Quiz questions

Hattie McDaniel was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award. She
won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of _____ in Gone with the Wind.
She was the main inspiration of another character with the same name (______). The
character she inspired is a heavy-set, middle-aged black woman who often has to deal
with the mayhem generated by the lead characters. The character was originally voiced
by another well-known African-American character actress Lillian Randolph. She always
referred to the lead character as his given name and almost always used "is" in
conjunction with a pronoun ("is you" and "I is")
Since her character is an archetype (____) now often regarded as racist, she has been
replaced with a slim white woman, or a stocky white woman with an Irish accent voiced
by white actress June Foray.
Please name the character.
• Mammy Two-shoes
• Harold Vogel was from a family of sculptors. After receiving his master craftsman
certificate, he volunteered to serve in the US Army. He was then employed by the
US government as a sculptor. Stone Carver Tim Johnston learned his craft as an
apprentice to Vogel watching him carve X on the Y for several years before he was
allowed to carve one with his own hand in 1989. Johnston uses Vogel’s original
1974 template which, when not in use, is locked in a safe to ensure that every X is
the same.
• “Each one is first drawn by hand; the carving itself takes about one hour. Each X
measures 2¼ inches tall by 2¼ inches wide and half an inch deep; and are six
inches apart from each other, as are the rows. Johnston uses both a pneumatic air
hammer and a chisel to carve out the traced pattern. After he finishes carving, he
cleans the dust and sprays it dark gray, which with age, acquires its own patina.”  
Johnston says, “I only have one shot to carve it—marble is
unpredictable, you can never be sure how it will act—it’s a scary
situation. Whenever I have to carve one, I know that somewhere
somebody just died and that makes me sad but at the same time it’s a
fantastic thing to do. ”
What is it that Vogel and now Johnston are assigned to do?
• The Black stars on the CIA wall
______________, popularized in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson,
an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, is a
circumstance which occurs twice a year. During ______________ an
observer on one of the gridded east-west streets in the borough of X
will see the sun setting directly opposite, from the street, along its
centreline. The word is a  neologism derived from Y, where the sun
aligns during the solstices with a similarly dramatic effect.
The closing scene from the 2010 film Morning Glory features Harrison
Ford and Rachel McAdams, walking off into such a sunset.
Give me X, Y and the phenomenon.
• Manhattan-henge
Baron _______ was a German nobleman and a famous re-counter of tall tales. He
joined the Russian military and took part in two campaigns against the Ottoman
Turks. Upon returning home, he is said to have told a number of outrageously
farfetched and unbelievable stories about his adventures.
In 1951, the British physician Richard Asher published an article describing three
cases of patients whose factitious disorders led them to lie about their own states of
health. Asher comments;
"Like the famous Baron ________ the persons affected have always travelled widely;
and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful.
Accordingly, the syndrome is respectfully dedicated to the baron, and named after
him“.
Please give me the name of this condition/syndrome.
• Munchausen
Tōru Iwatani initially stated in an interview that he cam up with the idea
of X while eating a slice of pizza, but later in 1986 admitted that the
actual origin of X was from a Japanese folklore character called _____,
who was known for his appetite. The character’s name was also a slang
phrase which meant “to flap one’s mouth open and closed while
eating”.
X was originally named ______ after the character, but the name was
changed when X was brought to the USA because there was concern
that the original name could be easily vandalized.
Identify X.
• Pac-man (originally Puck-man)
Radhavinod Raju was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer born in Mattancherry, Kochi. He
joined as an SP in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Ernakulam. In 19 January 2009, he was
appointed as the first chief of India's National Investigation Agency. He has handled many high
profile cases, such as the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, and the Kandhahar Flight hijacking case.

Raju and X attended Maharajas College, Kochi where Raju (studied Physics) was X’s (studied
Law) senior.
The character of Y (portrayed by X) is modelled after Raju. Y was originally visualised as a
tough-as-nails cop named Ali Imran, but it was X who convinced the director that convinced
him that a pious intelligent _______ would be better.  Y’s popularity is attributed to the fact
that he uses his brain rather than brawn to solve cases portraying him as rather lazy, which is
considered a stereotype of his community.
Identify X and Y.
• Sethuraman Iyer potrayed by Mammotty
In 1864, a bio-geographer named Philip Sclater proposed a theory
about a continent called X which he now believed was submerged. He
based his theory on the similarities he found in fossils from India and
Madagascar but the lack of them in Africa or the Middle East. In
popular culture, comic book characters Princess Llyra, Namor, (Marvel
universe) Hellboy and Kull, the Conqueror all have a connection to this
continent. But we know this continent by another name, Y.
Give me X and Y.
• X – Lemuria
• Y – Kumari Kandam
X first appeared as a one-shot, with the title “Snipe”, since the
characters used guns to snipe/hunt down ____. Later when Y was
getting ready to publish X, he decided that swords would be a better
choice, but that meant that he couldn’t use “Snipe” as a title. The
characters in X all wore black, but Y thought anything associated with
the colour black would be too boring for a title so he decided to use
something that was the complete opposite of black. And that is why to
evoke a complementary colour to that of black, X was chosen as the
title.
Identify X.
• X – Bleach by Tite Kubo
• In Dexter's telling he'd introduced Ashton to X just before boarding the tour
bus heading for Bristol, and a nervous Ashton, instead of saying "pleased to
meet you, X." called him Y instead, causing everyone to fall about laughing
and resulting in X being called “Y" for the remainder of the tour
• According to Bobby Whitlock, however, upon leaving the stage at the close
of his set, Tony Ashton of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke had simply
mispronounced their provisional name of “X and the Dynamos", calling them
“X and the Z”. 
• Yet another version emerges from X's biography in which he maintains that it
was Ashton that suggested the name "Del and the Z" ("Del" being Ashton’s
nickname for X). Del and X were combined and the final name became “Y
and the Z"
Who is X? Y and Z too if you feel like guessing.
• Eric Clapton for “Derek and the Dominoes”
• The word derives from the Ancient Greek and used solely for one of
the major forms of sacrifice and was one of the two chief verbs of
Greek sacrifice, in which the victim is utterly destroyed and burnt up.
It is an apotropaic ritual, conducted at night, without wine, and offer
black-hided animals at a low altar, with their heads directed
downwards intended to appease the spirits of the Underworld,
including the Greek heroes, who are spirits of the dead; they are also
given to malign powers, such as the Keres and Hecate. One of the
earliest attested ________ was Xenophon's offering of pigs to Zeus
Meilichius.
• What is the “not so good word”?
• Holocaust
• The name X comes from a dish of elongated fish meatballs, said to
resemble a suppository. Hence, the phrase “glisser une X” (“to slide
the X”), with a gesture evoking fisting practice, is similar to the English
insults “up yours”. Y first used the X gesture in his 2005 show named
"1905," while talking about a dolphin. The X has become viral, with
many photos posted to the internet showing individuals posing while
performing X at wedding parties, in high school classes, underwater,
or in front of the Parc Astérix theme park.
• What is the X?
• Quenelle. The anti-semitic salute.
• Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea, in the region of
Dalmatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the
Mediterranean, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva
County. UNESCO lists the city as on of its World Heritage Sites. It is
famous for 19th century luxury hotels and is a popular tourist
destination.
• Dubrovnik became even more famous in April 2011 for another
reason entirely. Next slide is a photo of the city. Take a look at it and
tell me why this city is famous.
• King’s Landing
• The following is an excerpt from one of W’s interview in 2012 to the
Hollywood Reporter
“The controversy over _______, X or Y, in Z, what I did was try to clean
up the confusion in 2002, but obviously it upset people because they
wanted X to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been
done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to
whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Y is the
one who _____, but everyone wanted to think that X _____, because
they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.”
Identify X and the incident W is referring to.
• George Lucas.
• Han shot first!
• The movie/opera/play that Thomas and Martha Wayne watched
before they were shot to death in the Batman franchise.
• Person of Interest (Jonathan Nolan cameo)
Who is the kid, and what is he holding? (Do not state the
obvious)
• Christopher Robin holding Winnie the Pooh
• After Hitler took power in 1933, an official party publication appeared
entitled “Shakespeare – a Germanic Writer” in which Shakespeare,
specifically, was defined as a Nordic/Germanic artist whose texts were
thought to celebrate the Nazi ideals of leadership, community, and
heroism. A reference to this appears in the wartime British film
“Pimpernel” Smith, in which a German general quotes Shakespeare,
saying “‘To be or not to be’, as our great German poet said.”
• This idea was used by X in his sci-fi movie Y, in which a chancellor
from ______ quotes the same and claims that, “You have not
experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original
_____.”
• Fill in the blanks. Y?
• Star Trek: An Unexpected Journey
• The High Times ______ Cup or Hassleikarnir (literally meaning “___
games”) is the world’s preeminent ______ festival. Founded in 1987
by Steven Hager, it is held each November in Amsterdam. The event
allows judges from around the world to sample (by any means) and
vote for their favourite varieties. The American iteration of the event
which started last year in 2013, happens annually at Denver, Colorado
on April 20th, as the date is considered to be of specific significance,
and is considered to be a counter-culture holiday in North America.
• What event am I talking about?
• Cannabis Cup/ Hash games
• Kawakami Gensai, a prominent samurai during the mid-19th century, was
the adopted retainer of the Kumamoto prefecture. He was sent to the
Jishūkan school where he learnt swordsmanship. He became a highly skilled
swordsman, and was one of the four most notable assassins of the
Japanese Revolution, specializing in the Shiranui-ryū, a high speed sword
style.
• He is most famous for the assassination of Sakuma Shōzan, a pro-Western
scholar, which he committed in broad daylight with one stroke.
• X used Gensai as a model for the character of Y. Despite Y coming across as
“girlier” than Gensai, he had a fairly ruthless reputation. Identify Y.
• Samurai X’s Kenshin Himura
Why did Marvel Entertainment tweet this?
• Age of Ultron trailer leak
• Raghavendra Raja Rao was born to the renowned mridangam player
Srimushnam V. Raja Rao and Padma, the daughter of novelist
Sandilyan. He began a career in music composing and working on
carnatic tracks, before venturing into independent Tamil music with
his band, _______ & Friends.
• Raghavendra was recommended by film producer C. V. Kumar to
Varun Manian, the producer of a bilingual film. He subsequently
signed the film and chose to continue to credit himself as ______ for
a career in the Tamil film industry.
• What do we know him better as?
• Sean Roldan
• Meenakshi, the daughter of a Pandyan king, was an incarnation of
Parvati. From a very young age, she made up her mind to marry Lord
Shiva and none else. Her family was initially against this but eventually
consented to her wish and arranged the wedding. Siva being an ascetic,
came to the wedding without any family or relatives accompanying him.
Disappointed at this, the Pandyan king angrily showed him the huge
amount of food prepared for the bridegroom's relatives. Siva pointed to
a rakshasa, Kundodhara saying 'He will consume all the food that you've
made'. After Kundodhara finished all the food that was prepared, he
became very thirsty and started asking for water. Since he needed large
amounts of water, Siva opened a small part of his hair lock and Ganga
began to flow. After which Kundodharaa _______ to drink the water.
• This legend is why something got its name. What am I talking about?
• The river Vaigai
Who? What is he doing?
• Spielberg preparing the Raiders of the Lost Arc set
• In January 2012, a spokesman for Elite Management, which
represents John Terry, gave a statement to the BBC saying that, “It's
been brought to our attention that an image of our client has been
used on some __________without our consent or knowledge. We've
now instructed our legal team to investigate this matter.”
• The Indian Express quoted KS Dhatwalia, additional secretary of the
Directorate of Visual Publicity, as saying: “We sent the creative to the
health ministry and they then cleared it and circulated it.”
• Another official at the directorate told Reuters news agency that the
matter “has got nothing to do with John Terry. It was purely a piece of
artistic imagination and I don't know why an issue is being created.”
• What was the controversy?
Terry’s image being used for the tobacco packaging warning messages
• In the semi-final of the 1981-82 Ranji season, with Karnataka left-arm
Raghuram Bhatt spinner coiling webs around Bombay's batsmen,
Sunil Gavaskar walked out in the second innings.
• Gavaskar says, “The ball was turning square and Raghuram Bhat was
pretty much unplayable on that surface. Since he was a left-hand
orthodox spinner getting the ball to turn and bounce sharply away
from the right-handers, I thought that the way to counter that was by
___________.”
• What did Gavaskar do to counter Bhat?
Gavaskar played left-handed
• X is a martial art that originated in Tamil Nadu and was apparently
founded by Sage Agasthiar. According to folklore it is said to be a
divine art because masters cure neural diseases without using
equipment and by just touching and depressing a vital point.
• R Rajendran, has written multiple books and is an authority on this
particular martial art. He is more famous for having taught it to Y who
in turn made the martial art more popular using it in Z.
• Identify X, Y and Z.
(pic next slide)
• X – Varmakkalai
• Y – Kamal Hasan
• Z – Indian