This is the prelims of Nerd Wars - the Comics Quiz conducted by me as part of Agon 2017 on September 13, 2017 at Calcutta National Medical College.

1. QUIZMASTER:
ISHAN SEN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
AKASH CHANDANI
DEEPTABHA MISRA
AKASH SAHA
ARATRIKA SAU

2. OFFICIAL EVENT SPONSOR:

3. RULES
• This round has 25 questions.
• This is a written round.
• Correct answers will fetch you +1. Wrong attempts will
not incur any penalty. Half points may be awarded at
the QM’s discretion.
• Top 6 teams will go through to the finals.
• Questions 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 are starred questions.
• In case of a tie, the team with more number of correct
answers to starred questions will go through.
• In case of a further tie, the team with the longest
streak of correct answers will go through.
• Avoid writing Batman in all the answers.
• The QM’s decision is final and binding. Not even
Thanos can challenge it.

4. *1. The colors of X have been a major debating subject
for Comics fans since their introduction into the Marvel
Cinematic Universe. Although there’s no significant
reason why one X is of a certain color, purists have often
dissed the movies for their arbitrary use of the color
palette.
Director of the Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, had
argued that he had to change the color of an X in order to
differentiate it from another shown in Thor: The Dark
World.
X come in red, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange.
ID X.

5. Infinity Stones

6. 2. Originally a member of the Hellfire Club as
shown in the movie X-Men: First Class, X later
fought against the X-Men and ended up joining the
Brotherhood of Mutants along with a few others.
While X’s fellow teammates in the former Hellfire
Club were experimented on and killed by Trask
between X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of
Future Past , X’s fate remain officially unrevealed.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine shows one of Stryker’s
captive mutants having powers similar to X.
ID X.

7. Riptide/Janos Quested

8. 3. Here are our desi protectors of the universe.
ID the name of this strip that has been blanked
out.

10. Brahmand Rakshak

11. 4. Considered a representation of three-way unity,
this symbol has been used in Christian tradition as a
sign of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
Pagans/Wiccans consider it as the symbol of the
Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone).
You’ve probably seen this in Assassin’s Creed,
Outlast, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, GTA V, and
Overwatch.
ID the symbol and where will you find it in the
comics cinematic universe?

13. Triquetra, On Mjolnir/Thor’s Hammer

14. *5. Born with the Deviant Syndrome, Thanos grew up as
an outcast in the society. Obsessed with death, he lived
up to his moniker (Thanatos, in ancient Greek mythology,
is the personification of death) in the years to come.
It has been a common notion that his creator Jim Starlin
sketched Thanos in his Psychology class, basing him on
Jack Kirby’s Darkseid.
However, Starlin’s original sketches were actually
inspired from _______ until his editor-in-chief decided
to make Thanos more of a Darkseid clone, resulting in
the draft that we are familiar with today.
FITB.

15. Metron

16. 6. Stan Lee: “He was me. He was irascible, he was
bad-tempered, he was dumb, he thought he was
better than he was. He was the version that so
many people had of me! And I always wanted to
play him in the movie. I was so sorry that by the
time the movie was made, I was too old to play the
role. Well, I don't think I'm too old, but obviously
they did. Oh, and the guy who's playing him is
wonderful! He's done it better than I could've done,
and that's very high praise!”
Who?

17. J. Jonah Jameson

18. 7. How do we better know
Remy Etienne LeBeau?

19. Gambit

20. 8. Spoilers for some of you here.
Tim Drake is a struggling high school student leading a secret
second life as a vigilante. He falls in love with Stephanie Brown, but
refuses to let her in on his secret identity, lest that invites trouble.
His constant anxiety about not being able to keep people closest to
him safe haunts him till the day his father gets to know about his
second life, and Tim is forced to give it up once and for good.
Stephanie Brown has a vigilante life as well, but her real identity
doesn’t remain hidden to Tim for long. She trains under the Birds
of Prey, and decides to level up trying to prove her worth to a
certain associate of Tim. It doesn’t end too well for her though –
she ends up kindling the War Games that leaves her nearly beaten
to death.
How will you positively describe the similarity between Tim and
Stephanie’s second lives with a well-known common word?

21. Robin

22. 9. What are these?
United States of
America and Canada
I Love Lucy (Television)
Moon Landing
Berlin Wall (Up + Down)
Steve Jobs (Apple)
Disco
Thai Food
Star Wars/Trek
Nirvana (Band)
Rocky (Rocky II?)
Troubleman (Soundtrack)
United Kingdom and Ireland
TV Show - Sherlock
Moon Landing
The Beatles
World Cup Final (1966)
Sean Connery
Thai Food
Star Wars/Trek
Nirvana (Band)
Rocky (Rocky II?)
Troubleman (Soundtrack)
France
France 98
Louis de Funes
Coluche
Daft Punk
The Fifth Element
Thai Food
Star Wars/Trek
Nirvana (Band)
Rocky (Rocky II?)
Troubleman (Soundtrack)
Korea
Dance Dance Revolution
Ji-Sung Park
Oldboy
2002 World Cup
Disco
Thai Food
Star Wars/Trek
Nirvana (Band)
Rocky (Rocky II?)
Troubleman (Soundtrack)
Italy
World Cup Championship –
1982, 2006
Vasco Rossi
Berlin Wall up + down
Roberto Benigni
Ferrari's victories at F1
Grand Prix
Thai Food
Star Wars/Trek
Nirvana (Band)
Rocky (Rocky II?)
Troubleman (Soundtrack)

23. Different versions of Captain
America’s to-do list in different
countries

24. *10. Connect the following instances with a
four-word phrase:

26. Breaking the fourth wall

27. 11. Although Green Lantern wasn’t a hit film by any
standards, it was humorous enough through more than a
few pop culture references like “To infinity and beyond”
and “By the power of Greyskull”.
In the movie, Carol Ferris is shown to have X as her jet
pilot code name, which happens to be an allusion to her
alias Y in the comic universe.
Plenty of other characters have used the alias Y as well,
including Deborah Darnell, Dela Pharon, and Jillian
Pearlman.
Give me Y.

28. Star Sapphire

29. 12. The Dark Knight Rises finds prisoners chanting as Bruce
Wayne attempts to escape from the pit Bane had imprisoned
him in.
Speaking about its development, Hans Zimmer later said, “The
chant became a very complicated thing because I wanted
hundreds of thousands of voices, and it's not so easy to get
hundreds of thousands of voices. So, we tweeted and we posted
on the internet, for people who wanted to be part of it. It
seemed like an interesting thing.”
According to Zimmer, the chant means “rise up” in a language
he prefers to keep secret. Moroccan and Arabic dialects have
been thrown into the mix by fans, but the true origin continues
to remain disputed.
Give me the chant as heard in the movie.

30. Deshi basara/ deshi deshi
basara basara

31. 13. Fill in the erased part with a name.

33. Claire Temple

34. 14. Asgardians describe X as the cosmic nimbus
that connects the Nine Realms. Thor, in the
movie Thor, explains the concept to Jane Foster
with the help of a drawing of X in a sketch pad.
Captain America: The First Avenger shows
Johann Schmidt invading a village in Norway
and finding the Tesseract hidden behind a wall
with a carving of X on it.
ID X.

35. Yggdrasil/ World Tree

36. *15. Connect:

37. Savita Bhabhi

38. 16. French for ‘beautiful dream’, X also finds mention as the
family home of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ play, A
Streetcar Named Desire.
X’s debut in the comic universe dates back to May, 1987 in
the first issue of a soon-to-be successful series.
X’s film debut occurs in the post-end credits scene in Justice
League: Throne of Atlantis, featuring Ocean Master.
Heathens by Twenty One Pilots have been associated with X
in recent times.
ID X.

39. Belle Reve Penitentiary

40. 17. Put funda.

41. “There are no strings on me”

42. 18. Ranked the 47th greatest comic book character by the Wizard
magazine in 2011, this superhero gained such a cult following that
Dexter’s Laboratory introduced a spoof of him in one of the episodes.
Even Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs had a poster of him in one
of the scenes.
The creation of this superhero has an interesting backstory: Stan Lee
and Jack Kirby had discussed the issue’s story, but Kirby went on to add
this new character anyway, reasoning the latter’s iconic object with a
quirky explanation of being “tired of drawing spaceships”.
Despite being an unplanned addition to the Fantastic Four, the series
was thought to have been one of Stan Lee’s personal favorites.
ID the superhero.

43. Silver Surfer

44. 19. ID the beast.

45. H’raka/Haraka
Half points for War Kite

46. *20. The New Element was theorized by
Howard Stark and later synthesized by Tony
Stark when the latter wanted a suitable
replacement for the palladium core in his Arc
Reactor, which had been poisoning him. The
New Element is said to generate power similar
to the Tesseract. Tony, being Tony, later tried to
get the element patented as ______, but ran
into too many legal issues.
FITB.

47. Badassium

48. 21. DC’s 75th anniversary edition of Detective
Comics #27 contained classic material from the
1939 issue and content from the New 52
Detective Comics #27, and will be given out for
free on July 23, 2014. However, this edition
made the headlines for an extremely significant
and unprecedented event.
What is special about that event?

50. First time ever DC gave Bill Finger
a Batman cover credit

51. 22. This critically acclaimed film was premiered in Shanghai
before being released in the U.S.A. in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D.
Apart from the fantastic direction, musical score, and brilliant
performances, the film made the headlines because of a
number of controversies, including receiving a ban in a West
Asian country, due to the citizenship of the lead cast.
However, it went on to shatter several box office records and
netting in $806.7m against a budget of $ 149m, making it the
highest grossing superhero origin film domestically.
ID the film.

52. Wonder Woman

53. 23. ID the device.

54. Spiderman’s web-shooter

55. 24. Minimalist poster of which character?

56. Dr. Manhattan

57. *25. Why was this in the news recently?

58. Freedom Fighters: The Ray, DC’s first gay
superhero series to be released this year.