Play It Again, Sam - 4 was a hub quiz conducted on 28th June, 2015, at Guwahati.

1. PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM – 4
28/06/2015
BISWAJIT SARMA,
NALBARI COLLEGE

2. • When asked about the inspiration for his new film,
director Sharat Katariya said that he got the idea
from a poster about unusual and weird sports.
• "I got the idea from a poster about unusual sports
and one of them was wife-carrying competition. I
thought it would be interesting if the husband was
thin while the wife was on the heavier side.
Somehow, the thought stayed with me," Sharat said.
• Enough clues given, identify the film in the question.

5. • Whose portrait by whom? It was painted in
1924, when the sitter was 25 years old.

6. Portrait of Luis Bunuel by
Salvador Dali.

7. • This short novel, published in 1934, was quite
successful and notorious upon publication, and is
regarded as one of the more important crime novels
of the 20th century. The novel’s influence ranges
across genre and time. Albert Camus was so
impressed with the book that he changed his seminal
novel, The Outsider, to first-person narration.
• The novel also spawned a few films, notably the
1946 adaptation that stands out as an early and one
of the best example of film noir. Although the film
was a big hit at the box-office, it received no
nominations or awards.
• Identify the novel/film and the writer?

9. The Postman Always Rings Twice by
James M. Cain.

10. • Girl, Interrupted is a best-
selling 1993 memoir by American
author Susanna Kaysen, relating
her experiences as a young
woman in a psychiatric hospital in
the 1960s after being diagnosed
with borderline personality
disorder.
• In 1999, it was adapted into a film
of the same name starring
Winona Ryder and Angelina
Jolie.
• The title, Girl, Interrupted, is a
reference to what?

12. The painting Girl Interrupted at her
Music by Johannes Vermeer.

13. • As a young girl of seventeen, this legendary
Assamese figure attended and addressed the large
gathering against the evil effects of opium addiction
and demanded an immediate ban on it throughout the
state at the Asom Chhatra Sammelan, the Students’
Conference held at Tezpur in 1918.
• In the post- Independence period she became the first
woman to have contested elections for the Legislative
Assembly in Assam.
• Apart from being a freedom fighter and a social
reformer, she was also a writer and a poet of repute.
She edited the journal Abhijatri for seven years. Of the
several novels written by her, only Pitribhita was
published in 1937.
• Who?

15. Chandrapabha Saikiani.

16. • Follow up from the last question…
• During the early part of her life, Chandrapabha Saikiani
faced untold hardships. Most notably while going to study at
a boys’ school which was several miles away from their
village with her sister Rameshwari. Seeing their deep
interest in pursuing academics, Nila Kanta Barua, the
school inspector arranged for scholarships for the two girls
at the Nagaon Mission School along with boarding facilities
for their higher education. Here not only did Chandraprabha
engage herself in serious study, but also inspired her sister
Rameshwari to do the same.
• What is her sister Rameshwari’s claim to fame?

18. Rameshwari, who came to be known as
Rajaniprabha went on to become the first woman
doctor of Assam.

19. • In April, 2007, this artwork by
Bansky fetched 288,000
pounds ($576,000) at auction,
around 20 times the estimate,
setting a new record. It is titled
“Space Girl and Bird”.
• Who commissioned this
artwork?
• It was actually the second time
Bansky worked with them.
What was the first project
Bansky was commissioned for
in 2003 by them?

21. The Brit-pop band Blur commissioned the artwork.
In 2003, he did the cover art for the seventh studio
album Think Tank.

22. • Identify the singer, a Padmashree winner,
and the lyricist, a Sahitya Academy Award
winner.

24. Singer – Dr. Birendra Nath Dutta
Lyricist – Hiren Bhattacharya

25. • In 2012, the Portland based
company Burnside Brewing Co
named a beer brand after Hindu
goddess ‘Kali’. After protest in
the Indian parliament, the
company apologized and
canceled the launch of the
brand.
• The company, however, in their
defense, stated that the
inspiration for this beer label
came from a favourite childhood
movie.
• Which movie?

27. In fact, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was also banned in
India for its "racist portrayal of Indians and overt imperialistic
tendencies."

28. • The Defenestration of Prague of 1618, also known
as the Second Defenestration of Prague (the first
took place on July 30, 1419, and provoked the
Hussite Wars), refers to the ejection of two Catholic
Imperial officials and their secretary out of the
Prague Castle's window by the Bohemian
Protestant nobles. Although no one got hurt in the
incident, the act of the Bohemian Protestants was
a clear signal to King of Bohemia and the future
Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II that they insist
on religious freedom granted to them by the Letter
of Majesty.
• This event erupted into one of the most destructive
episodes in European history. What?

30. The Thirty Years’ War.

31. • In March, 2015, Assam government launched
the X Krishak Bondhu Scheme to increase
agricultural production by providing facilities and
assistance to farmers for double cropping in their
lands. It is named in honor of X, who taught the
benefits of organised farming for the first time in
the State.
• X, born as Sukuti, was an able administrator of
the Ahom kingdom. He was also He was also
the first Y, a new office created during the rule of
the Ahom king Prataap Singha.
• Identify him and the position (X, Y).

32. X - Momai Tamuli Barbaruah,
Y – Barbaruah.

33. • X, which means "dark cities" or "dark castles" is
a large area of unusually shaped lava fields east
of Mývatn in Iceland. The area is composed of
various volcanic caves and rock formations. The
structures are one of Iceland's most popular
natural tourist attractions.
• In Icelandic folklore, this place is said to connect
earth with the infernal regions. In
Nordic Christian lore, it is also said that this is
where Satan landed.
• Which black metal band that formed in 1993 is
named after this place?

35. Dimmu Borgir.

36. • Known for his intense screen presence and
portrayal of gruff characters, this legendary actor
had fans around the world. Among them was
Star Wars creator George Lucas, who reportedly
offered him the roles of Obi-Wan Kenobi and
Darth Vader when casting the first film in the
series.
• Who?

38. Toshiro Mifune.
He will get his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year
alongside Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper and Quentin Tarantino.

39. • “MacSpaunday” was a name invented by Roy
Campbell, in his Talking Bronco (1946), to designate
a composite figure made up of the four poets.
Campbell, in common with much literary journalism
of the period, imagined that the four were a group of
like-minded poets, who shared certain left-
wing views and produced important works in the
1930s. He elsewhere implied that the four were
homosexual, which was not true.
• Two of these four poets are : Louis MacNeice
("Mac") and Stephen Spender ("sp").
• Who were the other two, ("au-n") and ("day")?

41. W. H. Auden ("au-n")
Cecil Day-Lewis ("day“).

42. • Clip from the movie Night at the Museum :
Secret of the Tomb.
• Identify the work of art and its artist,
referenced in the clip.
video

44. Relativity by M. C. Escher.

45. • This is Filmfare
magazine cover dated
April 2, 1954 featuring
the first Filmfare
Award winners.
• Identify all three
awardees.

47. Bimal Roy (Best Director and Producer of the Best
Picture), Meena Kumari (Best Actress) and
Naushad Ali (Best Music Director). L-R