BCQC Literature Quiz Finals (january '13)

Round 2 by Avaneendra

Written Round, Theme Round, Round 4 by Ranajeet

Round 1
Written Round

7 minimalist posters

5 points per right answer

Round 2

19 questions on Infinite Rebound

4 pounces per team

Q1.

In the movie The Hobbit: An expected journey, Gandalf
is asked by Bilbo “ How many wizards are there ? ”. He
says there are five, naming himself, Saruman, and
Radagast, then saying he can't remember the names of
the other two.
Their names, Alatar and Pallando, appear in the books
but still not revealed in the movie. Why ?
And which book has their names mentioned.

They don’t have the copyright to the book Unfinished Tales

Q2.

Henry William-Jones
P Brooke-Haven
Melrose Grainger
J Walker Williams
C P West
-------- ---------
Pen names of which famous author ? And
which name is missing ?

Q3.

Connect.
• Second king of the Maratha Empire who was detested
throughout the Mughal Empire for his Scorched earth
tactics
• The name by which Uttam Kumar is famously known in
Calcutta
• Not taken away by the wind (derived from another
famous literary work)
• Someone with a face as beautiful as the moon
• A small town near Satara, also the name of a Marathi
film
• The battle which took place on 14 January 1761, about
60 miles (95.5 km) north of Delhi

Q4.

The seven-year period between when his twin children
were born and when Robert Greene called him an
"upstart crow“ is known as his “------ ------" because
no evidence has survived to show exactly where he was
or why he left Stratford for London. Several theories
have been put forth to account for his life during this
time, and a number of stories are given by his earliest
biographers, including that he fled Stratford after he got
in trouble for poaching deer from Thomas Lucy or that
he wrote a scurrilous ballad about him.
Who and FITB

Q5.
Map of which place ?

Q6.**

In the movie Hot Fuzz, actor Bill Bailey is shown reading
books by Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks. Why ?

Iain Banks writes science fiction books under the name Iain M Banks. Similarly
in the
Movie Bill Bailey plays twins.

Q7.

This guy really lived from about 1620 to 1655, big nose
dueling and all. He was a poet, a dramatist and a
science fiction writer. He wrote of voyages to the
moon and to the sun . He was the first person in the
history to suggest one method to reach there –
rockets.
Who ?

Q8.

He was flying to Los Angeles from Paris. His luggage was
accidently unloaded at NY airport so he had to miss his
visit to Sharon Tate. Same night she was murdered by
Charles Manson and his disciples.
One year later He published the book “Being There”
which made into a movie starring Peter Sellers.
Who ?

Q9.

Coincidentally paperback publisher of this best
selling book is situated in NY, building number 666.
Their emblem is a bantam (reference to a sacrificial
rooster.)
On September 27, 2011, it was re-released as a 40th
Anniversary Edition in paperback, hardcover and
audiobook editions with differing cover artwork. This
new, updated edition featured new and revised
material

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Q10.

He was a baseball fan, and he wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday",
an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Here is a sampling from his A to Z
list

C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they
weren't born.
D is for Dean, The grammatical Diz, When they asked, Who's the tops? Said
correctly, I is.
E is for Evers, His jaw in advance; Never afraid To Tinker with Chance.
F is for Fordham And Frankie and Frisch; I wish he were back With the Giants, I
wish.

Who ?

Q11.**
These two literary giants had a debate regarding religious tolerance of Tippu Sultan.
In first writer’s novel Aavarana, he had accused Tippu Sultan as a religious fanatic
who would not stand Hindus in his court. He had substantiated the argument based
on the facts pointing to several historic references written in India during Tippu’s rule.
One of the references was the usage of Urdu word ‘bin’ which is used to refer a
person as a "son of" in Government of Karnataka offices even today. The source of
the word had originated during the Tippu Sultans rule, which was one of the several
methods used to influence Islamic rules on Hindus. There are numerous instances in
his book, which stated various methods used by Tippu Sultan to convert Hindus to
Islam, each of these instances clearly given with a sound historic reference in the
book.

This was criticized by the second writer, who had glorified Tippu in his plays. He was
accused of being untruthful in giving factual account of Tippu Sultan in his plays and
was suggested to read the references of the book Aavarana and understand the
history of fanatic Islamic rulers in India before glorifying anyone by falsifying the
truth.

Name both of them.

S.L. Bhyrappa and Girish Carnad

Q12.
“I see no need for any further evolution on my behalf. I have humans
for that. Their technologies and modernization should take care of
everything. Too many of my relatives can’t see past their whiskers in
believing that the primary responsibility of humans is to keep us in
the style to which we ought to be accustomed. I however regard that
as secondary to their wider responsibilities in advancing our species.
There are inconvenient hitches of course. Today for one. On a day
when, at long last, the sun has succeeded in lightening Berlin’s sludge
of a sky, I have been removed from my warming window sill and
deposited in a box. My midmorning snooze was interrupted without
so much as a please or a thank you and I was transported in an
undignified, dangling midriff lift into the chilly laboratory and
dumped askew into a second-hand, cardboard box.”

This is the first paragraph of a story by Glynne MacLean, titled
Viennese _______. The story was published on Jan 31, 2009, and has
since achieved a cult status. What is the story about/ Who is the
narrator?

Q13**.

In ancient Greece the laurel was sacred to the god Apollo, and
was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and
heroes. This custom, first revived in Padua for Albertino Mussato,
was followed by Petrarch's own crowning ceremony in the
audience hall of the medieval senatorial palazzo on the
Campidoglio on the 8th of April 1341. Because the Renaissance
figures who were attempting to revive the Classical tradition
lacked detailed knowledge of the Roman precedent they were
attempting to emulate, these ceremonies took on the character of
doctoral candidatures.
This tradition is still followed in 12 countries of the world. Even
though the appointed person has different official designation in
each country their role is same.
What am I talking about ?

Q14.

In December 1927 he and -------- Gardner became engaged,
despite the
opposition of Lady Burghclere who felt that he lacked moral fiber
and kept
unsuitable company. Among their friends they quickly became
known
as "He-X" and "She-X".
It is referred to in 2003's Lost in Translation, Anna Faris' character
"Kelly" uses the
pseudonym X Y, suggesting that she thinks that X Y is a female.

Q15.

Who is Kilgore Trout ?

Novel by Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore
Trout,"
a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt
Vonnegut.
This book first appeared as a lengthy fictitious "excerpt"—written
by Vonnegut,
but attributed to Trout—in Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr.
Rosewater (1965)

Q16.

These Awards are prizes given for creative achievement in
American
comic books, sometimes referred to as the Comics Industry's
equivalent of
the Oscar Awards. First conferred in 1988, created in response to
the discontinuation of the X Awards after 1987. They are named in
honor of the pioneering writer and artist who is known for the
cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The
Spirit; for his use of comics as an instructional medium; for his
leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of
literature.
What are these awards called now and what is X ?

Eisner Awards
X – Kirby as in Jack Kirby

Q17.**

• The protagonist may discover in his or her investigation that
a mad scientist or evil genius and his secret organisation
are using futuristic technology to further their schemes.
• The protagonist may be issued and use their own futuristic
technology such as weapons, exotic means of transport,
and detection devices that have not been invented as of
yet.
• The setting and the protagonist, may actually be in the
future.
• The science fiction device may be a Macguffin

Examples of which genre ?

Q18.

Reiner named the company in honor of the
fictional Maine town that serves as the setting
of several stories by Stephen King who had
named the town so after the book “Lord Of The
Flies.”
King was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft who created
a series of fictional small towns in New England
called Dunwich, Innsmouth, Kingsport and -------.
Give me name of the company and FITB.

Company is Castle Rock and the missing town is
Arkham.

Q19.

Patrick Branwell Brontë was a painter, and writer and
poet, the only son of the Brontë family. Contrary to urban
legend, he did not die "standing up leaning against a
mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done"; this well-
circulated myth is actually part of an intentionally-absurd
quote by a very famous author. Who and in which book
has this quote ?

Theme Round

6 questions

10 points per correct answer

The theme is a mere pointer. Keep it simple.

Theme scoring mentioned on respective slides.

Q1. +30 / -15

Michael Palin did a lot of travel series in the late 80s
and early 90s. Barring the first, they are as follows:

Pole to Pole (travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole)
Full Circle (circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim)
Hemingway Adventure (following in the footsteps of Ernest
Hemingway)
Sahara (travelling around and through the Sahara Desert)
Himalaya (travelling around the Himalayas)
New Europe (travelling around Eastern Europe)
Brazil (travelling through Brazil).

The first one shares its name with a 1873 book all
of us have heard of. Name it.

Q2. +25 / -12

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order is an
honorary position awarded to a person who has
done a favour or service to the Royal Family. A
book by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi speaks
of a certain winner of this honour and his rather
unusual service to the sovereign before World
War II. Name the book.

Q3. +20 / -10

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
states :
An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also
died in the course of the project, chiefly forced
labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch
East Indies.
Pierre Boulle himself was a prisoner of the
Japanese in South-east Asia where he met
French officers who had worked on the
project. In the book, however, he used British
officers. Name the book or the project
mentioned.

Q4. +15/ -7

The book title compares the act of the title character to that of
the 950 year old father of Shem, Ham and Japeth.
We may know it because of this.

Q5. +10 / -5

Seven Pillars of
Wisdom is an
autobiographical
account of a British
Liaison Officer during
the Arab Revolt
against the Ottoman
Turks. Give me the
name of the author.

Q6. +5 / no negatives

In the book, the protagonist is Ram
Mohammad Thomas and his profession is a
waiter, not a chaiwala. Salim is not the
brother but a friend and fellow orphan. The
romantic interest is Nita and the show host is
Prem Kumar. The chapter names are amounts
of money in progressively increasing order.
Which book?

Q1.

Michael Palin did a lot of travel series in the late 80s
and early 90s. Barring the first, they are as follows:

Pole to Pole (travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole)
Full Circle (circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim)
Hemingway Adventure (following in the footsteps of Ernest
Hemingway)
Sahara (travelling around and through the Sahara Desert)
Himalaya (travelling around the Himalayas)
New Europe (travelling around Eastern Europe)
Brazil (travelling through Brazil).

The first one shares its name with a 1873 book all
of us have heard of. Name it.

Q2.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order is an
honorary position awarded to a person who has
done a favour or service to the Royal Family. A
book by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi speaks
of a certain winner of this honour and his rather
unusual service to the sovereign before World
War II. Name the book.

Q3.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
states :
An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also
died in the course of the project, chiefly forced
labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch
East Indies.
Pierre Boulle himself was a prisoner of the
Japanese in South-east Asia where he met
French officers who had worked on the
project. In the book, however, he used British
officers. Name the book or the project
mentioned.

The Bridge Over River Kwai
OR
Burma-Siam Death Railway will also do

Q4.

The book title compares the act of the title character to that of
the 950 year old father of Shem, Ham and Japeth.
We may know it because of this.

Schindler’s Ark

The image is of the actual Schindler’s
List

Q5.

Seven Pillars of
Wisdom is an
autobiographical
account of a British
Liaison Officer during
the Arab Revolt
against the Ottoman
Turks. Give me the
name of the author.

Q6.
In the book, the protagonist is Ram
Mohammad Thomas and his profession is a
waiter, not a chaiwala. Salim is not the
brother but a friend and fellow orphan. The
romantic interest is Nita and the show host is
Prem Kumar. The chapter names are amounts
of money in progressively increasing order.
Which book?

THEME CONNECT :
Books adapted into movies which have won the
Academy Award for Best Film

1. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
2. The King’s Speech (2010)
3. The Bridge Over River Kwai (1957)
4. Schindler’s List (1993)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Round Reversal

19 questions on Infinite Rebound.

4 pounces per team.

Q 20.
A special stamp celebrating 150 years of ‘The Christmas
Carol’ was released in 1993 depicting the characters Mr.
and Mrs. Fezziwig. The designer of the stamp is the first
ever Children’s Laureate. He is even more popular though
as an illustrator for a massively popular children’s author.
One can see similarities in his illustrations for the author’s
books and the characters on the stamp. Who designed
the stamp?
(image on next slide)

Q 21.

Two successful collaborations with Govind Nihalani
and Om Puri won him three Filmfare Awards (2 Best
Screenplay, 1 Best Story) and a National Film Award
for Best Screenplay. Arguably his most popular play, a
political satire on Shiv Sena which was rising to power
in 1976, uses the real-life historical character of Nana
Phadanvis. The film adaptation, for which he wrote
the screenplay himself, is the debut film of Om Puri.
Identify this legend.

Q22.

In Robert Graves’s ‘I Claudius’ Augustus’s
granddaughter Julilla is exiled because she is convicted
of adultery and many other debaucheries. The reason
for her corruption is said to be ‘Ars Amatoria’ or ‘The
Art of Love’. This is really just an excuse to distance
Julilla and Postumus, Augustus’s grandson from Rome.
The poet of this work is also exiled for his corruptive
influence but is later reprieved by Tiberius. Who is this
poet whose real name was Publius ____ius Naso.

This is the profile of the fictitious Pradeep Mathew, who
is the mysterious bowler being searched for in Shehan
Karunalatika’s ‘Chinaman’

Q 24.

Tomas Transtromer became (well?) known in India last
year after his Nobel Prize win. However, Indians have
another reason to have known his name because of
something that happened nearly 30 years ago.
Transtromer flew out to India immediately after he
heard the news about this incident. The poet K.
Satchidanandan took part in a poetry recital along with
him and recounted his experience last year in an
interview. What ‘event’ or incident are we talking about?

Q 25.
This is a picture of
the author in
captivity in a
concentration
camp. He went on
to write a three
volume book
about his
imprisonment and
exile and
compared the
forced labour
camps in his
country to a chain
of islands. Who?

Q 26.
Two books by two different authors together complete a
famous quote from Act 4 Scene 1 of Macbeth; a line by the
second of the three witches.

One book which takes the first line of the quote as its title
was published in 1968 with protagonists surnamed
Beresford seen in 4 novels and a collection of short stories
by the author.

The other book, taking its title from the second line, is a
fantasy and horror work about two boys having a scare at a
travelling carnival published in 1962. The author is a legend
in the science-fiction genre.

Name both books to get the quote and also name the
authors.

“By The Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury

Q 27.
The novel is set in a universe parallel to ours with the author’s
usual dose of magical realism but this isn’t revealed till the second
half. In the novel, many real life incidents are used with the
author’s own spin on them. For example, John F Kennedy is shown
to survive his assassination attempt in Dallas but is killed later
alongside Robert Kennedy. The Watergate scandal is a novel
featuring a fictional President Nixon. Many songs are miscredited
like ‘Satisfaction’ to John Lennon, Roy Orbison’s ‘Pretty Woman’ to
The Kinks. The Who are presented under their original name The
High Numbers.
Another musical connect is with U2, who aren’t mentioned in the
book but have a song written by the author with the same title as
the novel in their 2000 album. Which novel?

Q28. The Wikipedia entry about a certain book said that the
protagonist of the book, Coleman Silk, was based on the
critic Anatole Broyard and the plot of the book was
inspired by Broyard’s life. The author, however, said this
was completely inaccurate and the book was based an
incident in the life of his friend Melvin Tumin, when he
called a couple of students ‘spooks’ which was a
pejorative term for African-Americans in the 1960s and
the students happened to be black. Wikipedia
Administator replied to the author saying that ‘though the
author is the greatest authority on his work, we require
secondary sources’. This incited the author to write an
open letter to Wikipedia which was published in The New
Yorker on 7th September 2012.
Who?

Q 29.
The Ghost of ___ ____ is the 11th album by Springsteen and the first
track of the same album. It takes inspiration from Woody Guthrie’s
The Ballad of ___ ____. Springsteen said he was more inspired by
the multiple Oscar winning movie than the book, though he used a
direct reference to the character from the book in the third verse
using the lines

Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.

Q 30.

Excerpt from a letter by the author of a ‘Great American
Novel’ to his friend and contemporary author.

“Shall I send you a fin of the _____ by way of a specimen
mouthful? The tail is not yet cooked -- though the hell-fire
in which the whole book is broiled might not unreasonably
have cooked it all ere this. This is the book's motto (the
secret one), -- Ego non baptiso te in nomine -- but make out
the rest yourself.”

Name both people involved and name what the letter talks
about.

One of the many letters written by Herman Melville to
Nathaniel Hawthorne about Moby-Dick.

Q 31.

The three possible reasons that may have caused the
death in the book are :

1) Poisonous gas let in through the air conditioning of
the plane.

2) A scratch on the wrist from the sword dipped in krait
venom.

3) X.

Q 32.
Whose appearance on The Simpsons?

Q33.

_________ was started in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of
the events in the novel, when John Ryan and the novelist
Brian O'Nolan organized what was to be a daylong pilgrimage
along the X route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh,
Anthony Cronin, Tom ______ (a dentist who, as the author’s
cousin, represented the family interest) and AJ Leventhal.
Ryan had engaged two horse drawn cabs, of the old-
fashioned kind, which were used by the character in the
book to attend a funeral along with his friends.

The party were unable to complete the ‘pilgrimage’ as
they called it as it ended with most of the members
ending up inebriated at Bailey pub. This, however,
began a tradition still followed on a particular day by
fans of the novel all over the world.
Put fundae and fill in the (first) blank.

‘Bloomsday’ celebrations
were thus started on June 16
every year; the date on
which Ulysses is set.

Q 34.

In Umberto Eco’s ‘The Name of the Rose’ he pays
tribute to many contemporary and past authors and
works. To give a few examples, he named the character
Jorge of Burgos after Jorge Luis Borges, the protagonist
William of Baskerville was clearly modeled on Sherlock
Holmes. William’s companion and the narrator of the
book is the simple minded Adso. This is a wordplay on a
character from one of Galileo’s 17th century book. Name
the book and put fundae.

Adso is a reference to Simplicio (Ad Simplicio meaning ‘to
Simplicio’) from Galileo’s ‘Dialogue’.

Q 35.
“Off to one side is a guy about 40 with a lot of muscles, as
you can see because he has no shirt on—just a pair of
khakis and some red leather boots on and his hell of a
build—and he seems to be in a kinetic trance, flipping a
small sledge hammer up in the air over and over, always
managing to catch the handle on the way down with his
arms and legs kicking the whole time and his shoulders
rolling and his head bobbing.”

This guy had a brief second act in American literature,
depicted as the helmsman of X’s epic 1964 cross-country
journey in “___ ________ ____ ___ ____ ____.” He
served as a kind of totem for X’s Pranksters, who drew
inspiration from the 1957 novel.

Neal Cassady a.k.a Dean Moriarty

X is Ken Kesey and the book is Tom Wolfe’s ‘The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’

Q 36.

A few examples of words in this language, invented
by the author, are:
embleer: Stinking, the word for the smell of a fox.
homba: A fox. Plural hombil.
hraka: Droppings, excreta. Used as a curse.
endri: A badger.
silflay: To eat above ground; to graze.
thlay: Fur

There is also a lingua franca called ‘hedgerow’
which features in the book. Name the language and
the book.

Lapine language spoken by the rabbits in
Watership Down.

Q 37.

From ‘Life and Writings of Blessed ______ ____’ by T.E. Bridgett,
1913.
The following is taken from a 1519 letter in which Erasmus
describes his good friend ______ ____.

“He seems born and framed for friendship, and is a most
faithful and enduring friend. He is easy of access to all; but if he
chances to get familiar with one whose vices admit no
correction, he manages to loosen and let go the intimacy rather
than to break it off suddenly Hence he amused himself with
composing epigrams when a young man, and enjoyed Lucian
above all writers. Indeed, it was he who pushed me to write the
‘In Praise of Folly’ that is to say, he made a camel frisk.
‘Morias Encomium’ can also be read as ‘In praise of ____.’”

This description, however, is contrary to how this
character has been portrayed in Hilary Mantel’s double
Booker winning series. In Wolf Hall, the character is
shown to be the diagonal opposite of ‘easily accessible to
all’ and is shown a very staunch Catholic.

Name him.

Thomas More
Morias Encomium which is “In Praise of Folly” is a
pun on his name and can be read as “In Praise of
More”.

Q 37.

50 Cent was to release his film in 2011 when he was
forced to alter the title of his movie which shared its title
with a 1958 bestseller by the author. 50 Cent then
offered him $ 1 million but the author was insulted by
this and his legal team released this statement.
“The novel with the said title was initially produced in
1958 (that is 17 years before 50 was born.) "It is listed as
the most-read book in modern literature pertaining to
this continent, and won't be sold for even £1bn."
The film was renamed by adding “All” before the original
title.

Q 38.

The author did not make a conscious effort to amass
these trinkets from various sources. He did it like any
other ______ would do; over a period of time. The
______ as he would like to call it was opened in April
2012 and is open to the masses. The name of the
novel, too, is not consciously decided because of
these collections. Free entry is provided to anyone
who has read the book. It is situated in the city which
was the European Capital for Culture 2010 along with
Essen and Pecs.

This is the actual ‘Museum of Innocence’ by Orhan
Pamuk which he accumulated as he wrote the book.

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