This MELAS Quiz was held in February 2022 and set by Abhay and Aditya as part of our weekly sessions. The set was meticulously compiled and hosted by the QMs. Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding Intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both school and college students in the circuit.

2. Rules
● There are a total of 16 questions.
● Standard pounce rules applicable.
● Part points applicable in case of questions with more than one part.
● Q16 is worth 25 points (4 parts, 5 points each and 5 point bonus for answering all
correctly, no neg if passed, -2.5 for each wrong guess).
● Scoring on pounce will be +15/-10, On bounce +10/0
● Refrain from using any browser and enjoy the quiz
● QM’s decision is final!
● Hope you enjoy
● All the best to everyone

3. Q1
Spencer Elden, when he was just a few months old, appeared on the cover of an
album by a popular band. The cover depicts a naked baby in a swimming pool
reaching toward a 1$ note. He has since recreated the album cover several times at
different ages.
Recently, however, he filed a lawsuit against the band for "intentionally
commercially marketing the child pornography depicting Spencer and leveraging the
lascivious nature of his image to promote the __________ album. What band and
what album?

5. A1
Nirvana, Nevermind

6. Q2
X scored an academy award for her screenwriting debut in Juno. Her next script
Y, however, performed extremely terribly at the box office, and received bad
ratings. In later interviews, X blamed the fate of Y on the studio forcibly trying to
promote the film to a male audience because of the 'reputation' of the lead
actress, when she had written it with a female demographic in mind.
Years later, the horror comedy Y has now gained a cult following of primarily
female fans. Quite ahead of its times, Y provided extensive commentary on
sexual assault without showing any on screen.
Name the movie Y.

8. A2
Jennifer’s Body

9. Q3
Connect the three and follow the same pattern to FITB.
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Aravind Adiga
_________

11. A3
Indian authors to win Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai

12. Q4
Keith Haring was an american artist whose Pop Art emerged in the 80s graffiti
subculture, and soon became a 'widely recognised visual language.' He painted
this 30m mural called 'Todos Juntos Podemos Parar El SIDA' in El Raval,
Barcelona. He died an year later. Give the significance of the mural.

15. A4
“Together we can defeat AIDS.” Part of Act Up, Keith made this one to encourage
safe sex, testing for HIV, and community action against AIDS in the 80s, when the
epidemic was at its worst.

16. Q5
ID the blanked out
difficulty level.

18. A5
Brazil

19. Q6
Which US city is considered the capital of country music. There was even a kind of
a country music called the '_____ sound' which originated during the mid-1950s as
a subgenre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of the
rough honky tonk music, which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s, with
"smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth
tempos"
Famous musicians such as Chet Atkins and Billy Ray Cyrus belong to this city.
The famous CMA fest too takes place here.
Identify the city.

21. A6
Nashville

22. Q7
____ is a 1964 Indian black and white
short film directed by Satyajit Ray.
It was his only film as a director that
was produced by a corporation.
Its a beautiful tale of friendship and
rivalry between 2 children who come
from different backgrounds. Name the
short film.

24. A7
Two

25. Q8
Virginia Woolf was regarded as one of the most prominent modernist authors. One
morning while strolling in ‘Oxbridge,’ a man intercepted her and told her that only
scholars could walk along the turf, and women were to stay on the gravel path.
She complied, and next she proceeded to go to the campus library. But another
man is there to greet her at the door; he tells her that women are not admitted
inside unaccompanied. This series of refusals became inspiration and opening to
her work X, where she argued for economic and artistic freedom for women, and
the importance of ‘having a room.’
Give X.

27. A8
A Room of One's Own

28. Q9
Q. X was an Hungarian-Indian painter
She has been called “one of the
greatest avante-grande women artists
of the early 20th century” and a pioneer
in modern Indian art
Y is a painting by her.
Identify X and Y.

29. LOADING

30. A9
X - Amrita Shergill
Y - Three Girls

31. Q10
X is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the
series result has already been decided by earlier matches. This match therefore
has no effect on the winner and loser of the series, other than the total number of
matches won and lost.
This term is popularly used in Davis Cup, in international cricket, field hockey, the
FIFA World Cup. Such a match is usually played in a less tense atmosphere, often
allowing the team who has lost the series to obtain a match win. Give X.

33. A10
Dead Rubber

34. Q11
X was a British Rock band formed in London in 1977 by 2 brothers. In 1978, their
self titled debut album topped the US and UK charts. They also gained recognition
when they performed for Live Aid in 1985. In 1987, the first video seen on MTV
was their song Y which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. The track starts with
the lyric, "I want my MTV". The second part of their name is also a geographical
term.
Identify X and Y.

36. A11
X:- Dire straits
Y:- Money for Nothing

37. Q12
X is a celebrated Indian origin film director, popularly known for a thematically
related trilogy of films. In India however, X has faced a lot of conservative
backlash for it. After the set of the third film in the series was vandalised by an
angry mob, the film had to be recast and secretly filmed in Sri Lanka instead.
X's latest project released in 2021 and was also mired in controversy, but this time
because of issues like 'racist casting' and 'woke-washing of war crimes.' Give X.

39. A12
Deepa Mehta

40. Q13
Identify the title of this book by Winston
Groom.
A movie was created on the same book
which bagged 6 academy awards and is
also known as one of the best movies of
all time.

42. A13
Forrest Gump

43. Q14
Originally titled Scène de Naufrage (shipwreck scene), this 16ft x 24ft oil on
canvas painting X depicts survivors adrift and starving on a barge. Based on a
real incident where the ship Y, which was supposed to carry french officials to
assume colonial control over Senegal, ran aground.
Stranded in the sea without food, the 147 passengers started eating leather, and
wood, and eventually gave into the taboo of Cannibalism. The word Y (name of
the ship) appears in title X, and is also the name of a greek mythic figure. ID X,
the title of the painting.

46. A14
The Raft of the Medusa

47. Q15
The Olympics is the pinnacle of sports.
When speaking about the the youngest athletes to ever participate in the Olympics
India is not far behind in this list.
The female athlete X was just 11 years and 306 days old when she participated in
the swimming event of 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
She is best known for becoming the first Asian woman to swim across the English
Channel and became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Sri.
Identify X

49. A15
Arati Gupta

50. Q16
1. Aimless youth gets expelled for hitting on dean's daughter. Comes back.
Promotes chichorapan in college.
2. Douchebag mom chooses cop son over gunda son because she is too afraid
to go to jail.
3. Incompetent cop teams up with an incompetent thief to catch a thief way
smarter than them..
4. Emotionally unstable girl runs away from home & creeps out her boyfriend
who dumps her. Ultimately gets rescued by a depressed millionaire.
Identify these films based on the given badly explained plots.

52. A16
1. Mohabbatein
2. Deewar
3. Dhoom 3
4. Jab we met

53. The End

55. Buffer

56. Q
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high
school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they
have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any
sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational
attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership
elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of
competitive sports.
Identify the speaker. He is a social critic, historian, psychologist, philosopher, and
often called 'the father of modern linguistics.' He believes that spectator sport is
propaganda, and a state sanctioned propagation of the ideals of jingoism,
aggressive masculinity, and the capitalistic idea of 'competition.’

57. A
Noam Chomsky

58. Q L
Who published this

59. A
Marvel

60. Q S
ID the knocked out
person.

61. A
Sonny Liston