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MELA Quiz - Finals
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2. 1. Short Written Round
2. 25 Questions Clockwise Infinite Bounce
3. 25 Questions Anticlockwise Infinite Bounce
4. THEME ROUND
Oh, and by the way, Quizmasters decision is final
on this day! :D
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4. 5 questions, all to be written down.
5 Points per correct answer.
If a team gets all 5 right, then they receive a
bonus of 5 more points.
Maximum points available from this round is 30
5. 1. This show has been nominated for an Emmy
award five times, in the category “Outstanding
Achievement in Animation”. The show mainly
takes place in the fictional city of Townsville,
USA. The city has a mayor who owns a hotline
and has a secretary who’s face cannot be seen.
Which show?
6. 2. Vincent Kennedy M. founded this company in
1980 and it was called Titan Sports. In 1982 it
acquired Capitol Corp. from his own father and
finally this company was formed.
The company lost a lawsuit to another
organization and had to change its name to its
present one in 2002.
Which company?
7. 3. It is known as raqs sharqi in Arabic, but its
English name is attributed to Sol Bloom,
entertainment director at the 1893 Chicago
World's Fair. It is a popular form of exercise
and entertainment today, with many different
styles of the dance. Identify this style of dance
which is the literal translation of the French
term ‘Danse du Ventre’
8. 4. Filmfare Award 2005 – Best Playback Singer
MTV Lycra Award 2006 – Best Music Style Icon
Koffee with Karan Best Debutant Award in
2007
Nominated for Best Male Debutant Actor by
Filmfare in 2008.
Accolades not exhaustive, who?
9. 5. Where did we find ‘cheats’ called : Taak Jhaak,
Bachao and Copy?
12. CLOCKWISE INFINITE BOUNCE
25 Questions in Total
Flat scoring of 10 on every question, whether it’s
a direct or a pass.
If a question goes unanswered, the same team
gets the following question, indefinitely.
13. Five Titles :
The Loss of Friends
Gaining Friends
Crows and Owls
Loss of Gains
Ill-considered action / Rash deeds
CONNECT.
16. Rodrigo Moya took some black-and-white
pictures in 1976 but had kept them secret.
Much later he broke his silence in a tongue-in-
cheek account of the night in a face to face
interview in Mexico City at a city hotel,
entitled “The Horrific Story of the ____
_____”. Of what does this story cover plausible
versions of?
17.
18. Bust-up between Marquez &
Llosa due to which they were
not on speaking terms for
thirty years
19.
20. 3. What am I talking about?
Motive 1 : Caused by a ghost out for revenge, rather
than Mahatma Gandhi.
Motive 2 : Protection of younger sister, who killed a
man who attempted to rape her, with a rapist’s
gun.
Motive 3 : Larry Page wanted to travel to India to
get married, only to discover that he has been
scammed.
Motive 4 : Desire to marry sister of the deceased.
Motive 5 : Recovery of an Idol.
Motive 6 : Problems caused by victim being alive.
26. 5. We first heard Sandeep Vinayak Prabhu on
November 3rd 2006 till 26th Jaunary 2007, a
total of 86 days. Then we heard him from 17th
August 2008 for another 98 days. After that he
was heard on 26th December 2009 for another
84 days. And the last we heard of him was
from October 3rd 2010 for another 96 days.
Where did we hear him?
29. 6. The 1979 documentary, Best Boy by Ira Wohl
won the Oscar for Best documentary.
What is the India connection to this Oscar
winning film?
30.
31. The Oscar was awarded by
Persis Khambatta, making
her the first Indian citizen
to present an Oscar.
32. 7. The first instance of this featured American
trumpeter Al Hirt and the Marching Bands
from the University of Arizona and Grambling
State University on January 15th, 1967.
What am I talking about?
38. 9. The Hank McCune Show was an American
sitcom. NBC placed it on its national
primetime schedule at the start of the 1950-51
season.
McCune portrayed a television variety show
host named after himself, and each week the
character managed to blunder his way into a
variety of comic predicaments.
What first did this show do?
46. Cast of GLEE
Songs – Friday ( Rebecca Black
) and Dancing Queen ( ABBA )
47. 12. This Hollywood movie is, as of 2011, the
highest non-English grossing film ever.
Fr. William J. Fulco, a professor of ancient
Mediterranean studies at Loyola Marymount
University translated the original English script
into the actual languages used in the film.
Which film?
50. 13. Founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by
William H. Donaldson and James H. Hennegan.
Originally titled ______ Advertising it was a trade
paper for the bill posting industry.
Within a few years of its founding, it began to
carry news of outdoor amusements. Widely
known today for one 1936 innovation, it began
coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and
of radio in the 1920s.
What?
56. 15. It is said that this book was written to
educate a young king who was illiterate in the
principles of justice. 198 pages of the 200
pages of this document with hand painted
illustrations with explanations, neatly
calligraphed with ornate Persian in verse are in
the British Museum. Only two pages are
preserved in the Calico Textile Museum in
Ahmedabad. Which book?
59. 15. Deodayal Mehra loved a Hindi play called
‘Vir Balak’ so much that he watched it
umpteen times. He had two sons whom he
named after the 2 brothers in the play. The
elder son’s name was Sona.
Mehra later named his company after the
name of the younger son. Satyajit Ray later
designed their logo.
Which company?
66. 17. He is a communications professor at
University of Southern California.
In 2005, after he agreed to work on a
project, X handed over an initial list of
30 which, he felt, had “a Polynesian
flavor”. That gave him “a sense of what
kinds of sounds X had in mind”. He
developed three different sets among
which X chose the one with ejectives.
After deciding the phonology, he had to
look into morphology, syntax and
expansion of the initial list.
What did this person on the right create?
67.
68. He is Paul Frommer, famous
for creating the Na’vi
language. X was James
Cameron.
69. 18. Who are they? Why are they dressed like
this? (No Half points PLEASE!)
70.
71. Peter Jackson and Steven
Spielberg, producer and
Director of Tin Tin, dressed as
Thomson and Thompson!
72. 19.. Stunt man Bob Simmons played the role in
the first one in 1962.
There have been several variants of this
sequence regarding attire, posture, the sound,
the color etc. The early sequences showed in a
suit and tie, until 1977, which from then on
showed a dinner jacket and bow tie. However,
the latest two sequences feature an open-
necked shirt and business suit respectively.
75. 20. Nominated for best editing for the Oscars in
Fargo and No Country for Old Men, Roderick
Jaynes never ended up winning the awards.
But, if he did actually win the award, the
directors of the film would collect the awar,
since Jaynes was never present at the
ceremony.
Why?
76.
77. Roderick Jaynes is alias for Coen Bros under
which they take the editing credits.
78. 21. This is a 1938 novel
by English writer Evelyn
Waugh, a satire of
sensationalist
journalism and foreign
correspondence.
What is the one-word
title of the novel, a
common term in
journalism?
85. 23.The book was originally titled "Four Years
of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and
Cowardice". But the publisher told the author
to shorten the title. What book?
88. 24.
Eugene Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the
people’ features on the cover of a particular
group’s album. The name of the album is
actually a painting by Frida Kahlo.
Which album by which group?
89.
90.
91. 25. Who writing about himself ?
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases pancakes and lotion,
And chocolate shrimps from the mill.
He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
He cannot abide ginger beer:
Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
How pleasant to know __ ____!
97. 26.They are spoken of in Ibn Ishaq's biography
of Prophet Muhammad, the Sirat Rasul Allah,
which is believed to have been written 120-
130 years after Muhammad's death. Ibn Ishaq
alleges that Muhammad, deviating from the
strict monotheism of Islam, approved of the
worshipping of al-Lat and al-'Uzza and Manat,
who were at that time worshipped by the
Meccans. Give the term.
107. 29. This was the informal name of a number of
celebrated English racing cars, built and raced by
Count Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop
in the 1920s.were built and stored at Higham Park,
Zborowski's country house at Bridge near Canterbury
in Kent. The cars were so loud that Canterbury
reportedly passed a by-law prohibiting them from
entering within the city walls.
So, what was the informal name?
110. 30. In the early 1900s. This term was used to
refer to small movie theatres in America.
The term derives from the fee of 5 cents
charged per movie.
Today, the term is most commonly associated
with something else in the Entertainment
industry.
Which term?
113. 31.All episodes of Season 5 of this sitcom
were named after Led Zeppelin songs and
subsequent seasons followed the same
pattern. For the sixth season it was The Who,
for the seventh it was The Rolling Stones and
for the eighth season it was Queen. Which
sitcom is this?
116. 32.There is a school for ‘Gifted Youngsters’ at
1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a city
in Westchester County, New York although
every human can see it as the Westchester
chapter of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What are the
students who study here, collectively known
as?
119. 33. It was first seen in an antique store, where a
meek, ineffectual guy named Stanley who bought
it as a gift for his girlfriend. It made him manic,
uninhibited, relatively invulnerable (he could be
damaged but always snapped back). His
conscience disabled, Stanley went on a rampage
of killing and maiming the many people who had
wronged him in the past. Not surprisingly he
wound up dead. What was the gift that he
bought?
122. 34.Each week, Pierre and his friends organise
what is called as ‘un diner de cons’ . He brings
a ‘special guest’ Francois Pignon for their
humor, but everything instead goes haywire.
This particular 1998 movie was remade into
which bollywood movie in 2007?
128. 36. Out of a total of 56, the following 9 are alive :
Doris Day
Queen Elizabeth II
Brigitte Bardot
Fidel Castro
Chubby Checker
Bob Dylan
John Glenn
Sally Ride , and,,
Bernhard Goetz
What am I talking about?
131. 37. The Top 5 Most common US Place names
are as follows :
1. Franklin ( 30 )
2. Clinton ( 29 )
3. ________ ( 28 )
4. Greenville ( 25 )
5. Salem ( 25 )
Fill in the Blank.
134. 38.
In the movie 2001 : Space Odyssey, a
hospital nurse who is watching over Dave
Bowman's mother throws down a TIME
magazine to go and check on her. The
magazine cover is supposed to have
photographs of the US and the Russian
presidents. Which 2 people feature on the
magazine?
140. • 40.
• This Indian Pop Band features Madhu
Balakrishnan (Vocals), Deepak Warrier, Deepak
Das, Harib Mohammed, Niran Kumar, Narayan
Unni & X. Their most famous numbers are a
Hindi song written by X, called “Hello Sher
Banke Tu Jung Ladd le” & a romantic number
in Tamil, “Anbulla Azhake”. Identify X.
143. 41.The pic of the Raffles Hotel in Perth and
the Canning highway leading up to it can be
seen in the next slide. Because the Hotel is at
the bottom of a steep hill, the intersection
there has had many accidents and crashes.
This served as the inspiration of?
150. 43. X can be seen briefly in The Buggles' music
video for the 1979 song "Video Killed the
Radio Star". In 2006 he quoted, “"My father
died when I was just a child, and I escaped
somehow into the music and music has been
my best friend.”
Who’s X ?
153. 44. This 5 storey New York city tenement block
is located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place. The
4th floor of the building was left out for
practical purposes, but the other floors were
immortalized by a certain Mike Doud. How? (
Image next slide )
154.
155.
156. 45. One theory advanced to account for X is that the painter
had observed an effect of the powerful volcanic eruption of
Krakatoa in 1883: the ash that was ejected from the volcano
left the sky tinted red in much of eastern United States and
most of Europe and Asia from the end of November 1883 to
mid February 1884.
This explanation has been disputed by scholars who note
that he was an expressive, rather than descriptive painter,
and was therefore not primarily responsive to literal
rendering. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the
proximity to the site of the painting of both a
slaughterhouse and a madhouse may have offered
inspiration
What?
159. 46. Born in Budapest, Hungary to an Indian
father and a Jewish mother, she was the elder
of two daughters born. In 1921, her family
moved to Summer Hill, Shimla in India and
soon began learning piano and violin. At the
age of eight, she started learning painting
formally.
Who?
165. 48.He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
After the death of his parents, he wandered
around the world, visiting places like Los
Angeles and Paris as an artist.
175. This theme round contains 5 questions.
The Answer to each question will have to be
written down.
Anytime after a question is displayed, a team
can go for the connection.
Scores will be shown on each slide.
Five points for every correct answer to the
question and another five points bonus if a
team gets all five questions correct.
NON EXHAUSTIVE.
176.
177. This Indian author made it to the ‘Time 100
most influential people’ for the year 2010.
His first three novels were written during his
tenure as an investment banker freshly out of
college.
Who?
178. His full name is Joseph X Y, although most of us
know him only as X Y. A Brit by Nationality, he
was born in Bombay in 1865 and died in 1936
at the age of 70 in London.
Pandit Nehru always described, X Y’s novel ___
as his favorite book.
X Y?
179. Most of X Y’s writings show a very strong
influence from the Social life in the hill stations
at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he
spend his childhood. His first novel, ‘The Room
On The Roof’ , was written at 17 and published
at 21. It was partly based on his experiences at
Dehra, in his small rented house on the roof
and his friends.
X Y?
180. Approximately 230 m from where it originally
stood on the South Side of the Thames, this
famous reconstruction is entirely made of
English oak and is possibly the only thatched
roof structure in all of London, thus imitating
an authentic 16th century structure. Thankfully,
all safety norms have been followed this time
around. What structure? [Picture on next
slide]
184. 1. Partha da for suggesting me to do a quiz
before I leave.
2. Kinshuk da for helping me with the venue
and logistics.
3. The folks at YMCA.
4. Jayashree aunty and Soubhadra da for
allowing me to test the questions on them.
5. All those who turned up!
6. And finally, my mother to have supported
me.
