In the land of questions and lore, Minds gather, thirsting for more. Like Hamlet's deep plight, They grapple to set right, Each question they solve, to the core. And closing Day 2, the BITS Goa Quiz club brings to you the ‘LIT’est quiz of all , the lit quiz, a quiz encompassing everything literature! A wonderful opportunity for all bookworms to finally flex all the knowledge they have kept hidden. Everything books, everything human about books, and the humans who wrote these books! Teams of 1-3 members 🗓Date: 28th October 🕙 Time: 2 PM 📍 Location: DLT-8 Format and rules for the quizzes: 1. A 20 question written elimination round will be held first, followed by the 6 highest scoring teams moving on to the Final. 2.A number of different types of Quiz rounds will be held in the Final. 3.Use of unfair means would lead to disqualification. 4.Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

1. A LIT QUIZ
By Parshav Jain

2. Acknowledgements
● Thanks to Quiz club.
● Thanks to the Literature and Debating Club
● Thanks to waves for hosting the fest.
● Thanks all of you for showing up.
● Special thanks to Vagarth

3. Prelims
Rules:
● 20 Questions.
●

4. Q. 1
The spelling of X's name has varied over time. It was not consistently spelled any
single way during his lifetime, in manuscript or in printed form. After his death the
name was spelled variously by editors of his work, and the spelling was not fixed
until well into the 20th century.
The standard spelling of the surname as X was the most common published form in
X's lifetime, but it was not one used in his own handwritten signatures.
This added fire to the conspiracy theories about X not being a real person but a front
of various authors. ID X.

5. Q. 2
In one of X’s novels the main character gets arrested out of nowhere, and made to
go through a bewildering process where neither the cause of his arrest nor the
judicial process is made clear to him. This is so common in X’s work that scholars
have come up with a new term to describe unnecessarily complex or pointless
systems of bureaucracy.
ID X.

6. Q. 3
X is a specific genre in fiction.
"Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly-written X seen
as being implausible. The attacks are usually phrased as the need for "alien space
bats" or by saying that the X has gone into "ASB territory". The term eventually
evolved into a reference to deus ex machina to create an impossible point of
divergence. Examples include changes to the physical laws of nature, time travel,
and advanced aliens interfering in human affairs. An example of the last change is
Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series.
ID X.

7. Q. 4
Political interpretations of X include treatments of the modern fairy tale as an allegory or
metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s.
For instance, the Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard, and the Silver Shoes
represent the Silverite sixteen to one silver ratio (dancing down the road). Others suggest the
City of X earns its name from the abbreviation of units in which gold and silver are measured.
The Scarecrow as a representation of American farmers and their troubles in the late 19th
century. The Tin Man represented the American steel industry's failures to combat increased
international competition at the time. The Cowardly Lion as a metaphor for the American
military's performance in the Spanish–American War.
ID X.

8. Q. 5
The Hawking Index (HI) was invented by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg, who
created it in a blog for the Wall Street Journal in 2014. The index is named after English
physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time has been dubbed "the
most unread book of all time".
What phenomena might the HI describe?

9. Q. 6
“How I Killed X and Why It Had It Coming” is the 2010 memoir by Mike Brown, the
American astronomer.
It chronicles the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet then thought to be larger than X.
ID X.

10. Q. 7
The bechdel test is a shorthand test to ascertain if a story is misogynist or not, popularized
by Alison Bechdel.
The test has three simple rules.
● It has to have at least two named women in it
● who talk to each other
● ?

11. Q. 8
Zabiba and the King, written in 2000, is a novel that the CIA believes was written by X,
probably with the help of some ghostwriters.
The plot is a love story about a powerful ruler of medieval Iraq and a beautiful commoner
girl named Zabibah. Zabibah's husband is a cruel and unloving man.

12. Q. 9
The X book series started with a book about DOS in 1991.
The creator overheard someone in a bookshop ask if there was "a book about DOS for X
like me". Since then the series has grown to about 2,500 titles with more than 200 million
books in print.
ID X.

13. Q. 10
“The X Cookbook” was written by William Powell as a teenager and first published in 1971
at the apex of the counterculture era to protest against United States involvement in the
Vietnam War.
The book contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary
telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for the
home manufacture of illicit drugs, including LSD. Powell converted to Anglicanism in 1976
and later attempted to have the book removed from circulation. However, the copyright
belonged to the publisher, who continued circulation until the company was acquired in
1991. ID X.

14. Q. 11
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a Latin phrase which has its origins in ancient Greek.
The term has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is
suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new
event, character, ability or object.
FITB.

15. Q. 12
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must
be felt with the heart. "In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No
barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.
They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little
importance compared with their large loves and heavenly charities.”
Which popular author wrote this.

16. Q. 13
Irish author X has turned down an offer to have her new book, 'Beautiful World, Where Are
You', translated into Hebrew with a major Israeli publisher, citing her support for the BDS
movement.
X was a renowned debater in her college days and self identifies as a marxist.
ID X and her most popular book Y (released in 2018) which deals with love across class
division. Y also got adapted into a TV series in 2020.

17. Q. 14
Y is a phrase which is commonly used. Y is also the title of a famous poem written by an
American poet X who was the only person to win four Pulitzer awards for poetry.
It is said that India's first prime minister had this author's books close to him and even had it
in his bedside table while he lay dying.
If you were on any other BITS campus you would find the place Y.

18. Q. 15
X is the fourth novel of writer Y. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired
by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The book and its perceived blasphemy
motivated Islamic extremist bombings, killings, and riots and sparked a debate about
censorship and religiously motivated violence.
Fearing unrest, the Rajiv Gandhi government banned the importation of the book into
India. India was the first country to ban this book.
ID X & Y.

19. Q. 16
X wrote the poem Y in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith,
who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the same title. While Smith’s version is less
known, X’s version obtained a legendary status.
X began writing the poem, after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a
fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC. Earlier, in 1816,
the Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni had removed the 7.25-short-ton (6.58
mt; 6,580 kg) statue fragment.

20. Q. 17
X is an American classic which deals with experiences of the author Y in their home state
Alabama and their family.
While X was inspired by true events, it was supposed to be a sequel to an existing story she
wrote. X was edited to a point that Y no longer felt that she wrote it. After the massive
success of X, Y withdrew from the media and suffered from alcoholism and a 20-year-long
writing block.
ID X & Y.

21. Q. 18
X is a very famous author who has been nominated for both the Nobel prize in literature
and peace.
In 2013, X’s great granddaughter announced his entire body of work – all 90 volumes –
along with comprehensive biographical materials has been posted online and will be
available for free. But, if you are an english reader of X’s work then those books have still to
yet come out of copyright.

22. Q. 19
X's first book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was rejected by 27 publishers.
He decided to destroy the book but randomly bumped into an old friend who'd just become
a children's book editor, who asked to look at it and ended up publishing it.
In 1960, "Green Eggs and Ham" was reportedly published after X's publisher bet him that he
couldn't write a book with 50 or fewer words.

23. Q. 20
X is a series of books aimed at teens and young adults. The protagonists in these stories are
young teens who find themselves in frightening circumstances, often involving the
supernatural, the paranormal, or the occult. All 62 editions were written between 1992 and
1997 in a gap of 53 months which implies more than one book a month. ID Book Series and
author?

24. Answers

26. Q. 1
The spelling of X's name has varied over time. It was not consistently spelled any
single way during his lifetime, in manuscript or in printed form. After his death the
name was spelled variously by editors of his work, and the spelling was not fixed
until well into the 20th century.
The standard spelling of the surname as X was the most common published form in
X's lifetime, but it was not one used in his own handwritten signatures.
This added fire to the conspiracy theories about X not being a real person but a front
of various authors. ID X.

27. Answer
Shakespeare

28. Q. 2
In one of X’s novels the main character gets arrested out of nowhere, and made to
go through a bewildering process where neither the cause of his arrest nor the
judicial process is made clear to him. This is so common in X’s work that scholars
have come up with a new term to describe unnecessarily complex or pointless
systems of bureaucracy.
ID X.

29. Answer
Kafkaesque

30. Q. 3
X is a specific genre in fiction.
"Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly-written X seen
as being implausible. The attacks are usually phrased as the need for "alien space
bats" or by saying that the X has gone into "ASB territory". The term eventually
evolved into a reference to deus ex machina to create an impossible point of
divergence. Examples include changes to the physical laws of nature, time travel,
and advanced aliens interfering in human affairs. An example of the last change is
Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series.
ID X.

31. Answer
Alternate history fiction

32. Q. 4
Political interpretations of X include treatments of the modern fairy tale as an allegory or
metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s.
For instance, the Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard, and the Silver Shoes
represent the Silverite sixteen to one silver ratio (dancing down the road). Others suggest the
City of X earns its name from the abbreviation of units in which gold and silver are measured.
The Scarecrow as a representation of American farmers and their troubles in the late 19th
century. The Tin Man represented the American steel industry's failures to combat increased
international competition at the time. The Cowardly Lion as a metaphor for the American
military's performance in the Spanish–American War.
ID X.

33. Answer
Wizard of Oz

34. Q. 5
The Hawking Index (HI) was invented by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg, who
created it in a blog for the Wall Street Journal in 2014. The index is named after English
physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time has been dubbed "the
most unread book of all time".
What phenomena might the HI describe?

35. Answer
The amount of a book a average
reader will get through before
dropping it.

36. Q. 6
“How I Killed X and Why It Had It Coming” is the 2010 memoir by Mike Brown, the
American astronomer.
It chronicles the discovery of Eris, a dwarf planet then thought to be larger than X.
ID X.

37. Answer
Pluto

38. Q. 7
The bechdel test is a shorthand test to ascertain if a story is misogynist or not, popularized
by Alison Bechdel.
The test has three simple rules.
● It has to have at least two named women in it
● Who talk to each other
● ?

39. Answer
Women talk about
something other than men

40. Q. 8
Zabiba and the King, written in 2000, is a novel that the CIA believes was written by X,
probably with the help of some ghostwriters.
The plot is a love story about a powerful ruler of medieval Iraq and a beautiful commoner
girl named Zabibah. Zabibah’s husband is a cruel and unloving man.

41. Answer
Saddam Hussein

42. Q. 9
The X book series started with a book about DOS in 1991.
The creator overheard someone in a bookshop ask if there was "a book about DOS for X
like me". Since then the series has grown to about 2,500 titles with more than 200 million
books in print
ID X.

43. Answer
For dummies franchise

44. Q. 10
“The X Cookbook” was written by William Powell as a teenager and first published in 1971
at the apex of the counterculture era to protest against United States involvement in the
Vietnam War.
The book contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary
telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for the
home manufacture of illicit drugs, including LSD. Powell converted to Anglicanism in 1976
and later attempted to have the book removed from circulation. However, the copyright
belonged to the publisher, who continued circulation until the company was acquired in
1991. ID X.

45. Answer
The Anarchist Cookbook

46. Q. 11
___ __ _______is a Latin phrase which has its origins in ancient Greek.
The term has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is
suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new
event, character, ability or object.
FITB.

47. Answer
Deus ex machina

48. Q. 12
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must
be felt with the heart. "In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No
barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.
They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little
importance compared with their large loves and heavenly charities.”
Which popular author wrote this.

49. Answer
Helen Keller

50. Q. 13
Irish author X has turned down an offer to have her new book, 'Beautiful World, Where Are
You', translated into Hebrew with a major Israeli publisher, citing her support for the BDS
movement.
X was a renowned debater in her college days and self identifies as a marxist.
ID X and her most popular book Y (released in 2018) which deals with love across class
division. Y also got adapted into a TV series in 2020.

51. Answer
Normal People by Sally
Rooney

52. Q. 14
Y is a phrase which is commonly used. Y is also the title of a famous poem written by an
American poet X who was the only person to win four Pulitzer awards for poetry.
It is said that India's first prime minister had this author's books close to him and even had it
in his bedside table while he lay dying.
If you were on any other BITS campus you would find the place Y.

53. Answer
Road not taken by Robert Frost

54. Q. 15
X is the fourth novel of writer Y. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired
by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The book and its perceived blasphemy
motivated Islamic extremist bombings, killings, and riots and sparked a debate about
censorship and religiously motivated violence.
Fearing unrest, the Rajiv Gandhi government banned the importation of the book into
India.
ID X & Y.

55. Answer
Satanic Verses by Salman
Rushdie

56. Q. 16
X wrote the poem Y in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith,
who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the same title. While Smith’s version is less
known, X’s version obtained a legendary status.
X began writing the poem, after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a
fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC. Earlier, in 1816,
the Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni had removed the 7.25-short-ton (6.58
mt; 6,580 kg) statue fragment.

57. Answer
Ozymandias by PB Shelley

58. Q. 17
X is an American classic which deals with experiences of the author Y in their home state
Alabama and their family.
While X was inspired by true events, it was supposed to be a sequel to an existing story
they wrote and even after that X was edited to a point that Y no longer felt that she wrote
the same. After the massive success of X, Y withdrew from the media and suffered from
alcoholism and a 20-year-long writing block.
ID X & Y.

59. Answer
To kill a mockingbird, Harper
Lee

60. Q. 18
X is an author who has been nominated for both the Nobel prize in literature and peace.
In 2013, X’s great granddaughter announced his entire body of work – all 90 volumes –
along with comprehensive biographical materials has been posted online and will be
available for free. But, if you are an english reader of X’s work then those books have still to
yet come out of copyright.

61. Answer
Leo Tolstoy

62. Q. 19
X's first book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was rejected by 27
publishers. He decided to destroy the book but randomly bumped into an old friend who'd
just become a children's book editor, who asked to look at it and ended up publishing it.
In 1960, "Green Eggs and Ham" was reportedly published after X's publisher bet him that
he couldn't write a book with 50 or fewer words.

63. Answer
Dr. Seuss

64. Q. 20
X is a series of books aimed at teens/young adults. The protagonists in these stories are
tweens or young teens who find themselves in frightening circumstances, often involving
the supernatural, the paranormal, or the occult. All 62 editions were written between 1992
and 1997 in a gap of 53 months which implies more than one book a month. ID Book Series
and author?

65. Answer
Goosebumps

66. The End.