Music, Entertainment, Literature and Art Quiz made for in-house Quiz Club session at IIT Kgp

1. MELA Quiz
Hemansh Kashyap

2. 1. What is the phrase?
Perhaps derived from the expression of not blaming the messenger, this
phrase was sometimes printed on signages in saloons where the _____
______ was often the only source of entertainment in those days. The
owner of the establishment wouldn’t want this person to be hurt or killed in
all the impulsive violence that might take place in a saloon.
On his 1882 tour of North America, Oscar Wilde saw the phrase “____ _____
___ _____ ______, he’s trying his best”, and that was its first brush with
popular culture.
Its second brush with popular culture was perhaps in 1960, when Truffaut
released the movie _____ ___ _____ ______, just one word shy of the
original phrase.
Lastly, in 1973, Elton John released his sixth studio album, ____ _____ me,
I’m only ___ _____ ______.

4. Don’t Shoot the Piano Player (/Pianist)

5. 2. Who?
When asked about why he chose what he did as his professional name,
actor and retired pro-wrestler, Laurence Tureaud said that he hated
how his father, uncle, and his brother who’d returned from Vietnam
were disrespectfully called “boy”. He then asked himself what a black
man had to do to get respect as a man. As soon as he was 18, he
deemed himself a man, and wanted the first word from anybody’s
mouth to be “Mister”, when they were addressing him. Which is why
he chose his current professional name.

7. Mr T

8. 3. Name both plays
In “The Shakespeare Code”, The Doctor takes his new companion
Martha on her first trip across time, ending up in Elizabethan England,
to see ____’_ ______ ____ at the Globe Theatre. At the end of the
performance, William Shakespeare announces that the next night will
be the premier of a sequel titled ____’_ ______ ___. The play, which
may have actually existed, was lost to the modern world in the mythos
of Dr Who during the course of that episode.

10. Love’s Labour Lost
Love’s Labour Won

11. 4. Peter Griffin and family are watching “Pan up,
Pan down, French Song, The End”. What is this a
parody of?

13. Wes Anderson movies

14. 5. Comic/Song?
_______ ___ is a comic book series written by Eric Stephenson,
published by Image comics in 2012. It centers around a fictional world
where a group of four scientists, who have long since gone their own
ways, have had huge cultural influences, similar to that of _______ in
our world. The idea that scientists are the new popular idols is
exemplified in the promotional tagline for the comic, “Science is the
new Rock-n-Roll”.
The title of the comic is derived from the 1965 _______ song, _______
___, and also refers to the primary plot point that things seem to come
out of the blue for the scientists.

16. Nowhere Man/Men

17. 6. What blasphemous material was used to
make The Holy Virgin Mary?
In 1992, Ofili went to Zimbabwe. It was
on this trip that he first started
experimenting with ________ ____,
where he would follow the trail of ____
in order to find ________ in the wild.
He didn’t see _________, but he saw a
lot of ____, which he packed and
brought back to his studio to use.
The 1996 painting shown, employed oil
paint, glitter and polyester resin along
with map pins, pornographic images
and the material he had started using
back in 1992, thereby generating a lot of
controversy.

19. Elephant dung

20. 7. Who did the Simpsons hire to make this
couch gag?

23. 8. Connect
L'Étranger
La Peste
La Chute
La Mort Heureuse
Le Premier Homme

25. Camus’ Novels
The Stranger - L'Étranger
The Plague - La Peste
The Fall - La Chute
A Happy Death - La Mort heureuse
The First Man - Le premier homme

26. 9. Name of the award? What sort of trophy is
awarded?
____ ___ is an award that puns on a much more famous award for
films, just a letter and an apostrophe short of the original award. Past
winners include Einstein in 2017, and Uggie in 2011.

28. Palm Dog, a dog collar

29. 10. Band/Album?
The lead wanted photographer Mick Rock to bring out the duality of
black and white. Mick Rock came across this photograph of Marlene
Dietrich on the sets of Shanghai Express, and she was under a top light,
with hood eyes, arms crossed, fingers spread. Ultimately, it was this
aesthetic that he brought out on the album cover.

31. Queen – Queen II

32. 11. Name of the achievement?
In Team Fortress 2, while playing as the demoman, you get the
achievement _____________ if you decapitate 50 enemy players.
FITB with a pun on a 1996 film set in Edinburgh, with the change of a
single letter.

35. 12. Name of the achievement?
Keeping the topic on Team Fortress, the demoman, just like ______, is
Scottish. So it is fairly fitting that when you kill 5 enemy players with
critical swings from the melee weapon Eyelander, you get the
achievement ____ __ __, ______.
The achievement is an obvious pun, with only one letter different from
the original. The exact original phrase that has thrived in popular
consciousness, was never actually spoken by a certain William’s
character in the original series.

38. 13. Who is the woman that Pinky and the
Brain was parodying?
In the episode of Pinky and the Brain “___ ___ ____ __ Narf!”, Pinky
becomes a spiritual teacher, and is visited by a famous group looking
for spiritual enlightenment and inspiration.
Brain eventually gets tired of the group, and goes around for a walk. He
encounters a screeching, screaming woman, who also wants to meet
Pinky.
When he takes her to meet Pinky and the visiting group, one of the
members remarks. “She's awful”. Another says, “She's terrible”. Yet
another observes, “She can't sing”. But the last, bespectacled member
exclaims, “I LOVE HER!”.

40. Yoko Ono

41. 14. Painting, artist?
The outfit that Django chooses early in Django Unchained, when
Schultz takes him to a clothing store - ____ satin jacket, knee britches
and white ruffled jacket resembles the clothing worn by the young
man in X’s painting Y, which the costume designer admitted was a
direct influence.
Alternatively, it also serves as an ode to the German director Munrau’s
silent film, “Der Knabe in Blau”.

43. Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy

44. 15. Who voiced Simon Trent in the episode?
Episode 32 of Season 1 of Batman TAS revolved around Simon Trent, an
actor, who in his heyday played the Gray Ghost on television, which young
Bruce often watched with his father, and shaped the dynamic costumed
vigilante persona that Bruce would later take up.
However, decades later, Trent has been reduced to a washed up, typecast
actor, forced slowly sell off his Gray Ghost memorabilia to cover the bills.
He is regretting having ever played the Gray Ghost.
However, through a chance meeting with Batman, he ends up working
with him, and being reminded of how he influenced the lives of countless
kids. The episode ends on a happy note, with Trent having secured
royalties from a rerelease of his decades old show, and embracing his
identity as Gray Ghost.

46. Adam West

47. 16. What is the name of this new HBO show
or what is it about?

49. Brexit

50. 17. Excerpt from Mike Wallace interviewing
whom in the February of 1959?

53. 18. ID this 2009 movie, and the movie it is
parodying

55. 500 Days of Summer, The Seventh Seal

56. 19. ID both movies
X’s (mid 1960s) influence on Y (early 2000s) is evident.
While Y is supposed to be a neo-noir mystery, and X is a psychological
drama film, both essentially are about two women living together
under unusual circumstances, one sick and the other a caregiver, and
in both cases one of the women is an actress. Both films show a
general degradation of these women’s relationships, with their
personalities changing irrevocably by the film’s finale.

58. X – Persona, Y – Mulholland Drive

59. 20. Name of the episode?
In the 11th episode of Season 1 of Simpsons, Bart is sent on a school
exchange program to France, which is really a thinly veiled migrant
laboring program for crooked French vineyards, where he has to suffer
the _____ of the two Frenchmen he’s forced to live with. What is the
name of the episode, combining a flour, milk and eggs dish with a
1930s American literary classic to produce an interesting pun?

61. The Crepes of Wrath