Finals of the MELA quiz conducted in the Quiz Fest of Hansraj in 2011.

1. SHUT UP AND INFINITE BOUNCE.

3. 1
X has stated that Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 feature film The Hidden
Fortress (USA release 1962) was a strong influence, particularly
Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve
as sidekicks to General Makabe. Y was partly inspired by the
robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Douglas Trumbull's 1972
film Silent Running. The name is said to derive from when X was
making one of his earlier films. Sound editor Walter
Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which
sparked the name for Y. Murch asked for something. Y, who was
in the room and had dozed off while working on the script for
the movie, momentarily woke when he heard the request
and, after asking for clarification, stated that it was a "great
name" before falling immediately back to sleep.
In some Spanish-speaking countries, Y is frequently referred to
as Arturito ("little Arthur").

6. 2
• X is an Indian news satire website that publishes fake news reports containing satire on
politics and society of India. The website also publishes occasional serious articles related to
television journalism in India. The website was launched on September 15, 2008. X is one of
the few websites or blogs in India using the tools of sarcasm and humor to publish news
satire, as is widely done in the western countries, a trend pioneered by Y of USA. According to
the latest Alexa rankings, X lies second, although a distant second, to Y among all the news
satire websites in English.
• Y is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website
featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a
non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print
circulation of 400,000 and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years
old. Y's articles comment on current events, both real and fictional. It parodies such
traditional newspaper features as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes
on a traditional newspaper layout with an AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends
on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases, as
in the headline, "Drugs Win Drug War."
• A second part of the newspaper is a non-satirical entertainment section called The A.V.
Club that features interviews and reviews of various newly released media, as well as other
weekly features. The print edition also contains restaurant reviews and previews of upcoming
live entertainment specific to cities where a print edition is published. The online incarnation
of The A.V. Club has its own domain, includes its own regular features, A.V. Club blogs and
reader forums, and presents itself as a separate entity from Y itself.

9. 3
• Charles Martinet is an American actor
and voice actor who has made cameos in
ER, NYPD Blue and Californians. However, he is
immortalized for his ‘role’ as something else.
While auditioning for this role, Martinet, at
first, planned to talk with a deep, raspy voice
He then thought to himself that it would be
too harsh for little children to hear, so he
made it more soft-hearted and friendly. Which
role?

12. 4

14. • ADORATION OF THE MAGI, SANDRO BOTICELLI

15. 5
• Inspired by many critic’s complaints about the
harsh British and cockney accents of the
characters in his first feature length
movie, this director decided to counter the
criticisms by creating a character that not
only could not be understood by the audience
but also couldn’t be understood by the
characters in the movie! Which movie and
which character?

18. 6
Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged
climate of everyday life in the United States, the song also has a
hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies
being born into the world and having much to look forward to. The song was
initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned the song down. Thereafter, it
was offered to Y. The song was not initially a hit in the United States, where it
sold fewer than 1,000 copies because the head of ABC Records did not like
the song and so did not promote it, but was a major success in the United
Kingdom, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S. the song
hit #116 on the Bubbling Under Charts. It was also the biggest-selling single of
1968 in the UK where it was among the last pop singles issued by HMV
Records before becoming an exclusive classical music label. A Willie Nelson
version also was used for the "Don't Mess With Texas" anti-littering public
service announcement campaign. The Y version was also used during a
sequence in Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine, where it
accompanies scenes of violence in a montage about United States
intervention in international affairs.

21. 7

23. Marquis de Sade

24. 8

27. 9

30. 10

32. Nathuram Godse

33. 11

36. 12
• The X line is an informal term used in baseball for the
threshold of incompetent hitting. Even though X's
lifetime batting average is .215, the X Line is said to
occur at .200, and when a position player's batting
average falls below that level, the player is said to be
below the X Line. It is often thought of as the offensive
threshold below which a player's presence in Major
League Baseball cannot be justified despite his
defensive abilities. Pitchers are not held to this
standard, since their specialized work and infrequent
batting requires less hitting competence. How has this
graph been made popular today?

38. The Mendoza Diagonal

39. 13
These are rated on something called the Hynek Scale. Going in
ascending order:
Sighting
Observation and associated physical effects
_______ _______ _____ ______ _________ _______
Included later-
Abduction
Joint bilateral contact
Death or even physical injury
Hybridization or mating
Fill in the blanks to get the title of a movie

42. 14
• The X device was an unshielded, pulsed nuclear
reactor originally situated at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, U.S. It
was one of a number of criticality devices within
Technical Area 18 (TA-18). Specifically, it was used
to produce bursts of neutrons and gamma
rays for irradiating test samples, and inspired
development of Godiva-like reactors. It received
its name from Otto Frisch, who called it X
because it was 'naked and unshielded'.

44. Godiva Device

45. 15

47. Constantin Brâncuşi

48. SVC

50. +20/-15

52. +15/-10

54. +10/-5

56. +5/-0

58. ANSWER
• All real life characters played by Johnny Depp.

59. F.G. Abberline- From Hell

60. John Wilmot- The Libertine

61. Ed Wood Jr.- Ed Wood

62. George Jung- Blow

63. J.M. Barrie- Finding Neverland

64. Hunter S. Thompson- Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas

65. Donnie Brasco- Donnie Brasco

66. John Dillinger- Public Enemies

67. SHUT UP AND INFINITE BOUNCE.

69. 1

72. 2
Film and television
Year Title Role Notes
1982 Fire and Sword Tristan
1986 Wahnfried Nietzsche
1995 Catherine the Great Mirovich
1996 Inspector Rex Episode "The Doll Murderer" Herr Wolf TV
1998 The Final Game Kant
1998 Love Scenes From Planet Earth Charly TV
Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient
2000 Brian
Express
2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal Peter
2000 Falling Rocks Louis TV
2003 Herr Lehmann Doctor
2007 Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast TV
2007 Die Verzauberung Dr. Helmut Bahr TV
2008 Das Geheimnis im Wald Hans Kortmann TV
2008 Todsünde Sebastian Flies TV
2008 Das jüngste Gericht Peters TV
2009

75. 3
In some of his letters to his sister, X says about the
city Tomsk, "Tomsk is a very dull town. To judge
from the drunkards whose acquaintance I have
made, and from the intellectual people who have
come to the hotel to pay their respects to me, the
inhabitants are very dull, too.“ These letters from X
to his sister were to become notorious.
In retaliation, the inhabitants of Tomsk erected a
mocking statue of X.
X?

77. Anton Chekhov

78. 4

80. Courtship In Sleepy Hollow, or Ichabod Crane
and Katrina Van Tassel

81. 5
X said this about Y:
“Landscape is nothing but an Z, and an
instantaneous one, hence this label that was
given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a
thing done in Le Havre, from my window, sun in
the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in
the foreground....They asked me for a title for
the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a
view of Le Havre, and I said: 'Put Z.'

83. X-Claude Monet
Y- Impression, Sunrise
Z-Impressionism

84. 6
• The couple used a time-delay camera to take nude
photographs of themselves for the album's cover. The
front showed them frontally nude, while the rear
showed them from behind. The cover provoked an
outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a
plain brown wrapper. Copies of the album were
impounded as obscene in several jurisdictions
(including 30,000 copies in New Jersey). X commented
that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the
explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the
pair were rather unattractive (and the photo
unflattering; X described it later as a picture of "two
slightly overweight ex-junkies").

87. 7
• Litsea reticulata is a common Australian tree,
growing from near Milton, New South Wales
to the Bunya Mountains, Queensland.
Common names include X, Y and Brown
Beech. The habitat of the Brown Beech is
rainforest of most types, except the dry or
littoral rainforests. A very significant
entertainment connect. What?

89. • BOLLYWOOD!

90. 8
• X’s art became familiar to millions through his many television
appearances. His first television performance as a star performer on
the Max Liebman Show of Shows won him an Emmy Award. He
appeared on the BBC as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol in 1973. He
was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas
and Dinah Shore, and he also had his own one-man show entitled
"Meet X". He teamed with Red Skelton in three concerts of
pantomimes.X also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as
First Class, in which he played 17 roles, Shanks, where he combined
his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking
talent, as a mad scientist; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and a
cameo as himself in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, in which, with
purposeful irony, his character has the only audible speaking part,
uttering the single word "No!" when Brooks asks him (subtitled) if
he would participate in the film

92. Marcel Marcaeu

93. 9

96. 10
• JULIET:
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call
_____________________________________;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

98. “A rose by any other name would smell as
sweet”

99. 11

102. 12
• X was known for his deft adaptation of the classical musical
tradition for movies. For some movies like Baiju Bawra, he
composed all scores in classical raga modes. He could easily work
with Western instruments, including the clarinet, the mandolin, and
the accordion. He could incorporate Western musical idioms in his
compositions, and compose for Western-style orchestras. He was
one of the first to introduce sound mixing and the separate
recording of voice and music tracks in playback singing. He was the
first to combine the flute and the clarinet, the sitar and mandolin.
He also introduced the accordion to Bollywood film music and was
among the first to concentrate on background music to extend
characters’ moods and dialogue through music. He set Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's verse, Unki yaad kare, to song in
2006, rendered by A. Hariharan in lead voice with 40 chorus singers,
produced by Keshav Communications. The poem is dedicated to
those who have lost their lives defending the country's border. X?

105. 13
• A new edition of the classic X by Y is missing
something, throughout the book. 219 times in all. It has
been substituted by a more ‘politically correct’ term by the
Alabama based publisher New South Books. The same
thing happened to another word throughout the book. Alan
Gribben, a professor at Auburn University at
Montgomery, approached the publisher with the idea in
July last year. Here it must be stated that Y must be rolling
in his grave as he was considered to be very particular
about his words. Once when a printer made punctuation
changes to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court, Twain wrote later that he had “given orders for the
typesetter to be shot without giving him time to pray!”

107. • X- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Y- Mark Twain
• Words: ‘nigger’’slave’
–‘ injun’’indian’

108. 14
• He is the supreme boss of a terrorist syndicate network operating
worldwide. Originally he was a gangster called Robert Sheen.
Another gangster called L Salvano tried to kill him by bombs but he
survived as Doctor Schilder saved him. Another doctor Marian Cole
was taking care of Sheen because he liked her. Doctor Schilder loved
Marian but decided to ask her to marry Sheen so that she could
prevent him from becoming a criminal. However, the first thing
Sheen did after marriage was the brutal murder of Salvano. He
entered the world of Crime but took great care not to let Marian
know about this. When Marian came to know about this she
decided to leave him. She left his house when she was pregnant.
She began living with her mother. There she gave birth to a baby girl
. He has extraordinary physical abilities. His body is immune to the
poison of Mamba snake.

111. 15

113. Surendra Mohan Pathak

114. LVC

115. +30/-15

116. +20/-10

117. +10/-5

118. +5/-0