The document is a quiz with 35 multiple choice questions covering topics like food, fashion, literature, mythology, arts, music, business, and more. It begins with an introduction to the quiz and some preliminary information. The questions are presented one by one along with possible answer choices and context/clues. Videos and images are included with some of the questions.

1. FLAMBÉ Open
Quizotic, 2015
By
Aryapriya Ganguly

3. Food
Fashion
Literature
Mythology
Arts (Architecture, Painting, Sculpture,
Comics/Cartoons, Photography,
Performance Art)
Hollywood
Music
Business
Video Games, TV Shows et al

4. Contributors towards this effort

5. Cavia porcellus, aka Guinea Pig, for the
quiz

6. Prelims.
• 35 questions and 40 points at stake.
• Multiples of 5 are * marked and will be
employed if need be
• No e-devices

7. 1
• It’s a genus of small sea
snails, marine gastropod molluscs. These
are known in Britain as "cowries".
• The shell of these species does superficially
resemble the shell of a very small cowry,
but they are not closely related to true
cowries.
• What is their family name, of immense
significance (how ironic!) for this august gathering?

8. 2.
• Salvation Army South Africa last week tweeted a picture
of a cut and bruised model wearing something
accompanied by the question: "Why is it so hard to see
_____and ____?"
• This laudable and rather appropriate usage of something,
which otherwise can be attributed to a mass hysteria
stemming from some quack science, also includes the
caption: "The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One
in 6 women are victims of abuse. Stop abuse against women.”
• What does the cut and bruised model wear in this
campaign?

9. 3.
• Who are making a rare cameo appearance as the
street scum in this sequence from Scorsese’s
The King of Comedy?

10. Insert video

11. 4.
• What aleatoric
rhyme is the
source of the title
of this 1945 novel?

12. 5.*
• A ___1____ is an experience that sparks a traumatic memory in
someone who has experienced trauma. It is thus a troubling
reminder of a traumatic event, although the ___1____ itself
need not be frightening or traumatic.
• The term is related to posttraumatic stress disorder. In some
publications a " ___1____ ___2____" may appear at the
beginning of certain articles. These are to warn that the articles
contain disturbing themes and are a means of protecting the
mental health of their readers or simply common courtesy.
• An upcoming “Short fictions and disturbances” compilation
wherein the old gods clash with the new in modern America is
titled ___1____ ___2____. What?

13. 6. What are these brands in Pakistan named after, obviously oblivious to
how they’d be at the forefront of the copy-left movement? A "daylong
brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting
company Odeo may help you crack the original brand.

14. 7. 2 points
• “Title background was made with the kind permission
of”?
• Which movie?

15. Insert video

16. 8.
• Titled Workout, this was
the biggest home-video
seller from 1983-1985.
First released in April of
1982, the trend continued
in 1986 and in 1987.
• Simply tell who this
starred.

17. 9.
• Urban dictionary defines this word as ‘someone who is about
to get owned.’ The connotation of this otherwise harmless
Italian borrowing is explained thus:
• Originating in professional wrestling, ‘carpenter’ was the
phrase used by earlier generations according to "The
Professional Wrestlers' Instructional and Workout Guide," 2005,
but the new word was popularized among the people by
its usage by a gentleman who explained what he means
when he uses it: “_______ was a term I started using to
describe a phony, goof, punk or a ham & egger.” What word?

18. 10. * Connect with a person or a tract.

19. 11.
• Aaj ki raat bahut _____ ____ chalti hai,
Aaj ki raat na neend aayegi
Hum sub uthen, main bhi uthun, tum bhi utho
Koi khidki isi deewar mein khul jayegi
- from the poem Makaan by Kaifi Azmi
• The title of which acclaimed (and controversial)
1974 work comes from the blanks above?

20. 12.
• The latest victim of a particular government’s
effort to promote the national language has led
to something being changed to the local term
for ‘sharp word’.
• Which country and what term has been
replaced?

21. 13.
• The phases in the history of which music group
can be divided as follows?
• Celebrity Take Down (1999-2003)
• Slowboat to Hades (2004-2007)
• Escape to Plastic Beach (2008-2012)

22. 14. What is the source of the title?
• Inert Apres Moi (le deluge)

24. 15.* Explain how the movie on the left
resulted in the one on your right.

25. 16.
• On 11 July 1985, ABC news reporter Peter Jennings
interrupted General Hospital for a special news bulletin,
to announce a major change after 79 days of uncertainty.
Virtually every major newspaper in the United States
carried the announcement on their front page, and on the
floor of the US Senate, David Pryor observed the event
as "a meaningful moment in US history."
• The company in the news was quick to claim credit as
part of the "fabric of America," stating that their
product's value was as immeasurable as "love, pride, or
patriotism."
What happened?

26. 17.
• Who is the author?
Sequel to which book?

27. 18. Who, later more famous for business cycles of
a macroeconomic kind, here lists his less dignified
personal business cycles as a clerk in the India
Office?
• In his own words, here is what he did during his
tenure:
"Dispatch of Ayrshire bulls, 18 October 1906; Position of
the jute trade, 19 March 1907; proposed grant of a
monopoly of bonded warehouses in Cyprus, 24 May 1907;
Prevention of liquor smuggling from Portuguese possessions
of
Daman and Nagar Avely into the adjoining British
possessions, 14 June 1907; ‘low fixed licence fee’ system in
certain districts of the Punjab, 21
December 1907."

28. 19. Who is speaking? Insert Audio.

30. 20.*
• Today that number has swollen to somewhere
between 43 and 47, based on differing accounts.
• These are the original 7:
• Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, Rincon Hill,
____ _____, Mount Sutro and Mount Davidson.
• What are these?
• Also, FITB.

31. 21. This is an ad for which company? Which
cult 1980 sporting film is paid more than just
a nod in this ad?
• Insert video

33. 22.
• In a street winding away from the main street up into the hillside, set in its
own small park, was the Château de Léry, and up the sloping hillside in the
other direction was the medieval church.
• Whose house was set in the hillside above the main street, painted here by
two post-impressionists? Who are these two post-impressionists?

34. 23. Which sequence/ film are both these
sequences referencing? Insert videos.

37. 24.
• This actress appeared in 3
music videos by the same
band in the early 1990s.
She became a household
name and became
associated with the band
to such an extent that she
came to be known as “the
_________ girl”.
• Fill the blank.
• Name her.

38. 25.* 3 Points.
• In Victorian England and colonial India, a restaurant
code developed that assigned new meanings to traditional
titles for Indian dishes. Each of these three dishes was
borrowed from a different cuisine, but by the time of this
classification, was appropriated enough by Indian cuisine
to be labelled an ‘Indian dish’.
• __1___came to signify a mild creamy dish, ___2____ meant
a slightly sweet lentil curry, and ____3____simply indicated
that the food would be very hot.
• What were these codes?

39. 26. What led to a fashion for boys’ velvet
knee-breeches, the kinds you see here
sometime in the mid 1880s?

40. 27. A still from the 2013 film All Is By
My Side. Who is playing whom?

41. 28.
• It is a pancake.
• It is a woven fabric.
• It is a paper.
• It is also a kind of rubber, used to make soles
for shoes and other rubber products.

42. 29. Insert video
• It imagines the final months of his life, including mythical
imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol.
• It is an adaptation of the Peter Stephan Jungk novel, Der König
von Amerika, describing the darker side – more or less proven,
or perhaps purely imaginary – of a real-life personality. For
Glass, his opera "is not a documentary or portrait" but a
"journey poetic and tragic" through the last months of the life
of an artist who "faced the same doubts that beset us all". He,
therefore, conceived this as a kind of poem on the
quintessentially American and a reflection on death.
• Take a look at the video and tell me who is The Perfect American
in this opera of the same name by Philip Glass?

43. Insert video

44. 30.*
• It is a movement by iCONGO (International Confederation of NGOs)
and Olive Bar & Kitchen to involve individuals who have superior
spending power, in creating social change - simply through eating out!
• Through the campaign, it saves the lives of severely malnourished children
while helping vulnerable communities become self-sufficient.
• What movement?

45. 31.
• This happens when a river is
carrying vast amounts of
eroded sediment.
• Sediment is deposited as
islands in the channel
causing the river to split up
into many winding channels.
• What fashionable term is
used to refer to this
geological formation?

46. 32.
• Renowned for being smooth and full flavored,
what gets its name from what you see?

47. 33.
• In stage lighting, it is a gradual increase or decrease
of the intensity of light projected onto the stage.
The former is gradually changing the lighting level
from complete darkness to a
predetermined lighting level.
• The latter refers to gradually decreasing the
intensity of light until none is shining on the stage.
• What lighting technique, the latter sharing its name
with a well-known power ballad?

48. 34.
• It is a brimless Scottish
cap with a crease running
down the crown, often
with ribbons at the back.
Named after the title of
the clan chief Alexander
Ranaldson MacDonell of
_________ (1771–1828),
who invented it, what is it
called, that could make
real estate dealers swear a
lot, like A LOT?

49. 35.* 3 Points. Insert I fink u freeky.
• Die Antwoord are a South African rap-rave group
formed in Cape Town in 2008. Their public image
is inspired by Zef motifs, a counter-culture
Afrikaans movement.
• What does their name mean, apt, considering THIS
IS QUIZ?
• Which artist’s work forms the basis of the imagery
of this video and several of their music videos?
• In which upcoming Neill Blomkamp movie, based
on his 2004 short film Tetra Vaal, are they part of
the cast?

52. 1
• It’s a genus of small sea
snails, marine gastropod molluscs. These
are known in Britain as "cowries".
• The shell of these species does superficially
resemble the shell of a very small cowry,
but they are not closely related to true
cowries.
• What is their family name, of immense
significance (how ironic!) for this august
gathering?

54. Trivia

55. 2.
• Salvation Army South Africa last week tweeted a picture
of a cut and bruised model wearing something
accompanied by the question: "Why is it so hard to see
_____and ____?"
• This laudable and rather appropriate usage of something,
which otherwise can be attributed to a mass hysteria
stemming from some quack science, also includes the
caption: "The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One
in 6 women are victims of abuse. Stop abuse against women.”
• What does the cut and bruised model wear in this
campaign?

57. THAT dress has lent itself to this campaign against domestic abuse.

58. 3.
• Who are making a rare cameo appearance as the
street scum in this sequence from Scorsese’s
The King of Comedy?

60. The Clash

61. 4.
• What aleatoric
rhyme is the
source of the title
of this 1945 novel?

63. eeny, meeny, miny, moe

64. 5.*
• A ___1____ is an experience that sparks a traumatic memory in
someone who has experienced trauma. It is thus a troubling
reminder of a traumatic event, although the ___1____ itself
need not be frightening or traumatic.
• The term is related to posttraumatic stress disorder. In some
publications a " ___1____ ___2____" may appear at the
beginning of certain articles. These are to warn that the articles
contain disturbing themes and are a means of protecting the
mental health of their readers or simply common courtesy.
• An upcoming “Short fictions and disturbances” compilation
wherein the old gods clash with the new in modern America is
titled ___1____ ___2____. What?

67. 6. What are these brands in Pakistan named after, obviously oblivious to
how they’d be at the forefront of the copy-left movement? A "daylong
brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting
company Odeo may help you crack the original brand.

69. Twitter

70. 7.
• “Title background was made with the kind permission
of”?
• Which movie?

72. Francis Bacon; Last Tango in Paris

73. 8.
• Titled Workout, this was
the biggest home-video
seller from 1983-1985.
First released in April of
1982, the trend continued
in 1986 and in 1987.
• Simply tell who this
starred.

75. Jane Fonda's exercise video titled
Workout (aka Jane Fonda's Workout)

76. 9.
• Urban dictionary defines this word as ‘someone who is about
to get owned.’ The connotation of this otherwise harmless
Italian borrowing is explained thus:
• Originating in professional wrestling, ‘carpenter’ was the
phrase used by earlier generations according to "The
Professional Wrestlers' Instructional and Workout Guide," 2005,
but the new word was popularized among the people by
its usage by a gentleman who explained what he means
when he uses it: “_______ was a term I started using to
describe a phony, goof, punk or a ham & egger.” What word?

78. Jabroni/ Jabronie, as popularised by this
man. #NoCandyAssJabronis.

79. 10. * Connect with a person or a tract.

81. John Reed's book on the October
Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World
• Reds is a celebratory
dramatization of the
1917 October Revolution,
which formed the basis of
John Reed’s life and work.
• The title of October: 10
Days That Shook the World
by Eisenstein is taken
from John Reed's book on
the Revolution, Ten Days
That Shook The World

82. 11.
• Aaj ki raat bahut _____ ____ chalti hai,
Aaj ki raat na neend aayegi
Hum sub uthen, main bhi uthun, tum bhi utho
Koi khidki isi deewar mein khul jayegi
- from the poem Makaan by Kaifi Azmi
The title of which acclaimed (and controversial)
1974 work comes from the blanks above?

84. Garam Hawa

85. 12.
• The latest victim of a particular government’s
effort to promote the national language has led
to something being changed to the local term
for ‘sharp word’.
• Which country and what term has been
replaced?

87. France; Hashtag to Mot Diese

88. 13.
• The phases in the history of which music group
can be divided as follows?
• Celebrity Take Down (1999-2003)
• Slowboat to Hades (2004-2007)
• Escape to Plastic Beach (2008-2012)

90. Gorillaz

91. 14. What is the source of the title?
• Inert Apres Moi (le deluge)

93. • "After me, the deluge", a
remark attributed to Louis
XV of France in reference
to the impending end of a
functioning French
monarchy and predicting
the French Revolution. It
is derived from Madame
de Pompadour's après
nous, le déluge, "after us,
the deluge".

94. 15.* Explain how the movie on the left
resulted in the one on your right.

96. Gates of Heaven made Werner Herzog Eats
(sic.) His Shoe
• Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if a young
American film student went out and actually
made the film he was always only talking about.
The young student was Errol Morris, who met
the challenge with his off-beat 1978 pet
cemetery documentary Gates of Heaven (1978) .
• Herzog makes good on his promise in the
film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), directed
by Les Blank

97. 16.
• On 11 July 1985, ABC news reporter Peter Jennings
interrupted General Hospital for a special news bulletin,
to announce a major change after 79 days of uncertainty.
Virtually every major newspaper in the United States
carried the announcement on their front page, and on the
floor of the US Senate, David Pryor observed the event
as "a meaningful moment in US history."
The company in the news was quick to claim credit as
part of the "fabric of America," stating that their
product's value was as immeasurable as "love, pride, or
patriotism."
What happened?

99. • Original-recipe Coke was back on the market as
"Coca-Cola Classic", part of the New Coke
debacle.

100. 17.
• Who is the author?
Sequel to which book?

102. Robert Edsel; Monuments Men

103. 18. Who, later more famous for business cycles of
a macroeconomic kind, here lists his less dignified
personal business cycles as a clerk in the India
Office?
• In his own words, here is what he did during his
tenure:
"Dispatch of Ayrshire bulls, 18 October 1906;
Position of the jute trade, 19 March 1907; proposed
grant of a monopoly of bonded warehouses in
Cyprus, 24 May 1907; Prevention of liquor
smuggling from Portuguese possessions of
Daman and Nagar Avely into the adjoining British
possessions, 14 June 1907; ‘low fixed licence fee’
system in certain districts of the Punjab, 21
December 1907."

105. J.M. Keynes

106. 19. Who is speaking? Insert Audio.

108. Keira Knightley

109. 20.*
• Today that number has swollen to somewhere
between 43 and 47, based on differing accounts.
• These are the original 7:
• Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, Rincon Hill,
____ _____, Mount Sutro and Mount Davidson.
• What are these?
• Also, FITB.

111. The original 7 hills of San Francisco.
Twin Peaks.

112. 21. This is an ad for which company? Which
cult 1980 sporting film is paid more than just
a nod in this ad?
• Insert video

114. American Express; Caddyshack
• Tiger Woods so adores the movie, he played Carl Spackler in this
American Express commercial that included references to many of the
movie's most famous scenes.
• Unsurprisingly, the movie is a huge favorite among golfers and golf
fans.

115. 22.
• In a street winding away from the main street up into the hillside, set in
its own small park, was the Château de Léry, and up the sloping hillside
in the other direction was the medieval church. Whose house was set
in the hillside above the main street, painted here by two post-
impressionists? Who are these two post-impressionists?

117. Dr. Gachet’s; Cezanne and Van Gogh

118. 23. Which sequence/ film are both these
sequences referencing?

120. The Great Train Robbery

121. 24.
• This actress appeared in 3
music videos by the same
band in the early 1990s.
She became a household
name and became
associated with the band
to such an extent that she
came to be known as “the
_________ girl”.
• Fill the blank.
• Name her.

123. Aerosmith; Alicia Silverstone.

124. 25.*
• In Victorian England and colonial India, a restaurant
code developed that assigned new meanings to traditional
titles for Indian dishes. Each of these three dishes was
borrowed from a different cuisine, but by the time of this
classification, was appropriated enough by Indian cuisine
to be labelled an ‘Indian dish’.
• __1___came to signify a mild creamy dish, ___2____
meant a slightly sweet lentil curry, and ____3____simply
indicated that the food would be very hot.
• What were these codes?

126. Korma, Dhansak, Vindaloo
• Mughal, Parsi, Portugese cuisines, respectively.

127. 26. What led to a fashion for boys’ velvet
knee-breeches, the kinds you see here
sometime in the mid 1880s?

130. 27. A still from the 2013 film All Is By
My Side. Who is playing whom?

132. Andre 3000 of Outkast as Jimi Hendrix

133. 28.
• It is a pancake.
• It is a woven fabric.
• It is a paper.
• It is also a kind of rubber, used to make soles
for shoes and other rubber products.

135. Crepe

136. 29. Insert video
• It imagines the final months of his life, including mythical
imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol.
• It is an adaptation of the Peter Stephan Jungk novel, Der König
von Amerika, describing the darker side – more or less proven,
or perhaps purely imaginary – of a real-life personality. For
Glass, his opera "is not a documentary or portrait" but a
"journey poetic and tragic" through the last months of the life
of an artist who "faced the same doubts that beset us all". He,
therefore, conceived this as a kind of poem on the
quintessentially American and a reflection on death.
• Take a look at the video and tell me who is The Perfect American
in this opera of the same name by Philip Glass?

138. Walt Disney

139. 30.*
• It is a movement by iCONGO (International Confederation of NGOs)
and Olive Bar & Kitchen to involve individuals who have superior
spending power, in creating social change - simply through eating out!
• Through the campaign, it saves the lives of severely malnourished children
while helping vulnerable communities become self-sufficient.
• What movement?

142. 31.
• This happens when a river is
carrying vast amounts of
eroded sediment.
• Sediment is deposited as
islands in the channel
causing the river to split up
into many winding channels.
• What fashionable term is
used to refer to this
geological formation?

144. Braiding

145. 32.
• Renowned for being smooth and full flavored,
what gets its name from what you see?

147. Blue Mountain Coffee
• The Blue Mountains of Jamaica lend their name
to the famous Blue Mountain Coffee

148. 33.
• In stage lighting, it is a gradual increase or decrease
of the intensity of light projected onto the stage.
The former is gradually changing the lighting level
from complete darkness to a
predetermined lighting level.
• The latter rfers to gradually decreasing the intensity
of light until none is shining on the stage.
• What lighting technique, the latter sharing its name
with a well-known power ballad?

151. 34.
• It is a brimless Scottish
cap with a crease running
down the crown, often
with ribbons at the back.
Named after the title of
the clan chief Alexander
Ranaldson MacDonell of
_________ (1771–1828),
who invented it, what is it
called, that could make
real estate dealers swear a
lot, like A LOT?

153. Glengarry

154. 35.* Insert I fink ur freeky.
• Die Antwoord are a South African rap-rave group
formed in Cape Town in 2008. Their public image
is inspired by Zef motifs, a counter-culture
Afrikaans movement.
• What does their name mean, apt, considering THIS
IS QUIZ?
• Which artist’s work forms the basis of the imagery
of this video and several of their music videos?
• In which upcoming Neill Blomkamp movie, based
on his 2004 short film Tetra Vaal, are they part of
the cast?

156. The Answer; Roger Ballen’s
photographs; CHAPPiE.