3. Acknowledgements
• This quiz is brought to you by BCQC - COEP Quiz Club
• Quiz set by Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate
• Special thanks to BCQC - COEP Quiz Club for
moderating the quiz & Chinmay Tadwalkar for sponsoring
prizes
• Huge shoutout to the admin team.
4. Instructions
• The quiz will have 4 rounds (2 written rounds and 2 IR)
• The sequence will be IR, written, IR, written.
• No negative marking for any question.
• An IR round will have 12 questions each (Total = 24 Q’s)
• A Written round will have 5 questions each (Total = 10 Q’s)
• The QM’s decision will be final and binding.
• May the best team win!
5. Infinite Rebound 1
• Clockwise round.
• Standard bounce and pounce rules apply.
• +10 on directs, 2 directs rule applies.
• Infinite pounces, +10/-10 on pounce.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.
6. Q.1.
• Abbott and Costello were a comedy double act by the
team of William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello whose
work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television
made them a popular comedy team during the 1940s and
early 1950s.
• Their patter routine "Who's on First?" is one of the best-
known comedy routines of all time and set the framework
for many of their best-known comedy bits.
• Why were they back in spotlight recently OR which
fictional duo from a recently released film is named after
them?
8. Answer
The two aliens who make the first contact with the humans
in the film "Arrival" are named Abbott & Costello
9. Q.2.
• This is a theatrical medium or as a performance art which
involves acting out a story through body motions, without use
of speech and is not to be confused with silent comedy.
• This art form has its origins in Ancient Greece and takes its
name from a single masked dancer called Pantomimus.
• Ravish Kumar, a news anchor at NDTV, recently used this art
form in his show "Prime Time" to protest the decision of I&B
Ministry after it announced that NDTV will be taken off-air for
24 hours on November 9.
• Which art form? (Not to be confused with a popular internet
phenomenon)
• Also, the same show brought back into news a popular song
from the 1969 film Aaradhna, sung by Mohammed Rafi and
Lata Mangeshkar.
• Which song, which apparently trended on social media after he
used it in his show.
11. Answer
Mime & Baghon Mein Bahar Hai
(He asked the mime actors who were portrayed as
‘authority’ if he can ask them as simple a question as
“Bagon main bahar hai?”)
12. Q.3.
• Maulana was an Asiatic lion at Gir Forest National Park.
• He was amongst the oldest lions in National Park, who
passed away recently due to old age.
• Where you would have seen Maulana, along with seven
other lions?
• Image on next slide.
16. Q.4.
• Which organization, headed by K Durga Prasad, has
published comics named Sardar Post: Ek Shaurya Gatha,
Veer Brighunandan, Shurveer Prakash, Janbaz Elango,
Ayodhya ke Shoorvir and Diler Divyanshu, to honor the
exploits of its officers and men.
19. Q.5.
• While the first part of this movie trilogy is inspired from
Hamlet, the second part of this trilogy is based on Romeo
and Juliet.
• The 1 1/2th part of the movie trilogy (i.e. midquel to other
two parts) is said to be somewhat influenced by a play
named "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".
• Which movie series?
26. Q.7.
• According to Samuel Johnson, it is the last refuge of
scoundrel.
• According to Henry David Thoreau, it is a maggot in their
heads.
• According to Oscar Wilde, it is the virtue of vicious.
• The image on the next slide is an allegory of the topic
which we are talking about at the "Monument to the Fallen
for Spain" in Madrid.
• What are these three people talking about and what is the
allegory of the sculpture, also a hotly debated topic in
recent times?
• Image on next slide.
30. Q.8.
• This is a song named "Maharashtra Desha" released by
Bharatiya Digital Party, a YouTube channel.
• The male vocalist is Gandhaar, an upcoming singer.
• Who is the female vocalist, who first came into spotlight
for the cover of Can't Take My Eyes off You, with the cups,
inspired from a song by Anna Kendrick and soon became
an Internet sensation.
• Id the female vocalist.
• Video on next slide.
34. Q.9.
• X's contributions to the literary works of Y are relatively
unknown.
• It is said that X acted as an unofficial copy editor for Y,
providing line-by-line corrections to the books written by Y.
• The corrections which X provided were factual and
grammatical rather than ideological.
• In a certain book written by Y named "The Story of a
Shipwrecked Sailor", X pointed out that there was a mistake in
the calculation of the speed of the boat.
• In another book written by Y named "Chronicle of a Death
Foretold", X pointed out an error in the specifications of a
hunting rifle.
• Also, X offered advice about the compatibility of bullets with
guns used by Y's characters.
• Id X and Y, whose friendship is a central theme of a certain
book written by Angel Esteban and Stephanie Panichelli.
37. Q.10.
• This is a song named Hey Dil Kunacha from the movie
"Saavli Premachi".
• Id the actor from the song and tell me something done by
the actor in the song, which is departure from what he
would commonly do at other place with which we normally
associate him.
• Video on next slide.
41. Q.11.
• In October 2016, investigative reporter Claudio Gatti published
an article which relied on financial records related to some real
estate transactions and royalties payments, to draw the
conclusion that Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator of Indian
origin, is the real author behind the Neapolitian Novels, a series
of books that follows the lives of two perceptive and intelligent
girls, Lenù Greco and Lila Cerullo.
• This article was criticized by many in the literary world as a
violation of privacy.
• British novelist Matt Haig tweeted, "Think the pursuit to
discover the ‘real’ X is a disgrace and also pointless. A writer’s
truest self is the books they write."
• However, a few others have suggested that knowledge about
X's identity is indeed relevant, as X has now published her first
non - fiction titled "Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey".
• Id X.
44. Q.12.
According to a Zurich based researcher Kynan Eng,
Courage Under Fire took 300000 dollars,
Saving Private Ryan took 100000 dollars,
Titan A.E. took 200 billion dollars,
Syriana took 50000,
Green Zone took 50000,
Elysium took 100 million dollars,
Interstellar took 500 billion dollars and
The Martian took 200 billion dollars.
What are we talking about here?
48. Written Round 1 – Cars & Films
• Write down your answers on a piece of paper
• 5 images of cars will be shown
• Id the movie with which the cars are famously associated
• +10 for every right answer
• +10 bonus if you get 50/50
68. Infinite Rebound 2
• Anti - clockwise round.
• Standard bounce and pounce rules apply.
• +10 on directs, 2 directs rule applies.
• Infinite pounces, +10/-10 on pounce.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.
69. Q.1.
• This is a 2001 film directed by Stanislaw Mucha about
____’s extended family, whom he never met, from rural
Slovakia.
• The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through
eastern Slovakia to interview ___'s surviving relatives,
ethnic-Ruthenians living near the Polish border in Miková.
• FITB or Id the blanked out part from the image.
• Image on next slide
73. Q.2.
• There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this
unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert ____ ,
who had been the skipper of the White Star Line’s
passenger vessel Olympic.
• He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's
even more famous sister ship Titanic before Titanic was
officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912
maiden voyage.
• He also shares his last name with a saltwater fish found in
North Atlantic Ocean and associated seas.
• Give me the famous last name, which makes it quite
appropriate considering comic culture.
76. Q.3.
• This is a popular Pakistani music television series which features
live studio-recorded music performances by underground artists.
• The show is produced by a popular beverage brand owned by
Nestle.
• The artists are recruited and mentored by Xulfi, a popular
Pakistani singer and songwriter.
• For this show, they recruit young, exceptionally talented, but
unknown musicians who can sing and can play a variety of
instruments and they are trained under Xulfi.
• The show is currently in its fourth season and has churned out
some exceptionally talented singers.
• However, the most well known discovery from this show is of a
certain Pakistani singer, whose has a bachelors degree in
engineering and mathematics and has done some playback
singing for the band "Soch".
• Id the show and the singer.
79. Q.4.
• Several rumours and misconceptions have grown up
around this 1942 film, one being that ____ was originally
chosen to play the lead.
• This originates in a press release issued by
the studio early on in the film's development, but by that
time the studio already knew that he was going into the
Army, and he was never seriously considered and the role
went to Humphrey Bogart.
• Id the original choice (as per rumours), who was best
known for latter half of his career for an entirely different
reason and also Id the much acclaimed movie.
82. Q.5.
• Which artist, recipient of the Turner Prize (1991) seems to
have an understanding with Surrey Nanosystems over a
particular product that they develop?
• On the next slide is a poster by Federico Babani that
shows some commonly observed features in the
aforementioned artist’s works.
86. Q.6.
• “Sanctuary” was a single released by a British band in
1980.
• The cover art of this single sparked controversy over its
depiction.
• The band manager explained the artwork’s concept :
“The artwork is very tongue in cheek, as usual. At that
time, Maggie had visited the old USSR and, following her
tough stance with them, had been christened the Iron
Lady. ___ took offence to this, and even more so when
she started taking our posters.
• Which band and what was depicted on the original cover?
88. Answer
Iron Maiden’s mascot Eddie is wielding a knife while
crouching over the corpse of then British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
89. Q.7.
• If Tariq Ali, a left-wing novelist is to believed, Begum Akbar
Jahan, the wife of three-time J&K CM Sheikh Abdullah
and Farooq Abdullah’s mother, was previously married to
an Arab Karam Shah.
• He disappeared after Calcutta newspaper Liberty reported
that he was actually X, while he was stationed in India at
that time.
• X enjoyed recognition as a writer, an archaeologist and a
military officer.
• The breadth and variety of his activities and associations,
and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned
him international fame as _____.
• Id X, who was the subject of a popular 1962 movie.
92. Q.8.
• The original work depicts a bartender, dressed in a white
uniform behind a triangular bar, a man in a suit and hat
with his back to the observer, and a younger couple to the
left of that man.
• A similar setting was created in Gottfried Helnwein’s
painting featuring Elvis Presley as the bartender, Marilyn
Monroe and Humphrey Bogart as the couple, and James
Dean, whose back is no longer toward the viewer but is
turned and taking his characteristically “cool” stance while
seated. Helnwein tried to connect the bleak mood of the
original artwork and the tragic fate of decade’s best loved
celebrities in his version.
• Id both the artworks.
95. Q.9.
• First published in 1951, it is considered as the most
famous work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
• It has been suggested that it was written for Thomas'
dying father, although he did not die until just before
Christmas 1952.
• Which poem am I talking about, that generated interest
around two years back over its repeated use by a fictional
professor cum scientist and by other supporting
characters?
98. Q.10.
• The text was considered lost by colonial era scholars, until a
manuscript was discovered in 1905.
• Written in 1st millennium BCE Sanskrit, it can be interpreted in
many ways, with English and Sanskrit being grammatically and
syntactically different languages.
• It has been called, by Patrick Olivelle—whose translation was
published in 2013 by Oxford University Press—as the "most
difficult translation project I have ever undertaken", parts of the
text are still opaque and the translation of X's intrigue and
political text remains unsatisfactory.
• Name the ancient Indian treatise, which according to former
NSA Shiv Shankar Menon, gives a realist description of the art
of running a state.
101. Q.11.
• Spin City
• The Nanny
• The Associate
• The Little Rascals
• Zoolander
• Eddie
• Sabrina, The teenage witch
(uncredited)
• Monk (uncredited)
• Marmalade
• Horrorween
• The Jeffersons
• Ghosts Can't do it
• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• The Pickle (uncredited)
• Across the Sea of Time
• Nightman
• The Job
• Suddenly Susan
• Sex and the City
• The Drew Carey Show
• Two Weeks Notice
The most famous and commonly known is missing from it &
tell me what this list is about?
103. Answer
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
These are the cameo Appearances of Donald Trump
104. Q.12.
• _____, Sunrise (French: _____, soleil levant) is a
painting by Claude Monet depicting the port of Le Havre,
his hometown.
• Monet claimed that the title was due to his hazy painting
style in his depiction of the subject: "They asked me for a
title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view
of Le Havre, and I said: ‘Put _____.’ ”
• FITB and also tell me what trend did it inspire?
• Image on next slide.
109. Written Round 2 – Simpsons Art
• Write down your answers on a piece of paper
• 5 images will be shown
• Id the artwork and artist from which the images are inspired
• +10 for every right answer (+5: Artwork & +5: Artist)
• +10 bonus if you get 50/50
