No Funny Business (A Sitcoms Quiz) - Finals by Quiz Club, IIT Kanpur

Finals of No Funny Business, a Sitcoms Quiz conducted by Aditya & Devansh at Quiz Club, IIT Kanpur, on 17th June 2023.

1. No Funny Business A QUIZ ON MOVIES AND TV SERIES

2. POUNCE AND BOUNCE (Clockwise) RULES :- There are 7 questions +15/-10 on the pounce. +10/0 on the bounce.

3. 1. What has been marked out?

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5. 1.ANSWER

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7. 2. Yes Minister was a British political satire sitcom that followed the political journey of Jim Hacker and the various problems he faces while trying to enact policy change. X, a great fan of the show wrote a sketch for it along with Press Secretary, Bernard Ingham. X is?

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9. 2.answer X - Margaret Thatcher

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11. 3. Courteney Cox(who played Monica in F.R.I.E.N.D.S) married David Arquette between the fifth and sixth season of the show. In what (both expected and unexpected) way did the credits change for the first episode of the sixth season?

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13. 3.ANSWER They added the last name Arquette to every cast members name not just Cox’s.

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15. 4. Ellen Newlin Chase and Margaret Chase Perry are daughters of a New Hampshire nursery school teacher Edith Newlin. In 2015, they sued CBS Corp and Time Warner Inc and in 2017 their lawsuit was thrown out as the judge ruled they didn’t hold the copyright for something and thus weren’t entitled to damages. What was the thing that they did not possess a copyright for or why did they sue?

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17. 4.ANSWER The Big Bang Theory’s “Soft Kitty Warm Kitty”

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19. 5. X was created in the 1940s and has been widely used in sitcoms(among other things) since then basically aiming to solve a single problem : creating a theatre atmosphere at home. Back then hooking an audience with a radio program wasn’t easy and almost all performance art was a communal experience up until this point, and radio and TV made it personal one. To compensate, engineers stitched together recordings from different nights and inadvertently created one of the most significant technical jumps in TV history. X?

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21. 5.ANSWERS Laughter Track

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23. 6. Creed Bratton is a deviant, former hippie and homeless man employed at the Scranton branch of paper distributor Dunder Mifflin as a quality assurance manager. Creed is a mysterious figure who is prone to making bizarre or confusing statements on a regular basis. The character is a "fictionalized" version of the actor who plays him. Both have the same name , both have been in the band- "The Grass Roots" and more. In one episode, Creed remarks that "he never goes bankrupt", as all his debt "is always transferred to William Charles Schneider". Put funda behind the name.

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25. 6.ANSWER William Charles Schneider is Creed Bratton’s birth name.

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27. 7. ______ __ ____ is an American Sitcom showcasing a married couple struggling to juggle the craziness of life with 2 young kids. Also, their overzealous extended families lets the husband's judgemental mother move in with them, who inserts her judgement into every parenting dilemma. It's name is inspired(or just opposite) from a highly popular phrase which is used in many mottos. The phrase has been attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, both directly in his fable "The Four Oxen and the Lion" and indirectly in "The Bundle of Sticks" . What is the show aptly titled considering the situation they are facing which is quite opposite to as told by the great storytellers?

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29. 7.answer United We Fall

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31. Long connect Rules:- There will be 4 different questions and there is something connecting those 4 questions (or answers). Standard pounce and bounce. +15/-10 on the pounce and +10/0 on the bounce. Specific answers on the pounce please. Long connect points : 40 after the 1st question is displayed, 30 after the 2nd, 20 after the 3rd and 10 after the 4th. You can raise your hand for the long connect at any point but do not shout it out.

32. Ancient History (long connect - 40 pts) X is often considered to be the first show to ever show a couple in bed but that’s actually not true. That title actually goes to Mary Kay and Johnny. It still is the first animated show to show a couple in bed though. Give X.

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34. 1.Ancient history X - The Flintstones

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36. 2. literature This is a still from the Brooklyn Nine Nine episode ‘The Tagger’, Where a mouse is found in Jake’s d rawer and he exclaims saying “Guys X is back!” Give me X which is a reference to a short story that follows the journey of a mentally challenged man, who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intellect but then faces the heart wrenching consequences of his now found intellect.

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38. 2. literature X - Algernon Short story - Flowers for Algernon

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40. 3.IT’S all relative X is a Canadian sitcom that follows the trials and tribulations a formerly wealthy family who have now gone bankrupt and are only left with a small town named X that they had once purchased as a joke. The show features a rare occurrence in television where a real life father-son duo also play father and son on the show. Give me X(2.5) and the names of the father and son(7.5 for both the names , 5 for one name and 2.5 for just the surname).

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42. 3. It’s All Relative X - Schitt’s Creek Father - Eugene Levy Son - Dan Levy

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44. 4.fears and pet peeves Lindsay : Wow. I think we all need to go back to our place and recover. Colleen : Yeah, I just want to celebrate the fact that we survived. You know? Barney : Me too. So where do you live? Ted : What? West Village? Colleen : Close. West Orange. Ted : West Orange? ___(X)___? Colleen : Yeah. Ted : You live in ___(X)___? Not ___(Y)___? Colleen : Yeah. but don’t worry it’s pretty much ___(Y)___. Ted : Oh no. Oh no. ___(X)___ is not pretty much ___(Y)___. Give X and Y(5 points) and what pet peeve of Ted does this show(5 points)?

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46. 4. Fears and Pet Peeves X - New Jersey Y - New York Ted is a purist New Yorker and thus hates New Jersey.

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48. LONG CONNECT ANSWER The titles of the four questions are the categories in the apartment switch quiz in F.R.I.E.N.D.S .

49. POUNCE AND BOUNCE (Anticlockwise) RULES :- There are 7 questions. +15/-10 on the pounce. +10/0 on the bounce.

50. 1. In the series finale of WandaVision, the Two Visions’ battle takes them through every corner of the hex surrounding Westview, destroying oodles of property in the process. It seems as though the two visions are so well-matched that the battle will never end. But that’s when our familiar Red Vision decides to engage White Vision with facts and logic instead of pure might. “Are you familiar with the thought experiment, ‘X’ in the field of identity metaphysics?”, Vision asks White Vision. X is a thought experiment so old that it’s not even clear who thought of it in the first place, the best known version comes from the Greek philosopher Plutarch. Identify X.

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52. 1.answer X - Ship of Theseus

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54. 2. In S2E14 of 'The Simpsons', after attending the wedding of a coworker, Selma begs Marge to help her find a husband. Marge asks Homer to help find a husband for her sister, but he struggles to find anyone suitable. When Bart is caught spelling his name on the school's lawn by killing the grass with a herbicide , Principal Skinner summons Homer to his office to discuss the prank. After learning that Skinner is single, Homer invites him to dinner. The episode name is a pun on a very famous fairy tail character known for rescuing the damsel in distress. Guess the title.

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56. 2.ANSWER Principal Charming (A play on Prince Charming)

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58. 3 . The theme for X comprises a unique blend of sounds, ranging from slap bass to tongue clicks and cheek pops. The composer of the theme said, "I have no idea how many themes we did for X. I knew that each opening monologue was gonna be different 'cause Y tells different jokes. The timing, the length — it had to be adjustable. Each monologue had its own recording of the (show's) theme to match those timings. Over the course of show's run, he created over 170 variations of the theme song. ID the show X.

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60. 3 .ANSWER Seinfeld

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62. 4 . Other shows might take six months to animate, but X is done within days. Normal scripted television shows go through a 6 week writing process per episode, and here X has been going from ideation to ready-to-air in less than a week. The simplistic nature of the animation is quickly created using CorelDRAW and Maya, and changes can be made just hours before airing. It wasn’t really surprising, then, that something as simple as a power outage derailed the team. Trey Parker, the creator of the show said, “It sucks to miss an air date but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen.” ID the show X.

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64. 4 .ANSWER South Park

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66. 5 . Non-Exhaustive list of what? Close Encounters of the Third Kind Total Recall The Shawshank Redemption Edge of Tomorrow : Live, Die, Repeat Neon Genesis Evangelion Full Metal Jacket

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68. 5 . Rick and Morty episode titles are puns of these movie titles. Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind Total Rickall The Rickshank Rickdemption Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion Full Meta Jackrick

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70. 6 . X is a successful undergarment businessman , whose wife Y is a simple and naive housewife. Their neighbour, V, was once an unsuccessful insurance agent and is now unemployed. He spends most of his time doing household chores. On the other hand, his wife W is a headstrong, smart, modern lady who runs grooming classes. She is the breadwinner of the family and despises her husband's unemployment and laziness. The husbands, X and V are bored with their marriages and are smitten by each other's wives, unbeknownst to each other. ID the show.

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72. 6. Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hain

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74. 7. Rachel : No way. The most romantic song ever was “The Way We Were” Phoebe : Eh. I think the one that ___(X)___ wrote for that guy on “Who’s the Boss?”. Rachel : What song was that Pheebs? Phoebe : Um. “Hold me close young Tony Danza ” The lyrics to the song in fact are not that. Who is X and what was the song and its original lyrics.

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76. 7.answer X - Elton John The song is Tiny Dancer. So the actual lyrics were “Hold me closer tiny dancer”.

77. Results

78. Thank you!