The Finals of the MELAS (Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts, Sports) quiz held as a part of Tie Grab 2019. Tie Grab is the annual quizzing festival at St. Joseph's College. This quiz was for college students.

1. TIE GRAB 2019
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&
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The Karnataka Quiz Association

3. TIE GRAB 2019
M.E.L.A.S. Quiz
Finals

4. Written Round

5. Rules
• 5 Questions
• +10 base points for a correct answer.
• Stakes of +5 and +10. Get the answer wrong
when staking and get negs of -5 and -10.
• No negs for unstaked questions
• 5 points for each half of a question
• Stake if you know both parts (else risk losing
your base score)

6. 1)25 years after his death, the _____ _____
holographic tour is set to begin. The tour has
recruited its band of former Mothers for the
“Bizarre World of _____ _____”. The
holographic tour is rather fitting, given his
obsession with it while he was alive. ID the
musician.

7. 2)“For centuries the X have practiced a
traditional rite of passage to manhood, hunting
and killing lions. There are now too many people
and too few lions. Things needed to change. So
we created an innovative conservation strategy,
including the X Y. This is the hunt for medals, not
lions.” Who are X? What is the event Y?

8. 3)To date, fifteen individuals have won all four
awards in competitive categories. An
additional 6 more have got all four awards by
being nominated for one or more. John
Legend, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice
completed this feat in 2018. What is this feat
from the entertainment industry known as?

9. 4)Homage to the original billboard that the
movie is depicting. If James Franco is the
one pictured, who was originally featured in
the billboard?[image]

11. 5)Spoof of home alone by Macaulay Culkin to
promote what product?

12. Answers

13. 1)25 years after his death, the _____ _____
holographic tour is set to begin. The tour has
recruited its band of former Mothers for the
“Bizarre World of _____ _____”. The
holographic tour is rather fitting, given his
obsession with it while he was alive. ID the
musician.

14. • Frank Zappa

15. 2)“For centuries the X have practiced a
traditional rite of passage to manhood, hunting
and killing lions. There are now too many people
and too few lions. Things needed to change. So
we created an innovative conservation strategy,
including the X Y. This is the hunt for medals, not
lions.” Who are X? What is the event Y?

16. • Maasai olympics

17. 3)To date, fifteen individuals have won all four
awards in competitive categories. An
additional 6 more have got all four awards by
being nominated for one or more. John
Legend, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice
completed this feat in 2018. What is this feat
from the entertainment industry known as?

18. • EGOT – Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony

19. 4)Homage to the original billboard that the
movie is depicting. If James Franco is the
one pictured, who was originally featured in
the billboard?[image]

21. • Tommy Wiseau

22. 5)Spoof of home alone by Macaulay Culkin to
promote what product?

23. • Google Assistant

24. Clockwise round

25. RULES
8 questions
On Infinite Bounce with Regular Pounce
(+10/-5)

26. Q1)Five athletes reached the final stage of the
men’s pole vault at the 1936 Olympics.Two
Japanese pole vaulters tied for the second place
and refused to participate in a tie-breaker.They
wanted to share the honours.Their request was
rejected. After lengthy discussion, it was agreed
that Shuhei Nishida, who had vaulted 4.25 at his
first attempt, should take precedence over Sueo
Oe, who had needed two attempts at that
height.The medals were awarded on that basis.
But the athletes remained dissatisfied.Returning
to Japan, they decided to take matters into their
own hands and did something.What did they do
to serve this dissatisfaction ?

28. Answer
• They had both medals cut in half and then
fused into two hybrid medals, each half-silver
and half-bronze (although the “bronze” was
actually copper). The medals became known
as “The Medals of Friendship”

29. Q2)X is an electronic music DJ, and goes by the
name 'DJ Deisel.' He put out an album in 1993,
which went platinum. He did spend most of
1992-2011 on the basketball court, but X also
recorded four more studio albums and one
compilation album.ID X

31. Answer
• Shaquille O’Neal

32. Q3)In 2013 X had achieved a new Guinness
World Records title after becoming the first
musical act to play a concert on all seven of
Earth's continents. The band set the record
after they entertained 120 scientists and
competition winners in a transparent dome at
Carlini Station in Antarctica.ID X

34. Answer
• Metallica

35. Q4)R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by
the Czech writer Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for
“Rossum's Universal _____”. It premiered on
25 January 1921 and introduced the word
“_____" to the English language and
to science fiction as a whole.FITB.[image]

38. Answer
• Robot

39. Q5)In the year 2000,X was New Zealand’s
highest sports star.It was really strange as X
was Y’s caddie. Y is one of the most popular
athletes of the 21st century. He has been one
of the highest-paid athletes in the world for
several years. ID X and Y?[image]

40. X

41. Answer
• X-Steve Williams
• Y-Tiger Woods

42. Q6)Which sport?

44. Answer
• Shin-kicking is a combat sport that involves
two contestants attempting to kick each other
on the shin in order to force their opponent to
the ground. It has been described as an
English martial art

45. Q7) In 1975 ,X wrote a short story titled "The
Last Superbowl" which depicted the last game
of real sports to ever be played due to the rise
in popularity of simulated sports. The fictional
game took place in January 2016 between the
Green Bay Packers and The Hoboken Jets.Who
is X?

47. Answer
• George R.R. Martin

48. Q8)X (rapper) offered Y $1million for using the
title of his novel for X’s movie which was
released in 2011.Upon this request Y’s legal
team replied-”The novel was produced in
1958,listed as the mostly read book in modern
African literature and won’t be sold for even
$1billion.ID X and Y

50. • X-50 Cent
• Y-Chinua Achebe
• Things Fall Apart, published by Achebe in
1958, is Nigeria's most famous English-
language novel. It has sold more than 8m
copies worldwide..

51. Written Round

52. Rules
• 5 Questions
• +10 base points for a correct answer.
• Stakes of +5 and +10. Get the answer wrong
when staking and get negs of -5 and -10.
• No negs for unstaked questions
• 5 points for each half of a question
• Stake if you know both parts (else risk losing
your base score)

53. 1.Connect

54. 2. George Beauchamp, a musician, and Adolph
Rickenbacker, an electrical engineer, invented
the first commercially viable version of which
electrical instrument

55. 3. The pet chimpanzee X in the TV show
Dragon Ball Z was inspired by the pet chimp of
which singer. Also give the name of the
chimpanzee

57. 4. Which singer tried to buy Marvel because he
wanted to play Spiderman.

58. 5. The president of FIFA publicly mocked this
country winning the summer Olympics. Just six
years later this country hosted the first FIFA
world cup. Name the country. Also name the
president after whom the previous trophy for
winning the world cup is named.-

59. Answers

60. 1.Connect

61. • Elton John- highest selling charity single
"Candle in the Wind 1997“ was a tribute to
princess Diana

62. Q2)George Beauchamp, a musician, and Adolph
Rickenbacker, an electrical engineer, invented
the first commercially viable version of which
electrical instrument

63. • Amplifiable electric guitar

64. Q3)The pet chimpanzee X in theTVshow
Dragon Ball Z was inspired by the pet chimp of
which singer?Also give the name of the
chimpanzee?

66. Answer
• Michael Jackson and Bubbles

67. Q4)Which singer tried to buy Marvel because
he wanted to play Spiderman.

68. • Michael Jackson

69. Q5)The president of FIFA publicly mocked this
country winning the summer Olympics. Just six
years later this country hosted the first FIFA
world cup. Name the country. Also name the
president after whom the previous trophy for
winning the world cup is named.-

70. • Uruguay and Jules Rimlet

71. Anti-Clockwise Round

72. RULES
8 questions
On Infinite Bounce with Regular Pounce
(+10/-5)

73. Q1) In 1930’s Italian comics were required to
follow a strict standard exalting patriotism and
superiority of Italian race.Benito Mussolini
persuaded publishers to rename American
comic characters with Italian names.FIAT
released a car in 1937 named “Topolino”which
was named after a comic
character[image].Which character?

76. Answer
• Mickey Mouse

77. • Q2) ”X museum” [image]is a
small ceramic wafer containing artworks by six
prominent artists from the late 1960s. The
artists with works in the "museum" are Robert
Rauschenberg, David Novros, John
Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest
Myers and Andy Warhol.It was placed in a
rather unique location (X).What location?

80. Answer
• Moon Museum was left on the Moon
during Apollo 12. It is considered the first
Space Art object

81. • Q3)Art competitions formed part of the
modern Olympic Games during its early years, from
1912 to 1948. The competitions were part of the
original intention of its. Medals were awarded for
works of art inspired by sport, divided into five
categories: architecture, literature, music, painting,
and sculpture. In 1912 X, under
the pseudonym "Georges Hohrod and Martin
Eschbach", entered ”Ode to sport”, which won the
gold medal for literature.Who is X?

83. Answer
• X –Pierre de Coubertin

84. Answer
• X –Pierre de Coubertin

85. Q4)Funda behind the album from
1965?

87. Answer
• Pete Best, original drummer of the Beatles,
moved to America shortly after Best's firing
from the Beatles and released an album titled
'Best of the Beatles' which confused record
buyers and generated large sales numbers due
to consumers believing that it was a
compilation of Beatles songs.

88. • Q5)Following X’s decision to leave his
hometown team to a different team, the
sports memorabilia company Fathead lowered
the price of wall graphics depicting X from
$99.99 to $17.41.What was the funda behind
this price dip?

90. • X-Lebron James
• His decision to leave Cleveland and join the
Miami Heat, led to Fathead lowering the price
of wall graphics depicting James from $99.99
to $17.41: the birth year of infamous
American traitor Benedict Arnold

91. Q6)X wrote the first manuscript for his book Y in
three days and then after his wife’s
criticism,burned it and rewrote it again in
three days.ID X and Y

93. Answer
• X-Robert Louis Stevenson
• Y-Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

95. Q7)Citserono and Tsicerono in Esperanto
Schultze and Schulze in German
Santu and Bantu in Hindi
Dupond and Dupont in French
Jansen and Janssen in Dutch
_______ and ________ in English.
FITB.

97. • Thomson and Thompson

98. Q8)After the show that he is known for acting
in ended, he took to his passion –
woodworking and sells his creations online.
Both his character and his own hobbies
include woodworking and playing the
saxophone. Id this macho-styled man.[image]

100. • Nick Offerman

101. Written Round

102. Rules
• 5 Questions
• +10 base points for a correct answer.
• Stakes of +5 and +10. Get the answer wrong
when staking and get negs of -5 and -10.
• No negs for unstaked questions
• 5 points for each half of a question
• Stake if you know both parts (else risk losing
your base score)

103. • Q1)After “Love is in the Bin” was created at
Sotheby’s (to much shock), X released this
video showing how he made it. Who is X?
FITB.

105. Q2)In 2017, Hari Kondabalu’s documentary “The
Problem with ___” released to much criticism.
The documentary examines the racist
depiction of the character ___
Nahasapeemapetilon depicted by Hank Azaria
in a long running TV series. Who is the
character?

106. Q3)In his early life, Bill Waterson was fascinated
with the creation X of Charles Schulz. When
he was in the 4th grade, he wrote a letter to
Schulz and he got a response back, which
encouraged him to pursue his passion to go on
to create Y. What are X & Y?

107. Q4)Painting titled “Ward in the Hospital in
Arles”. ID the painter. Also explain why he
visited the hospital in the first place.[image]

109. Q5)To beat art forgers, people are looking for
some key elements in the oils of paintings. You
can determine when something was painted
because of something that started in the mid
20th century and still happens now (but far
less occasionally). Paintings older than that
don’t exhibit this. What?

110. Answers

111. Q1)After “Love is in the Bin” was created at
Sotheby’s (to much shock), X released this
video showing how he made it. Who is X?
FITB.

113. • Banksy
• The Girl with Balloon

114. Q2)In 2017, Hari Kondabalu’s documentary “The
Problem with ___” released to much criticism.
The documentary examines the racist
depiction of the character ___
Nahasapeemapetilon depicted by Hank Azaria
in a long running TV series. Who is the
character?

115. • Apu from the Simpson’s

116. Q3)In his early life, Bill Waterson was fascinated
with the creation X of Charles Schulz. When
he was in the 4th grade, he wrote a letter to
Schulz and he got a response back, which
encouraged him to pursue his passion to go on
to create Y. What are X & Y?

117. • X – Peanuts
• Y - Calvin and Hobbes

118. Q4)Painting titled “Ward in the Hospital in
Arles”. ID the painter. Also explain why he
visited the hospital in the first place.

120. • Vincent Van Gogh after he cut off his ear

121. Q5)To beat art forgers, people are looking for
some key elements in the oils of paintings. You
can determine when something was painted
because of something that started in the mid
20th century and still happens now (but far
less occasionally). Paintings older than that
don’t exhibit this. What?

122. Answer
• Checking for radioactive isotopes caused by
nuclear explosions

123. Answer
• Checking for radioactive isotopes caused by
nuclear explosions

124. END