This film features a famous sound effect heard in
numerous movies across the world, but unfortunately
its use is anachronistic as the sound effect had not
been recorded or used until the 1953 war film, The
Charge of the Feather River.
Name X, Y, and the sound effect.

Answer3.
X: Inglorious Bastards
Y: The Dirty Dozen
Sound effect: The Wilhelm Scream.

 The name of a 1956 American film has been
blanked out in the following excerpt taken from
“Science Fiction/Double Feature,” a song featured
in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
4.

“See androids fighting
Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in _________ ______
Oh oh oh oh…
At the late night double feature picture show”
In the context of today’s quiz, fill in the blanks with
the name of a bookshop-merchandise chain, based
in the UK.
4.

Answer
Forbidden Planet
4.

 Tsutomu Miyazaki, also known as the Little Girl
Murderer, was a Japanese serial killer found guilty of
abducting and murdering four young girls from August
1988 to June 1989. A search of his home led to the
discovery of a large collection of animated movies,
child pornography, and slasher films. This led to the
media dubbing him “The _____ Murderer.” His widely
publicized trial led to a moral panic against the _____,
and according to Fumiya Ichihashi, the police played
up these public stereotypes and fears in order to
assure a conviction in their case. Fill in the blanks.
5.

5.

Answer
Otaku
5.

X is a yogi, husband and father. This character
portrayed by Wong Wing-sang in the movie Master
of the Flying Guillotine (1976) is supposedly the
inspiration behind the stereotypical portrayal of X.
Named after a random item taken from the menu
of an Indian eating joint in Osaka, X was described
by Sam Means in A Practical Guide to Racism as
the perfect example of the stereotypical Hindu –
“nonviolent, magical, fastidious, stretchy, and
pugnacious.” Identify X. [Picture next slide]
6.

6.

Answer
Dhalsim
6.

Despite what a 2012 Akshay Kumar-starrer would
have you believe, the first known occurrence of X
in 1976 in the UK was a prank influenced by the
1974 British film, Phase IV. In the movie, X is
created by a colony of super-intelligent ants, an
explanation far removed from its apparent
paranormal suggestions popularized today through
such shows as The X-Files. What is X, the
inexplicable occurrence of which fuels conspiracy
theorists worldwide?
7.

Answer
Crop circles
7.

The logic puzzle variant of which game, when
played on paper, begins with a few of the
squares revealed, and is named ‘tentaizu,’
after the Japanese term for star maps?
8.

8.

Answer
Minesweeper
8.

Audience Question
Identify this Louis Vuitton fashion model.

Answer
Lightning from Final
Fantasy XIII.

Audience Question
A list of illustrators associated with this series would
include Horus Engels, Pauline Baynes, John Howe,
and even Queen Margrethe II, the current Queen of
Denmark. Which series, recently acquired by
Amazon Studios, and set to be the most expensive
TV show ever produced at a budget of over one
billion dollars?

Answer
The Lord of the Rings

 X is a character and Y is a series. Identify both. [5+5]
 When X got the Y, he stopped caring about girls.
 A lot of fan theories exist as to why X stopped caring
about girls, the craziest of which states that when you
reverse X’s surname, it says he’s a homosexual.
 The creator(s) never explicitly mentioned X being a
homosexual. He was just too busy with Y to care about
women. However, X did have a “girlfriend” for the
greater part of Y but did not show any sexual interest
in her.
9.

 X = Light Yagami
(imagay or I’m a gay)
 Y = Death Note
9.

 X, the titular character of a TV show, was a member of the Nerd
Herd (the technical support division) of the place he worked at. It
all started with X’s former best friend sending him an encrypted e-
mail with classified government secrets, which he decrypted by
typing out “attack troll with nasty knife”. Back in college, X and his
best friend programmed their own version of Y.
 Y is one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with
roots drawn from the original genre game Colossal Cave Adventure.
The first version of Y was written between 1977 and 1979 and
it distinguished itself in its genre as an especially rich game, in
terms of both the quality of the storytelling and the sophistication
of its text parser.
 Identify X (the character or the TV show) and Y (the video game).
10.

Answer
X = Chuck Y = Zork
10.

Identify the two characters from an
Epic Rap Battle of History.
X raps:
How dare you address moi, you
adolescent worm?
I am French! You are a buck tooth nerd
with a perm!
I spit at you harder than ____ the
Llama,
Smacking your face till your lips swell
up like Lafawnduh's!
Doodle up some friends, you gangly
freak show,
Before I toss you over the mountain like
the dreams of Uncle Rico!
This bastard's about to see how bad a
battle can be.
After this, your buddy _____ will be
voting for me!
Y raps:
Why don't you freaking exile yourself
on your little island and hide?
'Cause this is a rap rollercoaster. You're
not even tall enough to ride!
(Ugh!) I don't even care how many, like,
stupid Prussians you've killed,
'Cause to me, you're just the emperor
of the lollipop guild!
11.

Answer
X = Napoleon Bonaparte Y = Napoleon Dynamite
11.

 Alfre Woodard played two roles in the same
universe.
 The first was in a 2016 movie (the third in its
trilogy and the thirteenth entry in the universe).
Albeit cited as a cameo, the character she
portrayed was that of Miriam Sharpe, and was an
extremely crucial role in terms of story. Just
describe the role in a few words.
 Picture on the next slide.
12.

 The second and far
more important and
powerful role was that
of Y in the Netflix
show Z.
 Give me all three
parts. [3 points for 1
part on bounce]
12.

Answer12.
The movie was Captain America: Civil War.
Her son died in Sokovia. Her encounter with
Tony convinces him to discuss the Sokovia
Accords and then...
Y = Black Mariah
Z = Luke Cage

 X didn’t create the Y out of thin air in the season
2 opener, which was the first time we saw X
among his people on his planet. Y was borrowed
from something he witnessed as a child while
attending a service at an Orthodox Jewish
synagogue with his family.
 The Y represents the Hebrew letter Shin, which
represents the word Shaddai, a name for God. It
looks like a lot of people have been blessing each
other without knowing it.
 Identify X and Y. Quote on next slide.
13.

"Five or six guys get up on the bimah, the stage, facing the
congregation," X told the Yiddish Book Center in 2014. "They
get their tallits over their heads, and they start this
chanting—I think it's called duchening—and my father said to
me, 'Don’t look.' So everyone’s got their eyes covered with
their hands or they've got their tallit down over their faces ...
And I hear this strange sound coming from them. They’re not
singers, they were shouters. And dissonant. It was all
discordant … it was chilling. I thought, 'Whoa, something
major is happening here.' So I peeked. And I saw them with
their hands stuck out from beneath the tallit like this […]
towards the congregation. Wow. Something really got hold of
me. I had no idea what was going on, but the sound of it and
the look of it was magical.”
13.

Answer
 X = Leonard Nimoy
 Y = Vulcan Salute
13.

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