2. Rules
● 8 clockwise
● +20/-10 on pounce
● +10/0 on bounce
● If no one answers, question passes to the next team.
● Quizmaster’s decisions are binding
9. 3.
_______ Machine is a 2001 British drama film directed by Barry Skolnick. It stars
former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974
American film The Longest Yard, featuring association football rather than
American football. It also reunites most of the cast who have starred in the
Guy Ritchie blockbusters Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
A pun on the movie’s name is a popular science book by psychologist Susan
Blackmore which is also what you might call someone who created memes.
Name the movie, not the book
10.
11.
12. Arsenal.
"X" is pronounced "gou" in Cantonese. It sounds like another word "gau", which
literally means "make, create". We use the slang "gau Y" a lot in everyday speech. By
itself it doesn't mean much: "make joke"; but when used in a sentence, it can mean a
lot more - for example, "are you 'gau Y'-ing right now?" would mean something like
"are you serious?".
I think XY had only _______ images on the front page in the old layout, and that might be
the origin of the name. Now, however, new images keeps loading automatically as you
scroll down, so this is no longer relevant.
Discussion on the origin of what XY?
18. For Lucy Redoglia, the social media manager at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (Lacma), the Hanson comparison trumped any
considerations of the picture’s artistic merits. She attached the words
“Mmbop, ba duba dop” – an approximation of the song’s lyric – to a
photograph of the painting.
These were the first of their kind memes, due to their targeted young
audiences (16-20)
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19.
20.
21. Till being removed recently by Google as the top result for the word
“Senate” , whose face would you have seen upon googling the word - in fact,
that’s all you’d have seen - thanks to the effort of a certain meme group, by
making it the most upvoted post of all time on reddit ?
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27. Written round
● 6 questions based on the origin of memes
● +10 for each
● +30 for full house
28. 1
The Three Bears was released on February 10th, 1939 by Terry Toons.
The cartoon is an animated retelling of the children’s fable “Goldilocks
and the Three Bears.” However, this version makes several changes to
the original, giving the bears a stereotypical thick Italian accent, having
the bears eat ______ instead of porridge, and being welcoming to
Goldilocks after she shows that she can play the fiddle. In the cartoon,
the titular Three Bears find their home broken into. When they discover
their goods have been tampered with, Papa Bear shouts “____________” in
a stereotypical Italian accent (which is the meme)
29. 2
As the jokester of his class, Kyle took that picture in 2006 when he was
17, as an annual yearbook photo. He wanted to go for the goofy look so
he bought that vest from a thrift store, rubbed his face to redden it, and
made that silly smile on purpose. The picture unfortunately didn’t make
it into the yearbook, due to his principal, who suspected he made it
awful on purpose.
30. 3
So how would you react if someone told you that Sir Isaac Newton
invented calculus before he turned 26?
33. 6
Antonio Guillem is a 45-year-old photographer from Barcelona, Spain,
who spends his days on shoots specifically destined for stock image
companies. For most of that time, he’s worked with the same three
models, though he says he parted ways with one of them a year or so
ago.
He and his models took to Gerona, an idyllic city in Catalonia, Spain,
chose a spot on the street, and started shooting. “It was quite
challenging to achieve face expressions that were believable,” says
Guillem. “Mainly because we always have a really great work
atmosphere, and almost all the time one of the models was laughing
while we were trying to take the picture.”
41. Rules
● 8 counter clockwise
● +20/-10 on pounce
● +10/0 on bounce
● If no one answers, question passes to the next team.
● Quizmaster’s decisions are binding
42. 9
X Lip Challenge – Based on trying to recreate the puffy lips of television
star X, Internet users show themselves using a small vessel like a
shotglass that covers their lips, drawing all the air out of the vessel, and
then releasing, which temporarily puffs the lips by drawing the user's
blood into them. The activity is considered harmful, both from bruising
and dis-figuration of the lips, and the potential for the vessel to shatter
and cut the person.
48. 11
X is a place where individuals can buy, sell, share, make, and invest in
memes freely. You'll also get updates on the market and be able to
collaborate with other fellow meme traders. A rule from their list :
Please respect the economy. Sharing false market information (such as
sharing fake screenshots) is a crime that is subject to possible punishments
based on the severity of the submission.
51. 12
Along with whether or not Al Gore invented the Internet, figuring out
the correct pronunciation of ________ is one of the earliest questions of
the Internet.
The creator said “But the clearest difference for me is that there are things
pronounced Y and not spelled X already. The peanut butter comes to mind.
Jiffy Lube. Back in a jiffy. If you want to pronounce X like Y, spell it Y”
52.
53.
54. 13
John Wise began his NASCAR career in 2007 and after multiple teams
and fall-outs, he was left with an unsponsored car at the Food City 500.
A crowdfunded campaign saw $55,000 being raised as Wise ran the
“Moonrocket” (his car) at the Aaron’s 499, achieving his second-best
finish at the time. He then won the vote to appear in the 2014 All-Star
Race due to international support and an excited fanbase, running the
“Moonrocket” in the race. Later, John Wise released the official crew
t-shirts for sale to fund his participation in the Geico 500 and sold over
5000 t-shirts. Who/What sponsored the t-shirt and his car?
60. 15 In April 2017, Zara launched a range of denim miniskirts as a part of the
limited “Oil-on-Denim” collection, which was created through
collaborations with artists and was only available in selected markets.
The designer of the skirt is Mario de Santiago. This miniskirt had a
particular graphic printed on it which caused a controversy on the social
media. Many people said that by incorporating a hate symbol of the
alt-right in it’s miniskirt’s design, Zara was promoting anti-Semitic and
white supremacist values. Due to the backlash, Zara eventually had to
withdraw this miniskirt from the consumer market. What was printed
on this miniskirt?
61.
62.
63. 16
The number X was originally Y. It is often believed that it was an
incorrect translation from Japanese that led to this change but if a
redditor ProbablyHittingOnYou is to be believed, that's not a
translation error.
“This change was made due to inconsistancies with the dubbing process,
where Y fit the mouth flaps of the animation better.”
It was done on purpose.
