Pop-Culture Quiz held as part of IIT Kharagpur Quiz Week

2. Rules of the game:
■ Two dries rounds: (12 clockwise + 13 anticlockwise)
■ Two list its.

3. LIST IT 1: Disney
■ A video, played twice.
■ Write down the all the references that you can remember.
■ Points:
– Every correct reference, +3
– If >15 correct references, Bonus +5
– If >20 correct references, Bonus +10
– Full House, Bonus + 15

4. ■ https://www.youtube.com/embed/E-6xk4W6N20?end=180

5. Exchange Sheets

6. Answers

7. ■ Mary Poppins
■ The Little Mermaid
■ Beauty and the Beast
■ Aladdin
■ The Lion King
■ Pocahontas
■ The Hunchback of Notre Dame
■ Hercules
■ Mulan
■ Tarzan
■ Fantasia 2000
■ The Emperor's New Groove
■ Atlantis:The Lost Empire
■ Lilo & Stitch
■ Treasure Planet
■ Brother Bear
■ Home on the Range
■ The Princess and the Frog
■ Tangled
■ Winnie the Pooh
■ Frozen
■ Big Hero 6

8. Dries Round 1
■ 12 Questions
– Bounce (10/0)
– Pounce (10/-5)

9. 1.
It has been over a decade since this order was made, and it fascinates the internet still.
Visiting Cluckin’ Bell gets you no closer to guessing what constituted said order, as they
don’t have a menu onsite.Their website, however, does contain a menu, and people have
tried decoding the order from there.
Whose order are we talking about?

12. Ans: Big Smoke’s Order in GTA San
Andreas

13. 2.
X,Y’s, arguably, most popular song released on 4th of May, 1999. It is perhaps most well
known because of the Internet’s obsession to associate it with the movie Z, and its titular
character, where the song is used in the opening credits to introduce Z, who we of course
know for being like an onion.
ID X,Y,Z.

15. Ans: Smash Mouth’sAll Star, in Shrek

16. 3.
The preserved head of Richard Nixon is a
recurring character in Futurama.
Almost always alongside him, appears
the headless body of whom?

18. Ans:Vice President Spiro Agnew

19. 4.
In October 2016, Nike released the Nike Mag, complete with “Adaptive Fit”, perhaps a
year later than when people would have really appreciated the release.
There were only 89 pairs released, each of which could be accessed through a lucky draw
whose proceeds went to funds for Parkinson’s cure research.
What was the inspiration behind the release?

21. Ans: Self lacing shoes in Back to the
Future 2

22. 5.
In this comic, Ra’s al Ghul steals
Batman’s dossier on the Justice League,
and proceeds to incapacitate each of the
members.
While the league remains distracted, he
starts puts into action his real plan,
whereby he attacks the language
centers of humanity by using a low level
sonic signal to scramble the written and
the spoken language.
This comic is aptly named what?

24. Ans:Tower of Babel

25. 6.
X is an Icelandic children’s show, that came into mainstream consciousness in 2016, with
the popularity of a song that it featured in one of its episodes.
The actor that the song launched into popularity was sadly diagnosed with cancer.
However, with the power of modern medicine and Internet magic, the actor is now cancer
free.
ID the show.

27. Ans: LazyTown

28. 7.
From the very first game in the X series, through to today,Y, the supposedly peaceful
Nobel nominee, has been famous for one thing: dropping nukes.
In the original game, this was because of a bug.Y was obviously given the lowest possible
default aggression score, 1. However if a player adopted democracy, the aggression score
would drop by 2 points. InY’s case, this would loop the score up to 255, makingY a trigger
happy nuke lover.
In the later games, this feature forY stayed as a tribute.
ID the game and the personality.

30. Ans: Gandhi in the Civilization series

31. 8.
While roaming the stark wastelands in
Fallout NewVegas, the courier may
come across a fridge, full of bones and a
Suave Gambler’s hat.What is this a
cheeky reference to?

33. Ans:The fact that Indiana Jones probably
wouldn’t have survived a nuclear blast hiding
in a fridge in the Kingdom of Crystal Skull

34. 9.
In Super Smash Bros Melee, there is a
bonus called “Switzerland”. How can a
player earn this bonus?

36. Ans: By neither attacking, nor being
attacked, akin to Switzerland’s neutrality

37. 10.
The script said “annoyed grunt”. So the voice actor decided to pay tribute to Laurel and
Hardy actor Jimmy Finlayson’s, drawn out _________, originally a stand-in for “damn”, by
replacing it with _’__.
What is this the origin of?

39. Ans: Homer saying “d’oh”

40. 11.
_______ ____ is a family based British sitcom on the BBC, dealing with the trials and
tribulations of one Pakistani Muslim, Mr Khan, quite well settled down in East Birmingham
with his family.
What is the title of the sitcom, a pun on a classic early 1940s American movie?

42. Ans: Citizen Khan

43. 12.
In Baby Driver, for the second heist, Jamie Foxx’s Bats asks “No Nose” to get _______
______ masks from the Halloween series.
However, due to miscommunication, they get the wrong masks, and have to go in
disguised as a comedic character instead.
What masks did they go into the heist wearing?

45. Ans: Austin Powers masks

46. LIST IT 2:TheTypography Connection
■ A video, played twice.
■ Write down the all the references that you can remember.
■ Points:
– Every correct reference, +2
– If >15 correct references, Bonus +5
– If >20 correct references, Bonus +10
– If >25 correct references, Bonus +15
– Full House: Bonus +20

47. ■ https://www.youtube.com/embed/WwyqQ-o6zHA?end=67

48. Exchange Sheets

49. Answers

50. 1. Windows 98
2. GoT
3. Parks and Rec
4. Jurassic Park
5. Looney Tunes
6. Daft Punk
7. Simpsons
8. Netflix
9. Gorillaz: Demon Days
10. Breaking Bad
11. Porky’s
12. Daft Punk: Discovery
13. Ghostbusters
14. Rick and Morty
1. Great Gatsby
2. Toy Story
3. StarWars
4. World ofWarcraft
5. Overwatch
6. Zombies
7. The Godfather
8. Titanic
9. Alien
10. Fault in our Stars
11. Lost inTranslation
12. Harry Potter
13. Coca-Cola
14. Bewitched
15. HALO
16. LEGO

51. ReferenceVideo
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGdnN8W30ho

52. DRIES Round II
■ 13 Questions
– Bounce (+10/0)
– Pounce (+10/-5)

53. 13.
The ____ ____ grenade is a fairly normal grenade featured in theWorms video game
series, except for the fact that it has a 3 second timer, and must come to a complete halt
before it detonates to a Hallelujah sound effect.
What is the name of this grenade?

55. Ans: Holy Hand Grenade (Monty Python
and the Holy Grail)

56. 14.
After the success of their first movie, they were sent around the world in the 1990s to
perform live stage shows, called “Coming out of their ______”.
Pizza Hut was their primary sponsor. It spent $20 million on this tour that sold out
stadiums everywhere it went.
Who were the performers?

58. Ans:Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles

59. 15.
Identify the famous phrase from the last panel of this increasingly verbose meme.

61. Ans: Are ya ready, kids?

62. 16.
In March 2015, DC released variant
covers that paid tribute to some classic
movie posters.
Which movie does is this cover a
homage to?

64. Ans: Jailhouse Rock

65. 17.
■ The person on the next slide, as it very intelligently says, is an actor. He has worked in
TV and movies for the past 31 years and has over 150 credits inTV Series and Movies
ranging from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer to Batman Returns( he debuted
in this) and many more such as StarTrek: Discovery and most recently, X which has
caused him to finally start getting some fame because of its success at a recent
globally viewed event.
■ He got interested into acting because of Mimes, which is a very visual style of art and
his roles very rarely need him to speak, but have a lot of expressiveness in movement
and features.
■ What does he specialise in and give me X?

68. Amphibian Man, Shape ofWater

69. 18.
■ This series, a very loved part of our childhood was originally started by Mattel as a
toyline to compete against StarWars after Mattel turned down the buy in rights price
of 750,000$.
■ To increase popularity, they got a story series and then a cartoon series started on this
and was the first ever cartoon series to be based on a toy, beating evenTransformers
to the punch by a year.
■ The lead characters were originally supposed to be more savage than they were
shown but it was toned down to help the kids connect better with the characters,
especially the lead character who would transform at a Call: “ By the power of the ____
_____ ” and become the strongest man in the universe.

71. He Man

72. 19.
■ This much loved creation was inspired by the writer’s old teacher, Joseph Bell, when he
was asked to write a weekly story series in an up and coming new magazine.
■ The visuals in the next slide are the illustrations that were done by Walter S. Stacey for
the very first edition of this writer’s story, which started off a collaboration between
this writer and this magazine that spanned thirty six years.
■ Give me the creation and the creator:

75. Sherlock Holmes

76. 20.
■ In the initial planning stages of the manga,Takahashi had wanted to draw a horror manga.
Although the end result was a manga about games, it was clear that some horror elements
influenced certain aspects of the story.Takahashi decided to use "battle" as his primary
theme. Since there had been so much "fighting" manga, he found it difficult to come up
with something original. He decided to create a fighting manga where the main character
doesn't hit anybody, but also struggled with that limitation.When the word "game" came
to mind, he found it much easier to work with.
■ When an interviewer askedTakahashi if he tried to introduce younger readers to real life
gaming culture referenced in the series,Takahashi responded by saying that he simply
included "stuff he played and enjoyed", and that it may have introduced readers to role-
playing games and other games.Takahashi added that he created some of the games seen
in the series.The author stressed the importance of "communication between people,"
often present in table-top role-playing games and not present in solitary video games.
Takahashi added that he feels that quality communication is not possible over the Internet.
■ So serious he was about the communication aspect that he named two of the main
characters in the series after the Japanese word for “friendship”

78. Yu Gi Oh

79. 21.
■ The algorithm consistently finds Jesus.The algorithm killed Jeeves.The algorithm is
banned in China.The algorithm is from Jersey.The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.
What is the algorithm referring to?
■ Someone added the following to the above lines and made it a self referential
advertising campaign whenever people would google the above lines. Advertising
campaign for what (give who that someone was?)
■ We did not invent the algorithm.The algorithm consistently finds Jesus.The algorithm
killed Jeeves.The algorithm is banned in China.The algorithm is from Jersey.The
algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm.This is close.

81. xkcd

82. 22.
■ In the recently released Netflix series,Takeshi Kovacs, after being woken up from a 250
year sleep, choses to stay in an AI hotel, hotels that are managed entirely by an AI
organism.
■ The name of the hotel,The Raven is a nod to one of the most famous mystery story
writers of the 19th century.The visual appearance of the interactive AI is also a
lookalike of how this writer, who used to live between 1801 and 1849 in United States.
■ As can be guessed, his name was also chosen for this writer.
■ Give me the name

84. Edgar Allan Poe

85. 23.
■ In a place called Brabant, an artist created this path with solar powered LEDs and
glowing pebbles, to help cyclists stay on the path at night.
■ What are they inspired by?
■ As a hint, Brabant in Netherlands is where someone grew up to become very famous
in Europe and the world.

88. Starry Night,Van Gogh

89. 24.
■ In 2017, some time in March, Facebook released ReactVR which had pop culture
enthusiasts,TV fans of X go into a collective gasp, since it would cause something to
suddenly make a whole lot more sense.
■ One of the comments on reddit to this original easter egg went:
– Oh God? Do I like programming in React?
– Or have I just been programmed to like programming in React?
■ Unhelpful screenshot follows 
■ Give us X

92. Westworld Scene where they had used React
to implement the coding of the robots

93. 25.
■ The Photo was shot by a photographer named Brad Guice. He'd been requested
'something vulgar, like a dude getting punched’.
■ The first version was of a boxer with punching gloves but it wasn't liked very much so a
second version had to be done.The guy, Sean Cross is said to have been punched 30
times in the face to get the right shot and was paid $10.The photographer however,
denies that.
■ The words in bold were mainly because they matched very very beautifully with the
name of whatever this photo was soon to be associated with.
■ What am I talking about?

95. Pantera’sAVulgar Display of Power