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#trendingThe Pop Culture QuizPRELIMS ANSWERS
*1.
• Randall Park has starred in movies like Dinner for Schmucks,
Larry Crowne, Sex Tape and the popular TV show Veep.
• He was in headlines in 2014 for his role in a particular movie.
Which character did he play?
Kim Jong-un.
2.
• In August 2014, the American journalist James Foley was beheaded by a guy with a Britishaccent, who called himself John and was a member of the Islamic State (IS).
• John and another three jihadists from the group were given the collective nickname X by the hostages, because of their British origins.
ID X.
The Beatles.
3.• According to Internet memes, which technological
service should have changed their logo to this, which is similar to their present logo, on September 1st, 2014?
iCloud.
4.
• Yauatcha is a Michelin Star restaurant that has opened branches in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata.
• One of the signature cocktails of the restaurant chain is made of Ketel One vodka, lemongrass, lime, Oolong tea and lychee juice. The cocktail is called X in all of its branches, except in Delhi, where, owing to political objections, it has been renamed Laila.
ID X.
Lalu.
*5.
• You know how the Philosoraptormeme works.
Complete the question with the name of a movie
that released in 2014.
Guardians of the Galaxy.
6.
• Fill in the blank with the name of a fictional female
character.
Hazel Grace Lancaster.(Hazel or Hazel Grace are acceptable answers. Hazel Grace Lannister is NOT.)
• In the final of Champions League T20, on 4th October, 2014, when KKR’s Kuldeep Yadav came to bowl his first over, CSK’s Brendon McCullum hit five sweep shots off his deliveries.
• This made the commentator Arun Lal joke that McCullum might have taken X’s initiative Y a little bit too seriously.
ID X and Y.
7.
X – Narendra Modi, Y – Swachh Bharat.
8.
• Sitter.
A popular Internet meme from 6th
October, 2014. Fill in the blank.
Flipkart.
9.
• Derive a five word sentence
from this cartoon.
#ifyouknowwhatimean
Red Bull gives you wings.
10.The DC comic book covers in March 2015 will pay tribute to some iconic Hollywood movie posters. Seen here are two of them.Identify the movies from these covers.
North by Northwest.2001 : A Space Odyssey.
11.
• In December 2014, the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter ranked the greatest Swedish sportstars.
• X finished second on the list after Y. On being asked about his feelings on finishing second, X replied : “Thank you but to finish second is like finishing last. On that list, I would have been number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with due respect to the others.”
ID X and Y.
X – Zlatan Ibrahimovic.Y - Bjorn Borg.
12.• Ned Stark from Game of Thrones.
• Mrs. Bieber’s Uterus.
• The Titanic.
• The World Trade Centre.
• Uncle Ben from Spiderman.
• Private Ryan.
• Martha and Thomas Wayne.
According to a series of popular Internet memes, how are these connected?
Things David De Gea could have saved.
13.• The X campaign was launched in social networking
websites in August 2014 as a token of support for people in Gaza suffering from Israeli air strikes. It was an imitation of a similar campaign that was viral during that time.
• The concept was intended as a “a campaign to raise awareness about the war on Gaza where people are bombed inside their homes”, according to its Facebookpage.
Which campaign?(Slight variations from the exact answer are acceptable).
Rubble Bucket Challenge.
14.
• This 2014 movie was adapted from a 2004 Japaneselight novel called All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
• The author of the book and the director of the movie were both inspired by the Respawning feature in video games.
Which movie?
Edge of Tomorrow.
15.
Identify the superhero.
Birdman.
16.• The 2014 movie X deals with the kidnapping of a
small kid.
• The 2014 movie Y deals with four young people standing up against a corrupt police officer.
• The director of Y explained that the name of his movie is Y as it shows the youth “fighting against the X.”
ID X and Y.
X – Ugly. Y – Fugly.
17.Homepage of the promotional website for what?
Gone Girl.
18.• A Belgian Maths teacher came in news in March 2014 for
threatening his students with an innovative punishment “if there was too much noise in class”.
• He said he will write down certain names on the board if the class does not shut up. As the class laughed and still kept talking, the teacher got angry and to prove he meant business, he went on to write down some such names, much to the dismay of one of his students, who decided to blog about the incident on DansTonChat.
• The student said, “About 20 people sighed in disgust. Well I can tell you that there's been a religious silence since then during the last lesson.“
What was the punishment?
Game of Thrones Spoilers.(He wrote down the names of characters who die.)
*19.• City Lit is an adult education college in Covent Garden, central
London, offering over 4,000 part-time courses in areas such as languages, visual arts, music, drama, humanities and more.
• It came in news a few days back for becoming the first institute to offer a certain crash course. This course will be available from March 2015 and will cost around $160 per head.
• The students will be taught to “explain ideas of space, place and surrounding issues, use light and significant detail in their work and even develop new ideas to make their work more relevant”.
What will be taught in the crash course?
How to take Selfies.
20.
An Internet meme became popular last year after the uploader noticed that the Hunger Games : Mockingjay logo looks like the cartoon character X holding an arrow.
ID X.
Johnny Bravo.
*21.
• A meme that became popular on 7th January, 2015. Flags of two countries were there in place of the blanks.
Which countries?
Germany and Brazil.
22.
• In a recent interview, X said that he would love to play a James Bond villain.
• He said, “My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think my voice would fit the part.”
Subject of a 2014 movie himself, who is X?
Stephen Hawking.
23.• Paul Horner, a man from Los Angeles, came in news in late
2014 for stopping a couple from robbing a coffee shop.
• He says, “It was really lucky that I had my wallet with me that said ‘Bad Motherf*cker’ on it. When the robbers came, I held it up and said, ‘Normally, both of your asses would be f*ckingfried chicken, but you happen to pull this sh*t when I am in a transitional period, so I don’t wanna kill you, I wanna help you.’ Then the robbers looked at each other and ran away. I knew my vast knowledge of X would pay off for me one day.”
ID X.
Pulp Fiction.
24.
• “Kab tak kaatun teri gaaliyon ke chakkar,Ab tak koi response nahi hain.Din bhar, ho din bhar,O din bhar tere peeche dourun kutte ki tarah.O raat bhar main saroon, jaise chhat par ullu,O tere pyaar mein mujhko kya mila hain?______ __ ______.”
Fill in the missing line of this recent Bollywood song.
Babaji ka thullu.
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#trendingThe Pop Culture QuizFINALS
• 24 Questions.
• Infinite Pounce.
• +10 for direct.
• +10/-10 on Pounce.
• Clockwise.
Clockwise Pounce
• This question has been posted multiple times on multiple Q&A websites, like Yahoo Answers, Rediff Q&A, Toluna, Ask and Answers.
• Some of the answers posted are :
“Because its cheaper than the other alternatives.”
“To refresh our minds.”
“So that we can breathe easy.”
Two of the most common answers have not been included here.
What is the question?
And give me one of the two most common answers.
1.
Hum Chlormint Kyun Khaatey Hain?Dobaara Mat Poochna.
Or, because the shopkeeper does not have change.
2.• As an Easter Egg in Google Maps, when you want
to find the route between Fort Augustus and Urquhart Castle in the UK, and you look for estimated time taken in different modes of transportation to reach one place from the other, it shows 26 minutes by cab ride, 34 minutes by bus ride and 28 minutes by X ride.
ID X.
[Picture on the next slide.]
Nessie.(Or, the Loch Ness Monster).
• The founder of a company explaining why his company X, named after a fictional character, is called so:
“One day, I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said, ‘Do you know about X?’ And she said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘What do you know about X?’, and she said ‘____ ______’ (A phrase the character X is associated with). And I said ‘Yes, this is the name!’. Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and asked them, ‘Do you know X?’. People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China, they all knew about X. X is not a thief. X is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village. So, easy to spell, and globally known.”
ID X and the founder.
3.
Alibaba.Jack Ma.
4.
This is the idol from a very popular Durga Puja in South Kolkata. The organisers claimed the idol was the first of its kind. What was special about it?
First 3D Printed Idol.(Jodhpur Park Sarbojonin).
• The plot of the movie Chotushkone revolves around four directors, each telling a short story to the others as a part of an anthology film they will direct together.
• Chiranjeet’s story revolves around a lonely, reclusive middle-aged man named Bedoshruti De (played by Chiranjeet himself) who has a severe cigarette obsession.
• His neighbour is a married woman (played by Arpita Pal Chatterjee) who is in an unhappy marriage.
• Chiranjeet says that this woman is the only one Bedoshruticares about and he loves her “like his own daughter”.
What is the name of Arpita’s character?
5.
Jyotsna.
• Consider the following example of a program code:
if (version.StartsWith (“_______ 9”)){
…
/* Do something. */
…
}
• Why did such snippets of code came in news in September -October 2014?
6.
The reason there will be no Windows 9.(Windows 9 would have clashed with Windows 95 and 98 features.)
7.
Here are the “honest slogans” for two websites.Name them.
Buzzfeed.Dailymotion.
8.
Fill in the blank with an abbreviation.
NSFW.(Not Safe For Work).
9.
• “Dil ki gar sunoon toh hain,Dimaag ki toh hain nahi.Jaan loon ke jaan doon,____ ______ __ ____ ____.”
Fill in the last line.
Or, give me the original line the last line is inspired from.
Main rahoon ke main nahi.(To be or not to be).
10.
Official poster of which upcoming movie?
Ant-Man.
11.
• X is talking about a song he wrote:
“ When I was writing down the lyrics, I kept in mind all the English words that are used in our vocabulary. Words like I, you, me, how, why, cow. I just framed them into sentences and that's how I came up with the song.”
ID X and the song.
Why this Kolaveri di?X - Dhanush.
12.• Ever since the release of the trailer of a certain upcoming
movie, Internet users are debating over the design of the new X.
• Some believe that the newly added crossguard prevents the X from sliding down and accidentally cutting off your hand and the crossguard can be used to jab opponents.
• Others believe that the crossguard can damage your hand if you try acrobatic moves with the X and the crossguard would have been helpful if it was at an angle rather than being perpendicular.
ID X.
Lightsaber.
13.
A “Shakespearean sonnet” version of a popular 80s hit song.
Which song?
Never gonna give you up.(Rick Astley).
14.• In November 2014, Spanish football club Valencia was sued by
DC Comics for copyright infringement.
• But European outlets were quick to point out that the “point of contention between Valencia and DC” is a traditional part of Spanish heraldry that dates back to at least the 1300s. Other Spanish clubs including CD Alcoyano and Levante UD also use it.
• But still Valencia decided to let DC Comics have the final say and stopped the use of the “point of contention”.
Why did DC sue Valencia?
The Bat logo.
15.• YB is an app available in the iTunes Store
that allows you to send “colourful messages to your friends and family, brought to you by X.”
• The app can be used to select voice greetings from a library of over 120 phrases and send the greeting to another user.
• The greetings are send in the voice of X and every greeting ends with a word X is associated with.
ID X.
Aaron Paul.(YB stands for “Yo, Bitch.”)
16.• Pierre Daniel (picture on the right) sued
actor Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie, White Chicks, G.I. Joe : The Rise of Cobra) for racially harassing him on the set of A Haunted House 2 by posting a side-by-side pic of him with the cartoon character X, captioning it, “Tell me this n**** don't look like THIS N****!!! Old X ass lookin’."
• But he lost the case as the judge felt it was a fair comment, ruling, “The X character, like Pierre, is obviously black and heavy with curly Afro hair.“
ID the cartoon character X who is a side character in a series and has a spin-off series of his own.
Cleveland Brown.
17.
• “Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning, they __ ___ __ ______ ____ ____ ____ _____.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,____, ____ _______ ___ _____ __ ___ _____.”
Fill in the missing lines of the poem.
Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
18.• “But since the man that runs away,
Lives to ___ _______ ___.” - A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman.
• “A tomb now suffices him for whom ___ _____ ___ ___ ______.“ – Alexander the Great’s epitaph.
• Reflections in a ______ ___, a 1941 novel by American author Carson McCullers.
• “___ ____ ____ _____,
Once when you are born,
And once when you look death in the face.” - Matsuo Basho.
Connect the blanks.
James Bond title origins.(Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, Golden Eye, You Only Live Twice.)
19.
Identify.(Please make sure the gif is working.)
David Bowie.
20.
• A merchandiser posted pictures of this shirt for sale on Etsy and eBay last week. But they cancelled their plans this week after widespread backlash and outcry.
What is the controversy?
[Larger photo on next slide.]
Kurt Cobain’s suicide note.
21.
• In a fake trailer released by the YouTube channel CollegeHumor, Ariel
Winter (Modern Family) plays an agent who specialises in “covert artefact
recovery” and is out to retrieve the stolen Infinity Orb.
What is her character called?
Dora the Explorer.
22.
• According to a poll published by WhatCulture.com, which mask was voted as the “most iconic mask in cinematic history”?
The Guy Fawkes mask.
23.
• Available in many online shopping websites, what
are these kind of rings commonly called?
Friendzone Rings.
24.
Put funda.
Albert Uderzo’s tribute to Charlie Hebdo victims.
