Prelims
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The document discusses the origins of several fictional elements and conventions in popular culture. It explains that the tradition of superheroes wearing their underwear on the outside stemmed from a printing technique where brightly colored "registration markers" were used to check alignment on comic book pages. It also identifies Uncyclopedia and Wikipedia in describing one website's parody of the other. Finally, it notes that offset printing was commonly used in older comic books and could cause pages and colors to slip out of alignment during large print runs.
Prelims
- 3. 1. The ________ is a fictional organization appearing in the Marvel Comics Universe. The members include Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Andromeda, Atalanta, Cass iopea, Delphi, Hector, Hulk, Perseus, Prometheus and Ullyses. There have been demands from fans to include Hindu Gods in it. What is X?
- 5. PANTHEON
- 6. 2. E. L. James has been named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2012, for her 50 Shades Trilogy of books. However, 50 Shades actually originated as a fan-fiction based on the _______ series of books, a fact that initially sparked copyright controversy. Fill in the blank.
- 8. TWILIGHT
- 9. 3. The comic strips involving Wenlock and Mandeville recently became famous. A strip is shown here. What is Wenlock and Mandeville’s claim to fame?
- 11. Mascots of the 2012 London Olympics
- 12. 4. The X Y is a semi-organised group of English cricket fans which arranges touring parties for some of its members to follow the English cricket team on overseas tours. The name is also applied to followers of the team who join in with match day activities in the crowd, but do not necessarily travel as part of an organised tour. The group, then less organised, was given its name by the Australian media during the 1994 - 1995 Test series in Australia, reportedly for the fans' audacity in travelling to Australia in the near-certain knowledge that their team would lose, and the fact that they kept on chanting even when England were losing quite badly. ID.
- 14. BARMY ARMY
- 15. *5. What happened for the first time in the decades long history of the iconic Amul ads on 10th September, 2012 and why?
- 17. The Amul Girl cried for the first time as VergheseKurien, the father of Amul passed away the previous day.
- 18. 6. X wrote controversial papers on Alchemy and Theology under the pseudonym ‘Jeova Sanctus Unus’ meaning ‘One True God’. This is also an anagram of the Latin translation of X’s name. His coat of arms is shown below. However, we better know X for his legendary contributions to some other field. Who is X?
- 20. Sir Isaac Newton
- 21. 7. They read as: A: Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzzá B: and Manāt, the third, the other? C: These are the exalted gharāniq, whose intercession is hoped for. A, B and C are collectively known as ___________________ a term coined by Sir William Muir and made famous by a person of Indian origin. What are A, B and C?
- 24. 8. Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd is a company located in Mysore. Established by Maharaja NalvadiWadeyar, it is unique for being the only factory in the country authorised for producing something. From this flagship product, this company earned about $450k in 2006-07. In 2004, it supplied goods worth $1 million. Earlier used exclusively in India, recently the product has been exported for a similar use in other countries, including Cambodia. What is this famous product?
- 26. The Election Ink
- 27. 9. What connects these movies?
- 29. Fictitious movies in Tropic Thunder
- 30. *10. _______ case, also known as medial capitals or Pascal case, is the practice of writing words with some inner uppercase letters, such as compound words or phrases in which the elements are joined without spaces, while each element has a capital letter within the compound. The words always start with a capital letter, but _________ case allows the first letter to be either upper or lower case, as in "LaBelle", "BackColor", or "iPod". The name comes from the uppercase humps in the middle of the compound word. Fill in the blank.
- 32. Camel Case
- 33. 11. Some theories regarding the origin of the character X are these: One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that X is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485. The second suggests X was a "tortoise" siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War, and was put forward in 1956 by Professor David Daube in The Oxford Magazine of February 16, 1956, on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack. Who are we talking about?
- 35. Humpty Dumpty
- 36. 12. Edvard Munch, wrote this poem about his most famous work The ________: I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue- black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite _________ passing through nature. The _________ was recently auctioned by Sotheby’s for the highest price ever paid in an auction. Identify this much copied piece of art.
- 38. The Scream
- 39. 13. What did this historical document do?
- 41. Made Jammu and Kashmir a part of India
- 42. 14. Name the poet: “So don’t bet against me, I’m a man of my word. He is the greatest! Yes! I am the man this poem’s about, I’ll be champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt. Here I predict Mr. Liston’s dismemberment, I’ll hit him so hard; he’ll wonder where October and November went. When I say two, there’s never a third, Standin against me is completely absurd. When ______ says a mouse can outrun a horse, Don’t ask how; put your money where your mouse is! I AM THE GREATEST!”
- 45. *15. The ________ inkblot test is a psychological test in which the subject’s perceptions of inkblots are recorded and analyzed using complex algorithms. The test also gives the name to the superhero ___________ of the Watchmen comic series and the movie. Name.
- 48. 16. Id the person on the right in this 18th century cartoon.
- 50. Tipu Sultan
- 51. 17. The region between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south of the earth are known as the _______. The Sahara, Atacama and Kalahari deserts are located in this region. The name ________ is believed to have originated from the practice of sailors bringing a straw stuffed effigy of a ______ on ships, before throwing them off-board. Another theory suggests that the name exists because the Spanish used to transport _______ by ship to their colonies. What geographical term?
- 54. 18. What peculiar thing is common to these books? 1. Where God Went Wrong by OolonColluphid 2. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein 3. The Affair of the Second Goldfish by Ariadne Oliver 4. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kaablooie by unknown 5. The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Prof. James _________ 6. Giant Rat of Sumatra by Dr. John ________
- 56. Books within books! 1. Where God Went Wrong by OolonColluphidHitchhiker’s Guide 2. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein 1984 3. The Affair of the Second Goldfish by Ariadne Oliver Several Agatha Christie Novels 4. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kaablooie by unknown Calvin and Hobbes Strips 5. The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Prof. James Moriarty 6. Giant Rat of Sumatra by Dr. John Watson
- 57. 19. ID the place, very much in the news recently.
- 59. Gangnam District
- 60. *20. The website X has this description of the website Y: Y is a website that parodies X. It was founded in 2001, when it began its noble goal of spreading the world's misinformation in the most inconspicuous way possible. For this reason, academic experts strongly urge students not to cite Y. Originally written exclusively in Klingon, the project currently spans all the known languages of history. Y’s name is a portmanteau of the words _____ (a technology for stealing content from other websites, from the Hawaiian word ______ , meaning 'thief') and ______ meaning 'children'; literally stealing content for perverting children's brains. Its logo is a spherical magical _______ , named Merlin after the loyal wizard of King Arthur's court, which serves as a spoof of X’s hollow _______ logo. ID X and Y.
- 62. X: Uncyclopedia Y: Wikipedia
- 63. 21. Offset printing was a common technique used in yesteryears’ comic books. Large print runs would have to check to see if the pages were slipping as they were printed. This slippage would cause the pages and colors to be out of alignment. Since supers were brightly colored, it was easier to check if a page was aligned by using the alternating colors of the characters as "registration" markers. The reference markers were used to ensure characters were maintaining their alignment on a page as a print run continued. Part of the technology used paper plates, which were known to slip out of alignment as the print run continued. What popular convention did this give rise to?
- 65. Superheroes wearing their underwear over their pants.