The music, entertainment, literature and art quiz held at COEP as a part of Mindspark 2015

1. Quizmaster: Vibhav Tungar

2. ELIMS

3. Acknowledgements
 College of Engineering, Pune and
MindSpark’15 for giving me an opportunity to
conduct this quiz.
 Chinmay Tadwalkar and Aman Shaikh for
helping setting the quiz.
 The volunteers and coordinators for their
support.
 Most importantly, Kartik Balasubramaniam for
moderating the quiz.

4. Rules
 The elims consist of 30 non-MCQ type
questions.
 No negatives.
 The top six teams qualify for the finals.
 5 Star marked questions to decide a tie-
break.
 If two or more teams are tied after star
marked questions are considered, sudden
death will be used.
 Any team using electronic devices during the
quiz will be disqualified.

5. BEST OF
LUCK!

6. Q1:
The band X is considered as the fathers of
heavy metal. The band's front-man Y was
known for his controversial behavior. He once
bit the head of a dove at a meeting with CBS
Records in 1981. In 1982, he bit the head of
bat while performing at the Veteran's Memorial
Auditorium. He was kicked out of the band after
his frequent spats with the lead guitarist and
was replaced by Ronnie James Dio. ID X and Y.

7. X- Black Sabbath
Y – John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne

8. Q2:
ID X and Y from this exhaustive list (arranged in
chronological order)
Roseanne
Frannie's Turn
Grace Under Fire
Cybill
Dharma & Greg
X
Y
Mike & Molly
Mom
Mention X and Y in the answer. Part points.

9. X- Two and a Half Men
Y – The Big Bang Theory
TV shows created by Chuck Lorre

10. Q3:
Stanley Martin Lieber, is an American writer,
editor, actor, publisher. He is more popularly
known as?

11. Stan Lee

12. Q4:
X's Tomb is complex of structures located in
Thanesar, Haryana, India, near Kurukshetra. It
includes two tombs, a madarsa, mughal
gardens and various subsequent features. X
shares his name with famous character in
children's books, known for his slow wit and
stupidity. Id X.

13. Sheikh Chilli

14. Q5:
X is a Hindu hymn addressed to Y. It is
traditionally believed to be composed by 16th
century poet Tulsidas in the Awadhi language,
and remains one of his best known works. The
qualities of Y - strength, celibacy. courage,
wisdom and devotion along with the many
names with which Y is known, are all listed in X.
Id X and Y. No part points.

15. X- Hanuman Chalisa
Y - Hanuman

16. Q6:
Frederick Clinton Quimby was an American
cartoon producer, best known as a producer of
X, for which he won seven Academy Awards. He
was the film sales executive in charge of a
cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery and
the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera,
creators of X. Id X.

17. Tom and Jerry

18. *Q7:
The actor's first memory of this iconic gesture is years before the
script of the movie that contained the gesture was presented to
him. He remembers seeing it first in a synagogue service in
Boston, as part of a blessing.
The gesture resembles the Hebrew letter Shin, which is the first
letter of the word Shekhinah, which he defined as “the feminine
aspect of God who supposedly was created to live among
humans.”
“The light from this Deity could be very damaging. So we are told
to protect ourselves by closing our eyes,” he said of the goddess.
"They get their tallits over their heads, and they start this
chanting,” the actor said in a 2013 interview, “And my father said
to me, ‘don’t look’.” At first he obliged, but what he could hear
intrigued him. “I thought, ‘something major is happening here.’
So I peeked. . And I saw them with their hands stuck out from
beneath the tallit like this (the gesture being talked about) to
protect themselves from any injury or fatality.”
The best part about it, the actor said, was that even though
people still loved the gesture, they had no idea that while doing

19. Leonard Nimoy on Live Long and Prosper (The
Vulcan Salute)

20. Q8:
FITB from this tweet.

21. Elvis Presley

22. Q9: Put funda.
Note: This is a tweet from a spoof account.

23. Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September
Ends

24. Q10:
This is a snippet of the theme song to an
American TV sitcom, that originally aired from
Sep. 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The rapper
plays a fictionalized version of himself in the
sitcom. Id the rapper and the sitcom.

25. Will Smith
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Rap.

26. *Q11:
X is an composer and music producer of Indian
origin and is best known for winning the Best
New Age Album at the 57th Annual Grammy
Awards, for Winds of Samsara, for which X
collaborated with Wouter Kellerman, a South
African flutist. Id X.

27. Ricky Kej

28. Q12:
Connect:
The Battle of Hastings,
Rebirth of dragons in GoT,
"I'd go out with it", said Mark
Twain (and he did),
An image drawn by Tyco Brahe

29. Comets.

30. Q13:
ID the band.

31. One Direction

32. Q14:
This tradition owes its origin to Norma
Talmadge, who while inaugurating Grauman's
Chinese Theatre, stepped into some wet
cement. What tradition is this?

33. The imprinting of hands and feet in the Walk of
Fame

34. Q15:
Connect to a song:
A person of mixed black and white parentage
Melanin (or the lack of it)
Aedes and Anopheles
Horniness.

35. Smells Like Teen Spirit

36. Q16:
In which movie's soundtrack, would you find
this song?

37. The Departed

38. *Q17:
X is the name given to the collection of New York City
music publishers and songwriters who dominated the
popular music of the United States in the late 19th
century and early 20th century. The name originally
referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between
Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and a plaque on
the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and
Sixth commemorates it.
The origins of the name X are unclear. One account
claims that it was a derogatory reference to the sound
of many pianos resembling the banging of tin pans.
Another version claims the name stemmed from the
way that songwriters modified their pianos so that
they had a more percussive sound.
After many years, the term came to refer to the U.S.

39. Tin Pan Alley

40. *Q18:
This word originally existed in the Cornish dialect
meaning clumsy. During the reformation, with the
Church declaring all prayers be made in English,
Cornish speakers revolted, leading a dwindling of
the population of Cornish speakers. It was officially
declared dead in 1777.
In the 1800s a revival of the Cornish dialect was
attempted by documenting Cornish vocabulary and
grammar in books. This is the reason for the slight
blip on the graph around the 1800s.
The word resurfaced in the 1990s, unrelated in
meaning and origin and went on to become one of
the most widely recognized things in the world.
What is the word?
Graph on next slide.

42. Pokemon

43. Q19:
X is a museum of art and culture in Saint
Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and
oldest museums in the world, it was founded in
1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open
to the public since 1852. Its collections, of
which only a small part is on permanent
display, comprise over three million items,
including the largest collection of paintings in
the world. The collections occupy a large
complex of six historic buildings along Palace
Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a
former residence of Russian emperors.
Id X.

44. The State Hermitage Museum
From left to right: Hermitage Theatre – Old Hermitage – Small
Hermitage – Winter Palace (the "New Hermitage" is situated
behind the Old Hermitage).

45. Q20:
_____ ______ is a 1964 American musical fantasy
film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by
Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by
the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill
Walsh and Don DaGradi, loosely based on P. L.
Travers' book series of the same name.
The movie was released on August 27, 1964 to
universal acclaim, receiving a total of thirteen
Academy Award nominations, including Best
Picture—an unsurpassed record for any other film
released by Walt Disney Studios—and won five.
The word in the second blank is also the name of a
yesteryear candy manufactured by Parle Products.
Id X-Y.

46. Mary Poppins

47. Q21:
This is the opening line of a novel. Id the
literary work.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife.

48. Pride and Prejudice

49. Q22:
Norville ______ is a cowardly slacker and the
long-time best friend and owner of his cowardly
dog. Eating is his primary objective. He and the
dog are the only characters to appear in all
iterations of the franchise. What is he popularly
known as?

50. Shaggy Rogers
Scooby Doo

51. Q23:
Connect:

52. Characters voiced by Tom Kenny

53. *Q24:
He was a National Award winning musician,
winning the award for his work on Dastak in
1971. He passed away in 1975. His untouched
compositions were revised by his son, Sanjeev
Kohli, and then used in a movie released in
2004, 29 years after his death. According to
BoxOfficeIndia, the album went on to become
the highest grossing Bollywood soundtrack of
the year. Id the music director.

54. Madan Mohan
Veer - Zaara

55. Q25:
This print pattern has been around since the
Sassanid dynasty and is known as Boteh
Jegheh. This is pattern is extremely popular
even in India and is the traditional motif for
Kanjivaram saris. However, it derives its name
from a town in Scotland, which became the
center for this pattern after its popularization in
England in the 18th and 19th century.

56. Paisley

57. Q26:
This place in Clear Lake, Iowa, marks the site of
the accident where rock and roll legends P, Q
and R died. The place is referred to as "The
Place the Music Died" after S in his song T
referred to the incident as "The Day the Music
Died." The place now has a monument in
memory of the three performers and a little
away, there is a sign in the shape of P’s
signature wayfarer glasses. ID P, Q, R, S, T.
Part points.

58. P- Buddy Holly
Q- Ritchie Valens
R- J.P Richardson
S- Don McLean
T- American Pie