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Aniruddha Mitra
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Dhanraj B.
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Minakhi Misra
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Tauseef Warsi
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Rules of Engagement
● 6 rounds in total (41 questions in total)
● Rules for each round to be explained before the round
● Please refrain from relying on electronic devices or nearby participants
● The order is as follows :
○ Written round 1
○ Inﬁnite Pounce 1
○ Written round 2
○ Written round 3

Muse, meet Caissa
7 slides. Each shows an author
playing chess. Identify the author.
+10 for each.
+30 for all.

1.
He is a French writer, poet, aristocrat,
journalist and pioneering aviator, known for
his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind,
Sand and Stars and Night Flight.
A year after his death, his mother asked the
French Air Force — where he was rendering
services in his ﬁnal days — to return a chess
set, which was part of the precious belongings
he took with him when he ﬂew.

2.
Playing with his wife Vera, this author was
included in the US National Chess team to
create chess problems for training the
candidate masters.
A biographer noted: “Chess games occur in
several of his novels; and chess and chess
problem language and imagery regularly put
his readers' chess knowledge to the test.”
His third novel, published in 1930, centers on
a chess master driven to despair by his genius,
a character based on real grandmaster Curt
von Bardeleben.

3.
Playing with the poet Bertolt Brecht, this
German philosopher is best known for his
essays, "The Task of the Translator" (1923), "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction" (1936), and "Theses on the
Philosophy of History" (1940).
In 1941, Brecht wrote an ode to the author,
titled ‘To ______ ________ Who Killed Himself
While Fleeing Hitler’:
Tactics of attrition are what you enjoyed
At the chessboard seated in the pear tree’s shade.
The Enemy then drove you from your books;
The likes of us? Ground down, outplayed.

4.
Playing with his wife, this Nobel laureate is
known for his works that explore an
individual's search for authenticity,
self-knowledge and spirituality.
The protagonist of his magnum opus
rejoices in the chess board and its
implications, namely that death is not
permanent, sins can be forgiven, and
consequences are not real.

5.
Here she is pictured while playing with
her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Their
relationship was popularized by the
autobiography Story of My Life, and its
adaptations for ﬁlm and stage, The
Miracle Worker.

6.
Playing with his wife, he is an Irish
playwright, critic, polemicist and
political activist, inﬂuenced by Henrik
Ibsen.
An avid chess player, he drew
controversy for the following
statement in The Irrational Knot:
“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for
making idle people believe they are
doing something very clever, when they
are only wasting their time.”

7.
The Dumbledorean author, essayist,
and philosopher, is known to have
played chess even while speaking to a
gathering.
A somewhat worried reporter once
wrote: “...he and his wife and children
are playing as if their lives depended on
the results. The tables in the various
rooms are marked out as chess boards,
and the dogs and other pets are named
after the chess pieces. This sort of thing
of course cannot last.”

3.
Playing with the poet Bertolt Brecht, this
German philosopher is best known for his
essays, "The Task of the Translator" (1923), "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction" (1936), and "Theses on the
Philosophy of History" (1940).
In 1941, Brecht wrote an ode to the author,
titled ‘To ____ _____ Who Killed Himself While
Fleeing Hitler’:
Tactics of attrition are what you enjoyed
At the chessboard seated in the pear tree’s shade.
The Enemy then drove you from your books;
The likes of us? Ground down, outplayed.

Inﬁnite Pounce 1
8 Questions on Clockwise Pounce
+10/-10 on Pounce; +10 on Bounce

Q1. Who is the character ? What reason ?
This character ____ ________ _____came back into prominence in 2013 and was a part of
a previous TV show as well. His name may sound odd to people from the Asian
region as a conﬂuence of multiple regional names. In fact his middle name has also
been used as the name of another character from the TV show.
However, there is a very speciﬁc reason why his creator, Gene Roddenberry, named
him such. Who is the character and why was he named thus ?

Ans.
Khan Noonien Singh
Roddenberry wanted to get in touch
with a friend from the war (Kim
Noonien Singh) and named the
characters such to grab his friend’s
attention.

Q2. What does Mercutio say ? Which
character/ classic ?
In most translations and abridged versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a line
said by Mercutio following a duel with Tybalt has been adapted to make it
prose-worthy.
What does Mercutio say (in the adapted versions) ? Which 1975 classic
phenomenon adapted this / which character says the same line ?

Ans
Tis but a scratch
Monty Python and the Holy
Grail
The Black Knight

Q3. What are they referencing ?
The picture on the next slide is a screen grab from Season One of the Boys where the
character ______________ is infiltrating an Arab terrorist compound.
The graffiti in the background is a direct comment on the character but is also a
not-so-veiled reference at an incident that happened with another TV show.
Which TV show? What does the graffiti say (will accept funda for the incident) ?

Ans.
Homelander is racist
References the “Homeland is racist”
grafﬁti that street artists managed to
sneak into the TV show Homeland

Q4. Which book? What is the record ?
The Goldsmiths prize for experimental ﬁction targets ﬁction that opens up new
possibilities for the novel form. It was awarded to Mike McCormack for Solar Bones
in 2016, which held the record then at 78,300.
However, this was soundly beaten by the 2019 winner of the Goldsmiths prize and
the current holder of the record at 426,100.
Which book won the 2019 Goldsmiths prize? What unique record does it hold/ what
makes the book distinctive ?

Ans.
Ducks, Newburyport
Longest single sentence published / book
written in only one sentence

Q5. Who was murdered ? What did this lead to?
This is one of the longest open murder investigations, starting in 1986. More than
10,000 people have been questioned on this case across Europe and has the largest
murder investigation archive in the world. Whose murder was this ?
There have been multiple ﬁlms, plays and songs written about this but this event is
also believed to be the reason for a certain phenomenon over the past couple of
decades. What phenomenon?

Ans.
Olof Palme, the Swedish prime
minister
The rise of Scandinavian crime
ﬁction

Q6. Which movie ? Who was the person (X)?
_______ Management was a trust fund owned by X and once owned 2% of the
Lagardere group. As admitted by his sons, this was named, not after an American
state, but after the lead character and his self-titled money laundering front
company of the same name.
Post 2004, all the fund’s holding have been frozen by the United Nations.
Identify the movie. Who is the person in question (trust fund owner)?

Ans.
Scarface (Montana Management)
Saddam Hussein

Q7. Which actor in which movie ?
Considered a dangerous stunt at that time, this stunt involved the actor falling
backward and landing on a inﬂatable pillow 25 feet below. The actor was personally
requested to do this as they wanted to show the character’s expressions during the
scene.
However, instead of dropping him on the count of three, the stunt crew dropped him
on one, resulting in a facial expression of pure horror and an immortal scene.
Who is the actor and which movie was he shooting for ?

Q8. What was the creation ?
The directors did not like the ﬁrst design that the digital team came up with.
Undeterred, Simon Whiteley created something that has become synonymous with
pop culture. He cites his inspiration as the following things :
1. The 1995 sci-ﬁ movie Ghost in the Shell (had a similar sequence)
2. Since his wife was Japanese, they had stacks of Japanese cookbooks which had
multiple sushi recipes (which they used as text)
What was the creation ?

Written Round - II
Movie Research
A round on research papers written with a movie as the base
+10 for complete answers
5 questions in total.

Q1.
Abstract : This article examines the way political actors use film narratives to
influence policy making following _______ ______. To analyse these relationships I
propose the concept of the ____ ________, where film-based historical analogies are
used as a political device to frame real-life events in ways that make the events
governable and prejudice certain policy options. Three elements of the_____ _______
are reviewed including the intentionality, perception that these events are fatal and
the belief that ________ must be killed.

Q2.
Abstract : Based on the best British film of that time, this topic delves into the
relationship between the film and drug addiction. Given its subject-matter, it is
important to examine both the film itself, and its points of contact with the realities
of drug addiction. There are validations to be conducted to check whether the
severity of the drug addiction displayed actually occur in real situations.

Q3.
Abstract: The term “diptych” designates visual artworks in two halves that are
simultaneously united and separated by a hinging mechanism. This is based on a ﬁlm
that uses this technique to effectively draw parallels between two unrelated
situations.

Q4.
Abstract : This shows us that at the core of every person, there is a battle against
inﬁdelity as a concept. The paper explores whether the concept of inﬁdelity is an
artistic output of the director or it is an exploration of the director’s personality and
his comfort with his own sexuality.

Q5.
Abstract : This paper examines how science fiction’s portrayal of humanity’s desire
for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It
begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires—in short,
we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror it.

Answers
Please Exchange Sheets.

Inﬁnite Pounce 2
8 Questions on Anti-Clockwise Pounce

Q1. Who was the director of the music video ?
The clip you’re about to see is the
music video of the song “Country
House” by Blur, their best-selling
single and a chart topper in the UK.
Who directed this music video ?

Q2. Which artist ? Where was he employed ?
After spending his early life in France,
this artist then relocated. However, since
he was broke and without a job, he took a
job in construction on a certain project.
The indigenous people around him
(where he spent 10-12 years) became
the major inspiration for most of his
paintings in his later life (picture on the
right).
Who is the artist ? What project was he
employed in?

Ans.
Paul Gauguin
Building the Panama Canal

Q3. Give X, Y, and Z
In 1979, a British expedition started on a mission to accomplish a circumpolar navigation around the earth.
Upon reaching Antarctica they had to spend the eight-month winter there with six months of darkness.
Anticipating this, company X sponsored more than ﬁfty books for the people on board, including works of
almost all major British and Russian writers. Years later, the crew recalls how nourishing the books had been
in the harsh winter.
Book Y by author Z, however, seemed to have a particularly dark impact on one person, who recalls having an
ice-axe in his hand as he trailed his hut-mate through the whiteness. “I remember getting deeply into the
mind of Raskolnikov and thinking hard about this cold-blooded murder,” which the anti-hero commits with an
axe. "There’s no question that if you put two people in a hut the size of a caravan and shut them up for nine
months, you will generate intense frustration."
At the same time he was pondering the question of whether good and evil truly exist. “I don’t really know
whether [my hut-mate] was in danger or not.”

X: Penguin Publishing House
Y: Crime and Punishment
Z: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

X partnered closely with Y on the research for Y's book Z, which eventually sprouted the
new genre of "nonfiction novels". X privately objected to Y's fabrications in Z and
therefore requested Y to not make a significant mention of their partnership in the book's
acknowledgement.
X also started writing a nonfiction novel with the working title The Reverend to "do it the
right way," but never really completed it. The book followed the story of Willie Maxwell, a
real life charismatic African-American preacher from 1970s Alabama, who was killed at
his step-daughter's funeral by a man who'd eventually be defended in court by a
larger-than-life lawyer and politician, similar to an iconic character from X's first book.

X: Harper Lee
Y: Truman Capote
Z: In Cold Blood

Q5.
Where would you
ﬁnd this character?
Who eventually
replaced him?

Back cover of the
ﬁrst UK edition of
Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s
Stone.
Dumbledore
replaced him.

Q6. Which fictional character?
In February 2019, Britain
experienced record winter
temperatures at the same time that
several wildfires broke out across
the country.
Two of the fires were in Ashdown
Forest in East Sussex, which was the
inspiration for a location related to a
popular character from children's
fiction.

X had his lowest point in life in 1481 when he was excluded from an important art
project Y that the Pope had commissioned. As a result, he chose to move out of his
city and establish himself in Milan, where he was commissioned to make a large
bronze statue in the memory of the then duke's father.
Soon, a war broke out and all the bronze earmarked for the statue was used up for
artillery. Z, who had distinguished himself through project Y, taunted X saying,
"You who made a model of a horse you could never cast in bronze, and which you
gave up to your shame: the stupid people of Milan had faith in you?"

X: Leonardo Da Vinci
Y: Sistine Chapel
Z: Michelangelo

Q8. Which choreographers? What triggered their rise?
Late 2018 saw the rise of a set of new specialised choreographers in the US.
Working closely with TV, ﬁlm, and theatre directors, these choreographers quickly
became mainstay in production crews, quite similar to how action choreographers
did in the 2000s. HBO made a landmark move by going a step further and mandating
their presence in all its productions.

Intimacy Choreographers.
#MeToo

Written Round - III
Candles in the Wind !
A round on tribute songs sung for various celebrities
+10 for complete answers (part points where mentioned)
5 questions in total.

Q1. Bon Iver singing about which personality?
Bon Iver composed and performed “Perth”
as a reaction to a close friend’s death. The
person in question has been a part of many
tributes recently as well due to a certain
phenomenon last year.

Q2. Who are the other two celebrities ?
Paul Simon composed “Johnny Ace “for three
signiﬁcant deaths ; all of them being Johns
and all of them dying as a result of gun
violence.
One of them is the R&B singer Johnny Ace.
Who are the other two ? (+5 for each)

Q3. Who are the three singers referred to ?
Don Mclean sings “American Pie” as
a response to a certain event in
1959 and pays homage to the
musicians involved.
Name the three musicians involved
(+5 for two).

Q4. Who is the person it is dedicated to?
REM sang “Man on the Moon” for a
celebrity who passed away at an early
age due to lung cancer. He was
remembered through other media as
well.
Who is the person in question ?

Q5. Whose death does this refer to ?
For a long time, Cat Power refused
to acknowledge that this song (“I
Don’t Blame You”) was actually a
tribute song. However, recently she
has come out and said that it was
indeed based on her grief stricken
reaction to X’s life and the events
that led to his death.

Q1. Bon Iver singing about which personality?
Bon Iver composed and performed “Perth”
as a reaction to a close friend’s death. The
person in question has been a part of may
tributes recently as well due to a certain
phenomenon last year.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JP Richardson

Inﬁnite Pounce 3
8 Questions on Anti-Clockwise Pounce

Q1. What was stolen? Who became a suspect?
In 1911, following a major theft, multiple suspects arised, most of them foreigners
residing in France at the time. There was a major hue and cry and the police started
detaining suspects for questioning.
One of them, avant-garde poet and playwright Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested in
September and questioned for a week before being released. His close associate
______ _________ was next in line for questioning as the police placed him in France the
week of the robbery.
However, since they had no evidence they could not make an arrest until the real
thief Vincenzo Perugia came forward.
Who was the suspect ? What had been stolen ?

Ans.
The Mona Lisa
Pablo Picasso

Q2. Who is X? What did he smuggle out ?
In his memoirs, Stig Fredriksson recalls of the time when he met X in Moscow at his
apartment. X told him that he did not want to go on the trip since he did not want to
be cut off from Moscow and his wife, Natalya was expecting their ﬁrst child. The
event is described by X thus -
“I had in my pocket a film containing text of his_____________. We had failed to find any other way of sending it out,
and once again, its destination was Sweden. I was standing in an inconspicuous spot; he and his wife Ingrid came
strolling along arm in arm: I followed, keeping a gap between us, and Alya came behind me, after first watching out for a
while from a different spot to make sure that no one was tailing us. Everything turned out fine, so we caught up with
them and the four of us set off at a leisurely pace down the Leningrad Prospect. As we talked, I asked Stig if he would
take the film, and he agreed. I handed it over in a dark courtyard. Folk wisdom has it that seeing a pregnant woman
means your plans will come to fruition. Well, we had two of them, both our wives were pregnant.”

Ans.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
His Nobel Prize speech

Q3. What is the group’s name?
____ ______ ________ is a volunteer organization based out of Syria that comprises of
engineers, labourers, construction workers and ordinary citizens who band together
to help those affected by the violence in the war in Syria. They get their name due to
a piece of protective equipment that they wear.
They are internationally recognized, with two documentaries on them - Last Men in
Aleppo and another on Netﬂix (titled the same as the blanks).
What is the group’s name ?

Q4. Who are the paintings based on ?
Who is the artist ?
The two paintings are called
respectively “The Astronomer”
and “The Geographer”. It is a
commonly held belief that they
are based on the same person,
a compatriot of the painter,
who was a man of science but
though versatile, was neither
an astronomer or geographer.

Ans.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Johannes Vermeer

Q5. Which project? Which movie?
In January 1970, construction began on a project that could prevent an American
city from running out of water. Initially scheduled to be completed this year, it will
continue well into the new decade. Named simply as No. 3, it is supposed to support
the other two aging counterparts and prevent a ﬂash ﬂood if they burst.
Glimpses of the under-construction project were seen in a 2012 movie. A terrorist
organisation had camped there, avoiding detection.

The New York Water Tunnels
The Dark Knight Rises. Bane’s Army was
camped here.

Q6. Give X, Y, and Z.
In 2006, X was prosecuted for “insulting Turkishness”. In the novel Y, a character
refers to the massacre of Armenians during the First World War as a genocide.
Though acquitted, X has again come under unwarranted pressure from the
authorities for a 2019 novel. The novel is titled after the duration (Z) for which a
person apparently shows brain activity after death.

Ans.
X: Elif Shafak
Y: The Bastard of
Istanbul
Z: 10 minutes and
38 seconds

Q7. Put A, B, C.
After Donald Trump’s election, author A came to be seen by some as a soothsayer. A's
book B, written ironically in 1984, laid out an extreme version of America’s pathologies,
issuing a warning that what was once shocking could come to seem normal, as outrage
devolved into complacency.
Given the story’s status, when publication of its sequel C was announced in 2018, the
reaction in the literary world was frenzied. Cyber-criminals undertook a long (though
unsuccessful) campaign to hack the computers of A’s literary agents and steal the
manuscript. Only a tiny number of copies were released for publicity—including a few for
the judges of the Booker prize, who had shortlisted C for the award.

Ans.
A: Margaret Atwood
B: The Handmaid’s Tale
C: The Testaments

Q8. X and Y.
The director of the movie X claimed he had no plans to direct movies until the story
of X came to him. It wasn't an easy first film to pull off. The story required an entire
village to be built in a barren landscape. Fifteen bhungas (circular houses with
thatched roofs peculiar to the Kutch region), a chowk and a temple were made. "It
can still be seen on Google Maps," says the director of the bhungas.
With its parched landscape, female ensemble and "a strong statement on women
empowerment", comparisons with Ketan Mehta's powerful drama Y were expected.
X’s director doesn't mind. "Whenever I have watched the film, I have been
entertained," he said in a phone interview with a newspaper. "Each and every single
second of it bowls me over. It is 110 percent my tribute to Y."

Ans
X - Hellaro; Y -
Mirch Masala

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