Prelims of the Mela quiz at IIT-BHU Varanasi as a part of the annual quizzing championship.

2. Prelims

3. The inevitable RULES
• 20 questions
• Multiples of 5 are star marked in case of
ties.
• Quizmaster cannot be cursed for a lot of
movies and TV questions.
• The quizmaster may guide you on
discretion of other participants.

4. Minimalist Poster
Because a MELA quiz is never complete without them
Sufficient information but not necessary. Eg:

6. 1. Minimalist poster for which
Bollywood movie?

7. Ans.

8. 2. Now its time for Hollywood!!
Which movie’s minimalist poster?

9. Ans.

10. 3. Which upcoming movie’s cast?

11. Ans.

12. 4. Monument and its significance?

13. Ans.
• Imagine Peace Tower
• A memorial to John Lennon from his
widow, Yoko Ono

14. *5. Identify her. She became the first Indian movie
star to appear on the TIME magazine cover.

15. Ans.
• Parveen Babi
• Poor man’s Zeenat Aman!!  

16. 6. Id the guy in the video.
• Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=7InRmTGU0Hg

17. Ans.
• The Mountain – Ser Gregor Clegane
• Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson

18. 7. Solve for X and Y.
• X is a fictional antihero appearing in American comic books
published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and
Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in The New Mutants #98
(February 1991). X was depicted as a supervillain when he made
his first appearance in The New Mutants, but has since evolved into
the role of an antihero. X is a disfigured and mentally unstable
mercenary with the superhuman ability of an accelerated healing
factor. He is known as the "Merc with a Mouth" because of his
talkative nature and tendency to break the fourth wall, which is used
by writers to create humorous effect.
• Y portrayed the character in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine
and will reprise the role in the upcoming 2016 film X.
• Give me X and Y.

19. Ans.
• X: Deadpool
• Y: Ryan Reynolds

20. 8. Id the TV show.
• X is an American television thriller series created
by Joshua Safran. The series' protagonist is
Alex Parrish, who is suspected of committing a
terrorist attack. Flashbacks tell her story and the
ones of her fellow recruits at the FBI Academy in
X.

21. Ans.
• Quantico

22. 9. Id him from the video.
• X is a song parody writer and performer
and the most popular song parody maker
on Youtube.
• He reached 1,000,000 subscribers on July
15, 2013 and 1 billion views on November
6, 2014.
• Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=KffirUobCfI

23. Ans.
• Bart Baker

24. *10. Salma Hayek is portraying whom?
• She is a Mexican painter best known for
her self portraits.

25. Ans.
• Frida Kahlo

26. 11. End credits song for which
extremely famous movie?

27. Ans.
• Fight Club

28. 12. Which famous Indian cartoonist?
• A recipient of Padma Shri, Padma
Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. He has
held solo exhibitions in over 22 countries,
including the United States, Japan, Brazil,
Australia, Singapore, France, Yugoslavia,
and Portugal.
• His murals in Café Mondegar in Mumbai
are shown in the next slide.

31. Ans.
• Mario Miranda

32. 13. Which famous song?
• The track went on to win the Grammy for Best Dance
Recording on the 2001 Grammy Awards and is sung by
the group called Baha men.

33. Ans.
• Who let the dog’s out!!

34. 14. Id this meme.
• This is the earliest known video instance
of this meme.
• Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GoUWdzNp9SM

35. • A precursor to this meme.

36. Ans.
• Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-
xE6mGsWDM

37. *15. What particular feat?
• In 2014, Viola Davis began
starring as Annalise Keating
on the ABC drama How to
Get Away with Murder, and in
2015 won the Emmy Award
for Outstanding Lead Actress
in a Drama Series. What
particular feat did she
achieve when she won the
award.

38. Ans.
• She became the first African American woman,
as well as first Black woman of any nationality,
to win an Emmy.

39. 16. Id this writer.
• He is an American novelist and physician. After his debut novel in
2003 which became a huge success, he left his job as a physician
to write full time.

40. Ans.
• Khaled Hosseini

41. 17. Id this author.
• “There is more than one way to burn a
book. And the World is full of people
running about with lit matches.”
• This is what the author X had to say about
censorship and banned books. Id. X

42. Ans.
• Ray Bradbury

43. 18. Id the writer.
• This author was born on 25th
January 1903 in
Motihari which is present day Bihar.
• His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness
of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism,
and outspoken support of democratic socialism
• In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list
of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"

44. Ans.
• George Orwell

45. 19. Connect.
• These three are the more famous ones.
Connect this non exhaustive list.

46. Ans.
• Joker

47. *20. Which famous movie and artform?
• These specific type of strings used to control
puppets are famous because of an artform
practiced in Italy, especially in Sicily. This
artform doesn’t come under the general
puppeteering. Name this art form or what are
these strings called?
• Poster for a famous movie features these
strings. Identify the movie.

48. Ans.
• Marionette Strings

49. Finals