1. Vulture Culture : Rules
Quiz on (popular) culture
• If you thing some questions might be boring to you, you
might be summarily sent off to a wormhole. Don't ask me
how!
• The QM is the Pope. Thou shalt beseech him for any queries!
• Answers should not contain ‘marketing gas’.
• As the cliché goes, answers should be legible . However, no
bonus points for calligraphy
• The contents of some questions might offend you. Just take it
as a ‘Culture Shock’!
QM: “C'est la vie” Arif

2. 0
• “Somehow you made it in the big wide world
And you're absolutely home and dry
You got away from a one horse town
And the only way out was to fly
You heard a lot about an easy street
And it seems like the place to be
You heard some talk about a slippery slope
But you think "it can't happen to me"
________________
Use it or you lose it
________________
Choose it or refuse it
Hollywood is calling won't you join the dance
Moving onto Wall Street why not take a chance
It's a ____________
Never lend a loser a hand
Just a _____________
Living off the fat of the land”
• ‘Alan Parson’s Project’ song.Just fill in the blanks with a phrase

3. • Vulture Culture

4. 0.5
• (n) What’s the good phrase?
1. someone whom one considers to be excessively
interested in the (classical) arts
2. “Originally designed as a "distortion box" to
simulate distortion in valve amps, the
Thermionic________ has found lots of uses
beyond this. We know that some owners use
them on drum loops, vocals, piano sounds and
even across entire tracks (it is a stereo unit). We
know it's recently been rented to mix a JAMES
BOND movie!”

5. 0.5(contd.)
• 3) Music album of British Band-Jesus Jones

6. • Culture vulture

7. 1. (Dreams of the sun and the moon by the river!)
• “To have not seen the films of X is to have
lived in the world without ever having seen
the moon and the sun.”- a famous comment
made by Y.
• According to X : “Through my stay in London,
the lessons of Bicycle Thieves and neo-realist
cinema stayed with me”.
• Meeting the French director Z, who came to
India in 1949 to find locations for his film The
River, was “one of the most dramatic events”
in X’s life
• Identify X, Y and Z. All are famous directors.

8. • X – Satyajit Ray ( The Apu Trilogy fame)
• Y – Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai , Ran ,
Dersu Uzala fame)
• Z – Jean Renoir , son of the Impressionist
painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Rules of the
game , The Grand Illusion , etc Fame)

9. 2. (The answer to life and everything ,my friend ,is 27.)
• "His meeting with Y was a classic. Around this
time Paul Rothchild decided he should get X and
Y together since he was working with both of
them. He described what happened to Blair
Jackson in Bam Magazine: 'I thought here's the
King and Queen of rock 'n' roll. They should
meet. So I got them together at a party in Hidden
Hills. They both showed up sober and are getting
along great. X is fascinated by this remarkable
girl... Y loved to fuck. That was her single
greatest pastime. She saw this hunk of meat
…and said, 'I want that.'

10. • X – Jim Morrison
• Y – Janis Joplin
• Both of them died at the age of 27!

11. 3.(So long and thanks for the liver!)
• X is a food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has
been specially fattened. This fattening is typically achieved
through gavage (force-feeding) corn, according to French law,
though outside of France it is occasionally produced using natural
feeding. X is a popular and well-known delicacy in French cuisine.
Its flavour is described as rich, buttery, and delicate, unlike that of
a regular duck or goose liver. French law states that "X belongs to
the protected cultural and gastronomical heritage of France."
• Animal rights and welfare groups such as PETA, Farm Sanctuary
and the Humane Society of the United States contend that X
production methods, and force feeding in particular, consist of
cruel and inhumane treatment of animals. Consequently the
production of X has been stopped in many countries , though it
continues to be produced in France.

12. • "foie gras" (which literally means "fatty liver")

13. 4.(I want you for…)
• xkcd comic. What is the satire on?

15. In July 2007, the popular webcomic xkcd published
a comic called Wikipedian Protestor, which showed
a political protester holding a “citation needed” sign
at a public speech, probably in reference to
President Bush’s 2007 Fourth of July speech. This
illustration is the earliest known instance of using
the Wiki meta-tag outside of its original context
This subversive practice of using “citation needed”
tags in public soon became known as “Wikiffiti”

16. 5(Lock , stock and a freaking joke!)
• Soap is telling a joke in the car.
There's this brass standing on the corner. A dwarf walks up carrying a suitcase says,
-How much?
She says,
-A oner
He says,
-All right
Takes her to the room, says,
-Take clothes off, get on the bed
She lays down on the bed. Dwarf opens the suitcase and pulls out four springs.
Puts one on each hand and foot, bounces over and gets on top of her. Boing,
bouncin' up and down, boing boing, gives her the best shag she's ever had in her
life. He's on her for two hours, boing boing. Bounces off after a while and it was
the best fuck she has ever had in her life.
She's like,
-I'm sorry but that was just amazing, that was the best fuck I've ever had in my life.
What technique d'you call that?
He says,
• -Four Spring Dwarf Technique

17. 5(contd.)(Cockney like only Fools and horses)
• Del Boy:
• Right listen, when did you start
• getting the pains darling?
• Lady:
• They come this morning.
• Del Boy:
• This morning - don't worry, don't worry because the
• ambulance is gonna come any minute and don't worry....
• - It's alright darling.
• Lady:
• Danke! (Thanks in German)
• Del Boy:
• That's alright. __________________

18. 5.(contd.)(Achtung baby!)
• Connect all three !

19. • Vorsprung Durch Technik (Audi’s Tag Line)
• Meaning
• This German phrase is usually translated into
English as 'progress through technology'. A
literal translation would be 'advancement
through technology'.(spring forward through
technology'.) There's no single English word
which is an exact English equivalent of
'vorsprung'; 'to leap ahead' comes close.

20. U2 -Zooropa
• (what do you want?)
(what do you want?)
Zooropa...Vorsprung durch Technik
Zooropa...be all that you can be
Be a winner
Eat to get slimmer
Zooropa...a bluer kind of white
Zooropa...it could be yours tonight
We're mild and green
And squeaky clean

21. 6. “ Es Gamow't wieder”: English translation: "It Gamows again", Wolfgang
Pauli joking on Gamow in German!”
• There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits,
Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
• There was a young girl named Miss Bright,
Who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In an Einsteinian way,
She came back on the previous night
(while explaining relativity. Taken from other source)
This book consists of many limericks and was illustrated by the
author George Gamow himself. It remains one of the most well
received ever in the popular science genre. The book winds from
mathematics to biology, to physics, crystallography and more.

22. One , two , three….infinity

23. 7. Connect the pics.

24. 7(contd)

25. Scientology

26. 8
• Video-movie clips
• What is the connection between the videos? A
popular culture terminology.

27. • A Rube Goldberg machine or device is a deliberately over-
engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very
complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression
is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.
• Since then, the expression has expanded to denote any form of
overly confusing or complicated system. For example, news
headlines include "Is Rep. Bill Thomas the Rube Goldberg of
Legislative Reform?“ and "Retirement 'insurance' as a Rube
Goldberg machine"

28. 9
• “But like their male counterpart the Samurai, the X
and her world continue to fascinate people around
the world as part of their image of a mysterious and
timeless Japan. While many people assume that X is
just a Japanese word for a prostitute, the somewhat
more romantic word 'courtesan' is probably closer in
nuance, though even that is misleading when you
consider their history. The word X itself literally
means 'person of the arts' - indeed the earliest X
were men - and it is as performers of dance, music
and poetry that they actually spend most of their
working time.”

29. geisha

30. 10
• There’s hockey. There’s ice-hockey. And then there’s Underwater Hockey,
originally known as ‘_XY(composite word)____’, the sport was invented in
1954 by Alan Blake of the Southsea sub-Aqua Club, England
• The original rules required a team of eight players, thus supplying the first
part of the name, ‘_X__’, a heavy bat called ‘___’ was used and also
provided the latter part of the name ‘_Y__’. An uncoated lead puck
christened ‘squid’ and lastly a goal initially known as a ‘cuttle’ but soon
after renamed ‘gully’ were what were required to play the game.

31. Octopush

32. 11
• X is ranked No. 13 on a list of greatest film
villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100
Heroes and Villains.
• X’s French name is Cerveau Analytique de
Recherche et de Liaison ("Analytic Brain for
Research and Communication")
• “However, about once a week some character
spots the fact that X is …ahead of IBM... As it
happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help,
so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would
have changed the name had we spotted the
coincidence.”-Y( a famous author)

33. • X-HAL
• Y- Arthur C. Clarke
• HAL 9000 is the sentient on-board computer of the
Discovery One spacecraft in Arthur C. Clarke's fictional
Space Odyssey saga.
• Clarke more directly addressed this issue in his book The
Lost Worlds of 2001
• As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for
Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. However,
about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL
is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that
Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable
institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal
of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would
have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

34. 12(Experimental vs Theoretical Physics)

35. 12(contd.) Connect to a popular series and also funda

36. The Big Bang Theory
• Real Genius (1985). – Van Kilmer
• Prof. Martin Gundersen, the science
consultant for Real Genius (1985). He
recognized the whiteboard in Leonard and
Sheldon's apartment during the taping of this
episode.
• The blackboards are identical (almost)

37. 13 Identify the director and the related movie

38. "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence
in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1).
• The Seventh Seal (Swedish:
Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957
Swedish film directed by
Ingmar Bergman. Set during
the Black Death, it tells of the
journey of a medieval knight
(Max von Sydow) and a game
of chess he plays with the
personification of Death, who
has come to take his life.

39. 14. Indian Bob Dylan!
• During his time at Columbia University, X was a
friend of Paul Robson, the black American
singer, actor and civil rights activist whose
zealous crusade for social justice greatly moved
him. Inspired greatly by Robson’s rendition of
the song ‘Old Man River’, X composed his own
powerful ode to the river ____.
• His Bengali song ‘manushe manushor
joinney(Mankind for mankind’s sake)’, adopted
from his own rendition of the song in his native
language, was named the best Bengali song of
the last millennium by the BBC.

40. Dr. Bhupen Hazarika

41. 15
• “If life becomes too real, take a little time to dream.”
• He started his career in the Kolkata of the Sixties. In the 70's,
he was part of the Great Society, a band that would play
only original music and nothing else. In his signature hot
pants and guitar in hand, he has been spreading the spirit of
music in Shillong for the last six decades.
• Inspired by Bob Dylan’s music, he later organized a "Dylan's
birthday concert" in Shillong on 24 May 1972. Since then he
has organized the concert each year on 24 May to pay
homage to Dylan, with the shows generating national and
international interest.

43. Lou Majaw
• The Great Society Band

44. 16. Howzzat!( Claim to fame of this match?)

45. • Only match when the ‘Spin Quartet’ of India
played in the starting XI
• 1) Bishen S. Bedi, slow-left arm, only known
proficient top-spinner of his time
2) Bhagwat S. Chandrashekhar, natural leg-
spinner, could unknowingly bowl a flipper
3) E. A. S. Prasanna, off-spinner, bowled loopies
and slider.
4) S. Venkatraghavan, off-spinner, could bowl arm
balls.

46. 17
• Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American
painter and a major figure in the abstract
expressionist movement. He generally painted
with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and
he developed what was later called his "drip"
technique. His technique of pouring and dripping
paint is thought to be one of the origins of the
term X. In 1956, Time magazine dubbed Pollock
"Jack the Y" as a result of his unique painting
style. X is also sometimes known as gestural
abstraction

47. Pizzicato Five
• Throw some blue love
It's like ____X________
Dash yourself against the canvas
It's very __X_________
An inimitable
Style
Beautiful art
Nobody will buy
Your work
Well if it's upside down
I might buy it
A scarlet heart bursts
Extremely __X______
What you're gonna name it?
_____X__ what else?

48. Y- Jack the Dripper
X- Action Painting

49. 18.Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar…
• “Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig and sometimes you find
something. In Cuba, the music flows like a river”
- American guitarist Ry Cooder on his experiences with working with
this group

50. Chan Chan

51. Buena Vista Social Club

52. 19.(a) Tintin and the Picaros
____________Pyramid or step pyramid

53. 19 (b)
Mesopotamian pyramid or _________

54. • A) Mesoamerican
• B) Ziggurat

55. 20.Connect

57. American Pie – Don McLean

58. American Pie -
• But February made me shiver,
Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959 in a plane crash
in Iowa during a snowstorm.
• The birds flew off with the fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
The Byrd's 'Eight Miles High' was on their late 1966
release Fifth Dimension. It was one of the first records
to be widely banned because of supposedly drug-
oriented lyrics.
• So come on Jack be nimble Jack be quick
A reference to Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones;
'Jumpin' Jack Flash' was released in May, 1968.
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
The Stones' Candlestick park concert.

59. • "Drove my Chevy to the levee" alludes to a drive "along a
levee" mentioned in a series of popular 1950s Chevrolet
television commercials sung by Dinah Shore:
• Drive your Chevrolet through the USA,
America's the greatest land of all
On a highway or a road along a levee...
• And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' (1965) was his first major hit,
• And while Lennon read a book on Marx,
Literally, John Lennon reading about Karl Marx; figuratively,
the introduction of radical politics into the music of the
Beatles. The Marx-Lennon wordplay has also been used by
others, most notably the Firesign Theatre on the cover of
their album 'How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When
You're Not Anywhere At All?'

60. 21.More connect…

62. Ian Fleming
• Count Zborowskiwith Chitty Bang Bang 1 at
Brooklands
• Ian Fleming worked as journalist for the Reuters
news service
• Eton College logo (he did his schooling)
• Ursula Andress
• Original author and ornithologist – James Bond

63. 22 Still more connect…

64. Chacha Choudhury
• Lotpot magazine: First appeared
• Jupiter –Sabu
• Rocket- Dog
• Pran – Creator (but obviously not this actor
Pran!)

65. 23
• "Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the
loner operating by himself, without benefit of
society. It usually has something to do with
some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the
vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like
Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier.
Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think
about anything romantic today. In a Western
you can think, Jesus, there was a time when
man was alone, on horseback, out there where
man hasn't spoiled the land yet“
• Whose words?

66. Clint Eastwood

67. 24
• This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic
bards of ancient northern India
• These bards, performing in village squares and temple
courtyards, embellished their recitals with hand
gestures and facial expressions.
• The technique of the dance today is characterized by
fast rhythmic footwork set to complex time cycles.
The footwork is matched by the accompanying
percussion instruments such as tabla and pakhawaj,
and the dancer and percussionists often indulge in a
virtuoso display of rhythmic wizardry. The dance
movements include numerous pirouettes executed at
lightning speed and ending in statuesque poses.
• Sangeet Natak Academy currently confers classical
status on this dance

68. Kathak

69. 25.
• Video (Indian Tribe)
• What’s happening ? Funda?

70. • A "hidden" language has been documented in
an isolated hill tribe in a northeastern Indian
region considered a "black hole" in the study of
languages.The new language, Koro, is spoken by
about a thousand people in Arunachal Pradesh
• Koro belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language
family.A team with the National Geographic
Society's Enduring Voices Project discovered that
Koro was distinct from all other languages in its
family.
• Only about 800 people are speakers—most of
them older than 20—and the language hasn't
been written down.

71. 26 Id the person marked

72. 26
• Vid
• Same person appears in the video.

73. • Georges Prosper Remi or Hergé (creator of
Tintin)

74. So long and thanks for the Cult!