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Weekly quiz set conducted on the 20th of October 2023.

1. S9_E04 Stop Making Sense Quizmasters: Nishanth & Ashmit (and abay for moral support( Chowkidar: Anirudh 20th October 2023

2. S9_E04 Stop Making Sense Rules Don’t talk about Quiz Club Don’t talk about not talking about Quiz Club Have fun, if you don’t, you’re disqualified

3. S9_E04 Stop Making Sense POUNCE & BOUNCE

4. S9_E04 Q01 A well-known painting by the painter and sculptor Michelangelo, Creation of Adam , is supposed to represent something other than just what you see on the surface. This relates to him famously being an atheist . What does it represent? Stop Making Sense

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7. A01 A Brain S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

8. S9_E04 In this famous short story by Isaac Asimov, titled Nightfall, there exists an interesting premise of a world that is revolving around two stars such that it has daylight for centuries until an eclipse occurs and throws the world into darkness . For some strange reason, the world loses all their technical progress when that day comes. During one such period, the civilisation grows very technologically advanced, certain they’d survive this time. But again, when the sun disappears and the planet experiences nigh t, they lose their minds because of what they saw. Why could that be? Q02 Stop Making Sense

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10. A02 They saw stars for the first time and realised they were not alone. S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

11. S9_E04 This famous album called ‘Everywhere at the End of Time’ by the music producer, The Caretaker, explored a well known condition through its music and the covers. The album has six stages that parallel this condition giving the listener an idea of what this condition does to one. What is the condition? Q03 Stop Making Sense

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13. A03 Dementia S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

14. After the end of his tyrannous reign, this statue of the Roman Emperor Nero , The Colossus of Nero, was slowly converted into the image of a god by his successors. The change to this statue is very apt with the correlations of this god’s affinity to this famous story about Nero . What god was the statue turned into? S9_E04 Q04 Stop Making Sense

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16. A04 Sol, The Roman Sun God S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

17. This famous painting follows the journey of an Italian poet , famously known for his three-line verses, and a Roman writer , known for his work illustrating the history of Rome, through some concepts of reality in a way that defined the theology and depiction of these concepts for the modern day religion. What is this painting? S9_E04 Q05 Stop Making Sense

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19. A05 Botticelli's Map of Hell S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

20. In this book by Stephen King, 11/22/63 , the main character Jack Epping goes back in time to stop this important event from happening, which causes the world to have great political consequences turning to total nuclear disaster . What is the event that he tried to stop? S9_E04 Q06 Stop Making Sense

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22. A06 The Assassination of JFK S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

23. The recent opening ceremony of the German Space Division involved many pop culture references, but one has caused much controversy . During a parade that involved famous characters, inclusion one such group of characters was very ironic considering the meaning implied and their inspiration. What character was it? S9_E04 Q07 Stop Making Sense

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25. A07 Stormtroopers S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

26. For the album cover of Unknown Pleasures, the band Joy Division used an image of a series of periodically pulsating signals recorded from space by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell which were thought of as evidence of aliens until their real origin was discovered. What was causing this signal? S9_E04 Q08 Stop Making Sense

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28. A08 Pulsars/Quasars S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

29. Pink Floyd’s cover for “Wish You Were Here” reminds awfully lot of another famous featuring of this location. Where have you seen this before? S9_E04 Q09 Stop Making Sense

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31. A09 Warner Bros Opening Sequence S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

32. This famous campaign by DeBeer, a luxury jewellery company caused the boom of an industry making it such that the slogan is still culturally relevant today. This slogan was used as the title of a movie from a well-known spy franchise. What is the slogan/title of the movie? S9_E04 Q10 Stop Making Sense

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34. A10 Diamonds are Forever S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

35. A biologist, an astrophysicist and an electrical engineer walk into a bar. They meet a graphic designer, and out comes one of the biggest bands ever. What is the band? S9_E04 Q11 Stop Making Sense

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37. A11 Queen S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

38. The first song to air on MTV the first music channel on the television in 1981 was a song by The Buggles which had a very fitting name considering the irony of the message it carried airing on such a channel . What was the name of the song, or the message of it? S9_E04 Q12 Stop Making Sense

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41. A12 Video Killed The Radio Star S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

42. With the fall in popularity of the sentai series, Stan Lee, working under Gene Pelc at the time, on a trip to Japan in the early 70s was much enamoured by this form of television. Wanting to work on it, he signed off a famous character he had worked on for an adaptation. This series saw the first appearance of a large robot as a fighting machine in live action, and paved the way for later Super Sentai series . What character was the TV show based on? S9_E04 Q13 Stop Making Sense

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44. A13 Spider-Man S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

45. This now integral character from the Arthurian Legends was once not the part of original myths. Added by the the french writer Chrétien de Troyes in his 12th century ‘The Knight of the Cart’ , this character is also recognised as a child of the Lady of the Lake . What character is it? S9_E04 Q14 Stop Making Sense

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47. A14 Lancelot S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

48. The musical Hamilton has a lyric “I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory When's it gonna get me? In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me? ” which refers to the way Hamilton dies. How did Hamilton die, and how is it relevant to this line? S9_E04 Q15 Stop Making Sense

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50. A15 Hamilton died in a duel. A Duel is done from 7 paces away. S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

51. A scene from the movie Asteroid City directed by Wes Anderson takes inspiration from a similar scene in an indian movie. Who directed the movie? (Bonus- What is the movie?) S9_E04 Q16 Stop Making Sense

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53. A16 Satyajit Ray - Aranyer Din Ratri S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

54. In 2018, a curious crowd of onlookers gathered in Ghana to watch this video by politician Kennedy Agyapong against the reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas who had exposed the corruption of football referees in Africa. This video was titled as a reference to a very popular quote from a DC comic book , which itself comes from latin “ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes”. What was the title of the video/the book? S9_E04 Q17 Stop Making Sense

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56. A17 “Who Watches The Watchmen?” S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

57. This musical by Jonathan Larson was written as an autobiography about going into his 30th year and how the anxiety of growing old felt like a bomb waiting to explode . The title of the musical contrasts this with the fact that he unfortunately died just before the first broadway performance of his production ‘Rent’. This musical also recently got adapted as a movie directed by Lin Manuel Miranda. What is the name of the musical? S9_E04 Q18 Stop Making Sense

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59. A18 Tick, Tick… Boom! S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

60. The Chronicles of Narnia, a fantasy series steeped in christian themes served as one of the first big series to intrigue the world with its magical world. One of the important characters was Aslan , a lion who was the king of beasts and the son of the emperor -over-the-sea, deriving clear inspiration from another similar entity. What did CS Lewis draw inspiration for Aslan from? S9_E04 Q19 Stop Making Sense

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62. A19 Jesus S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

63. In 2006, O.J. Simpson decided to write a book with the name “ If I Did It” quite literally describing if he did it. In a later judgement, the courts decided to give the assets of this book to the victim’s family who were sure of his guilt and decided to publish the book again but with a minor change in the cover that made it read differently. What did they change? S9_E04 Q20 Stop Making Sense

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65. A20 The title read ‘I did it’ with the ‘If’ unnoticeable. S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

66. Fin THANK YOU S9_E04 Stop Making Sense

67. S9_ISRO Chandrayaan 3 Maha Quiz Quizmasters: Ruchi Chowkidar: Anirudh 20th October 2023