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MELA Quiz - Finals
1.   Short Written Round
2.   25 Questions Clockwise Infinite Bounce
3.   25 Questions Anticlockwise Infinite Bounce
4.   THEME ROUND

Oh, and by the way, Quizmasters decision is final
  on this day! :D
MELA Quiz - Finals
5 questions, all to be written down.
5 Points per correct answer.
If a team gets all 5 right, then they receive a
   bonus of 5 more points.
Maximum points available from this round is 30
1. This show has been nominated for an Emmy
  award five times, in the category “Outstanding
  Achievement in Animation”. The show mainly
  takes place in the fictional city of Townsville,
  USA. The city has a mayor who owns a hotline
  and has a secretary who’s face cannot be seen.
  Which show?
2. Vincent Kennedy M. founded this company in
  1980 and it was called Titan Sports. In 1982 it
  acquired Capitol Corp. from his own father and
  finally this company was formed.
   The company lost a lawsuit to another
  organization and had to change its name to its
  present one in 2002.
  Which company?
3. It is known as raqs sharqi in Arabic, but its
  English name is attributed to Sol Bloom,
  entertainment director at the 1893 Chicago
  World's Fair. It is a popular form of exercise
  and entertainment today, with many different
  styles of the dance. Identify this style of dance
  which is the literal translation of the French
  term ‘Danse du Ventre’
 4. Filmfare Award 2005 – Best Playback Singer
 MTV Lycra Award 2006 – Best Music Style Icon
 Koffee with Karan Best Debutant Award in
  2007
 Nominated for Best Male Debutant Actor by
  Filmfare in 2008.

 Accolades   not exhaustive, who?
5. Where did we find ‘cheats’ called : Taak Jhaak,
  Bachao and Copy?
EXCHANGE
SHEETS
LETS HAVE A LOOK AT THE
        SCORES
CLOCKWISE INFINITE BOUNCE
25 Questions in Total
Flat scoring of 10 on every question, whether it’s
   a direct or a pass.
If a question goes unanswered, the same team
   gets the following question, indefinitely.
Five Titles :
The Loss of Friends
Gaining Friends
Crows and Owls
Loss of Gains
Ill-considered action / Rash deeds

CONNECT.
MELA Quiz - Finals
The Five Books of the
    Panchatantra
Rodrigo Moya took some black-and-white
 pictures in 1976 but had kept them secret.
 Much later he broke his silence in a tongue-in-
 cheek account of the night in a face to face
 interview in Mexico City at a city hotel,
 entitled “The Horrific Story of the ____
 _____”. Of what does this story cover plausible
 versions of?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Bust-up between Marquez &
Llosa due to which they were
  not on speaking terms for
         thirty years
MELA Quiz - Finals
3. What am I talking about?
Motive 1 : Caused by a ghost out for revenge, rather
  than Mahatma Gandhi.
Motive 2 : Protection of younger sister, who killed a
  man who attempted to rape her, with a rapist’s
  gun.
Motive 3 : Larry Page wanted to travel to India to
  get married, only to discover that he has been
  scammed.
Motive 4 : Desire to marry sister of the deceased.
Motive 5 : Recovery of an Idol.
Motive 6 : Problems caused by victim being alive.
MELA Quiz - Finals
Probable motives of the
characters in Vikas Swarup’s
    book ‘Six Suspects’
4. Who by
  Whom?
(Half points
  going, if no
  team gets
  both
  answers
  correct)
MELA Quiz - Finals
Claude Monet by Pierre
    Auguste Renoir
5. We first heard Sandeep Vinayak Prabhu on
  November 3rd 2006 till 26th Jaunary 2007, a
  total of 86 days. Then we heard him from 17th
  August 2008 for another 98 days. After that he
  was heard on 26th December 2009 for another
  84 days. And the last we heard of him was
  from October 3rd 2010 for another 96 days.
   Where did we hear him?
MELA Quiz - Finals
The Voice on Bigg Boss
6. The 1979 documentary, Best Boy by Ira Wohl
  won the Oscar for Best documentary.
  What is the India connection to this Oscar
  winning film?
MELA Quiz - Finals
The Oscar was awarded by
 Persis Khambatta, making
 her the first Indian citizen
    to present an Oscar.
7. The first instance of this featured American
  trumpeter Al Hirt and the Marching Bands
  from the University of Arizona and Grambling
  State University on January 15th, 1967.
  What am I talking about?
MELA Quiz - Finals
The First Super Bowl Half –
    Time Performance
8. In AFI’s list of Ten Greatest films in the
  category ‘Courtroom Drama’, Which film takes
  the first spot?
MELA Quiz - Finals
To Kill a Mockingbird
9. The Hank McCune Show was an American
  sitcom. NBC placed it on its national
  primetime schedule at the start of the 1950-51
  season.
McCune portrayed a television variety show
  host named after himself, and each week the
  character managed to blunder his way into a
  variety of comic predicaments.
What first did this show do?
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Used Laugh – Track
10.
              Identify Both Voices.




PS. Full points to a team which gets both correct
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Dido and AR Rahman



(Song – If I rise, OST of 127
            Hours)
11. Singers?
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Cast of GLEE


Songs – Friday ( Rebecca Black
 ) and Dancing Queen ( ABBA )
12. This Hollywood movie is, as of 2011, the
 highest non-English grossing film ever.
  Fr. William J. Fulco, a professor of ancient
 Mediterranean studies at Loyola Marymount
 University translated the original English script
 into the actual languages used in the film.
  Which film?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Passion of the Christ
13. Founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by
  William H. Donaldson and James H. Hennegan.
  Originally titled ______ Advertising it was a trade
  paper for the bill posting industry.
  Within a few years of its founding, it began to
  carry news of outdoor amusements. Widely
  known today for one 1936 innovation, it began
  coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and
  of radio in the 1920s.
  What?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Billboard
14. The 2003 Drama, The Pianist, won Best Actor
 and Best director at the Oscars.

 Where did the proceeds from the Amsterdam
 premiere go to?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Anne Frank Foundation
15. It is said that this book was written to
 educate a young king who was illiterate in the
 principles of justice. 198 pages of the 200
 pages of this document with hand painted
 illustrations with explanations, neatly
 calligraphed with ornate Persian in verse are in
 the British Museum. Only two pages are
 preserved in the Calico Textile Museum in
 Ahmedabad. Which book?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Akbarnama by Abul Fazl
15. Deodayal Mehra loved a Hindi play called
 ‘Vir Balak’ so much that he watched it
 umpteen times. He had two sons whom he
 named after the 2 brothers in the play. The
 elder son’s name was Sona.
 Mehra later named his company after the
 name of the younger son. Satyajit Ray later
 designed their logo.
  Which company?
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SCORES AFTER 15 QUESTIONS!
16. Google Doodle commemorating which
 musical composer?
  He was on the ‘Time’ magazine’s list of the
 100 most influential people of the century.
MELA Quiz - Finals
Igor Stravinsky

The Firebird, The Rite of Spring are
      his famous compositions
17. He is a communications professor at
  University of Southern California.

 In 2005, after he agreed to work on a
 project, X handed over an initial list of
 30 which, he felt, had “a Polynesian
 flavor”. That gave him “a sense of what
 kinds of sounds X had in mind”. He
 developed three different sets among
 which X chose the one with ejectives.
 After deciding the phonology, he had to
 look into morphology, syntax and
 expansion of the initial list.
What did this person on the right create?
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He is Paul Frommer, famous
    for creating the Na’vi
  language. X was James
          Cameron.
18. Who are they? Why are they dressed like
 this? (No Half points PLEASE!)
MELA Quiz - Finals
Peter Jackson and Steven
   Spielberg, producer and
Director of Tin Tin, dressed as
  Thomson and Thompson!
19.. Stunt man Bob Simmons played the role in
 the first one in 1962.
  There have been several variants of this
 sequence regarding attire, posture, the sound,
 the color etc. The early sequences showed in a
 suit and tie, until 1977, which from then on
 showed a dinner jacket and bow tie. However,
 the latest two sequences feature an open-
 necked shirt and business suit respectively.
MELA Quiz - Finals
James Bond – Gun Barrel
         Scene
20. Nominated for best editing for the Oscars in
 Fargo and No Country for Old Men, Roderick
 Jaynes never ended up winning the awards.
 But, if he did actually win the award, the
 directors of the film would collect the awar,
 since Jaynes was never present at the
 ceremony.
Why?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Roderick Jaynes is alias for Coen Bros under
which they take the editing credits.
21. This is a 1938 novel
 by English writer Evelyn
 Waugh, a satire of
 sensationalist
 journalism and foreign
 correspondence.

What is the one-word
 title of the novel, a
 common term in
 journalism?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Scoop
22. This is the movie poster of a Movie Descent.
 What was the inspiration for This particular
 poster? ( IMAGE NEXT SLIDE )
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 Salvador   Dali’s Skull Painting
 23.The book was originally titled "Four Years
 of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and
 Cowardice". But the publisher told the author
 to shorten the title. What book?
MELA Quiz - Finals
 Mein   Kampf – Adolf Hitler.
 24.
    Eugene Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the
 people’ features on the cover of a particular
 group’s album. The name of the album is
 actually a painting by Frida Kahlo.
 Which album by which group?
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25. Who writing about himself ?

 He weeps by the side of the ocean,
 He weeps on the top of the hill;
 He purchases pancakes and lotion,
 And chocolate shrimps from the mill.
 He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
 He cannot abide ginger beer:
 Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
 How pleasant to know __ ____!
MELA Quiz - Finals
 (Mr.)   Edward Lear
SCORES PLEASE
Anyone up for a 5 minute break?
 Anticlockwise   Direction though.
 26.They are spoken of in Ibn Ishaq's biography
 of Prophet Muhammad, the Sirat Rasul Allah,
 which is believed to have been written 120-
 130 years after Muhammad's death. Ibn Ishaq
 alleges that Muhammad, deviating from the
 strict monotheism of Islam, approved of the
 worshipping of al-Lat and al-'Uzza and Manat,
 who were at that time worshipped by the
 Meccans. Give the term.
MELA Quiz - Finals
The   Satanic Verses
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This
    is Eric Fischl’s Tumbling
Woman. Dedicated to people
 who jumped or fell to their
   deaths from the WTC
 28.Who is the cranky character we seen in the
 following slide next to Homer Simpson?
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Simon   Cowell
29. This was the informal name of a number of
  celebrated English racing cars, built and raced by
  Count Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop
  in the 1920s.were built and stored at Higham Park,
  Zborowski's country house at Bridge near Canterbury
  in Kent. The cars were so loud that Canterbury
  reportedly passed a by-law prohibiting them from
  entering within the city walls.


So, what was the informal name?
MELA Quiz - Finals
 Chitty   Chitty Bang Bang
 30. In the early 1900s. This term was used to
  refer to small movie theatres in America.
 The term derives from the fee of 5 cents
  charged per movie.
  Today, the term is most commonly associated
  with something else in the Entertainment
  industry.
  Which term?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Nickelodeon!
 31.All episodes of Season 5 of this sitcom
 were named after Led Zeppelin songs and
 subsequent seasons followed the same
 pattern. For the sixth season it was The Who,
 for the seventh it was The Rolling Stones and
 for the eighth season it was Queen. Which
 sitcom is this?
MELA Quiz - Finals
That   70s Show
 32.There is a school for ‘Gifted Youngsters’ at
 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a city
 in Westchester County, New York although
 every human can see it as the Westchester
 chapter of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What are the
 students who study here, collectively known
 as?
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The   X MEN
 33. It was first seen in an antique store, where a
 meek, ineffectual guy named Stanley who bought
 it as a gift for his girlfriend. It made him manic,
 uninhibited, relatively invulnerable (he could be
 damaged but always snapped back). His
 conscience disabled, Stanley went on a rampage
 of killing and maiming the many people who had
 wronged him in the past. Not surprisingly he
 wound up dead. What was the gift that he
 bought?
MELA Quiz - Finals
The   Mask
 34.Each week, Pierre and his friends organise
 what is called as ‘un diner de cons’ . He brings
 a ‘special guest’ Francois Pignon for their
 humor, but everything instead goes haywire.
 This particular 1998 movie was remade into
 which bollywood movie in 2007?
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Bheja   Fry
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Jim   Carrey
   36. Out of a total of 56, the following 9 are alive :
   Doris Day
   Queen Elizabeth II
   Brigitte Bardot
   Fidel Castro
   Chubby Checker
   Bob Dylan
   John Glenn
   Sally Ride , and,,
   Bernhard Goetz
   What am I talking about?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Those Individuals still alive
 who featured in We Didn’t
       Start the Fire
 37. The Top 5 Most common US Place names
  are as follows :
 1. Franklin ( 30 )
 2. Clinton ( 29 )
 3. ________ ( 28 )
 4. Greenville ( 25 )
 5. Salem ( 25 )


 Fill   in the Blank.
MELA Quiz - Finals
Springfield!
            Home to the
        Simpsons.
 38.
    In the movie 2001 : Space Odyssey, a
 hospital nurse who is watching over Dave
 Bowman's mother throws down a TIME
 magazine to go and check on her. The
 magazine cover is supposed to have
 photographs of the US and the Russian
 presidents. Which 2 people feature on the
 magazine?
MELA Quiz - Finals
 Arthur   C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
 39.
 "nothing  much, just a satellite phone, GPS
 locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some
 seeds.“

 What   is being talked about?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Cast   Away, the last unopened
            package.
•   40.
•   This Indian Pop Band features Madhu
    Balakrishnan (Vocals), Deepak Warrier, Deepak
    Das, Harib Mohammed, Niran Kumar, Narayan
    Unni & X. Their most famous numbers are a
    Hindi song written by X, called “Hello Sher
    Banke Tu Jung Ladd le” & a romantic number
    in Tamil, “Anbulla Azhake”. Identify X.
MELA Quiz - Finals
S   Sreesanth
 41.The pic of the Raffles Hotel in Perth and
 the Canning highway leading up to it can be
 seen in the next slide. Because the Hotel is at
 the bottom of a steep hill, the intersection
 there has had many accidents and crashes.
 This served as the inspiration of?
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Highway   to Hell
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
           Galaxy!

 PS.   This was question
        number 42 :D
 43. X can be seen briefly in The Buggles' music
  video for the 1979 song "Video Killed the
  Radio Star". In 2006 he quoted, “"My father
  died when I was just a child, and I escaped
  somehow into the music and music has been
  my best friend.”
 Who’s X ?
MELA Quiz - Finals
Hans Zimmer
 44. This 5 storey New York city tenement block
 is located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place. The
 4th floor of the building was left out for
 practical purposes, but the other floors were
 immortalized by a certain Mike Doud. How? (
 Image next slide )
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 45. One theory advanced to account for X is that the painter
  had observed an effect of the powerful volcanic eruption of
  Krakatoa in 1883: the ash that was ejected from the volcano
  left the sky tinted red in much of eastern United States and
  most of Europe and Asia from the end of November 1883 to
  mid February 1884.
 This explanation has been disputed by scholars who note
  that he was an expressive, rather than descriptive painter,
  and was therefore not primarily responsive to literal
  rendering. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the
  proximity to the site of the painting of both a
  slaughterhouse and a madhouse may have offered
  inspiration
 What?
MELA Quiz - Finals
 TheRed background in ‘ The Scream’ by
 Edvard Munch.
 46. Born in Budapest, Hungary to an Indian
  father and a Jewish mother, she was the elder
  of two daughters born. In 1921, her family
  moved to Summer Hill, Shimla in India and
  soon began learning piano and violin. At the
  age of eight, she started learning painting
  formally.
 Who?
MELA Quiz - Finals
 Amrita   Sher-Gill
When Walt Disney won those 8 awards for Snow
 White, who presented the Oscar to him?
MELA Quiz - Finals
 Shirley   Temple
 48.He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
 After the death of his parents, he wandered
 around the world, visiting places like Los
 Angeles and Paris as an artist.
MELA Quiz - Finals
 Jack   Dawson
 49. In the 17th century whose ship did
 Sir Francis H. blow up in the West Indies, later
 used as a character in Comics?
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 Red   Rackham
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 TheNational Anthem of the Newest Country –
 South Sudan, which got independence 2 days
 back! :D
LETS   CHECK THE SCORES
This theme round contains 5 questions.
The Answer to each question will have to be
  written down.
  Anytime after a question is displayed, a team
  can go for the connection.
Scores will be shown on each slide.
Five points for every correct answer to the
  question and another five points bonus if a
  team gets all five questions correct.
NON EXHAUSTIVE.
MELA Quiz - Finals
This Indian author made it to the ‘Time 100
 most influential people’ for the year 2010.
His first three novels were written during his
 tenure as an investment banker freshly out of
 college.
Who?
 His full name is Joseph X Y, although most of us
  know him only as X Y. A Brit by Nationality, he
  was born in Bombay in 1865 and died in 1936
  at the age of 70 in London.
 Pandit Nehru always described, X Y’s novel ___
  as his favorite book.
  X Y?
 Most  of X Y’s writings show a very strong
  influence from the Social life in the hill stations
  at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he
  spend his childhood. His first novel, ‘The Room
  On The Roof’ , was written at 17 and published
  at 21. It was partly based on his experiences at
  Dehra, in his small rented house on the roof
  and his friends.
 X Y?
    Approximately 230 m from where it originally
    stood on the South Side of the Thames, this
    famous reconstruction is entirely made of
    English oak and is possibly the only thatched
    roof structure in all of London, thus imitating
    an authentic 16th century structure. Thankfully,
    all safety norms have been followed this time
    around. What structure? [Picture on next
    slide]
MELA Quiz - Finals
 EXCHANGE!
 THEME   : VISHAL BHARDWAJ!
1.   Partha da for suggesting me to do a quiz
     before I leave.
2.   Kinshuk da for helping me with the venue
     and logistics.
3.   The folks at YMCA.
4.   Jayashree aunty and Soubhadra da for
     allowing me to test the questions on them.
5.   All those who turned up!
6.   And finally, my mother to have supported
     me. 
SCORES
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MELA Quiz - Finals

  • 2. 1. Short Written Round 2. 25 Questions Clockwise Infinite Bounce 3. 25 Questions Anticlockwise Infinite Bounce 4. THEME ROUND Oh, and by the way, Quizmasters decision is final on this day! :D
  • 4. 5 questions, all to be written down. 5 Points per correct answer. If a team gets all 5 right, then they receive a bonus of 5 more points. Maximum points available from this round is 30
  • 5. 1. This show has been nominated for an Emmy award five times, in the category “Outstanding Achievement in Animation”. The show mainly takes place in the fictional city of Townsville, USA. The city has a mayor who owns a hotline and has a secretary who’s face cannot be seen. Which show?
  • 6. 2. Vincent Kennedy M. founded this company in 1980 and it was called Titan Sports. In 1982 it acquired Capitol Corp. from his own father and finally this company was formed. The company lost a lawsuit to another organization and had to change its name to its present one in 2002. Which company?
  • 7. 3. It is known as raqs sharqi in Arabic, but its English name is attributed to Sol Bloom, entertainment director at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It is a popular form of exercise and entertainment today, with many different styles of the dance. Identify this style of dance which is the literal translation of the French term ‘Danse du Ventre’
  • 8.  4. Filmfare Award 2005 – Best Playback Singer  MTV Lycra Award 2006 – Best Music Style Icon  Koffee with Karan Best Debutant Award in 2007  Nominated for Best Male Debutant Actor by Filmfare in 2008.  Accolades not exhaustive, who?
  • 9. 5. Where did we find ‘cheats’ called : Taak Jhaak, Bachao and Copy?
  • 11. LETS HAVE A LOOK AT THE SCORES
  • 12. CLOCKWISE INFINITE BOUNCE 25 Questions in Total Flat scoring of 10 on every question, whether it’s a direct or a pass. If a question goes unanswered, the same team gets the following question, indefinitely.
  • 13. Five Titles : The Loss of Friends Gaining Friends Crows and Owls Loss of Gains Ill-considered action / Rash deeds CONNECT.
  • 15. The Five Books of the Panchatantra
  • 16. Rodrigo Moya took some black-and-white pictures in 1976 but had kept them secret. Much later he broke his silence in a tongue-in- cheek account of the night in a face to face interview in Mexico City at a city hotel, entitled “The Horrific Story of the ____ _____”. Of what does this story cover plausible versions of?
  • 18. Bust-up between Marquez & Llosa due to which they were not on speaking terms for thirty years
  • 20. 3. What am I talking about? Motive 1 : Caused by a ghost out for revenge, rather than Mahatma Gandhi. Motive 2 : Protection of younger sister, who killed a man who attempted to rape her, with a rapist’s gun. Motive 3 : Larry Page wanted to travel to India to get married, only to discover that he has been scammed. Motive 4 : Desire to marry sister of the deceased. Motive 5 : Recovery of an Idol. Motive 6 : Problems caused by victim being alive.
  • 22. Probable motives of the characters in Vikas Swarup’s book ‘Six Suspects’
  • 23. 4. Who by Whom? (Half points going, if no team gets both answers correct)
  • 25. Claude Monet by Pierre Auguste Renoir
  • 26. 5. We first heard Sandeep Vinayak Prabhu on November 3rd 2006 till 26th Jaunary 2007, a total of 86 days. Then we heard him from 17th August 2008 for another 98 days. After that he was heard on 26th December 2009 for another 84 days. And the last we heard of him was from October 3rd 2010 for another 96 days. Where did we hear him?
  • 28. The Voice on Bigg Boss
  • 29. 6. The 1979 documentary, Best Boy by Ira Wohl won the Oscar for Best documentary. What is the India connection to this Oscar winning film?
  • 31. The Oscar was awarded by Persis Khambatta, making her the first Indian citizen to present an Oscar.
  • 32. 7. The first instance of this featured American trumpeter Al Hirt and the Marching Bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling State University on January 15th, 1967. What am I talking about?
  • 34. The First Super Bowl Half – Time Performance
  • 35. 8. In AFI’s list of Ten Greatest films in the category ‘Courtroom Drama’, Which film takes the first spot?
  • 37. To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 38. 9. The Hank McCune Show was an American sitcom. NBC placed it on its national primetime schedule at the start of the 1950-51 season. McCune portrayed a television variety show host named after himself, and each week the character managed to blunder his way into a variety of comic predicaments. What first did this show do?
  • 40. Used Laugh – Track
  • 41. 10. Identify Both Voices. PS. Full points to a team which gets both correct
  • 43. Dido and AR Rahman (Song – If I rise, OST of 127 Hours)
  • 46. Cast of GLEE Songs – Friday ( Rebecca Black ) and Dancing Queen ( ABBA )
  • 47. 12. This Hollywood movie is, as of 2011, the highest non-English grossing film ever. Fr. William J. Fulco, a professor of ancient Mediterranean studies at Loyola Marymount University translated the original English script into the actual languages used in the film. Which film?
  • 49. Passion of the Christ
  • 50. 13. Founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by William H. Donaldson and James H. Hennegan. Originally titled ______ Advertising it was a trade paper for the bill posting industry. Within a few years of its founding, it began to carry news of outdoor amusements. Widely known today for one 1936 innovation, it began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s. What?
  • 53. 14. The 2003 Drama, The Pianist, won Best Actor and Best director at the Oscars. Where did the proceeds from the Amsterdam premiere go to?
  • 56. 15. It is said that this book was written to educate a young king who was illiterate in the principles of justice. 198 pages of the 200 pages of this document with hand painted illustrations with explanations, neatly calligraphed with ornate Persian in verse are in the British Museum. Only two pages are preserved in the Calico Textile Museum in Ahmedabad. Which book?
  • 59. 15. Deodayal Mehra loved a Hindi play called ‘Vir Balak’ so much that he watched it umpteen times. He had two sons whom he named after the 2 brothers in the play. The elder son’s name was Sona. Mehra later named his company after the name of the younger son. Satyajit Ray later designed their logo. Which company?
  • 62. SCORES AFTER 15 QUESTIONS!
  • 63. 16. Google Doodle commemorating which musical composer? He was on the ‘Time’ magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of the century.
  • 65. Igor Stravinsky The Firebird, The Rite of Spring are his famous compositions
  • 66. 17. He is a communications professor at University of Southern California. In 2005, after he agreed to work on a project, X handed over an initial list of 30 which, he felt, had “a Polynesian flavor”. That gave him “a sense of what kinds of sounds X had in mind”. He developed three different sets among which X chose the one with ejectives. After deciding the phonology, he had to look into morphology, syntax and expansion of the initial list. What did this person on the right create?
  • 68. He is Paul Frommer, famous for creating the Na’vi language. X was James Cameron.
  • 69. 18. Who are they? Why are they dressed like this? (No Half points PLEASE!)
  • 71. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg, producer and Director of Tin Tin, dressed as Thomson and Thompson!
  • 72. 19.. Stunt man Bob Simmons played the role in the first one in 1962. There have been several variants of this sequence regarding attire, posture, the sound, the color etc. The early sequences showed in a suit and tie, until 1977, which from then on showed a dinner jacket and bow tie. However, the latest two sequences feature an open- necked shirt and business suit respectively.
  • 74. James Bond – Gun Barrel Scene
  • 75. 20. Nominated for best editing for the Oscars in Fargo and No Country for Old Men, Roderick Jaynes never ended up winning the awards. But, if he did actually win the award, the directors of the film would collect the awar, since Jaynes was never present at the ceremony. Why?
  • 77. Roderick Jaynes is alias for Coen Bros under which they take the editing credits.
  • 78. 21. This is a 1938 novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondence. What is the one-word title of the novel, a common term in journalism?
  • 80. Scoop
  • 81. 22. This is the movie poster of a Movie Descent. What was the inspiration for This particular poster? ( IMAGE NEXT SLIDE )
  • 84.  Salvador Dali’s Skull Painting
  • 85.  23.The book was originally titled "Four Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice". But the publisher told the author to shorten the title. What book?
  • 87.  Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler.
  • 88.  24. Eugene Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the people’ features on the cover of a particular group’s album. The name of the album is actually a painting by Frida Kahlo. Which album by which group?
  • 91. 25. Who writing about himself ? He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill; He purchases pancakes and lotion, And chocolate shrimps from the mill. He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish, He cannot abide ginger beer: Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know __ ____!
  • 93.  (Mr.) Edward Lear
  • 95. Anyone up for a 5 minute break?
  • 96.  Anticlockwise Direction though.
  • 97.  26.They are spoken of in Ibn Ishaq's biography of Prophet Muhammad, the Sirat Rasul Allah, which is believed to have been written 120- 130 years after Muhammad's death. Ibn Ishaq alleges that Muhammad, deviating from the strict monotheism of Islam, approved of the worshipping of al-Lat and al-'Uzza and Manat, who were at that time worshipped by the Meccans. Give the term.
  • 99. The Satanic Verses
  • 102. This is Eric Fischl’s Tumbling Woman. Dedicated to people who jumped or fell to their deaths from the WTC
  • 103.  28.Who is the cranky character we seen in the following slide next to Homer Simpson?
  • 106. Simon Cowell
  • 107. 29. This was the informal name of a number of celebrated English racing cars, built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop in the 1920s.were built and stored at Higham Park, Zborowski's country house at Bridge near Canterbury in Kent. The cars were so loud that Canterbury reportedly passed a by-law prohibiting them from entering within the city walls. So, what was the informal name?
  • 109.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • 110.  30. In the early 1900s. This term was used to refer to small movie theatres in America.  The term derives from the fee of 5 cents charged per movie. Today, the term is most commonly associated with something else in the Entertainment industry. Which term?
  • 113.  31.All episodes of Season 5 of this sitcom were named after Led Zeppelin songs and subsequent seasons followed the same pattern. For the sixth season it was The Who, for the seventh it was The Rolling Stones and for the eighth season it was Queen. Which sitcom is this?
  • 115. That 70s Show
  • 116.  32.There is a school for ‘Gifted Youngsters’ at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a city in Westchester County, New York although every human can see it as the Westchester chapter of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What are the students who study here, collectively known as?
  • 118. The X MEN
  • 119.  33. It was first seen in an antique store, where a meek, ineffectual guy named Stanley who bought it as a gift for his girlfriend. It made him manic, uninhibited, relatively invulnerable (he could be damaged but always snapped back). His conscience disabled, Stanley went on a rampage of killing and maiming the many people who had wronged him in the past. Not surprisingly he wound up dead. What was the gift that he bought?
  • 121. The Mask
  • 122.  34.Each week, Pierre and his friends organise what is called as ‘un diner de cons’ . He brings a ‘special guest’ Francois Pignon for their humor, but everything instead goes haywire. This particular 1998 movie was remade into which bollywood movie in 2007?
  • 124. Bheja Fry
  • 127. Jim Carrey
  • 128. 36. Out of a total of 56, the following 9 are alive :  Doris Day  Queen Elizabeth II  Brigitte Bardot  Fidel Castro  Chubby Checker  Bob Dylan  John Glenn  Sally Ride , and,,  Bernhard Goetz  What am I talking about?
  • 130. Those Individuals still alive who featured in We Didn’t Start the Fire
  • 131.  37. The Top 5 Most common US Place names are as follows :  1. Franklin ( 30 )  2. Clinton ( 29 )  3. ________ ( 28 )  4. Greenville ( 25 )  5. Salem ( 25 )  Fill in the Blank.
  • 133. Springfield! Home to the Simpsons.
  • 134.  38. In the movie 2001 : Space Odyssey, a hospital nurse who is watching over Dave Bowman's mother throws down a TIME magazine to go and check on her. The magazine cover is supposed to have photographs of the US and the Russian presidents. Which 2 people feature on the magazine?
  • 136.  Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
  • 137.  39.  "nothing much, just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds.“  What is being talked about?
  • 139. Cast Away, the last unopened package.
  • 140. 40. • This Indian Pop Band features Madhu Balakrishnan (Vocals), Deepak Warrier, Deepak Das, Harib Mohammed, Niran Kumar, Narayan Unni & X. Their most famous numbers are a Hindi song written by X, called “Hello Sher Banke Tu Jung Ladd le” & a romantic number in Tamil, “Anbulla Azhake”. Identify X.
  • 142. S Sreesanth
  • 143.  41.The pic of the Raffles Hotel in Perth and the Canning highway leading up to it can be seen in the next slide. Because the Hotel is at the bottom of a steep hill, the intersection there has had many accidents and crashes. This served as the inspiration of?
  • 146. Highway to Hell
  • 149. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! PS. This was question number 42 :D
  • 150.  43. X can be seen briefly in The Buggles' music video for the 1979 song "Video Killed the Radio Star". In 2006 he quoted, “"My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend.”  Who’s X ?
  • 153.  44. This 5 storey New York city tenement block is located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place. The 4th floor of the building was left out for practical purposes, but the other floors were immortalized by a certain Mike Doud. How? ( Image next slide )
  • 156.  45. One theory advanced to account for X is that the painter had observed an effect of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883: the ash that was ejected from the volcano left the sky tinted red in much of eastern United States and most of Europe and Asia from the end of November 1883 to mid February 1884.  This explanation has been disputed by scholars who note that he was an expressive, rather than descriptive painter, and was therefore not primarily responsive to literal rendering. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the proximity to the site of the painting of both a slaughterhouse and a madhouse may have offered inspiration  What?
  • 158.  TheRed background in ‘ The Scream’ by Edvard Munch.
  • 159.  46. Born in Budapest, Hungary to an Indian father and a Jewish mother, she was the elder of two daughters born. In 1921, her family moved to Summer Hill, Shimla in India and soon began learning piano and violin. At the age of eight, she started learning painting formally.  Who?
  • 161.  Amrita Sher-Gill
  • 162. When Walt Disney won those 8 awards for Snow White, who presented the Oscar to him?
  • 164.  Shirley Temple
  • 165.  48.He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After the death of his parents, he wandered around the world, visiting places like Los Angeles and Paris as an artist.
  • 167.  Jack Dawson
  • 168.  49. In the 17th century whose ship did Sir Francis H. blow up in the West Indies, later used as a character in Comics?
  • 170.  Red Rackham
  • 173.  TheNational Anthem of the Newest Country – South Sudan, which got independence 2 days back! :D
  • 174. LETS CHECK THE SCORES
  • 175. This theme round contains 5 questions. The Answer to each question will have to be written down. Anytime after a question is displayed, a team can go for the connection. Scores will be shown on each slide. Five points for every correct answer to the question and another five points bonus if a team gets all five questions correct. NON EXHAUSTIVE.
  • 177. This Indian author made it to the ‘Time 100 most influential people’ for the year 2010. His first three novels were written during his tenure as an investment banker freshly out of college. Who?
  • 178.  His full name is Joseph X Y, although most of us know him only as X Y. A Brit by Nationality, he was born in Bombay in 1865 and died in 1936 at the age of 70 in London.  Pandit Nehru always described, X Y’s novel ___ as his favorite book. X Y?
  • 179.  Most of X Y’s writings show a very strong influence from the Social life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spend his childhood. His first novel, ‘The Room On The Roof’ , was written at 17 and published at 21. It was partly based on his experiences at Dehra, in his small rented house on the roof and his friends.  X Y?
  • 180. Approximately 230 m from where it originally stood on the South Side of the Thames, this famous reconstruction is entirely made of English oak and is possibly the only thatched roof structure in all of London, thus imitating an authentic 16th century structure. Thankfully, all safety norms have been followed this time around. What structure? [Picture on next slide]
  • 183.  THEME : VISHAL BHARDWAJ!
  • 184. 1. Partha da for suggesting me to do a quiz before I leave. 2. Kinshuk da for helping me with the venue and logistics. 3. The folks at YMCA. 4. Jayashree aunty and Soubhadra da for allowing me to test the questions on them. 5. All those who turned up! 6. And finally, my mother to have supported me. 