Quiz featuring Music, Comics & Movies

1. MCM QUIZ
PRELIMS
Conducted by
PRIYANK GAUR

3. 1. Identify this musician
o He was a keyboard player and arranger for bands
such as Roots (with childhood friend and
percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, Suresh Peters,
JoJo and Raja) and founded the Chennai-based rock
group Nemesis Avenue.
o He mastered the keyboard, piano, synthesizer,
harmonium and guitar, and was particularly interested
in the synthesizer because it was the "ideal
combination of music and technology". Who am I
talking about?.

4. Answer

5. 2. Identify the actress
o X was born on 21 November 1938 in Burma to an Anglo-
Indian father and Burmese mother. She has a brother Roger and
a sister Jennifer. Their father died during the Second World
War.
o The family trekked to Mumbai in 1943 in order to escape from
the Japanese occupation of Burma. She got her break in 1958,
aged 19, when she performed the song "Mera Naam Chin
Chin Chu" in Shakti Samanta's film, Howrah Bridge.

6. Answer
o Helen

7. *3. Identify the character
o Akhilendra Mishra played the role of Arjan (the blacksmith)
in the movie Lagaan.
o He also in the film The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) as
Chandra Shekhar Azad alongside Ajay Devgan who
performed the role of Bhagat Singh.
o But his oldest and one of the most famous roles is one of the
main antagonist in a Doordarshan fantasy series of the
1990s.
o Image on the next slide.

9. Answer
• Kroor Singh

10. 4. FITB
o Akira Toriyama actually tried a number of poses when
he was alone in order to decide the coolest pose for the
__________. After much contemplation, he could not
decide on a name for his _____ attack, so he asked his
wife who came up with the name.
o She told Akira that it would be easy to remember the
name of the attack if he uses the name of the cultural
Hawaiian king named ___________ (lit. "the very
lonely one" or "the one set apart" in Hawaiian
language).
o First and the third blank are the same. I need the first
blank.

11. Answer

12. *5. What does this Google Doodle commemorate

13. Answer
o Alam Ara’s 80th
anniversary in 2011.

14. 6. Identify the song and the singer (No part points)
o I went into the Apple shop just before X (song) was being released. The
windows were whited-out, and I thought: "Great opportunity. Baker Street,
millions of buses going around ..." So, before anyone knew what it meant,
I scraped X out of the whitewash.
o A guy who had a delicatessen in Marylebone rang me up, and he was
furious: "I'm going to send one of my sons round to beat you up." I said,
"Hang on, hang on—what's this about?" and he said: "You've written
something in the shop window." I had no idea it meant "Jew". I swear it
never occurred to me. I said: "I'm really sorry," and on and on "some of my
best friends are Jewish, really. It's just a song we've got coming out. If you
listen to the song you'll see it's nothing to do with any of that—it's a
complete coincidence." He was just about pacified in the end.

15. Answer
o Song – Hey Jude
o Singer – Paul McCartney

16. 7. FITB
o When he won the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor, Kevin Spacey famously said
"Well, whoever ____ _____ is, I can tell you
he's gonna get gloriously drunk tonight."

17. Answer
o Keyser Soze

18. 8. Connect

19. Answer
o Dean Jones
o Dean Jones, the cricketer
o Dean Jones, the actor
o Dean MF Jones

20. 9. Next In Line
What comes next in the series:
o The Hunt for Red October(1990)
o Patriot Games(1992)
o Clear And Present Danger(1994)
o The Sum Of All Fears(2002)
o?

21. Answer
• Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit
• Jack Ryan film series based on the fictional
character of Jack Ryan, who originally
appeared in a series of books by Tom Clancy.

22. 10. Simple Enough?
o Marvel - Avengers
o DC - Justice League
o Raj Comics - ______ ______

23. Answer
• Brahmand Rakshak (Protectors of the
Universe)

24. *11.
o What goes into the blanked out area?

25. Answer

26. 12. Give me X
o The movie came in highlights after writer and columnist Chetan Bhagat in
his Times of India column claimed that contemporary movies have better
content than films like X.
o Ravi Balakrishnan of The Economic Times states "The _____ _______-
starrer has gained a surprising amount of cult popularity over the last year
and a half or so, with several adulatory reviews and even fan-sites
cropping up. But when we first saw X, back in 2005, a full seven years
after its unheralded release in 1998, it was the first any of us had heard of
the film or its prolific director.”
o Mayank Shekhar of the Mumbai Mirror says that "Gladwell hasn’t seen X
(probably, neither have you). He must. He’d be glad. In my living memory,
I have yet to notice a more startling revelation of the mysterious ‘tipping
point’ anywhere of my social circle.

27. Answer

28. 13. Give me X
o X was born as Mary Ann Evans on 8 January 1908 in Perth,
Western Australia. She was the daughter of Scotsman Herbertt
Evans and Margret. Due to her father’s untimely death in World
War, the family moved to Peshawar where she learned
horseback riding, hunting, fishing, and shooting. She toured
India as a theatre artist and began working for Zarko Circus in
1930.
o Hunterwali was the first lead role for her. She performed many
stunts in the film which were applauded by the audience. The
film, an expensive venture, was a blockbuster. Because of the
movie's success, she became a cult icon and starred in numerous
stunt films, becoming Indian cinema's "earliest and most
popular stunt actress". X is the screen name that she adopted.

29. Answer
• Fearless Nadia

30. *14.
o “Aman” is a 1967 bollywood movie featuring Rajendra
Kumar and Saira Banu.
o What distinction does this movie hold?.

31. Answer
• Only movie to feature a cameo from
Bertrand Russell.

32. *15.
o Name of this place translates to “South of the River” in the
local language. It is considered as the national capital of
education, which is one of the decisive factors to make it the
most attractive destination in the country.
o Give me the name of the place or why is the place popular ?.

33. Answer
o Gangnam District

34. 16. Name this music group
o Starting in 1964, the band that would become X evolved
through various line-up and name changes including "The
Abdabs", "The Screaming Abdabs", "Sigma 6", and "The
Meggadeaths".
o In 1965, a band member joined them as The Tea Set
(sometimes spelled T-Set). When they found themselves
playing a concert with another band of the same name, the
same member came up with “X Sound" (also known as “X
Blues Band", later “X"). The name X stuck.

35. Answer

36. 17. FITB
o This is the partial filmography of Rodrigo Santoro :
(image on the next slide)
o Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle(2003) Randy Emmers
o Love Actually(2003) Karl
o _____(2007) _____
o Che (2008) Raul Castro
o _____(2014) _____
o (Hint: He plays the same character in both the movies)

38. Answer

39. 18. Give me X and Y
o Geetali X Y Z, widely known as X Y, is an American
singer-songwriter, musician and actress. In 2002, she
launched her solo music career with the release of
Come Away with Me, a commercially successful and
critically acclaimed album that was a fusion of country
music and pop, with elements of jazz. which earned her
5 Grammy awards.
o She made her film debut in 2007 in the romance/drama
film My Blueberry Nights, directed by Wong Kar Wai,
co-starring Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz
and Natalie Portman.

40. Answer
• Norah Jones Shankar

41. 19. Name the movie
Which Steven Speilberg
movie was inspired by the
following book?

42. Answer

43. 20. Identify the male voice

44. Answer

45. *21. Id their creation
o What have these gentlemen created that inspite of being
controversial is greatly loved across the world?

46. Answer
o Cyanide & Happiness

47. 22. Id the singer
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez (born
February 3, 1977), known by his stage
name _____ ______, is a Puerto
Rican reggaeton singer-songwriter,
producer and actor.
Clues on demand

48. Answer
• Daddy Yankee

49. 23. Title of the Story
o The story is about four friends—Mel, Teresa (Terri), Laura,
and Nick. The setting is Mel's house, around a table with a
bucket of ice in the middle. A bottle of gin is inside it. They
soon start to talk about love. Terri has had an abusive
relationship; the abuse, she says, derives from love.
o Ed, Terri's former abusive boyfriend, "loved her so much he
tried to kill her." Ed would beat Terri; he dragged her around
the living room by her ankles knocking her into things along
the way. Terri believed that Ed loved her and his abuse was
his way of showing it. Name the title of the story?

50. Answer

51. 24. Name the Award(s)
o A certain institution presents the following awards:
o The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award,
o The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award,
o The Gordon E. Sawyer Award,
o The Scientific and Technical Award,
o Award for Technical Achievement,
o The John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation and
o The Student Academy Award.
Apart from these awards, it also presents certain other very
famous awards that is missing from this list. Name the other
award(s).

52. Answer

53. *25.
o Identify the third person in this exhaustive list
or the claim to fame.
o Jacques Piccard
o Don Walsh
o ____ ______

54. Answer
o James Cameron
o The only people to reach Mariana Trench
(the deepest point on earth).
o He’s the first one to reach there in a solo
dive.

55. 26. Minimalist Posters (0.5 marks
each)
1.

56. Answer

57. 2.

58. Answer

59. 3.

60. Answer

61. 4.

62. Answer