1) The document describes a trivia competition between four participants over 4 rounds with different types of questions. 2) The rounds include an audio visual round with questions about movies and characters, a general trivia round on various Marvel movies, a round identifying quotes from Marvel movies, and another general trivia round. 3) The competition includes various Marvel movie references and trivia questions about characters, plot points, and pop culture references within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

1. EXCELSIOR
FINALS
Prof. Ashwin Parameshwar
Alan Benedict Joseph
Rohit Joseph Sebastian
Albert Francis

2. THE DEAL
4 Rounds; 20 questions
Round 1: Clockwise, AV Round
Round 2: Anticlockwise, General Trivia I
Round 3: Clockwise, Who Said It ?
Round 4: Anticlockwise, General Trivia II

4. ROUND 1
AV Round
Clockwise
5 Questions
Pounce (+10/-5) and Bounce (+10)

5. 1. AV
X is a recently deceased eminent personality and owner of
Seattle Seahawks. In the film Ironman, Tony Stark is said
to have built a circuit board at the age of 4. He is shown to
be sitting beside the founder of a prominent tech giant
whose product has a market share of 92%.
The person was cropped from the original image and was
replaced by a 4 year old Stark.
Identify the personality.

8. Ans: Paul Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft.

9. 2. AV
X is an algorithm that was a designed by a German
scientist. It evaluates the people’s past to predict their
future.
Y is a project that was made by a breakaway faction of
Nazi Germany who infiltrated SHIELD and is designed to
execute X.
Identify X and Y

12. Ans: X: Zola’s Algorithm
Y: Project Insight

13. 3. AV
X is a theory which states that there is a possibility of small
wormholes in the space or space time. The phenomenon
created using X will act as a tunnel that can allow us to
travel in space and time to another corner of universe.
In the following video Thor is seen to be talking with Jane
and discussing about a rainbow bridge which is formed by
X
Identify X

16. Ans: Einstein Rosen Bridge

17. 4. AV
In the following video clip, Shuri is shown giving her brother
fully automated shoes which has the capability of making
the user’s footsteps soundproof. She says that it is inspired
from a famous Hollywood movie that their father used to
watch.
ID the movie which inspired the shoes.

20. Ans: Back to the Future II

21. 5. AV
In the following clip Kaecilius along with his followers steals
a piece of paper from a book X. X belongs to the Ancient
One’s private collection. The books in the collection are far
too advanced for anyone other than the Sorcerer Supreme.
ID X

24. Ans: The Book of Cagliostro

25. Round 2
Questions based on General Trivia
Anticlockwise
5 questions
Pounce (+10/-5) and Bounce (+10)

26. 1. GT
X was a film which according to its director, “Broke barriers
below the line”. It was very successful both financially and
culturally. X also had the privilege of becoming the first
movie shown in theatres in the country Y after decades of
its ban on movies and theatres.
ID X and Y

28. Ans: X: Black Panther
Y: Saudi Arabia

29. 2. GT
In 2015, Milind Soman completed X in 15 hours and 19
minutes in his first try. The X includes a 3.8 km swim, a
180.2 km cycle ride and 42.2 km run raced in that order
without a break which the participants are required to
complete within 17 hours to win X.
X also refers to a character in MCU which was created as a
self challenge to improve the creator’s aptitude .

31. Ans: Ironman Challenge

32. 3. GT
____ is a running gag that has been seen in the The
Avengers and Phase II movies of the MCU (Ironman 3,
Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter
Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron,
and Ant-Man). ____ is a numerical value that is used for
presenting various facts.
Identify the numerical value.

34. Ans: 12

35. 4. GT
X and Y are pop culture references that were used by
Spider-Man which gave the others an idea about how to
defeat their opponent.
Both X and Y are films from different successful franchises.
X is used in a dire situation and Y is used to help in a
rescue operation
ID X and Y

37. Ans: X: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Y: Aliens

38. 5. GT
The image depicted is a mobile
service module deployed from a
space satellite. It was designed
by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.
It contains a self assembling
electrified cage and an armor in case
of emergency. The name of this
device is inspired from a character in
Archie’s Comics.
What is the name of the device
depicted in the image ?

40. Ans: Veronica

41. Round 3
Questions based on Dialogues in MCU
Anticlockwise
5 questions
Pounce (+10/-5) and Bounce (+10)

42. 1. D I
“I am loyal to that throne. No matter who sits on it.”
ID the speaker and film.

44. Ans: Okoye from Black Panther

45. 2. D II
“All my friends are fighters, and here comes a guy avoiding
a fight, because he knows he will win”
ID the speaker and the film

47. Ans: Black Widow, Avengers: Age of Ultron

48. 3. D III
“I don’t recall killing your family. I doubt I will remember
killing you either.”
ID the speaker and the film

50. Ans: Ronan The Accuser, Guardians of the
Galaxy

51. 4. D III
“There is nothing more reassuring than knowing that the
world is crazier than you are”
ID the speaker and the film

53. Ans: Erik Selvig, Thor: The Dark World

54. 5. D V
“I will use the door.”
ID the speaker and the film

56. Ans: Vision, Captain America: Civil War

57. Round 4
Questions based on General Trivia
Clockwise
5 questions
Pounce (+10/-5) and Bounce (+10)

58. 1. GT II
The people of Marvel’s fictional kingdom of Wakanda are
shown to be speaking what is called the “Wakandan-
dialect” which in reality is the pure form of an existing
African language and is the official language in Zimbabwe.
This language is first heard in Captain America: Civil War in
a conversation between T’Chaka and T’Challa.
ID the language.

60. Ans: Xhosa Language

61. 2. GT II
_______ is the term used in a popular board game to
denote the final stage of the play where few pieces remain.
Usually in the _______, the stronger side should try to
exchange pieces while avoiding the exchange of lesser
relevant pieces.
_______ is also a very important term in the MCU and was
used in 2 movies so far.
FITB

63. Ans: Endgame

64. 3. GT II
The image slide that follows from the film Thor, Dr Erik
Selvig uses a name to create a fake identification for Thor.
The name in fact belonged to Jane’s ex boyfriend.
ID the name.

67. Ans: Donald Blake

68. 4. GT II
In Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill calls his ship after
his childhood crush who was an actress. The ship which
was damaged in the Battle of Xandar was later rebuilt by
Rhomann Dey with the guidance of the Nova Corps.
The actress is famous for the roles she reprised in movies
such as Hall Pass, Commando, Whose the boss?, etc.
What is the name of the ship ?

70. Ans: Milano

71. 5. GT II
This tweet was in
response to a promise
of help by an entity to
the Marvel Studios. The
help promised by the
entity had become
famous in twitter.
ID the entity to whom
Marvel Studios was
replying to

73. Ans: NASA