2. RULES
APPLICABLE FOR ALL 3 ROUNDS
ALL QUESTIONS ARE OPEN TO ALL.
IN CASE OF A DIRECT: SCORING +10/0
IN CASE OF A INDIRECT OR PERSONAL CHAT TO QM: SCORING
+10/-5
PLEASE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL SCORES
IN CASE OF ANY DISCREPANCY, QM’S DECISION WILL BE FINAL.
Questions are random and may seem difficult, but READ them,
they have many hints in them.
3. QUESTION-1
Below is a screenshot of a Twitter Reply by a
famous entity in the world of entertainment
X.
The original tweet was by an Indian startup Y.
Identify both X and Y.
18. QUESTION 4
It is well known that Bollywood made the greatest
impression on Soviet cinema goers. Between 1954
and 1991, more than 200 Indian films were imported
into the Soviet Union. The image below is of a vinyl
disc of Raj Kapoor’s Awaara from the Soviet Union
and is rather unusual for a certain reason. It belongs
to a genre called ‘Bone Music’ unique to the USSR.
What is unusual about this disc?
20. HINT
(A RAY OF HOPE FOR YOU GUYS)
Take a close look at the image and the name of the
genre, and use your imagination.
Desperate times call for desperate measures!
23. EXPLANATION
In post WWII Russia, Stalin banned the possession of any western music. All
records allowed in the country had to be of Russian composers. But there was
an underground hungry for Western popular music—everything from jazz and
blues to rock & roll. But smuggling vinyl was dangerous, and acquiring the
scarce material to make copies of those records that did make it into the
country was expensive and very risky.
An ingenuous solution to this problem began to emerge in the form of “bone
music," or sometimes called "bones 'n' ribs" music, or simply Ribs.
A young 19 year-old sound engineer Ruslan Bogoslowski in Leningrad changed
the game when he created a device to bootleg western albums so he could
distribute them across Russia. Problem was he couldn't find material to
bootleg his pressings onto, vinyl was scare as were all petroleum products after
the war.
Then, one day he stumbled upon a pile of discarded X-rays. It worked. At the
time, Russian law mandated that all X-rays had to be destroyed after 1 year of
storage because they were flammable so he dug through trash bins and paid
off orderlies for x-rays and for 20 years he handmade about 1,000,000 bootlegs
onto X-ray film of everything from classical to the Beach Boys, eventually
spending five years imprisoned in Siberia for this rebellion.
24. QUESTION 5
A X WAS A SMALL I NDI AN COPPER COI N. THE COI N WAS
FI RST I NTRODUCED BY SHER SHAH SURI DURI NG HI S RULE
OF I NDI A BETWEEN 1 540 AND 1 545, ALONG WI TH MOHUR,
THE GOLD COI N AND RUPI YA THE SI LVER COI N. LATER ON,
THE MUGHAL EMPERORS STANDARDI SED THE COI N ALONG
WI TH OTHER SI LVER ( RUPI YA) AND GOLD ( MOHUR) COI NS I N
ORDER TO CONSOLI DATE THE MONETARY SYSTEM ACROSS
I NDI A. A RUPEE WAS DI VI DED I NTO 40 XS.
A POPULAR STORY TALKS ABOUT HOW BY THE TI ME THE
BRI TI SH TOOK OVER, THE COI N(X) HAD LI TTLE VALUE LEFT
TO I T, SO LI TTLE THAT THE SOLDI ERS OFTEN MADE FUN OF I T
BY USI NG I T I N AN EXPRESSI ON POPULAR TO THI S DAY.
GI VE ME X.
26. HINT
BELOW I S AN I MAGE FROM A POPULAR FI LM “ GONE WI TH
THE WI ND” . I T I S ARGUABLY THE MOST POPULAR
DI ALOGUE FROM THI S MOVI E.
I NCI DENTALLY I T TOO HAS THE SAME EXPRESSI ON
STRI KED OUT.
28. DAM OR DAMN (दाम)
ONE RUPEE = 40 DAM
"FRANKLY MY DEAR, I DO NOT
GIVE A DAMN"
ANSWER
29. An appropriate title for this comic strip?
Go on, take a breather. This one's on the
house.
This is a fun take on a cult classic book.
(Remember, this is a DLA quiz, after all.)
Just a rearrangement of the title of the
book.
Take your time look at the image and the
caption carefully!
QUESTION 6
40. QUESTION-8
THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL IS A SATIRICAL NOVEL BY MR. SHASHI
THAROOR. IT IS A WORK OF FICTION THAT MAKES USE OF CHARACTERS
FROM MYTHOLOGY (MAHABHARATA ETC). ENTITIES( MIGHT BE PEOPLE OR
NOT) FROM MODERN INDIAN HISTORY ARE TRANSFORMED INTO
CHARACTERS OF MYTHOLOGY.
FOR EXAMPLE, MAHATMA GANDHI IS BHISHMA PITAMAH, INDIAN MEDIA IS
REPRESENTED BY ARJUNA, INDIAN ARMY IS EMBODIED BY BHIMA ETC.
(ALSO NOTICE HOW ‘ THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL’ ITSELF TRANSLATES TO
‘MAHABHARATA’)
NOW, DRAUPADI IN THIS NOVEL IS A CHARACTER CALLED DRAUPADI
MOKRASHI. WHAT/WHO IS SHE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT?
HINT: UNDERSTAND THE BROAD CONCEPT AND THEN READ THE QUESTION
CAREFULLY!
