POP QUIZ: MAINS Synapse'19

POP CULTURE QUIZ: MAINS
SYNAPSE 2019

Deadpool Round
• Written round, 6 questions.
• +10 for each correct answer.
• +5 for getting all 6 correct.

1. Identify the poster of the movie being
referred to?

Genre Round
• Infinite pounce and bounce
• 12 questions on 6 genres
• +20/-10 on Pounce
• +10 on Direct

Q1
 Goodbye Horses is the song featured in a scene regarded as
the most iconic scene of the movie, X. Since then, the song
has become a bona fide cult hit. Kevin Smith’s Clerks II and
Family Guy paid tribute to both the song and the famous scene
of X, and artists including Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, Wild
Beasts, Jon Hopkins, and MGMT have all covered it. The
scene has also become the victim of a lot of memes. Occurring
during the film’s final act, this scene comprises a series of
crosscuts focusing on the two characters in the scene and their
very different aims. ID X as well as the scene.

Cover your stump, before you hump.

A1
 Silence of the Lambs.
The scene where Buffalo Bill dances naked while applying make-
up.

Q2
 Writer-director X conceived this movie in 1994; he adapted the
film's original planned beginning into a 2003 music video he
directed for Mint Royale's "Blue Song". Director of
Photography Bill Pope called the movie "a postmodern musical."
Stating that "there's not singing and dancing in the street but the
world acts to music." X timed the character's movements to the
beat of the film's songs.
 A song is played in the background of nearly every scene in the
film. Also, whenever a song plays in 4/4 rhythm, a shot almost
always cuts in one of the four beats.
 Name X and the film.

Cover your stump before you hump.

A2
 Edgar Wright, the director of Baby Driver.

Q1
 As a marketing stunt for the original release of the movie X, the
director re-edited the TV commercial featured in the trailer of X
to flash a working -1800 number. When people called it they
heard a pre-recorded message from the actors saying they
were too busy .................... to pick up. They got 1,000 calls per
hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks. The music video for the
theme song of the movie ( which is ICONIC!) featured
numerous celebrities who did not appear in the film, including
Chevy Chase; Irene Cara; John Candy; Melissa Gilbert; Al
Franken; Danny DeVito and Carly Simon. ID X. What was the
funda behind the phone call message?

Don’t be silly, protect your Willie.

 Ghost Busters
 Funda: They were too busy catching ghosts

Q2
 The following is an excerpt of a review:
 “The cornerstone of director X’s career-long exploration of cinematic time,
this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins,
begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades.
Chronicling the love between the two protagonists from their first meeting as
idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in
middle age, the trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing
and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as
both the actors imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience,
and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of
time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the films
chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of
ordinary life.”
 Name the director and the trilogy.

A2
 Richard Linklater
 The Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and After
Midnight

Q1
 According to The Scotsman, a particular scene in the movie Y
used up all of the paint of a particular colour in New Zealand.
They used up so much paint that they actually had to pick more
up from Germany! By the time the actor X was offered the movie,
he had already committed to another project. But the director of
Y was so hell-bent on getting X, he stopped production and sent
half of the staff home on vacation to allow X time to shoot his
other project! Fun fact: X's co-star from the other project went on
to star with him in Y! ID X and Y.

If you think she’s spunky, cover your
monkey.

A1
 X: Martin Freeman
 Y: The Hobbit

Q2
 X is widely considered a gay icon. The reasons frequently given for her
standing as an icon among gay men are admiration of her ability as a
performer, the way her personal struggles seemed to mirror those of gay men
in America during the height of her fame, and her value as a camp figure.
 Other connections between X and LGBT people include the slang term “Friend
of Y” (Y being the name of a character played by X) which became a code
phrase gay people used to identify each other. Y's journey "mirrored many gay
men's desires to escape the black-and-white limitations of small town life ... for
big, colorful cities filled with quirky, gender-bending characters who would
welcome them.” Another connection is the rainbow flag, symbol of the LGBT
communities which may have been inspired, in part, by X’s song "Over the
Rainbow”.
 Identify X and Y.

A2
 X: Judy Garland
 Friend of Dorothy (Y)

Q1
 X, a famous writer, director and producer, was called in to help
develop a troubled Toy Story script. Production on the script had
been problematic from the start and would take over a year and a
half to complete, but adding the talents of X turned out to be a
fantastic move. X added the character of Y, and thought up Buzz
Lightyear's famous line, "You are a sad, strange little man." What are
X and Y?

A1
 X: Joss Whedon
 Y: Rex

Q2
 The group of characters X in The Jungle Book was originally
supposed to be voiced by Y, who were the inspiration for the
characters in the first place. Due to a scheduling conflict, (read:
someone didn't feel like doing the role) Y never lent their voices to
the film, but Disney decided to copy their likeness anyway. ID X
and Y.

 X: Vultures
 Y: The Beatles

Q1
 X is an American film based on the 1998 short story, "Story of Your
Life" by Ted Chiang. The film features extra-terrestrial beings. The
director wanted their design to evoke a very strong presence, an air
of intelligence, and the feeling of being close to a "huge beast
underwater." The aliens are named after an iconic comedy duo
whose patter routine "Who's on First?" is one of the best-known
comedy routines of all time in the world, and set the framework for
many of their best-known comedy bits. Both the routine and the
movie highlight the ease with which misunderstandings can arise
during communication. Name the movie and the comedy duo.

Cloak the joker before you poke her.

A1
 Arrival
 Abbott and Costello

Q2
 The following are the character descriptions of roles played by X in three
different movies.
 1. An employee who is sent to monitor the expedition aboard a scientific
vessel to a distant moon. X described the character as "a suit who slowly
sheds [her] skin through the film", and also as "somewhat of a villain ... [who]
definitely has an agenda".
 2. A strong-willed war captain who takes the initiative to save the lives of five
women from a ruthless man with little regard for her own well-being and
without any desire for reward, save for redemption.
 3. A skilled warrior who is a member of an underground rebel organization
who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the
Handler. The movie is set in a dystopian future where most of humanity has
been wiped out and the survivors inhabit a walled city-state.
 Identify X.

A2
 Charlize Theron
 1. Meredith Vikers in Prometheus
 2. Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road
 3. Aeon Flux in Aeon Flux

Q1
 X was an American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie
detector. X was hired as an educational consultant for National
Periodicals and All-American Publication's. X's creation Y is an early
example of bondage themes that were entering popular culture in the
1930s. Physical and mental submission appears again and again in his
work, he referred to submission as a noble practice and did not shy away
from the sexual implications, saying: “The only hope for peace is to teach
people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound...
Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the
unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a
stable, peaceful human society... Giving to others, being controlled by
them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a
strong erotic element.”
 One of the purposes of these bondage depictions was to induce
eroticism as a part of what he called "sex love training."
 ID his creation Y.

Plug your funnel then enter her tunnel

Category Round
• Each team will select a category of choice based on previous scores.
• 2 questions per category
• +30 for getting the first question correctly. You get to choose if you
want to go for the second question or not.
• Getting the second question right will fetch you 50 points in total.
• Getting the second question wrong will give you a total of 20 points in
total.

Q1
 X is a food item whose usage was popularized by its alternate internet-
related definition by Monty Python, a comedy sketch show. A 1970 sketch
of the show is set in a cafe where nearly every menu item contains X. The
references to X increase until eventually, all the dialogue is drowned by a
group of Vikings singing 'X' repeatedly. As internet chatting became popular
in the 80s and 90s, some early netizens flooded online message boards
with lyrics to the song, drowning out other online conversations, just like in
the show. This practice became known as ............... the message boards,
and by late 90s, the definition of X had expanded to its current, much more
popular usage. What's X?

Q2
 This channel's join date on YouTube was once December 31, 1697,
oddly enough, though the actual join date was in the 2000s. The
channel holds the record of gaining the most subscribers in a single
year on YouTube, and on November 2, 2013, briefly surpassed
PewDiePie's channel, to become the most subscribed channel on
YouTube. This channel achieved a particular feat on December 13,
2018. Which famous channel am I talking about?

Q1
 In the 90s, X was one of the most loved television characters, and
soon became a rage, which was then termed "Xmania". Believing X
to be a bad role model, several American public schools banned T-
shirts featuring X next to captions such as "I'm X. Who the hell are
you?" and "Underachiever ('And proud of it, man!')". In 1998, Time
Magazine named X one of the most influential people of the century,
alongside Bill Gates, Adolf Hitler, Ghandi, Pope John Paul II, Nelson
Mandela and Albert Einstein. The X Book, a book about X's
personality and attributes, was released in 2004. Who is X here?

A2
 They are all shows that were cancelled and then revived because
of fervent fan demand.

Q1
 X is an American model and actress best known for her
appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, including
the cover of the 2010 issue. She has also ventured into
television with guest appearances on Chuck, Ugly Betty, The
League, and Royal Pains. She made her feature film debut in
Just Go with It, and later starred in Battleship and What to
Expect When You're Expecting. X is married to former world
no. 1 and 2003 US Open champion, Andy Roddick. ID X.

Q2
 In 2013, Franz Beckenbauer assembled a team which had the likes
of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Radamel Falcao and many
other star studded players. This team played a special match that
had a global audience. Which team is being talked about here?

Q1
 The music video of X by the band Y is a hilarious parody of
other boy bands and pop artists of the '90s. Y does parodies of
the Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, NSYNC, and more as
the camera flashes to different scenes. They run naked on a
beach, they wear ridiculous outfits, and they rock out in front of
crowds of people. Interestingly, the bassist of the band met his
future wife while shooting for this video! ID X and Y.

A1
 X: All the Small Things
 Y: Blink-182

Q2
 The video of this song parodies a popular television soap,
Coronation Street. Singles are often edited down from the album
version of the songs, but this is one of the few examples in which
the single is 30 seconds longer than the album version. It became
an anthem for the ANC in South Africa in the late '80s. Many
people assume the solo in this song is played on guitar while it's
actually a keyboard solo. The song was used to reintroduce a
dead character back in a popular TV series on fans' demands,
only to end up in a bizarre anticlimax. ID the song, the character
and the TV series.

A2
 I want to break free
 Moriarty
 Sherlock

A1
 Actors who have fun Oscars in consecutive years.
 Jason Robards, Katherine Hepburn, Tom Hanks, Spencer
Tracy.

Q2
 The first ceremony of X took place on 7 March 2009 in New Delhi, in
which Jaspal Bhatti made a special appearance. Winners of X are
decided on the basis of an online poll held annually. The four films
Paan Singh Tomar, Gangs of Wasseypur, Kahaani and Vicky Donor
were awarded Y in the X ceremony of 2013 "for their exemplary
script, teamwork and performances and for having us believe that
good cinema can and will not just earn the brownie points of critics
but can also do great at the box office.” ID X and Y.

Q1
 Jasjit Y, a debutant actor, christened himself by adopting the
name X, the name of his character in this film. The very
famous whistling tune in its song Z was inspired by the song 'Il
Campo Di Pallone' from the soundtrack of Nicola Piovani's
Italian movie 'Caro Diario'. ID X, Y, Z.

A1
 Jasjit Singh Gill to Jimmy Shergill
 Z: Maachis

Q2. Funda?
 1. Immortal
 2. Poison
 3. Brothers in crime
 4. Act of killing a member of the higher caste
 5. Mother of all Wolves
 6. Cycle of life and death
 7. Personification of terror
 8. King cursed with premature old age

A2
 The episode names of Sacred Games.
1. Ashwathama
2. Halahala
3. Atapi Vatapi
4. Brahmahatya
5. Sarama
6. Pretakalpa
7. Rudra
8. Yayati

Examples
What will you call if Walter White became a detective with Will Smith?
A. Breaking Bad Boys
A manipulative girl and a roguish guy carry on a turbulent love affair in
the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The
girl then disappears, framing the guy for murder.
A. Gone Girl With The Wind

QUESTION 1
What spell did Daniel Zhang use to learn
numbers, colours and the alphabet?

QUESTION 2
A black man gets wrongly accused of
raping a white teenager participating in
a death match.

To Kill a Mockingjay
Hunger Games: Mockingbird

QUESTION 3
A shaky camera footage of people lost in
a forest is found after they disappear
under mysterious circumstances. Oh,
wait! I'm not supposed to talk about it.

The Blair Witch Project Mayhem

QUESTION 4
A guy is obsessed with coins and wants to
eradicate moss, and an old man who
loves his pug and fights with a black
man, is trying to stop aliens.

No Country for Old Men in Black

QUESTION 5
Four sad, lonely and bullied individuals
led by a self-obsessed individual
fantasise about someone who can’t
speak for himself

The Big Bang Theory of Everything

QUESTION 6
A young man beats innocent people in
nihilistic orgies of violence; and he gets
caught and is sent to a women's prison.

A Clockwork Orange is the New Black.

Megaconnect
• 6 questions, connected to a common theme.
• Written round
• +20 for getting each answer right
• Scores on attempting the Megaconnect:
• +50/-25 for Q1-2
• +30/-15 for Q3-4
• +20 on Q5
• +10 on Q6

Q.1
 X, a director of Y (a TV series), approached HBO with the series in
2010. He recalled that they weren't interested in a show about "two
white guys in suits" chasing serial killers. Shortly after, the first season
of True Detective premiered.
Additionally, one of the key characters is mistakenly believed to be
played by actress, Carrie Coon, so often that she changed her official
Twitter bio to read, “That’s not me on Y.” Name the series and the
director.

Q.2
 I am what you call a 'heuristically programmed algorithmic
computer'. I share my name with that of a fighter pilot, a
member and occasionally a leader of an intergalactic police
force, who possesses something similar to a creation capable
of making its wielder invisible and can corrupt the minds of
anyone who wields it.
 What computer am I, and which pop culture classic do I feature
in?

Q.3
 'Breakout' is an arcade game developed and published by X Inc.
influenced by the game 'Pong', and built by Steve Wozniak, aided by
Steve Jobs. X founded a research lab for _Y__ in 1982, but the lab
was closed after two years due to the North American video game
crash of 1983. The holodeck featured in Star Trek: The Next
Generation is one of the best known examples of Y in popular culture,
including the ability for users to interactively modify scenarios in real
time with a natural language interface.
 ID X and Y.

Q.4
 The song X by Y was released in 2010 and was all over radio, TV
and baseball stadiums when it released. The song’s lack of real
words (Hey) allows just about anyone to “sing” along without any
real effort or strain on one’s memory, and made it a prime
candidate for any advertiser. It was featured in tons
of commercials and television shows, so much that a new site,
Stop Advertising From Pulling a Y, was created, urging ad
agencies to halt their use of the song, Y.
 The song has also been used as a soundtrack in countless TV
series and soaps. In fact, the same thing happened with another
one of Y's songs which was released in 2001 and was overused
in almost every advertisement at that time! ID X and Y.

Q.5
 X is the father of Y. A scientist who works in his home in the suburbs
of the City of Townsville, X is a stereotypical scientist, his general
attire is a white lab coat and black pants. X once housed a lab
assistant who proved to be reckless and destructive. The assistant
was monkeying around while X was stirring a concoction, causing
him to accidentally break through a glass containing a chemical
creating problems for the assistant. The Professor is a genius in
many fields of science, having shown knowledge in fields such as
physics, chemistry, and biology as well as being a skilled inventor.
X can be strict, easily manipulated and overprotective at times, but
still retains his caring fatherly image.

Q.6 Connect
 DMC Sports Car
 Violin Case
 Police Public Call Box
 Orange Tulip

A.
 David Fincher
 Mindhunter

A.
 HAL/ 2001, A Space Odyssey

A.
 Y: Virtual Reality
 X: Atari

 X: Hey, Soul Sister
 Y: Train

A.
 X: Professor Plutonium
 Y: Powerpuff Girls

A.
 Devices used to travel through time

Megaconnect
 Infinity Stones
 Mind
 Space
 Reality
 Soul
 Power
 TIme

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