The Cameo Quiz

By Loki

The ASQ Marathon

• About me:• Hi, I am Lokesh, I’ve finished my B.E (mech)

from PSG Tech.• I’ll be working in Michelin Tyres.• I like to draw, sing, write poems, and do

random things.• Participate in this quiz with a very Open Mind

Ok, here we Go!

Put Funda

Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario and Waluigi

• The term “X the Y" was first used in 1942 in a song of the same name written by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. The song was recorded by numerous artists, including the popular big band leader Kay Kyser, and became a national hit. The song portrays “X" as a tireless assembly line worker, doing her part to help the American war effort.

• All the day long,Whether rain or shineShe’s part of the assembly line.She’s making history,Working for victoryX the Y.

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Rosie the Riveter

• MPDG is a stock character in films. Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the term after seeing Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown, describes the MPDG as "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”

• MPDGs are usually static characters who have eccentric personality quirks and are unabashedly girlish. They invariably serve as the romantic interest for a (often brooding or depressed) leading male protagonist.

• Rabin points to Katharine Hepburn's character in Bringing Up Baby (1938) as one of the earliest examples of the archetype; later examples include Shirley MacLaine's character in The Apartment (1960). Zooey Deschanel's roles in (500) Days of Summer and other films have also been typified MPDG.

• Kate Winslet's role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has been suggested as the anti-MPDG, realized in a remark to Jim Carrey's Joel character: "Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours."

Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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Iggy Pop and Patti SmithKnown as the “Godfather of Punk”

and ‘Godmother of Punk” respectively.

• The dates from a late 19th/early 20th century American idiomatic phrase meaning "an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.“ In time the term also came to refer to a large @ (type of Children’s confectionary). Farrell, searching for a suitable name, liked the euphonious quality of the word upon hearing it in a Three Stooges short film.

• Ron Nasty first met Dirk McQuickly in January 1959, at the now-historical address of 43 Egg Lane, Liverpool. Having joined up with Stig O'Hara (a guitarist of no fixed hairstyle), they started playing as a trio. After 18 months, they discovered drummer Barrington Womble (whom they persuaded to change his name to Barry Wom to save time, and his hairstyle to save Brylcreem) hiding in their van, and the classic line-up of the X was completed.

• All You Need Is Cash documented the rise and fall of The X.• Some of their albums are:

Tragical History Tour (1967)Shabby Road (1969)Let It Rut (1970)

The Rutles

What is Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia?

Fear of the number 666

• X is the third most played song identifying a destination, behind ‘New York, New York’ and ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco.’

• Which song is X?

Sweet Home Alabama

• A/an X is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly

is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.

Etymology:In the essay, American writer Sylvia Wright described how, as a young girl,

she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonny Earl O'Moray". She wrote:

Highlands and ye Lowlands,Oh, where hae ye been?

They hae slain the Earl O' Moray,And Lady X.

Mondegreen• The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". Wright explained the need

for a new term: "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original.“

• Other examples:• Surely Good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life ("Surely goodness

and mercy…" from Psalm 23)• There's a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon

Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")• 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song "Purple Haze", by Jimi

Hendrix: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky".

• In 1996, Wal-Mart adopted a policy of not carrying any objectionable materials in their stores. While they continued to sell guns and cigarettes, they made many musicians alter their albums before they would sell them, resulting in "clean" and "dirty" versions of many albums. X had to change the title listed on the album to “@" before Wal-Mart would carry it.

Rape Me by Nirvana

• @ was Waif Me

• The X levitation is a levitation illusion that was first described by Ed X. Its inventor is unknown. It is an impromptu magic trick, which has been popularized by many magicians, such as David Roth,Paul Harris, Alex Magic, and David Blaine.

• The performer stands at an angle facing away from the spectators. The performer appears to levitate a few inches above the ground. The effect generally does not last for more than five seconds. The performer's feet return to the ground, and the effect is complete.

• Balducci Levitation