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 FINALS
By Parshav Jain

2. Round - 1
D R I E S

3. Q. 1
In 1781, Benjamin Franklin wrote a humorous essay to the Royal Academy. Franklin
believed that the various academic societies in Europe were increasingly pretentious
and concerned with the impractical.
The essay goes on to explain the science behind a particular bodily function, and urges
its reader to be proud about the same.
What is the essay about?

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5. Answer
Fart Proudly

6. Q. 2
Toward the end of his life, Asimov published a series of collections of X, mostly written
by himself, starting with the Lecherous X, which appeared in 1975. X: Too Gross,
whose title displays Asimov's love of puns, contains 144 X by Asimov and an equal
number by John Ciardi. He even created a slim volume of Sherlockian X.

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8. Answer
Limericks

9. Q. 3
In 1981, this person was 29 years old and a student at Nanjing University. In the summer while
traveling on a guided tour in Turfan, he was seized with the idea to return home overland from
China via Tibet. The country was on the verge of relaxing its rules towards foreign visitors, but in
1981 he still needed police permission to travel anywhere in China, even major cities, let alone
sensitive areas like Tibet. Based on this experience, he went on to write a travel book titled From
Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet. The book was probably his first popular
success and won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1983.
Identify the author of this travel book?

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11. Answer
Vikram Seth

12. Q.4
The hardcopy of book X (which was the first of the series Y) was auctioned for 25000
pounds after being bought for 1 pound by a local library. The book which is one of 500
original/first copies had a spelling error on its back cover.
Another book of X was sold for 50,000 pounds because of its good quality. The most
expensive copy of the book X is sold for 192,507 pounds and has author annotations
written on the side with original illustrations.
ID X.

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14. Answer
Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone

15. Q. 5
The portrayal of lesbians as X is a trope in 20th-century exploitation film and literature. It
was a way to hint at or titillate with the taboo idea of lesbianism in a fantasy context
outside the heavily censored realm of social realism.This is supported as commonly
victims of X are attractive young women. This can be seen in works like Carmilla by
Sheridan Le Fanu.

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17. Answer
Vampires

18. Q. 6
When it was published in 1953, X was perceived as a critique of MccArthy's witch hunt
of the red scare of the 1940s and 50s.
In 1992, a California middle school ordered teachers to cover up all "obscene" words in
X with black marker before issuing copies to students. The school stopped this practice
after local newspapers commented on the irony of defacing a book that condemns
censorship.

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20. Answer
Fahrenheit 451

21. Round - 2
Written round

22. Q. 1
Legend has it that a Dublin theatre-owner made a bet that he could introduce a new
word into the English language within a day or two (the amount of time differs in
different tellings of the story), and that the people of Dublin would make up the meaning
of the word themselves. So he wrote the nonsense word X on some pieces of paper
and got a gang of street urchins to write it on walls across Dublin.
The next day everyone was talking about it, and it wasn’t long before it became
incorporated into everyday language, meaning a sort of “test”, because this is what the
people thought the mysterious word was supposed to be.

23. Q. 2
X comes from the medieval Italian words meaning “bad” and meaning “air” – so it
literally means “bad air”.
The term was used to describe the unpleasant air emanating from the marshland
surrounding Rome, which was believed to cause the disease we now call X.

24. Q. 3
X means a ball of yarn in greek.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne gives Theseus a ball of yarn to help him find his way out of the
Minotaur’s labyrinth.
Because of this, the word X came to mean something that points the way. Appropriately
enough, Theseus unravelled the yarn behind him as he went into the maze, so that he could
work his way back out in reverse.

25. Q. 4
In ancient times, salt was used for many important things and was often referred to as
“white gold.” It could be used as an antiseptic to treat wounds — In Romance languages one
can recognize a connection between sal/sale, meaning “salt,” and salud/saude/salute,
meaning “health”) — and to preserve food, and also as a method of payment (X) in Greece
and Rome.
As far back as the Egyptian Empire, laborers were paid with salt that they could use to
preserve their food.

26. Q. 5
X originates from a latin word which was used to mean “a place where three roads meet”. X
gained the connotation of being an open, public place — a mini agora — where people from
across society’s technicolor spectrum could relax, chat and simply coexist.
The adjective X was a derivative of a word and came to mean “vulgar, ordinary, of little
importance, common and contemporary,” and X carries much of this definition to this day:
tired, ordinary, commonplace; of little use, import, consequence or significance.

27. Q. 6
XY comes from the Old French XY, the roots of which, in literal
translation, mean something like a “dead pledge.” But despite what you
might have read online, that’s probably not because you’ll be dealing
with XY for the rest of your life.

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29. Answer time
1. Quiz
2. Malaria
3. Clue
4. Salary
5. Trivial
6. Mortgage

30. Round - 3
Google has over the years commemorated various classical
authors. Figure out who is being referenced in the following
images.

31. Q1

32. Q2

33. Q3

34. Q4

35. Q5

36. Q6

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38. Answers
1. Jane Austen
2. RK Narayan
3. Mark Twain
4. Dr. Seuss
5. HP Lovecraft
6. Jane Austen

39. Round - 4
And dries again

40. Q. 1
This author gave various stories about the origins of his first novel. The name of the novel has also become an
adjective to describe various situations in common english.
But the most common account he gave was what he said to The Paris Review in 1974:
"I was lying in bed in my four-room apartment on the West Side when suddenly this line came to me: It was
love at first sight. The first time he saw the chaplain, Someone fell madly in love with him. I didn't have the
name (name of the protagonist).___The chaplain wasn't necessarily an army chaplain___he could have been a
prison chaplain. But as soon as the opening sentence was available, the book began to evolve clearly in my
mind even most of the particulars ... the tone, the form, many of the characters, including some I eventually
couldn't use. All of this took place within an hour and a half. It got me so excited that I did what the cliché says
you're supposed to do: I jumped out of bed and paced the floor."
The author and the book please, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1970.

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42. Answer
Catch 22, Joseph Heller

43. Q. 2
X is a character that featured in some of the best selling novels of this
generation. He is a Harvard professor famous for having an eidetic
memory. He gets mixed up in a lot of adventures. Some of his character
biography mirrors that of his creator, like being a controversial figure.
He is played by Tom Hanks in the on-screen adaptation. Identify X.

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45. Answer
Robert Langdon

46. Q. 3
An article by Louisa Mellor talks about patterns that emerge across quiz shows, especially
based in the UK. She goes on to say " When identifying poets for an obscure answer, it's
usually the Romantics. If there's a bird in it, try ____ A sheep, then_____.
FITB with two poets.

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48. Answer
John Keats, William Blake

49. Q. 4
X was an English journalist and short story writer who died in London. X's books
had a swastika symbol on its covers but when nazi's during world war I took up
the symbol, ordered that Swastika must no longer be adorned in the book and
instead a logo of elephant with a lotus was taken up. In X's famous book the
Antagonist is one of our national symbols.

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51. Answer
Rudyard Kipling

52. Q. 5
The Iraq War: A Historiography of X is a 2010 book artwork compiled by British artist
and technology writer James Bridle. It consists of a 12-volume, 7000-page set of
printed books that show all 12,000 changes made to the X from December 2004 to
November 2009.

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54. Answer
A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs

55. Q. 6
“I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding
road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts after rain and girls” This was Vladimir
Nabokov’s wish for his most famous and most controversial novel. However his request was
not respected by the publishing industry, by repeatedly sexualising his tragic story.
ID the book

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57. Answer
Lolita

58. The End.