Movies Entertainment Literature and Art (MELA) Quiz. Quiz master: Varun Jain

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3. Question 1
X is real while Y is fictional. It cannot be said that X
inspired Y or vice versa. However, X and Y share a lot of
common themes with each other. Both were essentially
good guys, battled cancer and managed to survive the
same. They were involved with drugs in different ways.
Both indulged in threatening and intimidating their
colleagues and friends for separate reasons. They were
also arguably the best at what they did. Identify X and Y.

4. Which product/brand was the following print ad released
for?
Question 2

5. What world event is this gentleman tweeting about?
Question 3

6. Question 4
X is a documentary. Prior to the film’s debut at the
International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA)
it was seen as a North Korean Propaganda movie about
the western Propaganda. Released bit by bit over the
internet the movie led to shocking reactions as to how
believable/true(arguable) the documentary is despite it
being a propaganda film from North Korea. However the
ruse was lifted at the debut of the movie when it turned
out to be that the film was made by a group of New
Zealanders. Give me X.

7. Partial discography of?
Question 5
X from the X-ycho world
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8. Question 6
Spirit was an American jazz/hard rock/progressive
rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los
Angeles, California. Their most commercially successful
single in the US was "I Got A Line On You", but they were
at least as well known for their albums including The
Family That Plays Together, Clear, and Twelve Dreams of
Dr. Sardonicus. However, they are known more in relation
to X. It is said that X stole for Y from Spirit’s song Tauras. Y
is probably one of the widest known of X’s song and
supposedly started a new epoch in music. Y has been
covered to death by several artists and at one. In one
movie parody of the song, a guitar shop actually asks its
customers not to play Y. X opened for Spirit before
releasing Y and so it is assured that X had heard the song.
Give me X and Y.

9. Question 7
X is a 2008 novel by Y. Y is an American novelist and
freelance journalist, who describes his work as
transgressional fiction. Y is best noted for his novel Z. Z
was turned into a movie and is extremely popular in both
pop and cult culture. X was based on Annabel Chong. The
main character in X is trying to outdo Chong by ‘doubling’
her infamous feat. Chong famously noted that she
‘Wanted to break the whole stud notion’ by doing what
she did. X was named after a class of movies that actually
depicts the murder of a person or people without using
special effects. Give me X, Y and Z.

10. Question 8
When asked why he painted ___________, X replied,
'Because I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch
every day.' Identify X.

11. Question 9
Continuing to evade the viewer's search for figurative
elements in his paintings, X abandoned titles and started
numbering his works. He said about this: "...look passively
and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not
bring a subject matter or preconceived idea of what they
are to be looking for". X’s wife, said he "used to give his
pictures conventional titles... but now he simply numbers
them. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a
picture for what it is—pure painting." Idenitfy X.

12. Question 10
The X Generator is a computer program that
automatically produces imitations of X writing. It was
written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University
using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random
text from recursive grammars. A free version is also
hosted online. The essays are produced from a formal
grammar defined by a recursive transition network. It was
mentioned by biologist Richard Dawkins in the conclusion
to his article "X Disrobed" (1998) for the scientific journal
Nature. Identify X.

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