Requiz'em For A Dream - Finals

Requiz’em For A Dream -Finals
Researched and conducted by:
Rithwik Rao

Huge thanks to:
Team Incident 2022 and Literary Stage and Debating Society, NITK for having me
here and host this quiz
Guinea pigs:
● Dwijesh Athrey
● Harshit Kumar
● Jijiss Basil Joy
● Aditi Gupta (for giving some ideas for fundae as well)
● Aabhaas Dasgupta
● Major Chandrakant Nair
Last but not the least, to all of you for coming here today and participating

Themes covered:
● Dreams
● Fantasy
● Legends
● Daydreaming
● Hallucinations

Finals rounds
Theme written round 1 - 5 questions
Clockwise IBP - 10 questions
Theme written round 2 - 5 questions
Anticlockwise IBP - 10 questions

Theme Written Round 1
Theme: Women + Dreams/Fantasy

Rules
● Written round of 5 questions. Each question carries 10 points. Part points
applicable for multiple part questions.
● All answers to be written on your answer sheets. Answers will be revealed
at the end of the round and all teams must exchange your answer sheets
with other teams for evaluation.
● Do not reveal the answers out loud.
● Audience to not reveal the answers loud as well. We will ask for the
answers from you when it is time for the answers to be revealed
● There will be a quick rerun after all 5 questions

1
“Blood Drive” is the season 5 episode 18 of the TV show The Office which
involves a blood drive on Valentine’s Day for the employees of Dunder Mifflin
and other nearby offices.
Coming out of gloominess because of his first Valentine’s Day without his love
interest Holly, Michael goes to the blood drive and finds an unknown woman
donating blood next to him. He has a nice conversation with her before
passing out. Once he wakes up, he finds out that the woman is gone and he
doesn’t even know her name. Assuming the glove on the table beside him is
the one left by her, he takes it and wants to find the identity of the mystery
woman by making use of it.
What does he thus compare this next move of his to, in a conversation?

2
_____’s _____ is a tree/plant deformity that features a dense mass of shoots
growing from a single point instead of being distributed across the tree.
This happens because of the distribution of auxins, the trees’ growth
hormones, being tampered by chemical eﬀects of parasites.
The deformity is named so because of its resemblance to a _____’s _____ in
many cases.
FITB/ What is the name of this deformity?

3
This Indian company has been manufacturing only one kind of products
since its foundation in the late 1950s.
Two of their most famous products are the red and black striped X and the
black-silvery coloured Y which have blue bottoms. Unbeknownst to many,
people have assumed that X and Y have been from rival companies with
kids’ arguments regarding which among X and Y is the better product,
being a major factor.
ID the extremely famous products X and Y which many of us would have
used at some point in our lives.

4
Senhora Do Destino was a Brazilian telenovela that ran in the years 2004 and
2005. According to Brazilian viewers, what stood out in the telenovela was the
performance of actress Renata Sorrah as the super villain.
One particular normal scene of the show features Sorrah’s character
imprisoned in a cell and her getting lost in the stressful thoughts in her mind.
Although the scene wasn’t one that was noteworthy, some stills of the scene
became hugely popular since the middle of last decade with edits made to the
stills by adding in an assortment of characters and simple 2D graphics.
How do we know this set of stills from a scene of this telenovela better?

5
In 2019, Rainn Wilson hosted an Office trivia quiz session in collaboration with
Billboard with a celebrity X who claimed to be the biggest Office fan. Before
going with the questions, he jokingly calls X as William and fist bumps with X
which he jokes about being painful because of the multiple rings on X’s hands.
In the middle of the trivia questionnaire, Wilson cleverly slips in a question
related to what caused X’s instant worldwide fame in 2019. X responds to the
question saying “You have to answer that one” following initial laughter.
Who is X? What question was cleverly slipped in?

X-Nataraj pencils
Y-Apsara pencils

Billie Eilish
When we all fall asleep,where do we go?

Rules
10 questions
Clockwise
Bounce: +10/0
Pounce: +10/-5
If question has multiple parts, all parts to be given on pounce.
Audience to not reveal answers loudly unless asked to do so

1
Dwight Hurst is an American psychologist, writer and podcaster who oﬀers
solutions specialized to trauma and addiction issues. In 2015, he published a
book with the subject being lucid dreaming (dreaming as you realize it).
Hurst himself mentions that this is one such solution to the issues with a
mention that his patients will be crystal clear that they will be dreaming. Thus,
the six worded title of the book is a clever pun on a more than 50 year old pop
culture sensation with a change to one word. The title could also be
considered ironic considering one certain problem whose solutions are
discussed in the book and also because of a famous rumour that the pop
culture phenomenon was intentionally named to abbreviate to something.
What was the title of this book?

Lucid in the sky with Diamonds

2
George Raveling is an American former college basketball player and coach
who is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
However, he has another claim to fame outside basketball which dates back to
the middle of last century. Raveling travelled to Washington DC and
volunteered as a security guard for some time during a gathering. This is when
he was enchanted by what a certain someone attending the gathering did and
then had the privilege to ask him for a memory of this at the end of what he
did after it was no longer required. As a souvenir, Raveling has kept these
items with him till now.
What are these items?

Martin Luther King’s“I have a dream”speech notes

3
In 2017, Manipal University conducted a study with a group of people from
coastal Karnataka pursuing a certain profession. It was found that 91 percent
of these people had issues such as voice hoarseness, throat dryness and
larynx fatigue.
This was a result of their profession taking a toll on them with some additional
possible factors being irregular sleep patterns and excess intake of tobacco
and caﬀeine.
What was the profession pursued by the subjects of this study?

4
About one year ago, NASA snapped a few satellite images over the
westernmost parts of a famous area that occupies 7000000 sq km and was in
the news two and a half years ago. The astronauts had their attention drawn
to it because of the intensity reﬂected sunshine coming from there.
The snapshots showed an illegal activity taking place and became widely
popular on social media. These images led to populaces expressing that they
started believing in something that has been a hot topic for more than 500
years.
Which area is this? What did these images make people to start believe in?

Amazon rainforest
The legend of El Dorado

5
In 2012, the company Visa Inc. came up with an app on Google Play and Apple
Store which was a kind of calculator to compute the ideal cost of a certain
expenditure that must be spent by parents for their children of age 5-12.
The calculator takes in several inputs such as the age of the child and the
parent, the gender of the child, income of the household, the education level
of the child, the region of USA they stay in and lastly but most importantly if
the biological change has happened for the ﬁrst time or not. But according to
business consultants, they say that this is a driver of inﬂation rather than a
calculator of this expenditure.
The app tries to calculate the ideal cost of what expenditure by parents?

Money offered by“tooth fairy”

6
This is a famous location in northern US that holds a certain famous
annual event. The edition last year in May saw a French-Swiss person
make a famous comeback after an unfortunate incident 6 months
previously to the general category of events of this kind although this was
the ﬁrst instance for him to participate in this particular event. As a result
of this comeback, he was aptly given a nickname that is related to
something from the world of fantasy.
Which event is this? Who was the French-Swiss man who made a
comeback? What was the nickname given to him due to his comeback?

Indy 500
Romain Grosjean
Phoenix

7
Alvin Pang is a contemporary
award-winning poet. The following
paragraph shows the last verse of one
of his poems that talks about how
overrated one certain famous entity
from his home country is, which he
was fascinated by during childhood
and doesn’t feel the same way once
he became an adult due to its artiﬁcial
nature.
What is the subject of this poem?
“Rough beast, you are neither idol nor
ideal.
Your heart is hollow, cold, and open
for admission, but we have nowhere else
to hide our dreams. Take what names
we have to give, and hold our secrets well
Keep what matters and what counts
The rest you can spit as spray.”

8
The Geisel Library is the main library building of the University of California, San
Diego and was first built in 1970. The building’s architecture has been praised
by many as “a fascinating nexus between brutalism and futurism”.
The name of the library was just “Central Library” before changing its current
name in 1990 because of the library receiving a donation from the widow of X
who contributed 2.3 million dollars worth of original works by X. The
architecture of the library inspired a fictional structure that featured in the
climax of a certain work from the very beginning of the last decade.
ID X, who was known famously by a different name because of him appeasing
to his father who wanted him to pursue a different profession. Which fictional
structure’s architecture took its inspiration from this library?

Dr Seuss (whose actual name was Theodor Seuss Geisel)
The snow fortress from Inception

9
San Camp is a safari resort located in the savannahs south of the
Makgadikgadi Pans of the African country Botswana. The resort also features
seven 1940s style white tents amidst the rich wildlife in the savannahs.
Despite the natural beauty and the rich wildlife it oﬀers, the resort became
immensely popular due to another reason in 2015. This was because the area
in and around the resort was featured in something that was in turn inspired
by the stories of love aﬀairs in 1940s between certain Americans in the
savannahs of Africa.
Where were the quick glimpses of the resort stitched together in 2015 which
ultimately brought fame to the resort?

Music video of Wildest Dreams byTaylor Swift

10
A certain indoor traffic light has been used for an annual occasion since 2015
which has seen the excellence of Indian-American youths in most of the
editions this century. In every 2 minute window, the green signal is shown for
the first 75 seconds, yellow for the next 15 and red for the last 30.
The identities of the members of the committee behind the approval of the
most important aspects of this annual occasion are kept secret. The
spokesman of the event said that even the members must not acknowledge
they are or were part of the committee anytime. He, thus, compared this to
something famous that was born out of a hallucination.
What is the purpose of the traffic light for this event? What did the spokesman
of the event compare the level of secrecy of the committee to?

Timekeeping for spelling the words in Scripps Spell Bee
First rule of Fight Club

Theme Written Round 2
Theme: DreamWorks ﬁlms

1
Shown is a snippet of a scene from the 1999 Hollywood film American Beauty
which revolves around a man with a midlife crisis having infatuations of a
young girl.
In one scene, he has a reverie of rose petals falling on him while he imagines
about the beauty of his crush. This snippet was spoofed famously in a
particular scene of a DreamWorks film that was the first film in its particular
franchise.
Which scene of a DreamWorks film was inspired by this one from American
Beauty?

2
Master Croc is a character from the Kung Fu Panda franchise who is one of the
members of the Kung Fu Council.
The character is voiced by a certain actor who was a common appearance in
martial art ﬁlms ever since the 1980s after immigrating from a French-speaking
country. The climax scene of Kung Fu Panda 2 features the character assisting
Po and the Five to take down the antagonist Shen and his pose of entrance in
the scene is a clever tribute to a distinctive speciality of his, which he took to
the next level two years later thanks to a Swedish company.
Who voiced Master Croc? Where did we see his famous distinctive speciality
being taken to the next level?

3
This late 90s film was the second DreamWorks film based on a famous story in
a historic setting.
One of the first sequences of the film involves a playful chariot race between
the protagonist and the eventual antagonist that causes destruction in the
town which also includes a playful nod to answering one of the hottest
questions in archaeology towards the end of the sequence. The image in the
next slide shows moments before the film “answers” this question.
What is the question that is playfully answered at the end of this sequence?

4
The film Megamind features a supporting character called Metro Man, who is
deemed to be the guardian of Metro City by the people of the city. Metro Man
was modeled after a real-life person and this fact is also alluded by Metro
Man’s desire to be a musician once he retires from superhero duties.
To celebrate his siege of Metro City in one part of the film, Megamind puts up
huge blue and red banners of himself with a 3-word slogan (2,3,4) to signify
that no one can defeat him. These banners are clearly a contrasting spoof of
something famous and influencing that came to existence fourteen years ago.
Which real-life person (who had his pinnacle in the third quarter of last
century) is Metro Man modelled after? What are Megamind’s banners
contrasting spoofs of?

5
This is a fan-made spoof design of
the iconic DreamWorks logo paying
tribute to a DreamWorks ﬁlm
franchise.
Which educative DreamWorks ﬁlm
franchise is paid tribute to here?

Alex’s steak dream from Madagascar

Jean Claude Van Damme
Volvo epic split ad

Who broke the nose of the Sphinx?

Elvis Presley
Barack Obama’s election posters

Rules
10 questions
Anticlockwise
Bounce: +10/0
Pounce: +10/-5
If question has multiple parts, all parts to be given on pounce.
Audience to not reveal answers loudly unless asked to do so

1
Narwhal is an animal found abundantly in the Arctic waters near Greenland,
Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia.
In the medieval times, the animal was killed in huge populations in the Nordic
seas by sailors because they concocted an idea of extracting certain body
parts of the animal to be a counterfeit substitute for “something else” that was
believed to be an antidote for any poison and a water puriﬁer as well.
What were these certain body parts of this animal a counterfeit substitute for
in the medieval times?

2
Whenever this cricketer (active for his national side from mid 1990s to mid
2010s) was in an excellent run of form in international games or in domestic
leagues like the IPL with RCB and KKR with exploits in batting and bowling,
newspapers and tabloids would refer to this phase of his with a certain
constant headline to praise his other-worldly performances.
The headline was a nice pun on a famous work of fantasy from the middle of
19th century.
Which cricketer was this? What was this commonly used headline to applaud
his excellent form?

Jacques Kallis
Kallis in Wonderland

3
Imperial Leather Furniture Company was a company that was based in
Queens, New York. In the early 1940s, due to a development of a certain ﬁeld,
they took some inspiration to come up with couches that lacked buttons and
cushions to avoid distractions despite comfort being sacriﬁced.
These couches were called ________ couches because they were inspired by the
design of a couch that was moved from Central Europe to London in the late
1930s and belonging to someone which was a vital possession for his career.
FITB (or) just give me the root word of the blank.

4
In one of Agatha Christie’s novels, an accomplice in a murder is a clay sculptor
and hides a gun, the murder weapon, in an abstract sculpture of a certain
domesticated animal in her studio. (Apologies for the spoiler)
When the police describe the looks of her studio to Poirot, he ﬁnds the
aforementioned sculpture ﬁshy. He ultimately deduces the sculpture to be the
hiding place of the murder weapon after discovering the unconscious reason of
why the sculpture had the form of this animal, which turned out to be an
allusion to an iconic entity with a somewhat similar purpose.
Which animal was chosen to be the subject of the sculpture? What was this
sculpture an allusion to?

5
The crested caracara is a bird of prey with a tropical habitat that is spread
across two certain continents but can also be found in arid habitats in these
continents. Its diet consists of decaying meat of dead animals as well as
reptiles, which is an odd observation for its family.
In 1960, an ornithologist named Rafael Martin del Campo came up with a
theory that this was the bird featured in a famous legend that all started with a
dream, going by the habitat and behaviour and not another famous bird. This
legend has also famously been turned into a location-speciﬁc symbol of pride.
What is the symbol that I am talking about?

6
Three Goats Billy Gruﬀ is a Norwegian fantasy children’s tale which involves
three goats trying to cross a bridge to get to a pasture for nutrition. An
obstacle that they face is a creature of a troll that lives under the bridge and
tries to converse with the goats for a motive to gobble them down.
A certain native from the US state of Maine was inspired by this tale and the
dread it brought to him as a child to come up with a work in the 1980s. He
then used an allegorical reference of the bridge to a ﬁctional city and cleverly
incorporated the troll as an intelligent creature with a liking for nickels here.
Which work of his was this, which also came back to the limelight in 2017 and
2019 as well?

7
This music artist (shown in next slide) has had a long-standing rivalry with a
certain company. It all started in 2014 when the company filed a copyright
infringement statement against the artist attributed to something that he uses
every concert.
The conflict deepened when the company used one of his songs without
permission in a set of videos where they remix old videos of their first ever
series with some new age songs and is aptly given a one word punny term.
One song of his titled “Terrors in My Head” featured Maria Viktorovna who
pursues a certain profession that has found advent since 2015 on YouTube.
Which company? What was the one word punny title given to the set of
videos? What profession does Maria pursue which is also alluded in the song?

8
In 2010, to protest against the wall built by Israel to separate themselves from
Palestine territories, the Palestinians of the village Bilin protested in a unique
way. This was done by painting their whole bodies blue and wearing wigs with
plaits to show that they were being oppressed heavily by Israeli forces.
This was an allusion to certain people in X, which is a work that Ukranian
columnist Maxim Chaikovsky cites is heavily inﬂuenced by Hindu mythology.
One of Chaikovsky’s theories is that a particular feature of the landscape in X
(that is explained as the consequence of a certain magnetic eﬀect) is actually a
reference to a popular story from a certain 8th X in Hindu mythology.
Who were alluded to in the Palestinians’ protests? What story, according to
Chaikovsky, inspired the landscape in the same work?

Na’vi tribe in Avatar
Krishna lifting the Govardhan mountain

9
“Scavenger Pants” is a season 11 episode of Spongebob Squarepants where
Squidward sends Spongebob and Patrick on a scavenger hunt for certain
entities that are extremely diﬃcult to retrieve just to make sure that
Spongebob and Patrick are not around to disturb him.
One of them is something that Squidward says is impossible to retrieve since
they will be gobbled up if they try to retrieve it. Thus, Spongebob and Patrick
try to enchant it in a certain manner shown in the next slide. Another entity
that Squidward says to retrieve is a ﬂower known as Boxing Begonia which is
only found at a certain location.
What is the former entity that they try to retrieve? What is the location in
question?

Loch Ness Monster
Mariana Trench

10
The psychedelic drug LSD (lysergic acid dimethylamide) requires small
amounts to give the desired hallucinogenic eﬀect and is taken by placing it on
the tongue. In the last few years, consumption of LSD has been common
among prisoners in the jails of US, including high security prisons, to get out of
their harsh reality.
One smart method of smuggling in the drug was using some entities while
communicating with their family members and friends. While directly intaking
the drug from these entities, it did not seem unusual to do so as it looked like
a common practice which involves contact between tongues and the said
entities.
How was LSD being smuggled into prisons, which has added more to narcotic
pansophy lately?

By placing it on postal stamps from received letters

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