Milieu Quiz 2015: Quizzical (Finals: Written Round)

2.  Written Round
 6 questions
 Flat scoring of +10 per correct answer
 Bonus +10 for a full house
 #JeSuisCharlie

3. 1. Dated - 5th August, 2014
Bubble – “Yes, yes, theschool is over.”

6. 2
 Dated – January 2014
 Caption – “Quenelle everywhere.”
 Bubble – “Growth nowhere”
 Two part question.
1. Identify both the people on the cover. (No
part points)
2. The caption refers to an action for which a
certain group of Indians had to face
undesirable consequences. Put funda.

10. 3
Dated – October 2014
Caption – Sex slaves of ____ _____ are angry.
Bubble – Don’t touch our allocations

13. Boko Haram

14. 4
 Dated – July/August 2009
 Caption - _______ _______ is finally white.

18. 5
 In mourning the 12 victims of the Charlie
Hebdo magazine attack in France, more than a
few tweeters are accidentally adding a letter in
their hashtags, with the unfortunate result that
instead of expressing empathy in French, they are
causing further turbulence in already troubled
waters. The mix of earnest and confused
responses in the hashtag would actually be
amusing if it weren’t associated with such a
terrible incident.
 What ‘typotag’ is being made?

21. 6
 A very common occurrence in Charlie Hebdo
front pages is a combination of two news stories
to make a provocative joke.
 And as the third question in the prelims stated,
Charlie Hebdo had spawned from another weekly
named Hara-Kiri Hebdo, which was banned after
it’s front page article on X’s death had angered
and hurt sentiments throughout France. This
very cover was an example of two news stories
being juxtaposed to deliver the provocative joke.
 (Image on the next slide)

23.  The paper is dated 16th November, 1970.
 “Bal tragique a Colombey” referred to a then
recent tragic incident during a ball in another
French city (not Colombey) in which 146 people
died.
 “1 Mort” referred to whose demise in the city of
Colombey?

25. Charlesde Gaulle