Ganimatoonics Finals || QM: Agastya and Nikhil || Quark'25 || BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus

Ganimatoonics
‘25
By Agastya Sanyal and Nikhil Vinay

Round 1
1. There are 8 questions in this round.
2. Each question carries +10/0 on the team’s direct and +15/-5 on
pounces
3. Infinite Bounce system is followed starting from team 1.
4. A team may pounce on their own direct.
5. Keep mobile phones on desk, face down. Cheating is kinda
cringe tbh

Q1
X vs the Y is a game developed by Herosoft and released for PCs on 5th December
2023.
X is a trope in media that is a variant of the saying “Too many chefs spoil the broth”
that states that the likelihood of a group of _____ winning a battle is inversely
proportional to the number of _____.
Y refers to a group of playable characters that includes a cast of:
Winnie-the-Pooh
W. Sherlock Holmes
Alice
Sun Wukong
Mickey Mouse
Dan Backslide
Felix the Cat
ID X and Y.

A1
X- Inverse Ninjas
Y- The Public Domain

Q2
The following are some of the names of 2 characters in
different languages that the comic has been translated into:
1) Tik and Tak in Arabic
2) Johnson and Ronson in Bengali
3) Jansen and Janssen in Dutch
4) Schulze and Schultze in German
5) Santu and Bantu in Hindi
6) Skapti and Skafti in Icelandic
7) Clodius and Claudius in Latin
8) Johns and Jones or Parry-Williams and Williams-Parry in
Welsh (Dref Wen and Dalen editions, respectively)
How are these characters known in English?

Q3
Sally Amaki as Carol Olston in ‘Tomo chan is a girl’, Miyuki
Sawashiro as Petit Charat in Digi-Charat , Karin Kagami as Maho
Akashi in D4DJ and Mari Iijima as Lynn Minmay in Macross are
voice actors that have achieved a specific distinction in their
field. What is this distinction?

A3
They have voiced those respective characters in both
Japanese and English

Q4
‘X that Ends Well’ is the name of S3 E19 of Futurama, where the Planet
Express crew accidentally get sent back to 1947, crash landing in X
since GPS does not yet exist. Refusing to wear a seat belt like the rest
of the crew, Bender is flung through the windshield on impact and
smashed to pieces. While the rest of the crew try to find a way back,
Zoidberg is left to collect the pieces, and subsequently gets captured
and taken to the X Air Force Base for experimentation. Assuming the
pieces are the remnants of a flying saucer, the military "reconstructs"
Bender's body as such. ID X.

Q5
X is one of the protagonists in Alan Moore’s Watchmen. X gets his name
from the fact that his mask displays a constantly morphing inkblot
based on the designs used in X tests. This also fits with X’s black and
white view of the world. X was designed to be an insane right wing
extremist but is also the narrator of the Watchmen and drives the plot
forward as a result. ID X.

Q6
ID the iconic anime and manga series that Lucky Star parodies
as per the clip shown.

Q7
In 2017, the developers of the game Prison Architect were threatened with a lawsuit
for misusing a specific emblem. The organisation threatening them claimed that the use
in the game broke the Geneva Conventions, and the devs complied with the simple
change of making the symbol green. This 2017 lawsuit threat was the biggest catalyst
for gaming companies suddenly updating specific symbols in their games to be other
colours, with the most common choice being the green recolour of the symbol. In fact,
Sony now has a requirement for games on the PlayStation to specifically not use this
symbol.
In addition to the way the symbol being used breaks the Geneva Conventions, the
behaviour the symbol evokes among players does so as well, with characters with this
symbol being targeted more by enemies.
Identify the organisation/symbol, which share the same name.

Q8
The animated movie “All Dogs Go to Heaven” starring Burt
Reynolds and Judith Barsi is well known for being one of the
saddest and darkest cartoons made for children but a tragic
event involving Barsi is in fact much darker than the events
that take place within the film. What exactly is this tragic
event?

A9
Judith Barsi was murdered by her father before the movie
released

Q9
In the comic X, the Plutonian, a powerful being once thought to be the world's greatest
superhero, has now become its greatest supervillain. He has murdered millions of people across
the globe. The series starts with the Plutonian killing his former ally, the Hornet, and his entire
family. The remaining superheroes search for the reason behind Plutonian's change by speaking
to his former sidekick Samsara, whom Plutonian lobotomized with his heat vision.
In the spinoff comic Y, in the month since the former superhero, Plutonian, began his rampage
across Earth, supervillain Max Damage has disappeared and is presumed dead. After his gang
commits a robbery, Max suddenly reappears and subdues them for arrest.
ID X and Y, two adjectives that are opposite in meaning to each other and both referring to the
impossibility of a certain thing happening.

A9
X - Irredeemable
Y - Incorruptible

Q10
The anime Death Parade, animated by studio Madhouse has bartenders
that serve as arbiters to decide whether a soul gets to be reborn or
go to hell for eternity. In episode 11 of the anime, the bartender Ginti is
judging Maya’s soul and to do so she is asked to choose between her
favourite idol Harada and a “random human”. However fans of the
series have speculated that this seemingly random individual is in fact a
reference to X, one of the most iconic anime characters of recent
times. This also correlates with X’s story as X can neither go to heaven
nor hell and as such it makes sense as to why he is shown in this show.
ID X.

Round 2-Real or
Fake LN Title
2. This is a written round.
3. Write whether the given LN title is real or fake

Q1
American Reincarnation Love Alliance. America Was Expelled
to Another World, and Reincarnated as a Blonde Haired Girl
(Along With Japan) And Headshots Monsters With Her Gun
Summon Skill! What!? The Earth’s in Danger and You Want Us
To Go Back? Oh, Too Late, Die!

Q2
I Became the Manager of a Demon Lord’s Convenience
Store, but All My Customers Are Legendary Heroes Trying
to Kill Him!

Q3
I Was Summoned to Another World as the Weakest Farmer,
but Thanks to My Overpowered Crop-Growing Skill, Even
the Demon King Begs for My Vegetables!

Q4
I'm A High School Boy and a Successful Light Novel Author,
But I'm Being Strangled By A Female Classmate Who's A
Voice Actress And Is Younger Than Me

Q5
I Was Just a Regular Salaryman, but After Dying from
Overwork, I Reincarnated in a Fantasy World as a Lowly
Slime! Just When I Thought My Life Was Over Again, I
Discovered That Eating Books Gives Me Infinite Knowledge,
and Now Every Kingdom Wants Me as Their Royal Advisor!
But All I Really Want Is to Open a Cozy Book Café in a Quiet
Village!

ANSWERS
1. REAL
2. FAKE
3. FAKE
4. REAL
5. FAKE

Round 3 -Guess the
show from its intro
2. A song will be played and paused after 3, 5, 10 seconds
3. After 3 seconds, a team answering gets +30/-15, after 5 its
+20/-10 and after 10 seconds its +10/0.
4. Answer is to be written and shown to either quiz master if a
team attempts to do so.
cringe tbh

Round 4
2. Each question carries +10/0 on the team’s direct and +15/-5 on
pounces
3. Infinite Bounce system is followed starting from team 1.
4. A team may pounce on their own direct.
cringe tbh

Q1
‘___ ___ ___, Woman of Kleenex’ is the name of a 1969
essay by Larry Niven about the difficulties of a certain
character X in having sex, causing his species to be in
danger of extinction. Over 12 sections, he brings up
problems that range from human women probably not
being attractive to X, to the fatal consequences of the
infant kicking in the womb, and then the solutions that
include getting X pregnant himself. FITB.

Q2
The second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was
seen as a bit of a disappointment to many of the fans of the
first season. This was regarding issues that many had with the
Endless 8 arc of Haruhi which remains to be rather polarizing
among fans, with some believing it to be a waste of time while
others consider it a masterpiece. What was the reason behind
the controversy surrounding this arc?

A2
Endless 8 featured 8 episodes having the exact same events
repeating as the characters were stuck in a time loop
which made it irritating to watch for many.

Q3
Connect:
● The number of lives in Super Mario Bros
● Level 22 in Donkey Kong
● Level 256 in Pacman
● The Far Lands in Minecraft Java Edition

A3
Integer overflow leads to bugs in those particular levels

Q4
Richard Madoc is a struggling writer from an acclaimed comic book series running
from 1989 to 1996. After Madoc’s first book is a success, he develops a writer’s block
and cannot find any ideas for a second book. This difficulty vanishes after he accepts
an unusual gift from an older author: a naked woman, who had been kept locked in a
room in his house for 60 years. She is Calliope, one of the Nine Muses. Madoc rapes
her regularly, stealing her creativity to publish bestselling novels, poetry collections,
plays and directing the film adaptation of one of his books. When a fan tells him about
how she liked his characterisation of a strong female character, he replies, “Actually, I
do tend to regard myself as a feminist writer.”
This character came to light after a recent scandal involving the author of the series
after people observed similarities between the character and the writer, who for
most of his career, was identified not with the rapist, but the titular main character of
the series. Identify the writer and the series.

A4
Writer - Neil Gaiman
Series - Sandman

Q5
ID the iconic phrase that is heard right after the events of the
clip from World of Warcraft.

Q7
In the sixties, comic book editors shied away from a particular
name despite it being associated with being cool at the time,
because under poor quality printing presses at the time, the L
and I could blur together easily. This was also seen with the
word “FLICK” where, when the letters were written in
uppercase letters as was common during the time, the L and I
blurred to become U. This was eventually fixed by making the ‘i’s
lowercase, while keeping the other letters uppercase, and is
sometimes still seen in comics despite the print quality improving
over the years. ID the name.

Q8
______ _____ II: Jo’s Boys is a 1993 anime series based on
Louisa May Alcott’s book titled X which is a variant of the blanks
above. It is a sequel to the anime series Tales of ______ _____ .
ID X

Q9
Gintama is an anime that features a ton of meta humour
referencing various Japanese media in its episodes. In one particular
episode Gintoki(the main character) is teaching a class where he
appears to have a X in his mouth but in an attempt to take a jab at
censorship rules it is revealed that he actually has a lollipop in his
mouth and the _____ was due to him sucking on it. ID X.

Q10
Every year, Riot Games releases an anthem for its Worlds
championship with a music video featuring story lines that happened
in the esports scene in the past year. However, in the 2024 music
video, the band X who sang the song was featured far more
prominently than the competing teams, leading to jokes about X being
the winners of Worlds 2023.
Incidentally, the first episode of the second season of Arcane also
shares the same name as the anthem. ID X.

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