QC101: An Introductory Course to Quizzing, was held from 13th April to 18th April 2022. The MARVEL-ous Quiz: A Quiz on Marvel was conducted by Sahil, Dhrutisundar and Aryandeep. It was hosted on Unstop on 17th April.

2. Marvel Studios is very good at hiding references
and tributes within the props and buildings of the
movie scenes. One such feature is a part since
the first installment of The Avengers (2012). The
scene shown is a part of Avengers: Age of
Ultron. The hidden feature in the scene calls back
to one of the most terrible historical event. The
person responsible for the event was killed by
an operation X (two words), of which one word
is a planet and other is an ancient weapon.
What is X and the tribute or reference in the
video?
Q1

3. A1
X: Operation Neptune
Spear(Operation to Kill
Osama Bin Laden)
Tribute: To the first
responders of 9/11 attack

4. Marvel films have a way of grounding their characters and their
stories by relating them to major historical events of our real
world like world war II in Captain America: The First Avenger or
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in The Wolverine.
One such major event of the 20th
century was referred to in the
movie X-Men: First Class which was set in 1962. The majority of
the film directly concerns the cold war tensions that came after
world war II. Sebastian Shaw, an evil mutant and the leader of the
hellfire club, plans to use those tensions to trigger a nuclear war
that would destroy humanity allowing mutants to dominate the
earth. It was a 13 day long confrontation between two of the most
powerful countries in the world.
Which major historical event are we talking about?
Q2

5. A2
The Cuban Missile Crisis,
October 1962

6. Q3
The character(X) seen in the comic cover is a
new addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We
got to a experience a glimpse of X’s powers in the
recent Marvel Series, which adopted styles of
several TV sitcoms in different episodes. X is also
known to have powers similar to one of his/her
parent. In the comics, this character is destined to
become a powerful person who would rewrite
the laws of Magic one day.
Who is the character described here?
(Major Hints in the Poster)

8. Introduced in
WandaVision(2021), has
powers similar to Scarlet
Witch
The New Avengers: Wiccan is a
part of the Young Avengers and
later forms a part of the New
Avengers after Original
Avengers is disbanded.
A3
Wiccan/ William
Kaplan/ Billy
Maximoff

9. X and Y are a very famous yet complicated couple in the MCU. Both of them were
trained by an old blind man, to be skilled fighters at a very young age.
X is a catholic by birth and has a strong faith in God. He fights criminals in his city as a
masked vigilante but never tries to kill anyone, strongly adhering to his no kill rule.
On the other hand, Y is completely opposite of him. She has a dark side and she actually
likes killing. She was later revealed to be The Black Sky, a potential weapon who was
destined to lead an evil ninja clan called The Hand and bring destruction upon humanity.
But after she met X, she ended up falling in love with him and it completely changed her.
In the comics, X is a very good friend and an ally of spiderman. One of X’s famous
dialogues in the MCU is , “ I am X. Not even God can stop that now.”
Identify X and Y.
Q4

10. X- Daredevil
(Matt Murdock)
Y- Elektra
A4

11. X, as a child, was diagnosed with a strange degenerative neurological disorder due
to which, at a very young age, his scientist parents put him through many
experiments and tests which were extremely painful and traumatic. As a result of
this, he developed the power to control people’s mind and action. He could make
anyone do anything as he commanded. In fear of his powers his parents left him
alone, allowing him to grow up from a hurt child to be a selfish sociopath.
X is played by a Scottish actor in a Netflix series which deals with real life issues
like alcoholism, drug addiction, PTSD, rape and child abuse. The lead actress of the
show also plays a major role in the popular series Breaking Bad.
He is also known as The Y Man in the comics, where Y is the name of a colour,
due to his skin turning into that colour as a result of an accident in a chemical
refinery. Who is X and in which show does he appear?
Q5

12. A5
Kilgrave Also Known as The
Purple Man in the
comics
The Show -
Jessica Jones

13. Q6
In the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), William Stryker performs an
operation on Wolverine that gives him his Adamantium Skeleton and claws. He
calls him ‘Weapon X (X-Roman Numeral Ten)’. This operation, in the comics is the
part of the program K, which was inspired from Project Rebirth, known to
have created Weapon I (Weapon One). Weapon I goes on to become the leader
of group of which he/she becomes a part of. While argument with one of
the team members, he/she was taunted to be
‘A Laboratory Experiment’.
What is K, and who is Weapon I?

14. A6
K: Weapon Plus Program
Weapon I: Captain America(Steve Rogers)
Weapon Plus Program Tony calls Steve Rogers a
laboratory experiment.
Movie: The Avengers(2012)

15. In Avengers Infinity War, Tony stark makes a
hilarious joke on Ebony Maw by comparing him to the
character Squidward from the cartoon series
Spongebob Squarepants.
It is close but still not entirely, as Ebony Maw is
clearly missing a major feature of Squidward . ( As
we can see in this picture XD )
However, The French version of the movie takes
care of this. Here, instead of Squidward, Tony
refers to X, an evil character from a very popular
series of 7 fantasy novels with which we all are
familiar with .
Identify the character X and in what way Ebony
Maw is more similar to X than Squidward .
Q7

16. A7
X- Voldemort from Harry Potter
Both Ebony Maw and voldemort doesn’t have a nose :):):)

17. X and Y belong to two very popular yet entirely
different superhero movie franchises. Both of
them are one of the most powerful beings in their
respective universes. X is the biological daughter of
Y, but they have never met each other in any live
action movie/show. Both of them are known for
their tragic life stories which turned them evil from
time to time.
Something very closely related to X and Y
respectively is given below.
Identify X and Y.
Related to X
Related to Y
Q8

18. X - Scarlet Witch/ Wanda Maximoff
Y - Magneto/ Erik Lensherr
A8

19. Give a Marvel Term that links all the characters shown above.
Hint : Absence of light
Q9

20. Dark Avengers
A9
Ragnarok
(Cyborg Clone
of Thor)
Venom Daken
(Wolverine’s
Son)
Bullseye Moonstone

21. In which place in the MCU do we get to see all these together ?
Also mention the name of the movie/show in which these appear.
Q10
Hela’s
Necrosword
Malekith’s
dagger
Hela’s Helmet
Thor’s Hammer
Mjolnir
Captain america’s
Shield
A Dark Elf
Howard The Duck
Cosmo the
Space Dog

22. The Collector’s Museum
in the show
Marvel’s What If…?
A10

23. Given below is what Stan Lee said about a character of the Marvel Comics in
an interview with Larry King.
Q11
‘You know one of the greatest
things about X’s outfit, his
costume? He is completely
covered. So, any kid could imagine
that he is X, ‘cause no colour of
the skin shows. He could be black
under that, he could be red,
yellow, he could belong to any
race.’

24. In the interview, Stan Lee mentions about one of the most famous
superheroes. There also exist many funny Hindi songs about that
character, like ‘X, Tune Churaya Mere Dil ka Chain’.
In the comics, X faces a team of villains Y, which is also being formed in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The name Y is similar to one of the villains Z of Deadpool in the comics. Z
is a brilliant Victorian era scientist who was obsessed with deterministic
interpretations of natural evolution, predicting the emergence of mutants
in the near future.
Identify X and Y.
Q11: Continued

25. A11
X- Spider-Man Y- The Sinister Six Z- Mister Sinister

26. Q12
The character Venom was created by a fan in 1982 in a contest held
by Marvel Comics. Then it was bought by Marvel for 220 dollars
only. It is one of the very few individuals who can successfully
cancel out spider-man’s infamous spidey senses and can catch him
off-guard.
In comic issue it is known to bond with X originally at first.
Y is known as a bully of one of the pre-bonded member(most
famous of all) of Venom .
After losing his legs in Iraq war he went under symbiosis with Venom
to recover his abilities and was sent to missions by U.S Gov. Soon
Cap America asked him to join the secret avengers and then
Guardian of Galaxy chose him to represent Earth’s Mightiest
Heroes.
Identify x,y.
Hint for x

27. A-12
X=Deadpool as
Venompool
Y=Flash Thompson
aka
Agent Venom

28. Q13
This character(X) was a prominent figure in criminal world joining intelligencia and
working as assassin and smuggler. He also had a long history with wakanda.
Identify x.
The family that helped him mining vibranium was exiled . His arm was cut-off after
which he retrofitted some wakanda mining equipment for his cybernatic hand. In comics
he is one of the greatest villain to black panther and made his debut in a Fantastic Four
comic.
Speaking of wakanda, one of the most famous dialogue by Black Panther(used in Black
panther as well as infinity war) was “Yibambe”.
What does it means and what is it’s language of origin? (or the language of wakanda is..)
Hint :-This language is among 11 official languages of Africa and is used by 18 percent of
country’s population and was also used by Nelson Mandela.

29. X=Ulysses Klaue
Yibambe means to hold
fast or hold tight
(Xhosa language).
A13

30. Q14
This film begins with the first 3 words in BIBLE and is a
continuation of
work by the marvel comic legend using his ideas on a DC
comic(New God) to bring up with a completely new storyline.
This movie was directed with as minimum use of green screen
as possible and shot at real life locations which is unusual for
the MCU and is also the first where DC characters were
mentioned.
The post credits for this movie established a connection to a
new superhero X (in one of the upcoming movies in MCU).
This artifact (to the right) belongs to a civilization in real world
as well as in Marvel studios(handed down) which is one of the
first civilization(Y).
Identify X(and actor’s name) and Y.

31. A14
X=Mahershala Ali as Blade
Y=Mesopotamia

32. Q15
In comics Ultron was created by X. He also founded the avengers with his wife
whom Ultron would consider it’s mother.
But in MCU for a time, he worked for S.H.I.E.L.D as a consultant and became a
superhero.
Later he turned his back on S.H.I.E.L.D as he found that Howard Stark and
Mitchell Carson tried to recreate his original designs for S.H.I.E.L.D purposes.
He was forced into action as he had learned from his former protege Y, had
recreated his inventions/designs and then sold it to organizations such as HYDRA
and Ten Rings.
Hint (X) :- “This is your chance. To earn that look in your daughter’s eyes. To
become the hero that she already thinks you are. It’s not about saving our world,
it’s about saving theirs.”
Identify X and Y.

33. X=Henry Hank Pym Y=Darren Cross
( Yellow jacket)
A15