This is the prelims of the Open Pop Culture Quiz from Braingrill 2016, The quiz fest of Jorhat Engineering College

1. PRELIM
ANSWERS

2. X is a region in the Czech Republic. In a broader meaning, it
often refers to the entire Czech territory,
including Moravia and Czech Silesia.
Y is
: a piece of music that is meant to express a lot of emotion
and does not have a regular form
: a written or spoken expression of great enthusiasm, praise,
etc.
Put X and Y together to get something very iconic.
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3. X = Bohemia
Y = Rhapsody
X+Y = Bohemian Rhapsody
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4. 2
Emphasizing the image's ubiquitous nature and wide appeal,
the Maryland Institute College of Art called the picture a symbol of
the 20th century and the world's most famous photo. Versions of it
have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered, tattooed, silk-
screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every surface imaginable,
leading the Victoria and Albert Museum to say that the photo has
been reproduced more than any other image in photography.
Jonathan Green, director of the UCR/California Museum of
Photography, has speculated that "Korda's image has worked its way
into languages around the world. It has become an alpha-numeric
symbol, a hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears
whenever there's a conflict. There isn’t anything else in history that
serves in this way". Which Alberto Korda photograph are we talking
about?

5. 2
Guerrillero Heroico
Che Guevara

6. 3*
Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz born May
25, 1944) is an English-born
American filmmaker, puppeteer, and actor. His
career began as a puppeteer, where he performed
the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy and Fozzie
Bear in The Muppet Show, and Cookie
Monster, Bert, and Grover in Sesame Street.
His work as a director includes Little Shop of
Horrors (1986), Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels (1988), What About Bob? (1991), In &
Out(1997), Bowfinger (1999), The Score (2001)
and Death at a Funeral (2007). However few
people know of his association with pop culture.
What association?

7. 3*
Puppeteer and voice of Yoda

8. 4
This is an English language slang term using an invitation to watch
X together as a euphemism for sex, either between partners or
casually as a booty call. Since its first recorded, non-sexual use in a
tweet(pic below) posted in 2009, the term has gained popularity
within the Twitter community and other social media sites such
as Facebook and Vine. By 2015, This had become an internet meme,
with its use in teenage social media described as "inescapable"
by Fusion. Much like Selfie, use of the term has now spread beyond
the internet and into general use.

9. 4

10. 5
X is a prank and an Internet meme involving an unexpected appearance of the music
video for the 1987 song. The meme is a type of bait and switch using a
disguised hyperlink. Those led to the music video believing that they were accessing
some unrelated material are said to have been X-ed.

11. 5
RICKROLLING

12. 6
The next slide shows the most popular
answer on QUORA.com for a certain question
which was doing the rounds in 2015. Guess
the question.

13. 6

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16. 7
The number 42 holds a very significant place in pop
culture due to its use in The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy and Lewis Carroll’s works.
The number is so significant that Google, as an
Easter egg displays the number 42 when a very
specific question is searched(screenshot in next
slide).
What is the question that we all want answers to?

17. 7

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19. t
8
Identify the person
playing this role.

20. t
8
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the 2007 American
musical romantic comedy film Hairspray

21. t
9*
___ ___ ___ is a phrase referring to a
controversial change made to a scene in a popular movie. The
change was made for the 1997 Special Edition of the movie
and has since been altered twice more. This alteration is
disagreeable to some long-time fans of the movie, provoking
some to create an online petition demanding that the changes
be retracted. The primary objection to the revision is that it
alters the protagonist’s initially morally ambiguous character,
making his later transition from anti-hero to hero less
meaningful.
In a 2014 Reddit interview with fans, the actor involved said,
"I don't know and I don't care.“
*FITB

22. t
9*
HAN SHOT FIRST

23. t
10
__ __ __ __is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the second act of the musical,
Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan,
sings __ __ __ __ to comfort and encourage Julie when her
husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, is killed when trying to
escape capture after a failed robbery attempt when he falls and
lands on his knife. It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a
graduation class of which Louise (Billy and Julie's daughter) is a
member. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the
chance to return to Earth for one day in order to redeem himself,
watches the ceremony and is able to silently motivate the
unhappy Louise to join in the song.
*FITB

24. t
10
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE

25. t
11*
Since 2002, Forbes has been publishing a list of the wealthiest fictional characters, with
the latest list being the 2013 edition. The 2013 list is as follows :
1. Scrooge McDuck
2. X
3. Carlisle Cullen
4. Tony Stark
5. Charles Foster Kane
6. Bruce Wayne
7. Richie Rich
8.Christian Grey
9. Tywin Lannister
10. C. Montgomery Burns
11.Walden Schmidt
12. Lara Croft
13. Mr. Monopoly
14.Lady Mary Crawley
15. Jay Gatbsy
The character X topped the list in 2012 but came down to the second place in 2013.
X’s source of income has been listed by Forbes as “marauding”. Identify X.

26. t
11*
Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien’s LOTR universe

27. t
12
CONNECT

28. t
12
OZYMANDIAS

29. t
13*
A certain rock band, a pioneer of their genre,
was formerly known as Mookie Blaylock,
named after a then popular American
professional basketball player before they
turned to the name by which we know them
today. As a tribute to Blaylock they named
their 1991 debut album in a certain way. The
band?

30. t
13*
PEARL JAM
And the album is TEN, named after Blaylock’s
Jersey number.

31. t
14
Which movie can you relate to the map?

32. t
14
Forrest Gump

33. t
15
‘What would you do’ is a promotional song produced for
the reruns of Grey’s Anatomy on Star World for Indian
viewers. Who is the singer?

34. t
15
Anushka Manchanda
Catch her live on 20th March here in JEC!!!

35. t
16*
When Andy Warhol wanted a shape to represent mass culture, he drew X
and when Volkswagen wanted to celebrate the shape of the Beatle, they
compared the car to X.
While Andy Warhol is the artist most known for using the X in art, the first
popular artist to incorporate the X in a painting was Salvadore Dali, who
included a X in his 1943 work, Poetry in America. Later artist like Sir
Eduardo Paolozzi also used the form in the late 1940s. Robert
Rauchenberg included Xs in his 1957 sculpture. However, Warhol’s use of
the X in his 1962 show, The Grocery Store, cemented the “pop art”
movement and enshrined the X as a favorite for succeeding generations
of artist. Warhol’s quote from his 1975 book, The Philosophy of Andy
Warhol, sums up the artist choice of X to represent mass culture.
What is X?

36. t
16*
The Iconic Coca-Cola Bottle

37. t
17*
List of what?

38. t
17*
The Most Thanked person in Oscar Acceptance
speeches.

39. t
18
Which movie would you relate these items to?

40. t
18
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

41. t
19
Options included Skid Row, Pen Cap Chew, Bliss,
and Ted Ed Fred. But they finally chose
____because they wanted a name that was kind
of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean,
raunchy punk name. What name did they settle
on?

42. t
19
NIRVANA

43. t
20
“Let us not take this planet for
granted. I do not take tonight for
granted. Thank you so very much.“
These words have been heard very
recently at an event. Whose words
and what event?

44. t
20
Leonardo DiCaprio at Oscars 2016

45. t
8

46. t
8