Almost FAME-ous - The Food/Fashion,Art,Music and Entertainment Quiz,FINALS (HighQ'20 at Gargi College))

ROUND 1
6 Questions
Non-themed
Clockwise Bounce
Civilised pouncing please!

QUESTION 1
The R was debuted by Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City's third season and resurfaced
on the big screen in the second SATC film. Inspirations for the iconic R include a 1935
photograph of Elsa Schiaparelli, homeless people that R’s designer saw on the streets of
Paris, as well as Tramp Balls, which were essentially lavish 1920’s-30’s-era parties where
Parisian socialites dressed up like poor people for fun.
A distinctive element of the R seems to be replicated on the cover of Taylor Swift's 2017
studio album Reputation.
(Images follow)
Identify R and it's designer

ANSWER
The Dior Newspaper Print Dress by John Galliano

QUESTION
X, a jazz and classical pianist and singer, was an active and acclaimed performing artist
from the 1930s till her death and also portrayed herself in several films. She was the first
Black woman to host her own television special, The X Show. As a outspoken critic of racial
discrimination and segregation, X also won a historic labor case where she refused to play
for a segregated audience in 1948. Y’s inspiration was X. As a tribute to X, Y played a
medley of some of her favorite songs, and performed using not one but two pianos,
something which X is known for. Y not only reminded the world of her incredible skills on
the piano, but also introduced a lot of young music aspirants to X on a worldwide platform.
Y’s tribute to the incredible work of X was fitting, considering her hosting gig of one the
biggest award nights of the industry and the timing of the event during Black History Month.
ID X&Y

ANSWER
X- Hazel Scott
Y- Alicia Keys at Grammys 2019

QUESTION
Willard Wigan, born in June 1957, is a British sculptor from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield,
England.
As an undiagnosed dyslexic child, Wigan was ridiculed by his primary school teachers for not
learning to read. So, to escape the derision of teachers and classmates, Wigan started sculpting
at the age of 5.
He did his work with the idea that if people were unable to view his work they would not be in any
position to criticize it. Also, the art form he practices requires him to slow down his pulse and
control his breathing. On June 6th, 2016, while sculpting Madhatter’s Tea Party in Alice in
Wonderland, Wigan had an accident and was left with headache and sore throat.
He made the following statement regarding the accident:
“I took Alice’s unexpected exit from the party as a sign that maybe my first attempt wasn’t up to
scratch so I set about making another. I was far more pleased with the second rendition. Alice
was meant to be ____, I suppose.”
What was the accident?

ANSWER
He inhaled Alice as Wigan is a micro-sculptor

QUESTION
In Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Beck, Berthole and Child write:
Of the three standard methods for making a R, the bechamel with its cooked roux, the
crème pâtissière with its cooked egg yolks, and the bouilli used in the following recipes, we
prefer the bouilli for lightness. A bouili is milk, sugar and flour or starch, boiled for a few
seconds until thickened. After it has cooled slightly, egg yolks, butter and flavouring are
beaten in, then _______ ___ ______ are incorporated.
ID R.

QUESTION
Started in 1886, Q was initially conceived with the idea of being a "first class family
magazine".
By the 1890s, however, it became a leader in the fiction market, featuring authors such as
Rudyard Kipling, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, Annie Besant, O. Henry, A. J. Cronin and
George Bernard Shaw, among several others.
The introduction of the television, however, led to massive decline in the demand for fiction
based magazines, leading to the reinvention of Q by editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown to
combat waning sales in the 1960s, and the brand hasn't looked back ever since.
Id Q (images follow)

QUESTION
“Tough Love" features Indian influences from the movie X (specifically the song Y in a
melodic passage that was inspired by Avicii studying the music of northwest India,
which he had played for Pontare and Al Fakir before his death.
AR Rahman on the music of X: "After Lagaan, this is the first time I got to work on folk-
classical music. The film brings out a fascination for _____ through the music. I'd rather
call it a hybrid, but I guess you could call it that as well. It's got a bit of folk and classical
elements and most of it is really character driven. X's music is rustic and urbane."
(Play audio)
Name the movie X.

ANSWER
X- Raanjhanaa
(Y is Banarasiya)

ROUND 2:
DOUBLE DECADE OF POP
6 questions
Counter – clockwise bounce
(Don’t be cocky, it isn’t as amusing as you think)

QUESTION
The song Z saw major success in 1995, despite parallels to Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain.”
(Cypress Hill’s B-Real later said that the group members were aware of the song but were "cool"
with it.)
In anticipation of X’s 25th anniversary in the industry, Y released an updated version of the hard-
hitting, gangster rap single. Y reworked the song by adding new lyrics and expanding the original
melody to include a more lyrical vibe while still maintaining its originally intensely dark feeling.
Y reworked the song’s message to emulate similarly inspirational messages that they’ve
expressed in other tracks, emphasizing both life’s hardships and the need to overcome those bad
times. It was Y’s first song since they won their first Billboard Music Award earlier in the year
(2017).
ID X&Y

ANSWER
X- Seo Taiji and Boys
Y- BTS

QUESTION
In the 1980s, X was the subject of a full-on moral panic.
It came under scrutiny from fundamentalist religious group who feared X's power over young minds.
In 1982, high school student Irving Lee Pulling died after shooting himself in the chest. His mother
believed that his suicide was caused by X and proceeded to form BADD in 1983, after two of her
cases, one of which was against TSR Inc, was thrown out of court.
She described X as " ...which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy,
suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals,
gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics,
divination and other teachings".
Looking back __________ says, "Since fantasy typically features activities like magic and witchcraft,
X was perceived to be in direct opposition to biblical precepts and established thinking about
witchcraft and magic,“ (blank length is non indicative)
ID X.

QUESTION
A is a fashion designer and the founder of Commes des Garçons and Dover Street
Market, known for her avant-garde designs and ability to challenge conventional notions
of beauty, good taste, and fashionability.
Considered a revolutionary in her field and revered by many (with her fans being called
called "Crows"), A's work is characteristically monochromatic, voluminous and
asymmetric.
The "A/Commes des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" exhibition illustrates nine aesthetic
expressions of interstitiality in this designer's work: Absence/Presence, Design/Not
Design, Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/Low, Self/Other,
Objective/Subject, and Clothes/Not Clothes, with A breaking down the imaginary walls
between these dualisms, exposing their artificiality and arbitrariness. These themes are
examined through collections such as "White Drama", "Invisible Clothes", "Blood and
Roses", "Flowering Clothes" and "The Future of Silhouette" among others.
Identify A and the relevance of this exhibition.

ANSWER
A- Rei Kawakubo
This was the theme for the 2017 Met Gala:
“Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garçons”

QUESTION
A short version of X of the Reggaeton genre was released in the 1997 album Cuentos de la Cripta II by Rodney
S. Clark Donalds under the name "Introduccion B". A remix of X was released in 2001 on the album Cuentos de
la Cripta Remixes.
On October 16, 2017, ArtNoux uploaded a video on the 2001 version of X.
February 7, 2018, witnessed the post shared by ArtNoux's Facebook account with the caption, "Qui danse
comme un Poppy?", thus starting the viral X challenge.
In April 2018, the popular version of X was released through Ultra Music's YouTube channel with the following
lyrics:
Give me your little thing ah, ah
Give me your little thing ah, ay ×3
Give me your little thing ah, ah
Move over here, move over there.
This video has 1.8 billion views as of January 2020.
What is being talked about?

QUESTION
The X ____ has been around since October of 2013 but didn’t become popular until
almost 3 years later in 2016. Y were added to the photo, giving the meme more
meaning. Since then there have been hundreds of different captions made about it.
The X ____ has gotten a heavy workout during the 2016 US elections and turns out
the original scene actually has to do with jail, not Y.
A popular post on 9Gag featured four screenshots from the gif of Sorrah with Y over
their face, captioned "when she tells you she's 29 weeks pregnant." The post had
over 33,000 points as of October 11th, 2016.
Because of the their comical personality, their images have been photoshopped into
reaction images and image macros.
ID X.

ANSWER
X is Maths lady or confused lady

QUESTION
X contains many nuances, containing references from both the book and the
musician's previous work, “Carrie and Lowell”. Excerpts from the book that have
been translated to lyrics in the song go as follows:
"Give me a blindfold, hold my hand, and don’t ask me to think—will you do that for
me?" “I stood for a moment under the dried wooden cantilever. The whole place,
including the boarded hut, exuded a strong odor of petrol, tar, chipped paint, and
piss. And as always: blackbirds, pine trees, cicadas. Summer.”
X contains references to Astinous, the Greek lover of Hadrian, who died when he
drowned in the Nile river.
X also incorporates Alexander the Great and his lover, upon whose death, Alexander
was thrown into an inconsolable mourning and died shortly after.
ID X.

ROUND 3
STREAM IT
6 questions
Clockwise bounce
Part-points at QM’s discretion (don’t whine about it)

QUESTION
The best song of X's album is considered to be the Kashmiri folk song
Roshay, recreated by Dub Sharma with singer Vibha Saraf, who became
something of a star last year when she sang the Kashmiri passages of the
song Dilbaro from Raazi (2018). Roshay has a beautiful tune, is tastefully
arranged and mixed, but winds up within two-and-a-half minutes. That’s the
case with most original songs in X, conceived as snippets of music to
accompany scenes.
ID X

QUESTION
X was based on a children’s book by Eiko Kadono which was to be adapted into a feature film
directed by either ________ or Takahata.
Since the novel was based in a fictional country in northern Europe, the senior staff went to
research landscapes and other elements of the setting, and the main stops were Stockholm and
Visby at the Swedish island Gotland.
The finished product X was very different from the novel, as the novel is very episodic, consisting
of small stories about various people and incidents that the protagonist encounters.
However, in order to more clearly illustrate the themes of struggling with independence and
growing up in the film, _________ intended to have the protagonist face tougher challenges and
create a more potent sense of loneliness.
As __________ said, "As movies always create a more realistic feeling, (the protagonist) will
suffer stronger setbacks and loneliness than in the original"
The takkyubin in the Japanese title of the film was a trademark of the Yamato Transport, which
was a service invented by the company during the oil crisis of 1973.
ID X.

ANSWER
Kiki’s Delivery Service

QUESTION
Joris-Karl Huysmans, a prominent French novelist wrote in Certains (1889):
"...The almost superhuman expression of agony and sorrow - which convulses this
long, graceful female figure with aquiline nose - and the hysterical joy - which
emanates at the same time from her forehead, from those eyes closed as in death -
are admirable."
This is a description of Tako no Ama, by Hokusai Katsushika.
The origins of this scene come from the ancient folktale Taishokan, which was
essentially a Buddhist moral tale. Taishokan is the dramatic story of a diving woman
who retrieves a precious gem from the Dragon King of the Sea. This is generally
considered to be the forerunner of X, whose popularity arose post WW2.
What is X?

QUESTION
X has received both critical and commercial acclaim and gained the top spot in a Top 50
Manga List conducted by Comic Link in 1998. This is most likely due to the story covering
dark and mature topics like drugs, sexual abuse, mafia etc despite its target audience
being young girls, extending its reach to older male and female readers.
X’s name is a reference to J.D. Salinger’s short story “__________” which is also the
name of the series’ first episode. The ______ that the protagonist of the short story talks
about are gluttonous and self-destructive. So are the characters in the X that borrows the
name from Salinger’s short story.
X has been praised for its ability to depict a same-sex relationship where both parties are
not fetishized like they typically would be in this genre. The main characters’ relationship is
considered beautifully written by many. ID X.

QUESTION
X is shown in an unusual set in a fictional city with a postmodern touch and the
creative piece strips away the inhibitions that many hold dear. Once it was
decided on what the source material would be, the mission was to
accommodate star crossed lovers both reel and real. X highlights issues like
“what is acceptable in art and what is not?” and “why postmodern interpretation
that comments on classic literature shouldn't be allowed on large platforms?”
Most of the lighting in X is pink and some colors would drown out and others
pop but many modifications were made so that everything fit into the creator’s
preferred aesthetic. The creator’s galactic vision and imagination struch a chord
with many but also invited the wrath of higher officials due to which X’s original
performance was disrupted twice, leaving the creator visibly upset.
Name the creator and the creation.

ANSWER
Lily’s adaptation of Romeo & Juliet in Sex Education (Season 2)

ROUND 4
Written round, Miscellaneous
10 questions
Differential scoring (2*number of teams getting the answer wrong)

QUESTION 1
The Circular Collection by Bayou with Love is a new limited edition, jewelry collection
made in the US and sourced from gold recovered from X’s recycling programs.
“Bayou with Love was created to bring greater awareness to the human impact on
our planet and show that beautiful items can come from sustainably sourced and
recycled materials,” said Nikki Reed, founder of Bayou with Love. “By recycling gold
that was once considered ‘waste,’ X and I are working to create an environment
where we continuously reuse resources and strive for zero waste.”
Since 2012, X has recycled more than 50 million pounds of post-consumer recycled
materials into new products. As part of X’s Legacy of Good Program, the company
has pledged to recycle 100 million pounds of recycled content into its product
portfolio by 2020.
ID X.

QUESTION 2
With its iconic, haloed form, blue robes, shrine-like assemblage and its title,
Daniel Lind-Ramos’s sculpture suggests the comparison with the______ ____
to build this ambiguous but expressive altarpiece. Closer inspection reveals
references to Hurricane Maria, a 2017 storm that killed more than 3,000 Puerto
Ricans and destroyed much of the island. In the sculpture, the head is made
from a coconut found near Lind-Ramos’s home in Loíza, Puerto Rico, and the
robe is composed of blue tarps used by FEMA (the Federal Emergency
Management Agency) to patch damaged buildings after the hurricane. A
stylized______ ____, clad in the traditional blue vestments, might be a spiritual
beacon but seems, bent in grief, no good for practical relief.
FITB.
(image on following slide)

QUESTION 3
X and Y both went to film school and found their way to content creation via a “wandering path” of
various jobs, they both dig thriller, suspense and horror films, and ended up joining media giant _______
a few years ago, by way of an internship.
There’s one thing, though, that they’ll (probably) never share, which is their biggest USP.
Their show is the production house’s most successful works with two verticals/genres and 91 episodes
collectively netting around 9 billion hours of watch time consumed by casual viewers and hardcore fans
who are divided and nicknamed after X and Y.
Though uninitiated, the show has turned into a full-time job for X, Y, and the production house’s two
dozen behind-the-scenes staffers, producing around 8 episodes every year, 4 in each genre.
ID X , Y and the show.

QUESTION 4
When Driving Miss Daisy (1989) won the Best Picture Academy Award, the film
explored the relationship between a ____ and his _____. In this Best Picture winner
the roles are reversed.
It was originated and published by a New York City mailman Victor Hugo _____
from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally
prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites
was widespread.
In January, 2019, audio recordings of an interview with X emerged, in which he
stated, "I trusted him implicitly... You see... not only was [Y] my ___, we never had
an employer/employee relationship. You don't have time for that bullshit. My life is in
this man's hands!... So you've got to be friendly with one another."
Which movie is being talked about?

QUESTION 5
In an interview, lead singer and pianist Isaac Slade expressed his meaning
behind the lyrics of the song X:
“I kept getting these phone calls from home – tragedy after tragedy... If
there is some kind of Person in charge of this planet – are they sleeping?
Smoking? Where are they?...I just imagined running into God standing on a
street corner like Bruce Springsteen, smoking a cigarette, and I'd have it
out with Him.”
Initially the song was titled Amistad instead of X.
ID X

QUESTION 6
Q was first made by the _____ sisters, Fanny and Caroline, in France's
Loire Valley in the 1880s. Fanny reportedly forgot to line the base of her
apple pie with pastry dough, resulting in a layer of caramelized apples in a
pan with a puff pastry "lid" and nothing underneath. She improvised, flipped
the pie over so the apples were on top, and history was apparently born.
Years later, this dessert gained popularity when the owner of Maxim's put it
on his menu in the 1930s.
Identify Q.

QUESTION 7
The following style details of the product X has been taken from the
brand’s official website. What is X ?

QUESTION 8
Taylor Swift performed the song X during a Los Angeles concert as part of The Red Tour
in 2013 and described X as her "hair brush song", saying: "When I was a little girl, you
know how you have your favorite song that you would just play over and over again,
you’d blast it in your room? You’d sing it in front of a mirror, into a hairbrush right?"
Ben Affleck starred in the music video of X. On his appearance, Paper magazine wrote:
"Love makes people do crazy things, and that's our only explanation for this."
During an interview in 2008, Affleck stated that he nearly "ruined" his career by starring
in the clip. "If I have a big regret, it was doing the music video. But that happened years
ago. I've moved on."
ID the song

QUESTION 9
This film has its origin in a 1999 script entitled Grease 3.
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were to star as children of Danny
Zuko and Sandy Olsson. Timberlake's bandmates from *NSYNC were to
have supporting roles. The film producers would have needed permission
from those who owned the rights of the movie Grease, so the idea evolved
into this movie.
Name the movie.

QUESTION 10
This is the picture of a building in the south-eastern town of Voronezh,
Russia. This building once served as a repository for military supplies
during the World war II. The building is heavily adorned with Soviet
symbols, though it is not a memorial. Vandals in Russia defaced the Soviet
star, a highly revered symbol of communism in the country.
Paul Dolgikh, a local photographer stated, "but the town's people are
divided in opinion. Many consider it vandalism, some a manifestation of
contemporary art."
What was done to the star?

EXCHANGE SHEETS, PEASANTS
(Please)

ANSWER
• X is Ryan Bergara
• Y is Shane Madej
• Show is Buzzfeed Unsolved

ANSWER
You Found Me by The Fray

ANSWER
X- Bottle cap drop earrings
(Brb gonna bear Ria a thousand strong sons)

ANSWER
Jenny from the Block by Jennifer Lopez

QUESTION
This is the picture of a building in the south-eastern town of Voronezh,
Russia. This building once served as a repository for military supplies
during the World war II. The building is heavily adorned with Soviet
symbols, though it is not a memorial. Vandals in Russia defaced the Soviet
star, a highly revered symbol of communism in the country.
Paul Dolgikh, a local photographer stated, "but the town's people are
divided in opinion. Many consider it vandalism, some a manifestation of
contemporary art."
What was done to the star?

ANSWER
The star was painted to look like Patrick, the starfish, in SpongeBob
SquarePants.

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