A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
The M&M Quiz - The Music and Movie Quiz
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2. Prelims
• 20 questions, with a total of 25 points
• Q 11-15 are starred, Q16-20 have two parts each
• In case of a tie, number of stars will be considered
• If a tie still persists, longest streak will be considered
3. 1. What scene?
• Bosco is a brand of chocolate
syrup first produced in 1928.
• Casaba melon is a variety of the
honeydew melon.
• These were used to create in an iconic
scene in the history of film.
5. 2. What style?
• X is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid 1940s which features songs
characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord
changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity and
improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales
and occasional references to the melody.
• X forms part of the title of an anime, set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of
a bounty hunter crew travelling on their spaceship called X. It explores
philosophical concepts including existentialism and loneliness.
7. 3. List of what?
• Looking back at the audience in a dark theatre
• Noticing the details in films that no one sees
• Skipping stones at the Canal St. Martin
• Dipping fingers into a sack of grain
• Cracking the top layer of a crème brulee with a teaspoon
• Surprising strangers by returning something they have lost
9. 4. What song?
• X was a rock and roll classic recorded in 1955 by Y. It was inspired/adapted from
the Western swing fiddle tune “Ida Red” recorded in 1938. The producer
however, thought that the title was too rural.
• Spotting a mascara box on the floor of the studio he said, “Well, hell, let’s name
the damn thing X”, altering the spelling to avoid a suit by the cosmetic company.
The lyrics were rewritten accordingly, the song was recorded and the rest is
history.
11. 5. What phrase?
• Drinking an entire glass of sharbat
• Killing an old lady with a gun
• Both these events, from two films around three decades apart, are
preceded by a particular phrase.
15. 7. Part of the soundtrack of a movie. ID X.
• Snare Liftoff (I Want to Be One of the Greats)
• Overture
• "Too Hip to Retire"
• X
• "Fletcher’s Song in Club"
• "Caravan"
• "What's Your Name"
(If You Want the Part, Earn It)
• "Practicing"
• "Invited"
• "Call From Dad"
• "Accident"
• "Hug from Dad"
• "Drum & Drone"
• "Upswingin"
17. 8. Name either the dance or the chilli
• X is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an
internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th century, derived from
the English country dance and adopted at the court of France. It was brought to
America and there took on folkloric forms that still exist in many Latin American
countries.
• X is the popular name for "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" ("Love is a rebellious bird")
the entrance aria of the title character from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen.
• Change the last letter of X and you get the name of a variety of chilli pepper, rated
1,00,000–3,50,000 on the Scoville scale. It is a popular ingredient in hot sauces and
other spicy foods.
19. 9. What film?
• X is a 1992 Indo-Japanese animation feature film director Yugo Sako and Ram
Mohan. The original English version with Sanskrit songs was screened and
released on home video.
• The film was made as a part of the 40th anniversary of India-Japan diplomatic
relations and was worked on by teams from both countries.
21. 10. What style?
• X is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-
1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new
form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and
blues (R&B).
• The word initially referred (and still refers) to a strong odor. In 1784 X meaning
"musty" was first documented, which, in turn, led to a sense of "earthy" that was
taken up around 1900 in early jazz slang for something "deeply or strongly felt".
In early jam sessions, musicians would encourage one another to "get down" by
telling one another, "Now, put some stank on it!".
23. 11. Which film?
• X as an expression has become shorthand for the concept of spiritual
transcendence. The film has become a favorite of some Buddhists, who see its
themes of selflessness and rebirth as reflections of their own spiritual messages.
In the Roman Catholic tradition, it has been seen as a representation
of purgatory. Jews find great significance in the fact that the protagonist is saved
only after he performs mitzvahs (good deeds) and is returned to earth, not
heaven, to perform more." It has even been described by some religious leaders
as the "most spiritual film of our time”.
25. 12. What song?
• Although the character of Debashish plays a significant role of this 1959 classic,
his face is never revealed. The only glimpse we get is in a tantalizingly elusive
scene showing him with his back turned to the camera, singing one of the most
poignant love songs of all time. The Hindi version from 1969 is less enigmatic,
with the character, played by Dharmendra, his face distinctly revealed.
27. 13. What is X?
• The X was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing
projected motion pictures. The name was concocted from the name of the US five
cent coin, and an ancient Greek word meaning “roofed-over theater”.
• Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theatres charged five
cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915.
• 90s kids know this term in a different context.
29. 14. What is X?
• The X is a rock formation in central Greece,
hosting one of the largest and most precipitously
built complexes of the eastern orthodox
monasteries.
• The name means “lofty” or “elevated”, and
inspired the name of a studio album by a popular
2000s band. It is the most successful band in the
history of the Alternative songs chart, selling 27
million copies by 2013. Like most of the other
albums of the band, it is about depression, rage
and anxiety.
31. 15. Exhaustive list in order, of what?
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Karl Marx
3. Cleopatra
4. Atulya Ghosh
5. Helen of Troy
6. Shakespeare
7. Mao Tse Tung
8. Don Bradman
9. Rani Rasmani
10. Robert F. Kennedy
11. Tekchand Thakur
12. Napoleon Bonaparte
13. Mumtaz Mahal
33. 16. The confection and the ballet
• An X can be a piece of dragée or hard candy made of hardened sugar in a
small round or oval shape. The word came in general usage in the 1600s,
when it was largely a luxury product.
• In a non-traditional 21st-century take-off on the word in a recipe for home
cooks, dried fruit is chopped fine and combined with chopped
almonds, honey, and aromatic spices, such as fennel seed, caraway seed,
and cardamom. This mixture is then be rolled into balls, then coated in
sugar or shredded coconut.
• This confection is most associated with Christmas because of a certain
composer , who included a dance with X in its title in one of his ballets.
35. 17. Which director and what film?
• There is something incredibly lucky about the young college romance theme for
debutants. Love Story, Rocky, Ek Duje Ke Liye , Betaab ---- the formula seemed
infallible. Director X went back to that.
• His young cousin would play the boy and the Miss India 1984, who had done an ad
film for his video company before, would play the girl. Two relatively unknown
faces, confident and urban, these two suddenly became the face of Hindi cinema.
37. 18. What song?
• When asked at a TV conference where X was located, Y replied: "Oh, that's some
place in Mexico, it's across the border. It's noted for its Coke factory.“Al Kooper,
who played electric guitar on the first recording of the song, suggested that it
was located on a stretch of Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, "an area infested
with whore houses, sleazy bars and porno supermarkets totally beyond
renovation or redemption".
• The song opens with a report that "they're selling postcards of the hanging", and
notes "the circus is in town". Critics have connected this song with a lynching in
the 1920s of three black men in Duluth, Minnesota which is Y’s birthplace.
43. Finals
• 30 questions, with 3 parts each, every fifth question is an audio
• Infinite pounce and rolling bounce applies
• On pounce, correct answer is worth +30, incorrect is worth -10
• On bounce, each part is worth +10, all three correct gets +30
44. 1. The role and the two films
• The director couldn’t finalise an actress for the role, after meeting several
octogenarians who were either too senile or given to cosmetics and artificial
mannerisms. Finally, he visited the house of a resident in a red light district in
Calcutta. She agreed to play the part, a role which has made her immortal.
• On the same theme, name another film released five years prior, which happens
to be the most well-known work of a quinquagenarian, a silent-era actress and
fashion icon, well past her prime but still craving the limelight.
46. 2. The actor and the two films
• X is a 1978 film based on a Broadway musical, starring Y. It is a named after a
youth subculture that was popularized in the 50s and early 60s in urban
America. Rock and roll music, rockabilly and doo-wop were major parts of the
culture. It was so called because of a generic product used in their hair.
• Incidentally, another 50s song was famously used in a dance scene in a 1994 film
Z, also starring Y. According to the director, the music added an evocative
element of sound to the narrative, and the song's lyrics of "Pierre" and
"Mademoiselle" gave the scene a "uniquely 50s French New Wave dance
sequence feel".
48. 3. The artist and the two songs
• According to biographers, X composed the melody of Y in a dream and on waking, he
hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it. A substitute working
lyric was used till the actual lyrics were written, which went “Scrambled eggs/Oh my
baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs“.
• X also said that he had the idea of Z after he had a dream about his mother during a
particularly tense period in his life. The reference to ---- was not biblical. He explained
that his mother, who died of cancer when he was fourteen, was the inspiration for the
phrase. “It was great to visit with her again. I felt very blessed to have that dream. She
got me writing Z”, he said.
50. 4. The two films and the song
• Given what the tabloids had to say at the time, people assumed that X was about
the real-life love triangle between the actors on screen. However, the original
choice for the two female leads were Padmini Kolhapure and Parveen Babi. A
recasting was done later at the suggestion of the male lead.
• Another film, released twenty years later, features a song that perfectly captures
the love triangle which forms the subplot of the film. The song does so by
seamlessly blending Indian instruments with a Western orchestra, with
juxtaposition of Hindi and English lyrics.
52. 5. The group, the song and the singer (AUDIO)
• Sæglópur is a song by X, released in 2006 as a single from their 2005 album. It has
famously been used in the trailer of Life of Pi and more recently, in Aquaman.
• Another song Y from the same album was dubbed "The Money Song", as the
group was certain they had written a song which would have commercial success.
It is the group's most successful single, and considered the best-known song
within its genre. Y shares its name (with a slight spelling alteration) with a
famous restaurant chain in Kolkata, known for its cheap booze.
• Which famous Rat pack member sings this song, also titled the “Money Song”?
54. 6. The two dances and the title
• X is an 18th century dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3/4 time. It
was often used as a movement in the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart.
• Y is a 19th century dance for two people, also in 3/4 time, which was popular in
the ballrooms of Vienna.
• The “ZY” (Z being an anagram of X) is a Y composed by Chopin in 1847.
Contrary to popular belief, , its nickname was actually intended to mean "small",
and the composer did not intend for it to be played within a stipulated time limit
as the title might indicate.
56. 7. The two films and the phrase
• "It's Only a Paper Moon" is a song published in 1933. It was famously sung by a character
in a 1951 film, a song which represents the façade put up by her.
• The actress playing the character in question received an Academy Award and a New York
Film Critic’s circle award for the role. She had received the same set of awards for another
iconic role in an epic film released 12 years ago.
• And speaking of paper, what phrase completes the lyrics in the title track of an iconic film :
• “ jaa ud jaa pyaase bhanvare
Ras na milega khaaron men
______ __ _____ jahaan khilte hain
Baith na un gulazaaro men”
58. 8. The three singers
• A classical song from a 1956 film “Basant Bahar” saw the voices of X and Y being
pitched against one another in a musical duel. Although Y, the voice of the
protagonist is seen to emerge victorious in the end, it is said that Y was very
reluctant to sing the song and was incredibly nervous, since X was a seasoned
classical music veteran.
• 12 years later, a strange turn of events saw the voices of Y and Z being pitched
against each other in another musical duel. This time however, Y was not
amused at the idea of “losing” in the duel while Z, the voice of the protagonist,
triumphed; especially because Z, unlike Y, had never had any classical training.
60. 9. The film, the song and the phrase
• With six entries, X is by far the most represented film on AFI's list of “100 Years...
100 Movie Quotes”. One of these happens to be the last line spoken in the film,
and talks of the “beginning” of something.
• One of them, at no.28, mentions the name of a song Y, originally written in 1931
but made famous due to its use in the film. The song was voted No. 2 on
the AFI's “100 Years...100 Songs” list.
• Another iconic line, at no.32 in the list, is believed to be the origin of a phrase
used to refer to scapegoats rather than actual perpetrators of the crime in
question, as is evidenced from the plot and title of a 1995 film.
62. 10. The two films and the line (AUDIO)
• A clip from the final scene of an iconic film, referencing a famous monologue
from a film released around 25 years before it. The clip stops just before the most
famous line of the entire monologue.
63. Raging Bull
On the Waterfront
I could’ve had class, I could’ve been a contender
64. 11. The song and the two films
• X is an American western folk ballad composed in 1884. It has some pretty
gruesome lyrics for a children’s song, and describes the unfortunate death of a
little girl.
• Reference to the song comes up in a 2004 American rom-com, since the female
lead shares her name with the girl in the song.
• The tune was used in 1956 in a brilliant ode to a city, which shares its title with a
film released 60 years later.
66. 12. FITB and the two characters
• Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical “Cats” deals with a group of felines called Jellicle cats or
Jellicles. The name is derived from an attempt by T.S. Eliot's infant niece to say “____ ______
cat”.
• Old X is described as an ancient, wise cat and the leader of the Jellicle tribe who has "lived
many lives in succession" and is respected by the other cats and humans around him. His
name derives from the fifth book of the Old Testament.
• Y is a female cat described as refined, but also very troubled and skittish. She shares her
name with the Greek goddess of the harvest and growth.
• Alliteration, anyone?
68. 13. The director, the username and the biopic
• The director of this 2010 biographical drama has included an interesting Easter
egg in one of the scenes where the protagonist uses a fake Facebook profile to
cheat on an art exam. The username he uses in the fake profile is a direct
reference to a certain “counterfeit character” who plays a central role in another
film by the same director released 11 years before the biopic.
70. 14. Both artists and either song
• X is a song by Otis Redding in 1965. But when another singer recorded it in 1967, it
became a superhit and came to be known as her signature song. Redding's version is a
plea from a desperate man, who doesn’t care if her woman does him wrong, as long as
she treats him well. The 1967 version is a declaration from a strong, confident woman,
who knows that she never does her man wrong, and hence deserves to be treated well.
The song was a landmark for the feminist movement.
• Y is a song by Robert Hazard from 1979, written from a male viewpoint. However, the
1982 female version became way more popular. Unlike Hazard’s punk rock version,
this one was a synthesizer backed anthem, and has been described as a strong feminist
statement and an anthem of female solidarity.
72. 15. The composer and the two films (AUDIO)
• A unique fusion of this song composed by X and Beethoven’s fifth symphony is
part of the soundtrack of a 2013 film inspired by the life and works of a famous
film director. It shares its name with a 1960 film by the same director.
• Google the name of a 1961 film by the same director and the search yields a film
called “E-flat”, rated 7.2 by IMDb.
74. 16. The novel/musical, the food and the product
• X is a food consisting of some type of cereal—oat, wheat etc, boiled
in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk
than eaten. Hot malted milk is a form of X, although the manufacturers of such
products like Y avoid calling it so, owing to the negative associations attached to
the word in popular culture, owing to its use in a 19th century novel, which has
been adapted into a British musical.
• Y, a common product in India, forms the basis of a very similar scenario in a
scene from a 1988 film, which has become a staple of meme culture.
76. 17. The three phrases
• The Mandela effect is a psychological phenomenon where a person recalls something
that did not happen or that something happened differently from the way it happened.
• A phrase from Disney’s first full-length film of 1937 is a classic example. Despite
common knowledge, the first two words of the phrase are not the same, but rather
alliterative.
• Another example comes from a 1975 thriller in which a famous dialogue, though
actually in the second person, is more commonly and erroneously thought to be in the
first person.
• Perhaps one of the best known examples is from a 1980s sci-fi cult classic, in which the
line doesn’t actually mention the name of the person it is addressed to.
77. Magic Mirror on the Wall
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
No, I am Your Father
78. 18. The two singers and the song
• “Bye Bye Birdie” is a Broadway musical from the early 60s, set in 1958. It starts
off with the famous rock n roll teen idol, Conrad Birdie being drafted into the
army, causing heartbreak for thousands of teens.
• The character of Conrad Birdie is clearly modelled after X, although the name
itself is a wordplay on Y, who is best remembered today for his long career as a
country music star, but in the late 50s, he was one of X's rock 'n' roll rivals.
• Z, a song from the musical, whose title literally means “cheer up”. But, due to
the use of the phrase in a recently released movie trailer, it has received a creepy,
dark connotation.
80. 19. The director and the two songs
• In the novel, there is no mention of any meeting taking place between these two
characters. However, when X decided to make a film adaptation, he included not
only a meeting between the two but a full-fledged celebratory dance. Purists
have questioned this aspect but, it makes the song Y fantastically subversive as it
tries to question the social hierarchies of the time.
• A 2015 film, also by X, features another song Z which draws a lot of comparisons
with Y as the setting and scenario of both songs is very similar.
82. 20. The song, instrument and nickname (AUDIO)
• X is a French nursery rhyme about a friar who has overslept and is urged to wake up
and sound the bell for the ’matins’, the midnight or early morning prayers.
• An ominous, minor-key version of the rhyme, reminiscent of a funeral march, is
featured in Mahler’s first symphony where the melody is played by a Y, an instrument
usually relegated to the background in classical orchestras but an active participant in
jazz ensembles.
• The second movement of an 1803 symphony is also a funeral march. The composer
had initially named it Buonaparte to as an ode to his heroism, but on hearing the news
of his coronation, was infuriated and changed it to a more generic nickname.
84. 21. Any two actresses and the specific connect
• A 1946 film noir starring X in her signature role as the ultimate ”femme fatale”,
which is probably most famous for her first appearance in the movie, in which
she makes an iconic hair flip.
• A 1955 romantic comedy’s most iconic scene involves Y in a white dress standing
above a subway grating blowing the dress up. It has been described as one of the
most iconic images of the 20th century.
• A 1966 adventure fantasy film set in a fictional age of caveman and dinosaurs
showcases Z in a fur bikini, described as "wearing mankind's first bikini“. It was
described as a definitive look of the 1960s.
86. 22. The three pieces of music
• In music, an X is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in
structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour, and tonality.
• One of the most famous Xs from the classical repertoire was composed by the pianist
composer Franz Liszt, and has been featured in numerous cartoons, where it has been
played by Bugs Bunny, Tom Cat and Woody the Woodpecker among others.
• A composition by George Gershwin from the early 20th century uses the word in its title
and effectively fuses jazz with classical. The title refers to the jazz influence in the
composition.
• A rock song released about six decades later also uses the word X in its title. It is a six-
minute suite, consisting of several sections : an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic
passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda.
88. 23. The object, the tree and the subject
• In geometry, the X is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube; the X is to the cube as
the cube is to the square.
• In the Marvel Universe, X is a crystalline cube-shaped containment vessel for the Space
Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones. A mural depiction of Y located in a church
in Tønsberg, Norway was the location where the X was hidden until it was taken by
the Red Skull in 1942. Y is the name of the mythical tree that connects the Nine Worlds
in Norse cosmology.
• Corpus Hypercubus, a 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí, features a surrealist,
nontraditional portrayal of a certain object as the unfolded polyhedral net of an X.
The subject of the painting has been portrayed numerous times in art and in film.
90. 24. The two songs and the artist
• X is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk
revival. It is considered to be “the West’s most anthologized song.” Richard
Anthony had a hit with a French version of the song, "Et j'entends siffler le train”
• Y, A 90s song about a childhood piano teacher, written by Z, features X in its
chorus.
92. 25. The dance, the style and the song? (AUDIO)
• The X was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century,
generally at get-togethers on black slave plantations in Southern United States. It was
so called because at the conclusion of a performance in an exhibit at the 1876 Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia, an enormous ---- was awarded to the winning couple.
• Y is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity in America between 1895 and 1919.
Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or ragged rhythm. The most common compositions in
the style include the “Maple Leaf” and “The Entertainer”.
• Which 2013 song is played here in the style of Y, the title of which is part of the title of
two other songs, one by Wham! and another by Green Day?
94. 26. The ingredient and the two films
• The 1960 rom-com X shows an interesting kitchen hack in which the protagonist
cooks Y and then drains out the water by pouring it over a tennis racket. “You
should see by backhand”, he says, as he dumps the drained Y onto a plate.
• An iconic scene from a film Z released five years earlier shows a rather unique
way of eating Y, a style that has become famous and has been implemented in
eating a lot of foods, in the so-called “Z style”.
96. 27. The name and the two conditions
• X is the condition of having abnormally low levels in the blood of a certain type
of white cell which plays important functions in the immune system. The
protagonist of a 2012 dark comedy suffers from this condition, giving him just
two more years to live.
• The references to another film released around 40 years ago, where the
protagonist suffers from a condition, giving him just six more months to live, are
obvious. The two protagonists share the same name, and the two conditions they
suffer from begin with the same 6-letter prefix.
98. 28. The effect and the two films
• Cutting between pan shots
• Time lapses
• Total blackout or whiteout
• CGI and Green Screens
• These were the techniques used to create what cinematic effect in a 2014 film? The
first technique in the list was used by Hitchcock to create the same effect in a 1948
four-letter psychological crime thriller.
99. Made to look like a continuous shot
Birdman
Rope
100. 29. The film and the two dance dramas
• X is a 1959 film by Bimal Roy. The film revolves around the character of X, an
untouchable, and explored the caste situation in India. It won awards for best film,
best story and best director, with Nutan, playing the titular character, bagging the
best actress prize in the Filmfare awards.
• The film features a segment of a dance drama, which also deals with the themes of
caste and untouchability, further reinforcing the theme.
• Which other famous dance drama by the same playwright plays a central role in the
plot of a 2012 film dealing with the story of a choreographer who is struggling with
his gender identity?
102. 30. The director and the two films (AUDIO)
• The first song is a British song from 1939. It is one of the most famous songs of
the WW2 era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well as their
families and sweethearts. It marks the final scene of a political satire released
around 20 years after WW2.
• The second song, a gentle love ballad, was released in 1934, not 1921. It has been
famously used in the final scene of another film by the same director, released
16 years after the previous film.
