24 questions 1,7,12,19 and 24 are star marked 8 teams qualified for the finals cut-off score - 11/24

1. MELA Quiz - Prelims
Aditya Gokhale
Nikhil Kajaria
Vaibhav Soni

2. Guide to Prelims
• The prelims contains 24 questions
• Each question carries 1 mark, no negative marking
• Questions 1,7,12,19 and 24 are star marked
• In case of ties including star marked qs, we resort to sudden death
• 6 teams qualify to the finals

3. Q1. ID the punchline
uchi dukan fika pakwan
khadar ki langoti chandi ka pikdaan
sau me se assi beiman phir bhi mera desh mahan
topi lagaye ________ kahta hai desh ke logo me samta ki bhawna aa rahi hai
isiliye to badi machhali chhoti ko kha rahi hai
hamare chune huye kutte,
hume hi katte hai
humare hisse ki botiya aapas me batte hai
amaan gand se bhari inki aawaj se nange raaste kaanpte hai
kal paida huye bacche, ek saans lete huye hapte hai
saitano ki najayaj aulad tahalka macha rahi hai aur hum hum bhagwan ke chahete
janwar insan zindagi ko gaali banaye baithe hai kya kare,
sala sala ________________________________

4. 2. ID X
You wouldn’t really expect a kids movie to have a lot of references from X.
However, this can be understood in hindsight when one felt this immense
sense of dread while watching woody and Buzz hide from Sid (or his dog, I
don’t remember the exact scene) in Toy Story. However, the movie Toy Story is
filled with references to the movie X and the director of the movie, Lee
Unkrich, has (I think) gone on record saying that X is his favourite movie.

6. 3.
X is a very famous work of art (‘art’ may be used in this quiz as a
representative noun for movies, books songs or paintings. Do not ask specific
hints) initially given the title as the Last Man in Europe. Give me X or if you
can, the name of this author born in Bihar.

7. 4. Tribute question to XKCD- I used to
think dash dash dash. Give me dash
dash dash

8. 5. Some people have too much free
time
• On the next slide, you see an Abstruse Goose comic mocking something. As
far as the movie is concerned, what followed this scene led to a viral internet
phenomenon that all (or most) of you must have seen. ID the viral
video/meme

10. 6.
• X is popularly known on the internet as the song everyone has heard but
does not know the name of. Do you?

11. 7.
X, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend
rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the
oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The term Y for a
voyeur originates from later versions of this legend in which a person had
watched her ride while the entire town had vowed to honour the dignity of the
noblewoman. Pic related next slide is John Collier’s rendition of the event and
has nothing to do with the person or the person’s POV (I suppose).

13. 8.
Located in the London borough of City of Westminister, how does this location
find relevance in the world of classic rock? Keywords required.
[Image follows on next slide]

15. 9. Emoji this.
This block of emojis is the rendering of the cover for which famous rock
album?

16. 10. Take points plish

17. 11. Connect

18. 12. ID X
The following are comments about a movie X,
Luca Pellegrini on the Vatican Radio – “[the reporters] made themselves
examples of their most pure vocation, that of finding the facts, verifying
sources, and making themselves—for the good of the community and of a
city—paladins of the need for justice.”
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston – “X illustrates how the
newspaper’s reports prompted the church to deal with what was shameful and
hidden.”

19. 13. Put Funda
Given on the next slide is an infographic depicting a collection of items. Put
funda and give funda.

21. 14. What’s behind the smaller black box?
And its not Batman or Superman

22. 15.
• In the late nineteenth century the X movement was initially not received
very well by the establishment.
• Reviews were at times abusive: La Figaro, 1876, "Five or six lunatics, one of
them a woman, have met here to exhibit their works. Someone should tell
Mr. Pissarro forcibly that trees are never violet, the sky is never the colour of
fresh butter, that nowhere on earth are things to be seen as he paints them."
Maybe not, but the popularity of this movement cannot be disputed

23. 16. Better known as?

24. 17.
Mike Reiss, show-runner, writer and producer for THE
SIMPSONS, says he doesn’t know the reason. “Even
though that appeared in a show I supervised. It may
have been [co-writer] Sam Simon’s idea. So much for a
‘grand design’ to how we do things,” he concludes.

25. 18. Audio Question

26. 19. Give the broader concept being
depicted here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXItwbeYwTU

27. 20. Connect: 3 among Many
• Roxanne- The police
• Wild Thing- The Troggs
• The A team- Ed Sheeran

28. 21. ID X
X is a song by a famous English rock band written by one of its more famous
members, Y. It is widely believed that Y wrote the song for the son of another
band member Z, to comfort him during his parents’ divorce in 1968. The lyrics
of the song reflect Y’s sentiments towards Z’s son and offer him words of
consolation and encouragement while the name of the song itself is derived
from the name of Z’s son.

29. 22. Which book?
‘____ _____ _____ _____ X’ is a book by Nobel Prize winner X. It covers various
instances in the author’s life and his fascination with different phenomena.
This book, released in 1985, sold more than 500,000 copies. However, he was a
Nobel Prize winner in a field completely unrelated to literature.
The title of the story has an interesting anecdote attached to it. It is believed
that it derives from a woman’s response when, after she asked the author if he
wanted cream or lemon in his tea, he mindlessly requested both.
FITB.

30. 23. Inspired what?

31. 24. Why did this 1964 movie enter the
Guinness Book of World Records.

32. Prelims=Over
Please submit your sheets

33. Q1. ID the punchline
uchi dukan fika pakwan
khadar ki langoti chandi ka pikdaan
sau me se assi beiman phir bhi mera desh mahan
topi lagaye ________ kahta hai desh ke logo me samta ki bhawna aa rahi hai
isiliye to badi machhali chhoti ko kha rahi hai
hamare chune huye kutte,
hume hi katte hai
humare hisse ki botiya aapas me batte hai
amaan gand se bhari inki aawaj se nange raaste kaanpte hai
kal paida huye bacche, ek saans lete huye hapte hai
saitano ki najayaj aulad tahalka macha rahi hai aur hum hum bhagwan ke chahete
janwar insan zindagi ko gaali banaye baithe hai kya kare,
sala sala ________________________________

35. Ek machchar aadmi ko---

38. The Shining

39. 3.
X is a very famous work of art (‘art’ may be used in this quiz as a
representative noun for movies, books and songs, rest assured there will be no
paintings. Do not ask specific hints) initially given the title as the Last Man in
Europe. Give me X or if you can, the name of this author born in Bihar.

42. 4. Tribute question to XKCD- I used to
think dash dash dash. Give me dash
dash dash

44. Correlation Implies Causation

45. 5. Some people have too much free
time
• On the next slide, you see an Abstruse Goose comic mocking something. As
far as the movie is concerned, what followed this scene led to a viral internet
phenomenon that all (or most) of you must have seen. ID the viral
video/meme

48. The Hobbits are Going to Isengard
• Aragorn’s deductive powers in tracking the Hobbits in the two towers.

49. 6.
• X is popularly known on the internet as the song everyone has heard but
does not know the name of. Do you?

51. Darude- Sandstorm

52. 7.
X, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend
rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the
oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The term Y for a
voyeur originates from later versions of this legend in which a man had
watched her ride while the entire town had vowed to honour the dignity of the
noblewoman. Pic related next slide is John Collier’s rendition of the event and
has nothing to do with the man or the Man’s POV (I suppose).

55. Peeping Tom

56. 8.
Located in the London borough of City of Westminister, how does this location
find relevance in the world of classic rock? Keywords required.
[Image follows on next slide]

59. Location of the Beatles album cover for Abbey
Road, right next to their recording studio –
Abbey Road Studios!

60. 9. Emoji this.
This block of emojis is the rendering of which famous rock album?

62. Close enough!

63. 10. Take points plish

65. Hymn for the Weekend - Coldplay
All images are locations from the
music video, even the damn kaali-
peeli!

66. 11.

68. Shantaram

69. 12. ID X
The following are comments about a movie X,
Luca Pellegrini on the Vatican Radio – “[the reporters] made themselves
examples of their most pure vocation, that of finding the facts, verifying
sources, and making themselves—for the good of the community and of a
city—paladins of the need for justice.”
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston – “X illustrates how the
newspaper’s reports prompted the church to deal with what was shameful and
hidden.”

72. 13. Put Funda
Given on the next slide is an infographic depicting a collection of items. Put
funda and give funda.

75. Death count by mode of killing in Quentin Tarantino movies

76. 14. What’s behind the smaller black black
box? And its not Batman or Superman

79. 15.
• In the late nineteenth century the X movement was initially not received
very well by the establishment.
• Reviews were at times abusive: La Figaro, 1876, "Five or six lunatics, one of
them a woman, have met here to exhibit their works. Someone should tell
Mr. Pissarro forcibly that trees are never violet, the sky is never the colour of
fresh butter, that nowhere on earth are things to be seen as he paints them."
Maybe not, but the popularity of this movement cannot be disputed

81. Impressionism

82. 16. Better known as

84. DAFT PUNK

85. 17.
Mike Reiss, show-runner, writer and producer for THE
SIMPSONS, says he doesn’t know the reason. “Even
though that appeared in a show I supervised. It may
have been [co-writer] Sam Simon’s idea. So much for a
‘grand design’ to how we do things,” he concludes.

87. God
• Every character in The Simpsons has 3 fingers. Except GOD.

88. 18. Audio Question

90. Man City fans singing Wonderwall
on winning the 13-14 EPL
• Noel Gallagher is a huge fan of the Club

91. 19. Give the Larger concept being
depicted here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXItwbeYwTU

93. Guest appearances in their own
biopics
• Chris Gardner and Frank Abbigail Jr.
• Also do, remember telling the audience about the lone pine trivia.

94. 20. Connect: 3 among Many
• Roxanne- The police
• Wild Thing- The Troggs
• The A team- Ed Sheeran

96. Songs about Prostitutes

97. 21. ID X
X is a song by a famous English rock band written by one of its more famous
members, Y. It is widely believed that Y wrote the song for the son of another
band member Z, to comfort him during his parents’ divorce in 1968. The lyrics
of the song reflect Y’s sentiments towards Z’s son and offer him words of
consolation and encouragement while the name of the song itself is derived
from the name of Z’s son.

99. Hey Jude
X – Hey Jude
Y – Paul McCartney
Z – John Lennon

100. 22. Which book?
‘____ _____ _____ _____ X’ is a book by Nobel Prize winner X. It covers various
instances in the author’s life and his fascination with different phenomena.
This book, released in 1985, sold more than 500,000 copies. However, he was a
Nobel Prize winner in a field completely unrelated to literature.
The title of the story has an interesting anecdote attached to it. It is believed
that it derives from a woman’s response when, after she asked the author if he
wanted cream or lemon in his tea, he mindlessly requested both.
FITB.

102. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Richard Feynman

103. 23. Inspired what?

105. The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

106. 24. Why did this 1964 movie enter the
Guinness Book of World Records.

108. • Features only Sunil Dutt and a faint silhouette of Nargis
Dutt in the final scene.
Fewest actors in a narrative film