Prelims of dreams, fantasy and legends quiz hosted at NITK for Incident 2022

2. Requiz’em For A Dream -
Prelims Answers

3. 1
Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 psychological thriller film by Darren Aronofsky,
which is also the film that inspires the name of this quiz.
In the middle of the film, two characters go to an alley to receive a drug
shipment from a fruit truck driver who comes all the way from Florida. The
particular fruit choice was not random and was a foreshadowing of things
turning south for the characters from this point in the movie onwards. This is
also a reference to a popular motif that was used in a famous film trilogy
although the actual reason behind the use of the fruit there was to provide
contrast to the dark theme and background of the films in the franchise.
Which fruit was used to foreshadow things turning south and which non-fantasy
film trilogy was this motif first used in?

4. Oranges and Godfather

5. 2
These elves have existed in Germanic mythology since ages and have derived
their names from the Greek word “kobalos” meaning mischievous.
Miners in central Europe went to caves to extract a certain blue material which
when heated gave out poisonous fumes. Hence, the miners thought that this
was the work of these mischievous elves and named the material after these
elves.
How do we know this material better today?

6. Cobalt

7. 3
The scene that shows the birth of the MCU superhero Vision in the 2015 film
Avengers: Age of Ultron directly takes inspiration from the “birth” of a famous
19th century literary character.
Some say that the etymology of this character’s name was because of a
dream-vision that the author had which had a mention of the name while
some others say that the name took inspiration from the name of a castle in
Germany which she visited 2 years before starting to write the literary work.
Which character is this that inspired the movie birth of this MCU superhero?

9. Frankenstein

10. 4
Shown in the following slides are stills of a dream sequence from the 1945
Hitchcock film Spellbound.
Who was the set designer for only this particular sequence of the film, who
was not a film set designer by profession per se?

11. 4

12. 4

13. Salvador Dali

14. 5
Doormat alarms, which are devices used for alerting people at a house that
someone is at the door using a sensor and alert device attached to the
doormat, is now being modified in certain cases.
In these situations, they are being used in bedrooms and are not placed in
front of the bedroom door but are placed on the floor beside the beds.
This modification to doormat alarms gives an alarm for what?

15. Sleepwalking

16. 6
The Berichte der Durstigen __________ Gesellschaft was a parody magazine that
was in circulation in the late 19th century and was a parody version of another
journal.
In 1886, they published a hand drawn depiction of six monkeys holding each
other’s legs. This was done as a quirky direct tribute to something that was
celebrating its 20th anniversary that year which is said to have been famously
concocted from a dream.
What was paid tribute to by the parody magazine which is something most of
us would have come across a lot of times just before engineering?

17. 6

18. The benzene ring structure

19. 7
This knighted celebrity has had invites to be the chief guest on ceremonies of
numerous schools and educational institutes this century. Despite not being a
core educationist by profession, he has still been a sensation among children
and youths for the past two decades.
During such visits, he has had a recurring gig of giving a speech on how
important education and studying is. He ends this speech by uttering a
famous catchphrase of his “___ _____ ___ ____” from about 2 decades ago
referring to what could be the consequence of not revising or studying.
FITB.

20. 7

21. You shall not pass

22. 8
The Ojibwe community is a Native Indian tribe who have been residing in the
American-Canadian border near the Great Lakes.
The pan-Native American goddess Spider Grandmother is worshipped by
them as Asibikaashi and is considered as the protector of their community’s
people especially children. To make sure that she is present at their homes,
the people of the Ojibwe community would weave “spider webs”. These
“spider webs” then became famous in the 1960s and 1970s during the
Pan-American movement which was a cry for equal rights for Indians.
How do we better know these woven “spider webs” today?

23. Dreamcatchers

24. 9
This extremely famous location in
London has a plaque in its premises
which was built in 2012 as a result of a
conclusion and has attracted tourists
worldwide ever since.
Which fictional location does this
plaque pay a tribute to?

25. 9 3/4th Platform from the Harry Potter Universe

26. 10
In the book Kite Runner, the protagonist Amir has a cocker spaniel named
Aflatoon in his San Francisco residence. The spaniel was named so by Amir’s
father-in-law because he felt that if he stared into the dog's eyes, it would look
like he would stare into wise deep thoughts that the dog was thinking.
Which BC age real-life personality’s name is translated to Aflatoon in Pashtun,
an Afghan language?

27. Plato

28. 11*
In 2018, an American entomologist named Ben C Ratcliffe discovered three
beetles of the Gymnetis genus in the rainforests of South America.
As he was a fan of a certain entertainment project that was still ongoing then,
he named the three species after a famous dreaded trio. This was done to not
only attract public attention to the biodiversity of beetles but also because the
colour schemes of the beetles were similar to the trio.
Which trio lent their names to these beetles?

29. 11*

30. Daenerys’dragons from Game of Thrones (Viserion,
Rhaegal and Drogon)

31. 12*
In early 2004, X moved out from California and moved alone to New York by
renting a small loft in East Village of Manhattan.
He cleared his mind for new ideas and spent most of his time doing two things
over the next few weeks. One was participating in jamming sessions at a bar
called Hi-Fi but it was the other, which was walking in the empty streets of
Manhattan for long hours at night, was much more influential on what was to
come from him at the end of the same year.
What was the extremely popular result from the end of 2004 of X doing this
almost a year previously?

32. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
“I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one, and I walk alone”

33. 13*
In 2015, because of action taken on something associated with a famous
American-based multinational company in all the company’s branches in Saudi
Arabia, the British newspaper Metro came up with an article about it which was
aptly titled “Mermaid drowns in Saudi Arabia” and explaining that as a
consequence “her crown was left bobbing around in the ocean”.
Ironically, the products associated with the company are related to something
that the Arabs made famous to the world in the medieval times.
What was this action taken by Saudi Arabia on this company?

34. Censoring out the Starbucks mermaid in the logo

35. 14*
In 2019, the show of Saturday Night Live came up with a sketch involving this
character from a famous 21st century fantasy film franchise inspired by the
mid 20th century works of a certain Clive Staples _____.
The sketch involved few ladies visiting the character’s fictional house and
trying to woo him but this situation leads him to publicly announce that he is
gay. Thus, media articles talking about the SNL sketch very aptly coined a five
word phrase for this move which is a modification of a common phrase used
for a queer person revealing their sexuality with the last word being replaced.
What was the modified phrase that was used to explain this sketch aptly?

36. 14*

37. Coming out of the wardrobe

38. 15*
Brazil Barber is an American upcoming hip hop artist who rose to
prominence in her mid-teens due to her impressive performances in music
reality TV shows and released her first album last year.
Her hyphenated stage name is one that was specifically chosen by her to fit
in with the kind of songs she makes and stress on it. The stage name also fits
in ironically but nicely with her surname. Due to her emerging in to the scene
of hip hop, many fans have called her as the hip hop ‘princess’ but this is not
the only reason for it.
What is her punny hyphenated stage name?

39. Rap-unzel

40. 16*
Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial
cartoonist often considered to be the “Father of the American Cartoon”.
His most famous cartoon contribution was in 1863 when he concocted up a
character whose looks he based on himself and a Greek bishop from the time
of the Roman Empire which led to the birth of the extremely famous X.
Another two famous contributions of his is a biased 1874 cartoon based on
one of Aesop’s fables that inspired a duet of entities that have come to
popularity every 4 years ever since.
X? Which duet of entities am I talking about?

41. 16*

42. 16*

43. Santa Claus
The logos of Republican and Democratic parties

44. 17*
X was a Greek god of sleep and dreams. The reason he gets his name is either
because he appeared in dreams in different forms (such as a human, an
animal or a lifeless thing) or because he was the one who shaped and formed
the dreams. He also had a power of waking up people through dreams to
differentiate reality and dreams.
At the end of the 20th century, a fictional character in a famous work was
named after this Greek god X due to his role of differentiating reality from
unreality, similar to the function of the Greek God.
ID X. Which work?

45. Morpheus
The Matrix

46. 18*
Every year, people from around the world flock for a festival on one particular
day at this province of an East European country which derives its name from
the portmanteau of two Latin words with the meanings “beyond” and “forest”.
The festivities are at the very end of one particular month belonging to the last
quarter of the year and is called the “ _______ Day” which is an alternative
version of a famous Western celebration.
Which province is this? FITB to complete the name of this alliterative festivity.

47. 18*

48. Transylvania
Dracula

49. 19*
A certain property in the Beverly Hills area of Los Angeles has been hosting an
annual party since 1977. It happens every year on one evening in late July or
early August and has hosted several guests including Hollywood celebrities.
The name of the party is, aptly, the same as the title of a late 16th century
work because of its timing and supposedly it being an ‘unrealistic’ pleasure for
many of its guests. Another added reason for it’s nomenclature could be a
reference to the live versions of the work featuring hares in it.
What is the name of the party? Which world-famous property is the venue of
this party?

50. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Playboy Mansion

51. 20*
Shown in image is the poster of a play which was performed in a particular
famous European city that is not the capital of its country.
The play itself is a collection of four stories that explores the sense of identity,
community and belonging of being a part of a passion of this divided city. The
most popular local newspaper wrote an article to publicize the play and aptly
gave the venue of the play a nickname which was a move that would have
been appreciated by one half of the city because of a special connection.
Which city? What nickname did this local newspaper give to the venue of the
play?

52. 20*

53. Manchester
Theatre of Dreams

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