The Pop Culture Quiz by Moheet Kumar

1. POP CULTURE QUIZ By - Moheet Kumar

2. TODAY’S DEAL ● 20 Questions in total. ● Each question carries 1 mark. ● Questions 5, 10, 15 & 20 are Star Marked Questions. (In case of Tie Breakers) ● There are no hard questions, just think out of the box. ● Any “Yeh question mere ko pata hai” is purely coincidental because great minds think alike. ● All the best and let’s have a great session!!!

4. Q1 1. “You see the whole country of this system is just a position by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.” 2. “You see such extenuating circumstances coerce me to preclude you from such extravagance.” Where would you have heard these lines of a “Funny Language” and by whom ?

5. Q2 “Never Have I Ever” is a teen-drama series by Mindy Kaling. It follows the life of Devi Vishwakumar and her high school experience. The characters have a narrator who speak about their assigned persona and describe the audience about their lives. Andy Samberg being one of the narrators (Ben Gross’s character). Mindy approached X, a great sporting figure at the Vanity Fair’s 2019 Oscar Party and asked him whether he would narrate for Devi and he agreed. In the series Devi’s deceased father was a big fan of X. So who is this hot-headed man in his 60s giving narration for a teenage girl?

7. Q3 In one of the episodes of Netflix’s NSFW animated anthology series “Love,Death & Robots”, we can hear a Russian Folk Song being played in 2 of the scenes. This song is said to have inspired the main Theme Song of a very famous NES Game. ID the Game.

8. Q4 Space Travel is costly and requires a lot of fuel. So, smaller payloads are attached to very huge rockets to travel into space from Earth’s surface. There is an alternate method to this. We could reduce the distance to orbit which further reduces the speed and the fuel required to travel the same payload which was done from the surface. A certain Mr. Justin Lin used this alternative method in the recent times (2021). Where can we see this method being worked upon/What are we talking about?

10. *Q5* This is a very soothing and beautiful track called “687 Days” by a Serbian Musician David Maxim Micic. Why would this song be apt in a soundtrack for a 2015 Ridley Scott Movie?

11. Q6 X, guarded by Satan is the last among the set of nine. Set in a frozen lake with 4 sections named after 3 traitorous figures from the Bible and 1 from the Iliad, they are trapped frozen there. This style/aspect is said to have inspired a work of fiction from the early 19th Century. The main character who in a manner is a traitor to both his family and his creation got caught up in a similar setting leading to fatal scenarios. What is X or what group is being described? What work of fiction is being talked about?

12. Q7 Samajwadi Party bought the rights of an Infamous “Fiery” American List Song for their Campaigning Jingle to promote Mulayam Singh Yadav ahead of 2014 General Elections. Although this recreated jingle speaks glory about the party’s doings, the original song is a fast paced lyrical song with reference to almost 118 political, cultural and even sports events from the Singer’s birth year to the release date of the particular song. ID the Singer and the Song which became No.1 in Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989.

13. Q8 Eddie Blake aka The Comedian was a superhero and a member of the Minutemen. He wore a smiley face pin called the The Button / Comedian’s Badge. One night when he was attacked and beat up, a drop of blood from his face stained the badge in a familiar pattern : A single line of blood across the right eye of the smiley face. Where in the world of Bollywood can we see the same reference of this symbol from the world of Alan Moore’s Watchmen?

16. Q9 Mr. Hans Zimmer, a German Film Score and Music Producer describes the method of creating something unique in the video shown. They use something called a Compressor, to alter a sound which gave rise to a sort of deep, growling voice which were used in the movie adaptation of a Frank Herbert science fiction novel. What is this sound about which is used by the Elite Military Force of the Padishah Emperor?

17. *Q10* An odd event took place in England during 1752. Civil unrest and riots took place demanding “Give us our 11 Days”. People felt that their lives were shortened by 11 days and took to streets to protest. This topic was one of the issues discussed in the Election Campaigns of 1754 between the Whigs and the Tories. People were not satisfied by the adoption of something new which led to such changes in their lives. What riots/What new thing was adopted which lead to no history being recorded during the period of 3 September 1752 - 13 September 1752 ?

18. Q11 Created by Jeremiah Farewell and published on November 5 1996, this crossword is a bit unique. An Election special Crossword Puzzle was created in such a manner that if either Bob Dole or Clinton wins then their names would fit the crossword exactly with the other clues. Such puzzles where a single clue has more than one answers is referred as something from the world of Science explaining a scenario similar to the puzzles’s case. What appropriate names were such puzzles given ?

20. Q12 Nintendo, a Japanese Multinational Video Game Company started out as a playing card manufacturer in 1889. Due to the rise in gambling and other illicit activities, Japanese government banned such activities hence there was a decline in the industry. Nintendo shifted to make Hanafuda Cards (Coloured pattern cards), these weren’t outlawed as they didn’t have any numbers on them. But X started to begin gambling using new methods with the help of these cards and named the game after the cards itself “Hanafuda”. While other manufacturers left the industry in fear, Nintendo took the opportunity and made a fortune with X being it’s leading customer. During 1960’s Nintendo left the business and focused towards Video Games. Who were X, an infamous name from the Japanese World ?

22. Q13 Over the course of 5 years from 1952-1957, CIA operated under the codename “Aedinosaur” from West Germany. They started to airdrop a certain novel by X through balloons in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. X was a satirical novel which had a underlying premise symbolic to Russia and Soviet Union under the rule of Communist Party. The characters of the novel could be compared to that of Stalin, Lenin,Karl Marx, Tsar Nicholas II and many others. Born in Motihari, India who is X and what is the name of the Novel ?

23. Q14 Joan (1933 - 2020) was an American born Lawyer and served as the Associate Justice of Supreme Court of US. She was a prominent figure among Women in Power, who fought for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Being a known figure from the field, many references can be found in movies about her. One such reference is from Deadpool where a mugshot of her can be seen for the recruitment of X-Force and the other in Charlie’s Angels where the recruits find out that the person is a secret service agent aka an Angel. How do we better know her ?

26. *Q15* CONNECT

27. Q16 The vintage poster, called, “Jouets” (French for toys) made by artist Jules Cheret in 1885, features a decorated rocking horse, one of the most desired and expensive gifts a child could receive in those days. It is one of approximately 42 advertising posters that Cheret designed for a department store in Paris that was known as "Aux Buttes Chaumont" starting around 1878 and continuing to 1891. Where would have one seen this Poster?

28. Q17 In a 2019 Todd Phillips Psychological Thriller, we can see the Ambulance being styled in a different manner than the normal Ambulance one would rather find. This is supposed to have been done to give tribute to a certain actor who played the similar titular role from 2008. ID the Actor.

29. Q18 “The act of looking at the viewer with head tilted downward and eyes peering upward from beneath the eyebrows like a Death glare.” A closeup shot of Malcolm McDowell from A Clockwork Orange, led to this look described above being famous in all of X’s cinema after whom this look is named. Who is X ?

30. Q19 The sound effect was developed by sound designer Ben Burtt as a combination of the hum of idling interlock motors in aged movie projectors and interference caused by a television set on an unshielded microphone. Burtt discovered the latter accidentally as he was looking for a buzzing, sparkling sound to add to the projector motor hum. The pitch changes of movement were produced by playing the basic tone on a loudspeaker and recording it on a moving microphone, generating Doppler shift to mimic a moving sound source. What sound effect?

31. *Q20* Green Revolution: The start of a new relationship, freshness and new beginnings. Red Menace: Fiery passion in the early days of an relationship. Agent Orange: Fading away desire in a relationship. Blue Ruin: Reunited, starting from scratch towards a new relationship. All of these aboves shades describe the characters mood and behavior throughout the movie and help audience to know how the movie progresses. What are these shades of & What movie am I talking about ?

33. ANSWERS

34. Q1 1. “You see the whole country of this system is just a position by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.” 2. “You see such extenuating circumstances coerce me to preclude you from such extravagance.” Where would you have heard these lines of a “Funny Language” and by whom ?

36. A1 Amitabh Bachchan aka Big B speaks these lines in the song “My Name is Anthony Gonsalves” from the movie “Amar, Akbar, Anthony”.

37. Q2 “Never Have I Ever” is a teen-drama series by Mindy Kaling. It follows the life of Devi Vishwakumar and her high school experience. The characters have a narrator who speak about their assigned persona and describe the audience about their lives. Andy Samberg being one of the narrators (Ben Gross’s character). Mindy approached X, a great sporting figure at the Vanity Fair’s 2019 Oscar Party and asked him whether he would narrate for Devi and he agreed. In the series Devi’s deceased father was a big fan of X. So who is this hot-headed man in his 60s giving narration for a teenage girl?

39. A2 The Tennis Star John McEnroe

41. Q3 In one of the episodes of Netflix’s NSFW animated anthology series “Love,Death & Robots”, we can hear a Russian Folk Song being played in 2 of the scenes. This song is said to have inspired the main Theme Song of a very famous NES Game. ID the Game.

43. A3 TETRIS The song mentioned here is “Korobeiniki”.

44. Q4 Space Travel is costly and requires a lot of fuel. So, smaller payloads are attached to very huge rockets to travel into space from Earth’s surface. There is an alternate method to this. We could reduce the distance to orbit which further reduces the speed and the fuel required to travel the same payload which was done from the surface. A certain Mr. Justin Lin used this alternative method in the recent times (2021). Where can we see this method being worked upon/What are we talking about?

47. A4 This is the Air to Orbit Launch method used in the Rocket Car Launch Scene from F9.

48. Q5 This is a very soothing and beautiful track called “687 Days” by a Serbian Musician David Maxim Micic. Why would this song be apt in a soundtrack for a 2015 Ridley Scott Movie?

50. A5 687 Earth days is equivalent to 1 Mars Year. Hence, the movie being, “The Martian”

51. Q6 X, guarded by Satan is the last among the set of nine. Set in a frozen lake with 4 sections named after 3 traitorous figures from the Bible and 1 from the Iliad, they are trapped frozen there. This style/aspect is said to have inspired a work of fiction from the early 19th Century. The main character who in a manner is a traitor to both his family and his creation got caught up in a similar setting leading to fatal scenarios. What is X or what group is being described? What work of fiction is being talked about?

53. A6 X - Dante’s Inferno/Dante’s 9 circles of Hell/ 9th Circle of Hell Work of Fiction - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

54. Q7 Samajwadi Party bought the rights of an Infamous “Fiery” American List Song for their Campaigning Jingle to promote Mulayam Singh Yadav ahead of 2014 General Elections. Although this recreated jingle speaks glory about the party’s doings, the original song is a fast paced lyrical song with reference to almost 118 political, cultural and even sports events from the Singer’s birth year to the release date of the particular song. ID the Singer and the Song which became No.1 in Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989.

56. A7 Singer - Billy Joel Song - We Didn’t Start the Fire

57. Q8 Eddie Blake aka The Comedian was a superhero and a member of the Minutemen. He wore a smiley face pin called the The Button / Comedian’s Badge. One night when he was attacked and beat up, a drop of blood from his face stained the badge in a familiar pattern : A single line of blood across the right eye of the smiley face. Where in the world of Bollywood can we see the same reference of this symbol from the world of Alan Moore’s Watchmen?

60. A8 Ek Villain Franchise (Ek Villain Returns to be specific)

62. Q9 Mr. Hans Zimmer, a German Film Score and Music Producer describes the method of creating something unique in the video shown. They use something called a Compressor, to alter a sound which gave rise to a sort of deep, growling voice which were used in the movie adaptation of a Frank Herbert science fiction novel. What is this sound about which is used by the Elite Military Force of the Padishah Emperor?

64. A9 SARDAUKAR Chant

65. Q10 An odd event took place in England during 1752. Civil unrest and riots took place demanding “Give us our 11 Days”. People felt that their lives were shortened by 11 days and took to streets to protest. This topic was one of the issues discussed in the Election Campaigns of 1754 between the Whigs and the Tories. People were not satisfied by the adoption of something new which led to such changes in their lives. What riots/What new thing was adopted which lead to no history being recorded during the period of 3 September 1752 - 13 September 1752 ?

67. A10 English Calendar Riots of 1752. Adoption of Gregorian Calendar, Julian Calendar was stopped.

68. Q11 Created by Jeremiah Farewell and published on November 5 1996, this crossword is a bit unique. An Election special Crossword Puzzle was created in such a manner that if either Bob Dole or Clinton wins then their names would fit the crossword exactly with the other clues. Such puzzles where a single clue has more than one answers is referred as something from the world of Science explaining a scenario similar to the puzzles’s case. What appropriate names were such puzzles given ?

71. A11 Schrodinger Puzzles

72. Q12 Nintendo, a Japanese Multinational Video Game Company started out as a playing card manufacturer in 1889. Due to the rise in gambling and other illicit activities, Japanese government banned such activities hence there was a decline in the industry. Nintendo shifted to make Hanafuda Cards (Coloured pattern cards), these weren’t outlawed as they didn’t have any numbers on them. But X started to begin gambling using new methods with the help of these cards and named the game after the cards itself “Hanafuda”. While other manufacturers left the industry in fear, Nintendo took the opportunity and made a fortune with X being it’s leading customer. During 1960’s Nintendo left the business and focused towards Video Games. Who were X, an infamous name from the Japanese World ?

75. A12 Yakuza

76. Q13 Over the course of 5 years from 1952-1957, CIA operated under the codename “Aedinosaur” from West Germany. They started to airdrop a certain novel by X through balloons in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. X was a satirical novel which had a underlying premise symbolic to Russia and Soviet Union under the rule of Communist Party. The characters of the novel could be compared to that of Stalin, Lenin,Karl Marx, Tsar Nicholas II and many others. Born in Motihari,India who is X and what is the name of the Novel ?

78. A13 X - George Orwell Animal Farm

79. Q14 Joan (1933 - 2020) was an American born Lawyer and served as the Associate Justice of Supreme Court of US. She was a prominent figure among Women in Power, who fought for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Being a known figure from the field, many references can be found in movies about her. One such reference is from Deadpool where a mugshot of her can be seen for the recruitment of X-Force and the other in Charlie’s Angels where the recruits find out that the person is a secret service agent aka an Angel. How do we better know her ?

83. A14 Notorious RBG aka Ruth Bader Ginsburg

84. Q15 CONNECT

86. A15 The Riddler

87. Q16 The vintage poster, called, “Jouets” (French for toys) made by artist Jules Cheret in 1885, features a decorated rocking horse, one of the most desired and expensive gifts a child could receive in those days. It is one of approximately 42 advertising posters that Cheret designed for a department store in Paris that was known as "Aux Buttes Chaumont" starting around 1878 and continuing to 1891. Where would have one seen this Poster?

89. A16 Monica Geller’s Apartment behind the TV set.

90. Q17 In a 2019 Todd Phillips Psychological Thriller, we can see the Ambulance being styled in a different manner than the normal Ambulance one would rather find. This is supposed to have been done to give tribute to a certain actor who played the similar titular role from 2008. ID the Actor.

92. A17 Heath Ledger

93. Q18 “The act of looking at the viewer with head tilted downward and eyes peering upward from beneath the eyebrows like a Death glare.” A closeup shot of Malcolm McDowell from A Clockwork Orange, led to this look described above being famous in all of X’s cinema after whom this look is named. Who is X ?

95. A18 Stanley Kubrick & Kubrick Stare

96. Q19 The sound effect was developed by sound designer Ben Burtt as a combination of the hum of idling interlock motors in aged movie projectors and interference caused by a television set on an unshielded microphone. Burtt discovered the latter accidentally as he was looking for a buzzing, sparkling sound to add to the projector motor hum. The pitch changes of movement were produced by playing the basic tone on a loudspeaker and recording it on a moving microphone, generating Doppler shift to mimic a moving sound source. What sound effect?

98. A19 Lightsaber Buzz/Hum Sound

99. Q20 Green Revolution: The start of a new relationship, freshness and new beginnings. Red Menace: Fiery passion in the early days of an relationship. Agent Orange: Fading away desire in a relationship. Blue Ruin: Reunited, starting from scratch towards a new relationship. All of these aboves shades describe the characters mood and behavior throughout the movie and help audience to know how the movie progresses. What are these shades of & What movie am I talking about ?

101. A20 Hair Colour Shades of Clementine Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

102. THANK YOU!!!

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