Mood Indigo 2011 Entertainment quiz finals -Suraj Menon

1. MOO DIE
THE ENT QUIZ finals
SURAJ MENON
20.12.2011

2. A trilogy of a quiz in four parts
THE WEBCOMICS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
THE expectoRANT in THE hands OF THE mallu nurse
KNIFE THE UNIVERSE AND SCREW
EVERYTHING ELSE
 SO LONG, THANKS AND WHAT THE FISH
 DONT PANIC

3. 42 questions (Douglas Adams RIP)
and one theme
Will explain rounds as we go along
Part Points throughout at quizmasters
discretion, unless otherwise specified
Keep it simple

4. QUICK REMINDER BEFORE WE BEGIN

5. PART 1
THE WEBCOMICS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
6 questions
All from webcomics
Written
Differential Scoring
1-2 teams-15 points
3-4 teams-10 points
5-6 teams-5 points

6. 1
This XKCD comic is a reference to which iconic movie

7. 2
Which movie is being discussed in this panel from Fly You
Fools

8. 3
This Fredo and Pidjin comic spoofs an iconic scene from which
movie

9. 4
Judd Apatow
version of
which cult film
(as per
Bizzaro) ?

10. 5
The tragic death of which well loved character as per
WulffMorgenThaler ?

11. 6
Graphical representation of How they ______ _____

12. EXCHANGE
SHEETS

13. 1

14. 2

15. 3

19. Audience Question

22. PART II
THE expectoRANT in THE hands OF
THE mallu nurse
18 questions
10 for a direct 10 for a pass

23. INFINITE POUNCE
Also known as the Shakti Kapoor-Ranjeet or Dominique Strauss Kahn
approach to quizzing
+ 15 for a correct answer, -10 for an incorrect answer
No limits on the number of attempts

24. 1
Some of the less popular ones in the list include
Robert Johnson
Alan Wilson of Canned Heat
Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones
Pete Ham of Badfinger
Gary Thain of Keef Hartley Band and Uriah Heep
Richey James Edwards of Manic Street Preachers
Latest addition to the list is the audio. Put Fundae

27. 2
Deepa Mehta and author X recently
announced that her adaptation of this cult
novel would release late next year.
Darsheel Safary plays the younger version of
the protagonist whereas Satya Bhabha will
play the older version.
The pics on the right depict actors playing
the character’s mother and chief adversary
respectively.
After numerous failed attempts to procure
permission from Indian authorities, the film
has been shot in Sri Lanka.
Which novel??

29. 3
Paul Oliver wrote the following in a sleeve note for a 1962 Blind Boys
album : "Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, ____ ________ or
_____ _______—these were a few amongst the many blues singers that
were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering
with the streams through the wooded valleys".
X noticed this and used them to name something. What fills in the
blanks??

30. The blanks were Anderson Pink and Floyd Council.
Syd Barrett saw the names in the liner notes and named Pink Floyd

31. 4
Pic shows a gentleman called M S
Shinde.
In what is symptomatic of the
Hindi film industry he now lives
unrecognised in a one room
kholi in Dharavi, sadly unable to
even pay for his medical
treatments
What unique distinction in the
world of Hindi film awards does
he hold??

32. Shinde won Sholay’s only
filmfare award for best editing

33. 5
In the shade of the house, in the
sunshine of the riverbank near the
boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood
forest, in the shade of the fig tree is
where _______ grew up, the
handsome son of the Brahman, the
young falcon, together with his friend
Govinda, son of a Brahman. The
sun tanned his light
Fill in the blanks

35. 6
Authored the following books:
Building a character
An actor prepares
Creating a role
An alphabetical arrangement of concise statements on aspects of acting
The actor and his work
A famous quote : ―When you play a good man, Try to find out where
he is bad, When you play a villain, Try to find out where he is good‖
Who??

36. Constantin Stanislavski
Pioneer of the method acting school

37. 7
Jeff Dowd
Member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front
Also an independent film producer, he helped the directors secure
distribution for their first feature. What did the grateful directors
model on him as a result

38. The Dude from the Big Lebowski

39. 8
Charley Douglass was a sound
engineer who is known for creating
the X. The X stood a little over two
feet tall and could be played like an
organ to replicate different kinds of
________.
The operator could also select
particular genders and ages. Some say
Douglass recorded audiences from I
Love Lucy, The Red Skelton Show, or
Marcel Marceau's mime act to use in
his X. What is X??

40. The laugh Box used to provide the
annoying background laughter on
sitcom tracks

41. 9
The clip shows someone making a cameo appearance.
Who??

43. Audience Question

44. What would complete this set of 3

46. 10
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
announced that among his
upcoming projects would be a
biography of X.
Cineblitz decided to cash in
on the deal by immediately
putting together a photo-op
resulting in the picture on the
left.
What iconic movie poster is
this a recreation of?
Who is X?

48. 11
The Canzonetta Sull Aria (audio) composed by Mozart from the
Marriage of Figaro. Famously used in which movie??

50. 12
Audios
Gypsy-Uriah Heep
Artful Dodger- Please don’t turn me on

52. 13
This is located in the Malibu
Creek State Park in California.
Originally owned by 20th
Century Fox this is now a
popular tourist site because it
was the set for something
extremely famous
What ???

54. 14
Video
Chris gardner cameo

55. Cameos in movies about themselves
Jim Lovell in Apollo 13
Larry Flynt in The People vs Larry Flynt
Chuck Yeager in The Right stuff
Erin Brockovich as a waitress in Erin brockovich
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

56. 15
In 2005, the Bombay High Court ordered Saregama
to pay Rs. 10 lakhs as arrears in royalty to the War
Widows Fund as the lyricist had pledged the royalties
to the Fund.
Which song, sung in 1963 are we talking about?

57. Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon
Written by Kavi Pradeep

58. 16
In 2002, VH1 aired a 100 song countdown titled ―Greatest ___ ___
______‖ . Featured artists included Los Del Rio, Bahamen, Vanilla
Ice, Right Said Fred and A-ha.
A similar exercise in Australia yielded names such as Lou
Bega, Chumbawumba, The Buggles, Nena and Bobby mc Ferrin.
What fills in the blanks??

59. ONE HIT
WONDER

60. 17
Post from an artist’s blog talking about the choice of names X and Y for her
first two efforts
―It's X different from Y, it’s about the same things but in a different light. I
deal with things differently now. I’m more patient, more honest, more
forgiving and more aware of my own flaws, habits and principles. Something
that comes with age I think. So fittingly this record is called X. The whole
reason I called my first album Y was about cataloging what happened to me
then and who I was then, like a photo album you see the progression and
changes in a person throughout the years. I tried to think of other album titles
but couldn’t come up with anything that represented the album properly, I
kept swerving X thinking it was obvious. But why not be obvious?―
Audio – chasing pavements

62. 18
In the story Ring Around the Sun
by Clifford D Simak, this object is
used by characters to focus their
attention and enable travel from
one parallel universe to the other.
This allegedly inspired the choice
of what iconic object for use as a
device central to the plot in a
movie released last year

64. Audience Question

65.  Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber at Samaria and was injured. So he sent
messengers whom he instructed: "Go inquire of ___________, the god of Ekron, whether I
shall recover from this injury.
The name of a stock character in 17th-century Italian farce, who, attired usually in a black
Spanish dress, burlesquing a don, was beaten by Harlequin for his boasting and cowardice.
 A lively folk and flamenco couple-dance usually in triple metre, traditionally accompanied
by guitars and castanets or hand-clapping (palmas in Spanish).
 An Arabic language noun which is used as the collective name of the whole of the recurring
Islamic phrase that constitutes the first verse of every "sura" (or chapter) of the Qur'an (except
for the ninth sura)
 Author of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
 Central character from a series of stories by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and
the later more famous operatic adaptations of the same.
 2008 stage-to-film adaptation of the 1999 West End musical of the same name with Pierce
Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard playing possible fathers to Amanda Seyfried.

67. PART III
KNIFE THE UNIVERSE AND SCREW
EVERYTHING ELSE
Theme, 12 elements
Divided into 3 sets of 4 elements each
Not exhaustive
Scoring
 First 4- +20/ -10
 Next 3 +15/-5
 Last 3 +10 no negatives
One attempt per set

68. +20/-10
Chembai Bhagavathar

69. +20/-10

70. +20/-10

71. +20/-10

72. Audio sweet leaf by ozzy osbourne
+15/-5

73. A city that calls itself the Language Capital of the world and also
California’s first city
+15/-5

74. A setllement whose first record in the 7th and 8th century
called Glestingaburg
Frequently associated with Arthurian legend
+15/-5

75. +15/-5

76. Audio
Bacardi theme
+10

77. Audio
Janes Addiction
+10

78. Audio
Sawai Gandharva
Bhimsen Joshi
+10

79. +10

81. Audience Question

84. Part IV
SO LONG, THANKS AND WHAT THE
FISH
18 questions
Infinite pounce applies
Otherwise 10 for a direct 10 for a pass

85. 1
Video clip from Cool Hand Luke
Source for what epic dialogue

86. What we’ve got
here is failure to
communicate

87. 2
Chap shown in the pic is a theologist, poet,jurist
and mystic commonly known as Mevlana in
turkey and mevlevi in Iran and Afghanistan.
Even though he was born in Balkh in
Afghanistan, he eventually settled and lived most
of his life in the Anatolian town of Konya ( in
modern day Turkey).
His tomb in Konya remains a site of pilgrimage
for many a faithful Sufi.
Best known to us by a descriptive name meaning Roman, because the
region where he lived was once part of the eastern Roman empire.
What name?
His work was suddenly brought back into focus in India around
Diwali. Why??

88. Rumi

89. 3
Memorials at a particular
place dedicated to ___ ___
___ _____ ____

91. 4
The novelist David Morrell on whose work the
films are based states that the name X was
partly inspired by a variety of apples he saw in
Pennsylvania.
He also feels that the title of the work shown in
the pic on left is an apt metaphor for the
experiences X undergoes.
There was actually an Arthur J. X but all that is
known about him is that his name is on a wall
in Washington.
In Japanese X serendipitiously means violent
or rough. What is X

93. 5
 Dedicated to the Baron Gottfried Van Swieten
 Dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky
 Italian for heroic, meant to be dedicated to Napoleon
 Dedicated to Count Franz von Opersdorff
 Dedicated to Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz and Count
Razumovsky
 Pastoral
 Dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries
 Dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries
 A poem by Friedrich Schiller later adapted as the European
anthem
Connect

95. 6
This must be done with ―the squeaky
voices, the gooshy sound effects, and
the Happy ______ Hop‖
The author is mentioned as Mable
syrup which is a pun on Maple
syrup, but in the released versions is
credited as Mabel Barr.
What book??

97. 7
Connect

99. 8
He remains the only rock musician to perform in
the august UN General Assembly hall barely six
weeks after 9/11. He followed it up with a special
UN concert on 12th September 2009.
He also performed at the Nobel Peace Prize concert
following Al Gore’s victory, where he met and
befriended Melissa Etheridge with whom he would
collaborate on Ring the bells ( the audio clip).
Etheridge would go on to write the foreword to his
autobiography, titled ( tongue in cheek) Rock and
Roll Jihad.
Who?

100. Salman Ahmad of Junoon

101. 9
In anticipation of criticism for an upcoming Blues album (releases
in 2011) , X released a statement saying
― I was not born in Alabama in the 1890’s. I’ve never eaten
grits, cropped a share or ridden a boxcar. I am a
white, middleclass Englishman, openly trespassing on the music
and myth of the American South. If that weren’t bad enough I’m
also an actor. One of those pampered ninnies who can’t find their
way through an airport without a baby sitter‖.
Who??
Audio Swanee river

103. Audience Question

104. Poster for the Solidarity movement in Poland.
Reference to what iconic Western?

106. 10
Video Clip from the movie Kalyug
Kalyug is a modern day adaptation of which work of literature?
Which character does Shashi Kapoor play?

107. Kalyug is based on the
Mahabharat, reference is to Karna

108. 11
X is an artiste with almost God
like status in his country.
He is best known for his murals
and frescos not just in his own
country but also in other major
cities, , a fact reflected in the
Google Doodle released a few
days ago to celebrate his 125th
birth anniversary.
Sadly his fame rests mostly on
being Y’s husband.
Id both X & Y.

109. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

110. 12
The tracks name literally means By the head of a horse and
the lyrics talk about a compulsive gambler who compares his
addiction to his attraction to women.
A major part of it is inspired by Mozart’s Rondo for violin
and orchestra.
Where is it most famously heard (audio)?

112. 13
X was written in an area the writers described as waste lands of
Southern Morocco.
One of the writers said ― The whole inspiration came from the fact
that the road went on and on and on. It was a single track road which
neatly cut through the desert. Two miles to the east and west were
ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you were driving down a
channel, this dilapidated road and there was seemingly no end to it….‖
Ironically it has nothing to do with X.
What you will listen to was however written specifically with X in
mind. Audio by Agni
Pray what is X

114. 14
Come to X! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and
inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There
are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his
own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You
can have all this, and who knows... you could even be
discovered, become a movie star... or at least see one. Life is good in
X... it's paradise on Earth." Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell
you, anyway.‖
Opening voice over for what is one of the best film noir thrillers of all
time. Which film?

116. 15
X heads up the Strategic Hazard
Intervention Espionage Logistics
Directorate.
He has been portrayed on screen
by people like David Hasselhoff
among other people.
Will soon be seen in a pivotal role
in an eagerly awaited movie where
he recruits the likes of Iron
Man, Thor, the Hulk and Captain
America to save the world
Who?? Which movie

117. Nick Fury

118. 16
Claude Nobs started life as an apprentice
cook.
He went on to form a close friendship with
record executives Ahmet Ertegun and
Nesuhi Ertegun and went on to head the
Swiss branch of various famous record
labels.
He also founded a jazz festival in his
hometown and went on to receive numerous
tourism awards and civilian decorations from
the Swiss government.
However he is best known to music fans in
the context of events that occurred on the 4th
of December Y71.
What event?
How is he commemorated with respect to
the event?

119. Funky Claude was running in and out,
Pulling kids out the ground

120. 17
Which iconic movie character is characterised as having
Laureen Bacall’s voice
Betty Grable’s legs
Marilyn Monroe’s torso
Jayne Mansfield’s breasts
Veronica Lake’s hair
Marlene Dietrich’s eyes
Judy Garland like singing voice

122. 18
Hari Seldon of Trantor established the project to create a huge
repository to hold all human knowledge.
It engaged over a 100000 people in its compilation but very few
people know that the actual purpose was to concentrate a group of
highly skilled individuals in a remote location and kickstart a dormant
civilisation.
It provides the following definition-
Robot: A mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man.
Most of us have heard of it in the context of the advantages posessed
over it by a rival project.
What work? What work is it’s chief rival?

123. Hari Seldon’s project was the Encyclopedia Galactica