Hi Everyone The Quiz Club, in collaboration with LDC, is organising a literature quiz on Wednesday at 7pm. It should be about an hour long at most.

1. LIT QUIZ
FINALS

2. FORMAT
There will be 3 rounds in this finals quiz
There will be two pounce and bounce rounds- R1 &
R3 with 6 questions each.
There will be a special round with 6 questions- R2
1.
2.
3.
There will be 2 additional tie-breaker questions

3. ROUND 1
6 questions, 1 direct question per team
+10/-0 for direct questions
+10/-5 for Pounce
+10/-0 for Bounce

4. 1. Professor Piyush Dasgupta was an Indian academic
and author. They were known for their political activism
and work in economics and were in particular influenced
by a notable 19th Century economist and their book 'X'.
They were responsible for the translation of 'X' into
Bengali, publishing it in 6 volumes between 1974 and
1983. It was possibly the first translation of the text in
any Indian language.
Name 'X'.

5. SAFETY

6. Das Kapital/Capital

7. 2. In Wikipedia's list of stock characters, there is an entry known as Knight-
errant. It's defined as "A noble Knight on a quest for his Lady or who is
seeking some Holy Grail. He expresses his courtly love for his beloved from
afar."
One example of this is Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, on the quest to save
his homeland and all of middle earth while yearning for the love of the
immortal elf Arwen.
However, this trope ARGUABLY originated and appeared almost 800 years
before the Lord of the Rings; in the form of a famous and legendary
fellowship of knights. One knight among these was particularly renowned
and said to be the greatest Knight and swordsman among them. Originally
known as the nameless white knight, he was later given the name _____.

8. SAFETY

9. Sir Lancelot

10. 3. Another common Stock
Character is the Spoiled Brat. The
trope can be defined as ' a child
who exhibits behavioral problems
from overindulgence by their
parents '. One famous example of
this is Veronica Lodge from Archie's
Comics

11. The profile of the spoiled brat also fits a certain
character in a 1964 novel.
In the novel she is one of four 'adventurers', exploring a
place that most of humanity has lost access to for years.
She is extremely fond of animals, which unfortunately
leads to her ultimate downfall. Apart from having rich
parents, she has something else in common with
Veronica; they both share the first letter of their first
names. Which character?

12. SAFETY

13. Veruca Salt from 'Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory'

14. 4. Zoroaster is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. He is said to have
been an Iranian prophet who founded a religious movement that challenged the
existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion and inaugurated a movement that
eventually became a staple religion in ancient Iran. However, a certain author X
reimagines Zoroaster and makes him the protagonist of their book. Following is an
excerpt from the book:
' When Zarathustra came into the next town, which lies on the edge of the forest, he
found many people gathered together in the marketplace; for it had been promised
that there would be a tightrope walker. And Zarathustra spoke thus to the people: "I
teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you
done to overcome him?" '
This excerpt points to the title of the book and a certain term that was defined and
popularised by this book. Said term, however, has an unfortunate history of being
coopted by certain far-right groups.
Name X and tell me the certain term.

15. SAFETY

16. X- Freidrich Neitzsche, authored 'Thus
Spake Zarathustra'
Term- Ubermensch (overman)

17. 5. The apartheid regime of South Africa was rumored to
have banned many classical books. One such instance
was that of a 19th century Novel X.
Robert Ross, in his A Concise History of South Africa,
states that X was indeed banned. However, Historian
Claire Datnow writes that this 'fact' was not true, and
instead was a reigning joke among her circle of friends,
invented to make fun of the ‘ignorance of the censors’.
ID X.

18. SAFETY

19. 'Black Beauty' by
Anna Sewell

20. 6. True Crime. The genre is perhaps centuries old, but
Author X is usually credited with establishing the modern
novelistic style of the genre, and the one that rocketed it to
great profitability, with his 1965 publication. True Crime
isn't all they wrote, however.
Author X also published a very famous novella Y, which got
made into a 1961 film, starring the iconic Audrey Hepburn,
which in turn became the inspiration and subject for a hit
1995 song. Who is X and what is Y?

21. SAFETY

22. X- Truman Capote
Y- Breakfast at Tiffany's

23. Round 2
5 Questions
+5/-3 each question
If you get all correct +5
extra

24. The title is a play on a
classic 1937 novella by
John Steinbeck
1.

25. 2. The title is a pun on a work of
scientific literature considered
to be the foundation of
evolutionary biology.

26. 3. The title is a pun on a phrase that
means 'no point to being upset over
something that has already
happened and cannot be changed '.
The book is a murder mystery.

27. 4. Title is a pun on a phrase
that means 'used to urge
someone to make the most of
the present time and give little
thought to the future.' or
'Seize the day'.

28. 5. Title is a pun on a novel by
Harper lee, considered an
American Classic.
It is a book of cocktail recipes

29. ANSWERS

35. ROUND 3
Same rules as R1

36. 1. Explaining the title of the book, author Alice Schroeder writes the
following epitaph at the beginning of this person's biography, as a perfect
metaphor for how he has conducted his business:
"It is the winter of X's ninth year. Outside in the yard, he and his little sister
Bertie are playing in the snow. X is catching snowflakes. One at a time at
first. Then he is scooping them up by handfuls. He starts to pack them into
a ball. As the snowball becomes bigger, he places it on the ground. Slowly
it begins to roll. He gives it a push, and it picks up more snow. Soon he
reaches the edge of the yard. After a moment of hesitation, he heads off,
rolling the snowball through the neighborhood. And from there, X
continues onward, casting his eye on a whole world full of snow."
Who is this person X?

37. SAFETY

38. Warren Buffet

39. 2. A critical study of author X's works reveals a direct influence of
author Y's works.
X traveled from India to New York in 1889, when he was an
unknown entity, to meet Y, already a legend. The clearest
indications of influence can be seen in their respective
masterpieces. X's protagonist treks over the Grand Trunk Road
with a holy man searching for spiritual liberation, much as Y's
protagonist floats down the Mississippi river with a runaway slave
seeking his freedom. Both defy prejudices to help their
companions, even as their authors deal in ugly racial stereotypes.
ID X and Y

40. SAFETY

41. X- Rudyard Kipling
Y- Mark Twain

42. 3. X is a 1938 play by British Playwright Patrick Hamilton
and was known as Five Chelsea Lane and Angel Street in
the USA. The play is set in fog-bound London and is
characterized by a gloomy, dimly-lit set. It centers
around an upper middle-class couple and an unsolved
murder
What is this play called which has led to the origin of a
widely used term that was one of Oxford Dictionary's
most popular words of 2018?

43. SAFETY

44. Gaslight, Gaslighting

45. 4. This 1971 bestselling Novel was written by American
writer William Peter Blatty. Its publisher is based in New
York building Number 666.
The movie adaptation ended up defining the Genre it
was made in for years to come.
What Novel?

46. SAFETY

47. The Exorcist

48. 5. The full title of this Irish Satire is
'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In
Four Parts. By Lemuel ______, First a Surgeon, and then a
Captain of Several Ships '.
What is the more colloquial title?

49. SAFETY

50. Gulliver's Travels

51. 6. Following are some of the characters of a popular satirical
novel based on Mahabharat and the Indian Freedom Movement.
VV ji - Ved Vyas and C. Rajgopalchari
Ganga Datta - Bhisma and Mahatma Gandhi
Dhritarasthra - Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandu - Netaji Subash Chandra Bose
Draupadi Mokrasi (D Mokrasi) – Democracy
Shakuni Shankar Dey - Siddharth Shankar Dey
Bhim - Indian Army
Arjun - Indian News Media
Ekalavya - V V Giri
What is the name of the Novel and who is the writer?

52. SAFETY

53. 'The Great Indian Novel'
by Shashi Tharoor

54. TIE BREAKERS

55. 1. What title has
been blacked out?

56. SAFETY

57. Lord of the Flies

58. 2. Which Classic Novelist and their most iconic
work does this google doodle pay homage to?

59. SAFETY

60. 'Robinson Crusoe'
by R.L. Stevenson

61. ggs thx