Rayvolution Quiz Celebrates Legendary Filmmaker

Researched & conducted by – ASHISH BAGANI
‘RAY’-VOLUTION (22nd AKADEMOS ANNUAL - 2021)
RESEARCHED & CONDUCTED BY – KAUSTAV NATH & ASHISH BAGANI
AKADEMOS IS CELEBRATING SATYAJIT
RAY’S BIRTH CENTENARY THROUGH THIS EVENT
Ray ১০০

-:quizmasters:-
KAUSTAV NATH
ASHISH BAGANI

Rules :-
1. Total 24 questions.
2. Each correct answer carries 2 point. (1+1 for part marking)
3. 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 -- these are star questions.
4. Half stars will not be counted.
5. In case of a tie in stars, first strike method will be used.
6. Top 8 teams will qualify for the final.
7. No Negative marking.
8. Use the smartest gadget you've got, that is your brain.
9. Don't make noise.
10. The decision of Akademos is final & binding.

• 1. In its April Fool 2013 prank, Google claimed to have developed
a new dimension to its search engine, the ability to search for
_____. They named it Google Nose. According to Google, the
search engine had a data base of 15 million samples.
• In Rayverse, if you use this product and get a sample which is a
mixture of মাদ্রাজী ধুপ, মাছের তেল and মড়াছপাড়া..........
• Then, what are you searching for?

•2. Here, Mr. Ray is sketching Soumitra Chatterjee
during the pre-production of which project
regarding a catastrophe, thanks to the
significant factor of Churchill-era British
policies?

•3. Sini Junction is under Chakradharpur Railway
Division. It is situated at Sini in the state of
Jharkhand.
•In Ray-verse, two unnatural deaths, on two
consecutive days happened at the rail bridge near this
station.
• Identify those two persons or describe them as Mr.
Ray did.

• 4. This Sangeet Natak Academy Awardee once met Mr. Ray at
the Delhi airport and asked in a tender gesture, why he used a
line of one of her songs without her permission. At first Mr.
Ray laughed & praised her song & then apologised as he was
unable to contact with her, but he needed the song very
urgently at that time & invited her to his house.
• Identify her.
• Which song?

BARSAN LAAGI BADARIYA, RUM JHUM KE (GOOPY GYNE BAGHA BAYNE)

• 5. In a certain list these are a few names...
• অনন্তলাল ননছ াগী - নিখ্যাে গা ক
• অসীমানন্দ স্বামী - এককাছল স্বছেনি কছর পছর সন্ন্যাসী
হছ যান
• কযাছেন চক্রিেী - এ ার ইন্ডি ার িাঙানল পাইলট
• Nagendra Kapoor was the last person in this list.
• What is this list all about?

• 6. Published in mid 80s, which book by Satyajit Ray
has this preface?

•7. KC Sivasankaran was a Padma Shri recipient, who died
at the age of 96 in 2020. He was the artist behind the
signature painting of a particular series, featured in a
classic Indian monthly magazine & hence affectionately
called __________ Sankar.
•Which series was this?

• 8. X was born in 1846 & lived through turbulent times, witnessing the first
war of independence, World war I and even the initial part of Gandhi’s
peaceful movement. He died in 1921 in Allahabad. This growing distance
between the Hindus and Muslims of India perturbed X and he advocated
Hindu – Muslim unity.
• By then, Muslim league was growing in power & was completely at odds
with the Congress. His attempts at propagating Hindu- Muslim unity led to
allegations that he had been bribed by the Hindus with Alcohol. As per
legends, X created Y as a response to this allegation.
• Identify Y and its connection to the RAY short story Z.

• 9. Name the story. (audio)
• The narrator was part of one of Ray's projects
as the protagonist.
• Which project?

•10. Ingredients of what? (ps – it’s the question no. 10)
•It’s empty pack was used to contain a "Weapon of
Mass Destruction" in dusty form.
•Antardhoomdagdh Supari
•Marich
•Lavang
•Dalchini
•Khatika churna.
•Sunth
•Haritaki
•Musta
•Kahdir (খ্ছ র)
•Karpur

11. Identify these two masters who inspired Ray :
a silent story teller & a genius from the "Golden Age".

• 12. The following painting is by Sir John Everett Millais.
• A young woman in a nightgown, her hair down and her feet bare,
________ along the top of a cliff, perilously close to the edge. She
carries a brass candlestick in which the candle has just gone out,
making the scene even darker and more nerve-wracking, than it
was a moment ago. Now her path is lit only by moonlight. She
moves forward unaware of the danger, on her face the fixed,
wide-eyed stare of ___ __________.

• 13. Back in 2017, some people around India, found
some uncanny similarities between -- public showing
one of their rights to a certain defender of democracy
& public raise their finger towards an honest doctor.
• What was actually happened?

Similarities between the posters of Ganashatru & Newton

14. Who was the last head of this Raj Estate?

Biswambhar Roy (Jalsaghar)

•15. Which children's magazine is referred here, whose
office was situated in Ballygunge?

•16. This shooting location was turned into
an "elementary school for fun" for a particular
national award winning film. Which school?
•On the other side of this location an act of ''magic''
happened. What act of magic?

Masti ki Pathshala
Vanish!!!

• 17. In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", Harry, Ron,
Neville & Seamus shared these magical sweets among them in
the Gryffindor Boys' Dormitory. What followed after that, we
can hear some noises of lion, elephant, monkey & train
whistle.
• From the world of Ray, a young villager from Khira, doesn't
need these magical sweets to recreate the same environment
by his exceptional ability.
• Identify him.

•18. This is the picture of a portable
electropalatography (EPG) system that monitors
tongue contact with the hard-palate during speech.
Electropalatography provides direct articulatory
information that can be used to study or improve
articulation patterns.
•Name the apparatus.

19. Identify this 1970s 'exchangeable' project from its
title track. (audio)

•20. This is a photograph taken during the shooting of one
of Ray's movies, where you can see Ray & one of his crew
member were covering a certain idol from the entrance of
a house.
•So, whose house was it? (the character)

Ray covering the idol of Lord Ganesha from the entrance of the house of
Mirza Sajjad Ali in Lucknow to make the house appear as a Muslim
residence for "Shatranj Ke Khilari"

• 21. Ruru was the son of Pranati and grandson of sage Chyavan.
He was hell bent on a particular type of massacre. On his
mission he was going to kill some body, but at the time of
killing, that somebody said that his name is Dunduvi.
• He had been waiting for this day to meet Ruru, in order to
obtain his salvation. X, the reason behind the mishap of
Dunduvi had prescribed this remedy.
• Identify X.

• 22. "Chobite Golpo" - it was a poem written &
illustrated by Sukumar Ray, where he tried to capture
the literal meaning & beautifully ended it with these
two lines & this illustration.
• This idea inspired Ray to create a late 50s
'advertisement'. What is it?

•23. "Joy Porajoy" is a bengali movie, where
the protagonist was a tennis champion, swimming
champion, knows dancing and singing, progressive, first
class in MA, a superb boyfriend.
•Who was the actor, who played that protagonist in
the movie?

Arindam Mukherjee (Nayak)

• 24. "It was my type face, but I modelled it on the
mast heads of some old (periodical publication)
stored in National Library archives." -- This was
Ray's remarks about a certain 'soldier or guard' of
truth of late 19th century, whose job is to stand &
keep.
• Name the 'soldier'.

• Rules :-
• Total 32 questions.
• In case of a tie, preliminary number will make
the difference.
• The decision of Akademos is final & binding.
• And…...................

Surprise!!!!
• As this quiz is dedicated to the man behind
Bhooter Raja, there will be Jobor Jobor Teen
Bor. But, there won’t be any free food,
clothing, travel or music concert.
• Instead, there would be three chances for
each team where the negative in pounce, if
any, won't be reflected in the score sheet.
However, they would have to avail themselves
of this boon beforehand i.e. before pouncing.

• 1. When eminent movie journalist Rabi Basu enquired Uttam Kumar
about his brilliant facial expression to showcase thinking, one eyebrow
up and one eyebrow down, Uttam kumar told that X, a yesteryears
actor, had taught him these things. This maestro was a brilliant actor
who had 56 types of facial expression but didn’t get the recognition,
which he deserved. He was a master trainer and also was a teacher at
Vishva bharati University in acting. Identify X.
• However, each year, on a particular day, his most recognizable character
appears on a meme in social media, facing a question. What is the
question?

Ray ১০০

2. Four different seasons once came somewhere in a completely different
way, through different experiences of a bengali common man :-
• i) buying an umbrella, definitely can't solve the problem of a waterlogged
city.
• ii) buying different crackers for kids can be turned into a bitter experience.
• iii) visit to a zoo with kids can give them idea to mock someone.
• iv) one can become a trapeze performer with his incredible experience of
traveling by bus.
• Put funda.

strip cartoon by
Satyajit Ray for
Sandesh's covers

• 3. The Oxford English Dictionary records the earliest known English-
language usage of the word "X" in an article by a journalist Edward
Hunter. Hunter was an outspoken anti-communist and was alleged to
be a CIA agent working undercover as a journalist.
• Hunter and others used the Chinese term XINAO which means X to
explain why, during the Korean War (1950-1953), some American
prisoners of war co-operated with their Chinese captors, and even in
a few cases defected to the opposition.
• So, where was XINAO performed in Ray-verse?

Jantar Mantar

4. The journey of a boatman
An old woman spinning charkha
The experience of riding a merry-go-round
Bursting firecrackers in festival
Performances of different actors of jatra
• After rejecting the "pain of a singing bird", all of these elements once
helped someone to share her memories through a certain 'friend of the
world'.
• Which achievement am I talking about?

Publishment of
Charu's writing in
"Biswobondhu"

•5. Enrico Rastelli was like a guru to X. Though X had
never met Mr. Rastelli, he framed a picture of him and
kept in his home. What is the real name of X?
•An illustration of X, in full flow, was immortalized by a
real life person (Y), while writing his
biography/autobiography. Identify Y.

• 6. In one of the episodes of the Kids show Wild Kratts, we can
find they are studying and hanging out with a species & learn
about their belly sliding and swimming powers, even learning
how to outswim Leopard Seal and Orca.
• Meanwhile, the villain steals them and returns them in
completely different place. Wild Kratts must save them from the
predators & return them to their actual habitat.
• So, which mystery did Wild Kratts solve in this episode?

• 7. Chandak Sengupta, a professor of history in the University of
London, wrote in an article that X, whose filmography consisted
of only one film Y, was not the person of a particular ethnicity or
group.
• Instead the person was a bengali, who after given the
pseudonym X, acted in Y as a character of that particular
ethnicity, became a victim of injustice for a suspicion of frivolous
lifestyle. The performance was so natural that people didn't
enquire about the real identity of X.

Vicky Redwood , Mahanagar

• 8. Marilyn was found dead at her home.
Nehru was elected as the PM for the fourth time.
Dylan premiered "Blowin' in the Wind".
• It was that year, when USA & India witnessed these events that possibly
shook the whole world. As well as, a few people in a metropolis in
northern India was economically deceived in by a 'monk', but later
retrieved by a 'professor' of Philosophy.
• It was the same time, when the city of Ann Arbor would get a possible
nobel laureate in physiology, but an accident completely turned it into
failure.
• Identify them.

Bhabananda /
Amiyanath Burman

• 9. In the centenary year of Victoria Memorial Hall, they organized an
online talkshow on Ray presented by X who suggested the name of the
show as “Elephant and the Blind Man” owing to the fact that he had
worked with Ray in very few projects and thereby, he would be the
blind man to describe the elephant.
• X had been touring USA with a project, a play by Vijay Tendulkar
wherein he was not the titular character. Later Ray called him to act in
his project Y, in which X’s character would be synonymous to the titular
character of that play.
• Id X, Y & the character in Y. (4+3+3)

Mohan Agashe, Sadgati, Ghashiram

• 10. Which poetic creation related to a nocturnal mammal
connects these --
• i) A case of defamation against a bald headed man for one of his
creations.
• ii) A bitter experience of a thrilling night at the lanes of a holy
city.
• iii) An incident of a return to infancy, where an old person
suffering from a mental disease, & thus behaves like a child.

"badur bole ore o bhai sojaru"

• 11. Many experts have argued that this creation by Ray was a
subtle hint against the Vietnam War. They cited two main motifs
in favor of their argument.
• 1st being the timeline of it.
• 2nd being the One-upmanship of the two characters, of which
one put on X, and consumed Y --- the two signs of American
capitalism.
• Identify X and Y.

Mickey Mouse cap & Coca Cola (Two)

12. "Rare painter with palette of perfect notes" - this should be
the perfect line for the singer, who sung the opening track of this
following movie, a visionary project of Ray. Identify her who
joined Kala Bhavan & incidentally learnt Rabindrasangeet from
different stalwarts. (video)
• In a mid 70's masterpiece, she lent her voice that depicts the
beauty of monsoon? Which song?

•13. Janardan babu was a Mathematics teacher who
succeeded Pyaricharan babu in a school. He had some
physical deformities.
•Had he been from this century, he would have played the
titular character of a 2020 Bengali movie.
•What deformities?
•What movie?

• 14. "I was lucky to be able to record one & it comes at a very crucial
point, when Moti dies, at that point, when she was lying on the ground
with staring eyes, the camera holds her face for about 5-6 seconds, we
can hear it, which is a very shrill alarming kind of raga, eerie sort of
sound, so I decided to use this."
• This was Ray's remarks as he used a more creative soundtrack, the
actual sound to suggest the mood here. So, what exactly was Ray talking
about?
• This experiment earned him a particular national fame for the very first
time. Which one?

• Answer : Satyajit Ray used the call of a
woodpecker, for that particular scene.
• National Award for Best Music Direction (Ashani
Sanket)

•15. Identify the piece, which reminds us about the
the land of "flame-of-the-forest" & a certain
"honey tree".
•Which project of Ray starts with these lines?

• 16. For one of the largest manufacturer of its kind in Britain,
more than 70 years earlier, with ample amount of
background detailing, Ray meticulously recreates busy
domestic scenarios of three typical different households on a
certain morning - each distinctive in their depiction of class &
mood. Moreover, the gestures of each character jostling for
attention within a busy frame has a rare cinematic quality
about them.
• What is being referred here?

Satyajit Ray’s
Paludrine
advertisement

• 17. William Thomas Stead, editor of Review of
Reviews, published a brief article in October, 1891 that
discussed a story found in Lucifer magazine, describing
something in Nicaragua called by the natives the devil's snare.
• An investigation of Stead's review determined that, it appeared
in the September issue, proceeded by a longer version in an
1889 newspaper describing Dunstan, who experienced the
devil’s snare as a "well-known naturalist" from New Orleans.
• How is this devil’s snare known to us?

18. Just identify these two characters from two different
Ray's short stories.

Pulin Ray (story – Atithi) / Manmohan Mitra (movie – Agantuk)

Master Angshuman

• 19. These are the pictures of a certain house. Here in a particular
ceremony, there were many famous personalities present
including X, who was the most dignified guest. Among them were
Raja Krishna Chandra, Ray Rayan Janaki Prasad, the sipahasallar
of nawab Khan Khanan Mohabbat Jung, Umichand and the
treasurer of that family, Motiram.
• Identify X.

• 20. A contention regarding a gambling in Patuatola Lane in
North Kolkata for Shibdas Moulik & an envy regarding the life
with her husband for Tracy Mills, from a city in the US, turned
into brutal experience in exact same way.
• Both of these vicious incidents, perfectly worked on our
imagination through their protagonists & thus a perfect
question automatically utters in our mind.
• What is the question?

• 21. In his blog, Uddalak Mukherjee came to the conclusion
that Falinir House in Church Road might be _____ _____ ___
and he named his article as “In search of _____ _____ ___.”
(FITB)
• However another blogger named Deepanjan Ghosh
concluded that Philomena Pavillion, located at the corner of
Cleveland Road and Promenade Road whose earlier name
was Cleveland Lodge was _____ ______ ___. He named his
article as The hunt for _________ ____. (FITB)

• 22. Born in 1911, the maestro came into prominence during
the Bengal famine, when he composed songs in protest
against the countless deaths.
• Which 2007's "spiritual journey" was he somehow became
a part, through this following creation? (audio)
• How he was associated with one of Ray's project, about
which Ray remarked -- "Ten or twelve minutes of it are
among the most moving and powerful things that I have
produced".

• 23. X was a baroque style house, built in the 1800s by British
Resident Major Gore Ouseley. It was initially used as a hunting lodge.
• There is a local folklore about this house. On every Thursday night, if
one goes there at around midnight, there is a chance that he would
encounter two British Officers, in their uniform with a Labrador.
• One of the them walks the dog, another one asks for a light and
suddenly all of them vanish.
• Perhaps, this was the inspiration behind a story because the place of
occurence for both the stories are same.

• 24. The transformation of earth into another planet revealed a
mental torment through the worst fear of a certain 'journalist'
that is not his death, but the death of everyone around him &
how human would seize to exist if he fails to stop a 'general'.
• This nightmarish consequence exhilarated fans for identifying
another classic, where an unrivalled individual crushed by the
encroachment of late capitalism.
• So, what was actually happened?

• 25. X was a policeman and posted in Lalbazar while he had
been working with Ray. The then deputy commissioner of
police was very angry with X's approach to methodist acting.
• X used to carry a sitar along with his service revolver while
going for duty in his police uniform to get himself acquainted
with the character Y. As he was not a sitar player, such was his
commitment towards the character. The DC made a note in X's
service record regarding this.
• Id X and the character Y.

Shyamal Ghoshal, Bhujanga Das

• 26. Haseena Maan Jayegi (1968)
Bhuvan Shome (1969)
Pati Patni Aur Woh (1978)
Do Aur Do Paanch (1980)
Khubsoorat (1980)
• Apart from being one of the directors of an epical & a UNICEF'S project,
it is the summary of the 'lively' career of a pioneer, who started his
career at FDI. Identify him.
• A sequence of love for 'cherries' & a certain 'cake', placed him in this
quiz. Which sequence?

•27. Jeevan Se Na Har is a song from the movie
"Door Ka Rahi", composed by Kishore Kumar
himself. Here the starting tune has been
inspired from a particular folk song.
•In which Ray movie, we can hear the original
folk song?

• 28. Three suns at the beginning of the first line meaning
three days. The next sign is very accurate with matchstick
drawing, seems like a man bows. This is followed by a cross
that means the refusal. There are five quadrupeds in a row
& three consecutive pictures of two swords colliding. There
are also a number of other symbols, such as weeping face,
mountain, tent etc.
• Where can we see this Hieroglyph like symbol that created
an instant panic?

• 29. To explain the 'prelude' Ray used evening
landscape, clouds, dry leaves, stagnant water, lotus, Rajput
paintings etc.
• For the 'medium tempo' different sculpture & their
motifs etc. were used.
• And in the 'concluding section' he used different scenes
of storm.
• So, where did Ray conceptualize these things?

•30. Air Danshin is an architectural company in
Japan. They have fielded a particular architectural
system in order to mitigate the hazardous effect of
something, from 2006, which came into
prominence after 2012. Which concept?
•Ray, being a visionary, introduced a similar concept
to us in the Pujabarshiki 1979 (Bengali 1385) as a
gift from _____ to mankind. (FITB)

• 31. Carl Hagenbeck was a German merchant of a special type of merchandise. He
opened the most successful privately owned business entity of that field called
Tierpark Hagenbeck. There he used to display ethnic people as savages.
• His idea of conditioning rather than threatening in a particular type of training
yielded greater result and was adopted by X who became a legend in this field in
India and was associated with a “professor”. Identify X.
• In Beasts and Men Hagenbeck claimed he had received reports of "a huge monster,
half elephant, half dragon" inhabiting the interior of Rhodesia. Hagenbeck thought
the animal was some kind of dinosaur similar to a brontosaurus and unsuccessfully
searched for it. His claim made headlines in newspapers around the world and
helped launch the legend of ______-______. (FITB)

Mokèlé-mbèmbé

• 32. This list perhaps represents these following themes through these
symbolisms :-
• i) old, rough paper slightly damaged by bookworms, with letters written
like a manuscript.
• ii) proper printed words, which a printing press can produce.
• iii) a beautiful cursive font, which a common bengali educated people
used in their letter writing, that truly reflects the affection.
• So, just tell me in which exact three situations did Ray use these ideas to
execute different subtle meanings?

In ‘Pather Panchali’, Ray
used the font like
calligraphers used to
write Bengali manuscript,
as in the movie, Harihar
used to write Bengali
dramas

In ‘Aparajito’, Ray
used the font like
the font of Bengali
printing press of
those days, as in the
movie, Apu used to
work in a printing
press

In ‘Apur Sansar’, Ray used
the font like a common
Bengali person writes in
Bengali, as in the movie
Apu & Aparna used to
send love letters to each
other

So, the answer is.......

Title cards of "Apu Trilogy"

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