QUIZCON 2023 TECHNO INDIA SALT LAKE PRELIMS: 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.

2. A QUIZ ON MARVEL, DC , WIZARDING WORLD, AND GAME OF THRONES
BY SWASTIK DEB MOJUMDAR AND SUBHROJIT HORE

4. • There are a total of 28 questions.
• 3,6,11,13,15,21 and 25 are starred questions (for tie-breaking
purpose)
• Each question fetches you 1 point.( 2 part-ers carry 0.5 for each
part)
• PLEASE DO NOT PROMPT OUT ANSWERS!
• Top 8 teams advance to the finals
• QMs are equivalent to Celestials today!
• SUIT UP!!
• GOOGLING IS A KRYPTONITE FOR QUIZZERS!

5. QUIZZERS! ASSEMBLE.

6. "X is, without a doubt, one of the worst characters ever committed to
literature, let alone film or television. Playing a villain, you can always let go,
completely, forget about reality, and just go with it. But X is one of these
characters which requires, you know, a real emotionless performance,
because this is a man who lacks any kind of humanity or emotion on any
conceivable level. But yeah, he's a difficult character to play, but
he is enjoyable." – Ian Whyte on his character X at a certain interview.
Throughout the series, X has been portrayed by three different actors, one of
whom is a certain Icelandic professional strongman, widely regarded as one
of the greatest strength athletes of all time. While the speaker has played 5
different characters in the series including X, Night King and Wun Wun, the
giant.
Id X.

7. The actress who plays X of Volantis, gets killed, rather murdered
by the Boltons at The Twins in Riverrun, Oona Y is the
granddaughter of Sir Charles Spencer Y who is better known by his
stage name. ID X and the family Y. I need both!

8. X is an extremely dangerous plant that strangles who approach
them by wrapping them in its thick tendrils, and usually develops in
a dark moist place. Struggling or causing resistance to it will cause
the plant to exert a greater force of constriction. Name the plant
and also the book where it was used as a trap.

9. A banner from a certain rooftop in 2023's Spiderman Across The
Spiderverse
What is this an easter-egg to?
Bagels are quite delicious NGL.

11. This is a famous tweet by someone who was clearly not delighted
to be labelled as a Gryffindor. Whose tweet is this?

13. Will Champion , the drummer and backing vocalist of X was spotted
as a musician at the consortium of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey,
which didn’t turn out quite merrily .
X also released a 12 minute musical on Red Nose Day featuring
Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alfie Allen,
Iwan Rheon, etc.
Id X and the event being talked about in the initial part.

14. Lacewing Flies, Leeches, Powdered Bicorn Horn, Knot Grass,
Fluxweed, Shredded Boomslang Skin and X.
Give me X

15. Director Miguel Sapochnik looked to real life conflicts, especially the
Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE, in which the Carthaginians circled the
Romans and won. The sequence required 65 stunt performers-which
is more than some films use. This particular event took 25 days to film
requiring 500 extras and 600 crew members. Recently we celebrated
7 years of this event. What are we talking about?

16. ID the company.

17. “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil can escape my sight! Let
those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, _______!”
What are the missing words?

18. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hagrid became the Care of
Magical Creatures teacher and brought in a hippogriff, Buckbeak, to show to
his first class. Unfortunately, Draco Malfoy provoked Buckbeak and caused it
to attack him, prompting his father to get Buckbeak sentenced to death. This is
especially true if X learned about the circumstances of the attack. X believed
that magical creatures were not dangerous if treated with respect, and
Buckbeak only attacked Malfoy when he disrespected him. Due to this, X
would have gladly travelled to Hogwarts to defend Buckbeak and try to
prevent his execution, causing him to appear on the Y.
Id X and Y.

19. The mother of pop has paid tribute to the mother of dragons, with X dressing as
Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones to celebrate the Jewish festival Purim.
X sported braided white locks, a bodice and bracelets for the costume, which was
completed with dragon epaulettes in reference to Khaleesi's progeny
The 64-year-old, who practices Kabbalah, posted a picture of her outfit on
Instagram, writing: "Happy Purim!!!!! All Hail All Queens! ##certainty" (inventing
the double hashtag in the process).
Though she doesn't look a bit over her 30s, X boasts a career in her field of
expertise for a long 4 decades. Emilia Clarke exclaimed her astonishment on the
Tonight Show about X actually donning her real costume - "God, this must be a
dream. This can't be real.”
ID X.

20. This game was initially released in 2017, a fairly famous one among hardcore
gamers and esports enthusiasts. It gained more popularity when it made a cameo
in a certain 2019 MCU movie. This is a multiplayer game and is available free for
PlayStation and for PC via the Epic Games Store.
Identify the game and the scene where it cameo-ed.
Brief description of the scene will do.
Hint : Noobmaster69

21. X was the incantation of a dark charm used to conjure the image of
the Dark Mark, the skull-and-serpent sign used
by Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, in the sky. ID X (Will be
accepting the correct spelling only)

22. This character in the MCU was recast in Phase I itself after appearing
in one earlier MCU movie. After being recast, this character’s first
lines seemed to be marvel’s way of telling the audience in a funny
way to deal with the recast and move on. This character was created
neither by Stan lee nor by Jack Kirby. Name the character and the
actor who plays it currently.

23. Mentioned IKEA product is a door-stopper. Now why on earth
would I include a random IKEA product in a fandom quiz?

24. Fans of X are now fans of Quadball with the team now being the US
Quadball team and the league renamed as the Major League
Quadball. The groups announced their intention for this major
rebranding citing what they refered to as anti-trans positions of the
author and inhibitions to further growth by the X trademark being
owned by Warner Bros. What is X commonly known among us - the
name before the rebranding?

25. Back in the past, Marvel held a big event in
Los Angeles to announce their upcoming
slate of films. Marvel President Kevin Feige
took the stage and announced the new
Captain America movie would be
called…Captain America: The Serpent
Society? After much confusion (and even a
fake logo!), Feige eventually let everyone in
on the joke, bringing out Robert Downey, Jr.
and Chris Evans to announce X. But it turns
out there was some truth to that gag.
According to the writers of X, X wasn’t
always X.
ID the movie X.

26. What has been blanked out?
(Batman said the same to
Superman in Dawn of Justice in
the DCEU)

28. Jotunheimen (Norwegian pronunciation:
[ˈjôːtʉnˌhæɪmn̩]; "the home of the Jötunn") is a
mountainous area of roughly 3,500 square
kilometres (1,400 sq mi) in southern Norway and
is part of the long range known as the
Scandinavian Mountains.
This name is a direct reference to an outside
realm in the Norse Mythology, where the man in
the picture was supposed to reign.
Who is the person being talked about?

29. In The Flash 2023, X plays a multiversal version of Batman (the 1980s Batman
to be precise, "I am Batman" )
It's directed by Andrés Muschietti who is known for his prowess in the horror
genre.
X's entry in the Flash film (in the Wayne Manor of that universe, crawling from
inside a cupboard) is reminiscent of one of the most notorious creations of
Stephen King and also according to him, the most feared entity among
children (2013 interview). The latter entity being talked about also finds its
own films and is coincidentally directed by none other than Muschietti
himself.
This a full circle reference to one of his own creations.
ID actor X and the feared entity being discussed.

30. The scene mentioned here is a crucial one in the first season of House of The
Dragon, more precisely in episode 7, when Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) uses
the Valyrian steel catspaw dagger to attack Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma
D'Arcy) slicing her arm in the process leaving it scarred.
How do we better know this dagger?

32. These are rodent-like creatures with a long snout similar to that of a platypus
and a coat of black, fluffy fur, inspired from the real-life creature Echidnas.
Native to Britain, they lived in burrows as deep as twenty feet below ground,
and females produced six to eight young in a single litter. They were gentle by
nature and could even be affectionate towards their owners. However, they
could destroy belongings looking for sparkly objects, and for that reason it
was inadvisable to keep them as a house pet. They had a pouch on their bellies
which held far more than at first seemed possible, like the effects of
an Undetectable Extension Charm on a container. It was also implied that they
could turn vicious if provoked, as the second one released into Dolores
Umbridge's office apparently tried to take a chunk out of her leg. Which
magical creature am I talking about?

33. Salzburg with a pretty witty tweet
after they drew against Chelsea in
the UCL 2022...what's the obvious
FITB here? They probably jinxed it as
the Potter army despite their lack of
form in recent years went on to beat
them in the second leg.

35. The X made the Muggle news when, in 2005, the press reported that it had been stolen from
a film studio and found in a ruined castle in Cornwall. In fact, the reported entity stolen was
just one of many props used in the making of the film.
The light blue entitywas an authentic X, built in Y’s factory in theUnited Kingdom. Special
effects supervisorJohn Richardsontook out everythinginside it and gutted it to make it
lighter, and then fitted it onto a rotating crane with a special joint called a gimbal head.
‘We had 16 different Xs,’ revealsJohn, ‘all of which were differentlyadapted.’
John added that, the special effects team also built ‘wild’ versionsof the same entity that
had been running around in the ForbiddenForest for a year.
ID X (need the exact interpretation,closest ones will be awarded the points) and the
company Y. Also tell me why is this particular entity so memorableto us.

36. Jesse Eisenberg plays X, the soft-spoken yet maniacal psychopath
and outcast-genius; the counterpart to both Superman and Batman
while also having tried to put them against each other.
Surprisingly enough, Y the Oscar winning actor who delivered a
masterpiece of a performance portraying another renowned
psychopath, had auditioned for the infamous role of X along with
Adam Driver, both of which didn’t work out due to scheduling
conflicts.
ID X and Y

37. According to Miyazaki, George RR Martin primarily wrote snippetsof text about the world's
history, its characters, and mythology, including the destruction of the Elden Ring and the
subsequent scattering of shards. While also this was somethingwe learned previously,Miyazaki
further clarified why this was the case when asked about the world building in Elden Ring and
George RR Martin's involvement in it. Elden Ring went ahead to win multiple nominationsand
awards as Game of the Year for Most Anticipated Game and also one for best direction.
George RR Martin is known for somethingtotally different than the videogame universe,
somethingwhich resonates more with the type of lore we get in Elden Ring.
When playersdefeat Leonine Misbegotten, they can go ahead to loot the Grafted Blade
Greatsword,one of the most damage inflicting pieces of equipmentin the game. It appears to be
made out of the numerous discarded weapons of the warriors who were slain by this
aforementionedblade.
Seems familiar right? Well how so?

38. • The omnipresent, omnipotent, and all-knowing entity.
• Being a God, it can command and modify everything in the multiverse and beyond, according to its will.
• It gives powers to angels and can resurrect the dead.
• Its powers transcend time, space, and logic and he has no weaknesses.
• It also appears as 'The Hand' that created the universe and reached through time to change history on one
occasion.
• It is controlled by powers even higher than itself. This could be a nod to another character or simply a
reference to creators of its Universe.
• It is also called 'The Source' in Jack Kirby's Fourth World cosmology.
• It is an unseen Abrahamic deity from Grant Morrison's fictional angel mythology.
• Its first appearance was in the form of an old man in a bowler hat, revealed a sphere that contains the
entire multiverse in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other. (But has no appearance in the Cinematic
Universe yet)
What are we talking about?

41. "X is, without a doubt, one of the worst characters ever committed to
literature, let alone film or television. Playing a villain, you can always let go,
completely, forget about reality, and just go with it. But X is one of these
characters which requires, you know, a real emotionless performance,
because this is a man who lacks any kind of humanity or emotion on any
conceivable level. But yeah, he's a difficult character to play, but
he is enjoyable." – Ian Whyte on his character X at a certain interview.
Throughout the series, X has been portrayed by three different actors, one of
whom is a certain Icelandic professional strongman, widely regarded as one
of the greatest strength athletes of all time. While the speaker has played 5
different characters in the series including X, Night King and Wun Wun, the
giant.
Id X.

43. The actress who plays X of Volantis, gets killed, rather murdered
by the Boltons at The Twins in Riverrun, Oona Y is the
granddaughter of Sir Charles Spencer Y who is better known by his
stage name. ID X and the family Y. I need both!

45. X is an extremely dangerous plant that strangles who approach
them by wrapping them in its thick tendrils, and usually develops in
a dark moist place. Struggling or causing resistance to it will cause
the plant to exert a greater force of constriction. Name the plant
and also the book where it was used as a trap.

47. A banner from a certain rooftop in 2023's Spiderman Across The
Spiderverse
What is this an easter-egg to?
Bagels are quite delicious NGL.

49. This is a famous tweet by someone who was clearly not delighted
to be labelled as a Gryffindor. Whose tweet is this?

51. Will Champion , the drummer and backing vocalist of X was spotted
as a musician at the consortium of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey,
which didn’t turn out quite merrily .
X also released a 12 minute musical on Red Nose Day featuring
Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alfie Allen,
Iwan Rheon, etc.
Id X and the event being talked about in the initial part.

53. Lacewing Flies, Leeches, Powdered Bicorn Horn, Knot Grass,
Fluxweed, Shredded Boomslang Skin and X.
Give me X

55. Director Miguel Sapochnik looked to real life conflicts, especially the
Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE, in which the Carthaginians circled the
Romans and won. The sequence required 65 stunt performers-which
is more than some films use. This particular event took 25 days to film
requiring 500 extras and 600 crew members. Recently we celebrated
7 years of this event. What are we talking about?

57. ID the company.

59. “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil can escape my sight! Let
those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, _______!”
What are the missing words?

61. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hagrid became the Care of
Magical Creatures teacher and brought in a hippogriff, Buckbeak, to show to
his first class. Unfortunately, Draco Malfoy provoked Buckbeak and caused it
to attack him, prompting his father to get Buckbeak sentenced to death. This is
especially true if X learned about the circumstances of the attack. X believed
that magical creatures were not dangerous if treated with respect, and
Buckbeak only attacked Malfoy when he disrespected him. Due to this, X
would have gladly travelled to Hogwarts to defend Buckbeak and try to
prevent his execution, causing him to appear on the Y.
Id X and Y.

63. The mother of pop has paid tribute to the mother of dragons, with X dressing as
Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones to celebrate the Jewish festival Purim.
X sported braided white locks, a bodice and bracelets for the costume, which was
completed with dragon epaulettes in reference to Khaleesi's progeny
The 64-year-old, who practices Kabbalah, posted a picture of her outfit on
Instagram, writing: "Happy Purim!!!!! All Hail All Queens! ##certainty" (inventing
the double hashtag in the process).
Though she doesn't look a bit over her 30s, X boasts a career in her field of
expertise for a long 4 decades. Emilia Clarke exclaimed her astonishment on the
Tonight Show about X actually donning her real costume - "God, this must be a
dream. This can't be real.”
ID X.

65. This game was initially released in 2017, a fairly famous one among hardcore
gamers and esports enthusiasts. It gained more popularity when it made a cameo
in a certain 2019 MCU movie. This is a multiplayer game and is available free for
PlayStation and for PC via the Epic Games Store.
Identify the game and the scene where it cameo-ed.
Brief description of the scene will do.
Hint : Noobmaster69

67. X was the incantation of a dark charm used to conjure the image of
the Dark Mark, the skull-and-serpent sign used
by Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, in the sky. ID X (Will be
accepting the correct spelling only)

69. This character in the MCU was recast in Phase I itself after appearing
in one earlier MCU movie. After being recast, this character’s first
lines seemed to be marvel’s way of telling the audience in a funny
way to deal with the recast and move on. This character was created
neither by Stan lee nor by Jack Kirby. Name the character and the
actor who plays it currently.

71. Mentioned IKEA product is a door-stopper. Now why on earth
would I include a random IKEA product in a fandom quiz?

73. Fans of X are now fans of Quadball with the team now being the US
Quadball team and the league renamed as the Major League
Quadball. The groups announced their intention for this major
rebranding citing what they refered to as anti-trans positions of the
author and inhibitions to further growth by the X trademark being
owned by Warner Bros. What is X commonly known among us - the
name before the rebranding?

75. Back in the past, Marvel held a big event in
Los Angeles to announce their upcoming
slate of films. Marvel President Kevin Feige
took the stage and announced the new
Captain America movie would be
called…Captain America: The Serpent
Society? After much confusion (and even a
fake logo!), Feige eventually let everyone in
on the joke, bringing out Robert Downey, Jr.
and Chris Evans to announce X. But it turns
out there was some truth to that gag.
According to the writers of X, X wasn’t
always X.
ID the movie X.

77. What has been blanked out?
(Batman said the same to
Superman in Dawn of Justice in
the DCEU)

79. Jotunheimen (Norwegian pronunciation:
[ˈjôːtʉnˌhæɪmn̩]; "the home of the Jötunn") is a
mountainous area of roughly 3,500 square
kilometres (1,400 sq mi) in southern Norway and
is part of the long range known as the
Scandinavian Mountains.
This name is a direct reference to an outside
realm in the Norse Mythology, where the man in
the picture was supposed to reign.
Who is the person being talked about?

81. In The Flash 2023, X plays a multiversal version of Batman (the 1980s Batman
to be precise, "I am Batman" )
It's directed by Andrés Muschietti who is known for his prowess in the horror
genre.
X's entry in the Flash film (in the Wayne Manor of that universe, crawling from
inside a cupboard) is reminiscent of one of the most notorious creations of
Stephen King and also according to him, the most feared entity among
children (2013 interview). The latter entity being talked about also finds its
own films and is coincidentally directed by none other than Muschietti
himself.
This a full circle reference to one of his own creations.
ID actor X and the feared entity being discussed.

83. The scene mentioned here is a crucial one in the first season of House of The
Dragon, more precisely in episode 7, when Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) uses
the Valyrian steel catspaw dagger to attack Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma
D'Arcy) slicing her arm in the process leaving it scarred.
How do we better know this dagger?

85. These are rodent-like creatures with a long snout similar to that of a platypus
and a coat of black, fluffy fur, inspired from the real-life creature Echidnas.
Native to Britain, they lived in burrows as deep as twenty feet below ground,
and females produced six to eight young in a single litter. They were gentle by
nature and could even be affectionate towards their owners. However, they
could destroy belongings looking for sparkly objects, and for that reason it
was inadvisable to keep them as a house pet. They had a pouch on their bellies
which held far more than at first seemed possible, like the effects of
an Undetectable Extension Charm on a container. It was also implied that they
could turn vicious if provoked, as the second one released into Dolores
Umbridge's office apparently tried to take a chunk out of her leg. Which
magical creature am I talking about?

87. Salzburg with a pretty witty tweet
after they drew against Chelsea in
the UCL 2022...what's the obvious
FITB here? They probably jinxed it as
the Potter army despite their lack of
form in recent years went on to beat
them in the second leg.

89. The X made the Muggle news when, in 2005, the press reported that it had been stolen from
a film studio and found in a ruined castle in Cornwall. In fact, the reported entity stolen was
just one of many props used in the making of the film.
The light blue entitywas an authentic X, built in Y’s factory in theUnited Kingdom. Special
effects supervisorJohn Richardsontook out everythinginside it and gutted it to make it
lighter, and then fitted it onto a rotating crane with a special joint called a gimbal head.
‘We had 16 different Xs,’ revealsJohn, ‘all of which were differentlyadapted.’
John added that, the special effects team also built ‘wild’ versionsof the same entity that
had been running around in the ForbiddenForest for a year.
ID X (need the exact interpretation,closest ones will be awarded the points) and the
company Y. Also tell me why is this particular entity so memorableto us.

91. Jesse Eisenberg plays X, the soft-spoken yet maniacal psychopath
and outcast-genius; the counterpart to both Superman and Batman
while also having tried to put them against each other.
Surprisingly enough, Y the Oscar winning actor who delivered a
masterpiece of a performance portraying another renowned
psychopath, had auditioned for the infamous role of X along with
Adam Driver, both of which didn’t work out due to scheduling
conflicts.
ID X and Y

93. According to Miyazaki, George RR Martin primarily wrote snippetsof text about the world's
history, its characters, and mythology, including the destruction of the Elden Ring and the
subsequent scattering of shards. While also this was somethingwe learned previously,Miyazaki
further clarified why this was the case when asked about the world building in Elden Ring and
George RR Martin's involvement in it. Elden Ring went ahead to win multiple nominationsand
awards as Game of the Year for Most Anticipated Game and also one for best direction.
George RR Martin is known for somethingtotally different than the videogame universe,
somethingwhich resonates more with the type of lore we get in Elden Ring.
When playersdefeat Leonine Misbegotten, they can go ahead to loot the Grafted Blade
Greatsword,one of the most damage inflicting pieces of equipmentin the game. It appears to be
made out of the numerous discarded weapons of the warriors who were slain by this
aforementionedblade.
Seems familiar right? Well how so?

95. • The omnipresent, omnipotent, and all-knowing entity.
• Being a God, it can command and modify everything in the multiverse and beyond, according to its will.
• It gives powers to angels and can resurrect the dead.
• Its powers transcend time, space, and logic and he has no weaknesses.
• It also appears as 'The Hand' that created the universe and reached through time to change history on one
occasion.
• It is controlled by powers even higher than itself. This could be a nod to another character or simply a
reference to creators of its Universe.
• It is also called 'The Source' in Jack Kirby's Fourth World cosmology.
• It is an unseen Abrahamic deity from Grant Morrison's fictional angel mythology.
• Its first appearance was in the form of an old man in a bowler hat, revealed a sphere that contains the
entire multiverse in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other. (But has no appearance in the Cinematic
Universe yet)
What are we talking about?