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- 1. DC-Marvel quiz Prelims by Ankit Singh
- 2. First rule of the quiz is
- 3. Other rules are 15 questions in all. Each question is a point each. No negs: you can resort to creative writing. Part points at QMs discretion. 10-15 are (*)ed questions. This will be used in the case of tie. If tie still persist, countback will be used to resolve ties. Six teams qualify for the final. QM isnt the god, he is the dictator.
- 5. Q1 X found writing comics too difficult. Before he found fame as a novelist, he eked living writing for mens adventure magazines for Marvels publisher. Short of cash one month he asked Stan Lee if he could try his handwriting a comic script. Lee readily agreed but he couldnt deliver the goods. He said it was too difficult, Lee recounts in his autobiography. X told him: I could write a novel in the time it would take me to figure this damn thing out. He did eventually crack the superhero nut, writing the screenplays for the first two Superman movies. Identify X, who is famous as a crime-novelist.
- 6. Q2: Teen Titans: The Lost Annual is a 2008 one-shot, from DC Comics, written by Bob Haney, with art by Jay Stephens and Mike Allred. The team travels to space to help X defeat an oppressive alien government. Apparently, the X that was assassinated here on Earth was an alien impostor, leaving the real commander-in-chief free to fight for alien rights everywhere. Whos X, someone who was assassinated for real?
- 7. Q3: Name the singer along with the movie, featuring a Marvel superhero, where it appears:
- 8. Q4: What has this been aptly named after? Hyperloop Transportation Technologies unveiled a Hyperloop capsule in 2016 at the Pioneer's Festival in Vienna. Though, won't be used to make any superhero flair, but rather a dual-layer coating for the company's Hyperloop pod that will provide the passengers with twice the protection should anything damage the exterior. The company boasts that its material is "eight times stronger than aluminium and 10 times stronger than steel alternatives," which is fairly standard for reinforced carbon fibre. What makes HTT's version special is the embedded sensors that can transmit "critical information regarding temperature, stability, integrity and more, wirelessly and instantly."
- 9. Q5: Finn Jones is known for his role as Loras Tyrell in the HBO series Game of Thrones (20112016) Which superhero does he portray in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which was aired as a web television series created for Netflix by Scott Buck(2017)?
- 10. Q6: Identify this Marvel character.
- 13. Q9: FITB and X please Martin Goodman was a publisher of magazines, comic books, launched a company that would later become Marvel Comics. Goodman thought that making the super hero X was a rotten idea. He told Stan Lee that the character would fail because readers hated ______ which was the inspiration behind X. He had to change his mind when the sales figures came in after a trail run and thus X was born.
- 15. Q10: Marisa Tomei is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award and nominations for a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She received two additional Academy Award nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), Wild Hogs (2007), and Parental Guidance (2012) What role has she played in the MCU(not exclusive) which had raised rumours about a possible on screen linkup?
- 16. Q11: _______ Comics was a metafictional American comic book publisher, and part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and DC Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters to create new ones. These characters first appeared in a series of twelve comic books which were published in 1996, following the Marvel vs DC miniseries. A second set (of another twelve comic books) followed a year later. Characters were merged to create the new characters like Batman and Wolverine became the character Dark Claw, Spider-boy was an amalgamation of Spiderman and Superboy, Iron Man and Green Lantern formed Iron Lantern, etc. What was this new venture aptly named as?
- 17. Q12: There are other varieties of __________ apart from the usual green type such as red and gold type which have different but still generally negative effects on X. Due to X's popularity, __________ has become a byword for an extraordinary exploitable weakness, synonymous with "Achilles' heel". FITB. X please.
- 18. Q13: X and Y please. X has played the role of Drax the Destroyer in Avengers: Endgame. X has expressed interest in playing Y as part of the DC Extended Universe. Despite the fact that the actor is known for his portrayal of this strangely hilarious character, hes endorsed the idea of shifting into one of one of DC Comics most long-running villains. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the original Y appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who began a life of crime using the identity of a villain that he had portrayed in a horror film that he had starred in.
- 19. Q14 Why does these Scottish King and American General feature in the quiz?
- 20. Q15: Identify X and Y. When Bob Kane drew his first concept of Batman, it was very different from what we think of Batman today. In his original sketch, Batman wore red tights and a domino mask that didn't hide his blonde hair. Instead of a cape, Kane designed Batman with two wings on his back that always stayed up. Kane claimed the design was inspired by X's diagram of the Y, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings. Y is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers seek to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. X's designs were inspired by his study of birds, and conceived the use of the bat-like wings to generate thrust.
- 22. Submit your answer sheets!
- 23. Answer time:
- 24. Q1 X found writing comics too difficult. Before he found fame as a novelist, he eked living writing for mens adventure magazines for Marvels publisher. Short of cash one month he asked Stan Lee if he could try his handwriting a comic script. Lee readily agreed but he couldnt deliver the goods. He said it was too difficult, Lee recounts in his autobiography. X told him: I could write a novel in the time it would take me to figure this damn thing out. He did eventually crack the superhero nut, writing the screenplays for the first two Superman movies. Identify X, who is famous as a crime-novelist.
- 26. Q2: Teen Titans: The Lost Annual is a 2008 one-shot, from DC Comics, written by Bob Haney, with art by Jay Stephens and Mike Allred. The team travels to space to help X defeat an oppressive alien government. Apparently, the X that was assassinated here on Earth was an alien impostor, leaving the real commander-in-chief free to fight for alien rights everywhere. Whos X, someone who was assassinated for real?
- 27. Answer:
- 28. Q3: Name the singer along with the movie, featuring a Marvel superhero, where it appears:
- 29. Answer:
- 30. Q4: What has this been aptly named after? Hyperloop Transportation Technologies unveiled a Hyperloop capsule in 2016 at the Pioneer's Festival in Vienna. Though, won't be used to make any superhero flair, but rather a dual-layer coating for the company's Hyperloop pod that will provide the passengers with twice the protection should anything damage the exterior. The company boasts that its material is "eight times stronger than aluminium and 10 times stronger than steel alternatives," which is fairly standard for reinforced carbon fibre. What makes HTT's version special is the embedded sensors that can transmit "critical information regarding temperature, stability, integrity and more, wirelessly and instantly."
- 32. Q5: Finn Jones is known for his role as Loras Tyrell in the HBO series Game of Thrones (20112016) Which superhero does he portray in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which was aired as a web television series created for Netflix by Scott Buck(2017)?
- 33. Answer:
- 34. Q6: Identify this Marvel character.
- 35. Answer:
- 37. Answer:
- 39. Answer:
- 40. Q9: FITB and X please Martin Goodman was a publisher of magazines, comic books, launched a company that would later become Marvel Comics. Goodman thought that making the super hero X was a rotten idea. He told Stan Lee that the character would fail because readers hated ______ which was the inspiration behind X. He had to change his mind when the sales figures came in after a trail run and thus X was born.
- 43. Q10: Marisa Tomei is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award and nominations for a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She received two additional Academy Award nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), Wild Hogs (2007), and Parental Guidance (2012) What role has she played in the MCU(not exclusive) which had raised rumours about a possible on screen linkup?
- 44. Answer: Aunt May in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Endgame(2019), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).
- 45. Q11: _______ Comics was a metafictional American comic book publisher, and part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and DC Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters to create new ones. These characters first appeared in a series of twelve comic books which were published in 1996, following the Marvel vs DC miniseries. A second set (of another twelve comic books) followed a year later. Characters were merged to create the new characters like Batman and Wolverine became the character Dark Claw, Spider-boy was an amalgamation of Spiderman and Superboy, Iron Man and Green Lantern formed Iron Lantern, etc. What was this new venture aptly named as?
- 46. Answer:
- 47. Q12: There are other varieties of __________ apart from the usual green type such as red and gold type which have different but still generally negative effects on X. Due to X's popularity, __________ has become a byword for an extraordinary exploitable weakness, synonymous with "Achilles' heel". FITB. X please.
- 49. Q13: X and Y please. X has played the role of Drax the Destroyer in Avengers: Endgame. X has expressed interest in playing Y as part of the DC Extended Universe. Despite the fact that the actor is known for his portrayal of this strangely hilarious character, hes endorsed the idea of shifting into one of one of DC Comics most long-running villains. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the original Y appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who began a life of crime using the identity of a villain that he had portrayed in a horror film that he had starred in.
- 50. Answer: X: Dave Bautista Y: Clayface
- 51. Q14 Why does these Scottish King and American General feature in the quiz?
- 52. Answer: They are the King Robert the Bruce and General Anthony Wayne, inspiration behind the naming of Bruce Wayne.
- 53. Q15: Identify X and Y. When Bob Kane drew his first concept of Batman, it was very different from what we think of Batman today. In his original sketch, Batman wore red tights and a domino mask that didn't hide his blonde hair. Instead of a cape, Kane designed Batman with two wings on his back that always stayed up. Kane claimed the design was inspired by X's diagram of the Y, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings. Y is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers seek to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. X's designs were inspired by his study of birds, and conceived the use of the bat-like wings to generate thrust.
- 54. Answer: X: Leonardo Da Vinci Y: Ornithopter
- 56. Please wait for the results... In case you dont qualify, please stay for the finals. We have a lot of stuffs to share.