Here is my contribution to #trending : The Pop-Culture Quiz of Kolkata Quizzing Festival 2015.

1. QMs:
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2. *1.
• Randall Park has starred in
movies like Dinner for Schmucks,
Larry Crowne, Sex Tape and the
popular TV show Veep.
• He was in headlines in 2014 for
his role in a particular movie.
Which character did he play?

3. Kim Jong-un.

4. 2.
• In August 2014, the American journalist James
Foley was beheaded by a guy with a British
accent, who called himself John and was a
member of the Islamic State (IS).
• John and another three jihadists from the
group were given the collective nickname X by
the hostages, because of their British origins.
ID X.

5. The Beatles.

6. 3.
• According to Internet memes, which technological
service should have changed their logo to this, which is
similar to their present logo, on September 1st, 2014?

7. iCloud.

8. 4.
• Yauatcha is a Michelin Star restaurant that has opened
branches in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata.
• One of the signature cocktails of the restaurant chain is
made of Ketel One vodka, lemongrass, lime, Oolong tea
and lychee juice. The cocktail is called X in all of its
branches, except in Delhi, where, owing to political
objections, it has been renamed Laila.
ID X.

9. Lalu.

10. *5.
• You know how the
Philosoraptor
meme works.
Complete the
question with the
name of a movie
that released in
2014.

11. Guardians of the Galaxy.

12. 6.
• Fill in the blank
with the name of
a fictional female
character.

13. Hazel Grace Lancaster.
(Hazel or Hazel Grace are acceptable answers. Hazel Grace Lannister is NOT.)

14. • In the final of Champions League T20, on 4th October,
2014, when KKR’s Kuldeep Yadav came to bowl his first
over, CSK’s Brendon McCullum hit five sweep shots off
his deliveries.
• This made the commentator Arun Lal joke that
McCullum might have taken X’s initiative Y a little bit
too seriously.
ID X and Y.
7.

15. X – Narendra Modi, Y – Swachh Bharat.

16. 8.
• Sitter.
A popular Internet
meme from 6th
October, 2014. Fill in
the blank.

17. Flipkart.

18. 9.
• Derive a five
word sentence
from this
cartoon.
#ifyouknowwhatimean

19. Red Bull gives you wings.

20. 10.
The DC comic
book covers in
March 2015 will
pay tribute to
some iconic
Hollywood
movie posters.
Seen here are
two of them.
Identify the
movies from
these covers.

21. North by Northwest.
2001 : A Space Odyssey.

22. 11.
• In December 2014, the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter
ranked the greatest Swedish sportstars.
• X finished second on the list after Y. On being asked
about his feelings on finishing second, X replied : “Thank
you but to finish second is like finishing last. On that list,
I would have been number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with due
respect to the others.”
ID X and Y.

23. X – Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Y - Bjorn Borg.

24. 12.
• Ned Stark from Game of Thrones.
• Mrs. Bieber’s Uterus.
• The Titanic.
• The World Trade Centre.
• Uncle Ben from Spiderman.
• Private Ryan.
• Martha and Thomas Wayne.
According to a series of popular Internet memes, how
are these connected?

25. Things David De Gea could have saved.

26. 13.
• The X campaign was launched in social networking
websites in August 2014 as a token of support for
people in Gaza suffering from Israeli air strikes. It was
an imitation of a similar campaign that was viral during
that time.
• The concept was intended as a “a campaign to raise
awareness about the war on Gaza where people are
bombed inside their homes”, according to its Facebook
page.
Which campaign?
(Slight variations from the exact answer are acceptable).

27. Rubble Bucket Challenge.

28. 14.
• This 2014 movie was adapted from a 2004 Japanese
light novel called All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi
Sakurazaka.
• The author of the book and the director of the movie
were both inspired by the Respawning feature in
video games.
Which movie?

29. Edge of Tomorrow.

30. 15.
Identify the
superhero.

31. Birdman.

32. 16.
• The 2014 movie X deals with the kidnapping of a
small kid.
• The 2014 movie Y deals with four young people
standing up against a corrupt police officer.
• The director of Y explained that the name of his
movie is Y as it shows the youth “fighting against the
X.”
ID X and Y.

33. X – Ugly. Y – Fugly.

34. 17.
Homepage of the promotional website for what?

35. Gone Girl.

36. 18.
• A Belgian Maths teacher came in news in March 2014 for
threatening his students with an innovative punishment “if there
was too much noise in class”.
• He said he will write down certain names on the board if the
class does not shut up. As the class laughed and still kept talking,
the teacher got angry and to prove he meant business, he went
on to write down some such names, much to the dismay of one
of his students, who decided to blog about the incident on
DansTonChat.
• The student said, “About 20 people sighed in disgust. Well I can
tell you that there's been a religious silence since then during the
last lesson.“
What was the punishment?

37. Game of Thrones Spoilers.
(He wrote down the names of characters who die.)

38. *19.
• City Lit is an adult education college in Covent Garden, central
London, offering over 4,000 part-time courses in areas such as
languages, visual arts, music, drama, humanities and more.
• It came in news a few days back for becoming the first institute to
offer a certain crash course. This course will be available from
March 2015 and will cost around $160 per head.
• The students will be taught to “explain ideas of space, place and
surrounding issues, use light and significant detail in their work
and even develop new ideas to make their work more relevant”.
What will be taught in the crash course?

39. How to take Selfies.

40. 20.
An Internet meme
became popular last
year after the uploader
noticed that the Hunger
Games : Mockingjay
logo looks like the
cartoon character X
holding an arrow.
ID X.

41. Johnny Bravo.

42. *21.
• A meme that became
popular on 7th January,
2015. Flags of two
countries were there in
place of the blanks.
Which countries?

43. Germany and Brazil.

44. 22.
• In a recent interview, X said that he would love to
play a James Bond villain.
• He said, “My ideal role would be a baddie in a James
Bond film. I think my voice would fit the part.”
Subject of a 2014 movie himself, who is X?

45. Stephen Hawking.

46. 23.
• Paul Horner, a man from Los Angeles, came in news in late
2014 for stopping a couple from robbing a coffee shop.
• He says, “It was really lucky that I had my wallet with me that
said ‘Bad Motherf*cker’ on it. When the robbers came, I held
it up and said, ‘Normally, both of your asses would be f*cking
fried chicken, but you happen to pull this sh*t when I am in a
transitional period, so I don’t wanna kill you, I wanna help
you.’ Then the robbers looked at each other and ran away. I
knew my vast knowledge of X would pay off for me one day.”
ID X.

47. Pulp Fiction.

48. 24.
• “Kab tak kaatun teri gaaliyon ke chakkar,
Ab tak koi response nahi hain.
Din bhar, ho din bhar,
O din bhar tere peeche dourun kutte ki tarah.
O raat bhar main saroon, jaise chhat par ullu,
O tere pyaar mein mujhko kya mila hain?
______ __ ______.”
Fill in the missing line of this recent Bollywood song.

49. Babaji ka thullu.

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FINALS

51. • 24 Questions.
• Infinite Pounce.
• +10 for direct.
• +10/-10 on Pounce.
• Clockwise.
Clockwise Pounce

52. • This question has been posted multiple times on multiple Q&A
websites, like Yahoo Answers, Rediff Q&A, Toluna, Ask and
Answers.
• Some of the answers posted are :
“Because its cheaper than the other alternatives.”
“To refresh our minds.”
“So that we can breathe easy.”
Two of the most common answers have not been included here.
What is the question?
And give me one of the two most common answers.
1.

54. Hum Chlormint Kyun Khaatey Hain?
Dobaara Mat Poochna.
Or, because the shopkeeper does not have change.

55. 2.
• As an Easter Egg in Google Maps, when you want
to find the route between Fort Augustus and
Urquhart Castle in the UK, and you look for
estimated time taken in different modes of
transportation to reach one place from the other,
it shows 26 minutes by cab ride, 34 minutes by
bus ride and 28 minutes by X ride.
ID X.
[Picture on the next slide.]

58. Nessie.
(Or, the Loch Ness Monster).

59. • The founder of a company explaining why his company X,
named after a fictional character, is called so:
“One day, I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was
thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I
said, ‘Do you know about X?’ And she said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘What
do you know about X?’, and she said ‘____ ______’ (A phrase
the character X is associated with). And I said ‘Yes, this is the
name!’. Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and
asked them, ‘Do you know X?’. People from India, people from
Germany, people from Tokyo and China, they all knew about X.
X is not a thief. X is a kind, smart business person, and he
helped the village. So, easy to spell, and globally known.”
ID X and the founder.
3.

61. Alibaba.
Jack Ma.

62. 4.
This is the idol
from a very
popular Durga
Puja in South
Kolkata. The
organisers claimed
the idol was the
first of its kind.
What was special
about it?

64. First 3D Printed Idol.
(Jodhpur Park Sarbojonin).

65. • The plot of the movie Chotushkone revolves around four
directors, each telling a short story to the others as a part of an
anthology film they will direct together.
• Chiranjeet’s story revolves around a lonely, reclusive middle-
aged man named Bedoshruti De (played by Chiranjeet himself)
who has a severe cigarette obsession.
• His neighbour is a married woman (played by Arpita Pal
Chatterjee) who is in an unhappy marriage.
• Chiranjeet says that this woman is the only one Bedoshruti
cares about and he loves her “like his own daughter”.
What is the name of Arpita’s character?
5.

67. Jyotsna.

68. • Consider the following example of a program code:
if (version.StartsWith (“_______ 9”))
{
…
/* Do something. */
…
}
• Why did such snippets of code came in news in September -
October 2014?
6.

70. The reason there will be no Windows 9.
(Windows 9 would have clashed with Windows 95 and 98 features.)

71. 7.
Here are the “honest slogans” for two websites.
Name them.

73. Buzzfeed.
Dailymotion.

74. 8.
Fill in the blank with an
abbreviation.

76. NSFW.
(Not Safe For Work).

77. 9.
• “Dil ki gar sunoon toh hain,
Dimaag ki toh hain nahi.
Jaan loon ke jaan doon,
____ ______ __ ____ ____.”
Fill in the last line.
Or, give me the original line the last line is inspired
from.

79. Main rahoon ke main nahi.
(To be or not to be).

80. 10.
Official poster of which upcoming movie?

82. Ant-Man.

83. 11.
• X is talking about a song he wrote:
“ When I was writing down the lyrics, I kept in mind all
the English words that are used in our vocabulary.
Words like I, you, me, how, why, cow. I just framed them
into sentences and that's how I came up with the song.”
ID X and the song.

85. Why this Kolaveri di?
X - Dhanush.

86. 12.
• Ever since the release of the trailer of a certain upcoming
movie, Internet users are debating over the design of the new
X.
• Some believe that the newly added crossguard prevents the X
from sliding down and accidentally cutting off your hand and
the crossguard can be used to jab opponents.
• Others believe that the crossguard can damage your hand if
you try acrobatic moves with the X and the crossguard would
have been helpful if it was at an angle rather than being
perpendicular.
ID X.

88. Lightsaber.

89. 13.
A “Shakespearean sonnet”
version of a popular 80s hit
song.
Which song?

91. Never gonna give you up.
(Rick Astley).

92. 14.
• In November 2014, Spanish football club Valencia was sued by
DC Comics for copyright infringement.
• But European outlets were quick to point out that the “point
of contention between Valencia and DC” is a traditional part
of Spanish heraldry that dates back to at least the 1300s.
Other Spanish clubs including CD Alcoyano and Levante UD
also use it.
• But still Valencia decided to let DC Comics have the final say
and stopped the use of the “point of contention”.
Why did DC sue Valencia?

94. The Bat logo.

95. 15.
• YB is an app available in the iTunes Store
that allows you to send “colourful
messages to your friends and family,
brought to you by X.”
• The app can be used to select voice
greetings from a library of over 120
phrases and send the greeting to
another user.
• The greetings are send in the voice of X
and every greeting ends with a word X is
associated with.
ID X.

97. Aaron Paul.
(YB stands for “Yo, Bitch.”)

98. 16.
• Pierre Daniel (picture on the right) sued
actor Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie, White
Chicks, G.I. Joe : The Rise of Cobra) for
racially harassing him on the set of A
Haunted House 2 by posting a side-by-side
pic of him with the cartoon character X,
captioning it, “Tell me this n**** don't look
like THIS N****!!! Old X ass lookin’."
• But he lost the case as the judge felt it was a
fair comment, ruling, “The X character, like
Pierre, is obviously black and heavy with
curly Afro hair.“
ID the cartoon character X who is a side
character in a series and has a spin-off series
of his own.

100. Cleveland Brown.

101. 17.
• “Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning, they
__ ___ __ ______ ____ ____ ____ _____.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
____, ____ _______ ___ _____ __ ___ _____.”
Fill in the missing lines of the poem.

103. Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

104. 18.
• “But since the man that runs away,
Lives to ___ _______ ___.” - A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman.
• “A tomb now suffices him for whom ___ _____ ___ ___
______.“ – Alexander the Great’s epitaph.
• Reflections in a ______ ___, a 1941 novel by American author
Carson McCullers.
• “___ ____ ____ _____,
Once when you are born,
And once when you look death in the face.” - Matsuo Basho.
Connect the blanks.

106. James Bond title origins.
(Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, Golden Eye, You Only Live Twice.)

107. 19.
Identify.
(Please make sure the gif is working.)

109. David Bowie.

110. 20.
• A merchandiser posted pictures of this shirt for sale on Etsy and eBay last week.
But they cancelled their plans this week after widespread backlash and outcry.
What is the controversy?
[Larger photo on next slide.]

113. Kurt Cobain’s suicide note.

114. 21.
• In a fake trailer released by the
YouTube channel CollegeHumor, Ariel
Winter (Modern Family) plays an agent
who specialises in “covert artefact
recovery” and is out to retrieve the
stolen Infinity Orb.
What is her character called?

116. Dora the Explorer.

117. 22.
• According to a poll published by
WhatCulture.com, which mask was voted as
the “most iconic mask in cinematic history”?

119. The Guy Fawkes mask.

120. 23.
• Available in many online
shopping websites, what
are these kind of rings
commonly called?

122. Friendzone Rings.

123. 24.
Put funda.

125. Albert Uderzo’s tribute to Charlie Hebdo victims.