Excelsior - Stan Lee tribute Comics quiz CPQ Kids Series S1E5 at November 2018 edition of Chai Pe Quiz - The Cochin Quiz Club By Aravind Anil, Denita Tresa Mendez & Muhasin Wahab Date: 24 Nobember October 2018 Venue: H & C Reader Forum Hall, Durbar Hall Road, EKM South

2. LEADERBOARD
AFTER S1E4

3. THE DEAL
• Written Quiz  3 Rounds
I. Single Pointers (Q 1 – 5)
II. Stake Round (Q 6-11)
III. Double Pointers (Q 12-16)
• 16 Questions  240 Points

4. ROUND 1
• 5 Questions
• +10 per question
• No Negatives

5. 1
• In easily the most self-aware movie of 2018, released in latter
half of July, there was an exaggeration of an out-of-place Easter
Egg.While the Easter Egg itself is quite commonplace in most
of the movies of this genre, this time, it was almost as if the
Easter Egg wandered into the wrong universe.
• What odd occurrence?

7. STAN LEE CAMEO IN
‘TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES’

8. 2
• Over the forty-or-so years of his existence, this simpleton, with his pinocchio-like
nose and hair that resembles the Adidas stripes is so associated with ridiculousness
that his name is nowadays synonymous with ‘stupid’ in many parts of the country.
Some of his rather infamous ‘achievements’ include:
 Using a pen to fight a burglar, upon listening to his master quoting ‘A pen is mightier
than a sword’;
 Boiling his old clothes which he had outgrown, when his master told that ‘solids
expand on heating’;
 Sucking out oil from hot samosas using an ink filler;
 Serving hot Lassi when his master ordered that all food should be fresh and hot; and
so on.
• Who?

10. SUPPANDI

11. 3
• Thanks to its visual resemblance, what is common name of
the name of the flower, which is scientifically named as
Aristolochia Salvadorenisis?

12. IMAGE SLIDE

14. DARTH VADER FLOWER

15. 4
• This well-built security guard seen talking to Stan Lee is a
retired American professional bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno.
• As a bodybuilder, he won an IFBB Mr. America title and two
consecutive Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in
the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron.
• However, what ‘incredible first’ pertaining to the world of
comics in the late 1970s was his biggest claim to fame?

16. IMAGE SLIDE

18. FIRST LIVE-ACTION HULK

19. 5
• This tune is of a show that turned out to be a far more
successful and wide reaching than its movie with *lip-
sealingly* bad CGI.
• ID?

20. JUSTICE LEAGUE ANIMATED SERIES

21. ROUND 2
• 6 Questions
• +10 per question
• Stake POSSIBLE for all questions
• Stake value: +5/ -5
• Total points at stake  60 + 30 = 90

22. 6
 Every superhero worth something
has to die and return from the dead
at some point. In 1997, it was Wonder
Woman’s turn and DC did a storyline
in which she falls into a mystical
coma, dies and eventually ascends to
become a goddess on Olympus.
• The cover of Wonder Woman #126
was a fake newspaper headline
announcing the imminent death of
the protagonist (she actually would
die in the next issue).
• Coincidentally, what real life
incident happened just 3 days later?

24. DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA SPENCER
WONDER WOMAN’S OFFICIAL NAME IS
PRINCESS DIANA OF THEMYSCIRA

25. 7
• Which iconic scene from a 1980s movie are The Simpsons
parodying?

26. VIDEO SLIDE

28. ANSWER VIDEO

29. THE GOLDEN IDOL-SNATCHING SCENE
FROM FIRST INDIANA JONES MOVIE
(RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK)
Homer Simpson plays the part of the boulder.

30. 8
• He lost his parents at the age of 9, after which he was brought up
by his paternal uncle. At the start of the series, he is shown to be a
tall (6’2”), healthy, well-built youth of 27 trained in the martial arts.
He posseses a colt .32 revolver and is shown to have visited 221B
Baker Street once. He enjoys smoking Charminar Cigarettes and is
addicted to chewing betel leaves. Just like his cousin who admires
him, he is an avid reader and is a Tintin and Bruce Lee Fan.
• Who?

32. DETECTIVE FELUDA

33. 9
• What scene from the early 1990s is the reference being made
by Iron Giant’s Death?

34. VIDEO SLIDE

36. TERMINATOR II: JUDGEMENT DAY
ARNOLD’S DEATH SCENE

37. 10
• ID the person who Superman saves from Martians, thereby
also preventing them from invading the Earth.
• When this Gentleman broadcasted his predicament using a
radio, nobody believed it to be true because of a “Boy who
cried Wolf” scenario.

38. IMAGE SLIDE

40. ORSON WELLES
People believed that he was retelling WOTW again, therefore,
no one believed him 

41. 11
• In Marvel’s Captain America:TheWinter Soldier, Nick Fury fakes his death in order
to deceive Hydra.Towards the end of the film, we see Captain America and Falcon
stand at the foot of Fury’s fake grave, and observe the front of the tombstone,
including the epitaph.
• About the epitaph, directors Anthony and Joe Russo stated that they couldn’t initially
settle on anything but went on to put this stating,“We’re geeks and we love that kind
of stuff.We’re always trying to put it in the movies and our TV shows. So it’s better to
put something in there that is a wink and a smile and excites people than just
something bland, you know?”
• Which cult movie dialogue (not from the Marvel Cinematic Universe) was
referenced in Nick Fury’s epitaph?

42. IMAGE SLIDE

44. ANSWER VIDEO

45. PULP FICTION
(THE PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN: EZEKIEL 25:17)

46. ROUND 3
• DOUBLE POINTERS  5 Questions
• +20 per question
• No Negatives

47. 12
• This character was introduced as a one-time idea. However, he
became so popular that the creators decided to keep him for
good.They also decided to hold a competition to decide a name
for him, in which a name ‘_ _ _ _ _ _’ meaning ‘Fixed Idea’ was
selected.
• What was he named as? OR How do we know him, the first
‘Ecologist of his kind’, better?
• Where would one find him?

49. IDÉFIX / DOGMATIX
DOG OF OBELIX
IN ASTERIX & OBELIX COMICS

50. 13
• ID the two actors referenced?

53. TOBEY MAGUIRE (SEABISCUIT)
ANDREW GARFIELD (THE SOCIAL NETWORK)

54. 14
During 1929-1933, while America had the Great Depression as a pain in
the neck, the government wanted to substitute meat with another
Iron-rich food item, to promote which they used an unconventional
medium. Moreover, the government also wanted the people to know
that canning foods is the best way to store rations.
Soon the campaign became (and is still) a big hit (not only in the US but
all over the world) and sales for the food item skyrocketed to 133%.
Q1. What was the substitute food?
Q2. What was the method of advertising?

56. POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN
SPINACH

57. 15
This tune became highly popular during wartime Britain due to a certain motivation policy
used by Churchill.When calls were transferred using the trunk call service during this
period in England, this tune was played since the opening four notes , the short-short-short-
long rhythmic pattern (which some critics have said sounds like “fate knocking at the door”)
actually spelled out something integral in morse code, integral to Churchill’s policy.
The motif, which was an acknowledged symbol of the war effort, was also adopted as the
American symbol after the war, along with the bald eagle.The French also adopted it as an
icon of solidarity and resistance,and was translated as ‘La chanson desV’
• Which tune?
• What motif did the Morse code correspond to?
• Where in the world of cartoons would you see this piece being played by a person
employed as a guard at the National Gallery?

59. TUNE  BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO.5
MOTIF  V FOR VICTORY
SERIES  MR. BEAN ANIMATED SERIES

60. 16
• In one of the older movies by this actor, he, while taking a glance at the stalls
during a temple festival, stop at the book stall and spots a childhood favorite
comic book, which later inspired him to name his first foray into production
after it.
• Upon the success of the movie, a new avatar of this comic strip, titled ‘X
Tamasha Kadhakal’ was introduced by Toms (Bobanum Moliyum fame) in the
82nd issue of his popular ‘Toms Chitrakatha’.
• In one of the song sequences in the movie, the actor is seen dressing up as a
superhero to counter another character who donned as a superhero from
another universe, and attempts to do his characteristic step, but commits a
series of terrible bloopers.
• Which movie?
• ID the gentleman?

61. IMAGE SLIDE

63. ANSWER VIDEO

64. CID MOOSA
DILEEP

65. RESULTS
FIRST
Yeldho Shem Mathew (Gregorian PS, Maradu) – 150 pts
SECOND
shared with 130 pts by Jeevan Joseph (Bhavans AdarshaVidyalaya,Kakkanad)
& Anand Rajagopal (BhavansVidya Mandir, Elamakkara)
THIRD
Nandana Sony (BhavansVidya Mandir,, Elamakkara) – 115 pts