The final rounds of Quizablanca-the MELA Quiz

2. Round 1
(Written round)
8 Trivial questions

3. 1. Which movie has won the maximum number
of Filmfare awards in a single year(11)?

4. 2. Name this painting

5. 3. Who among the following is not a famous five
lead character?
1) George
2) Dick
3) Scamper

6. 4. Vidya Balan Starred in which of these
television series
1) Hum Pach
2) Yes boss
3) Tu tu main main

7. 5. Kathak is a dance form of which state

8. 6. Harmonica Originated in which country

9. 7. Oldest ever recorded book in history-

10. 8. What is the nationality of Aladdin.

11. ANSWERS

12. 1.Black
2. The Persistance of Memory
3. Scamper
4. Hum Paanch
5. Uttar Pradesh
6. Germany
7. Rig Veda
8. China

13. ROUND 2
12 questions
Pounce and Bounce rules apply

14. 1. Maddie Ziegler, is an American dancer, actress and
model. She first became known for appearing
in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms from 2011 at age
8. She gained wider fame for starring in a series of music
videos by X an Australian singer, which cumulatively have
attracted more than 3.8 billion views on YouTube.
The series of videos has been a controversial and deeply-
unusual album campaign which at various points have
been called “creepy,” “subsumed by external influences
and validation," and has been forced to apologize
after being accused of peadophilia (for a particular
video).
Who is X?

15. MADDIE ZIEGLER

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17. SIA
Chandelier
Elastic Heart
Big Girls Cry
The Greatest…
Ziegler in Elastic Heart

18. 2. Sting(Gordon Sumner), Brad Pitt,
Francis Ford Coppola and Andrea Pirlo
share a common hobby of sorts. It is an
expensive hobby but the returns are
not all that bad.
The magazine Mr Porter termed it as a
mark of the more urbane sophisticated
celebrity.

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21. 3. Isabella of Aragon-Duchess of Milan
Cecilia Gallerani,
Costanza d'Avalos-Duchess of Francavilla
Isabella d'Este
Lisa del Giocondo
Caterina Sforza-Countess of Forli
These are few Italian women of the 15th-16th
century with a common connection and a
common love for the arts. One of them is more
famous , known throughout the world and we
have all seen her for sure.
Give the connection.

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23. All of them had their portraits
made by LEONARDO DA VINCI
And at first the speculation of
who MONA LISA was modelled
on included these women but it is
now credited to Lisa Giocondo.

24. 4. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell started their
career with a volume of poems published
together. The siblings have each gone on to
publish literary works which have influenced
modern literature.
As none of the siblings lived for long due to
disease, only a few works were published. Ellis
Bell published a single novel.
Although their approaches were different how
their novels approached the topics
of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism are
said to be ahead of their times.
How do we better know the siblings as?

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26. BRONTE SISTERS

27. 5. It has been over 50 years since X’s
execution at the hands of the Bolivian
authorities. Synonymous with socialism,
guerrilla warfare and revolution in his heyday,
the modern-day X is one of counterfeit t-
shirts, tattoos and posters. Has one
of Time magazine’s Top 25 political icons of
all time been reduced to a mere t-shirt
salesman? Or does this bountiful ephemera
help spread his values to a new generation?
Who is X?

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30. 6. This is a form of art inspired by
experiences known to follow a certain action. The
word for the art form X was coined by a
psychologist and means "mind manifesting". By
that definition, all artistic efforts to depict the
inner world of the mind may be considered “X". In
common parlance “X art" refers above all to the art
movement of the late 1960s counterculture. X
visual arts were a counterpart to X rock music.
Next slide features an example.
What is the form of art or what is X?

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33. PSYCHEDELIC ART

34. 7. M Jesenka was a Czech journalist and translator. In
1919, she discovered a short story by Prague writer X,
and wrote him to ask for permission to translate it. The
letter launched an intense and increasingly passionate
correspondence. X even turned over to Jesenská his
diaries at the end of his life.
A book of all the correspondence of X with Jesenka
has all been published which uses her name.
X is widely regarded as one of the major figures
of 20th-century literature.
Who is X?

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36. Franz
Kafka

37. 8.
• X is a genre of electronic dance music that
originated in South London in the late 1990s. It is
generally characterized by
sparse, syncopated rhythmic patterns with bass
lines that contain prominent sub-bass
frequencies
• The style emerged as an offshoot of UK garage,
drawing on a lineage of related styles such as 2-
step, jungle, broken beat, and grime. In the
United Kingdom the origins of the genre can be
traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound
system party scene in the early 1980s.
• X?

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39. Dubstep

40. • 9.
• X (26 March 1907-11 September 1987) was a Hindi poet,
freedom fighter and educationist from India. She is widely
regarded as the "modern Meera“
• Varma is considered to be one of the four major poets of
the Chhayavaadi school of the Hindi literature, others
being Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Jaishankar
Prasad and Sumitranandan Pant.
• She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956 and the
Padma Vibhushan in 1988.
• X is also known for her childhood memoir, Mere Bachpan
Ke Din and Gillu, which was inducted into the syllabus of
India's Central Board of Secondary Education for the 9th
grade. In addition, her poem "Madhur Madhur Mere
Deepak Jal" is a part of CBSE curriculum (Hindi-B) for 10th
grade.

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43. Mahadevi Verma

44. 10.Identify the writer from these facts
• After an adolescence spent reading books and
writing stories, X’s sister, Madge, dared her sibling
to attack a novel-length project. X accepted the
challenge and penned her first novel
• Like Arthur Conan Doyle before her, X eventually
grew tired of her trademark character and set
about having Y perish in the 1975 novel . The
reaction to his demise was so fierce that The New
York Times published a front-page “obituary” for
the character on August 6
• Her favourite colour was green.

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46. Agatha Cristie

47. 11.
• X poem was published on 11 January 1818 under the pen
name Glirastes. It appeared on page 24 in the yearly
collection, under Original Poetry
• Horace Smith's poem was published, along with a note
signed with the initials H.S., on 1 February 1818. It takes
the same subject, tells the same story, and makes a similar
moral point
• It was originally published under the same title as the
original verse; but in later collections Smith retitled it "On A
Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in
the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below".

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49. Ozymandias by Shelly

50. 12. Bak is the chief sculptor to
the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten
whom we see with his wife Teheri
. It is beautifully preserved in
Berlin (above) and is very
intriguing given Western art
history’s traditional description of
Egyptian art as something
foreign.
This is the earliest surviving
example of what?

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52. First Self Portrait

53. ROUND 3
Who or What?
(6 questions)

54. Name the writer
• Chote Chote Chizo ke bhagvano ne jitadi
puruskar ab bis saal bad nikala khushiyo ki
sarkar.

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56. Arundhuti Roy

57. Name the book or author
• The title of the book is often translated to "the
science of politics", but the book has a broader
scope. It includes books on the nature of
government, law, civil and criminal court
systems, ethics, economics, markets and trade,
the methods for screening ministers, diplomacy,
theories on war, nature of peace, and the duties
and obligations of a king. The text incorporates
Hindu philosophy, includes ancient economic and
cultural details on agriculture, mineralogy, mining
and metals, animal husbandry, medicine, forests
and wildlife.

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59. Arthashastra by Chanakya

60. Guess the movie
• “Rosebud…”

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62. Citizen Kane

63. The book please
• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the
unfashionable end of the western spiral arm
of galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

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65. Hitchiker’s Guide to theGalaxy

66. Original song anyone
Jab koi Baat Bigar Jaye,
Jab Koi Mushkil Pad Jaye,
Tum Dena Sath Mera
O Humnava

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68. 500 Miles

69. • Long Connect Round
Points at the top left corner

70. • 80/-50
Co-written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman,
Kauffman's husband, composer Michael Skloff,
and songwriter Allee Willis, along with Phil
Sōlem and Danny Wilde

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72. 60/-30
• In the United States, the song topped the Billboard Hot
100 Airplay chart for eight weeks. When the single was
released 1995, it peaked at #3 on the UK Singles
Chart in the United Kingdom and at #17 on
the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as
the flipside to "This House Is Not a Home". It also
peaked at #1 on the U.S. Top 40 Mainstream and Hot
Adult Contemporary Tracks charts.
• The song was the most successful in Canada where it
peaked at number 1 for 5 consecutive weeks.
• In April 2004, the song was ranked at #15
on Blender magazine's list of the "50 Worst Songs
Ever".

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74. 40/-20 The Bridge of the song
• No one could ever know me
No one could ever see me
Seems you're the only one who knows what
it's like to be me
Someone to face the day with
Make it through all the rest with
Someone I'll always laugh with
Even at my worst, I'm best with you, yeah

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76. 20/-10
• The song recorded by the American duo The
Rembrandts

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78. • 10/-5
It is best known as the theme song to the
American sitcom of 1994.

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80. I’ll be there for you