Pop Culture Quiz
-Hemansh Kashyap

1.
It has been over a decade since this order was made, and it fascinates
the internet still. Visiting Cluckin’ Bell gets you no closer to guessing
what constituted said order, as they don’t have a menu onsite. Their
website, however, does contain a menu, and people have tried
decoding the order from there.
Whose order are we talking about?

Ans: Big Smoke’s Order in GTA San Andreas

2.
X was originally known as Mr Video, and then Jumpman. However, the
creators arrived at X’s current name when they were trying to think of a
better name and were interrupted by their landlord X Segale, after
whom they named X.
ID X.

Ans: Mario

3.
X, Y’s, arguably, most popular song released on 4th of May, 1999. It is
perhaps most well known because of the Internet’s obsession to
associate it with the movie Z, and its titular character, where the song is
used in the opening credits to introduce Z, who we of course know for
being like an onion.
ID X,Y,Z.

Ans: Smash Mouth’s All Star, in Shrek

4.
The Reliant Regal Supervan III
(right) has a history of being
unstable and easily tipped due to
it having only three wheels. It is
then not surprising that the model
was chosen as the “accident car”,
which X often encounters and
causes to go into accidents in
some episodes.
ID X

Ans: Mr Bean

5.
Theme naming is a very frequent occurrence in Japanese media, with
perhaps the most recognizable being the professors being named after
trees in Pokemon.
Another recognizable instance is a Japanese series’ obsession with
vegetables which shows in the origins of its characters’ names ranging
from a carrot to a spring onion.
Which show?

Ans: Dragon Ball Z

6.
Artist John Byrne sketched a face
for what he thought X would look
like under his mask, not knowing
artist Dave Cockrum already
revealed Wolverine's face in an
earlier issue. When Byrne
discovered this, he used what
would've been X's face as X’s
future arch-nemesis’.
Whose face was it intended to be?

Ans: Wolverine

7.
We’re familiar with Bart’s long list of chalkboard gags, full of classics
such as “I am not Charlie Brown on acid” and “We DO need no
education”.
However, on one poignant occasion, Bart writes, “We’ll really miss you,
___ _”
What is this in reference to?

Ans: Death of Marcia Wallace, the woman
who played Mrs Krabappel

8.
The preserved head of Richard
Nixon is a recurring character in
Futurama.
Almost always alongside him,
appears the headless body of
whom?

Ans: Vice President Spiro Agnew

9.
In October 2016, Nike released the Nike Mag, complete with “Adaptive
Fit”, perhaps a year later than when people would have really
appreciated the release.
There were only 89 pairs released, each of which could be accessed
through a lucky draw whose proceeds went to funds for Parkinson’s
cure research.
What was the inspiration behind the release?

Ans: Self lacing shoes in Back to the Future 2

10.
The tortoise-like character
appearing in Ben 10 is an ancient
sorcerer that is thousands of years
old. Fittingly, he is named X.
What is his name, and why is it
fitting, bearing a Kolkata connect.

Ans: Adwaita, named after the 200+ year old
tortoise that lived and died in Alipore zoo.

11.
In this comic, Ra’s al Ghul steals
Batman’s dossier on the Justice
League, and proceeds to incapacitate
each of the members.
While the league remains distracted,
he starts puts into action his real
plan, whereby he attacks the
language centers of humanity by
using a low level sonic signal to
scramble the written and the spoken
language.
This comic is aptly named what?

Ans: Tower of Babel

12.
X is an Icelandic children’s show, that came into mainstream
consciousness in 2016, with the popularity of a song that it featured in
one of its episodes.
The actor that the song launched into popularity was sadly diagnosed
with cancer. However, with the power of modern medicine and
Internet magic, the actor is now cancer free.
ID the show.

Ans: Lazy Town

13.
ID the popular song from refined the English rendition of its lyrics

Ans: Gucci Gang

14.
We hear this phrase in the Dexter’s laboratory episode, “The Big
Cheese”, when after listening to a French recording overnight to learn
the said language, he is stuck with this phrase, which helps him
through all his endeavors the next day.
The phrase, however, literally means an egg preparation with cheese,
and even so, with a grammatical error.
What is the phrase?

Ans: Omelette du fromage

15.
The first time the word came to closely resembling the manner in
which it is used now is perhaps in an episode of the famous show X.
In the episode, the food item Y was still a food item, however it was
incorporated into every item of a restaurant menu, and the characters
were spewing it to the point of it drowning all other conversation,
much like the modern day equivalent usage in reference to unwanted
and unsolicited junk.
ID the show.

Ans: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
(Spam sketch)

16.
From the very first game in the X series, through to today, Y, the
supposedly peaceful Nobel nominee, has been famous for one thing:
dropping nukes.
In the original game, this was because of a bug. Y was obviously given
the lowest possible default aggression score, 1. However if a player
adopted democracy, the aggression score would drop by 2 points. In Y’s
case, this would loop the score up to 255, making Y a trigger happy
nuke lover.
In the later games, this feature for Y stayed as a tribute.
ID the game and the personality.

Ans: Gandhi in the Civilization series

17.
Whose Twitter account?

Ans: Ted Cruz

18.
While roaming the stark
wastelands in Fallout New Vegas,
the courier may come across a
fridge, full of bones and a Suave
Gambler’s hat. What is this a
cheeky reference to?

Ans: The fact that Indiana Jones probably wouldn’t
have survived a nuclear blast hiding in a fridge in
the Kingdom of Crystal Skull

19.
In Super Smash Bros Melee, there
is a bonus called “Switzerland”.
How can a player earn this bonus?

Ans: By neither attacking, nor being attacked,
akin to Switzerland’s neutrality

20.
Whose acting credits (not exhaustive)?
1989 – Jury foreman 2007 – Man in times square
2000 – Hot dog vendor 2007 – Rejected wedding guest
2002 – Man in fair 2008 – Man drinking from bottle
2003 – Old man at crossing 2011 - General
2003 – Security guard 2013 – Pageant judge
2004 – Man dodging debris 2014 – Smithsonian guard
2005 – Willie Lumpkin 2014 – Graduation guest
2006 – Waterhose man 2015 – Bartender

Ans: Stan Lee

21.
The script said “annoyed grunt”. So the voice actor decided to pay
tribute to Laurel and Hardy actor Jimmy Finlayson’s, drawn out
_________, originally a stand-in for “damn”, by replacing it with _’__.
What is this the origin of?

Ans: Homer saying “d’oh”

22.
Excerpt of who interviewing whom?
X: You’ve stated that you believe there could be an infinite number of
parallel universes. Does that mean there’s a universe where I am
smarter than you?
Y: Yes. And also a universe where you’re funny.
X: If you’re so smart, what number am I thinking of right now?
Y: 13.
X: Okay, what am I thinking about right now?
Y: That you’ve been a huge disappointment to your family.

Ans: John Oliver interviewing Stephen
Hawking

23.
In this episode of Whose Line is it
anyway, for the game Themed
Restaurants, the theme being
horror, Wayne and Drew sit down
and order drinks. How does
Collin’s reply tie down to the
theme of the restaurant?

Ans: Redrum reference from Shining

24.
_______ ____ is a family based British sitcom on the BBC, dealing with
the trials and tribulations of one Pakistani Muslim, Mr Khan, quite well
settled down in East Birmingham with his family.
What is the title of the sitcom, a pun on a classic early 1940s American
movie?

Ans: Citizen Khan

25.
ID the popular song,
rendered here as a
Shakespearean sonnet.

Ans: Lose Yourself

26.
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?

Ans: Austin Powers masks

27.
The ____ ____ grenade is a fairly normal grenade featured in the
Worms video game series, except for the fact that it has a 3 second
timer, and must come to a complete halt before it detonates to a
Hallelujah sound effect.
What is the name of this grenade?

Ans: Holy Hand Grenade (Monty Python and
the Holy Grail)

28.
After the success of their first movie, they were sent around the world
in the 1990s to perform live stage shows, called “Coming out of their
______”.
Pizza Hut was their primary sponsor. It spent $20 million on this tour
that sold out stadiums everywhere it went.
Who were the performers?

Ans: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

29.
Identify the famous phrase from the last panel of this increasingly
verbose meme.

Ans: Are ya ready, kids?

30.
In March 2015, DC released
variant covers that paid tribute to
some classic movie posters.
Which movie does is this cover a
homage to?

Ans: Jailhouse Rock