The document provides instructions for a quiz with 24 questions over 2 rounds, plus 10 written questions and 6 connection questions. It notes that the "pounce and bounce" rules apply unless stated otherwise, and outlines the scoring system. It emphasizes that important clues will be in italics or bold and the quizmaster's word is final.

1. Researched and Conducted by
Raman Umamaheswaran

2.  24 questions over 2 rounds + 10 written +6 connect.
 Pounce and Bounce apply, unless stated so.
 +10 on direct and passed answer, +10/-10 on pounce.
 Anything in italics or bold is probably an important hint, so
keep that in mind.
 QM’s word is final, so don’t bother arguing.

4.  X is a colloquial expression used, strangely, to refer to alcohol
consumed with the intention of lessening a hangover.
 It is also the name of a song recorded by a biblical-sounding band.
But despite being the name of the song, the phrase itself does not
appear in its lyrics.
 This is because, the original title of the song was supposed to be
something else. But since that title was deemed too vulgar for
airplay, the band decided to employ a very loose pun on it, thus
leading to X.
Which song? And what was the original title?

7.  ____ ___ _______ , inWelsh mythology, is the name of a giant who
is a king of the Britons, whose head is said to be buried where the
Tower of London currently stands.The first part of his name
means ‘Raven’ and he shares it quite fittingly with a character from
Game ofThrones. His last name is an honorific.
 _____ _______ is a veteran British character actor of the stage and
screen.Notable roles include King Richard IV in a comedy that
transcends generations, several Shakespearean characters and a
sonorous leader in the StarWars films who hates people that
“think dey brains so big”.
 Although entirely unrelated,the first names of both these people
are uncannily similar and the last name is exactly same
 FITB for both.

11.  Which literary work of magical realism, which is basically just
the description of the person being considered here, is
referenced in this video?

14.  There is a theory as to how this character looks the way she does.
 The art director of the game, Jeremy Bennett, envisioned the
character design to be “a huge mechanical device with a delicate
robotic figure dangling out of it”, an upside-down version of
Botticelli’sVenus.
 But the final product, however does not look like that at all,
prompting gamers to note that she looks bound and gagged, and
all she wants to be is free, which is what happens when you finally
kill her at the end of the game.
 Who am I talking about?

17.  Prof.Marcel Danesi remarks that the Rogers-Arlen ____was
"really not a romantic ____, reverberating more with the
desperate love between two dear friends who are about to
be separated by death", but speculates that the "lingering"
aspect of the ____ may have "unconsciously started the
process of opening up America's rigid moral attitudes at the
time.”
 This was in reference to a groundbreaking scene in a film
which is now mainly remembered for being the first film in a
certain list.
 Which film, and what is so groundbreaking about this scene?

20.  BothWilliam Boroughs and Hans Neuberger analyze the same
trend.
 They claim that before 1550, such a trend was almost completely
absent in art.They examined over 12,000 paintings for cloudiness
and darkness, and came to the conclusion that this trend peaked
during 1550-1665, with several landscape paintings by a father-son
pair being prime examples.
 This is now seen as a corroborative evidence for a phenomenon
which happened roughly during that time, which may be seen as a
smaller variant of something that ended around 20,000 years ago.
 What trend was studied?
 Who were the father-son pair?
 What is the phenomenon?

23.  The explanation for this character’s iconic look can be traced
back to the creator’s earlier comic strip “Life in Hell”, about
two anthropomorphic rabbits and a gay couple.
 Initially, he wanted to make a grand reveal at the end of the
TV series that this character was a rabbit all along and hence
the abnormal follicular arrangement. But as the series
progressed, this plot point was abandoned though the
character design remained same.
 Which character and what was this unique feature?

26.  An inadvertent (or perhaps purposeful) stereotype was created
by the producers ofThe Justice League, when it came to
voicing two groups of characters on the show.
 This stereotype seems to have been, more or less, either
consciously or unconsciously carried forward by DC for its
live action shows like Arrow, Legends ofTomorrow, Flash, and
Supergirl.
 What did the producers of JL do?

29.  A sadly poetic affair, was the death of X. On 8th July, 1822, X
went off on a boating trip before a sudden storm caused the
boat to capsize and drown him.
 The boat itself was named after a legendary womanizer, in a
nod toY, who was another leader of the Pisan poetic circle.
 When X’s body washed ashore, one of the corroborative
identifications was his copy of Lamia, a small book of poems
by Z, of whom X was a great fan of. Z himself had died only a
year before.
 ID X,Y and Z.

32.  X’s work often made references to imagery from classic art.This
is highly evident in the photo (image follows) of his close friend
and frequent subject for his work, who herself is a singer-
songwriter.
 What/Whose imagery has he invoked in the image?
 Also ID X, whose subject ranged fromAndyWarhol to Richard
Gere, and who courted controversy in his works due to
depictions of homoeroticism and the underground BDSM
subculture.

36.  The song is inspired by a narrative poem published in 1854.
 Both subject matters involve the Battle of Balaclava (1854),
fought between the British and Russians, during the Crimean
war. In particular, it references a notoriously failed military
tactic used by the British, in which a division of the light
cavalry, called the _____ _______ was totally massacred.
 Which poem?
 What song?

39.  Ark Nova, is a project that Indian-born sculptor and architect
_____ ______ completed in 2013 in collaboration with
Japanese artists in response to the 2011 natural disaster.
About the project, he says:
 “Ark Nova obviously can't carry people and animals to escape
from disaster, but we conceived the ark to travel packed with
music and various arts, from the perspective of long-term
rebuilding of culture and spirit”.
 FITB and what exactly is Ark Nova?

43.  Written round
 6 questions whose answers have a common theme/connect.
 Inexhaustive theme/connect.
 Each q carries +10 and answer will be revealed at the end only.
 Can go for the connect anytime, multiple times, but negs
apply.

44.  In April 2014, the company X rolled out a promotion called
“Smash the Past”, in which 100 chosen winners could
purchase their productY for $1, if they recorded a video of
themselves breaking their old phones.
 This was widely criticized,as many people misinterpreted the
promotion and started posting videos of themselves
breaking their phones onYouTube. X later gave the winners
the option to donate their old phones.
 Just ID the productY

45.  ____ ____ is an anonymous Elizabethan play entered into the
Stationer’s Register in 1594, and released in 1605. It tells the
tale of a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted/created
by Geoffrey of Monmouth.The name of the king is linked by
Geoffrey to the OldWelsh name for Leicester, Caerlyr.
 The play is a comedy and has attracted attention mainly for
its similarity with another play, which also dealt with the
same legend, but as a tragedy.
 ID the tragic play, whose name is exactly the same as the
comedy, except for one letter.

46.  Though he claimed to be direct descendant of a famed figure in
English literature, this American Football player flunked his
sophomore English class. In 1934, papers published the photo of
him staring at a football in the manner of ______ examining
______’s skull with the caption “Football Player or EnglishWizard
Is Perplexing Question Facing X of Notre Dame.”
 He is best remembered however, for his role in the 1935 Notre
Dame vs Ohio State match in which he made a last-minute play,
which prompted their coach to call it something.This expression
later became associated entirely with that type of play.
 ID X and the name given to the type of play.

47.  Songlines is a video album released by the German band who were
quite big in Japan, as an accompaniment to their 1989 album, The
Breathtaking Blue.
 As an alternative to individual music videos, the band enlisted nine
acclaimed directors from different countries to direct short films
based on the album’s tracks.
 The American representative,was an experimental documentary
director, known for his critically acclaimed trilogy of films whose
titles are taken from the Hopi Language for the word “life.
 ID the band and the director.

48.  __________ is a 1998 album which gained the artist his initial
fame.
 The title track, whose name is the same as that of the album,
is steady stream of a song that goes on without a break in
verse or stanzas; hence the name of the song.The part of the
song which is actually ‘__________’ is about 2 and a half
minutes.
 FITB and name the artist.

49.  The image(next slide) shows a character that appeared in
Cowboy Bebop “session” 20, named X.
 The origin of the name X is probably derived from the name
of a stock character of the 17th century Commedia Dell’Arte
who is depicted as a fool, the butt of many pranks yet ever
trusting. In later criticisms he was seen as an allegory for the
post-revolutionary people, struggling against the
bourgeoisie.
 ID X

51.  Exchange Sheets

52.  Answers

53.  In April 2014, the company X rolled out a promotion called
“Smash the Past”, in which 100 chosen winners could
purchase their productY for $1, if they recorded a video of
themselves breaking their old phones.
 This was widely criticized,as many people misinterpreted the
promotion and started posting videos of themselves
breaking their phones onYouTube. X later gave the winners
the option to donate their old phones.
 Just ID the productY,

55.  ____ ____ is an anonymous Elizabethan play entered into the
Stationer’s Register in 1594, and released in 1605. It tells the
tale of a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted/created
by Geoffrey of Monmouth.The name of the king is linked by
Geoffrey to the OldWelsh name for Leicester, Caerlyr.
 The play is a comedy and has attracted attention mainly for
its similarity with another play, which also dealt with the
same legend, but as a tragedy.
 ID the tragic play, whose name is exactly the same as the
comedy, except for one letter.

57.  Though he claimed to be direct descendant of a famed figure in
English literature, this American Football player flunked his
sophomore English class. In 1934, papers published the photo of
him staring at a football in the manner of ______ examining
______’s skull with the caption “Football Player or EnglishWizard
Is Perplexing Question Facing X of Notre Dame.”
 He is best remembered however, for his role in the 1935 Notre
Dame vs Ohio State match in which he made a last-minute
play,which prompted their coach to call it something.This
expression later became associated entirely with that type of play.
 ID X and the name given to the type of play.

59.  Songlines is a video album released by the German band
__________ as an accompaniment to their 1989 album, The
Breathtaking Blue.
 As an alternative to individual music videos, the band enlisted nine
acclaimed directors from different countries to direct short films
based on the album’s tracks.
 The American representative,was an experimental documentary
director, known for his critically acclaimed trilogy of films whose
titles are taken from the Hopi Language for the word “life” and
whose soundtracks were composed by his friend, Phillip Glass.
 FITB and ID the director.

61.  __________ is a 1998 album which gained the artist his initial
fame.
 The title track, whose name is the same as that of the album,
is steady stream of a song that goes on without a break in
verse or stanzas; hence the name of the song.The part of the
song which is actually ‘__________’ is about 2 and a half
minutes.
 FITB and name the artist.

63.  The image(next slide) shows a character that appeared in
Cowboy Bebop “session” 20, both of which are named X.
 The origin of the name X is probably derived from the name
of a stock character of the 17th century Commedia Dell’Arte
who is depicted as a fool, the butt of many pranks yet ever
trusting. In later criticisms he was seen as an allegory for the
post-revolutionary people, struggling against the
bourgeoisie.
 ID X

67.  Written round
 Famous literary scenes done in LEGO
 Write the name of the specific work and NOT a body of work.
 Eg: If answer is LOTR: ROTK, write that and NOT just LOTR.
 +10 for each correct
 extra +10 for 6-7 answers correct
+20 for 8 answers correct
+25 for 9 answers correct
+30 for all answers correct.
No negs, knock yourselves out!

78.  Exchange Sheets

79. 1. A Storm of Swords
2. Moby Dick
3. Macbeth
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. Dracula
6. Le Morte d’Arthur
7. 50 Shades of Gray
8. Infinite Jest
9. Jack and the Beanstalk
10. A Scandal in Bohemia

81.  Julie De Courcy ignores the old woman in the spirit of
freedom.
 Karol Karol looks on with a smile at the old man in the spirit
of equality
 Valentine Dusseau helps the old woman in the spirit of
fraternity.
Give the theme/motif being described here and where you
would find this motif?

83.  It is entirely possible, according to several authors including Brian
Levisson, that this character’s name had its origins in sport.
 The story goes that in 1932, ______ _______ , arguably the
greatest player of the game, and his team were on tour in North
America, for 51 matches. After destroying teams likeVancouver,
Toronto and the like, they played against NewYork who managed
to send him off the field for a ____.
 This enchanted a prominent Hollywood producer (and possible
member of the then-newly formed HCC) of the time that he
decided to name a character after the incident.
 What character?

86.  Bernard Lee
 Robert Brown
 Judi Dench
 Ralph Fiennes
 Connect the above list with the below and tell me in what way they
are different:
 James Moriarty
 Mycroft Holmes
 Harry Lime
 Emma Peel/Knight

89.  Possible Bubbles ofSpacetime Curvature in the South Pacific is
a paper published by theoretical physicist BenjaminTippet
which attempts to analyze the weird geometry of the
“nightmare corpse city” ___X___.
 In it he comes to the conclusion that his “spacetime bubble
hypothesis” can explain the oddities in the percieval of time
in the city and perhaps that is why ___Y___, whose cultists
describe him as dead and dreaming, neither alive nor truly
dead, is simply “in a position where he does not feel the
passage of time.” Here, he could wait, unchanging, for aeons.
 FITB for both blanks.

92.  One of the pioneers of parallel cinema and considered one of
the greatest filmmakers in India, _ ________ has also
contributed in another way to a few films, most notably
Piravi, Shaji.N.Karun’s internationally acclaimed film.
 He did the same thing in his own film Esthappan, putting him
in the same company as Satyajit Ray, Salil Chowdhury and
Bhupen Hazarika, who did the same thing for most of their
movies, as well as Goutam Ghose, Soumik Sen and Muzaffar
Ali, who occasionally dabbled in it.
 What?
 FITB.

95.  In a blog post, writer and artist Hajime Isayama stated that
the inspiration for the particularly shielded _____ form of the
character, Reiner Braun, was inspired by the physique of
someone who is the only one till date to consecutively
become king of the ring before rumbling royally.
 What is the name of the form?
 Whose physique?

98.  A __X__ is a small line attached to a stroke or a symbol.The
origin of the term is obscure.They originated in the latin
alphabet with inscriptional lettering, and one theory
suggests that they were devised to neaten the ends of the
words as they were chiseled into stone. It has no relation
with a similar word, which was used to describe peasants
under a certain manor.
 A typeface without them is called __Y__-__X__ or just simply
shortened to __Y__ , most of which have become rather
more ubiquitous and some would argue, annoying nowadays.
 FITB.

101.  The eight immortals have been a central theme of Chinese Literature since
the pre-Christian era and have been the source of many adaptations in
literature, film, art and music. One adaptation, involving a reluctant
archaeologist relates to them in the following way:
Po Kong -- Drum of Zhang Guolao
Tchang Zu -- Castanets of Cao Guojiu
HsiWu -- Flute of Han Ziangji
Tso Lan -- Lotus blossom of He Xiangu
Dai Gui -- Flower of Lan Caihe
BaiTza -- Gourd of LiTieguai
Xiao Fung -- Fan of Zhongli Quan
Shen Du -- Sword of Lu Dongbin
Which adaptation, and who are the names listed on the left?

104.  WhenVladimir Nabokov wanted to publish his
autobiographical memoir in 1956, he was initially dissuaded
by his publisher and consequently had to publish it after
retitling it.
 What simple reason, involving the name of a Greek Goddess
who lends her name to an information retention technique, did
the publisher give to Nabokov for changing the title?

107.  An Urban dictionary definition + example:
 Based on the central character in the ______ song of the same
name, a “____" is an overzealous maniacal fan for any
celebrity or athlete
 You could call somebody a “____" if you think they are
obsessive of someone or something. One good example would
be in the song Ether by Nas.
 You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a ____ - Nas
 FITB

110.  X refers to a form of artistic decoration consisting of surface
decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns. It usually
consists of a single design which can be 'tiled' or seamlessly
repeated as many times as desired. Used to refer mainly to
Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European
decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.
 Y was derived from the Italian word for cave.The original
meaning was restricted to an extravagant style ofAncient
Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome
at the end of the 15th century. Now it has come to be used as
a general adjective for the ugly, strange or unpleasant.

113.  Feedback @ raman_u@ymail.com
 Thank you!

114.  “Forget books. ________ has already delivered the definitive ‘Great
American Novel’.” , says author JamesGapinski. His observations to back it
up include:
1. That the protagonist is obsessed with gold, thus satirizing the American
obsession with wealth.
2. That it addresses the complexity, rivalry, and existential crises of modern
inter-sibling relationships.The siblings still unconsciously mimic each other
despite the self-imposed separation
3. That it highlights the growing need for ‘green’ dialogue in America
4. That it explores the oppression of women in America.
5. That it probes the modernAmerican identity crises where the protagonist
isn’t sure how to live his own life.
 What, according to Gapinski, is the Great American Novel?