IIT Madras Open Quiz Contribution. Some Accepted, Some Rejected.

1. AIYER FEELS OQWARD
THE QUARTER LIFE CRISIS /
OR WHY I NEED MORE THAN
MRS ROBINSON TO POST GRADUATE

2. 1

3. In her book The Autobiography of __(X)__ (1932), __(Y)__ described the making of this
picture: "Picasso had never had anybody pose for him since he was sixteen years old. He was
then twenty-four and __(Y)__ had never thought of having her portrait painted, and they do
not know either of them how it came about. Anyway, it did, and she posed for this portrait
ninety times. There was a large broken armchair where __(Y)__ posed. There was a couch
where everybody sat and slept. There was a little kitchen chair where Picasso sat to paint.
There was a large easel and there were many canvases. She took her pose, Picasso sat very
tight in his chair and very close to his canvas and on a very small palette, which was of a brown
gray color, mixed some more brown gray and the painting began."
When someone commented, __(Y)__ did not look like her portrait,
Picasso famously replied, "She will."
Acting as confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer, __(X)
__ remained a background figure, chiefly living in the shadow
__(X)__ and __(Y)__ were a couple from 1907 until the latter's death in 1946.

4. AND THE ANSWER IS
X - Alice B Toklas
Y - Gertrude Stein

5. 2
The bust on the left is Gaius Mucius Scaevola
Above is a famous movie still.
Lawrence extinguishes a match with his thumb and
forefinger. Seeing this, the character Potter tries it.
Potter: "Ow! It damn well hurts!"
Lawrence: "Certainly it hurts."
Potter: "Well what's the trick then?"
Lawrence: "The trick, William Potter, is ...”
Put Fundae to fill in the blanks

6. AND THE ANSWER IS
not minding that it hurts
Video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNElueJj_w (in case)

7. 3
Identify this photojournalist who covered iconic
moments from the Spanish Civil War, the Second
Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the 1948 ArabIsraeli War and the First Indochina War.
In 1947, he co-founded this international
photographic
cooperative
owned
by
its
photographer-members, with offices located in New
York, Paris, London and Tokyo.

8. AND THE ANSWER IS
Robert Capa
Magnum Photos

9. 4
The essay "Notes on ____" by her, codified and
mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the
word ____, and identified it's evolution as a
distinct aesthetic phenomenon.
To start very generally: ___ is a certain mode
of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the
world as an aesthetic phenomenon. That way,
the way of ____, is not in terms of beauty, but
in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization.
The ultimate ___ statement: it's good because
it's awful
Random Examples:
Zuleika Dobson, Tiffany
lamps, Scopitone films, The Enquirer headlines
and stories, Swan Lake, Bellini's operas,
Visconti's direction of Salome and 'Tis Pity She's
a Whore, certain turn-of-the-century picture
postcards, the old Flash Gordon comics,
women's clothes of the twenties (feather boas,
fringed and beaded dresses, etc.), stag movies
seen without lust.

10. AND THE ANSWER IS
Susan Sontag
Notes on ‘Camp’

11. 5
He was one of the most decorated American
soldiers in World War I. Originally a
conscientious objector, but later drafted. He
received the Medal of Honor for leading an
attack on a German machine gun nest, taking
32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers,
and capturing 132 others.
This action occurred during the U.S.-led
portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in
France.
Was the subject of the 1941 Howard Hawks
film, with Gary Cooper in the title role in an
Oscar winning performance, that told about
his life and Medal of Honor action.

12. AND THE ANSWER IS
Sgt. Alvin C York or Sergeant York

13. 6
This 1969 triptych was sold recently for $142.4 million, the highest price attained at
auction for a work of art when not factoring in inflation.
Margaret Thatcher described the artist as "that man who paints those dreadful
pictures". The subject was his close friend and rival. Identify both artists.

14. AND THE ANSWER IS
Francis Bacon
Three Studies of Lucien Freud

15. 7

16. AND THE ANSWER IS
Space Oddity by David Bowie

17. 8
Identify this weapon originally used by the burgher militias of Medieval Flanders in
the 14th century. Essentially a combination of a club with a spear.
Used with great effect against heavily armoured French Knights in 1302 during the
Battle of the Golden Spurs. Accompanied with a greeting to sweeten the blow.

18. AND THE ANSWER IS
Goedentag (from the Dutch for ‘Good Day’)

19. 9
Connect

20. AND THE ANSWER IS
Paro

21. 10
Identify

22. AND THE ANSWER IS
Bob Dylan
Allen Ginsberg

23. 11
Dear Mr. ____,
I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them very much. If you need a
_____ actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who
is not very understandable in French, and who in ____ knows only “ti amo”, I am
ready to come and make a film with you.
____ ______
Connect the letter to the two images shown

24. AND THE ANSWER IS
Stromboli

25. 12
Identify
OD5839484E09
____, Alex J.
548 Primrose Ln,
Detroit, MI
Grade: 1 00 33
Service: 7
Merit:
Miranda Award
GD Conduct
BRVRY
1.
2.
3.
4.
Serve the public trust
Protect the innocent
Uphold the law
Classified

26. AND THE ANSWER IS
Robocop

27. 13
In 1943, _____ attempted to buy out his contract, offering band leader Tommy
Dorsey $60,000 to dissolve their relationship, but Dorsey turned him down. He
wasn't about to sell his golden goose. That's when Dorsey received an unexpected
visit from three gentlemen who made the bandleader an offer he couldn't refuse.
Dorsey abruptly changed his mind and agreed to rip up the contract in exchange for
one dollar.
____ played the diminutive
Maggio who is beaten to a
pulp by a vindictive
sergeant played by Ernest
Borgnine in a career
changing performance.
Mario Puzo remained coy
when it came to the topic of
____ and never actually
came right out and said
that this character wasn't
based on ____, but it's a
connection that is hard to
deny.
Identify both.

28. AND THE ANSWER IS
Frank Sinatra
Johnny Fontane

29. 14
They are known for their short stature, green hair, orange skin, and white pants with
protruding knees. In early editions of the novel, they are shown as African pygmies.
Following growing controversy and criticism, in later editions of the book, they are
white skinned and golden haired. Originally called "Whipple-Scrumpets". This was
changed just before the publication of the book.
They come from a small isolated area in West Africa. They would end up being
preyed upon or attacked by Whangdoodles, Hornswogglers, and Snozzwangers,
which also lived there if it were not for him.
He ended up inviting them to work at his factory and get away from their natural
predators. In the book, they are the only people he will allow to work in his factory,
because of the risk of industrial espionage committed by his rivals.
They are only knee-high, with astonishing haircuts, and are paid in their favourite
food, cacao beans, which were extremely rare in their island. They insist on
maintaining their native clothing: men wear skins, women wear leaves, and children
wear nothing (in the 1971 film, they wore Germanic clothing with striped shirts and
baggy lederhosen-like pants, in the 2005 film, they wore tribal clothing in their native
land and typical factory worker uniforms in the factory).
They are mischievous, love practical jokes and singing, and are very good at
improvising, sing moralizing songs accompanied by a drum beat, and tend to speak
in rhyme.

30. AND THE ANSWER IS
Oompa-Loompas
Willy Wonka

31. 15
Produced by the Ministry of Information of the British government in 1939,
several months before the beginning of the Second World War and was
intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely
predicted mass air attacks on major cities.
"Freedom Is In Peril. Defend It With All Your Might"
"Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory"
It had only limited distribution with no public display, and thus was little
known until it was rediscovered in 2000.
As it’s popularity in various media has grown, innumerable parodies,
imitations and co-optations have also appeared, making it notable.
What Pop Culture Phenomenon?

32. AND THE ANSWER IS