The document discusses the origins of several fictional elements and conventions in popular culture. It explains that the tradition of superheroes wearing their underwear on the outside stemmed from a printing technique where brightly colored "registration markers" were used to check alignment on comic book pages. It also identifies Uncyclopedia and Wikipedia in describing one website's parody of the other. Finally, it notes that offset printing was commonly used in older comic books and could cause pages and colors to slip out of alignment during large print runs.

1. Prelims Answers

3. 1. The ________ is a fictional organization appearing in
the Marvel Comics Universe. The members include
Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Andromeda, Atalanta, Cass
iopea, Delphi, Hector, Hulk, Perseus, Prometheus and
Ullyses. There have been demands from fans to include
Hindu Gods in it. What is X?

5. PANTHEON

6. 2. E. L. James has been named by Time magazine as
one of the most influential people of 2012, for her 50
Shades Trilogy of books. However, 50 Shades actually
originated as a fan-fiction based on the _______ series
of books, a fact that initially sparked copyright
controversy. Fill in the blank.

8. TWILIGHT

9. 3. The comic strips involving Wenlock and
Mandeville recently became famous. A strip is
shown here. What is Wenlock and Mandeville’s
claim to fame?

11. Mascots of the 2012 London Olympics

12. 4. The X Y is a semi-organised group of English cricket
fans which arranges touring parties for some of its
members to follow the English cricket team on overseas
tours. The name is also applied to followers of the team
who join in with match day activities in the crowd, but
do not necessarily travel as part of an organised tour.
The group, then less organised, was given its name by
the Australian media during the 1994 - 1995 Test series
in Australia, reportedly for the fans' audacity in
travelling to Australia in the near-certain knowledge
that their team would lose, and the fact that they kept
on chanting even when England were losing quite
badly. ID.

14. BARMY ARMY

15. *5. What happened for the first time
in the decades long history of the
iconic Amul ads on 10th
September, 2012 and why?

17. The Amul Girl cried for the first time as
VergheseKurien, the father of Amul
passed away the previous day.

18. 6. X wrote controversial papers on Alchemy and
Theology under the pseudonym ‘Jeova Sanctus Unus’
meaning ‘One True God’. This is also an anagram of the
Latin translation of X’s name. His coat of arms is shown
below. However, we better know X for his legendary
contributions to some other field. Who is X?

20. Sir Isaac Newton

21. 7. They read as:
A: Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzzá
B: and Manāt, the third, the other?
C: These are the exalted gharāniq, whose
intercession is hoped for.
A, B and C are collectively known as
___________________ a term coined by Sir
William Muir and made famous by a person of
Indian origin.
What are A, B and C?

23. The Satanic Verses

24. 8. Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd is a company
located in Mysore. Established by Maharaja
NalvadiWadeyar, it is unique for being the only
factory in the country authorised for producing
something. From this flagship product, this
company earned about $450k in 2006-07. In
2004, it supplied goods worth $1 million. Earlier
used exclusively in India, recently the product
has been exported for a similar use in other
countries, including Cambodia.
What is this famous product?

26. The Election Ink

27. 9. What connects these movies?

29. Fictitious movies in Tropic Thunder

30. *10. _______ case, also known as medial
capitals or Pascal case, is the practice of writing
words with some inner uppercase letters, such
as compound words or phrases in which the
elements are joined without spaces, while each
element has a capital letter within the
compound. The words always start with a capital
letter, but _________ case allows the first letter
to be either upper or lower case, as in
"LaBelle", "BackColor", or "iPod". The name
comes from the uppercase humps in the middle
of the compound word. Fill in the blank.

32. Camel Case

33. 11. Some theories regarding the origin of the character X are
these:
One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted
by Robert Ripley, posits that X is King Richard III of
England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in
Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was
defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.
The second suggests X was a "tortoise" siege engine, an
armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of
the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the
Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War, and was put forward
in 1956 by Professor David Daube in The Oxford Magazine of
February 16, 1956, on the basis of a contemporary account of
the attack.
Who are we talking about?

35. Humpty Dumpty

36. 12. Edvard Munch, wrote this poem about his most
famous work The ________:
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun
was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I
paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence –
there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-
black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I
stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an
infinite _________ passing through nature.
The _________ was recently auctioned by Sotheby’s for
the highest price ever paid in an auction. Identify this
much copied piece of art.

38. The Scream

39. 13. What did this historical document do?

41. Made Jammu and Kashmir a part of
India

42. 14. Name the poet:
“So don’t bet against me, I’m a man of my word.
He is the greatest! Yes!
I am the man this poem’s about,
I’ll be champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt.
Here I predict Mr. Liston’s dismemberment,
I’ll hit him so hard; he’ll wonder where October and
November went.
When I say two, there’s never a third,
Standin against me is completely absurd.
When ______ says a mouse can outrun a horse,
Don’t ask how; put your money where your mouse is!
I AM THE GREATEST!”

44. Cassius Clay/Mohammad Ali

45. *15. The ________ inkblot test is a psychological test in which
the subject’s perceptions of inkblots are recorded and analyzed
using complex algorithms.
The test also gives the name to the superhero ___________ of
the Watchmen comic series and the movie.
Name.

47. The Rorshach Test

48. 16. Id the person on the right in this
18th century cartoon.

50. Tipu Sultan

51. 17. The region between 30 and 35 degrees both
north and south of the earth are known as the
_______.
The Sahara, Atacama and Kalahari deserts are
located in this region.
The name ________ is believed to have
originated from the practice of sailors bringing a
straw stuffed effigy of a ______ on ships, before
throwing them off-board. Another theory
suggests that the name exists because the
Spanish used to transport _______ by ship to
their colonies.
What geographical term?

53. The Horse Latitudes

54. 18. What peculiar thing is common to these
books?
1. Where God Went Wrong by OolonColluphid
2. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical
Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein
3. The Affair of the Second Goldfish by Ariadne
Oliver
4. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kaablooie by
unknown
5. The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Prof. James
_________
6. Giant Rat of Sumatra by Dr. John ________

56. Books within books!
1. Where God Went Wrong by
OolonColluphidHitchhiker’s Guide
2. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical
Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein 1984
3. The Affair of the Second Goldfish by Ariadne
Oliver Several Agatha Christie Novels
4. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kaablooie by
unknown Calvin and Hobbes Strips
5. The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Prof. James
Moriarty
6. Giant Rat of Sumatra by Dr. John Watson

57. 19. ID the place, very much in the
news recently.

59. Gangnam District

60. *20. The website X has this description of the website Y:
Y is a website that parodies X. It was founded in 2001, when it
began its noble goal of spreading the world's misinformation in
the most inconspicuous way possible. For this reason, academic
experts strongly urge students not to cite Y. Originally written
exclusively in Klingon, the project currently spans all the known
languages of history.
Y’s name is a portmanteau of the words _____ (a technology for
stealing content from other websites, from the Hawaiian word
______ , meaning 'thief') and ______ meaning 'children'; literally
stealing content for perverting children's brains. Its logo is a
spherical magical _______ , named Merlin after the loyal wizard
of King Arthur's court, which serves as a spoof of X’s hollow
_______ logo.
ID X and Y.

62. X: Uncyclopedia
Y: Wikipedia

63. 21. Offset printing was a common technique used in
yesteryears’ comic books.
Large print runs would have to check to see if the pages
were slipping as they were printed. This slippage would
cause the pages and colors to be out of alignment.
Since supers were brightly colored, it was easier to
check if a page was aligned by using the alternating
colors of the characters as "registration" markers. The
reference markers were used to ensure characters were
maintaining their alignment on a page as a print run
continued. Part of the technology used paper
plates, which were known to slip out of alignment as
the print run continued.
What popular convention did this give rise to?

65. Superheroes wearing their underwear
over their pants.