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The Comics & Cartoons Quiz

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QM: Subhasish Dutta ADDA Quiz, Tezpur University

• There are 31 questions starting from 0 to 30.• All the questions are based, in some way

(sometimes in an obscure way), to cartoon and comic characters.

Q0

Pehchanna????

ID the cartoon/comic character with the guy in the blue shirt.

Q1X (adjacent pic) is the newest superhero on the block by a very famous and prominent cartoonist. The suit, that he is wearing, activates the centres of life force in his body – known as Xs in Hinduism – allowing him to fight crime.

ID X.

Q2This cartoon character is a parody of someone, a famous quote of whom is shown in the dialogue box. Either name this cartoon character or the person whom it is parodying.

In November 2008, one of X's advisers gave an interview to journalist Jon Swaine of The Daily Telegraph titled, “X: The 50 facts you might not know.” In the interview, it emerged that X collects “Conan the Barbarian. One of the friends of the creator of this comic series said this about how he wanted the story and the name of the comics to be:

“First off, you should change it to X the Barbarian, and second, I'm not interested in writing a Mad Magazine style parody, but it should be more in line with the critical speech and writings of Voltaire and Swift and third, I have my leanings towards X and that will be evident from my writings. ”

The writer has described how it is more than just a political satire: "I just think of it as , only the characters look really familiar.”

A lot of jibber-jabber. Ignore all that, you just have to ID X.

P.S. Image follows.

Q3

Q4XY is a Pakistani animated television series airing on Geo Tez a new channel of GEO TV Network. Created and directed by pop star Haroon and produced at Unicorn Black production studios, the show features Jiya, a teacher at a girls school whose alter ego is a X-wearing superheroine who uses her martial arts skills to fight crime. The Urdu language series first aired on 28 July 2013.

XY has been inspired from the heroic deeds of the lady (adjacent pic).

ID XY.(no points for naming this lady as it is a comics quiz)

Q5This XKCD comic’s theme is “Engineering Hubris”. It is parodying a very famous cartoon.

Just Name The Cartoon.

Q6

This comic is parodying a famous painting for the Apple Inc. Products.

Just name the painting and the painter.

Q7Luke Cage a.k.a Power Man is a fictional superhero from Marvel Comics. As far as the movie is concerned, Marvel wanted Jamie Foxx to play his role in the upcoming Avengers movie. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has also shown an interest to play the role. However, a certain actor named Isaiah Mustafa is crazy for that role. He has even created a Facebook petition page, has shot a few scenes from the comic and has done a photo shoot to convince the producers to let him play the role.

The question is: How do we know Mr. Mustafa better?

P.S. Images follow.

Mr. Mustafa in one of the photo shoots and a comic showing Luke Cage.

Q8A famous gangster, he is the only real-life character depicted in The Adventures of Tintin series. He is thought to be the hand behind St. Valentine’s day massacre.

ID him.

Q9The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvel is a group of occultist performers who perform occult “workings” – occult prose and poetry set to music, sometimes accompanied with dancing. The group consists of X, who does the talking/speaking, and musicians David J. and Tim Perkins, who provide a musical backdrop to X’s monologue and verse. X is also a Neopagan, ceremonial magician and anarchist.

X has also appeared in an episode of “The Simpsons”. (Images follow)

X is very famous in the world of cartoons.

ID X.

X in “The Simpsons” and his Lego character

Q10X was the more-or-less fiancée of Harold Hamgravy who was a “lounge lizard” or a slacker who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money. His attraction to other women – particularly if they were rich – naturally incensed her, and she once succumbed to a fit of “Lunaphobia”(a kind of angry madness over one of his amours). When she recovered, she continued to pretend to have the disorder to win him back. X was not immune from other men, but she stayed committed to Harold until Y’s appearance.

ID X and Y.

Q11A disfigured and mentally unstable mercenary, Z originally appeared as a villain in an issue of New Mutants, and later in issues of X-Force. The character has since starred in several ongoing series, and shares titles with other characters such as Cable. Also known as the "Merc with a Mouth," Z is famous for his talkative nature and his tendency to "break the fourth wall", which is used by writers for humorous effect.

ID Z.

Q12This guy’s name is X Ceramix. He is a character in the comic “Asterix and the Big Fight” where he challenges Asterix to a fight.

His name is a play on the real name of the person on whom this character is portrayed.

X is more famous as Y in the field of sports.

Will Smith has also portrayed his role in a movie about Y’s life.

Give me either X or Y.

(psst….if you know X, you will definitely know Y).

Q13This Amar Chitra Katha comic was launched on Nov 26th, 2013 on the occasion of the 92nd birth anniversary of the visionary on whose life this comic issue is based.

Name this visionary.

(psst…..Aerosmith has dedicated a song to India and the song’s name is strongly related to this person)

Id X.

A preliminary, but fully worked, sketch from which the outlines could be transferred to be the basis of a design for a fresco or painting is called a “X”.

This term X is known common to us in a very different way.

Q14

Q15Hermann ________ (adjacent pic) , a Swiss psychologist, created an experiment in 1921 in which the subjects’ interpretations of a particular thing are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretations and complex algorithms. It was the most popular projective test in the 1960s.

What is this experiment and what is its connection to the world of comics?

Q16Phew, tired of long questions? Here is a sitter.

He is one of the eight assassins hired by Black Mask to kill Batman in the game “Batman: Arkham Origins”.

Just ID him.

Q17People with Schizophrenia may hear voices other people do not hear. They may believe other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. This may terrify people with the illness and make them withdrawn or extremely agitated.

A classic example of this disorder is the person in the adjacent pic who is a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Which comic character created by Bill Waterson is diagnosed with this disorder?

P.S. Sorry for creating a sombre environment in a comics quiz.

Q18

This is the Indian version of the Justice League.

Just name this series.

(psst…..Super Commando Dhruv is a member of this team)

Q19

Who vs. Who?

This character is from Charles Dickens's “A Christmas Carol” named Ebenezer_______. He is a cold-hearted and a tight-fisted person, who despises Christmas and all things which give people happiness.

His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy.

Which cartoon character is named after this guy?

Q20

Q21This actor here has played some very commendable roles in his career. He portrayed the roles of Agent Smith in “The Matrix” trilogy and Lord Elrond in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “The Hobbit” movies. He has also played the role of Red Skull in “Captain America: The First Avenger” and has given his voice to Megatron in “The Transformers” trilogy.

So, in short, he has played a lot of roles. He has also played the role of the anarchist protagonist of a graphic novel created by Alan Moore in the movie adaptation of the novel.

So, the question is: Name this character and the movie.

(psst…..Same as before, if you know one, you will definitely know the other, this role of his is my favourite)

This here is Jesse Woodson James. He was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.

Two very famous characters from a very famous and loved cartoon series were named after this guy.

Name the Characters.(Half points for naming the series)

(psst…..an image follows which might act as a hint)

Q22

Q23X is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. Rose first developed the character in 1985 on a napkin in a restaurant. They later stenciled X on T-shirts with the credo: “X is for X, X is against no one". These T-shirts became very popular in New York.

X was licensed to PepsiCo in around 1988, but the character did not receive much attention or popularity until the early 1990s on numerous products, particularly stationery. Later, he was replaced with Cool Spot as the brand mascot.

ID X or Where do you see this character?

Q24YUMMMM!!!!!

This sandwich is named after a comic character created by Chic Young because of the character’s love for these kinds of sandwiches.

Just name this sandwich.

Q25

This comic character was created by TARGET publication in the early 1980s.

What was created by TINKLE to stand against it?

(psst….Muchhe ho toh Nathulal jaisi, warna na ho)

Q26

The comic issue in the adjacent image is of the comic series “Supremo”. Supremo is portrayed as the alter ego of a very well known personality both in India as well as abroad.

Name this personality.

(psst……look at the image carefully)

Q27This small guy’s name is Little Helper. His inventor, X accidentally passed on some of his intelligence to a desk lamp. X added small metal arms and legs to the lamp, so that it could move about. Little Helper lived up to his name, helping his creator (X) with many of his inventions.

In the Italian comics, Little Helper is named Edi, in reference to Thomas Alva Edison.

ID X (the inventor).

(psst…..X is created by Carl Banks and he is Duckburg’s most famous inventor)

Q28

Like many other cartoons of that age, X featured racial stereotypes. After explosions, for example, characters with blasted faces would resemble stereotypical blacks, with large lips and bow-tied hair. Perhaps the most controversial element of the show is the character Mammy Two Shoes, a poor black maid who speaks in a stereotypical "black accent" and has a rodent problem. The creator of X claimed that the racial gags in the show did not reflect his racial opinion; they were just reflecting what was common in society and cartoons at the time and were meant to be humorous. Nevertheless, such stereotypes are considered by some to be racist today, and most of the blackface gags are censored when these shots are aired. Mammy Two-Shoes' voice was redubbed by Turner in the mid-1990s to make the character sound less stereotypical; the resulting accent sounds more Irish. One cartoon in particular, His ________ Friday, is usually kept out of television rotation because of its depiction of cannibals. If shown, the cannibals' dialogue is censored, although their mouths still move.

ID X

(psst….All of us have grown up watching and loving X)

Q29Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. A very famous director of a movie trilogy was inspired to recreate the visual appearance of a comic character with a cult personality, from Mr. Bacon’s work for his movies, particularly from the painting given here.

Name the comic character.

(psst….the painting and the dialogue in the next slide may be a hint)

"I kind of like this one, Bob. Leave it."

Q30

Sitter!!

Fill in the blank.

Answers

Q0

Pehchanna????

ID the cartoon/comic character with the guy in the blue shirt.

And The Answer is……

Q1X (adjacent pic) is the newest superhero on the block by a very famous and prominent cartoonist. The suit, that he is wearing, activates the centres of life force in his body – known as Xs in Hinduism – allowing him to fight crime.

ID X.


Chakra, the invincible

By Stan Lee

Q2This cartoon character is a parody of someone, a famous quote of whom is shown in the dialogue box. Either name this cartoon character or the person whom it is parodying.


Muammar al-Gaddafi and the cartoon character’s name is Gad-Daffy.

Q3In November 2008, one of X's advisers gave an interview to journalist Jon Swaine of The Daily Telegraph titled, “X: The 50 facts you might not know.” In the interview, it emerged that X collects “Conan the Barbarian. One of the friends of the creator of this comic series said this about how he wanted the story and the name of the comics to be:

“First off, you should change it to X the Barbarian, and second, I'm not interested in writing a Mad Magazine style parody, but it should be more in line with the critical speech and writings of Voltaire and Swift and third, I have my leanings towards X and that will be evident from my writings. ”

The writer has described how it is more than just a political satire: "I just think of it as , only the characters look really familiar.”

A lot of jibber-jabber. Ignore all that, you just have to ID X.

P.S. Image follows.

Q4XY is a Pakistani animated television series airing on Geo Tez a new channel of GEO TV Network. Created and directed by pop star Haroon and produced at Unicorn Black production studios, the show features Jiya, a teacher at a girls school whose alter ego is a X-wearing superheroine who uses her martial arts skills to fight crime. The Urdu language series first aired on 28 July 2013.

XY has been inspired from the heroic deeds of the lady (adjacent pic).

ID XY.(no points for naming this lady as it is a comics quiz)

Q5This XKCD comic’s theme is “Engineering Hubris”. It is parodying a very famous cartoon character.

Just Name The Character.

Q6

This comic is parodying a famous painting for the Apple Inc. Products.

Just name the painting and the painter.


Rene Magritte’s self portrait “The Son of Man”.

Q7Luke Cage a.k.a Power Man is a fictional superhero from Marvel Comics. As far as the movie is concerned, Marvel wanted Jamie Foxx to play his role in the upcoming Avengers movie. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has also shown an interest to play the role. However, a certain actor named Isaiah Mustafa is crazy for that role. He has even created a Facebook petition page, has shot a few scenes from the comic and has done a photo shoot to convince the producers to let him play the role.

The question is: How do we know Mr. Mustafa better?

Images follow.

Mr. Mustafa in one of the photo shoots and a comic showing Luke Cage.


The Old Spice Guy

Q8A famous gangster, he is the only real-life character depicted in The Adventures of Tintin series. He is thought to be the hand behind St. Valentine’s day massacre.

ID him.

Q9The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvel is a group of occultist performers who perform occult “workings” – occult prose and poetry set to music, sometimes accompanied with dancing. The group consists of X, who does the talking/speaking, and musicians David J. and Tim Perkins, who provide a musical backdrop to X’s monologue and verse. X is also a Neopagan, ceremonial magician and anarchist.

X has also appeared in an episode of “The Simpsons”. (Images follow)

X is very famous in the world of cartoons.

ID X.

X in “The Simpsons” and his Lego character


Alan Moore

Q10X was the more-or-less fiancée of Harold Hamgravy who was a “lounge lizard” or a slacker who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money. His attraction to other women – particularly if they were rich – naturally incensed her, and she once succumbed to a fit of “Lunaphobia”(a kind of angry madness over one of his amours). When she recovered, she continued to pretend to have the disorder to win him back. X was not immune from other men, but she stayed committed to Harold until Y’s appearance.

ID X and Y.

(psst…..the image in the next slide may be a hint)


X - Y -

Q11A disfigured and mentally unstable mercenary, Z originally appeared as a villain in an issue of New Mutants, and later in issues of X-Force. The character has since starred in several ongoing series, and shares titles with other characters such as Cable. Also known as the "Merc with a Mouth," Z is famous for his talkative nature and his tendency to "break the fourth wall", which is used by writers for humorous effect.

ID Z.


Deadpool

Q12This guy’s name is X Ceramix. He is a character in the comic “Asterix and the Big Fight” where he challenges Asterix to a fight.

His name is a play on the real name of the person on whom this character is portrayed.

X is more famous as Y in the field of sports.

Will Smith has also portrayed his role in a movie about Y’s life.

Give me either X or Y.

(psst….if you know X, you will definitely know Y).


X-Cassius Y-Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali’s real name is Cassius Clay.

Q13This Amar Chitra Katha was launched on Nov 26th, 2013 on the occasion of the 92nd birth anniversary of the visionary on whose life this comic issue is based.

Name this visionary.

(psst…..Aerosmith has dedicated a song to India and the song’s name is strongly related to this person)

Id X.

A preliminary, but fully worked, sketch from which the outlines could be transferred to be the basis of a design for a fresco or painting is called a “X”.

This term X is known common to us in a very different way.

Q14


Cartoons

Q15Hermann ________ (adjacent pic) , a Swiss psychologist, created an experiment in 1921 in which the subjects’ interpretations of a particular thing are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretations and complex algorithms. It was the most popular projective test in the 1960s.

What is this experiment and what is its connection to the world of comics?


Rorschach inkblot test. Rorschach’s mask from “Watchmen” displays a constantly morphing inkblot that is based on the ambiguous designs used in Rorschach inkblot tests.

Q16Phew, tired of long questions? Here is a sitter.

He is one of the eight assassins hired by Black Mask to kill Batman in the game “Batman: Arkham Origins”.

Just ID him.


Deathstroke

Q17People with Schizophrenia may hear voices other people do not hear. They may believe other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. This may terrify people with the illness and make them withdrawn or extremely agitated.

A classic example of this disorder is the person in the adjacent pic who is a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Which comic character created by Bill Waterson is diagnosed with this disorder?

P.S. Sorry for creating a sombre environment in a comics quiz.


Calvin from “Calvin and Hobbes”

Q18

This is the Indian version of the Justice League.

Just name this series.

(psst…..Super Commando Dhruv is a member of this team)


Brahmand Rakshak

Q19

Who vs. Who?

The plaintiff, Coyote, has filed a lawsuit against, my client, the Acme Company sounding in tort for products liability alleging that Acme Co., was negligent, reckless, and placed products into the stream of commerce through its mail order catalogues.


This character is from Charles Dickens's “A Christmas Carol” named Ebenezer_______. He is a cold-hearted and a tight-fisted person, who despises Christmas and all things which give people happiness.

His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy.

Which cartoon character is named after this guy?

Q20


Scrooge McDuck/ Uncle Scrooge

Q21This actor here has played some very commendable roles in his career. He portrayed the roles of Agent Smith in “The Matrix” trilogy and Lord Elrond in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “The Hobbit” movies. He has also played the role of Red Skull in “Captain America: The First Avenger” and has given his voice to Megatron in “The Transformers” trilogy.

So, in short, he has played a lot of roles. He has also played the role of the anarchist protagonist of a graphic novel created by Alan Moore in the movie adaptation of the novel.

So, the question is: Name this character and the movie.

(psst…..Same as before, if you know one, you will definitely know the other; this role of his is my favourite)


V in the movie “V for Vendetta”

This here is Jesse Woodson James. He was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.

Two very famous characters from a very famous and loved cartoon series were named after this guy.

Name the Characters.(Half points for naming the series)

(psst…..an image follows which might act as a hint)

Q22


Team Rocket (Jessie and James)from the series

“Pokemon”

Q23X is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. Rose first developed the character in 1985 on a napkin in a restaurant. They later stenciled X on T-shirts with the credo: “X is for X, X is against no one". These T-shirts became very popular in New York.

X was licensed to PepsiCo in around 1988, but the character did not receive much attention or popularity until the early 1990s on numerous products, particularly stationery. Later, he was replaced with Cool Spot as the brand mascot.

ID X or Where do you see this character?


Fido Dido

Q24YUMMMM!!!!!

This sandwich is named after a comic character created by Chic Young because of the character’s love for these kinds of sandwiches.

Just name this sandwich.


Dagwood Sandwich

Q25

This comic character was created by TARGET publication in the early 1980s.

What was created by TINKLE to stand against it?

(psst….Muchhe ho toh Nathulal jaisi, warna na ho)


Shikari Shambhu

Q26

The comic issue in the adjacent image is of the comic series “Supremo”. Supremo is portrayed as the alter ego of a very well known personality both in India as well as abroad.

Name this personality.

(psst……look at the image carefully)

Q27This small guy’s name is Little Helper. His inventor, X accidentally passed on some of his intelligence to a desk lamp. X added small metal arms and legs to the lamp, so that it could move about. Little Helper lived up to his name, helping his creator (X) with many of his inventions.

In the Italian comics, Little Helper is named Edi, in reference to Thomas Alva Edison.

ID X (the inventor).

(psst…..X is created by Carl Banks and he is Duckburg’s most famous inventor)


Gyro Gearloose

Q28

Like many other cartoons of that age, X featured racial stereotypes. After explosions, for example, characters with blasted faces would resemble stereotypical blacks, with large lips and bow-tied hair. Perhaps the most controversial element of the show is the character Mammy Two Shoes, a poor black maid who speaks in a stereotypical "black accent" and has a rodent problem. The creator of X claimed that the racial gags in the show did not reflect his racial opinion; they were just reflecting what was common in society and cartoons at the time and were meant to be humorous. Nevertheless, such stereotypes are considered by some to be racist today, and most of the blackface gags are censored when these shots are aired. Mammy Two-Shoes' voice was redubbed by Turner in the mid-1990s to make the character sound less stereotypical; the resulting accent sounds more Irish. One cartoon in particular, His ________ Friday, is usually kept out of television rotation because of its depiction of cannibals. If shown, the cannibals' dialogue is censored, although their mouths still move.

ID X

(psst….All of us have grown up watching and loving X)

Q29Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. A very famous director of a movie trilogy was inspired to recreate the visual appearance of a comic character with a cult personality, from Mr. Bacon’s work for his movies, particularly from the painting given here.

Name the comic character.

(psst….the painting and the dialogue in the next slide may be a hint)

"I kind of like this one, Bob. Leave it."

Q30

Fill in the blank.

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Education

x andthat

x ceramix

groupconsists of x

x adjacent pic

laterin issues of x

comic issue

comic asterix

thiscartoon character