FLAMBÉ Open

Quizotic, 2015

By

Aryapriya Ganguly

Food

Fashion

Literature

Mythology

Arts (Architecture, Painting, Sculpture,Comics/Cartoons, Photography,Performance Art)

Hollywood

Music

Business

Video Games, TV Shows et al

Contributors towards this effort

Cavia porcellus, aka Guinea Pig, for the

quiz

Prelims.

• 35 questions and 40 points at stake.

• Multiples of 5 are * marked and will be

employed if need be

• No e-devices

1

• It’s a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs. These are known in Britain as "cowries".

• The shell of these species does superficially resemble the shell of a very small cowry, but they are not closely related to true cowries.

• What is their family name, of immense significance (how ironic!) for this august gathering?

2.

• Salvation Army South Africa last week tweeted a picture of a cut and bruised model wearing something accompanied by the question: "Why is it so hard to see _____and ____?"

• This laudable and rather appropriate usage of something, which otherwise can be attributed to a mass hysteria stemming from some quack science, also includes the caption: "The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One in 6 women are victims of abuse. Stop abuse against women.”

• What does the cut and bruised model wear in this campaign?

3.

• Who are making a rare cameo appearance as the

street scum in this sequence from Scorsese’s

The King of Comedy?

Insert video

4.

• What aleatoric

rhyme is the

source of the title

of this 1945 novel?

5.*

• A ___1____ is an experience that sparks a traumatic memory in someone who has experienced trauma. It is thus a troubling reminder of a traumatic event, although the ___1____ itself need not be frightening or traumatic.

• The term is related to posttraumatic stress disorder. In some publications a " ___1____ ___2____" may appear at the beginning of certain articles. These are to warn that the articles contain disturbing themes and are a means of protecting the mental health of their readers or simply common courtesy.

• An upcoming “Short fictions and disturbances” compilation wherein the old gods clash with the new in modern America is titled ___1____ ___2____. What?

6. What are these brands in Pakistan named after, obviously oblivious to

how they’d be at the forefront of the copy-left movement? A "daylong

brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting

company Odeo may help you crack the original brand.

7. 2 points

• “Title background was made with the kind permission

of ”?

• Which movie?

Insert video

8.

• Titled Workout, this was

the biggest home-video

seller from 1983-1985.

First released in April of

1982, the trend continued

in 1986 and in 1987.

• Simply tell who this

starred.

9.

• Urban dictionary defines this word as ‘someone who is about to get owned.’ The connotation of this otherwise harmless Italian borrowing is explained thus:

• Originating in professional wrestling, ‘carpenter’ was the phrase used by earlier generations according to "The Professional Wrestlers' Instructional and Workout Guide," 2005, but the new word was popularized among the people by its usage by a gentleman who explained what he means when he uses it: “_______ was a term I started using to describe a phony, goof, punk or a ham & egger.” What word?

10. * Connect with a person or a tract.

11.

• Aaj ki raat bahut _____ ____ chalti hai,

Aaj ki raat na neend aayegi

Hum sub uthen, main bhi uthun, tum bhi utho

Koi khidki isi deewar mein khul jayegi

- from the poem Makaan by Kaifi Azmi

• The title of which acclaimed (and controversial)

1974 work comes from the blanks above?

12.

• The latest victim of a particular government’s

effort to promote the national language has led

to something being changed to the local term

for ‘sharp word’.

• Which country and what term has been

replaced?

13.

• The phases in the history of which music group

can be divided as follows?

• Celebrity Take Down (1999-2003)

• Slowboat to Hades (2004-2007)

• Escape to Plastic Beach (2008-2012)

14. What is the source of the title?

• Inert Apres Moi (le deluge)

15.* Explain how the movie on the left

resulted in the one on your right.

16.

• On 11 July 1985, ABC news reporter Peter Jennings interrupted General Hospital for a special news bulletin, to announce a major change after 79 days of uncertainty.Virtually every major newspaper in the United States carried the announcement on their front page, and on the floor of the US Senate, David Pryor observed the event as "a meaningful moment in US history."

• The company in the news was quick to claim credit as part of the "fabric of America," stating that their product's value was as immeasurable as "love, pride, or patriotism."What happened?

17.

• Who is the author?

Sequel to which book?

18. Who, later more famous for business cycles of

a macroeconomic kind, here lists his less dignified

personal business cycles as a clerk in the India

Office?

• In his own words, here is what he did during his tenure:"Dispatch of Ayrshire bulls, 18 October 1906; Position of the jute trade, 19 March 1907; proposed grant of a monopoly of bonded warehouses in Cyprus, 24 May 1907; Prevention of liquor smuggling from Portuguese possessions ofDaman and Nagar Avely into the adjoining British possessions, 14 June 1907; ‘low fixed licence fee’ system in certain districts of the Punjab, 21December 1907."

19. Who is speaking? Insert Audio.

20.*

• Today that number has swollen to somewhere

between 43 and 47, based on differing accounts.

• These are the original 7:

• Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, Rincon Hill,

____ _____, Mount Sutro and Mount Davidson.

• What are these?

• Also, FITB.

21. This is an ad for which company? Which

cult 1980 sporting film is paid more than just

a nod in this ad? • Insert video

22.

• In a street winding away from the main street up into the hillside, set in its own small park, was the Château de Léry, and up the sloping hillside in the other direction was the medieval church.

• Whose house was set in the hillside above the main street, painted here by two post-impressionists? Who are these two post-impressionists?

23. Which sequence/ film are both these

sequences referencing? Insert videos.

24.

• This actress appeared in 3 music videos by the same band in the early 1990s. She became a household name and became associated with the band to such an extent that she came to be known as “the _________ girl”.

• Fill the blank.

• Name her.

25.* 3 Points.

• In Victorian England and colonial India, a restaurant code developed that assigned new meanings to traditional titles for Indian dishes. Each of these three dishes was borrowed from a different cuisine, but by the time of this classification, was appropriated enough by Indian cuisine to be labelled an ‘Indian dish’.

• __1___came to signify a mild creamy dish, ___2____ meant a slightly sweet lentil curry, and ____3____simply indicated that the food would be very hot.

• What were these codes?

26. What led to a fashion for boys’ velvet

knee-breeches, the kinds you see here

sometime in the mid 1880s?

27. A still from the 2013 film All Is By

My Side. Who is playing whom?

28.

• It is a pancake.

• It is a woven fabric.

• It is a paper.

• It is also a kind of rubber, used to make soles

for shoes and other rubber products.

29. Insert video

• It imagines the final months of his life, including mythical imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol.

• It is an adaptation of the Peter Stephan Jungk novel, Der Königvon Amerika, describing the darker side – more or less proven, or perhaps purely imaginary – of a real-life personality. For Glass, his opera "is not a documentary or portrait" but a "journey poetic and tragic" through the last months of the life of an artist who "faced the same doubts that beset us all". He, therefore, conceived this as a kind of poem on the quintessentially American and a reflection on death.

• Take a look at the video and tell me who is The Perfect Americanin this opera of the same name by Philip Glass?

Insert video

30.*

• It is a movement by iCONGO (International Confederation of NGOs) and Olive Bar & Kitchen to involve individuals who have superior spending power, in creating social change - simply through eating out!

• Through the campaign, it saves the lives of severely malnourished children while helping vulnerable communities become self-sufficient.

• What movement?

31.

• This happens when a river is carrying vast amounts of eroded sediment.

• Sediment is deposited as islands in the channel causing the river to split up into many winding channels.

• What fashionable term is used to refer to this geological formation?

32.

• Renowned for being smooth and full flavored,

what gets its name from what you see?

33.

• In stage lighting, it is a gradual increase or decrease

of the intensity of light projected onto the stage.

The former is gradually changing the lighting level

from complete darkness to a

predetermined lighting level.

• The latter refers to gradually decreasing the

intensity of light until none is shining on the stage.

• What lighting technique, the latter sharing its name

with a well-known power ballad?

34.

• It is a brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the title of the clan chief Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of _________ (1771–1828), who invented it, what is it called, that could make real estate dealers swear a lot, like A LOT?

35.* 3 Points. Insert I fink u freeky.

• Die Antwoord are a South African rap-rave group formed in Cape Town in 2008. Their public image is inspired by Zef motifs, a counter-culture Afrikaans movement.

• What does their name mean, apt, considering THIS IS QUIZ?

• Which artist’s work forms the basis of the imagery of this video and several of their music videos?

• In which upcoming Neill Blomkamp movie, based on his 2004 short film Tetra Vaal, are they part of the cast?

1

• It’s a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs. These are known in Britain as "cowries".

• The shell of these species does superficially resemble the shell of a very small cowry, but they are not closely related to true cowries.

• What is their family name, of immense significance (how ironic!) for this august gathering?

Trivia

2.

• Salvation Army South Africa last week tweeted a picture of a cut and bruised model wearing something accompanied by the question: "Why is it so hard to see _____and ____?"

• This laudable and rather appropriate usage of something, which otherwise can be attributed to a mass hysteria stemming from some quack science, also includes the caption: "The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One in 6 women are victims of abuse. Stop abuse against women.”

• What does the cut and bruised model wear in this campaign?

THAT dress has lent itself to this campaign against domestic abuse.

3.

• Who are making a rare cameo appearance as the

street scum in this sequence from Scorsese’s

The King of Comedy?

The Clash

4.

• What aleatoric

rhyme is the

source of the title

of this 1945 novel?

eeny, meeny, miny, moe

5.*

• A ___1____ is an experience that sparks a traumatic memory in someone who has experienced trauma. It is thus a troubling reminder of a traumatic event, although the ___1____ itself need not be frightening or traumatic.

• The term is related to posttraumatic stress disorder. In some publications a " ___1____ ___2____" may appear at the beginning of certain articles. These are to warn that the articles contain disturbing themes and are a means of protecting the mental health of their readers or simply common courtesy.

• An upcoming “Short fictions and disturbances” compilation wherein the old gods clash with the new in modern America is titled ___1____ ___2____. What?

6. What are these brands in Pakistan named after, obviously oblivious to

how they’d be at the forefront of the copy-left movement? A "daylong

brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting

company Odeo may help you crack the original brand.

Twitter

7.

• “Title background was made with the kind permission

of ”?

• Which movie?

Francis Bacon; Last Tango in Paris

8.

• Titled Workout, this was

the biggest home-video

seller from 1983-1985.

First released in April of

1982, the trend continued

in 1986 and in 1987.

• Simply tell who this

starred.

Jane Fonda's exercise video titled

Workout (aka Jane Fonda's Workout)

9.

• Urban dictionary defines this word as ‘someone who is about to get owned.’ The connotation of this otherwise harmless Italian borrowing is explained thus:

• Originating in professional wrestling, ‘carpenter’ was the phrase used by earlier generations according to "The Professional Wrestlers' Instructional and Workout Guide," 2005, but the new word was popularized among the people by its usage by a gentleman who explained what he means when he uses it: “_______ was a term I started using to describe a phony, goof, punk or a ham & egger.” What word?

Jabroni/ Jabronie, as popularised by this

man. #NoCandyAssJabronis.

10. * Connect with a person or a tract.

John Reed's book on the October

Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World

• Reds is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution, which formed the basis of John Reed’s life and work.

• The title of October: 10 Days That Shook the Worldby Eisenstein is taken from John Reed's book on the Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World

11.

• Aaj ki raat bahut _____ ____ chalti hai,

Aaj ki raat na neend aayegi

Hum sub uthen, main bhi uthun, tum bhi utho

Koi khidki isi deewar mein khul jayegi

- from the poem Makaan by Kaifi Azmi

The title of which acclaimed (and controversial)

1974 work comes from the blanks above?

Garam Hawa

12.

• The latest victim of a particular government’s

effort to promote the national language has led

to something being changed to the local term

for ‘sharp word’.

• Which country and what term has been

replaced?

France; Hashtag to Mot Diese

13.

• The phases in the history of which music group

can be divided as follows?

• Celebrity Take Down (1999-2003)

• Slowboat to Hades (2004-2007)

• Escape to Plastic Beach (2008-2012)

Gorillaz

14. What is the source of the title?

• Inert Apres Moi (le deluge)

• "After me, the deluge", a remark attributed to Louis XV of France in reference to the impending end of a functioning French monarchy and predicting the French Revolution. It is derived from Madame de Pompadour's après nous, le déluge, "after us, the deluge".

15.* Explain how the movie on the left

resulted in the one on your right.

Gates of Heaven made Werner Herzog Eats

(sic.) His Shoe

• Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if a young American film student went out and actually made the film he was always only talking about. The young student was Errol Morris, who met the challenge with his off-beat 1978 pet cemetery documentary Gates of Heaven (1978) .

• Herzog makes good on his promise in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), directed by Les Blank

16.

• On 11 July 1985, ABC news reporter Peter Jennings interrupted General Hospital for a special news bulletin, to announce a major change after 79 days of uncertainty.Virtually every major newspaper in the United States carried the announcement on their front page, and on the floor of the US Senate, David Pryor observed the event as "a meaningful moment in US history."The company in the news was quick to claim credit as part of the "fabric of America," stating that their product's value was as immeasurable as "love, pride, or patriotism."What happened?

• Original-recipe Coke was back on the market as

"Coca-Cola Classic", part of the New Coke

debacle.

17.

• Who is the author?

Sequel to which book?

Robert Edsel; Monuments Men

18. Who, later more famous for business cycles of

a macroeconomic kind, here lists his less dignified

personal business cycles as a clerk in the India

Office?

• In his own words, here is what he did during his tenure:"Dispatch of Ayrshire bulls, 18 October 1906; Position of the jute trade, 19 March 1907; proposed grant of a monopoly of bonded warehouses in Cyprus, 24 May 1907; Prevention of liquor smuggling from Portuguese possessions ofDaman and Nagar Avely into the adjoining British possessions, 14 June 1907; ‘low fixed licence fee’ system in certain districts of the Punjab, 21December 1907."

J.M. Keynes

19. Who is speaking? Insert Audio.

Keira Knightley

20.*

• Today that number has swollen to somewhere

between 43 and 47, based on differing accounts.

• These are the original 7:

• Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, Rincon Hill,

____ _____, Mount Sutro and Mount Davidson.

• What are these?

• Also, FITB.

The original 7 hills of San Francisco.

Twin Peaks.

21. This is an ad for which company? Which

cult 1980 sporting film is paid more than just

a nod in this ad? • Insert video

American Express; Caddyshack

• Tiger Woods so adores the movie, he played Carl Spackler in this American Express commercial that included references to many of the movie's most famous scenes.

• Unsurprisingly, the movie is a huge favorite among golfers and golf fans.

22.

• In a street winding away from the main street up into the hillside, set in its own small park, was the Château de Léry, and up the sloping hillside in the other direction was the medieval church. Whose house was set in the hillside above the main street, painted here by two post-impressionists? Who are these two post-impressionists?

Dr. Gachet’s; Cezanne and Van Gogh

23. Which sequence/ film are both these

sequences referencing?

The Great Train Robbery

24.

• This actress appeared in 3 music videos by the same band in the early 1990s. She became a household name and became associated with the band to such an extent that she came to be known as “the _________ girl”.

• Fill the blank.

• Name her.

Aerosmith; Alicia Silverstone.

25.*

• In Victorian England and colonial India, a restaurant code developed that assigned new meanings to traditional titles for Indian dishes. Each of these three dishes was borrowed from a different cuisine, but by the time of this classification, was appropriated enough by Indian cuisine to be labelled an ‘Indian dish’.

• __1___came to signify a mild creamy dish, ___2____ meant a slightly sweet lentil curry, and ____3____simply indicated that the food would be very hot.

• What were these codes?

Korma, Dhansak, Vindaloo

• Mughal, Parsi, Portugese cuisines, respectively.

26. What led to a fashion for boys’ velvet

knee-breeches, the kinds you see here

sometime in the mid 1880s?

27. A still from the 2013 film All Is By

My Side. Who is playing whom?

Andre 3000 of Outkast as Jimi Hendrix

28.

• It is a pancake.

• It is a woven fabric.

• It is a paper.

• It is also a kind of rubber, used to make soles

for shoes and other rubber products.

Crepe

29. Insert video

• It imagines the final months of his life, including mythical imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol.

• It is an adaptation of the Peter Stephan Jungk novel, Der Königvon Amerika, describing the darker side – more or less proven, or perhaps purely imaginary – of a real-life personality. For Glass, his opera "is not a documentary or portrait" but a "journey poetic and tragic" through the last months of the life of an artist who "faced the same doubts that beset us all". He, therefore, conceived this as a kind of poem on the quintessentially American and a reflection on death.

• Take a look at the video and tell me who is The Perfect Americanin this opera of the same name by Philip Glass?

Walt Disney

30.*

• It is a movement by iCONGO (International Confederation of NGOs) and Olive Bar & Kitchen to involve individuals who have superior spending power, in creating social change - simply through eating out!

• Through the campaign, it saves the lives of severely malnourished children while helping vulnerable communities become self-sufficient.

• What movement?

31.

• This happens when a river is carrying vast amounts of eroded sediment.

• Sediment is deposited as islands in the channel causing the river to split up into many winding channels.

• What fashionable term is used to refer to this geological formation?

Braiding

32.

• Renowned for being smooth and full flavored,

what gets its name from what you see?

Blue Mountain Coffee

• The Blue Mountains of Jamaica lend their name

to the famous Blue Mountain Coffee

33.

• In stage lighting, it is a gradual increase or decrease

of the intensity of light projected onto the stage.

The former is gradually changing the lighting level

from complete darkness to a

predetermined lighting level.

• The latter rfers to gradually decreasing the intensity

of light until none is shining on the stage.

• What lighting technique, the latter sharing its name

with a well-known power ballad?

34.

• It is a brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the title of the clan chief Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of _________ (1771–1828), who invented it, what is it called, that could make real estate dealers swear a lot, like A LOT?

Glengarry

35.* Insert I fink ur freeky.

• Die Antwoord are a South African rap-rave group formed in Cape Town in 2008. Their public image is inspired by Zef motifs, a counter-culture Afrikaans movement.

• What does their name mean, apt, considering THIS IS QUIZ?

• Which artist’s work forms the basis of the imagery of this video and several of their music videos?

• In which upcoming Neill Blomkamp movie, based on his 2004 short film Tetra Vaal, are they part of the cast?

The Answer; Roger Ballen’s

photographs; CHAPPiE.