The MELA Quiz, conducted by Mukund Poddar and Shriya Atmakuri, as a part of the final quizzing weekend of the semester.

1. Ab toh MELA lagega
Finals

2. Rules
This is also a rules slide
After the wild popularity of yesterday’s rules slide, we decided to include one today
too
I hear Mod...oops QM is God
Also, partial points only when we deem it valid.
Your QMs could be extremely sleep-deprived, so refrain from any sudden loud
outbursts lest you give them a stroke

3. Dries 1
Clockwise
Bounce and Pounce
+10/-5
+10/-0 for bounce

4. 1
There is a buried easter
egg in the video clip
shown. Identify it.

6. Ice Cube is the rapper’s name playing the chief

7. 2
In the Lord of the Rings, Treebeard, also known as Fangorn, was the oldest of the
ents left in Middle-earth, an ancient tree-like being who is a "shepherd of trees".
Tolkien "began to sketch the episode where two of the hobbits encounter
Treebeard, the being who was the ultimate expression of Tolkien's love and
respect for trees. When eventually he came to write this chapter (so he told Nevill
Coghill) he modelled Treebeards' way of speaking, 'Hrum, Hroom,' on the
booming voice of ______."

9. C. S. Lewis

10. 3
The Thinker is a very famous sculpture by Auguste Rodin that was originally to be
called The Poet. It was commissioned to be a doorway surround for his other
piece of work, The Gates of Hell, before Rodin also made it an independent art
work for other places. Its high stature in the artwork for The Gates of Hell and its
central placement has led many critics to speculate that this is a certain poet
pondering his great poem surrounded by many of his characters.

12. Dante

13. 4
In 1940 X was living in France when the Germans showed up. After spending
nearly a year in internment as an enemy alien, he was released and allowed to
live in Berlin and occupied Paris. While in Berlin, he recorded six radio broadcasts
recounting his experiences as a captive of the Germans. They were meant to be
humorous talks in typical X style, and they contained no pro-German or anti-British
propaganda, but when second-hand information about their production finally
filtered back to England, they went over very badly. Wodehouse reacted to the
criticism by emigrating to the United States, becoming an American citizen, and
never coming back to England for the rest of his life. He still got a knighthood from
Queen Elizabeth II in 1975. He died the same year at the age of 93, saying that
with his knighthood and a waxwork in Madame Tussaud's, he had achieved all of
his life's ambitions.

15. P. G. Wodehouse

16. 5
___ _________ are an English band that is often credited by rock critics and
historians for giving rise to the birth of psychedelic music, and influencing many
future genres like punk rock and progressive rock. They had many chart-toppers
in the 1960s like “For Your Love” and “Heart Full of Soul”. Despite them being very
successful in their own right, we know this band for a different reason from the
world of music.
Name the band.

18. The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton
have all played with them some time or the other

19. 6
X is a school of art that originated in the wake of World War 1. The belief of its
practitioners was that "the war to end all wars" was such a brutal, devastating and
ultimately meaningless conflict that such an ugly world didn't deserve art. So, in
response, the practitioners of X gave the world anti-art.
The famous picture of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee is an example
of X.
The movement died out for a few reasons, the primary of them being that people
started liking the art that was made which defeated the entire purpose.

21. Dadaism

22. 7
DEATH BATTLE! Is a popular YouTube show which pits pop culture’s deadliest
characters against each other. The hosts analyze the fighters' weapons, armor,
and skills to find the winner of each battle.
While they usually pair characters from different universes who have similar
abilities, their season 3 finale paired off characters whose only trait in common is
their tendency to smash through the fourth wall. X is from a sparkly children’s TV
Show that has episodes named ‘Sonic Rainboom’ and ‘The Cutie Mark
Chronicles’ while Y is arguably the funniest, most cynical and insane of their
franchise.

24. X: Pinkie Pie, Y: Deadpool

25. 8
X is a collection of 6 epic poems (and the few incomplete Mutabilitie Cantos)
written by Edmund Spenser as a gift for Queen Elizabeth. The first three books
were published in 1590 and the next 3 in 1596.
Spenser's plan was to write 24 books — the first 12 each starring a knight who
personifies one of the 12 Private Virtues, and the rest starring Prince Arthur, who
personifies the 12 Public Virtues. Unfortunately Edmund Spenser died and the
books never actually show the titular character and Prince Arthur never meets his
true love.

27. The Faerie Queene

28. 9
In the words of the artist himself, "On my guitar I used light-gauge guitar strings,
with a very thin first string, which made it easier to bend the notes, and it was not
uncommon during the most frenetic bits of playing for me to break at least one
string.” His oddity of changing his strings on the stage led to audiences clapping
out this delay, for which the British colloquialism is “to be given the X”. This is how
the artist got his nickname X.
Mention both the artist and his exact nickname

30. Eric Clapton as Slowhand

31. 10
Claude Rains' daughter tells of a time when the two went to see this movie in the
theater years after it was made. It was bitterly cold and his face was completely
covered by a hat and scarf. When he spoke to ask for the tickets, the attendant
immediately recognized his voice and wanted to let them in for free. Rains was
quite upset at this and demanded that he pay full price.
Which movie is this that Claude Rains starred in?

33. The Invisible Man

34. Round of
Connects
Written round
+10/-0 for normal
+20/-10 if you stake
+10 if you get all questions

35. 1

37. 2

39. 3

41. 4

43. 5
What one word can connect the following phrases:
A province in Turkey
A train station in Melbourne, named after one of the city’s founders
A soldier assigned as a personal valet to a commissioned officer
A routing protocol for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks

45. Haruki Murakami’s Books

46. Some of John Williams most famous compositions

47. John Malkovich

48. Directors of Harry Potter Movies

49. Batman

50. List It
+2 for each identified character
4 minutes by the timers
Come to the front if you want

53. Very Back/Wall: Weeping Angel, TARDIS, Black Knight, Weeping Angel
Back Row Groom side: Rocket Raccoon, Groot , The Vision, Ant Man, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Nick Fury, Wolverine
Window Groom side: The Hulk
Window Bride side: Vulpix, Nidoking, Pikachu
Back Row Bride side: Buzz and Woody, Aladdin, Jasmine, Ariel, Prince Eric, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Beast.
Second to last Row Groom side: Loki, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Iron Man, Captain America.
Second to last Row Bride side: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Hamish Watson, James Moriarty, Burton Guster, Shawn
Spencer, The French Taunter.
Third to last row Groom side: Gollum, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gimli, son of Gloin,
Gandalf the Grey, Arwen, Aragorn.
Third to last row Bride side: Daenerys of the House Targaryen, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Arya Stark, The
Night King.
Third Row Groom Side: Storm Trooper, Darth Vader, Data (from season 1 and 2?), Captain Jean Luc Picard, Commander
Spock, Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
Third Row Bride Side: Hermione Jean Granger, Ronald Billius Weasley, Headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian
Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid.
Second Row Groom side: Chewbacca, Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker
Second Row Bride side: The Doctor (4th), Sarah Jane Smith, The Doctor (10th), Rose Tyler, The Doctor (12th)
Front Row Groom side: Victor Sullivan*, Elena Fisher, Nathan Drake, Joel.
Front Row, Bride side: Amelia Pond-Williams, Rory Williams-Pond, Professor River Song/ Melody Pond, Rory Gilmore?
Groomsmen: Spiderman, Harry James Potter, Frodo Baggins
Bridesmaids: Ellie, Belle, Lorelai Gilmore
Officiant: The Doctor (11th)

54. Long Connect
Each question has an answer
bounce and pounce.
Answer revealed after each
question

55. 1 +80/-40
This song that is one of the all-time most famous songs, actually topped charts
only in 2007 for the first time. This was because the band had never released this
song as a single, but in 2007 their catalogue was made available as legal digital
downloads, making it eligible for chart considerations finally. The reason for the
lack of a single release was that the band had not anticipated this song getting
radio air-time because of its longer than usual length.

57. Stairway to Heaven

58. 2 +60/-30
This song X was written before the band was even formed. Y, a band member,
gave a demo of this song to Colin, who joined him and helped in the formation of
the rest of the band. It was based on an earlier song “The Air I Breathe”, written by
Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, because of which Y agreed to share the
credits for X with aforementioned people.
One of the extras in the video for the song is a teenage Kieran Hebden, aka Four
Tet, an artist famous for mixing Y and the band’s songs.
Identify the song X

60. Creep by Radiohead

61. 3 +40/-20
The author of X was inspired to write this novel after witnessing the death of a
woman throwing herself at a train, and coming to know she was the wife of a
wealthy landowner. The character of Levin is often said to be the author himself,
because of the struggles he faces with death, morality, and religion. Like the
protagonist of X, the author too met his demise at a train station due to
tuberculosis in 1910. The likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi count as this
author as one of their major influences

63. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

64. 4 +20/-10
This episode of a certain very long running TV show is the highest rated among all
its episodes. It comes from a short story that the writer X had originally written for
the show’s 2006 annual book, titled “What I Did On My Summer Holidays, by Sally
Sparrow”. The antagonists X decided to add to this adaptation were actually
supposed to be for another episode, but the lack of any good ideas made him add
the antagonists here instead. The success of this episode is also more surprising
as the protagonist is rarely featured in this episode.
Name the episode.

66. Blink, Dr. Who

67. 5 +10/-0
This series of nearly 250 paintings are works inspired by the flower garden in the
painter’s house in Giverny. A lot of them derive their distinct visual patterns due to
the failing eyesight of the painter towards this time of his life.
What is this series of paintings called?

69. Water Lilies by Claude Monet

71. Artworks hated by their creators

72. Dries 2

73. This is a listing on eBay for a McDonald’s product that was recently for
sale online for outrageous prices. Why are people paying so much for
this product?
1

75. Rick & Morty, Szechuan Sauce

76. 2
In X the 'Thaum' is the smallest unit of magic and several students at the Unseen
University are trying to split it to the horror of their elders. They theorise that the
Thaum is made up of Resons and that Resons consist of five different flavours:
up, down, sideways, sex appeal and peppermint.
This humorous analogy to quarks is a characteristic feature of X which is famous
for its particular brand of ridiculous satire.
ID X

78. Discworld Novels

79. 3
Most races in World of
Warcraft have an
associated dance act for
them, that is often inspired
by famous dances or artists
from around the world. The
male of the race Dranei are
no exception to this. Identify
the source inspiration for
their dance.

81. Tunak Tunak by Daler Mehndi

82. 4
A very common term in today’s parlance came to its present usage from the final
sketch of the 25th show of Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, an
argument develops between the waitress, who recites a menu in which nearly
every dish contains X (the term) and Mrs Bun, who does not like X.
The word X is uttered at least 132 times, aided by a group of Vikings who
occasionally sing about X. These connotations of repetition and unwantedness led
to the current usage of the term.

84. Spam

85. 5
Unblank

87. Carla Bruni

88. 6
This product was introduced in 2001 to critical and commercial acclaim. After a
successful run, the most recognisable form of this product was discontinued in
2014. However, the launch of a certain production just a few months back sent the
demand for this product into overdrive, with a 929% climb in the week of the
launch.
Which product, and which production?

90. Baby Driver and iPod (Classic)

91. 7
“The Motherland Calls” is a massive
statue (nearly twice as tall as The
Statue of Liberty) in the city of
Volgograd. It is the last non-religious
statue to have been declared the
largest at the time of its construction,
with all subsequent largest statues
being related to Buddhism. What
was it commissioned in
commemoration of?

93. Battle of Stalingrad

94. 8
This painter is said to have
suffered from synesthesia,
a condition where a man
confuses inputs from his
different senses, and is
one of the pioneers of the
purely abstract art form, as
shown alongside.
Name the painter.

96. Wassily Kandinsky

97. Congratulations to the winning team, buy
us food please!