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EPISODE 1: SARE JAHAN SE ACHHA
•12 Questions on Buzzer
• 6 Questions from Bollywood; +10/-10 Scoring
• 6 Question from Indian Arts; +10/-5 Scoring

1. WHICH MOVIE?
• The movie is based on the Charles
Dickens’s novel ‘Great Expectations’.
• The Director wanted something specific to
be of the same colour as these leaves
which quite escalated the budget of the
movie.

2. This is a celebrated ghazal from
noted Hindi writer Dushyant Kumar
with some very uncommon and
unheard of metaphors.
The blanked lines were used as lyrics
for a neo-romantic song which
generated much fanfare last year.
Which song?

3. NAME THE MOVIE.
• Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra will be bringing a
musical this year based on modern day retelling of a
romantic folklore from Punjab.
• The director asked Gulzar a few years back as if
why the heroine of the folklore had broken the
arrows and betrayed the hero.
Gulzar at that time casually replied to go ask the
heroine (of the folklore) herself and not him. The
work on the movie started from here.

4. WHICH CULT MOVIE?
• The nonlinear narrative and an absurdist storyline of this movie is because
director Kamal Swaroop could not “think in words” the dreams and images
that he has heavily based the movie upon.
• The movie won Filmfare Critics Award in 1989 but was not released
commercially because the movie was considered much ahead of its time.
• Finally, the movie was commercially released 25 years later in 2014 creating
some buzz. Ironically, most critics agreed (in 2014 too!) that the movie is still
much ahead of the time.

5. WHICH HIGHLY PRAISED MOVIE?
• This movie which got released last year is an Indo-German production directed by
Anup Singh.
• Set in the background of partition, the movie deals with the desire for a male child to
continue family lineage.
• The movie builds around an unusual decision taken by a father of three girls.
Frustrated with having only girls born in the family, the father declares his newborn
baby girl to be a boy and raises this newborn daughter as son.

6. WHAT WAS THE CONTROVERSY?
• Dr. Ramchandra Siras was a professor of Marathi
Literature.
• Dr. Siras had found himself in a controversy that had
got him suspended from his job. He fought the
suspension and won his case in High Court.
• He was found dead in 2010. Initially, it was
suspected as a case of suicide but later a case of
murder was registered and six men were arrested.
However, no substantial evidence was found and the
case got closed without any resolution.

EPISODE 2: ALL’S WELL THAT STARTS
WELL
• Opening Lines of Books
• Name the book (+2.5) and author. (+2.5)
• Written Round
• 6 Questions

1. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is
where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents
were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of
crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
2. It was a pleasure to burn.

3. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of
unrequited love.
4. I was born in the city of Bombay ..... once upon a time.

5. Marley was dead, to begin with.
6. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a
gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on
a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

ANSWERS FOLLOW:
• Opening Lines of Books
• Book (+2.5) and author. (+2.5)
• Written Round
• 6 Questions

1. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is
where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents
were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of
crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Catcher in
The Rye, J D Salinger)
2. It was a pleasure to burn. (Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury)

3. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of
unrequited love. (Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez)
4. I was born in the city of Bombay ..... once upon a time. (Midnight’s Children,
Salman Rushdie)

5. Marley was dead, to begin with. (A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens)
6. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a
gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on
a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. (Don Quixote,
Miguel De Cervantes)

EPISODE 3: LOOKS AND BOOKS
• 8 Questions on Buzzer
• Loosely themed around Fashion/Literature
• +10/-5 Scoring

KIT HARINGTON
(YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FASHION, JON SNOW!)

2. WHAT IS THIS TYPE OF FOOTWEAR
CALLED?

4. FLOATED EARLY IN THIS DECADE, THANK GOD THAT
THESE “MANLY PANTS” DID NOT GAIN MUCH CURRENCY!!

6. WHICH LANGUAGE?
Listed below are some words from a “simplified language” with a heavily limited
vocabulary in a dystopian world.
• Ungood
• Unperson
• Thoughtcrime
• Bellyfeel
• Ingsoc
• Duckspeak
• ownlife

NEWSPEAK
Fictional language from George Orwell’s 1984

7. FITB.
Take up the _____ ____ ______, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

EPISODE 4: APING ART
• Parodies of Paintings
• Name the original painting (+5) and painter (+5)
• Written Round
• 6 Questions

ANSWERS FOLLOW:
• Parodies of Paintings
• Painting (+5), Painter (+5)
• Written Round
• 6 Questions
• Note: Bored Quizmaster tried his hands on naming the parodies.

American Gotham
Grant Wood’s American Gothic

The Bat-Scream
Edvard Munch’s The Scream

Pussy with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Superkiss
Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss

The Son of Batman René Magritte’s The Son of Man

The Birth of Black Widow
Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus

EPISODE 5: THE FINAL FRONT
•12 Questions on Buzzer
• Flat +10/-10 Scoring
• Entertainment & Music

1. Australia Day is celebrated on Jan 26 every year. This year, a certain somebody
came up with this message to poke fun at Australians and to tell them that he can’t
forgive them for humiliation meted to him 7 years ago.
Who is this loudmouth?

6. WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?
“EVERY CAUSE HAS MARTYRS, EVER WAR HAS SUICIDE MISSIONS.”
• The title came from someone’s going through an old case:
"Here's the record of the Tarleton murders and the case of Vamberry, the wine
merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of
the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club foot and his
___________ wife.“
• The story itself is about Emelia Ricoletti’s case who had somehow “supernaturally”
defied death and mastered the secret of bilocation (being at two different places at
the same time). It is revealed that she had waged war against something and her
not-so-supernatural death was an act of martyrdom.

7. THE PAST RETURNS WITH A
VENGEANCE.
• It is a series of 5 wuxia-romance saga together known as Crane-Iron series since
the first in the series is Crane Frightens Kunlun and fifth is Iron Knight, Silver
Vase.
• The fourth instalment of the series (that I want from you) is most widely known.
• A movie based on the last one- Iron Knight, Silver Vase is slated for next week
release in some countries. The name of the movie is, however, changed and kept
after the fourth one owing to its huge popularity and also to let know that it is sequel
to the fourth one.

9. NAME THE BAND.
• This band floated by AR Rahman last year is an initiative of his to promote Indian
talent internationally through original and creative acts.
• The name of the band means 'free will to make your own choice' in Urdu and
Arabic.
• In August last year, the band came with its first song “Tauba Tauba”.

10.
• This song released in 1978 has a cult status as a disco classic and gay anthem.
• It is popular song at most sporting events in the USA and Europe where crowds
dance to it with stretching their arms.
• The song shares its name with an organization for young people. Interestingly, this
organization had sued the composers for trademark infringement but later settled it
out of court and even expressed pride regarding the song saluting the organization.

11. <AUDIO REMOVED>
• Spanish version of which superhit 2015 song?

12.
Rickrolling is a “bait and switch” internet meme.
For the uninitiated, “Bait and Switch” memes refer to comments, replies etc made with
a hyperlink in response to a topic that encourages you to click the hyperlink to know
some more relevant information regarding the topic at hand.
Which song would you listen to when you are Rickrolled?
I know it is a lazy question but QM did not feel like losing anymore of his sleep over this Quiz.

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