QUIZCON 2023
TECHNO INDIA SALT LAKE
FINALS:
FANVERSE FUSION: A FANDOM QUIZ ON MARVEL, DC, WIZARDING WORLD AND GAME OF THRONES.
BY SUBHROJIT HORE, SWASTIK DEB MOJUMDAR, AHANA SARKAR AND DEBANJAN BHATTACHARJEE.
3. • 8 questions.
• Clockwise – Bounce & Pounce enabled.
• Bounce +20/0 ; Pounce +20/-10
• Don't prompt out answers until asked to.
• Hints in Italic
4. In a 2005 interview around the same time Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince was published, Rowling stated that it was not a coincidence that he
was defeated in 1945, hinting at a connection with Adolf Hitler and at least the
European front of World War II. X seems to be the wizarding version of Adolf
Hitler. As referenced by Rowling, the date of X's duel with Y coincides with the
downfall of Nazi Germany. There are other similarities as well. X adopted an
ancient symbol as his sigil just as the Nazis adopted the manji, switching its
facing to create the Swastika, itself an ancient symbol.
Give me X And Y
And the sigil of X
5.
6. X – Gellert Grindelwald
Y – Albus Dumbledore
SIGIL – Alliance, adopted from the DEATHLY HALLOWS
7. X always seems to outdo himself when it comes to superhero stuff in both our beloved multiverses. May
2023 saw him fabricate yet another amazing coming-of-age superhero arc featuring our favorite band
of intergalactic vigilantes, widely gaining critical acclaim and much needed love (after Endgame) with
many considering this X's best work yet. With captivating plot twists and scintillating direction when it
came to battle sequences or even the smooth story-telling featuring a soundtrack which only people of
culture would appreciate, it is needless to say X had created a masterpiece.
After a deeper dive into X's thought process over this work, we can point out a couple biblical references
- the initial being the High Evolutionary and his obsession with including every type of species in his
Counter-Earth depicting Noah's Ark though in a totally villainous way. The second detail is more subtle :
In a particular scene (next slide), the audience amidst a heart-wrenching showdown find one of their
beloved characters stranded in open space moments away from freezing to death when Y's
rejuvenating touch of life makes sure, he lives to see another day, completing Y's redemption arc given
his biblical first name. This is a direct nod to an Italian fresco from the early 16th Century by one of the
world's most famous sculptors of that era, illustrating a divine touch of life narrative from the Book of
Genesis - a pivotal point in the Bible.
The same fresco finds its place at the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
Identify X and the character Y along with the famous painting being talked about. (pic in next slide)
8.
9.
10. X – James Gunn
Y – Adam Warlock
Artwork – Creation of Adam, Michelangelo
11. The original X in the comics is a man known as William Heller but in the cinematic
universe, he is portrayed as some August Ransom Smith, a delusional pacifist,
hardcore racist and a renowned supervillain of his time.
X is also known to make suits and unique combat gear for his son Y in his quantum
unfolding storage space. Like his father X, Y is also a skilled marksman and
competent at close combat but has no notable powers - a compellingly vainglorious
man who believes in righteousness at any cost, no matter how many people he has to
kill to get it.
Y joined Z's side in the 3rd appearance of Z in the cinematic universe. Z was a prison
psychiatrist before going off on some misadventures and can be identified as a rather
tragic character, quite a lot villainous and a little cracked in the head too not to
mention - a true inspiration for cosplayers and goth-heads.
ID X, Y, Z.
12.
13. X – White Dragon
Y – Peacemaker
Z – Harleen Quinzel (Harley Quinn)
14. X was first about to be cast as Faora-Ul, General Zod's second in command,
which is originally played by Anthe Traue in Man of Steel. Fortunately, X was
pregnant at that time, otherwise she was more than happy to be part of any
Superman film in any particular role - a great resume booster. Luckily this
didn't work out and we got the best cast choice of the most charismatic
female superhero ever. Similarly, before X was cast as this iconic character,
the most probable choice of the directors was Olga Kurylenko, who we
might know from Quantum of Solace, Johnny English Strikes Again and
even Extraction 2. But one of her most iconic characters was Y in 2021 in the
counterpart Universe alongside the most iconic female character there.
Id X and the character Y which received critical acclaim with her sharp
combat skills, widely known for mimicking the moves of her opponents.
17. X's music prowess was challenged when he was offered a major project in 2011 based
on George RR Martin's ground-breaking novels.
X is of Iranian-German descent and has worked previously on Iron-Man.
He earned Grammy nominations in 2009, 2018 and 2020 for his masterpiece
soundtrack of Game of Thrones.
Other than this, he has also shared his brilliance in other renowned projects like
Prison Break, Pacific Rim, Westworld and recently House of the Dragon as well, a no-
brainer when it comes to music for Westeros. After Iron Man he also has one more
Marvel project that sounded well of course, but wasn't received similarly by the
audience gathering critical response worldwide.
X is mentored by Y, contradictory when it comes to Y making the legendary themes
for Batman and The Man of the Steel and literally every iconic theme made yet.
ID X and his latest Marvel project. Give me Y as well.
18.
19. X – Ramin Djawadi
Latest Marvel Project – Eternals
Y – Hans Zimmer
20. Orys, who founded House X, was a bastard son of Aerion Targaryen and a
brother to Aegon the Conqueror, Visenya and Rhaenys. He fought in the
Conquest and became the first Hand of the King to Aegon I. He was also the
first Lord of Storm's End after House Durrandon. During the Wars of
Conquest, he slew the last Storm King, Argilac the Arrogant, married his
daughter Argella, and became the first Lord Paramount of the Stormlands.
Evident from the names, we can deduce that this location is frequented by
aggressive thunder storms. Therefore, Storm’s End needed to be a sturdy
castle in order to wave off the nature’s wrath. This job was taken up by Y, who
is widely celebrated for constructing the Winterfell Castle and The Wall.
Id the House X and the personality Y.
23. X is the only person of his profession who has 2 different cameos in
2 different MCU Movies. The latest cameo being in the Spiderman:
Across the Spiderverse, seen as a “collectible” in Miles’ and
Ganke’s dorm. And another cameo in Black Widow where Natasha
and Yelena enter a store where X is seen on the TV “fighting” for his
country against Paraguay.
There is a reason behind the inclusion of X in the MCU, and it is
nothing but one of the actors of the universe is very fond of X.
Id X and the actor.
26. X, also known as ________, was an English born American halfblood
wizard who lived during the 20th Century. He was the son of Y and an
unnamed woman. One year after his birth he was unexpectedly taken to
America along with his aunt. Due to the repression of his magic from
the amount of his abuse he endured, just like his aunt, X developed a
dark parasitic force known as an ******* and became an ******* twenty
years into his life. While most ******* die before their tenth birthday, X
lived into adulthood, which was previously unheard of in the wizarding
world, and a testament to his incredible power, due to which he was
much sought after by Gellert Grindelwald. Give me X, Y and FITB.
27.
28. X – Credence Barebone
Y – Aberforth Dumbledore
FITB – Aurelius Dumbledore
30. • 8 questions.
• Anti-clockwise – Bounce & Pounce enabled.
• Bounce +20/0 ; Pounce +20/-10
• Don't prompt out answers until asked to.
• Hints in Italic
31. In ‘The Avengers’, Tony is seen wearing a t-shirt with X on it. Interestingly
enough X has a song named ‘Iron Man’ which was released in the year 1970.
The song though has no direct connection to the MCU.
Coincidentally, Norman Osborn in Earth 138 is nicknamed Norman Ozzy
Osborn a slight callback to X, and was the leader of a totalitarian regime in
America. His company, OSCORP created V.E.N.O.M. and when Osborn was
decapitated with Fender Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster in Olympic White by Y, he
survived only for the V.E.N.O.M. symbiote.
Eventually Y managed to kill Osborn by supercharging his Fender, blasting
V.E.N.O.M. off Osborn’s head. Multiverse stuff is indeed wild...
Id X and Y.
32.
33. X – Black Sabbath
Y – Hobart 'Hobie' Brown aka Spider-Punk
34. Despite being an extraordinary piece of magic, the Marauder’s Map has its shortcomings. The first
shortcoming includes the two blind spots. In spite of accurately mapping every corner of the
Hogwarts Castle, the map is unable to plot two of the most well-known and vital parts of the
Castle, A and B.
A being constructed to instruct some of C’s students the teachings of which the institute may have
disapproved. However, it is clear by the very decoration of A that by the time C finished it he had
developed grandiose ideas of his own importance to the institute. No other founder left behind
them a gigantic statue of themselves or draped the institute in emblems of their own personal
powers.
On the contrary, B is located on Hogwarts' seventh floor, across from the tapestry of Barnabas the
Barmy. There is no exact information about who actually created B. It had the unique ability to
provide or transform itself into anything that a witch or wizard called for it at that moment in time.
B did not appear on the Marauder’s Map simply because none of the four found it.
Give me A, B, and C and the reason why the map was unable to plot A.
35.
36. A – The Chamber of Secrets
B – The Room of Requirements
C – Salazar Slytherin
Reason – None of the four Marauders were Parselmouth
37. Without a doubt, one of the best parts of this film is the scene involving X. For
one, it is an absolute beast and to see it roar to life, and then take out that cop
car almost instantly, is a sight of sheer delight. I’ve gotta get me one of those,”
says Commissioner Gordon as he sees X take off. Funny, I was thinking the
same thing when I first saw X too.X ripping apart the streets, and then soaring
across rooftops, along with some of the best direction, acting, soundtrack and
what not...Well you only find all of those masterpieces together at one place in
a Y film. Man's a genius. This film or rather films were one of the best ones of
their kind to be made, that is the way with Y films in general though.
Unfortunately Y has repeatedly confirmed not to be involved in movies
featuring fantastical characters anymore, rather ones more historic,
destructive, and obviously something Indian halls have to use a black towel
against.Give me X and Y and the film being talked about.(X is an entity, Y is a
human, other part is a masterpiece, period)
Id X, Y and the film being talked about.
40. X was a British witch, magical historian and the author of Hogwarts: A History and
approximately ten other books. Y, One of them is in staple use in the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which helped Harry a lot in his first year. She
was deemed the most celebrated magical historian of the twentieth century.
Rita Skeeter referred X as “Batty” while her interview. Ron Weasley's great
aunt Muriel called her "gaga" during Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding .
Little is known of X's personality. One can presume she was friendly and amiable,
having tried to befriend Z’s Mother in the 1890s with a batch of
homemade Cauldron Cakes. She regarded Z as something like a protégé .
ID X, Y and Z
41.
42. X – Bathilda Bagshot
Y – A History of Magic
Z – Albus Dumbledore
43. X is a scientist and inventor with a master's degree in electrical engineering. He has
been an ice cream scooper, a corporate whistleblower, a consultant for The P V D
Foundation, and an Avenger. He lives in San Francisco.
- About the author section of a certain real-world autobiography __________
documenting his overwhelming and mind-boggling experiences as an Avenger.
The book features over 20 short pieces exploring different aspects of X's
experiences as Y, as a dad, as an Avenger, and as an everyman looking back on
some incredible life moments. Together, they capture the heart, humor, and
humility that have made X a beloved character among fans.
The book is a New York Times Best-Seller and also available on Amazon for Rs.3622
/ 26.99$. You can actually buy it.
ID X, Y and FITB.
44.
45. X – Scott Lang
Y – Ant Man
FITB – Look Out For The Little Guy
46. "When you create names like these, you do it to gain a little bit of notoriety and bring public
attention to it," Brett Ratcliffe said. "We're still discovering life on Earth. One of every four
living things on Earth is a X. We haven't discovered them all. We're not even close." In 2018,
entomologist Ratcliffe made headlines for naming three newly discovered species of X, after
Dany’s Dragons. He labelled them drogoni, viserioni, and rhaegali probably because of their
matching color scheme or he’s just a massive fan boy. X's distinctive feature is that it has a
front pairof wings as well, a rather common gardenspecies.
Paramonovius _____ is a bee fly named after a certain Game of Thrones character ______
because it reigns in winter and has a crown of spine-like hairs. The name was chosen by
Game of Thrones fan Xuankun Li, a PhD student at Australian National Insect
Collection in Canberra.
ID the species X and FITB.
49. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is an American television producer and screenwriter, more famously known as the
showrunner of The Witcher and its spinoffs. When asked about X, Lauren shared about him being over-
enthusiastic towards his role as Geralt. Being an avid gamer and a fan of the videogame franchise, X was the
one who constantly asked his agents to arrange programs with Lauren and finally landed the role, and wasn't
it totally perfect. Unfortunately, due to several reasons, the foremost being X unhappy with the way Netflix had
started to mould the actual storyline, Liam Hemsworth has been confirmed taking over X, much like his role in
the DCEU being replaced as well by Y, a familiar face from House of Cards.
Lauren, on the other hand has been a part of the Marvel industry since quite the time, with her best work being
Z undoubtedly featuring an excellent and compelling storyline with unique character arcs. Z, the titular
character was disabled in a way after a childhood mishap but eventually went ahead to become one of the
greatest combat specialists in the New York area actively fighting crime in the night and posing as someone
who is supposedly very good at his job in the day.
About Z and probably the most iconic scene in it : one of the creators exclaimed - "I had built in some places
where we could've hidden cuts if it didn't work, like the darkened way where he's looking up and the red lights
are flashing. But instead, in post-production, I insisted on using a true one-take and I lightened the place so
that the audience can see that there are no hidden cuts." The heavy saturation and the green shadowy
atmosphere along with the exquisite choreography by the stunt-team, adds to the greatness of this direction
masterpiece, probably creating one of the best one takes in production history and a treat for the viewers.
ID X, Y, Z and the iconic scene.
50.
51. X – Henry Cavill
Y – David Corenswet
Z – Daredevil
Scene – Hallway Fight (S02E03)
52. X is described as an ambitious worker at the Magical Congress of the
United States of America, who meets Y in New York when he was
searching for his niffler. X used to study at the Ilvermorny School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry, where X was sorted into the Thunderbird
house. X was relegated to an office well below their abilities after
they stood up for the wrong person and was also dismissed as an
Auror for magically assaulting Mary Lou. They later went on to marry Y
and moved to the United Kingdom with him after retirement and their
grandson later on married Z, a certain girl described as having straggly,
waist-length dirty-blond hair and a dazed, dreamy look on her face, an
obvious fan favorite character. Give me X ,Y and Z
53.
54. X – Porpentina Goldstein
Y – Newt Scamander
Z – Luna Lovegood
57. • 8 Audio-Visual questions.
• Buzzer Round : +30/-15
• CALL OUT : +50/-30
• Call out someone'sanswer if you're sure and earn 50 points with a little risk.
58. This is Joana Alegre from The Voice Portugal. Where have we
heard this beautiful melody before and who sang it onscreen? (It
was the same person on and off screen). *VIDEO HERE*
JOANA ALEGRE
59.
60. Singer – Podrick Payne (Daniel Portman)
Scene – Night Before Battle
Of Winterfell (GOT S08E02)
63. All of them have played multiple roles
in the MCU
Hailee Steinfeld : GWEN STACY & KATE BISHOP
Ryan Reynolds : DEADPOOL & JUGGERNAUT
Michael B. Jordan : HUMAN TORCH & ERIK KILLMONGER
Michelle Yeoh : ALETA OGORD (GOTG2) & YING NAN (SHANG-CHI)
Chris Evans : HUMAN TORCH & CAPTAIN AMERICA
Benedict Cumberbatch : DOCTOR STRANGE & DORMAMMU
Oscar Isaac : EN SABAH NUR (APOCALYPSE, X-MEN), MOON KNIGHT & MIGUEL O'HARA
Paul Bettany : VISION & JARVIS
Gemma Chan : SERSI (ETERNALS) & MINN-ERVA (CAPTAIN MARVEL)
Aaron Taylor Johnson : QUICKSILVER (PIETRO MAXIMOFF) & KRAVEN THE HUNTER
Linda Cardellini : LAURA BARTON (MOCKINGJAY) & LYLLA THE OTTER (GOTG3)
64. This song is called A Voice with No Name and is an unofficial theme
by NerdOut!. They are renowned for making completely
independent theme songs on videogame characters, superheroes
and the like. Who is this song about?
"I'm hearing voices inside of my head
If I listen I'm probably ending up dead
There's a reason I'm chaining myself to the bed"
70. In the American version of The Office, in the episode "Andy's Ancestry, the X language figures
into the plot. Erin wants to impress Andy's intellectual family, each of whom speak more than
one language, by picking a new language to learn herself. Her coworker Dwight, a sci-fi and
fantasy nerd knows X openly admitting to her that it is an artificial language and suggests to
her that it is a great language to learn. Later in the episode:
David J. Peterson, the linguist who created the X language, analyzed the episode's X dialogue
on his blog and confirmed that it was accurate though he said he was not consulted himself.
ID the language X.
73. In the Hearts of Stone expansion pack of The Witcher 3 game, there is a main
quest entitled 'Open Sesame. ' When in the Borsodi Brother's Auction
House there is an renowned artifact in one of the glass cases which Geralt is
examining in the clip below. What is it?
THE WITCHER 3 : GERALTOF RIVIA
76. In Spiderman: Far from Home, Happy Hogan Says “Nothing…you take care of the suit, I’ll take care of the
music.” When Peter is busy making his new suit for the upcoming fight against Mysterio, in Tony Stark’s
plane, Happy puts on X. On which Peter says, “Oh I love Led Zeppelin!”. The plane takes off in
disappointment.
ID the iconic song X and also the band which was also Tony’s favorite band. I need both!
FYI it’s not Led Zeppelin.
80. This is a fan-made remake of a certain Marvel intro by a rather small youtuber BrendinW (64
subs), without using any ____.
It is the only time marvel used ____ to create any of its intros, and TBH it isn't the worst. The theme
music by Kris Bowers just makes it better.
FITB and what is this an intro to?
81.
82. FITB – AI
Secret Invasion (First marvel intro made completely using AI)
83.
84. "Our scars can destroy us, even after the physical wounds have healed. But if
we survive them, they can transform us. They can give us the power to endure,
and the strength to fight."
- Batman
Special Thanks :
TMSL Faculty
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All the participants
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