MELA Quiz Genesis '13 QBIT Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

1. MELA QUIZ

2. PRELIMS

3. Rules
 24 Questions
 Questions 15-20 are star marked and will be used to resolve
ties.
 +1 for every correct answer
 No negatives
 Feel free to guess !

4. Question 1
 X, a famed Bollywood music director of the 50s, 60s and
70s, died of liver cirrhosis in 1975.
 In 2004, X’s unused tunes were recreated by his
son, Sanjeev Kohli, for the film Y. The lyrics were written by
Javed Akhtar and majority of the songs were sung by Lata
Mangeshkar, who was a dear friend of X.
 Id X and Y.

5. Answer
 X = Madan Mohan
 Y = Veer-Zaara

6. Question 2
 The Rozabal Line is a historical thriller novel by Indian
author Ashwin Sanghi, originally published in 2007 under his
pseudonym Shawn Haigins.
 The book deals with a highly controversial historical
conspiracy that has previously been explored by very few
historians and authors.
 The book was declared a bestseller by India Today and the
book's publishers, Westland Ltd. have had tremendous
success with the novel as it has gone into repeat runs.
 What is the controversial subject of the book ?

7. Answer
 It deals with the conspiracy theory that Jesus Christ escaped
crucifixion, came to India and lived his final years here; and is
buried at the shrine at Rozabal, J&K.

8. Question 3 - Connect

9. Answer
 Sidney Sheldon

10. Question 4
 Flag of what ?
 Hint - Some of the rules of this ‗place‘ are :
1) The flag should never be flown upside down, unless the
place is in distress.
2) ‗Residents‘ shall give each other 12 hours notice of
impending coitus.
3) The thermostat must be kept at 71 degrees at all times.
ID X

12. Answer
 Sheldon and Leonard‘s apartment from the Big Bang Theory.

13. Question 5
 This is London Tipton from the Disney channel show ‗The Suite
Life of Zack and Cody‘.
 Her character was supposed to be a parody of which Hollywood
celebrity?

14. Answer
 Paris Hilton

15. Question 6
 Why were these animals in particular selected as the Furious
Five for KFP ?

16. Answer
 They pay tributes to 5 streams of ancient Chinese martial
arts.
 Crane – Fujian White Crane
 Viper – Snake Kung Fu
 Monkey – Monkey Kung Fu
 Mantis – Shandong Praying Mantis
 Tigress – Hei hu quan

17. Question 7
 In the late 1970s-early 1980s, X published a handful of short
novels—Rage (1977), The Long
Walk (1979), Roadwork (1981), The Running Man(1982)
and Thinner (1984)—under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
The idea behind this was to test whether he could replicate his
success again and to allay his fears that his popularity was an
accident. An alternate explanation was that publishing standards
at the time allowed only a single book a year. He picked up the
name from the hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of
which he is a fan.
 Name this awesome novelist, MANY of his novels have been
made into movies.

18. Answer
 Stephen King

19. Question 8
 She was one of the first Indians and the first Indian actress to
be featured on Time magazine's cover. A semi-
autobiographical film, Who Lamhe, about Mahesh Bhatt‘s
relationship with her was made, written and produced by him
right after she was found dead in her apartment at Mumbai.
Earlier, she had accused many foreign dignitaries including
Amitabh Bachchan, of conspiring to kill her. Who is this
actress of great repute and the pioneer of minimalist fashion
modeling on the Indian ramp?

20. Answer
 Parveen Babi

21. Question 9
 Which famous literary work is inspired by this 1981 novella ?

22. Answer
 Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi

23. Question 10
 Numerous commenters have compared the ______ _____ to
―Gangnam Style‖. Forbes magazine pointed out that unlike
"Gangnam Style" and other notable hits from 2012, ______
_____ is more of a meme, since a wide variety of groups and
individuals have uploaded variants of the dance.
 Various groups that shot videos of themselves doing the
______ _____ include basketball players from the Dallas
Mavericks, football players from Manchester City, a squadron
of the Norwegian Army, and BIT Mesra‘s 2k9 batch students !
 FITB.

24. Answer
 Harlem Shake

25. Question 11
 Who are they and what are they doing ?

26. Answer

27. Question 12
 This novel follows the journey of Biju, an illegal immigrant in
the US who is trying to make a new life; and Sai, an
Anglicised Indian girl living with her grandfather in
Kalimpong, India. Set against the background of the
Gorkhaland movement, the book has two parallel
storylines, one dealing with the opportunities in the US and
the other with the effect of post colonialism in India.
 Name this book which won the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

28. Answer
 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

29. Question 13
 This album came out in November 2008, exactly fifteen years after
the band‘s previous studio album. The total production cost of the
album exceeded $13 million, making it the most expensive album
ever produced. Meanwhile, the band underwent numerous lineup
changes, which resulted in a total of 13 members having contributed
to the album. It became a worldwide success but was banned in
China as soon as it came out. Name the band and the album.

30. Answer
 Chinese
Democracy by
GNR

31. Question 14 - Connect

32. Answer
 Rare instances where Pundit Ravi Shankar composed music
for films.

33. *Question 15
 After the release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in
November 2002, some fans recognized a strange resemblance
between Dobby, the house elf and X. This led to X apparently
becoming upset at the resemblance and claimed that Warner
Brothers had stolen his likeness. X‘s attorneys threatened to sue
Warner Brothers, but decided to drop the suit before anything was
filed in court. It also led to several online polls coming up for the
same.
 Who does Dobby look like ?

35. Answer
 Vladimir Putin

36. *Question 16
 The creators of Pokémon wanted to pay their tributes to
Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, two great martial artists. How
did they do this?

37. Answer
 Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are named after Jackie Chan and
Bruce Lee.

38. *Question 17
 Marvel Comics have trademarked two words of their own
invention: thwip!; and snikt!.
 What do these words denote ?

39. Answer

40. *Question 18
 The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph
records which were included aboard both Voyager
spacecraft, which were launched in 1977. They contain
sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life
and culture on Earth, and are intended for any
intelligent extra-terrestrial life form, or for future humans, who
may find them.
 Which song was selected to represent rock and roll on the
record, thereby representing rock and roll music for
humanity?

41. Answer
 Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry

42. *Question 19
 Paradise Lost is an epic poem by the 17th-century English poet John
Milton, widely considered one of the greatest literary works in the
English. The ‗XYZ‘ trilogy of fantasy novels is considered to be a
retelling and inversion of Paradise Lost, the name ‗XYZ‘ itself comes
from lines of the poem.
 The trilogy although being extremely successful and popular (also
being adopted for theatre and a 2007 movie), has drawn constant
criticism for its negative portrayal of religion, Christianity in general.
 Which trilogy ?

43. Contd.
 ―But all these in their pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
XYZ to create more Worlds,‖
 — Book 2, lines 910–920

44. Answer
 XYZ = His Dark Materials

45. *Question 20
 The very first instance of the use of X is attributed to the
psychedelic-occult rock band Coven, whose lead singer Jinx
Dawson started and ended concerts with a display of X, way
back in 1968. Other early instances include the cover of ‗The
Beatles‘ 1968 album ‗Yellow Submarine‘.
 However, legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio is
widely attributed as the man who popularised it to what it is
today. His Italian grandmother used it to ward off the evil eye
(known as malocchio in Italian). Dio began using it soon after
joining Black Sabbath in 1979. X became famous in metal
concerts very soon after this.
 X was later appropriated by heavy metal fans under the name
―maloik‖; a corruption of the original malocchio.
 What in the devil‘s name is X ?

46. Answer
 m/
 The horned hand symbol

47. Question 21 - Connect

48. Answer
 Ruskin Bond

49. Question 22
 Chutney music is a form indigenous to the
southern Caribbean, popular in Guyana, Trinidad and Suriname. It
derives elements from traditional Indian music &
popular Trinidadian Soca music. It was created in 1940s by Indo-
Caribbean people whose ancestors were mostly from Bihar, Uttar
Pradesh and Bengal.
 The lyrics are in either Hindi, Bhojpuri or English and are laid down
over beats derived from Indian dholak beats, mixed with the soca
beat. A Chutney song is an up-tempo song, and may be
accompanied by instruments like electric
guitar, synthesizer, dholak, harmonium, dhantal, tassa drums .
 Chutney Music was recently introduced to Bollywood; and became
quite a rage. How ?

50. Answer
 Hunter song from GOW

51. Question 23
 Tshering Phintso ________ wanted to join the Indian Army.
In an interview to TOI, he said that he had qualified for the
prestigious AFMC, Pune, but instead joined the Film and
Television Institute of India. Here, his fellow classmate Jaya
Bhaduri decided to change his name to a simpler sounding
―X‖ as his original name was tough to be pronounced by
other students. The name has stuck since.
 Who ?

52. Answer
 Danny Denzongpa

53. Question 24 –
Fill the speech bubble with 5 words

54. Answer
Beta, tumse
na ho
payega !