pop culture quiz
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Prelims
QM – Siddharth Mishra
Prelims Round 1•Simple identification round.•10 questions.•Points division = 10 points per correctly
identified person per question.
Q. ID both.
Q. ID both of them.
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Q. ID the man with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
Q. ID both of them
Q. ID the guy in the middle.
Q. Identify the player with Pele.
Q. Whose dead body is this?
Q. Identify both
Q. Identify the guy with Jimi Hendrix.
Exchange sheets!
Q. ID both of them.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Q. ID both of them.
Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger
Q. ID both of them.
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire
Q. ID the man with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
Francis Ford Coppola
Q. ID both of them
Coco Chanel and Salvador Dali
Q. ID the guy in the middle.
David Bowie
Q. Identify the player with Pele.
Bobby Moore
Q. Whose dead body is this?
Che Guevara
Q. Identify both
H G Wells and Orson Welles
Q. Identify the guy with Jimi Hendrix.
Eric Clapton
Prelims Round 2•Following questions are basically
paintings based on movies.•ID the movies.•+10 for each correct answer.
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2001 : A Space Odyssey
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Aliens
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Black Swan
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Machete
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No Country for Old Men
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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The Straight Story
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Toy Story III
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Usual Suspects
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Finals
QM – Siddharth Mishra
#random
Q. The creator of this immensely popular
show had written down a set of rules for making sure he didn’t stray from the plot, ever.
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Identify the creator for 10 points. Fill in all the blanks, 5 points each.
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Chuck Jones The Road Runner Show
Q. Gibson guitars are one of the latest companies
to cash in on the latest GoT craze. At a recent music fest the company created the Guitar Throne, a play on The Iron Throne, for promotion.
When they shared the image on Facbook, they did so with a pun on GoT’s most famous dialogues.
What be the pun?
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A Lannister always plays his frets
Q. A snapshot of a news article from the
Guardian FB page. What was the caption with which they shared the link, a pop culture play on how newspapers usually deliver latest news?
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Q.What is happening here?
Put funda.
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Filming the opening credits of Star Wars
Q. Whose face has been blanked out here?
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Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin
Q An excerpt from a Morgan Freeman
interview from the Charlie Rose show.
Who are they talking about? What is the name of the poem Freeman is
reciting? Who is the poet?
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AnswerThey are talking about Nelson Mandela.
The name of the poem is ‘Invictus’.
The author is William Ernest Henley.
QWho is claiming to be Batman here?
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Adam West
QName the instrument that Paul McCartney
is talking about/playing here?
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Mellotron
QWhat popular term is said to derive its
origins from this scene?
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D’oh!
Ze Social Media Overdose•Written round.•Snapshots likening Social Media websites
to drugs. Nine of ‘em.•FITB with the appropriate
drug/substance.•+10 for each correct.
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#albumartstylz•5 questions•In each, a popular album cover has been
parodied.•Identify the artist and album.•+10 for getting either right.
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2015 : A Soundtrack Odyssey
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AnswerComposer - Richard Strauss Title - Also Sprach Zarathustra
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AnswerComposer : RossiniTitle : William Tell Overture - Final
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AnswerComposer – Johann StraussTitle – The Blue Danube Waltz
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AnswerComposer – MozartTitle - Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Q. There is a tradition among English
football clubs, to play music when teams walk out onto the pitch as to pump up the players and supporters.
Here, we can see the Tottenham Hotspurs team walking out on to the pitch. Identify the composer and soundtrack.
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AnswerComposer – John WilliamsTitle – Duel of the Fates
Q This is one of the soundtracks created by
Dimitri Tiomkin for the movie The Alamo.
What did it inspire, at a much later date?
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Movies
Q A behind the scenes snap from which
movie?
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The Matrix
QJust FITB, any order.
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Q This scene is a tribute to a particular
event in a movie.
Identify the event and the movie.
For bonus points, what is the direct connect between the movie and this scene?
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Goodfellas.When Tommy shoots Spider in the foot.
Q This company, to promote a prominent
brand of cars, tied up with this movie franchise and made a special version of the car for advertisements.
Identify the car company and the movie franchise.
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ChryslerThe Dark Knight Rises
Q This is a screenshot of the cast of the
original Taking of Pelham 123. What did this inspire?
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Q What Happened on Twenty-third
Street, New York City is a 1901 American short film.
What, in the world of entertainment, is it said to have inspired?
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-the end-THANK YOU!