Entertainment Quiz Prelims with Answers conducted at ISI Kolkata as a part of Integration 2020 Cutoff: 8.5 with 1 star Highest: 15.5 with 4 stars

2.  Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is an emotional
disturbances, which occurs secondary to a
neurological disorder or brain injury
 Also known as emotional incontinence, the specific
pathophysiology involved is still under
investigation
 While some theories implicate the prefontal cortex,
others assert the failure of the corticobulbar tract,
the centre for inhibition in the brain
 How did this debilitation come to the forefront in
recent times?

3.  Arthur Fleck’s condition in Joker

4.  A fan theory regarding this anthology show
asserts that the actors in the show are “trapped”,
due to the reuse of a set of actors for different
characters in the show
 The only reason such an absurd theory gained
traction was because it fits with the general tone
and narrative of the series, having the actors
stuck in purgatory
 Which show, the latest season of which takes
place in Los Angeles, California, US in 1984?

5.  American Horror Story

6.  What is happening here?

8.  What?

10.  In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the titular
character has a short stint working for Mike Clark, a
tugboat captain
 In a speech he gives at a tavern about infinity, he
talks about a small bird, that he has tattooed on his
chest
 Identify this bird, which is referred to multiple times
throughout the movie, and the significance of this
bird to the central theme of the movie
 There are a few ways in which it ties into the theme
of the story, however, it is a specific ability of this
bird that we are looking for
 Part points

11.  Hummingbird
 They are the
only birds that
can fly
backwards

12.  What are these
donations for?

13.  Team Trees

14.  Screencap from the Big Bash League
 Whose bat is this, and what is it called, owing to
its shape?

15.  Rashid Khan’s Camel Bat

16.  Morsing (or mukharshanku) is an instrument mainly
used in Rajasthan, in the Carnatic music of the
South, and in Sindh, Pakistan
 It is characterized as an idiophone
 It was popularized in Indian cinema by music
directors like RD Burman and SD Burman
 Prolonged playing causes the irregularity of ______
for the player, which could be mitigated by regular
corrective _______ (in a mirror, for example)
 Based on what type of instrument Morsing is, what
problem does it cause for players?
 Picture on the next slide

18.  Smiling

19.  Raya is a dating app released on iOS in
2015
 Membership in Raya costs $8 a month
 In order to join Raya, you need to be
referred, and then you are voted on by a
membership committee
 The acceptance rate for Raya
membership applications in
approximately 8 percent
 What is Raya’s USP?

20.  Celebrity Dating App

21.  Whose
recipe for
what, his
favourite?

23.  Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker, known
for his controversial opinions, and
terrible movies
 His movie, Alone in the Dark, is said to
be one of the worst movies of all time.
The movie centers around a supernatural
detective who investigates the
disappearance of an ancient Mayan-like
civilization called the Abkani

24.  Some synopses of his other flops:
› A group of teenagers fight zombies made by a mad
Dr. Curien
› A deserted member of a mercenary squad must fight a
tyrant on an island
› An ex-Air Force pilot who “goes postal”
 What repetitively unsuccessful “genre” of
movies does Uwe Boll specialize in?

25.  Video Game Adaptations

26.  Gene Hoglan is an American metal drummer,
acclaimed for his creativity in drum
arrangements, including the use of his trademark
lengthy double-kick drum rhythm
 His highly technical playing is extremely
accurate at very high and challenging tempos,
earning him the nickname X
 In an interview with Kerrang!, bandmate Devin
Townsend said “If other drummers were Y, he
[Gene] was X”
 Give me X and Y, devices used for time and
tempo respectively

27.  X- Atomic Clock
 Y- Metronome

28.  Give the name of this skill move, which is
literally something that goes over the head in
Spanish

29.  The Sombrero Flick

30.  NIFTY (National Index Fifty) is one of the stock
indices used in India, the other being the BSE Sensex
 There have been many critics of the market
concerned regarding the buoyancy of the stock
market, despite an apparent decline in the economy
 However, it is noted that 95% of the Nifty rally this
year was made of six stocks: HDFC Bank, Reliance
Industries, ICICI Bank, Tata Consultancy Services,
Infosys Technologies and Kotak Bank
 Analysts are expecting the coming year to be driven
by State Bank of India, Axis Bank, Larsen and
Toubro, Maruti Suzuki, Adani Ports and NTPC
 How was this communicated by Business Line?

31.  “Can SALMAN overpower HRITIK?”
 Acronyms of the two sets of 6 stocks

32.  Bildungsroman refers to a genre of novels and
movies
 “Bildungsroman” is a German word, coming
from Bildung, meaning _________, and Roman,
meaning novel
 What is the genre better known as, notable
examples of which are Great Expectations by
Dickens, Jane Eyre by Brönte and the recent
Little Women adaptation?

33.  Coming-of-age

34.  One of them is Miraitowa, while the other is
known as Someity
 Miraitowa is a combination of the Japanese
words for future and eternity, while Someity
comes from a popular cherry blossom variety
“Someiyoshino” and echoes the English phrase
“so mighty”
 The names were picked by schoolchildren. “The
name was picked together. So this ________
belong to everyone”
 Where will we see Miraitowa and Someity?

35.  Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Mascots

36.  In the Flashpoint story arc, Flash finds himself in
a different timeline altogether, after crossing the
cosmic limit for velocity
 While trapped in this timeline, he witnesses the
shooting of a helpless boy by a runaway thug in
an alley
 The child’s mother cries like a lunatic, and the
father becomes completely silent, both in shock
 Flash blames himself for the incapability to save
the child
 What does this lead to?

37.  Martha Wayne becomes the
Joker
 Thomas Wayne becomes
Batman

38.  Saint Young Men is a
Japanese slice-of-life
comedy manga,
revolving around two
roommates
 Just identify the
roommates

39.  Gautama Buddha
 Jesus Christ

40.  A refers to a person in their early 20’s with a
bleak outlook on life, the term deriving from the
nihilism they exhibit
 B refers to a person in their late 20’s with
immense optimism, ready to grow and blossom
 C and D do not refer to specific character traits,
rather to the generation they belong, with D
being the older generation, and C being the
youngest generation
 Using the same logic Google uses for new and
retired employees, give me A,B,C,D

41.  A- Doomer
 B- Bloomer
 C- Zoomer
 D- Boomer

42.  Initially, the story follows a lady who wants to be
a dancer, but is forced to marry by her parents
 2 years later, this lady has to deal with
supernatural creatures, witches, ghosts and more,
and eventually leaves the house
 16 years later, on returning to the house, the lady
is killed and resurrected as a fly
 What show am I describing, about the lady’s in-
laws, that has a groundbreaking 1.0 on IMDb?

43.  Sasural Simar Ka