Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar. Winners: 1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal 2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli 3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das

1. “Art is not entertainment. Art is not
luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you
and me.” - Paige Bradley

2. Maut ka Kuan

3. Questions set by:
Angshuman Biswas
Siddhanth Purkayastha
Sandipan Goswami

4. “Barbara Ann” is a song written by Fred Fassert and first recorded in
1961 by The Regents. The most famous cover version of the song is by
the Beach Boys, which was released as a single in 1965. The song was
parodied as “Bomb Iran” by various musicians, including Vince Vance
and the Valiants, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Where, in recent times, might you have heard another parody of the
song?

6. Answer
The Banana Song (from the teaser trailer of
Despicable Me 2)

7. X, or X-ism, was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the
early 20th century. It began in Zurich in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly
thereafter, but the height of the movement in New York was the year
before, in 1915. The term anti-art, a precursor to X, was coined
by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first readymades.
In addition to being anti-war, the movement had political affinities with
the radical left and was also anti-bourgeois.
The origin of the word X is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsensical
word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists
Tristan Tzara's and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words “__, __,"
meaning "yes, yes" in the Romanian language. Another theory says that
the name came during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck
into a French-German dictionary happened to point to ‘X', a French
word for 'hobbyhorse'.
X?

9. Answer
Dada / Dadaism

10. X (acronym of the Russian for “Death to Spies”) was an umbrella name for
three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in
late 1942 or even earlier, but officially founded on 14 April 1943. The name X
was coined by Joseph Stalin. The main reason for its creation was to subvert
the attempts by German forces to infiltrate the Red Army. It served as the
inspiration for a fictional organization having the same name, although the
novels portray X as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organization, much
more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in
subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies.
In the film series, X is usually replaced by Y. Y began in the novels as a small
group of criminals but became a vast international organization with its own
island training base in the films. Y is not aligned to any nation or political
ideology, enabling the later books and films to be regarded as
somewhat apolitical though the former Gestapo members are a clear sign of
the author’s warning of the Nazi fascists surviving after WWII.
X and Y?

12. Answer
X – SMERSH
Y – SPRECTRE

13. The cover art of Miles Davis’s major label debut album and that of John
Coltrane’s second studio album, as well as their titles, are directly
influenced by the paintings produced by a painter between 1901 and
1904, usually defined by the term X, which is also the title of the former
album. What is the term and who is the painter? (pic in next slide)

16. Answer
Picasso’s Blue Period

17. Orson Welles has done three of these, in 1948, in 1942 and in 1965.
Akira Kurosawa did two of these, in 1957 and in 1985.
Kenneth Branagh has done six of these, in 1989, in 1993, in 1996, in
2000 and in 2006.
X has done three of these, in 2003, in 2006 and in 2014, completing his
trilogy.
What are we talking about, and who is X?

19. Answer
Shakespeare adaptations; Vishal Bhardwaj

20. The album art for Cheap Thrills, the second album from Big Brothrt and
the Holding Company, their last with Janis Joplin as primary lead vocalist
was drawn by X after the band's original cover idea, a picture of the
group naked in bed together, was dropped by the record company.
The back story behind the album cover is as follows: “Yeah, I’ll do your
album cover,” X once told the band’s roadie. “But the only thing is, when
I meet Janis, I want to be able to pinch her tit.” That he did, eventually,
after the album came out in 1968, at a party. She said, “Oh, honey.”
Who is X? (pic in next slide)

23. Answer
Robert Crumb

24. X was inspired to make the film after reading L.A. Quartet, a sequence of
four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy, set in the late 1940s through
the late 1950s in Los Angeles. The novels inspired him to "dig into the
dark trenches of the history of Bombay", where he "found a treasure
trove that was never-ending”.
Which film?

26. Answer

27. Mel McGinnis is a 45-year-old cardiologist married to Teresa, also known
as Terri. They live together in Albuquerque. The narrator describes Mel
as tall and rangy with curly soft hair and Teresa (who is Mel's second
wife) as bone-thin with a pretty face, dark eyes, and brown hair. Mel and
Terri have two friends named Nick and Laura. Nick is 38 years old and is
the narrator of the story. Laura is 35, married to Nick, and works as a
legal secretary. The setting is Mel's house, around a table with a bucket
of ice in the middle. A bottle of gin is inside it. They soon start to talk
about love.
Connect this short story, part of an eponymous collection of short
stories published in 1981, to a recent film.

29. Answer
Birdman depicts the mounting of a Broadway production of
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love“ by
Raymond Carver as its central storyline.

30. The following are the descriptions of the four versions of which
composition, all having the same title?
A pastel from 1893 which is the first completed version, now located at
a museum in Oslo dedicated to the artist.
An 1895 lithograph that the artist translated the painting into.
An 1895 version executed in pastel on cardboard, sold for more than $
120 million in 2012.
A 1910 version executed in tempera on cardboard, stolen in 2006 and
recovered in 2010.
The poster of which 1990 film was inspired by this composition?

32. Answer
The Scream by Edvard Munch; Home Alone

34. A Slight Trick of the Mind is the seventh book by American author Mitch
Cullin. The tale is that of Sherlock Holmes, now elderly and unable to
walk without a cane, as his memory begins to fail. He lives with a
housekeeper and her son, and talks to the son about his life before he
forgets it entirely.
The book is being adapted into an upcoming film titled Mr. Holmes
directed by Bill Condon where the role of Holmes is being played by an
actor who has already played a host of iconic characters in his lifetime.
Who?

36. Answer

37. The album cover for this album featuring a ______ was designed by the
band’s manager and patron X. Early copies of the album invited the
owner to "Peel slowly and see"; peeling back the ______ skin revealed a
flesh-colored ______ underneath. A special machine was needed to
manufacture these covers (one of the causes of the album's delayed
release), but MGM paid for costs figuring that any ties to X boost sales
of the album. A crafty business scheme, an iconic piece of music history,
a historic collaboration — all begat with a fruity dick joke.
The album, and X?

39. Answer
The Velvet Underground and Nico; Andy Warhol

40. This song, from the soundtrack of the film X, is sung by Al Martino, who
also performed the song in the film and acted in it as the character Y.
X and Y?

42. Answer
X – The Godfather; Y – Johnny Fontane

43. Jean-François Millet, famous realist French painter of
the 19th century painted this masterpiece called X. It
shows two peasant farmers bowing in a field over a
basket of potatoes to say a prayer, also called X.
However, Y claimed to have been spooked by the
painting and insisted that this was a funeral scene
with a couple mourning over their dead infant. The
Louvre X-rayed the painting upon Y’s request, showing
a small coffin over-painted by the basket.
Give X and Y.

45. X = The Angelus (c. 1859)
Y = Salvador Dali

46. X died at the age of 37. Y died just 6 months later but joined X
in the grave only after over 30 years. Identify X,Y on the
gravestones located in Auvers, Paris.

48. Completed when the artist was 27, during 1818-1819, “The Raft of
the Medusa” has become an icon of French Romanticism. Measuring
491 cm × 716 cm, this over life size painting depicts the tragedy of
the French naval frigate Méduse which ran aground and was reduced
to wreckage. The survivors endured starvation and dehydration and
practiced cannibalism , making the event an international scandal of
the then restored French monarchy. X interviewed two of the
survivors, and constructed a detailed scale model of the raft. His
efforts took him to morgues and hospitals where he could view, first-
hand, the colour and texture of the flesh of the dying and dead.
Eminent French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix is known to have
modelled for the figure in the foreground with the outstretched arm.
X ??

49. The Raft of the Medusa

50. Theodore Gericault

51. Andy Warhol innovated this strange technique called
Oxidation Painting done by coating canvases with wet copper
paint and spraying them with _____. The ____ oxidises and
changes colour. The Oxidation paintings are sometimes referred
to as Warhol’s ____ paintings. Warhol is reportedly known to
have said, “It's a parody of Jackson Pollock”. One of the
people that “sprayed” on the 1970s canvases was Halston
Frowick's boyfriend, Victor Hugo.
FITB. (pic in next slide)

53. Urine; Piss Paintings

54. Reverse order

55. Gustave Courbet expert Jean-Jacques Fernier had authenticated a
painting of a young woman's head and shoulders (seen above) as the
upper section of the painting Y, which was severed from the original
work. In February 2011, Facebook censored Y after it was posted by
Copenhagen-based artist Frode Steinicke, resulting in widespread
uploading of the same, by the masses.
Name this Courbet painting Y (lower half of the above painting).

56. Gustave Courbet
L'Origine du monde ("The Origin of the World")

57. American painter and sculptor X became a rising star
in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which
depicted sharply dressed men and women writhing in
contorted emotion. He further rose to prominence
when his work from the "Men in the Cities" series was
prominently displayed in the apartment of fictional
character Patrick Bateman in the film American
Psycho (2000).
Pictures coming up.

60. Identify X

61. Robert Longo

62. The plot of this series follows the US government
passing the Superhero Registration Act designed to
have vigilantes under official regulation. However
those opposed to the act led by X find themselves in
conflict with Y. Z plays a pivotal role in the series and
is the reason for a big shift in the entertainment
industry.
What am I talking about?

64. This famous game franchise is set in the eponymous
city shrouded in mystery. The latest installment of
the game to be released soon is co-directed by
Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame and
Guillermo del Toro, the mind behind Pan’s labyrinth,
Hellboy and Pacific Rim. Which franchise does this
highly awaited game belong to?

66. Doctor Destiny is the only connect between the
justice league of America and another franchise X.
In the JLA he appears as a dream controlling
mastermind who had almost the entire JLA under
his spell. However his plans were thwarted by
Batman. In X, he steals one of the protagonist’s
artifact and becomes insane and powerful at the
same time.
Identify X.

69. The third novel of X was originally intended to be a
Doctor Who story as the author was at that time
writing scripts for the show. The author has been
praised throughout the universe for his work X
which is a benchmark in it’s genre.

71. Who is Stewie impersonating?

73. This character has been cursed with the fate that he
can never die. Every time he dies he wakes up the
next day in his bed and nobody remembers his
death. This power was bestowed upon him by
cthulhu, as his parents were both part of the cult of
cthulhu.

75. In the cover of the Iron Maiden album a tombstone is
visible with the epitaph
“That is not dead which can eternal lie
yet with strange eons even death may die.”
-X
Identify X.

78. Connect

79. James Earl Jones

80. This band was formed with the name ‘Burn the
priest’. However they changed it to avoid being
confused for satanic worshippers. The lead vocalist
of this groove metal band was charged for
manslaughter when he pushed a fan off the stage
who died of injuries. The band’s current name is a
direct reference to Jesus. Identify.

81. Lamb of God

82. Whose name has been blanked out?

84. Where do you see this?

85. The Avengers

86. What is the most famous role played
by the man on the left?

87. Chewbacca