literature post 19th century

1. Literachure Quiz
literature post 19th century

2. Rules:
● 20 questions, clockwise for first 10 and then anticlockwise
● +15/-5 on pounce and +10/0 on bounce
● Blanks indicative everywhere
● Lit’s Go!

3. 1.
A sentence was parodied by Ernest Hemingway after a brief time in Paris:
"a stone is a _____(5) is a rock is a boulder is a pebble." This also appears in
his 1940 novel in which there is yet another parody: "a rose is a rose is an
onion." After a (perhaps bitter) falling out, the sentence became, "a bitch is
a bitch is a bitch is a bitch."
FITB with the name of a writer, who once said, “ America is my country,
but Paris is my hometown.”

4. Gertrude Stein
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

5. 2.
This novel is regarded as one of the best works of Hemingway, and was
almost awarded a Pulitzer in 1941 but for a controversy. The title refers to
the tradition of something which is done when a person dies. Metallica's
second album Ride the Lightning (1984), features a song of the same name
which is a lyrical adaptation of a particular scene from the book.
Give me the title of the book.

7. 3.
The term X Age was coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald to refer to the decade
after World War I and before the stock market crash in 1929.
Most widely accepted etymology of X goes like this-"jasm" derives from
the slang term "jism", which the Historical Dictionary of American Slang
defines as "spirit; energy; spunk."
"Jism" also means semen or sperm, the meaning that predominates today,
and the modern form of which is one letter change away from the word in
question(X).
ID the word X.

8. Jazz
(jizz→jazz)

9. 4.
Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by the
Indian Ismail Merchant and the American James Ivory. The films were
usually based on the works of E.M. Forster, and reached its heydays in the
80s with the release of films like “A Room with a View”(won three Oscars
in 1985).
Out of their 44 movies together, 23 were scripted by Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala, Ivory’s partner. She is the only person to have a unique
combination of certain awards. What special record does she hold?

10. Only person ever to have won a Booker and
an Academy Award

11. 5.
The Marabar caves form the fictional setting of E.M. Forster’s A Passage
to India. They serve as an important plot location and motif in the novel.
The caves however are not entirely made up. They are, in fact, based on
the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India.
What real life location is Marabar based on?

12. Barabar Caves, Jehanabad(Bihar)

13. 6.
John Updike is one of only three people to have won Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction more than once. His most famous work is his ______(6) series-the
novels titled ______, Run; ______ Redux; ______ Is Rich; ______ at Rest; and the
novella ______ Remembered.
The main character portrayed in a 2002 musical film went by the
nickname ______ and has some similarities to the protagonist of the ______
series. The movie also features a song called ______ Run.
Give me the blank.

14. Rabbit

15. 7.
X Prize for the Popularisation of Science is an award given by UNESCO
for presenting scientific ideas to lay people. It was created in 1952,
following a donation from Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the X
Foundation Trust. The first award went to Louis de Broglie and since then
many sci-fi writers have also been bestowed with the prize.
What is the name of the award?

16. Kalinga Prize

17. 8.
This is a British award given to the best sci-fi novel published first in the
UK the previous year. It is named after the British author who gave a grant
to establish the award in 1987. Incidentally, he also received the Kalinga
Award in 1961.
His most famous work was the book made into a 1968 epic sci-fi film.
Apparently, he worked concurrently with the screenplay of the movie and
the completed book was published after the movie’s release.
Give me the name of the author/award.

18. Arthur C. Clarke
-On one of the sets of 2001:A Space Odyssey-

19. 9. ID this book that received the first Arthur C.
Clarke Award in 1987

21. 10.
The similarity in their names is pivotal to the plot of a certain series. The
name of one of the lead characters in the show is reminiscent of the real
life poet. They share the same initials, a fact which ultimately pointed
towards this character in the show. Quite fittingly, the poet’s works, like
“Leaves of Grass”, have been featured and quoted on various junctures of
the show.
Name both of them.

22. Walter White and Walt Whitman

23. 11.
This is a snap from “What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!”. This episode is
unusual in that only Charlie and Snoopy are the only Peanuts characters
to appear on the episode. In this special animated TV special, Snoopy has a
nightmare about being an Arctic sled dog. Which novel is this episode
based on?

25. 12.
_____ _____ ____ ____: The Magical Car was the last work of Ian Fleming which
he unfortunately did not live to see published. He took his inspiration for
the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called "_____ ____ ____".
It was also loosely adapted into a movie of the same name in 1968.
Give me the name of the book.

27. 13.
The screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was co-written by Roald Dahl.
At the age of eight, he and his friends were punished by the headmaster
after putting a dead mouse in a jar of X at the local sweet shop. X were a
favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the World Wars.
They feature in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(the book) as the
Everlasting X. Also called jawbreakers(due to obvious reasons), their
name derives from a slang for mouth used in the UK.
Give me X.

28. Gobstoppers
Gob is slang for mouth

29. 14.
The Calcutta Chromosome is a medical thriller, written by Amitava Ghosh,
and the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke award in 1997. On whose life and
works is the book based on?

30. Sir Ronald Ross

31. 15. Give the blanked out title(a pun).

33. 16.
She is Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988. Lauren
Weisberger, a former assistant to Wintour, came out with a novel in 2003.
One of the lead characters in the novel, Miranda Priestly, is supposedly
based on Lauren’s harrowing experience with Wintour. Miranda treats her
subordinates in a manner that borders on emotional and psychological
abuse. What is the name of the book?

35. 17.
Miniver Cheevy is a narrative poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
that tells the story of a hopeless romantic who spends his days thinking
about what might have been if only he had been born earlier in time.
Golden Age Fallacy is the idea or belief that things were better in the past
and has been a popular myth since ancient Greece.
Connect the two to a Woody Allen movie.

37. 18.
At some point in your childhood, you may have come across Macavity the
Mystery Cat, a fictional criminal mastermind created by T.S. Eliot. He also
became the main villain in the Cats musical, which has been based on
Eliot’s book. Macavity is a literary allusion to X.
In a letter, Eliot wrote, “I have done a new cat modelled on X….”. Macavity
is a pun on X’s name. When the investigators reach the crime scene,
Macavity’s simply not there! Thus ‘cavity’ implies the absence/void of the
criminal at the scene of crime and hence the pun.
Who is X?

38. Professor Moriarty

39. 19.
Among William Golding’s most famous works, apart from the Lord of the
Flies, is this trilogy. A nautical series of novels, it was also made into a BBC
drama of the same name with Benedict Cumberbatch as the protagonist.
The first book in the trilogy got him the Man Booker in 1980.
The phrase derives from the Bible, used to indicate the furthest reaches
of man’s dominion. Nowadays it can be used to mean a lot of effort/doing
everything you possibly can.
Give me the phrase.

40. To the Ends of the Earth

41. 20.
Eric Arthur Blair was born in this colonial bungalow in Motihari, Bihar. In
2014, the Bihar government announced plans to conserve and restore the
dilapidated building, in order to make it the world’s first museum
dedicated to this author. Who is Eric Arthur Blair better known as?

42. George Orwell