Smarticus 2.0 is a pop culture and current affairs quiz conducted at P A College of Engineering during Technix 2019. The finals quiz consisted of 4 rounds. The presentation include answers.

1. WELCOME TO SMARTICUS
2.0
GENERAL QUIZ

2. GENERAL RULES
• This quiz has 4 round and total of 27 question
• The rules for the each round will be will be instructed
• Quiz masters decision will be final. So for next one hour I am
your lord
• Shouting out the answer out of the turn will fetch you -200
(REMEMBER)
• And don’t forget to have fun  

3. AUDIENCE QUESTION

4. WHAT FRUIT HAS ITS SEEDS OUTSIDE?

5. STRAWBERRIES

6. ROUND 1: BOUNCE AND POUNCE
1. There are total of 12 question. First 6 will be clockwise and next six will be
anti-clockwise
2. Direct question will fetch you 10 point and no negative
3. Pass question will fetch you 5 points if the answer is correct and no
negatives for wrong answer
4. Pounce will fetch you 20 points for correct answer and -10 for wrong
answer
5. If team getting a direct question to answer and the team is sure of the
answer, that team can mushroom the questions. The mushroom will fetch
you 30 points and -15 points to get the answer wrong
6. Shouting out the answer out of the turn will fetch you -200 (REMEMBER)

7. 1. IDENTIFY
X
• The Nike MAG is a limited edition shoe created by Nike Inc. It is a
replica of a shoe featured in X. The Nike Mag was originally
released for sale in 2011 and again in 2016. Both launches were
extremely limited in quantity. The 2011 pair was limited to 1,500
pairs, while the 2016 release was limited to 89 pairs.
• Over 15 years after X, an online petition that asked for the return
of the shoes caught the attention of Tinker Hatfield. With the help
of footwear innovator Tiffany Beers, they began to build the Nike
MAG from scratch. They worked on the shoes for approximately
six years and had to restart about three times. After thousands of
hours of work, the shoes were a perfect replica of the 1989 Nike
MAG worn by _________. The shoes feature
an electroluminescent out-sole, space age materials, and a
rechargeable internal battery good for 3,000 hours. They are the
first rechargeable pair of footwear by Nike. Power laces, a
prominent feature of the shoe in the film, are not present. Nike has
gone on record saying Mag is not meant for heavy activity and
should not be worn for recreational purposes. They were produced
mostly for display.

8. SAFETY SLIDE

9. BACK TO THE FUTURE II

10. 2. IDENTIFY
THE OTHER
2
• Only 5 characters have appeared in
all 3 films of Nolan’s DK trilogy.
• Bruce Wayne
• Alfred Pennyworth
• Commissioner Gordan

11. SAFETY SLIDE

12. • Lucius Fox
• Scarecrow

13. 3. FIND X
X is an English-language
Icelandic children's educational musical action
comedy program made by an international crew and
performed by a cast from Iceland, the United States
and the United Kingdom. It is based upon a children's
book from 1995 titled Áfram Latibær! and was
created by Magnús Scheving, an aerobics champion
who also plays the character in the show.
• The show however rose to popularity because of its
main antagonist. Who even sang a song for the
show. A special statue in the video game For
Honor that appeared to be created in tribute to
Stefánsson and his X character. The statue is called
“Number One,’ and is captioned “In Memoriam – To
our Number One villain.”

14. THE STATUE

15. SAFETY SLIDE

16. LAZY TOWN

17. 4. PUT
FUNDA
• While roaming the wastelands in
Fallout: New Vegas we can see a
Suave Gambler Hat sitting inside a
blown apart refrigerator, which is a
cheeky parody of what?

18. SAFETY SLIDE

19. INDIANA JONES
SURVIVING A
NUCLEAR
EXPLOSION IN A
FRIDGE

20. 5. WHICH
SERIES
• A novel by Jay Asher, which TV
series originally was slated to be
produced as a film, with Selena
Gomez in the lead role, but ended
up being produced as a web series
with her as ex. producer?

21. SAFETY SLIDE

22. 13 REASONS
WHY

23. 6. FITB
• ______________ is an ongoing
Japanese superhero webcomic creat
ed by ONE which began publication
in early 2009. The series quickly
went viral, surpassing 7.9 million
hits in June 2012.
• ___________ tells the story
of ________, a superhero who has
grown bored by the absence of
challenge in his fight against evil
and seeks to find a worthy
opponent.

24. SAFETY SLIDE

25. ONE PUNCH MAN

26. SWITCH 7.
FIND
• The premise for __________ was conceived by
screenwriter Derek Kolstad who began work
on a treatment about a retired contract killer
coming out to seek vengeance, entitled Scorn.
After one month of work, he had completed
the first draft of the screenplay, and once he
had addressed several issues he pitched the
script to various clients, garnering at least
three offers. Kolstad was influenced by film-
noir classics and the themes of revenge and
the antihero and what might play out if the
most evil man found redemption only to have
it taken away.
• The name of the movie was however changed
to the name of the lead character who was
named after Kolstad’s grandfather by
suggestion from the lead actor.

27. SAFETY SLIDE

28. JOHN WICK

29. 8. ORIGIN
OF WHAT
• The script said annoying grunt, so
the voice actor decided to pay
tribute to Laurel and Hardy actor
Kimmy Finlayson’s, drawn out
_________ originally stood for
“damn”, by replacing it with _’__

30. SAFETY SLIDE

31. DOH

32. 9. WHICH
MOVIE
• The reopening of cinemas in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia comes as part
of social reforms being promoted
by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin
Salman. The promotion of culture and
entertainment are also a part of his
“Vision 2030,” a program to transform
the country’s economy and society.
• In 2018 “X” is the first film shown at a
commercial cinema in 35 years in Saudi
Arabia as cinemas were reopened

33. SAFETY SLIDE

34. BLACK PANTHER

35. 10. ID X
• X is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set on the
prosperous Long Island of 1922,
• X provides a critical social history of America
during the Roaring Twenties within its fictional
narrative. That era, known for widespread
economic prosperity, the development of jazz
music, flapper culture, new technologies in
communication (motion pictures, broadcast radio,
recorded music) forging a genuine mass culture,
and bootlegging, along with other criminal activity.
• Fitzgerald uses many of these societal
developments of the 1920s to build X’s stories,
from many of the simple details like automobiles
to broader themes like Fitzgerald's discreet
allusions to the organized crime culture which was
the source of X 's fortune. Fitzgerald depicts the
garish society of the Roaring Twenties by placing
the book's plotline within the historical context of
the era.

36. SAFETY SLIDE

37. THE GREAT
GATSBY

38. 11. FITB
• In Baby Driver, for the second heist,
Jamie Foxx’s Bats asks “No Nose” to
get _______ ______ masks from the
Halloween series. However, due to
miscommunication, they get the
wrong masks, and have to go in
disguised as a comedic character
instead. What masks did they go
into the heist wearing?

39. SAFETY SLIDE

40. AUSTIN
POWERS

41. 12. FIND X
• The person on the next slide is an actor. He
has worked in TV and movies for the past 31
years and has over 150 credits in TV Series
and Movies ranging from Fantastic Four: Rise
of the Silver Surfer to Batman Returns( he
debuted in this) and many more such as Star
Trek: Discovery and most recently, X which
has caused him to finally start getting some
fame because of its success at a recent
globally viewed event.
• He got interested into acting because of
Mimes, which is a very visual style of art and
his roles very rarely need him to speak, but
have a lot of expressiveness in movement and
features.
• What does he specialize in and give me X?

42. SAFETY SLIDE

43. AMPHIBIAN
MAN/ SHAPE
OF WATER

44. END OF ROUND 1

45. ROUND 2: ENDGAME BUZZER
1. This round has 6 question.
2. All questions are about endgame Easter eggs.
3. Correct answer will fetch you 20 points and -10 for wrong
answer
4. Shouting out the answer out of the turn will fetch you -200
(REMEMBER)

46. SPOILER!!!

47. WHO IS THE
KID(GROWN
UP) WHO
CAMEOS IN
THE
FUNERAL
• Character name or Movie reference
will do.

48. SAFETY SLIDE

49. HARLEY KEENER / IRONMAN 3

50. WHAT
SOUND IS
HEARD
WHILE
MARVEL
LOGO IS
SHOWN
AFTER THE
CREDITS
SCENE?
• Movie or significance

51. SAFETY SLIDE

52. IT’S THE SOUND OF TONY STARK CREATING
THE PROTO-IRON MAN SUIT, THE MARK 1

53. WHAT IS THE
CATCHPHRA
SE WRITTEN
ON STAN
LEE’S CAR’S
BUMPER
• A usual quote by the late Marvel
founder.

54. SAFETY SLIDE

55. NUFF SAID

56. FIRST
OPENLY GAY
CHARACTER
IN MCU
• Character or Actor

57. SAFETY SLIDE

58. JOE RUSSO

59. WHEN TONY
STARK SEES THOR
HAVING FALLEN
OUT OF SHAPE
AND WEARING A
ROBE, HE CALLS
HIM “X" IN
REFERENCE TO
THE TITULAR
CHARACTER IN
THE X WHO HAS A
SIMILAR LOOK.

60. SAFETY SLIDE

61. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

62. JUST AS THE
VANISHED
AVENGERS
START TO
SHOW UP,
SAM WILSON
TELLS STEVE
“________”
• FITB and explain the reference

63. SAFETY SLIDE

64. STEVE DID TO SAM WHEN PASSING HIM WHILE
RUNNING AROUND DC IN CAPTAIN AMERICA:
THE WINTER SOLDIER.

65. END OF ROUND 2

66. PLEASE TALLY POINTS!

67. ROUND 3: PERSONAL BRAND LOGOS
1. There are 6 questions.
2. All the question are on buzzers
3. Right answer +20 wrong -10
4. Shouting out the answer out of the turn will fetch you -200
points
5. For example

68. 1.

69. SAFETY SLIDE

70. VICTORIA BECKHAM

71. 2

72. SAFETY SLIDE

73. MICHAEL PHELPS

74. 3.

75. SAFETY SLIDE

77. 4.

78. SAFETY SLIDE

79. ANDY MURRAY

80. 5.

81. SAFETY SLIDE

83. 6.

84. SAFETY SLIDE

85. KOBE BRYANT

86. END OF ROUND 3

87. ROUND 4: CONNECT
1. There are 3 questions.
2. All the question are on buzzers
3. Right answer +30 wrong -10
4. Shouting out the answer out of the turn will fetch you -200
points

89. SAFETY SLIDE

90. APRIL FOOLS ADS

91. CONNECT

92. SAFETY SLIDE

93. TEAMS LEBRON JAMES HAS PLAYED FOR

95. SAFETY SLIDE

96. NEW INDIAN CURRENCY COLOURS

97. END OF ROUND 4

98. PLEASE TALLY POINTS!

99. THANK YOU