Qonnoisseur 2015 Finals

Rules
 Finals are divided into four rounds
 Infinite Rebound 1
 Written Round 1
 Written Round 2
 Infinite Rebound 2

Rules
 20 questions clockwise
 +10/0 for a direct/pass question
 Two-finite pounce: A team cannot pounce
further once it gets two questions wrong on
the pounce
 +20/0 on the pounce
 Pouncing on your own directs is permitted.

Q1:
Put funda.
Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese film director-
6
Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet Russian film
director- 5
Mark Zuckerberg- 4
Shahrukh Khan- 3
Barack Obama- 2
Kanye West- 2
Unsurprisingly, Kim Kardashian does not have a
number.

Q4:
In Dante's Inferno, the generic X are the souls
of the damned that have become corrupted by
Lucifer's influence. They now serve him and are
commanded by the higher-ranked demons of
Hell. Dante first encounters them in The Church
graveyard after finding Beatrice dead. Armed
with nothing but short swords, they are the true
cannon-fodder in the depths of Hell. What they
lack in strength however, they somewhat make
up for by assaulting in large numbers. Recently
though, the word X has been in the news for an
entirely different reason. Id X

Q5:
X is a multinational video hosting service owned
and operated by a joint venture of Universal
Music Group (UMG), Google, Sony Music
Entertainment (SME), and Abu Dhabi Media,and
based in New York City. The concept for X was
described as being a Hulu for music videos,
with the goal being to attract more high-end
advertisers. The advertising revenus generated
are shared by X and Google. Id X.

Q6:
This is the definition of a word from Merriam
Webster.
The blanked out word is also the name of a
character from “To Kill a Mockingbird”, X is a
mysterious character in To Kill a Mockingbird
and slowly reveals himself throughout the
novel. X is a very quiet, reclusive character,
who doesn't actively present himself to people.
Id the word

Q7:
Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the
music video for the 1987 X’s song "Never
Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and
switch; a person provides a hyperlink which is
seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but
actually leads to the video. The link can be
masked or obfuscated in some manner so that
the user cannot determine the true destination
of the link without clicking.
Who is the artist X?

Q9:
X is a 2008 American action comedy film
directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by
Adam Sandler, who also starred in the film.
John McEnroe makes an appearance in this
movie. The soundtrack contains (near the end)
music re-arranged for the movie by Julius
Dobos, based on the song "Jimmy Jimmy
Jimmy Aaja" from the Bollywood movie Disco
Dancer (1982) starring Mithun Chakraborty. The
original song was composed by Bappi Lahiri.
Which movie is being talked about?

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

Jnanpith Award Winners from Marathi literature

Q12:
X was selected as the lead singer for the band Y
after Bon Scott's death. X was recommended by
Bon Scott himself after he saw X perform, on
which he commented " There's this guy up
there screaming at the top of his lungs and
then the next thing you know he hits the deck.
He's on the floor, rolling around and screaming.
I thought it was great, and then to top it off –
you couldn't get a better encore – they came in
and wheeled the guy off!" X was later
diagnosed with appendicitis which was the
reason he was writhing around on stage. ID X
and Y.
No part points.

X – Brian Johnson
Y – AC/DC

Q13:
Here’s the real story, as related in Stanley Crouch’s
recent biography of Charlie Parker, “Kansas City
Lightning.” Crouch spoke with the bassist Gene
Ramey, who was there. It happened in 1936, and
Parker (whose nickname was Bird) was sixteen: “Bird
had gotten up there and got his meter turned
around,” Ramey remembered. “When they got to the
end of the thirty-two-bar chorus, he was in the
second bar on that next chorus. Somehow or other he
got ahead of himself or something. He had the right
meter. He was with the groove all right, but he was
probably anxious to make it. Anyway, he couldn’t get
off. Jo Jones hit the bell corners—ding. Bird kept
playing. Ding. Ding. Everybody was looking, and
people were starting to say, ‘Get this cat off of here.’

…Contd.
Some would call it a crash, and they were right, a
DING trying to pass itself as under a crash. Bird
jumped, you know, and it startled him and he
eased out of the solo. Everybody was screaming
and laughing. The whole place."
Given above is an excerpt from a New Yorker
article, which describes the true nature of events as
they transpired. The above event, with much
doctored details, was a key motif in a recent movie.
ID the movie.

Q15:
This Google Doodle was put up by Google on
May 4, 2015. The portrait of the man is shown
too. Who is he and what is his claim to fame?
Part points (on the direct).
Images on next slide.

Bartolomeo Cristofori
Invention of Piano

Q16:
Disney purchased the rights to this Marvel
property in 2009. The movie was based in a
city, which in all ways including its name, was
an amalgamation of two cities. The first half of
the name of the city is derived a city in
Northern California whose name is also the
origin for a networking company, while the
second half from an Asian city which was
previously named Edo, literally translating to
"estuary" in Japanese.
Which fictional city is being talked about?

Q17:
Vampire's Kiss is a 1988 black comedy starring
Nicholas Cage, who plays a literary agent who
is convinced that he has turned into a vampire.
A particular scene of this movie gained
popularity when it was uploaded to YouTube in
2009, which led to a major contribution to pop
culture. What is being talked about?

Q18:
Put funda.
Brothers Grimm- 1937
Brothers Grimm-1950
Lewis Carroll - 1951
Charles Perrault- 1959
Hans Christian Andersen- 1989
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont- 1991
Arab folklore- 1992
Fictionalized biography of Matoaka- 1995
Chinese folklore- 1998
E.D. Baker- 2009
Brothers Grimm- 2010
Brenda Chapman- 2012
Hans Christian Andersen- 2013

Non exhaustive list of Disney movies based on
fairy tales

Q19: The child shown in the
picture shares his most
popular facial hairstyle
with another iconic
Figure in history.
Indeed, a movie that
Satirized the iconic figure
Was one of his many claims
To fame.
Id the child and the movie. No part points.

Charlie Chaplin
The Great Dictator

Q20:
In more recent derivative work he has been
given a greater prominence and treated as the
lead’s archenemy, who compares him to
Napoleon Bonaparte.
The author lifted the phrase from a Scotland
Yard inspector who was referring to Adam
Worth, a real-life criminal mastermind and one
of the individuals upon whom the character of X
was based. The character was introduced
primarily as a narrative device to enable the
author to kill off the lead, and only featured
directly in two of the stories. (1/2)

(2/2)
This is the illustration that accompanied the
original publication of
the first appearance of
the character.
Who is being talked
about?

Rules
 6 questions
 +10 if you get it right
 Part points wherever applicable
 +10 if you score 60/60

Q1:
X and Y have been extremely close friends in the
past and still maintain great respect for each other.
They first met in Haifa, a port city in Israel in a
clinic for traumatized Holocaust survivors, where Y,
a survivor himself, worked as a volunteer.
The fall out between X and Y happened over a
difference of ideologies.
The writers for X and Y have maintained that X's
character development has been inspired by Marin
Luther King Jr. and Y's character derives its
development from Malcolm X.
The timeline fits as well, as X and Y first made an
appearance for the general public in 1963. Id X and

Q2: William Joseph “Billy” Batson is the alter
ego of Captain X, also known as Y since 2011.
The name – “Captain X” is peculiar because of
trademark conflicts with their biggest
competitor. Due to this, he was relaunched in
2011, under the name Y.
Y Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999
by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery
Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee. Y is an app for
Macs, PCs, and smartphones, best known for its
music identification capabilities.
Id X and Y.

Q4:
This Google Doodle was designed by Jim Lee of
the DC Comics, and was put up on July 23,
2009 celebrating the 40th anniversary of X. Id
X.

Q5:
This comic strip was launched on November 21,
1991. A feature film, with Shubhankar Atre
playing the titular role was released on May 18,
2012.
Although the comic strip is usually associated
with one newspaper, it has appeared in a rival
newspaper for some time, before it was
reintroduced in the original newspaper.
Id this comic strip.

Q6:
In Asterix in Belgium, as part of a crossover,
two characters (by creator George Remi) make
an appearance:
Character 1: Julius Caesar has arrived in
Belgium.
Character 2: To be precise, Culius Jaesar has
arrived in Gelbium.
Which two characters are being talked about?

X – Professor X/Charles Xavier
Y – Magneto/Eric Eisenhard

The first official Comic-Con (San Diego)

Rules
 6 questions
 Differential Scoring
 If one team gets it, +25.
 If two teams get it, +20.
 If three teams get it, +15.
 If four teams get it, +10.
 If five teams get it, +5.
 If everyone gets it, we go the Drew Carey way.

Girl with a Pearl Earring – Johannes
Vermeer

Rules
 20 questions anticlockwise
 +10/0 for a direct/pass question
 Two-finite pounce: A team cannot pounce
further once it gets two questions wrong on
the pounce
 +20/0 on the pounce
 Pouncing on your own directs is permitted.

Q2: Id the film being celebrated.

Q3:
X, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, is also known for
his strong resemblance to actor and comedian Will
Ferrell, which he has acknowledged by wearing
shirts reading "I Am Not Will Ferrell" in live
performances.
In February 2014, through Funny or Die, X called
out Ferrell during his Reddit fan interview blasting
his drumming skills by saying "I've seen your skills.
You don't got 'em. Mr. Ferrell is a delusional
imposter. It seems to me that he has gone off his
meds and he needs to seek professional help
because I am obviously more talented and
handsome than he is. You know, his cowbell work is
well-documented, but his drum-set skills are
nominal based on Step Brothers film. Other than
wiping his testicles on the drums, which of course I
give high marks to.”

The two met in a "drum off" on The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where as trash
talk between the drum solos, Ferrell remarked,
"That was cute, really cute. What band do you
play for? The Lukewarm Chilli Peppers?" Who is
being talked about?

Q5:
Mickey Mouse was the first to achieve this feat
on Nov 18, 1978. Other notable members
include Snow White, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck,
Winnie the Pooh, and Godzilla. The Muppets
were the last ones to do this. What feat is being
talked about?

Fictional characters on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame

Q6:
He was born to a songwriter father and a singer
mother. His grandfather, Muztar Khairabadi was
a poet as was his grandfather's elder brother,
Bismil Khairabandi. His original name was
Jadoo, taken from a line written by his father
"Lamha lamha kisi jadoo ka fasana hoga." Who
is being talked about?

Q7:
The characters were created by Edward
Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer
Syndicate, a book-packaging firm, and the
books have been written by many different
ghostwriters over the years. The books are
published under the collective pseudonym
Franklin W. Dixon.
A similar, but NOT identical, style of narration
has been adopted in a very popular fantasy
series of novels too.
What are the characters being talked about?

The Hardy Boys – Frank and Joe Hardy

Q8:
The story for this TV commercial dates back to
1982, a year that witnessed the birth of the
first film for the brand, with the effervescent
jingle, created by composer Vedpal. The
company as a brand has, for the longest time,
been about its loud jingle, in-your-face happy
mothers with packs of the product in their
hands. It started off in Karsanbhai Patel's 100
sq. ft. workshop in 1969. Which company is
being talked about?

Q9:
Connect to a literary work.
1. Neil Nitin Mukesh
2. John Abraham
3. Irrfan Khan
4. Alexandr Dyachenko
5. Annu Kapoor
6. Naseeruddin Shah
7. Vivaan Shah

Susanna’s Seven Husbands
Ruskin Bond

Q10:
This is a quote from a Wikipedia article "X: A
Piece for Assorted Lunatics, as it was then
known, was performed in the presence of an
assembled press on 17 February 1972—more
than a year before its release—at a theatre in
London, and was critically acclaimed." The
album cover, according to multiple fan theories,
is perhaps just a simple homage to where the
music made its debut. Id X and the location
being talked about. Part points (on the direct)

X: Dark Side of the Moon
Rainbow Theatre

Q11: Put astronomical funda. (Total = 27)
The Tempest 9
The Rape of the Lock 3
Romeo and Juliet 2
Midsummer Night's Dream 3
As You Like It 1
Hamlet 1
King Lear 1
The Merchant of Venice 1
Much Ado About Nothing 1
Othello 1
Taming of the Shrew 1
The Winter's Tale 1
Timon of Athens 1
Troillus and Cressida 1

Uranus’ Moons
Names derived from works by William
Shakespeare and Alexander Pope

Q12:
This is a clip from an Alfred Hitchcock movie
titled Spellbound released in 1945. The
background and set design for this dream
sequence was carried out by?

Q13:
ID X and Y from this exhaustive list
Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie
Mac, Elliot Gould, Casey Affleck. Scott Caan,
Eddie Jamieson, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner, Eddie
Izzard, X and Y.
No part points.

Brad Pitt
George Clooney
Ocean’s Thirteen

Q14:
A Berény painting titled Sleeping Lady with
Black Vase, whose whereabouts had been
unknown since 1928, was re-discovered by
chance in 2009 by art historian Gergely Barki
upon watching a 1999 movie, with his daughter,
where the painting was used as a prop. An
assistant set designer had bought the painting
cheaply from a California antique store for use
in the film, and had kept it in her home after
production ended. The painting was sold at
auction in Budapest on December 13, 2014 for
€229,500. Id this movie.

Q15:
When asked about the origin of this
catchphrase, the actors said he owed it to Jim
Morrison's use of the same word four times -
one for his car, one for getting high, one for
rock-n-roll, and one for picking up chicks.
However, since he fulfilled just three out of the
four, he shortened it to using the same word
three times. Who is the actor/what is the
catchphrase?

Matthew McCoughnahey
Alright alright alright

Q16:
David Fincher has claimed that there is at least
one X visible in every scene of Fight Club. In
Pune, X would cost you a minimum of Rs. 110.
Id X.

SIR ARTHUR
CONAN
DOYLE
Q17: Connect

Q18:
X is an Indian actress and costume designer.
She has won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
for costume design in 2001. She is the recipient
of three National Awards – two for costume
design, one for Bandit Queen (1993) and one
for Haider (2014) and then as a supporting
actress in 2012.
Who?

Q19:
X is best known for his Grammy award winning
album
A Meeting by the River with
Ry Cooder. He is also known
for other fusion and pan-cultural
collaborations with Western artists
such as Taj Mahal, Béla Fleck
and Jerry Douglas. He has also
performed at the 2004 Crossroads
Guitar Festival, organized by Eric
Clapton.
Id him.

Anthony Hopkins
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