Til Quiz Club Intro Quiz

Almost, but not quite entirely,
unlike a Quiz

• 25 Questions, a Gen-Ent Lone Wolf Quiz

• Starred Questions to resolve ties

0. What phenomenon?
• It is believed that the ancient Sumerians followed a
phonetics based language. By which I mean they did
not have words to denote corresponding actions, but
rather sounds. Therefore their mind did not have to
process the meaning of the sound uttered, rather just
react to it.
• According to a high-funda theory I came across, a
certain recent phenomenon makes use of similar
phonetics to elicit a particular response from listeners
upon hearing specific sounds. They do not need to
understand what it means, but they just react to it.
• It would have made for a good question, but I cannot,
in good conscience, flog this dead ‘horse’ any longer.
• Just gimme phenomenon and reaction.

Oppan Gangnam Style (What else?!)

1. To which person/event is this comic
a dedication?

2*. Give X and Y
• Presented to the U.S. Ambassador by Soviet schoolchildren, the Great Seal
of the United States hung proudly in his office in Spaso House from 1946
to 1952. Well, after a good bug scan, of course, which turned up nothing.
However during a retesting six years later, they pulled a tiny scrap of metal
about the length and shape of a pencil tube out of there, which they
initially thought nothing of, because it didn't have a single wire or battery
running from it.
• In fact, the device had no electronics at all: It was simply wood and
metal designed in such a way that sound waves changed the dimensions
of the interior space, which an ultra-high frequency signal could pick up
on.
• This microphone could be turned on at whim from a remote location, but
stayed an inert metal rod inside a piece of wood when not. It was an
invention so cunning, simple and effective that only one man, the feared
Soviet master of sound, could have invented it: Lev Termen.
• However, Lev Termen later on defected to the US, and changed his name
to Leon X, lending his name to an instrument that a popular TV character Y
is shown to play.

4*. What significance? Which comic?
• The murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, when she
was stabbed and raped by a sex fiend and wasn’t
helped by anyone, is a well documented and
famous case, and is taught in psychology classes
for the study of onlookers’ apathy.
• This case has a pop culture significance in that it
is used as a pivotal event in the alternate universe
of a legendary 1986 comic. The story arc of the
protagonist of the comic starts with this event.
What is its significance? And which comic?

5. Which author?

Lost Girls is a graphic
novel depicting the sexually
explicit adventures of three
important female fictional
characters of the late 19th and
early 20th
century: Alice from Alice's
Adventures in
Wonderland, Dorothy
Gale from The Wizard of
Oz and Wendy
Darling from Peter Pan. They
meet as adults in 1913 and
describe and share some of
their erotic adventures with
each other. The story is written
by X and drawn by Melinda
Gebbie. Give me X.

6. What phrase?

‘Punch and Judy’ is a traditional, popular British puppet show
featuring the characters of Mr. Punch and his wife,
Judy. The story basically goes like this:
1.Punch kills his infant child
2. Punch punches Judy until she dies
3. Punch goes to prison and escapes using a golden key.
4. He then kills doctors, lawyers and a hangman
5. He kills Death, as in, the Grim Reaper
6. Then it all ends spectacularly as he kills the Devil.

The really mortifying part is that Punch enjoys the entire
process and is thrilled at every kill. This peculiarity gave rise
to a popular phrase in the English language.

7*. What song?
The tune that is heard in the whistling scene from the
movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, is the first strain of
the march "Colonel Bogey.” Besides serving as an
example of British fortitude and dignity in the face of
privation, the "Colonel Bogey March" suggested a
specific symbol of defiance to British film-goers, as its
melody had been used for the song “X”, which was
composed by Tony O’Brien as part of British war
propaganda. Director David Lean wanted to introduce
the soldiers into the camp singing this song, but it was
thought too vulgar, and so whistling was substituted.
However, the lyrics were, and continue to be, so well
known to the British public that they recognized the
song anyway. Which song am I talking about?

8. What is X?
• The figurative sense of “X" has, until very recently, been
thought to allegedly originate from a supposed technique
of training young scent hounds. There are variations of the
story, but according to one version, the pungent X would be
dragged along a trail until a puppy learned to follow the
scent. Later, when the dog was being trained to follow the
faint odour of a fox or a badger, the trainer would drag a X
(whose strong scent confuses the animal) perpendicular to
the animal's trail to confuse the dog. The dog would
eventually learn to follow the original scent rather than the
stronger scent.
• Nowadays, An X is a clue which is intentionally or
unintentionally misleading or distracting from the actual
issue.

9. Which movie?

Ten Little Niggers was the
actual title of Agatha Christie’s
novel, And Then There Were
None. It was changed due to
the presence of the pejorative
word ‘niggers’ in the title. In
the novel, ten people, who
have previously been
complicit in the deaths of
others but have escaped
notice or punishment, are
tricked into coming onto an
island. Although the guests
are the only people on the
island, each is murdered one
by one. A famous 1965 Hindi
film is inspired by this story.
ID it.

10. What is X and Y?
The word ‘X’ does not have a Latin root or derive from a prior French phrase. In
printing, a X was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called
a Y. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase
used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “X" came to mean such a ready-
made phrase. Many authorities say that the French word “X” comes from
the sound made when the molten stereotyping metal is poured onto the
matrix to make a printing plate, thus making it an onomatopoeia.
In today’s context however, X denotes an expression, idea, or element of an
artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original
meaning or effect, especially when at some earlier time it was considered
meaningful or novel.
Y denotes a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals
or certain ways of doing things, but that belief may or may not accurately
reflect reality.

11*. Who is the bearded guy and
what’s happening?

12*. What calamity?

It was May 1910, and the
world was living in fear of
an impending ‘calamity’.
Con artists took advantage
of the panic and took to
selling pills and umbrellas
(as shown in pic) as
protection against the
calamity. However as the
plot unraveled, people
learnt that there was
nothing to fear, and also
that they had been
conned. What was
everyone expecting in
1910?

13. What is their specialty?
The Mansudae Art Studio is an art studio in Phyongchon
District, Pyongyang, North Korea. It was founded in 1959 and
employs around 4,000 people, including 1,000 artists. Most of
its artists are graduates of Pyongyang University. The studio
consists of 13 groups, working with woodcuts, drawings, oil
paintings, embroidery and jewel paintings, among other
things. Its foreign commercial division is known as
the Mansudae Overseas Project Group of Companies. They
hold a monopoly in the production of something. What is
that?

14. Which photograph?
One of the most iconic images
in history, the story behind it
goes as such:
When the marines took the
highest point on the
island, Mount Suribachi, they
took the photo on the right.
When the Secretary of the Navy
showed up to the war zone, he
was so overcome at the sight he
decided he wanted the flag.
However a battalion is not
supposed to give up its
commissioned flag, so to keep
the Secretary from stealing
their flag, battalion commander
Chandler Johnson had his men
quickly take this one down, and
sent one of his men after a
bigger, replacement flag, which
they could pass off as the
original and give to the Navy
secretary.

15. Who are X and Y?
While his son X was a multi-talented genius and
a man of science who first postulated the
wave nature of light, Constantin himself was a
man of letters, a Dutch Golden Age poet
and composer. He was also adept at music,
mathematics, arts, politics etc. just like his
son. He also was a patron of the arts and he
discovered a certain promising Dutch artist Y,
whom he encouraged. He also sat as model
for many of Y’s paintings.

16. Give X and name of company
The X is one of the most famous corporate mascots in the
world today. It is literally synonymous with its
company. However it wasn’t always intended to be so.
Originally, the company just wanted to make one
commercial, in 1999, using a one-off joke to make sure
people knew how to pronounce their company's name.
So it was supposed to be one and done for the X, until
the Screen Actors Guild strike hit in 2000. In a scramble
to find someone who wasn't part of the SAG, they
stumbled back on the animated X they'd just used and
signed him up for a whole campaign. And that is how
the cockney speaking X became the face of the
company.

17*. Who is X? #wikicopypaste
Somnium (Latin for "The Dream") is a fantasy
written between 1620 and 1630, in Latin, by X. In
the narrative, a student of Tycho Brahe is
transported to the Moon by occult forces. It
presents a detailed imaginative description of
how the earth might look when viewed from the
moon, and is considered the first serious
scientific treatise on lunar astronomy. Carl
Sagan and Isaac Asimov have referred to it as the
first work of science fiction.

18. FITB

A _________ is an
equipment of glass
blowers for re-heating
glass to soften it so it can
be worked further or to
keep it hot enough to
avoid cracking during other
work like adding handles,
feet, etc (basically the
mouth of the furnace
shown in the pic).
However, most (ALL) of us
know of the term in a
wholly different and
slightly disturbing context.

19. What is name?

The man on the right
was accused of violating
his probation in April
2010 in a
methamphetamine
manufacturing case in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Simple. Give me his
name.

20. ID road.
Kengal Hanumanthaiah road, which connects
the Lalbagh gate to Richmond Circle, was the
first road in Bangalore of this kind, and due to
this, was given a moniker which is more
widely used than its actual name. What kind
was it the first of, and what moniker?

21. ID Movie and Scene.
The opening credits to the 1973 Sonny Chiba film
‘The Bodyguard’ , feature a set of apocryphal
lines attributed to a prophet. However these lines
are not read, but displayed. The lines were
immortalized in pop culture history when they
were uttered in the scene of a certain film. The
director of the movie has openly admitted to his
love of Sonny Chiba, and even worked with him in
one of his later movies. Now, which movie and
which scene?

22*. ID song and band
The picture on the next slide is that of Artis, a
street performer from Seattle, Washington. He
is known for his unique set of ‘instruments’
and for his collaborations with Frank Zappa
and the band X. In fact, when X was working
on the song they decided to name the song
after Artis’ talent, and in fact, in the song’s
bridge section you can hear Artis playing.

23. What food?

On your right is a type of
tomato called Solanum
Uporo, which can be used
to make
sauce/ketchup, just like
any other type of tomato.
However, the sauce of this
particular tomato is
considered to go best with
a particular type of
food, and it is very popular
in the South Fijian islands.

24.What effect/X?
In biology and psychology, the X effect is a phenomenon—seen in
nearly every mammalian species in which it has been tested—
whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed
sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners, even
after refusing sex from prior but still available sexual partners. The
origin for the term supposedly is an old joke about X when he
was President. The President and Mrs. X were being shown
separately around an experimental government farm. When Mrs. X
came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating
very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened
and was told, “Dozens of times each day.” Mrs. X said, “Tell that to
the President when he comes by.” Upon being told, the President
asked, “Same hen every time?” The reply was, “Oh, no, Mr.
President, a different hen every time.” President: “Tell that to Mrs.
X.”

To which person/event is this comic a
dedication?

Martin Luther King Jr- ‘I have a dream’
speech

2. Give X and Y
• Presented to the U.S. Ambassador by Soviet schoolchildren, the Great Seal of
the United States hung proudly in his office in Spaso House from 1946 to 1952.
Well, after a good bug scan, of course, which turned up nothing. However
during a retesting six years later, they pulled a tiny scrap of metal about the
length and shape of a pencil tube out of there, which they initially thought
nothing of, because it didn't have a single wire or battery running from it.
• In fact, the device had no electronics at all: It was simply wood and
metal designed in such a way that sound waves changed the dimensions of
the interior space, which an ultra-high frequency signal could pick up on.
• This microphone could be turned on at whim from a remote location, but
stayed an inert metal rod inside a piece of wood when not. It was an invention
so cunning, simple and effective that only one man, the feared Soviet master
of sound, could have invented it: Lev Termen.
• However, Lev Termen later on defected to the US, and changed his name to
Leon X, lending his name to an instrument that a popular TV character Y is
shown to play.

4. What significance? Which comic?
• The murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, when she
was stabbed and raped by a sex fiend and wasn’t
helped by anyone, is a well documented and
famous case, and is taught in psychology classes
for the study of onlookers’ apathy.
• This case has a pop culture significance in that it
is used as a pivotal event in the alternate universe
of a legendary 1986 comic. The story arc of the
protagonist of the comic starts with this event.
What is its significance? And which comic?

Comic- Watchmen

In the alternate
universe of the
Watchmen, Kitty
Genovese is rescued
by Rorschach, in his
first act as a
vigilante, thereby
starting his career as a
hero.

6. What phrase?

‘Punch and Judy’ is a traditional, popular British puppet show
featuring the characters of Mr. Punch and his
wife, Judy. The story basically goes like this:
1.Punch kills his infant child
2. Punch punches Judy until she dies
3. Punch goes to prison and escapes using a golden key.
4. He then kills doctors, lawyers and a hangman
5. He kills Death, as in, the Grim Reaper
6. Then it all ends spectacularly as he kills the Devil.

The really mortifying part is that Punch enjoys the entire
process and is thrilled at every kill. This peculiarity gave rise
to a popular phrase in the English language.

Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler is somewhat sim'lar,
But poor Goebbels has no balls at all.

Peter Jackson, and trying distance
perception for ‘Hobbit-vision’ in LOTR

12*. What calamity?

It was May 1910, and the
world was living in fear of
an impending ‘calamity’.
Con artists took advantage
of the panic and took to
selling pills and umbrellas
(as shown in pic) as
protection against the
calamity. However as the
plot unraveled, people
learnt that there was
nothing to fear, and also
that they had been
conned. What calamity
was everyone expecting in
1910?

Halley’s Comet
Halley’s Comet was to make a fly-by past Earth
in 1910 and it was widely believed that it
would come closer to Earth than ever before.
Around that time it was discovered than the
comet’s tail contained Cyanide compounds
and that spread widespread panic. However,
the fear eventually turned out to be
unfounded. But people sold these pills and
umbrellas to protect against Halley’s Comet.

13. What is their specialty?
The Mansudae Art Studio is an art studio
in Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, North Korea. It
was founded in 1959 and employs around 4,000
people, including 1,000 artists. Most of its artists are
graduates of Pyongyang University. The studio
consists of 13 groups, working with woodcuts,
drawings, oil paintings, embroidery and jewel
paintings, among other things. Its foreign commercial
division is known as the Mansudae Overseas Project
Group of Companies. They hold a monopoly in the
production of something. What is that?

All the portraits of all the Kim rulers, all over the
country, are to be made only by them

14. Which photograph?
One of the most iconic images
in history, the story behind it
goes as such:
When the marines took the
highest point on the island,
Mount Suribachi, they took the
photo on the right. When the
Secretary of the Navy showed
up to the war zone, he was so
overcome at the sight he
decided he wanted the flag.
However a battalion is not
supposed to give up its
commissioned flag, so to keep
the Secretary from stealing
their flag, battalion commander
Chandler Johnson had his men
quickly take this one down, and
sent one of his men after a
bigger, replacement flag, which
they could pass off as the
original and give to the Navy
secretary.

15. Who are X and Y?
While his son X was a multi-talented genius and
a man of science who first postulated the
wave nature of light, Constantin himself was a
man of letters, a Dutch Golden Age poet
and composer. He was also adept at
music, mathematics, arts, politics etc. just like
his son. He also was a patron of the arts and
he discovered a certain promising Dutch artist
Y, whom he encouraged. He also sat as model
for many of Y’s paintings.

X- Christiaan Huygens
Y- Rembrandt

18. FITB

A _________ is an
equipment of glass
blowers for re-heating
glass to soften it so it can
be worked further or to
keep it hot enough to
avoid cracking during other
work like adding
handles, feet, etc (basically
the mouth of the furnace
shown in the pic).
However, most (ALL) of us
know of the term in a
wholly different and
slightly disturbing (not for
some) context.

Glory Hole

Sorry. No photo. THIS IS QUIZ.

Double Road

It was the first road in Bangalore with a divider,
and hence got the name Double Road.

21. ID Movie and Scene.
The opening credits to the 1973 Sonny Chiba film
‘The Bodyguard’ , feature a set of apocryphal
lines attributed to a prophet. However these lines
are not read, but displayed. The lines were
immortalized in pop culture history when they
were uttered in the scene of a certain film. The
director of the movie has openly admitted to his
love of Sonny Chiba, and even worked with Chiba
in one of his later movies. Now, which movie and
which scene?

Human Meat. It is also called Cannibal
Tomato.

Coolidge Effect/Calvin Coolidge

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