Horizon MELA Finals

M.E.L.AMusic | Entertainment |Literature| Arts finals Mayank mujumdaR

Rules The quiz is split in 5 rounds– 2 Infinite Bounce, 2 Write Bros. & 1 Megaconnect. Most answers are one word or phrase only. In case of a funda, K.I.S.S. The QM’s decision is final & binding.

Round 1 Write Bros.• 6 questions on Simpsonized posters of TV shows.• All answers to be written down by teams.• +5 per correct answer. No negatives.• Bonus +10 if all correct.

Answers

The Sopranos

Mad Men

Doctor Who

Arrested Development

House M.D

Audience• Whose name is blanked out?

A• Andy Warhol

Round 2 Infinite Bounce• 15 questions CW in this round.• Plain old quizzing. If the team gets the answer correct, they get 10 points. Else the question passes on to the next team.• No negatives, so feel free to guess.

Q1• He is one of the most (in)famous artists alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure. Whose rare photograph?

A• Banksy

Q2• Connect.

A• The song “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” from the album ‘Monkey Business’ by Black Eyed Peas featured audio samples from the songs "Ye Mera Dil Pyaar Ka Diwana" [Don (1978)] and "Ae Naujawan Hai Sub“ [Apradh (1972)]

Q3• What happens next?

A• Enter Batman!

Q4• The writer and illustrator of this book called it "not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things.”• The book went on to win the Caldecott Medal in 2008, becoming the first novel to do so, as the Caldecott Medal is awarded only for picture books.• Name the book, which was in the news due to the huge success of its movie adaptation.

A• ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ on which ‘Hugo’ is based

Q5• When Margaret Thatcher was elected Britains first female Prime Minister on May 4, 1979, her party placed an advertisement in The London Evening News that said: “___ ___ _____ __ ____ ___ Maggie. Congratulations!“• What popular phrase from the world of movies has been blanked out here?

Q6• “___________________. Subah ghar se nikalo bheed ka ek hissa bano. Shaam ko ghar jao daru pio, bachche paida karo. Aur subah talak phir ek baar mar jao. Ayonki aatma aur andar ka insaan mar chuka hai. Jeene ke liye ghinaune samjhaute kar chuka hai Unchi dukan, phika pakvaan, khattar ki langoti chandi ka peekdaan. Sau mein se assi beimaan, phir bhi mera desh mahaan....”• And what is the more famous first line of this epic dialogue?

A• ‘Ek machchar…’

Q7• Who is the subject of this painting by Edgar Bundy?

A• Antonio Stradivari

Q8• How do we better know Utsav Chakraborty, a 21- year old Mumbai based-blogger?

A• Satan Bhagat

Q10• Developed by Unisys in 1986 for the Police Information Technology Organization, the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System is predominantly used by UK Police forces for the investigation of major crimes.• It provides total compatibility and consistency between all the Police forces of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as well as the Royal Military Police.• It was replaced by an updated version in 2000, which used a 2-tier architecture for local database access and 3-tier architecture for remote database access. What is it’s literary connection?

A• Home Office Large Major Enquiry System

Q11• Roma Ligocka (born Rominka Liebling) was born in a Jewish family in Krakow a few years before World War II.• During the German occupation of Poland, her family was persecuted by the Nazis & her father was incarcerated. In 1940 she was taken with her mother to the Krakow Ghetto but before the end of the ghetto in 1943 they fled and hid with a Polish family.• What inspired her to write this book, a collection of her memoirs?

A• ‘The Girl in Red Coat’ from Schindler’s List

Q12• Connect.

A• All based on Fyodor Dystoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’

Q13• What has been blanked out?

A• Bach

Q14• Who comes next?

A• Steve Jobs. All biographies penned by Walter Isaacson

Q15• What was the inspiration behind the Yves St. Lauren Fall collection of 1965 (R) and Nike’s 2008 release SB Slam Dunk lows?

A• Mondrian’s ‘Composition No. 10’

Audience• Where would you come across a rocket having such a blueprint?

A• Tintin: Destination Moon & Explorers on the Moon

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Audience• Why were posters such as this were seen plastered all over railway stations in Mumbai and metro rail stations in Kolkata?

Promotion for ‘Kahaani’

Round 3 Write Bros.• 6 questions based on posters of literary classics.• All answers to be written down by teams.• +5 per correct answer. No negatives.• Bonus +10 if all correct. Image credit: Postertext.com

Answers

A1• The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde

A2• Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka

A3• Moby Dick- Herman Melville

A4• The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes

A5• War of the Worlds- H.G Wells

A6• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- L. Frank Baum

Round 4 Infinite Bounce• 15 questions (ACW) in this round.• Plain old quizzing. If the team gets the answer correct, they get 10 points. Else the question passes on to the next team.• No negatives, so feel free to guess.

Q1• Whose diagnosis report from the British Medical Journal? “_______ is a single, 587 year old, male of no fixed abode. He has presented with antisocial behaviour, increasing aggression, and preoccupation with X. Several differential diagnoses need to be considered, and we should exclude organic causes for his symptoms. A space occupying lesion such as a brain tumour is unlikely as his symptoms are long standing. ______s diet is extremely limited, consisting only of raw fish. Vitamin B-12 deficiency may cause irritability, delusions, and paranoia. His reduced appetite and loss of hair and weight may be associated with iron deficiency anemia. He is hyper vigilant and does not seem to need much sleep. This, accompanied by his bulging eyes and weight loss, suggests hyperthyroidism. _____’s dislike of sunlight may be due to the photosensitivity of porphyria. Attacks may be induced by starvation and accompanied by paranoid psychosis. _______ displays pervasive maladaptive behaviour that has been present since childhood with a persistent disease course. His odd interests and spiteful behaviour have led to difficulty in forming friendships and have caused distress to others. He fulfils seven of the nine criteria for schizoid personality disorder (ICD F60.1), and, if we must label ____’s problems, we believe that this is the most likely diagnosis.”

A• Gollum

Q2• UNESCO defines oral and intangible heritage as “the totality of tradition-based creations of a cultural community expressed by a group or individuals and recognized as reflecting the expectations of a community in so far as they reflect its cultural and social identity.”• Which popular performing art (that includes song, narration, recital and dialogue), widely performed across northern India in autumn was inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, after being proclaimed in 2005?

A• Ram-Leela

Q3• The blanked out phrase in this excerpt from the White House booklet published in 1958 titled ‘Introduction to Outer Space’ inspired which popular phrase in the world of entertainment?

A• “Where no man has gone before”

Q4• We first heard Sandeep Vinayak Prabhu on November 3rd 2006 till 26thJaunary 2007, a total of 86 days. Next, we heard him from 17th August 2008 for another 98 days. After that, he was heard on 26th December 2009 for another 84 days. Then, we heard him from October 3rd2010 for another 96 days. We last heard him from 2nd October 2011 to 7th January 2012. Where did we hear him?

A• Bigg Boss

A• Christopher Nolan

Q6• During his entire tenure in politics, including his years as head of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler never drew a salary, or so said the national party.• What did they claim as his source of income?

A• Royalty received on the sales of Mein Kampf

Q7• X explaining why he wears a hat on stage: “You can pull it down, pull your hair down over your face and just sort of hide behind that. I’ve always been a little nervous in front of crowds and that made it – made me – feel a lot more comfortable.” “• Who is X?

A• Slash

Q8• Connect to a recently released movie.

A• The lead characters in Chaalis Chaurasi [4084] have been named after these movies as a tribute by the director Hriday Shetty.

Q9• This is the logo of which company, found by Guy Laliberté & Daniel Gauthier in 1985 and described as “dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment”?

A• Cirque du Soleil

Q10• This tribute band currently consists of vocalist Kirsten Rosenberg, guitarists Nita Strauss and Courtney Cox, bassist Wanda Ortiz and drummer Linda McDonald, all of whom have adopted separate aliases to mirror their counterparts – "Bruce Chickinson", "Mega Murray", "Adriana Smith", "Steph Harris" and "Nikki McBurrain“.• What does this band call themselves?

The Iron Maidens

Q11• Childhood photograph of which musical duo?

A• Zeb & Haniya

Q12• The song ‘Jaane Kyon’ from the movie Dil Chahta Hai used something for the first time in the world of Bollywood. What?

A• The Didgeridoo

Q131. The human whose name is written in this notebook will die.2. This notebook will not take effect unless the writer has the subjects face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.3. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subjects name, it will happen.4. If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack.5. After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Where would one come across these rules?

A• Death Note

Q14• The Chuck Wepner-Muhammad Ali fight was held on March 24, 1975 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio.• Nobody expected a 36-year old Wepner to last more than 3 rounds against Ali, but the resolute Wepner lasted 15 rounds before Ali won by TKO.• Wepner managed to knock Ali down in the 9th round. Ali immediately opened a blistering offensive in an attempt to drop Wepner and for the next 6 rounds, he pummeled Wepner mercilessly, broke his nose and opened large gashes above both his eyes. However, Wepner kept moving forward and continued to fight. What did this bout inspire?

A• ‘Rocky’

Q15• Who speaking about what?

A• Dev Anand speaking on Shammi Kapoor’s death. Ironic.

Audience• "Unnai thottal unnullathai norukka maattiyo [If I touch you will it break your heart] Ennai pola pennai parthu mayanga maattiyo [If you see a girl like me will you fall for her] Kannil kannai pootti vittaal sirikka maattiyo [Will you smile if I lock eye with eye] Ennai unnil serththu vittaal ottikka maattiyo [If I stick myself to you, will you stick back to me.] What is this?

A• The Tamil lyrics in Chammak Challo

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Audience• Ankita Suryavanshi, a C-grade actress, was more than shocked when she saw herself on the big screen in the recently released film X, after which she suddenly started receiving a lot of unwanted attention, including obscene SMSes, phone calls and letters.• As a result, she decided to sue the producers and directors of X, claiming that her public image was hurt as she was portrayed as a sleazy actress in the movie. Identify the movie X, and where was she portrayed thus?

A• Her movie ‘Jungle Love’ was depicted as ‘Junglee Jawani’ in Rockstar

Round 5 MegaConnect• 7 questions connected by a theme.• Points for the theme are mentioned on each slide. Constant negative of 10 points on wrong theme guesses.• +10 for answers to individual slides.• All answers to be written down.• The part of the question marked in red is the link in theme.

1.1 +50Connect.

1.2 +40• This is how Rooney Mara looks playing the lead role in the 2011 movie ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ based on the first book of Steig Larsson’s Millenium trilogy.• What character did she play in a 2010 release drama film adapted from a 2009 book by Ben Meizrich?

1.3 +35• In the Harry Potter series, every Animagus (a wizard/witch who can take the form of an animal) is required to register with the Ministry of Magic to ensure the Animagi do not abuse their abilities, as the Ministry is able to keep track of them.• However 4 unregistered Animagi are revealed in the books- 3 of them being James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew, who accompany Lupin when he transforms into a werewolf. Which is the fourth character?

1.4 +30• She represented India at the International Teen Princess contest in Aruba in 1976, and won the Miss Photogenic and Miss Bikini awards.• Dev Anand gave her the much needed break in Bollywood with Des-Pardes in 1978. She fell in love with Rajesh Khanna and the duo had an affair from 1981-87.• She had a moderately successful career till the early 90’s, when a turn of events caused her film career to come an end with Jigarwala in 1991. Who are we talking about?

1.5 +25• In 2010, who became the first actor/actress to win the Oscar and the Razzie in the same year?

1.6 +20• ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ is defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.“• This word was coined to be used as the title of song for which1964 Disney musical; which also inspired the plot of the Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan starrer ‘Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic’?

1.7 +10• What was the headline of this issue of the Times of India in November 2006?

Answers

1.1 +50Connect.

Monica

1.2 +40• This is how Rooney Mara looks playing the lead role in the 2011 movie ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ based on the first book of Steig Larsson’s Millenium trilogy.• What character did she play in a 2010 release drama film adapted from a 2009 book by Ben Meizrich?

Erica Albright Zuck’s ex-girlfriend

1.3 +35• In the Harry Potter series, every Animagus (a wizard/witch who can take the form of an animal) is required to register with the Ministry of Magic to ensure the Animagi do not abuse their abilities, as the Ministry is able to keep track of them.• However 4 unregistered Animagi are revealed in the books- 3 of them being James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew, who accompany Lupin when he transforms into a werewolf. Which is the fourth character?

Rita Skeeter

1.4 +30• She represented India at the International Teen Princess contest in Aruba in 1976, and won the Miss Photogenic and Miss Bikini awards.• Dev Anand gave her the much needed break in Bollywood with Des-Pardes in 1978. She fell in love with Rajesh Khanna and the duo had an affair from 1981-87.• She had a moderately successful career till the early 90’s, when a turn of events caused her film career to come an end with Jigarwala in 1991. Who are we talking about?

Tina Ambani nee Munim

1.5 +25• In 2010, who became the first actor/actress to win the Oscar and the Razzie in the same year?

Sandra Bullock

1.6 +20• ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ is defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.“• This word was coined to be used as the title of song for which1964 Disney musical; which also inspired the plot of the Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan starrer ‘Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic’?

Mary Poppins

1.7 +10• What was the headline of this issue of the Times of India in November 2006?

No One Killed Jessica

MegaConnect Please set in the trumpet Mambo No. 5! A little bit of Monica in my life A little bit of Erica by my side A little bit of Rita is all I need A little bit of Tina is what I see A little bit of Sandra in the sun A little bit of Mary all night long A little bit of Jessica here I amA little bit of you makes me your man

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Horizon MELA Finals

by Mayank Mujumdar on Feb 11, 2012

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