Bitotsav' 15 Entertainment Quiz Challenger

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Transcript of Bitotsav' 15 Entertainment Quiz Challenger

1.Harry Potter

2. Music

3. Literature

4. Movies

5. Star Wars

1. Harry Potter

#1X is a legendary figure best featured in the tales of a 5th century leader.

X's traditional biography casts him as a cambion: born of a mortal woman Adhan, sired by an incubus, from whom he inherits his supernatural abilities.

Later authors have X ultimately imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake.

X is particularly famous in the Harry Potter universe and is said to have attended Hogwarts and sorted into Slytherin.

MERLIN

#2

A particular scene in Shakespeare’s

Macbeth, where the title character meets 3

women in the woods, inspired a pivotal

moment in the Harry Potter Universe.

Which event?

TRELAWNEY’S PROPHECY TO DUMBLEDORE

2. Music

#1ID the band:

• The name of this band came from the initials on a sewing machine.

• The original lead singer had died in 1980 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption.

• In 1989, the US military blared their music at General Manuel Noriega's compound in Panama for two continuous days. The dictator surrendered!

AC/DC

#2

• X is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, part of mainstream rock band Y, earlier called ‘On a Friday’.

• He is also a part of a lesser known group Atoms for Peace along with RHCP bassist Flea.

• X shares an uneasy relationship with the media, often termed a ‘sociopath’. He has also faced psychological burnout and mental breakdown in the past.

• X is also a political activist on behalf of human rights and other causes.

THOM YORKE - RADIOHEAD

3. Literature

#1This work is divided into 5 parts:

• The 1st part tells of the creation of the "world that is“.

• The 2nd part gives a description of the two supernatural powers in this world.

• The 3rd part chronicles the history of the events before and during the First Age, including the wars which gave the work its title.

• The 4th part relates to the Second Age and the history of the downfall of a fictional place modelled on the legendary Atlantis.

• The final part talks of the Third Age and is a brief account of the circumstances which led to a popular work of fiction.

THE SILMARILLION

#2

• The image below describes a map of the world according to which work of fiction?

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR – GEORGE ORWELL

4. Movies

#1

• The X effect refers to contradictory interpretations of the same events by different persons, a problem that arises in the process of uncovering the truth.

• The phrase derives from the movie X, where four witnesses’ accounts of a rape and murder are all different.

•The Simpsons, Spongebob, South Park, Arrested Development, etc. have all used the effect.

• The term was also in the news in relation to MH370.

THE RASHOMON EFFECT

#2

• ID the film company and its owner(s).

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL FILMS INC.

ZACK AND DEBORAH SNYDER

5. Star Wars

#1

• The concept behind X was based on the actions of the Viet Cong guerrillas who menaced American soldiers during the Vietnam War.

• X were named after the a Native American tribe indigenous to the Redwood forest in which the scenes were filmed.

• In the original films, X is never actually spoken, but it appears in both the script and the closing credits.

EWOKS

#2

• American Graffiti is a 1973 coming-of-age drama that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.

• During the sound mixing, the director X liked the way the Sound Designer asked for the next dialogue on the second reel so much that he incorporated it into another of his movies as Y.

• ID X and Y.

X – GEORGE LUCAS; Y – R2D2