Challenger Round of Entertainment Quiz held at Bitotsav '15. Conducted by Q-BIT

2. 1.Harry Potter
2. Music
3. Literature
4. Movies
5. Star Wars

3. 1. Harry Potter

4. #1
X is a legendary figure best featured in the tales
of a 5th century leader.
X's traditional biography casts him as a cambion:
born of a mortal woman Adhan, sired by
an incubus, from whom he inherits his
supernatural abilities.
Later authors have X ultimately imprisoned by
the Lady of the Lake.
X is particularly famous in the Harry Potter
universe and is said to have attended Hogwarts
and sorted into Slytherin.

5. MERLIN

6. #2
A particular scene in Shakespeare’s
Macbeth, where the title character meets 3
women in the woods, inspired a pivotal
moment in the Harry Potter Universe.
Which event?

7. TRELAWNEY’S PROPHECY TO DUMBLEDORE

8. 2. Music

9. #1
ID the band:
• The name of this band came from the initials
on a sewing machine.
• The original lead singer had died in 1980
after a night of heavy alcohol consumption.
• In 1989, the US military blared their music at
General Manuel Noriega's compound in
Panama for two continuous days. The dictator
surrendered!

10. AC/DC

11. #2
• X is an English musician, singer, and songwriter,
part of mainstream rock band Y, earlier called ‘On
a Friday’.
• He is also a part of a lesser known group Atoms
for Peace along with RHCP bassist Flea.
• X shares an uneasy relationship with the media,
often termed a ‘sociopath’. He has also faced
psychological burnout and mental breakdown in
the past.
• X is also a political activist on behalf of human
rights and other causes.

12. THOM YORKE - RADIOHEAD

13. 3. Literature

14. #1
This work is divided into 5 parts:
• The 1st part tells of the creation of the "world that is“.
• The 2nd part gives a description of the two supernatural
powers in this world.
• The 3rd part chronicles the history of the events before
and during the First Age, including the wars which gave the
work its title.
• The 4th part relates to the Second Age and the history of
the downfall of a fictional place modelled on the legendary
Atlantis.
• The final part talks of the Third Age and is a brief account
of the circumstances which led to a popular work of fiction.

15. THE SILMARILLION

16. #2
• The image below describes a map of the
world according to which work of fiction?

17. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR – GEORGE ORWELL

18. 4. Movies

19. #1
• The X effect refers to contradictory interpretations of
the same events by different persons, a problem that
arises in the process of uncovering the truth.
• The phrase derives from the movie X, where four
witnesses’ accounts of a rape and murder are all
different.
•The Simpsons, Spongebob, South Park, Arrested
Development, etc. have all used the effect.
• The term was also in the news in relation to MH370.

20. THE RASHOMON EFFECT

21. #2
• ID the film company and its owner(s).

22. CRUEL AND UNUSUAL FILMS INC.
ZACK AND DEBORAH SNYDER

23. 5. Star Wars

24. #1
• The concept behind X was based on the
actions of the Viet Cong guerrillas who
menaced American soldiers during the
Vietnam War.
• X were named after the a Native American
tribe indigenous to the Redwood forest in
which the scenes were filmed.
• In the original films, X is never actually
spoken, but it appears in both the script and
the closing credits.

25. EWOKS

26. #2
• American Graffiti is a 1973 coming-of-age
drama that was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Motion Picture.
• During the sound mixing, the director X
liked the way the Sound Designer asked for
the next dialogue on the second reel so much
that he incorporated it into another of his
movies as Y.
• ID X and Y.

27. X – GEORGE LUCAS; Y – R2D2