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1. The karnataka quiz association presents
GRAPHIC RAMPAGE
The 2011 edition
QM: Satyajit chetri (beatzo@gmail.com)

2. ADAPTATION
 Written round on adaptations of comics to
other media.
 6 questions.
 2 per correct answer
 2 bonus points if you get 3 or more.

3. 1
 Which movie?

4. 2
 Which graphic novel?

5. 3
 TV series based on a comic book series.
Which one?

6. 4
 Recent adaptation of a literary work by
french creator Joanne Sfar.

7. 5
 The person in the foreground.

8. 6
 Movie
production
art. ID
movie and
artist.

9. ANSWERS
1. Jennifep’s body
2. Tamara drewe
3. The human target
4. Antoine saint-du-exUrepy’s the little
prince
5. surya sen (ACK adaptation of the
chittagong uprising)
6. Jonah hex, Eduardo risso

10. CLOCKWISE
 12 questions
 2 points per correct answer.
 No negatives.
 Infinite bounce.

11. 1
 ID this chain.
 Where would you see it?

14. 2
 Founded in 1975 by university students
Yoshihiro Yonezawa, Teruo Harada and Jun
Aniwa, it is now held twice a year; the Summer
version in August, and the Winter version in
December. The current location is the Tokyo
Big Sight center, and its popularity ensures
that people have an average wait-time of 5
hours in line to get in, making the official
websites issue a set of guidelines for first-
timers to avoid waiting as much as possible.
Name and the primary focus of this event.

16.  komiket (comic market)
 It’s a comic faip with a focus on doujinshi,
or fan-made manga.

17. 3
 Movie poster for
Captain Blood,
drawn by one of
the renowned
most artists of
the time. Who? ( on
sale currently for
$69500)

19.  Alex Raymond.

20. 4
 In the JLA Watchtower, Lex Luthor is telling the story
of Brainiac's conquest of earth to Superman, Batman,
and Wonder Woman. Luthor explains that he was able
to steal the stolen energy from Brainiac's mother ship
in the form of "exobytes", that can project the energy
into a living host. Luthor has releaseD the exobytes
into the atmosphere of present-day Earth, so that
thousands of new metahumans will be created from
ordinary humans. He implores the Justice League to
find and train these new metahumans, because Brainiac
is coming, and the Earth must be ready to succeed
where Luthor has failed.
 What begins this way?

23. 5
 A 1970’s Jack Kipby sepies based on?

26. 6
 Original designs by X and the final design
by Y for something. What?

28.  Todd klein, the letterer with the maximum
number of eisner award wins ever.
 Alex ross, artist.
 Both designing the logo of america’s best
comics

29. 7
 Two of them were made, both directed by
Barry Levinson, starring X and Patrick
Warburton. The first was named A Uniform
Used to Mean Something... and the second
Hindsight is 20/20. What?

31.  The seinfeld/superman shorts.

32. 8
 Identify the guy in the inset. Some funda will help
.

34.  Jimmy olsen.
 This is from the unofficial crossover
between superman and Asterix that
creator Keith giffen shoehorned into an
issue of dc comics presents in the 80s.

35. 9

37.  Typhoid Mary, based on Mary Mallon.
 The kingpin, based on actor sydney
greenstreet.
 Elektra, based on the greek mythological
character.
 Daredevil villains.

38. 10
 What’s common to these two coveps?
(exhaustive)

40.  Only two covers not drawn by regular
cover artists james jean and joao Ruas.
 82 was by interior artist mark buckingham,
11 was by illustrator aron wiesenfeld.

41. 11
 One of the more
obscure
questions of
this quiz. What
was visually
inspired by this
movie poster?

43.  The visual
design of the
sandman
covers,
particularly
#1.

44. 12
 Plucked Fishing line strung between two
posts, magnetic film being cinched tighter
on a spindle, compressed air, shaving
cream spurts, the swish of old woven fly
fishing line were used to reproduce the
distinctive word that first appeared in
1965. Which word?

47. THEME 1

48. 1
 Introduced by Marv Wolfman and Gene
Colan as a supporting character in Marvel
Comics' The Tomb of Dracula #10 (July 1973),
basing the character's features on "a
composite of actors" including NFL
football star-turned-actor Jim Brown. He
made his first solo debut 20 years later
in a 10-isssue series. In the meantime, he
had appeared in team books such as
Nightstalkers and Midnight Sons. Who?

50.  Blade

51. 2
 The ____ is a male entity of both light and
dark which represents both order and chaos.
It is the offspring of the primal forces of
the universe The Darkness and The Angelus
and therefore acts as a balance between the
two entities. Because of its semi-organic
structure it is able to create a symbiote-like
bond with a host. Among the wielders are
Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Hua Mulan and
Elizabeth Brontë, the current wielder being a
NY detective of Italian origin.

53.  Witchblade

54. 3
 Both are homages of a cover by Jim
steranko. Which title?

57. 4
 A loosely-grouped team with rotating
members which operates out of Platinum
Flats, CA, the official name of the team is
never used (and not even mentioned until
issue 86). The only male member to join
the team was probably chosen for his
name, rather than his credentials.
 Which team? Who is the male member?

59.  Birds of Prey
 hawk

60. 5
 Manga version of which comic?

62.  Sabrina The Teenage Witch

63. 6
 we became what we are. we are
surrounded by them. we're among them
and when we finally give up we become
,
them. we're living on borrowed time here.
every minute of our life is a minute we
steal from them. you think we hide behind
walls to protect ourselves from them?
don't you get it? we are ____!

66. THEME?

67.  Comicbook series adapted to tv.

68. WRITTEN ROUND 2
 The MAD Cover Round
 SixQuestions.
 2 points per answer.
 3 or more answers get a bonus of 2 points.

69. 0
 Identify artist.

70. 1
 What’s so unique
about this
cover?

71. 2

72. 3
 Which movie is
being spoofed
here?

73. 4
 Whose work is
being
parodied?

74. 5
 What is being
blanked out?

75. ANSWERS:

76.  Harvey kurtzman
 The only time Don martin drew Alfred E
Neuman
 Rejected covers because of
contemporary events
 Bonnie and clyde
 Norman Rockwell
 Yes, me worry.

77. ANTICLOCKWISE

78. 1
 Connect.

81. 2

83.  The first time it was acknowledged that an
artist other than bob kane drew batman.

84. 3
 Story by Srividya natarajan ( of no onions nor garlic
fame) and art in the gond tradition by the vyam
brothers. Joe Sacco says, ‘By boldly using the Pardhan
Gond tradition, X conveys why caste and Y matter in
India today.’ What?

87. 4
 From charles Bupns’ latest album X-ed out.
Which two books are being referenced?

90. 5
 The Hijack, The Impostor (sic), The Dacoit
queen, the lost idol, The magic floor,
 Connect with the image.

92.  Titles of the amitabh bachchan series
supremo. The image is from the filipino
comic Supremo.

93. 6
 Mohammad Nor Khalid has published more
than 20 volumes of cartoons since he was 13
years old. His finest work, published 1979, is
an autobiographical account telling of his
adventures in the jungles and tin mines,
family, and school life in a village. translated
into multiple languages, IT even has had a
sequel. The name for the work refers to a
Malay hamlet with 10,000 inhabitants or less.
Which work?

96. 7
 in the second season erisode, “Batman’s Annivepsapy”
of the 60’s batman TV sepies, the cliffhanger of the
two-parter was that Batman and Robin were trapped in
quicksand on top of a giant anniversary cake (a
fiendish plot by the Riddler
 in the orening of the next erisode, “A Riddling
Contpovepsy,” the announcep, as he was wont to do,
set up the cliffhanger again and told the audience,
“A ____ ___ ______ end awaits them unless
something awfully good happens awfully fast.”
 A phrase that is used to refer to events of the 80s,
ironically. What phrase?

98.  Grim AND Gritty

99. 8
 What peculiar controversy does this
illustrate?

101.  DC getting house artists to redraw
surepman’s face because jack kipby’s
style did not suit the ‘official’ look.

102. 9
 What is this manga based on?

105. 10
 Production designs for a movie. What?

108. 11
 A: anti-hero character who was popular enough to feature in a
film by mario bava.
 B. Feminine horror version in the same vein.
 C: more crime-oriented version.
 They form the K-series of Italian comics. ID all three.

111. 12
 Strange tales
#158, featuring
Dr Strange.
 Art by Marie
Severin.
 Where would you
see this?

114. A MINI THEME OF SORTS
 No points for theme.
 4 Questions, which have connected
answers of sorts.

115. 13
 This character, created in 1919,
had a huge readership in 21
countries till its cancellation
in 1947. Part of the reason why
its in this quiz is because of a
1923 song inspired by him,
which in turn inspired a word
much in use today.
 Part 2: the character's horse
was such a star during the
1920s that children who
enjoyed the comics were
liable to get ____ for a
nickname. Among people who
got this nickname was Charles
Schultz, creator of Peanuts.
 ID character and horse.

117.  Barney google and spark plug

118. 14
 Superman: up up and away.
 Lone Ranger: __ __, ______, ____!
 What’s common to the two?

120.  Hi Yo, Silver, AWAY!
 Both originated on the radio show as a
means to show that they were about to
fly/ride.

121. 15
 (unverified question)
 In a supvey done in the eaply 00’s, it was
found that the default password most
belgians used was rantanplan, after a
character in one of the most beloved
franco-belgian comics. Which comic?

124. 16
 Y was the property of the Maharajah of
Nimpore. When the Maharajah's daughter,
Lakania, was kidnapped, X takes Y to go and
rescue her. When they encountered a
tiger, X was amazed at Y's bravery and
intelligence, as he kept the tiger at bay,
along with Z, X's companion even though X
and Z had never met before. After the
rescue was accomplished, the Maharajah
let X take Y, in gratitude. ID X,Y and Z.

127.  The connect was pets of comic characters.

128. THE LONG VISUAL CONNECT
 20 questions.
 Points on the slide

129. 1
 +5/-1

130. 2
 +7/-1

131. 3
 +8/-2

132. 4
 +10/-4

133. 5
 +12/-4

134. 6
 +14/-5

135. 7
 +13/-5

136. 8
 +12/-5

137. 9
 +11/-5

138. 10
 +10/-5

139. 11
 +9/-4

140. 12
 +8/-4

141. 13
 +7/-3

142. 14
 +7/-2

143. 15
 +6/-2

144. 16
 +5/-2

145. 17
 +5/-2

146. 18
 +4/-2

147. 19
 +3/-1

148. 20
 +2/-1

149. THEME?

150. PROMETHEA COVERS
 This series by alan moore and JH Williams
III Had nearly every cover in a different
style, inspired by works of artists and
illustrators.