Quiz on Fictional Characters - Answers

Quiz on Fictional Characters- ANSWERS With Love , Rithwik

Whose appearance in The Simpsons ? How did he name his sons ?

Emmett Brown in Back to the Future trilogy His sons were Jules and Verne named after Jules Verne

2.Which antagonist comes to you mind ?

Lee Van Cleef who played Angel Eyes in The Good The Bad and the Ugly

3.Identify all and gimme the Connect!

Koopalings ! Most of the Koopalings have wild punk hairstyles and are named after musicians. Iggy Koopa's name comes from Iggy Pop ; Morton Koopa, Jr.'s name comes from Morton Downey, Jr ., while the scar star on his eye is based on KISS guitarist Paul Stanley's makeup

4.Simple .What’s the Indian connection ?

Nels Van Adder : Irrfan Khan will play this villain in upcoming film The Amazing Spider-Man

5.Which gentleman connects ? (Visuals in next slide too)

Connect – Don Quixote 1 - Don Quijote Airport, an airport currently under construction in the south of Ciudad Real, Spain 2 - Don Quijote (space probe), an unmanned space mission proposed by the European Space Agency 3 - 3552 Don Quixote, a small main belt, potentially hazardous asteroid

7.Released in 2006 . Which sportsman's name has been blanked out ?

Connect - Caldecott Medal 1 - The reverse of the medal depicts another of Caldecott's illustrations, "Four and twenty blackbirds bak'd in a pie." 2 - Randolph Caldecott after whom the medal is named 3 - The scene on the face of the medal is derived from Randolph Caldecott's illustrations for The Diverting Story of John Gilpin

9.Another sitter . What is this ?

Tripods or fighting-machines from the H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds .

10.What has been blanked out? (This is the poster of a Latin American documentary)

Operation Peter Pan, closing the circle in Cuba

11. Workable.About etymology of something (Y) W is an ancient hill town and in central Italy, Named ‘W’ when Romans conquered the area . It was renamed after river ‘X’ which is a river in England, Naming of Y is Uncertain. One of the stories regarding naming of ‘Y’ is mentioned above. Eventhough there are no indications. What is ‘Y’ mentioned here? W X Y? X

W – Narni / Narnia X – River Nar Y – C.S.Lewis’s NARNIA

12.What’s this a reference to ? Who is the creator ?

Gary Larson once drew a cartoon in his The Far Side newspaper comic that showed two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a human hair on the other and inquires, “Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

13.They are nicknamed so due to lack of something . What’s their nickname ?

Drosophila melanogaster nicknamed Tinman as they does not develop heart

14.Famous for a mid 2000s film role . Which role ?

This is Deep Roy who played the role of e Oompa-Loompas in Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

15.Created by (1) and based in part on (2) . Which character ? (1) (2)

Major Richard Hannay Created by Scottish novelist John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1). In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door , Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (2)

16.The lady giving the eff should thank the guy on right . Why ?

The “Metal Bikini” wore by Princess Leia (Played by Carrie Fisher) from the artwork of science fiction illustrator Frank Frazetta

17.Which prodigy connects (Explain.

Pseudonyms used by Artemis Fowl II includes "Dr. F. Roy Dean Schlippe" (Freudian slip), "Emmesey Squire" (E=mc2), "Dr. C. Niall DeMencha" (senile dementia), and "Sir E. Brum" (cerebrum)

18.This species of Dinosaurs was named after a character who was first portrayed by the author itself for a certain magazine . Which Character ?

Irritator challengeri named after Professor Challenger and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the first person to portray Professor Challenger, dressing and making up as the professor for a photograph he wanted included in The Lost World's initial serialized publication in the Strand Magazine. ,

19.He spelled the word X for his most famous project Y , A variant of X has received tons of hits in google search . Who ? X-Y ?

Fran Striker, writer of the original Lone Ranger radio program, spelled the word "ke-mo sah-bee." However, the spelling kemo sabe has received all those hits .

Connect - Kilgore Trout -created by author Kurt Vonnegut. -Originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction) -Trout is also the titular author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, pseudonymously written by Philip José Farmer.

21.Just ID the two who are involved in Golf . Also name the comic strip .

Joe Palooka plays golf with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in a 1949 Joe Palooka strip by Ham Fisher and Moe Leff.

23.Just ID this private detective , winner of Reuben Award . Shares its second name with the biggest name in comic field .

This is Rip Kirby created by Alex Raymond , The second name comes from Jack Kirby supposedly .

24.Who is this , busy drawing his characters ?

Billy DeBeck with Barney Google and Spark Plug

25.Scenes from a festival , named after a 19 th century work .Name.

Peer Gynt Festival named after Ibsen’s five act play .Again 

26.A famous club in Canada , Gimme the name which has been blanked out .

Zaphod Beeblebrox nightclub in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, billed as "the nightclub at the end of the universe."

27.Even though the writer says none of the character in the book is inspired from real people , Still historians believe that the central character was inspired by this lady . Which Character ?

Scarlett O'Hara Martha Bulloch Roosevelt , the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt was supposed to have inspired her .

28.Add A + B , Connect to C . A B

Igor Wagner - pianist working for Bianca Castafiore . Named after Igor Stravinsky, and Richard Wagner. Bianca Castafiore was modelled after Aino Ackté

29.Who is the missing chap ? What’s the funda ?

Carl Barks & Jack Kirby . Three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. The missing one is offcurse Will Eisner ! .

30.Simple one to finish it off. Tell me who are its famous user(s) ?

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