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The dastardly villain Y from a famous series always posed a creative challenge to
the screenwriters with his character and continuing the plotline for the movie. This
was because Y had already achieved his purpose, hence making Y more deadly than
before would violate/defy the character development he was given so far.
In fact they grew weary of finding newer plotlines when one of them was angry
enough to say “Can’t we just kill him?!” which gave rise to more questions like
“What happens if you just kill him? Why would you kill him? Why would he let you
kill him?” and that’s what they finally did. And ending him finally became okay as
he would be dead, believing his vision would be irreversible, having already
achieved it.
Identify Y.
Q1

This comic strip was the brainchild of 2 full-time journalists Bharat and
Shalan Savur, who wanted to create a new form of fiction which they called
cri-fi. They decided to name the character “_____ the Supersleuth”, after X, a
famous real-life personality. He would go on to fight members of his (now
retired) profession from Bandookstan (a parody of a real-life nation), and
England, and sometimes even took on evil magicians from beyond the
Himalayas. Some of the other foreign characters in this series were named
differently from their real life counterparts, with names like Gotham, Usman
and Bower.
ID X.
Q2

On 15th June, 2020, EndeavorRX became the first treatment of its kind to be
approved by the FDA as a medical treatment for ADHD in children. The
company that rolls out this treatment suggests a treatment period of 25-30
minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 4 weeks.
Underneath this unusual, often parentally villainized treatment method are
patented stimuli and algorithms designed to target the areas of the brain
that play a role in attention function, training the brain to ignore
distractions and concentrate on the treatment requiring hand-eye
coordination, and major cognitive functions.
What was EndeavorRX’s claim to fame?
Q3

Burrhus Frederic _______ was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author,
inventor, and social philosopher. He also used operant conditioning to
strengthen behavior. To study operant conditioning, he invented the
operant conditioning chamber (aka the _______ box) which is used to study
animal behaviour.
Based on his extensive experiments with a particular animal, _______ was the
name of the antagonist in a 2007 Oscar winning movie .
FITB and ID the movie.
Q4

In the 1976 film “All The President's Men”, actors Robert Redford and
Dustin Hoffman play the roles of journalists Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein, who investigated the Pentagon Papers on the controversial
Watergate Scandal, which led to the resignation of the US President
Richard Nixon.
In 2017, what seemed like a remake of the same movie was released,
which was not simply a prequel to “All The President's Men” but a more
holistic representation of the progressive ideals of the original film.
Which aptly named film are we talking about here?
Q5*

The venue for the super bowl 2007, in Miami, Florida, was unfortunately
met with relentless rain. X, a mega popstar, was to take the stage at the
halftime show.
It was the heaviest rain in a superbowl in 40 years. But in spite of the
pouring rain, X put on a performance which is widely considered the
best super bowl halftime show of all time and ended the iconic set with
one of his songs Y, which coincidentally, perfectly suited the occasion!
Who is the artist X and which is the song Y?
Q6

ID the connection between the following items of the non-exhaustive
list given below in the field of the world film industry:
● Large golden bell
● Snake
● Peeled Banana
● Raspberry
● Toilet
Q7

Baroque Works is a criminal organization where criminals are paired up in a
male-female pair. The male members have a number as a codename, a lower
number indicating higher rank while the female members are given a 'day' as
their codename - which may be a normal day of the week or a special occasion
with special days being indicative of higher ranks. An example would be the
pairing of the 5th Ranked Mr 5 and Miss Valentine, Mr 0 and Miss All Sunday,
Miss Wednesday and Mr 9.
A special exception to this is seen in this pairing, referred to as the 'unluckies'
where the members are animals instead of humans-a male otter and a female
vulture
What are the codenames of the Otter and the Vulture?
Q8

____ ____ is an art installation series by Dutch designer Maarten Baas.
One of the “artworks” consists of a 12 hour long video. An excerpt
from said video is shown below.
Put funda behind the art installation series.
Q9

ID the connect between the following images
Q10*
Max Verstappen Carlos Sainz Jr.

July 4 in Britain is annually celebrated as X Day, where people gather together in
costumes to commemorate the first time _____ _______ told the famous story. Brits –
and now others — celebrate with tea parties, theater performances, cosplay, tours
of the Oxford area where the classic story was created.
One website says, “Decorating for an X Day party can be loads of fun, incorporating
all sorts of themes from the book. Try using playing cards, clocks, keys, white
rabbits, pink flamingos…”
ID the story X.
Q11

This phrase refers to an urban legend/conspiracy theory revolving around the alleged
demise and replacement of an extremely famous modern-day knight, with a look-alike
called "William Campbell Shears" by his colleagues.
Supposedly, this was done on behest of MI5, out of concern for the extreme distress that
would affect said knight's followers. It was "backed by evidence" through analysis of a
world famous piece of “art”. Adding fuel to the fire were references in the work of the
knight's colleagues, as they were commonly known for including a technique known as
backmasking in their work.
This rumour was started around 1967, but grew in popularity in late 1969, which
subsided around the 1970s after the knight in question gave an interview to the Life
magazine. In 1993, the knight parodied the hoax with references to all the "evidence"
that was collected.
ID the phrase, if the parody was phrased with the exact opposite meaning.
Q12

ID the pop culture reference that inspired this makeup brand.
Q13

The success of the movie X when it first came out, saw a huge
increase in the number of applications to the US navy. To ensure
continued increase in applications, the US Navy even set up
recruiting stations outside of movie theaters when X was released,
to catch potential recruits as they left the cinema hyped up by the
movie’s dramatic climax.
ID X.
Q14

_____ ____ was a free Web-based multilingual translation application
than translated text or Web pages in 36 pairs between 13 languages.
This application derived its name from a fictional species in a
famous comedy science fiction novel, which further refers to the
biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city
of _____.
ID name of application and novel.
Q15*

“___: The Movie” is IMDb's No. 1 rated comedy feature with over 1000 votes,
with a rating of 10.0/10. Geoff Ramsey, the movie's writer, claims he doesn't
know who created the IMDb entry, only that is some "overzealous" fan or
viewer. IMDb users have called this "A modern day 12 Angry Men" and an
"existential masterpiece". After Geoff’s 50 minute prequel video, him and his
friends decided to have another go at it, turn on all optional rules and up the
winning point limit to 500, resulting in a wild, 160 minute epic about the
downfall of 5 men and the “psychological horror” they face while playing this
colourful, friendship-destroying game.
FITB.
Q16

This TV show garnered a lot of attention for its crude representation
of inequality and poverty. It also caught attention of modern art
enthusiasts; as the nameless antagonist's book shelf was shown to
hold works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Magritte.
Apt to the plot, the show also recreates some of the very famous art
pieces such as Rothschild's “Surrealist ball”, Judy Chicago's “The
Dinner Table” and Edvard Munch's “The Scream of Nature”.
What TV show is this?
Q17

William Shakespeare’s X is a series of novels that parody
Shakespeare’s writing with a popular franchise, that has expanded
into animated series-es and video games since its explosive entry
into theatres.
ID X.
Q18

This is a scene from the movie Agent Vinod. Something was written
into this scene by the writer-director just for aesthetics and to make the
scene cooler.
However, this minor addition ended up having a big impact on the
writer-director, who used the same setup as the main plotline in one of
his future movies, a major blockbuster from 2017.
What?
Q19

The Youth Protection Revision Act, is a South Korean law passed in 2011.
According to this law, children under the age of sixteen are not allowed to
play online video games between the hours of 00:00 and 06:00. This is
done by denying access to online games for sub-sixteeners, even as the rest
of the family accesses it freely.
As a result of this law, many Koreans under the age of 16 have resorted to
adopting false identities or personas to get access to these games.
In this context, what is the nickname of this Act?
Q20*

A ________ is a style of musical composition that was commonly seen
in the 15th to 17th century. It is characterised by the use of
polyphony (multiple parallel lines of melody), with the number of
voices ranging from 3-8. The voices also have a range of different
pitches and are sung by people of different demographics.
In recent times, this style of music has had a spike in popularity,
thanks to a certain song in a certain movie.
ID the song.
Q21

In a recent Stranger Things season 4 episode, Steve, Eddie, Nancy
and Robin are all stuck in the Upside Down and are ambushed by a
group of bats. They first save Steve who’s being attacked by them on
the ground, and then continue hitting the bats off each other until
they eventually flee the area.
A little bit later on, Eddie compliments Steve for his abilities in
taking down the bats, calling him “metal” and comparing it to an
infamous moment from the early 1980s involving the musician X.
ID X and the infamous moment in question.
Q22

Two students of Biology at the University of Ottawa in 2012 published their
findings on a certain ‘pandemic’ that they believed was taking the world by storm
with barely any medical attention garnered towards it. The cause of this disease
dates back to 1994, though the infection took its time to develop and only began to
spread some time in 2008. The study conducted identifies that this spreads with
high infection rates among the younger female population and while the disease
itself is mental in nature, it comes with certain physical symptoms such as crying,
screaming, debilitating scarring at times and a deviation from everyday life.
Final results of the study prove that this is in fact more contagious than measles.
They also prove that even within a small group of young people exhibiting no
symptoms of this disease, it is likely that the contagious nature of the disease will
cause an outbreak.
ID the disease.
Q23

Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo was a figure of disputed historicity. The popular
legend is that he was a Sonoran gold miner and a livestock herder who was
driven to seek revenge when he and his brother were falsely accused of
stealing a mule. His brother was hanged, and Joaquin himself was horse-
whipped. He then embarked on a short, but violent career that brought
death to his Anglo tormentors.
A California Ranger by the name of Harry Love was tasked with bringing
him to justice, and he eventually brought in a head preserved in a jar of
whiskey, which was claimed to be that of Murrieta.
This served as one of the inspirations for a famous comic book and
subsequently, a movie character. Which character?
Q24

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 932-acre park located in the Sierra Pelona
Mountains in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is widely known for
distinctive rock formations, the result of sedimentary layering and later seismic
uplift. Its named after the famous bandit Tiburcio Vasquez, who once eluded
capture by hiding out here.
The rock formations here have acquired a new name, after the protagonist of
dozens of episodes of a particular late 60s TV series which were filmed here. Other
films and shows filmed here include the Westerns “Blazing Saddles” and “The
Magnificent Seven Ride Again”, and “Doctor Who”, to name a few.
What’s the new name?
Q25*

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The dastardly villain Y from a famous movie series always posed a creative
challenge to the screenwriters with his character and continuing the plotline for the
movie, as Y had already achieved his purpose and hence making Y more deadly
than before would violate/defy the character development he was given so far.
In fact they grew weary of finding newer plotlines when one of them was angry
enough to say “‘Can’t we just kill him?!’” which gave rise to more questions like
What happens if you just kill him? Why would you kill him? Why would he let you
kill him?'” and that’s what they finally did. And ending him finally became okay as
he would be dead, believing his vision would be irreversible, having already
achieved it.
Identify Y.
Q1

This comic strip is was the brainchild of 2 full-time journalists Bharat and
Shalan Savur, who wanted to create a new form of fiction which they called
cri-fi. They decided to name the character “_____ the Supersleuth”, after X, a
famous real-life personality. He would go on to fight members of his (now
retired) profession from Bandookstan (a parody of a real-life nation), and
England, and sometimes even took on evil magicians from beyond the
Himalayas. Some of the other foreign characters in this series were named
differently from their real life counterparts, with names like Gotham, Usman
and Bower.
ID X.
Q2

3 First video game based on mental health treatment
approved by FDA

Burrhus Frederic _____ was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author,
inventor, and social philosopher. He also used operant conditioning to
strengthen behavior. To study operant conditioning, he invented the
operant conditioning chamber (aka the _____ box) which is used to study
animal behaviour.
Based on his extensive experiments with a particular animal, ____ was the
name of the antagonist in the 2007 Oscar winning movie where the animal
is the protagonist.
FITB and ID the movie.
Q4

4 FITB - Skinner, Movie- Ratatouille

In the 1976 film All The President's Men, actors Robert Redford and
Dustin Hoffman play the roles of journalists Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein, who investigated the Pentagon Papers on the controversial
Watergate Scandal, which led to the resignation of the US President
Richard Nixon. In 2017, what seemed like a remake of the same movie
was not simply a prequel to “All The President's Men” but a more holistic
representation of the progressive ideals of the original film.
Which film are we talking about here?
Q5*

7 Each of the item is given as a trophy for the worst film
in their respective country, Razzies and Stinkers(
raspberry and toilet in Hollywood), Ghanta and Golden
Kela awards in India, Snake award from Poland

9 It consists of works in which people manually create
and erase the hands on a clock each minute.

10* The images are made in the style of an artist from the
same country as the driver.

July 4 in Britain is annually celebrated as X Day, where people gather together in
costumes to commemorate the first time _____ _______ told the famous story. Brits –
and now others — celebrate with tea parties, theater performances, cosplay, tours
of the Oxford area where the classic story was created.
One website says, “Decorating for an X Day party can be loads of fun, incorporating
all sorts of themes from the book. Try using playing cards, clocks, keys, white
rabbits, pink flamingos… .”
ID the story X.
Q11

The success of the movie X when it first came out saw a huge
increase in the number of applications to the US navy. To ensure
continued increase in applications, the US Navy even set up
recruiting stations outside of movie theaters when X was released,
to catch potential recruits as they left the cinema hyped up by the
movie’s dramatic climax.
ID X.
Q14

15* Babel Fish and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

This TV show garnered a lot of attention for its crude representation
of inequality and poverty. It also caught attention of modern art
enthusiasts; as the nameless antagonist's book shelf was shown to
hold works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Magritte.
Apt to the plot, the show also recreates some of the very famous art
pieces such as Rothschild's “Surrealist Ball”, Judy Chicago's “The
Dinner Table” and Edvard Munch's “The Scream of Nature”.
What TV show is this?
Q17

This is a scene from the movie Agent Vinod. Something was written
into this scene by the writer-director just for aesthetics and to make
the scene cooler.
However, this minor addition ended up having a big impact on the
writer-director, who used the same setup as the main plotline in one of
his future movies, a major blockbuster from 2017.
What?
Q19

21 We Don’t Talk About Bruno

In a recent Stranger Things season 4 episode, Steve, Eddie, Nancy
and Robin are all stuck in the Upside Down and are ambushed by a
group of bats. They first save Steve who’s being attacked by them on
the ground, and then continue hitting them off each other until they
eventually flee the area.
A little bit later on, Eddie compliments Steve for his abilities in
taking down the bats, calling him “metal” and comparing it to an
infamous moment from the early 1980s involving the musician X.
ID X and the infamous moment in question.
Q22

22 X-Ozzy Osbourne ; Biting the head off a bat

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 932-acre park located in the Sierra Pelona
Mountains in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is widely known for
distinctive rock formations, the result of sedimentary layering and later seismic
uplift. Its named after the famous bandit Tiburcio Vasquez (one of California’s most
feared bandits and another inspiration for the fictional character Zorro) who once
eluded capture by hiding out here.
The rock formations here have acquired a new name, after the protagonist of
dozens of episodes of a particular late 60s TV series which were filmed here. Other
films and shows filmed here include the Westerns “Blazing Saddles” and “The
Magnificent Seven Ride Again”, and “Doctor Who”, to name a few.
What’s the new name?
Q25*

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