Finals of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity) Quiz conducted by Conquiztadors.

1. DEI Quiz: Finals
CQD x WDC
10th Nov 2022

2. ● 20 Questions
● 3 Rounds: 2 Dry rounds and 1 Written Round
● +10 on Direct and Bounce
● +10/-5 on Pounce
● Infinite bounce
RULES

3. The Search for ‘_______’ is a the hilariously failed operation by the US
Military and US “Intelligence”.
This was an operation started to find _______ as she was believed to
be a mysterious woman who was an ally of all gay men and US
military believed that finding her would give them access to
identities of gay personnel in US navy.
However, after a huge amount of money down the drain, the search
was eventually called off as they couldn’t find _______ or her friends.
Q1. Who were they searching for?

4. SAFETY SLIDE

5. A1. Dorothy

6. While announcing the release of this single from her latest album
Midgnights, Taylor Swift revealed that she came across this two-worded
phrase while watching Mad Men. According to her this phrase was used
in the ’50s where they would just describe being in love.
While the announcement garnered the usual fanfare associated with her
music, some of her fans from the LGBTQ community took offence to her
unawareness regarding the historic significance of the color to the
community and her incorrect use of it to describe a straight relationship.
These fans, along with other fans of her who choose to view her work
through the LBTQ lens, have been given a one-word moniker which is a
play on the her name.
Q2. Which song? What are these fans called?

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8. A2. Lavender Haze, Gaylors

9. Q3. Which movie thst featured Tibetan
resistance in some of its scenes?
This film from the last decade, known for its soundtrack and
amazing performances, also courted controversy when it hit the
theatres.
A certain song from the movie features certain frames with blurred
images of Tibetan flags and posters saying "Free Tibet" and was
Interestingly shot in the hub of Tibetan refugees in India.

10. SAFETY SLIDE

11. A3. Rockstar

12. Q4. What two changes?
Around 100 teenage girls from Kerala filed a petition in 2013 to the
erstwhile Chief Minister and Education Minister, starting off a
'revolution'. It took almost a decade for it to see results, as earlier this
year news was filled with this positive change in this ‘symbol of
equality’, which offended many conservatives and thus led to a
controversy.
Meanwhile in Palakkad district of Kerala, a semantic change was
brought about in a similar environment with regards to the usage of
certain terms. Although this was a step aimed at something else, it
also served a secondary purpose; getting over the colonial hangover.

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14. A4. Gender-neutral uniforms, removing the
use of gender-specific terms like sir/ma’am
and addressing them based on their
designation etc.

15. Q5. Identify the hairstyle and the saint.
________ ___ is a hairstyle popularly used by this section of society and
is considered a subtle hints towards their identity.
The origin of the same is said to have occured from a French saint
and then was further popularized by mainstream media to represent
femininity and freedom of the characters.

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17. A5. Bisexual Bob, Joan of Arc

18. This feature in outfits and fashion items was considered a feminist
statement when women started joining workplaces.
This was a way to give women a more masculine figure to portray
that they're equal to men.
During #MeToo moment in 2017, Spanish fashion brand X brought
back this feature for both men and women to remove gender based
boundaries in fashion giving both an empowering look.
Q6. Which feature? Which brand?

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20. A6. Shoulder pads, Balenciaga

21. Semiotics of the Kitchen is a parody performance piece released in 1975
by Martha Rosler. Shot in the style of a popular television genre of the
times, the camera observes as she presents an array of kitchen hand
utensils, many of them outdated or strange. After identifying them, she
demonstrates unproductive, and sometimes violent, uses for each. Her
gestures demonstrate frustration with the language of domesticity, as
she uses the domestic space of the kitchen as a backdrop for resistance
and change.
The subject of the video is considered to be an anti- ______ _____,
someone who at the time was the most popular person on television in
her genre.
Q7. FITB.

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23. A7. Julia Child

24. Q8. What was the collective called?
New York-based artist Patrick O'Connel would spend days visiting
friends in the hospital, going to funerals, and coming home to a
panicked answering machine message from friends who just
learned they were sick. O'Connel and other artists banded together
and started making art in response to the disease that has long been
stigmatized in the society. In 1988 they aptly began calling their
collective X, a reference to how their art is an ___ to raise awareness
about the aforementioned disease

25. SAFETY SLIDE

26. A8. Visual AIDS

27. Written Round
● 4 Questions
● +10 for each correct answers
● Extra +10 for full house

28. Known for his socially-engaged paintings, sculptures and installation work, Probir
Gupta builds up a complex image-base of resistance. Drawing his references from
history, world economy, cinema, media and mythology, Probir’s activist endeavour
comments on the urgencies of the present.
Music is integral to Gupta’s work and he listens to Jazz and the Blues along with
Bauls from West Bengal. This reflects in this work of his pictured here. Here, Gupta
draws parallels between two communities who have have a lot in common in terms
of facing discrimination over the years. The painting iconizes the youth of the two
communities and portrays them in a lot of gold, expensive pearls and stones. The
commonality also extends to the names of two prominent organizations from these
communities, one of which was inspired from the other.
Q1. Which two communities?

30. Another thought provoking piece by Gupta talks about an existing yet
lesser known exploitative market, consisting of a new form of labour
which is an intricate form of exploitation of woman’s body. The piece
consists of a market scene with photographs of scrap markets which crop
up in different localities on different days alluding to how most women
who are engaged in such ruthless markets are often women from
economically backward and socially disadvantaged groups.
Q2 Which practice is the artwork trying to highlight?

32. Q3. Which issue is being talked about? Which
substance?
_______ Blind Spot is a Braille Campaign by Black Sheep Works that is
used to highlight one of the oldest disputes in the UN's roster of
international conflicts. The typography used in the piece is to highlight
how the world has turned a blind eye to the said issue which has long
been ignored and which rose to controversy in the latter half of 2019. The
typography also put into focus the pain endured by the victims of the
same which were subjected to state-sponsored violence by a certain
substance that has close resemblance with the typography of braille.
With 20 million impressions, 6.5 million reach on Twitter, and 25,000
poster downloads, the campaign garnered a positive response from
netizens in successfully urging them to open their heart and eyes to the
issue.

34. Q4. Who were the subjects of this piece?
The sculptural assemblage of a comb, juicer, microphone, typewriter,
photo frame, mechanical components which are voluntary
contributions to energise and keep in check the nutritive levels of the
_____ __________, so their dharna continues, unabated. Consisting of a
comb, microphone, typewriter and a mixer grinder, his piece was
meant to reflect the history being created.“When I think of my
mother, the first image I see in my mind is of her with a comb, which
is why this piece is my dedication to _______ of _______ ____,” said
Gupta.

36. Q1. Which two communities?
Known for his socially-engaged paintings, sculptures and installation work, Probir
Gupta builds up a complex image-base of resistance. Drawing his references from
history, world economy, cinema, media and mythology, Probir’s activist endeavour
comments on the urgencies of the present.
Music is integral to Gupta’s work and he listens to Jazz and the Blues along with Bauls
from West Bengal. This reflects in this work of his pictured here. Here, Gupta draws
parallels between two communities who have have a lot in common in terms of
facing discrimination over the years. The painting iconizes the youth of the two
communities and portrays them in a lot of gold, expensive pearls and stones. The
commonality also extends to the names of two prominent organizations from these
communities, one of which was inspired from the other.

38. A1. Dalit Community & African American
Community

39. Q2 Which practice is the artwork trying to highlight?
Another thought provoking piece by Gupta talks about an existing yet
lesser known exploitative market, consisting of a new form of labour
which is an intricate form of exploitation of woman’s body. The piece
consists of a market scene with photographs of scrap markets which crop
up in different localities on different days alluding to how most women
who are engaged in such ruthless markets are often women from
economically backward and socially disadvantaged groups.

41. A.2 Surrogacy

42. Q3. Which issue is being talked about? Which
substance?
_______ Blind Spot is a Braille Campaign by Black Sheep Works that is
used to highlight one of the oldest disputes in the UN's roster of
international conflicts. The typography used in the piece is to highlight
how the world has turned a blind eye to the said issue which has long
been ignored and which rose to controversy in the latter half of 2019. The
typography also put into focus the pain endured by the victims of the
same which were subjected to state-sponsored violence by a certain
substance that has close resemblance with the typography of the braille.
With 20 million impressions, 6.5 million reach on Twitter, and 25,000
poster downloads, the campaign garnered a positive response from
netizens in successfully urging them to open their heart and eyes to the
issue.

44. A3. Kashmir being a ‘blind spot’. The
typography reflecting pellets used against
civilians.

45. Q4. Who were the subjects of this piece?
The sculptural assemblage of a comb, juicer, microphone, typewriter,
photo frame, mechanical components which are voluntary
contributions to energise and keep in check the nutritive levels of the
_____ __________, so their dharna continues, unabated. Consisting of a
comb, microphone, typewriter and a mixer grinder, his piece was
meant to reflect the history being created.“When I think of my
mother, the first image I see in my mind is of her with a comb, which
is why this piece is my dedication to _______ of _______ ____,” said
Gupta.

47. A4. Mothers of Shaheen Bagh

48. Score Check

49. Q9. Identify X.
X is a Latin work of fiction detailing the misadventures of Encolpius
and his lover, a handsome and promiscuous sixteen-year-old servant
boy named Giton. Written in the 1st century AD during the reign of
Nero, it is the earliest known text of its kind depicting homosexuality.
To get at the name, one of the ‘iconic’ ancient Greek symbols of male
promiscuity might help.

50. SAFETY SLIDE

51. A9. The Satyricon by Petronius

52. Queer Technologies is an organization that produces critical
applications, tools, and situations for queer technological agency,
interventions, and sociality. By re-imaging a technology designed for
queer use, Queer Technologies critiques the heteronormative,
capitalist, militarized underpinnings of technological architectures,
design, and functionality.
Their products are displayed and deployed on counters called the
____________ ___, an attack on the customer support service of a
company that offers a heterotopic space for political support for
“technical” problems.
Q10. FITB.

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54. A10. Ingenious Bar

55. Q11. What stereotype?
“Who’s Afraid of ____ ______?” is a narrative quilt made by African-
American artist Faith Ringgold.
It narrates the story of ______ Blakey's life as a Black matriarch
restaurateur. This story of Blakely’s business acumen breaks down
the racist stereotype that Black women lack drive or business
acumen and fictionally revises the most maligned black female
stereotype.

56. SAFETY SLIDE

57. A11. Aunt Jemima

58. Q12. How do we better know Marie Louise
Cruz? What incident?
A certain Marie Louise Cruz revealed in a 2021 interview that she got
acquiesced with Francis Ford Coppola while hiking the hills of San
Francisco which led to her correspondence with ______, who she knew
had a keen interest in her community. This culminated with an iconic
incident in film history, only the third of its kind. In the aftermath of the
incident, she was essentially blacklisted from the industry.
Eventually, in 2022, almost 50 years since the incident, she received a
formal apology from one of the foremost organizations of the industry.

59. SAFETY SLIDE

60. A12. Sacheen Littlefeather, Marlon Brando
refusing the Oscar for Best Actor

61. Q13. What is the book titled?
Megha Rao is credited for India’s No.1 Spotify poetry podcast.
Her latest book, ________ is a hauntingly beautiful compilation of
freeverses about an older sister revisiting childhood stories after she
finds her queer brother’s suicide note.
________ refers to a painful biological process that children undergo
while growing up.

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63. A13. Teething by Megha Rao

64. Q14. Which trend? Which community?
The ___ ___ trend is a beauty trend that became popular in 2020 and many
actresses and models like Emma Chamberlain and Kendall Jenner also hopped on
the trend.
The trend included makeup and poses that would elongate the eyes and make
them seem angled upwards.
However, this trend was considered highly offensive by a certain community as the
poses used were uncannily similar to the gestures made to bully people from this
community and hence was considered a case of cultural appropriation.

65. SAFETY SLIDE

66. A14. Fox Eye trend and offensive to east
Asians

67. Calling it cultural annihilation, Shabana Azmi’s viral tweet back from
2017 questioned the silence of the then Information and
Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani on the attacks made on the
makers of Padmavati by right wing forces, while the preparations for
the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) were onboard. The
actress was irked by the age-old suppression on artists by those in
power and hence her tweet lays a comparison of the same with a
fiery speech she delivered back in 1989 at IFFI, showing her support
and protest against a certain incident that took place at the
beginning of the year which involved a political theatre artist who
was also a critic of the Indian Cinema.
Q15. Which artist and what incident?

68. SAFETY SLIDE

69. A15. Safdar Hashmi, Killed by Congress
goons during a performance of the play Halla
Bol

70. Q16. FITB. Who are these pilgrims?
Kottankulangara Devi Temple in Kerala hosts the 'Chamayavilakku'
festival where thousands of people dress up, often with jasmine hairs in
their hair and waiting for hours to get the blessing with a lamp in their
hands. It is also called _____-________ festival, because of what attendees
do.
People from a particular community from all over the country throng to
this temple during this day as the devotees feel welcome here; a
celebration of their identity and an avenue for them to express
themselves without inviting gawks, ogles or lewd comments.

71. SAFETY SLIDE

72. A16. Cross-dressing, People from the Trans
community

73. THANK YOU