MELA quiz conducted in IITG

1. Quiz Club IIT Guwahati
 Sagar Mewar
 Rishabh Jain

2. Rules
 First 15 questions carry one mark each.
 Next 5 questions carry two marks each.
 No negatives.
 8 Teams qualify for the final.
 Sudden death applicable in case of tie.
 Points do not carry forward.
 Quizmasters’ decisions are final.

3. 1. Identify X
The song tells the story of a foreigner, played in the audio clip by X, trying to woo a
young Indian woman. Asha Bhosle plays the role of an advisor, teaching him Hindi
in order to impress the girl.
"You're the One for Me" has achieved relative success in India, owing greatly to X's
cult status and Bhosle's popularity as a Bollywood singer. Upon release, the song
debuted at #4 on the Indian Singles Chart and reached as high as #2.
Audio :

4. 2. Rules of which place?
 If either of us ever invents time travel, we agree our first stop will be this
meeting today in precisely five seconds.
 The thermostat must be kept at 72 degrees at all times.
 Roommates must notify each other 12 hours in advanced if they wish to have a
house guest.
 If one friend gets super powers, he will name the other one as his sidekick.

5. 3. FITB
Alfred Hitchcock bought the movie rights to the novel _______ anonymously from
author Robert Bloch for just $9,000.
After he purchased the movie rights to Robert Bloch’s novel, Alfred Hitchcock then
purchased as many copies of _______ as he could in order to keep the ending of the
film a secret. During the filming of _______ , the movie was referred to as “Production
9401″ or “Wimpy.” Director Alfred Hitchcock was zealous about keeping the ending a
secret.
_______ , the original film, only cost $800,000 to make, yet has earned more than $40
million. Alfred Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money.

6. 4. Guess the Hollywood Celeb
 Played by Brenda Song, London Leah
Tipton is one of the main characters of
The Suite Life series.
 She is supposed to be a parody of a
Hollywood celebrity. She comes from a
rich family, dresses up in high end
clothes and also her name is a parody of
the celeb in question.

7. 5. Guess the blanked out part

8. 6. FITB
The ______ _____ is a style of dance that involves pivoting the shoulder out while
popping the other shoulder out at the same time. The dance itself is defined by
Urban Dictionary as ‘An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the
shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.’ Some repercussions of X have been:
 Five Russians were arrested by the police after they uploaded a video of
themselves doing the dance on a World War II-era army tank at a war memorial
site.
 In March, a Welsh religious education teacher was suspended from his post
after a ______ _____video allegedly showing him dancing with a lifesize
cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI was posted online.

9. 7.What is the material used?
This is a 2013 art installation by Milwaukee
artist Niki Johnson, who was appalled on
hearing a particular speech made by the
subject of this painting while on a tour to
Africa in 2009.
Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______
to come up with this work which is meant to
be viewed from the front as well as the back,
where the open ends of the material used
gives the portrait a more abstract feel.

10. 8. Identify X
The X tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo
guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco
Tárrega, written in 1902.
It is a 13 note piano phrase introduced 25 years ago in a commercial. It has been the
icon of the corporation ever since, and has become a cult classic. Estimates say that
the tune is heard around 1.8 billion times each day, which equates to a staggering
20,000 times per second.

11. 9. Identify X
Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while
from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award.
As the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a
rules alteration , X a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public
vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970. The prize was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles,
with 38 percent of the public vote.

12. 10.Who is
Harley
Quinn’s
spirit
animal?

13. 11. Claim to fame?
L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing)
is a 1947 work by Alberto Giacometti.
By Giacometti’s own account, he created
L’Homme au doigt in a single night in October 1947.
On 11 May 2015, this work was in the news for
what reason?

14. 12.Who?
Hint : 3 time Oscar winner
Woody Allen : “Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the
invention of the motion picture camera.”
Steven Spielberg : "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.“
Satyajit Ray : "It’s X whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he’s remarkable. I
envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary
things.“
Ang Lee : “For me, the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all…”

15. 13. Connect
Billions of blue blistering boiled
and barbecued barnacles
Billions of bilious barbecued
blue blistering barnacles!
Billions of Bilious Blue
Blistering Barnacles!
Billions of bilious blue
blistering barnacles in a
thundering typhoon
Billions of blistering barnacles
in a thundering typhoon
Blithering Bombardier!
Billions of Blue Blistering
Barnacles!
Blistering Barnacles!
Blistering blundering bird-
brain!
Bloodsuckers!
Blue blistering barnacles!
Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed
Balderdash!
Body snatcher!
Bootlegger!
Breathalyser!
Baboons!
Baby-snatchers!
Bagpipers!
Bald-headed budgerigar!
Bandits!
Bashi-bazouks!
Bath-tub Admiral!
Buccaneers!
Bully! Butcher!

16. 14.Who?
 X is a 2002 American biopic drama film
directed by Julie Taymor.
 It depicts the professional and private life of
the X.
 It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award-
nominated portrayal as X and Alfred Molina
as her husband, Diego Rivera.

17. 15. Identify the blanked out part

18. 16. Identify the painter and the painting
The painter in his dairy wrote about his painting describing it as,
"I was walking along the road with two Friends
The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red
And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood
Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black
Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire
My Friends walked on – I remained behind
Shivering with Anxiety – I felt ___ _______ in nature.”

19. 17. Identify X andY
Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December 26 visit to Tokyo’s
Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an
op-ed in the Daily Telegraph : “If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the
Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that
nation’s soul.”
If was followed by another op-ed published by his Japanese counterpart Keiichi
Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined :“China risks becoming Asia’s X”.

20. 18. Identify X andY
The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named X, in honor of the
spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega-
famous science fiction novel Y.
“We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard,” Musk said, “And
the name of the first ship that goes to Mars not the name of the whole ship line
necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is X.”
Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, Musk emphasized he liked
the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think
our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”

21. 19. Id X andY X
Y

22. 20. Identify X and funda
As of October 15, 2017, what is this list of?
1. X : 12,366
2. Chicago : 8,691
3. The Lion King : 8,294
4. Cats : 7,485
5. Les Misérables : 6,680
6. A Chorus Line : 6,137
7. Oh! Calcutta! : 5,959

24. 1. Identify X
The song tells the story of a foreigner, played in the audio clip by X, trying to woo a
young Indian woman. Asha Bhosle plays the role of an advisor, teaching him Hindi
in order to impress the girl.
"You're the One for Me" has achieved relative success in India, owing greatly to X's
cult status and Bhosle's popularity as a Bollywood singer. Upon release, the song
debuted at #4 on the Indian Singles Chart and reached as high as #2.
Audio :

25. Brett Lee

26. 2. Rules of which place?
 If either of us ever invents time travel, we agree our first stop will be this
meeting today in precisely five seconds.
 The thermostat must be kept at 72 degrees at all times.
 Roommates must notify each other 12 hours in advanced if they wish to have a
house guest.
 If one friend gets super powers, he will name the other one as his sidekick.

27. Leonard and Sheldon’sApartment

28. 3. FITB
Alfred Hitchcock bought the movie rights to the novel _______ anonymously from
author Robert Bloch for just $9,000.
After he purchased the movie rights to Robert Bloch’s novel, Alfred Hitchcock then
purchased as many copies of _______ as he could in order to keep the ending of the
film a secret. During the filming of _______ , the movie was referred to as “Production
9401″ or “Wimpy.” Director Alfred Hitchcock was zealous about keeping the ending a
secret.
_______ , the original film, only cost $800,000 to make, yet has earned more than $40
million. Alfred Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money.

29. Psycho

30. 4. Guess the Hollywood Celeb
 Played by Brenda Song, London Leah
Tipton is one of the main characters of
The Suite Life series.
 She is supposed to be a parody of a
Hollywood celebrity. She comes from a
rich family, dresses up in high end
clothes and also her name is a parody of
the celeb in question.

31. Paris Hilton

32. 5. Guess the blanked out part

33. Jingle Bells

34. 6. FITB
The ______ _____ is a style of dance that involves pivoting the shoulder out while
popping the other shoulder out at the same time. The dance itself is defined by
Urban Dictionary as ‘An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the
shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.’ Some repercussions of X have been:
 Five Russians were arrested by the police after they uploaded a video of
themselves doing the dance on a World War II-era army tank at a war memorial
site.
 In March, a Welsh religious education teacher was suspended from his post
after a ______ _____video allegedly showing him dancing with a lifesize
cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI was posted online.

35. Harlem Shake

36. 7.What is the material used?
This is a 2013 art installation by Milwaukee
artist Niki Johnson, who was appalled on
hearing a particular speech made by the
subject of this painting while on a tour to
Africa in 2009.
Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______
to come up with this work which is meant to
be viewed from the front as well as the back,
where the open ends of the material used
gives the portrait a more abstract feel.

37. Condoms

38. 8. Identify X
The X tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo
guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco
Tárrega, written in 1902.
It is a 13 note piano phrase introduced 25 years ago in a commercial. It has been the
icon of the corporation ever since, and has become a cult classic. Estimates say that
the tune is heard around 1.8 billion times each day, which equates to a staggering
20,000 times per second.

39. Nokia Ringtone

40. 9. Identify X
Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while
from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award.
As the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a
rules alteration , X a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public
vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970. The prize was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles,
with 38 percent of the public vote.

41. Lost Man Booker Prize

42. 10.Who is
Harley
Quinn’s
spirit
animal?

43. Shah Rukh Khan

44. 11. Claim to fame?
L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing)
is a 1947 work by Alberto Giacometti.
By Giacometti’s own account, he created
‘L’homme au doigt in a single night in October
1947.
On 11 May 2015, this work was in the news for
what reason?

45. Most Expensive Sculpture sold

46. 12.Who?
Hint : 3 time Oscar winner
Woody Allen : “Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the
invention of the motion picture camera.”
Steven Spielberg : "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.“
Satyajit Ray : "It’s X whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he’s remarkable. I
envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary
things.“
Ang Lee : “For me, the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all…”

47. Ingmar Bergman

48. 13. Connect
Billions of blue blistering boiled
and barbecued barnacles
Billions of bilious barbecued
blue blistering barnacles!
Billions of Bilious Blue
Blistering Barnacles!
Billions of bilious blue
blistering barnacles in a
thundering typhoon
Billions of blistering barnacles
in a thundering typhoon
Blithering Bombardier!
Billions of Blue Blistering
Barnacles!
Blistering Barnacles!
Blistering blundering bird-
brain!
Bloodsuckers!
Blue blistering barnacles!
Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed
Balderdash!
Body snatcher!
Bootlegger!
Breathalyser!
Baboons!
Baby-snatchers!
Bagpipers!
Bald-headed budgerigar!
Bandits!
Bashi-bazouks!
Bath-tub Admiral!
Buccaneers!
Bully! Butcher!

49. Abuses by Captain Haddock

50. 14.Who?
 X is a 2002 American biopic drama film
directed by Julie Taymor.
 It depicts the professional and private life of
the X.
 It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award-
nominated portrayal as X and Alfred Molina
as her husband, Diego Rivera.

51. Frida Kahlo

52. 15. Identify the blanked out part

53. Life of Pi

54. 16. Identify the painter and the painting
The painter in his dairy wrote about his painting describing it as,
"I was walking along the road with two Friends
The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red
And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood
Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black
Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire
My Friends walked on – I remained behind
Shivering with Anxiety – I felt ___ _______ in nature.”

55. The Scream
Edward Munch

56. 17. Identify X andY
Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December 26 visit to Tokyo’s
Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an
op-ed in the Daily Telegraph : “If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the
Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that
nation’s soul.”
If was followed by another op-ed published by his Japanese counterpart Keiichi
Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined :“China risks becoming Asia’s X ”.

57. X =Voldemort Y = Horcrux

58. 18. Identify X andY
The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named X, in honor of the
spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega-
famous science fiction novel Y.
“We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard,” Musk said, “And
the name of the first ship that goes to Mars not the name of the whole ship line
necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is X.”
Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, Musk emphasized he liked
the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think
our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”

59. X = Heart of Gold
Y =The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

60. 19. Id X andY X
Y

61. X = A R Rahman
Y = 127 Hours

62. 20. Identify X and funda
As of October 15, 2017, what is this list of?
1. X : 12,366
2. Chicago : 8,691
3. The Lion King : 8,294
4. Cats : 7,485
5. Les Misérables : 6,680
6. A Chorus Line : 6,137
7. Oh! Calcutta! : 5,959

63. The Phantom of
the Opera
Longest Running
Broadway Show