An inter-college quiz on pop culture conducted as a part of Avensis 2020. The winning team had a score of 240.

2. Rules
• 24 Questions
• Direct/Pass: +20/0
• Pounce: +20/-20
• QM is the Supreme Leader

3. Y, a song by X interpolates a melody from Nirvana’s
“In Bloom”. X explained the Kurt Cobain credit during
an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats
1. “One of the craziest things about Y, is it introduced
me to Nirvana’s album Nevermind,” he said. “It’s like I
always seen the cover but I never actually listened to
it. And people was like, ‘Wow, he sampled Nirvana.’ I
was like, no. It’s like, I didn’t realize I was using almost
the exact same melody.” He also paired with Gordon
Ramsey to make Y. ID X and Y.
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5. Lil Nas X and Panini

6. X is a phrase that originated from a song called
"Daavi Neba" from a Ghanaian recording artist
Kawoula Biov. It does not mean anything in
Ghanaian. According to Twitter users it means,
"What’s your opinion on this matter?” or, “What’s
your experience?” and Google translate
recognises it has “How much do you have?".
Another word Y that is an expression of disgust
and anger in Jamaican slang, was confused with
X and Y also became famous. Y can also be
considered "equivalent" to fuck.
Give X and Y
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8. X- Sco pa tu manaa; Y – Bomboclaat

9. The movie X and artist Y have an interesting
relationship. X appeared on the cover of Y’s
second album and there is a mention of X and
one of his many abilities in the song
‘Cymbaline’ from the same album. Another
song by Y, ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ from their first
album, was a part of the soundtrack of X as the
director Scott Derrickson was a big fan. He had
hoped to use the song for the film’s credit but
since the royalties were too expensive to use it
in the credits, he asked composer Michael
Giacchino to create a new track.
Id X and Y
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11. X- Doctor Strange and Y- Pink Floyd

12. In the recent years, there has been a rapid increase
in the demand for British butlers. In the last
decade, the demand has been so high that many
agencies have reported that it’s currently
outstripping the demand. Most of this demand
and craze for Butlers is from the Middle East
where the wealthy and aristocrats are paying as
much as $150,000 to have their own personal
British butler.
The cause for this phenomenon has been
attributed to what?
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14. Downtown Abbey

15. These are the rankings of a certain online poll
1. Group of protesters no.1
2. Group of protesters no.2
3. Internet’s boyfriend
4. Previous year’s winner of the poll
5. “Sharon” (who actually won the title)
Which poll?
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17. Time person of the year reader poll
1. Hong Kong Protesters
2. Climate change Protesters
3. Keanu Reeves
4. BTS
5. Greta Thunberg (Times Person of the Year)

18. The makers of the film X turned to many investors for
financing the film, however no one showed interest. They
then started approaching musical artists and convinced
them to fund the film as it would be a good tax write-off for
them. Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and
Elton John complied but soon many of them backed away
after they saw the first cut. Because the makers, who wanted
to end the film with an epic battle at the castle, ran out of
funding, they copped out and ended the scene prematurely.
However, the finale of the film became iconic and one of the
makers most popular gags.
Id X
6

20. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

21. Do You Love Your Mom and Her ___-___ _____-______ Attacks?
Also known as Okaa-san Online or Mom isekai, is a
Japanese light novel series written by Dachima Inaka and
illustrated by Pochi Iida. An anime television series
adaptation by J.C.Staff was aired from July 13 to September
28, 2019. The anime shows a teenager who is usually
annoyed by his overly doting mother until both are sent
inside a fantasy themed game. He tries his hardest to show
his prowess inside the game, flustered by the fact that his
mother possesses much higher stats, thus she can easily
defeat all opponents with her twin swords. She also excels
in ground attacks.
FITB.
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23. Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target
Attacks?

24. Prince Andrew was interviewed for the BBC's
Newsnight programme, aired on 16 November
2019, concerning allegations against him of sexual
abuse and his connections to convicted sex
offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He however completely refuted the claims and
quoted his inability to X due to his participation in
the Falklands War and the PTSD related to it as the
reason. He has since been relieved of his duties by
the Royal Family.
What totally bizarre reason did The Duke give?
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26. He said he could not sweat

27. S23 E2 of South Park generated loads of media attention
for its sharp critique of the way Hollywood tends to shape
its content to avoid offending the ______ government
censors in any way whatsoever.
Ironically, those very same government censors, in the
real world, have lashed back at South Park by deleting
virtually every clip, episode and online discussion of the
show from their streaming services, social media and
even fan pages.
What is the title of the episode which is a play on the
consequences it went on face?
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29. Band in China

30. William Charles Schneider is an American actor and musician.
He is a former member of the band The Grass Roots, and is
best known for playing a fictionalized version of himself in
the sitcom X.
His song “Rubber Tree” is the theme song of a recently
started podcast by two female characters of the same show
wherein they break down an episode of X and give exclusive
behind-the-scene stories every week.
How do we better know William Schneider and also what is
the name of the podcast?
10

32. Creed Bratton and Office Ladies

33. “Hot Summer Night" is a television play shown on the
United Kingdom's Independent Television (ITV) on 1
Feb 1959 and includes the first televised X on
television. X was very controversial for people at that
time and the actors received hate mail and bad
reviews. Although, Star Trek is famously credited with
the first X on TV but that episode aired in 1968.
What is X?
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35. Interracial kiss

36. Joey Batey (born 1993) is an English actor
and singer, best known for playing ______
in the series X. Batey shares many
qualities with his on-screen role. Firstly,
the actor happens to be one of two
singers of the indie British folk band The
Amazing Devil. Batey has also learned to
play the lute, ______’s instrument of choice,
long before he was cast in the role. Other
than singing and acting, Batey has
experience in stand-up comedy.
Give me X
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38. The Witcher

39. The creator of the franchise originally envisioned the
planet X to be a jungle planet, but the idea of having
to film in a jungle made him feel ‘itchy’, so he decided
to make it a desert planet instead similar to Arrakis in
Dune. However, this is not the only thing he lifted from
Dune. The two key elements of the film Y and Z are
also picked up from Dune. Y is how he pronounced the
planet Geidi Prime and Z is essentially a reimagining of
The Weirding Way.
Id X, Y and Z
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41. X- Tatooine,
Y- Jedi and
Z- The Force

42. Rick and Morty paying tribute to whom?14

44. David Bowie

45. Originally the film X was supposed to have an elaborate
fight scene between the lead character and a master
swordsman, which was meant to be an ultimate duel
between the sword and the whip. However, the lead actor
was suffering from dysentery at that time and could only
film scenes in 10-minute increments. Realizing that the
scene would take 2-3 days this way, he suggested to the
director that he just use a gun instead.
The scene then became of the highlights of the film and is
considered to be one of the most iconic scenes in cinema.
Id X
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47. Raiders of the Lost Ark

48. These are the results of an angiogram of Dave
Schulte AKA "Dazzling Dave" who is a
professional X performer. A hand specialist
diagnosed him with a vasospasm – this means the
blood vessels in his finger constricted, not allowing
much blood through into the fingertip. He also has
a record for “Fastest time to knock 15 coins off the
ear of 15 participants with a X".
Id X
16

51. Yo-Yo

52. Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill
which re-enacts the American Civil War Battle of
Gettysburg. Inspired by Gettysburg, Gary Gygax created
Chainmail, a miniatures war game based on medieval
warfare. Two years later, Gygax met Dave Arneson and
they created the game X, which expanded on Gygax's
Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he
loved as a child. The game turned out to be a massive
success and recently, saw a resurgence in its popularity,
because the lead characters of two different tv shows are
often shown playing X.
Id X
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54. Dungeons and Dragons (TBBT and ST are the TV shows)

55. Id the person reacting to rumours of his death. His
video was originally released in 2010 but the wave of
popularity came to him in 2018, when video again
became viral and inspired many memes.
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58. Ricardo Milos

59. The characterization of X as an ambitious and ruthless
politician dismantling a democratic republic to achieve
supreme power is in part inspired by Julius Caesar,
Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler. However, many of
the primary elements of the character come from Richard
Nixon. When asked about the similarities, the creator of the
character said that “Nixon's presidency got me to thinking
historically about how do democracies get turned into
dictatorships. Because the democracies aren't overthrown;
they're given away. The whole point of the movies, the
underlying element that makes the movies work, is that
you, whether you go backwards or forwards, you start out
in a democracy, and democracy turns into a dictatorship,
and then the rebels make it back into a democracy.”
Id X
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61. Emperor Palpatine

62. Eastern Westerner is a 1920 American short
comedy film directed by Hal Roach where the plot
revolves around an irresponsible young man, sent
away to live on a farm in the wild west. The iconic
poster of the film served as an inspiration for
which action thriller film?
Identify the film.
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64. John Wick: Chapter 2

65. In the movie Joker, all the clocks show the time as
_________ . When Phoenix was asked about this, this is
what he replied: “Paul is dead. Paul is Dead. [inaudible]
The Beatles. [laughs] What I'm saying is, I do know that
there are some of those things that we put in, whatever
the fuck you call them… yeah. I mean, I think some of
them you might read into. That's the ‘Paul is Dead’ joke
that I’m making. But no, _____ didn't mean anything to
me personally.”
The “Paul is Dead” line refers to an age-old Beatles
conspiracy theory that claimed that original Fab Four
member Paul McCartney had died in 1966, and was
subsequently replaced by a Paul by a lookalike.
FITB
21

67. 11:11

68. The song “Sucker” by American pop rock group Jonas Brothers
debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the US Hot
Digital Songs chart in the United States, with 88,000 copies sold in
its first week. But soon after, an American rock band X from Wasilla,
Alaska accused the Jonas Brothers' song as copying their 2017
single, “Feel It Still”.
X tweeted: “To be fair, the chorus of Feel It Still sounds very similar
to Please Mister Postman by the Marvelettes... Which we
respectfully cleared and thanked them for every chance we got. As
one does.@jonasbrothers”.The band later clarified saying that they
were “not mad at all”, and that they “actually dig a lot of their music
and Nick's solo records”.
Identify X which was so named to give a bigger-than-life feel but
not naming it after one of their members
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70. Portugal. The Man

71. In the movie Ready or Not by Matt Bettinelli-
Olpin and Tyler Gillett six of the methods of murder are
taken from various versions of the board game X.
• The Pepper Box Revolver is used by Emilie and her son
Georgie,
• Grace strangles the butler Stevens,
• The ceremonial wine is poisoned,
• Aunt Helene decapitates a maid with an axe,
• A dagger is used for the sacrificial ceremony,
• Grace hits Tony in the face with a lantern, like the
candlestick.
Identify X.
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73. Clue or Cluedo

74. Connect the following:
• Finn Wolfhard - Bill Hader,
• Sophia Lillis - Jessica Chastain,
• Chosen Jacobs - Chadwick Boseman,
• Jack Dylan Grazer - Jake Gyllenhaal,
• Wyatt Oleff - Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
• Jeremy Ray Taylor - Chris Pratt, and
• Jaeden Martell - Christian Bale
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76. The members of the Loser’s Club from It (2017) were asked
who they wanted to play their adult parts and these were
their recommendations.

77. A scene from S4 E20 of FRIENDS sees Chandler explain to
Rachel that he doesn't dance at weddings because "weddings
are a great place to meet women and when I dance, I look like
this," proceeding to show off his dorky dance moves.
Matthew Perry shared a meme on Twitter of this scene being
compared to another very famous scene of a movie released
in the latter half of 2019, with the meme being titled ‘Cinematic
Parallels’. Claiming he may have been a source of inspiration,
Perry captioned the tweet: "You're welcome."
"Friends" fans pointed out even more similarities between the
odd pair after Perry's tweet, creating their own Chandler vs _____
memes.
What according to Perry was inspired by his characters’ dance?
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79. Joker’s iconic Bronx staircase scene

81. RESERVES

82. X is not really known for his acting skills, but a recent TV adaptation
of a popular book, and then game series, has the whole fandom going
gaga over him. X is known to be a huge fan of both the books and the
game series, but while love for a game helped him in landing the role
this time, it almost took one away from him. According to X himself,
he was playing Y when the director of that movie called him,
confirming his casting for the movie.
Name X and Y

83. X is a song that was first released independently in December 2018
and caused a stir due to its bizarre categorisation. Some critics
suggested that the artist had listed the song as country on Soundcloud
and Itunes as a way to manipulate chart algorithms, as it would be
easier to top the country charts than the dominant hip hop/rap charts
and Billboard removed it from it’s Hot Country Song list stating that
it did embrace enough elements of today’s country music. The artist
then released a remix version of the song with Billy Ray Cyrus in
April 2019, which propelled the song to the top of country music
charts and made the genre of ‘country rap’ mainstream. Id X

84. Contrary to popular belief, _______ are not standard food for rabbits.
It is not a part of their regular diet as it contains too many calories for
them. The perception was created due to the fact that eating _______
was one of the defining character traits of Y. This is because the
creator of Y was a big fan of the film “It Happened One Night”, where
Clark Gable eats _______ while talking quickly. Gable also gets called
“Doc” throughout the film, a term that Y often uses. FITB and Id Y

85. The name of X has been immortalised in popular culture because of
the climax of the first instalment of a popular movie franchise taking
place there. Actually, building X is the headquarters of 20st Century
Fox, who were the distributors of the film and is commonly known as
the Fox Plaza. The building X was featured again in the 99th episode
of TV series Y, where the lead character is a big fan of the
aforementioned movie franchise. Id X and Y

86. What was the price of Tesla’s stock (USD) on 23 Dec 2019? Elon Musk
even tweeted the price with the caption “stock art” and “Whoa.. the
stock is so high”. (accurate to two decimal places)

87. The Oxford Dictionary chose the phrase _______ _________ as the
word of the year for 2019. The title is given to an expression which
has grabbed a significant amount of attention in the last 12 months
and has become a part of public discourse.
According to Oxford Corpus the usage of the term _______
_________ became 100 times more common than it was in the
previous year. The increase in the usage of the term began in
September 2019 which coincides with a certain widely televised
event that went viral.
The dramatic upsurge in the usage of the term is credited to the
event which received polarized reactions from netizens all over the
world.
What was that event?

88. Who was the most searched baby as per Google Search trends 2019 in
the USA?

89. In The Simpsons’ episode "The Haw-Hawed Couple," Homer reads
Lisa a bedtime story called Angelica Button and the Dragon Kings
Trundle Bed. Though the plot isn’t entirely the same yet, it is a parody
of a very famous book. Which book?
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