A literature filler set made by Rajnish Virdi, Rayan Chakrabarti, Purva Dua and Neil Agnisharma for Quizotic 2023, the annual quizzing festival of the Quiz Club, St. Stephen's College

1. PROSE B4 HOES
The Quiz Club, St. Stephen's
College
presents
A Literature Filler
by
Rayan Chakrabarti, Purva Dua,
Rajnish Virdi, Neil Agnisharma

2. RULES
The quiz consists of 26 questions
Question 3,9,21 and 26 are bookmarked.In
the case of ties, they will be taken
into consideration
Please don't cheat, that's not lit
Blanks are not indicative unless stated
otherwise.
QM's decision is final and binding.
If you win, you get an honourary degree
from St. Stephen's College (tentative)

3. PAGE 1: ID X AND Y
Before these writers gained literary attention, X and Y were childhood
friends, having grown up together in Alabama, with Y even being the
inspiration behind a tomboy character in X’s earlier novels. When Y
finally released her magnum opus, many suspected X, who had already
gained media attention by that time, to have ghost written it—a rumour
which persisted for decades. Y, in turn, contributed greatly to what
would become X’s most popular novel and the second-best selling novel of
its genre, conducting interviews and creating more than 200 pages of
notes. However, on finding herself only briefly mentioned in the
acknowledgments of the book, Y felt hurt, and the writers grew apart
after its publication.

4. PAGE 2: ID X AND THE BOOK
After serving for the US army in WWII and being a Prisoner of War in
Nazi Germany, X saw the worst of humanity and came back to America with
a cynical and fatalistic view of the world, eventually starting his
Masters in anthropology on the “shapes of stories”, where he would
graph the fortunes of protagonists of different stories over time in
positive and negative values. X believed that the stories where the
graph converged to X axis were the most honest and realistic, and ended
up writing his own story as thesis for his Masters based on this
concept, which would go on to become his most popular book, as well as
establishing his signature style of dark, satirical comedy and
pioneering the genre of “Metafiction”.

5. At a time when there were strong prejudices held against
women in literature as well as pressure put on women writers
to be “serious”, X chose to rebel against the unfair
narrative by using ghosts and demons in her works, as well as
publicly describing herself as “a practicing amateur witch”.
While for much of her life she was dismissed as a writer, in
recent decades her work has been receiving attention and
praise from many for its themes that went beyond the horror
genre.
PAGE 3: ID X AND THE BOOK

6. PAGE 3: ID X AND THE BOOK
Her latest biographer writes that X used supernatural
elements in her work not to deliver cheap thrills but, in
the manner of Poe or James, “to plumb the depths of the
human condition,” or, more particularly, to explore the
“psychic damage to which women are especially prone.” This
can be seen clearly in one of her most popular works in
recent years, which was adapted into a critically
acclaimed series.

7. PAGE 4: NAME THE NOVELLA
This is an online file converter and compressor which allows users
to convert files online, without downloading a software tool. The
name of this software is inspired by an early 20th century
novella. One of the company's directors read the story at school
and was impacted by the story’s main character, ______(6)
_____(5). The man’s surname was used as the basis for the company
name because of the similarities in its plot and the changes that
take place when we convert files. Name the novella which inspired
the name of the company.

8. PAGE 5: WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT
In the following poem, Sylvia Plath compares a family figure
to a Nazi, and using this metaphor, tries to write about the
trauma of her childhood:
I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man,
O You Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Taking inspiration from this, Meena Kandasamy wrote a poem
against a certain figure. Who are we talking about?

9. PAGE 6: FITB
All revolutions start in ______ ______ you know.” In the Palaces of
Memory, Stuart Freedman traces its evolution in our country. The
space was inter-cultural you knew that you could meet people from
all backgrounds. I’ve heard that in Paris things were like this –
Sartre and Camus - I think that this was really our version”. He
comments that it is divided into three sections.
‘The third space is a terrace – unusual enough for Delhi – perhaps
fifty metres square in an ‘L’ shape flanked on one side by a
frantic radial of Connaught Place and on the other by several huge,
old, dusty trees, filled with monkeys.’

10. PAGE 7: WHAT WAS THE REQUIREMENT?
Samuel Beckett learned that he had received the 1969 Nobel Prize
in Literature, via a telegram from his publisher, which read, “Dear
Sam and Suzanne. In spite of everything, they have given you the
Nobel Prize. I advise you to go into hiding,” The reclusive couple
were concerned, as they anticipated a spike in publicity and people
trying to reach them, and they were right. Subsequently, when
Swedish Television called him for an interview, he agreed only with
an absurd requirement, accomplishing both the channel's desire to
have him for an interview and his own to not give one.
What was the requirement?

11. PAGE 8: IDENTIFY THE PLACE
Nobel-prize-winning poet Octavio Paz spent 6 years in India as the
Mexican Ambassador. The syncretic architecture of the country
fascinated him, and in the book Tale of Two Gardens, he writes about
the beauty of Delhi and its history. In one poem, he articulates,
Trees heavy with birds hold
the afternoon up with their hands.
Arches and patios. A tank of water,
poison green between red walls.
A corridor leads to the sanctuary:
beggars, flowers, leprosy, marble.

12. PAGE 8: IDENTIFY THE PLACE
Tombs, two names, their stories:
_______________, the wondering theologian,
_____________, the parrot's tongue.
Which is this place that so captured his attention?

13. TW: casteist slurs
On 31 July 2004, members of the Bharatiya _ _ _ burned copies of iconic
nationalist-era writer's celebrated novel _ in an arena in the heart of New
Delhi.They saw themselves as a righteous group making a powerful case for
the need to fight upper-caste prejudice in literature and education.
According to their supporters,the novel is offensive and dangerous to the
“soft minds” of young students, who may become biased due to the novel’s
constant repetition of caste-specific terminology, specifically the
repetitive naming
of the main character of the novel, Surdas, as “Surdas Chamar.”
PAGE 9: ORGANISATION AND NOVEL

14. After a failed but influential court case, in a press release
from January 2006, NCERT finally agreed to change the word
‘Chamar’ to “the less offensive” _, and further committed to
incorporating such literature itself into the curriculum of Delhi
schools.
What is the name of this organisation, which stems from a
reclamation of an elite Indian literary organisation that was not
welcoming to them? Also give the name of the novel.
PAGE 9: ORGANISATION AND NOVEL

15. TW: death
In the book Boys in Zinc: Voices from a Forgotten War,
Svetlana Alexeivich, weaves testimonies about the hushed
up _ War during which citizens were told that troops had
been sent to work on humanitarian and infrastructure
projects, fulfilling what was called “international
duty.”
Which forgotten war is referenced by the author?
PAGE 10: WHICH WARS?

16. The title stems from zinc laced coffins that were
used by the government,which were quickly buried in
the death of the night in a hurried manner.
Recently, news about similar zinc laced coffins
came from another hushed up war, abandoned in
dumpsters in city centres. Which war are we talking
about?
PAGE 10: WHICH WARS?

17. PAGE 11: WHO IS BEING REFERENCED?
When _ _ died on October 30, 1974, Agha Shahid ALi was in Delhi along with
Saleem Kidwai. He wrote an elegy for her right after returning
from her funeral. It was later published as “In Memory of __”.
"Do your fingers still scale the hungry
Bhairavi, or simply the muddy shroud?
Ghazal, that death-sustaining widow,
sobs in dingy archives, hooked to you.
You’ve finally polished catastrophe,
the note you seasoned with decades
of Ghalib, Mir, Faiz:
I innovate on a noteless raga."

18. PAGE 12: WHAT ELEMENT/CHARACTER
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
In an interview with the Harvard Gazette, Nick Barnes says,
I would hope that audiences are becoming more familiar with contemporary theater
puppetry.
The challenge with these puppets is that they can’t be molded, and because of the
size, we have to use a lightweight material (plastozote). It took us five months
of solid making and a team of eight to 12 makers.
_ _ (7,6), the ----- takes 20-25 weeks if one person were making him, but often
there is more than one.
This multiple award-winning adaptation was performed three years back for the
first time by the National Theatre.

20. PAGE 13: NAME THE POET
Considered one of the first expressions of non violent political
expression, the Masque of Anarchy is a poem that starts on the day of the
Peterloo Massacre and displays powerful images of the authority of the
Monarch, Clergy and Law. This is followed by a call for radical social
action by the masses. The crowd gathered are then protesting and are met
by assailants but they do not raise their hand on them.
Despite the poet being an Atheist, the poem features a number of Biblical
references as he thought it would help in UNIONIZING the masses. Although
he is primarily known as a Romantic poet, he had an aversion to tyrants
which made him more socialist.

21. PAGE 14: ID X
As his work primarily talked about the lives and struggles of
migrant workers and farmers, X played into his image of a
struggling writer despite having large family wealth. Having
enrolled into Stanford before quitting to pursue writing, X had
a family mansion in California and used to travel first class
and stay in expensive hotels during his visits to Europe.
Despite this, X’s work was highly praised for its genuine
storytelling, especially Y, which when released during the
Great Depression, struck a chord among the workers, and was one
of the best-selling novels in America by the 40s.

22. PAGE 15: WHICH FAMOUS HERO IS THIS
SYNDROME NAMED AFTER?
X syndrome, also known as Immigrant Syndrome of
Chronic and Multiple Stress, is an atypical set of
depressive, anxious, dissociative, and somatoform
symptoms that results from being exposed to extreme
levels of stress unique to the process of modern
migration. Rather than a mental disorder, this
syndrome is a natural reaction to toxic levels of
stress seen in migrants who are otherwise in normal
mental health.

23. PAGE 16: FITB
The book shown in the picture, by Bruce Sanguin, in
its essence, the book is a conversation between
religion, science, and the arts; and designer David
Drummond managed to capture its core in a
representative minimalist book cover.
Take a good look at the cover, and FITB (The First
One).

24. PAGE 16: FITB

25. PAGE 17: FITB
"Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice."
These are excerpts from the ___ Manifesto written by Marinetti, which can on one
scale be labelled a fetishization of patriotism, technology and masculinity.
1.We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the
beauty of speed.
2.Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive
character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force
them to bow before man.
Several scholars since have noted a deep and substantial collaboration between _ and
Fascism. In 1909, the _ announced that “time and space died yesterday.” In 1914,
Mussolini declared “that which existed yesterday is dead.”

26. PAGE 18: ID THE POET AND THE FILM
Varun Grover writes about _ _ :
Like almost anyone who went to school in UP/Bihar/Rajasthan in the 1980s and
’90s, I must have also discovered him in debate competitions. Born in
Bijnore, UP, in 1933, he studied in Allahabad University. But most of his
literary life was spent in Bhopal, where he was employed by All India Radio
as a scriptwriter.
His poems have become the voice of the protest time and again during the
protests against Indira Gandhi during emergency, during Jan Lokpal andolan
and recently during Anti CAA NRC protests. One poem of this poet was used to
begin a love song in a cult-classic film that deals with the issue of inter-
caste love and violence. Who is this poet and which film are we talking
about?

27. PAGE 19: FITB
The constantly looming threat of a water crisis that triggers a war comes alive
in Sarnath Banerjee’s cli-fi graphic novel, All Quiet in Vikaspuri. In this
excerpt, identify the 'mother of all rivers.'
Recently, the ASI started digging into the ‘myth’ of another place, all over
again. This place is referenced in the extract.
Vaisampayana said, 'When the fire blazed forth in the forest of ___, the infant
birds became very much distressed and afflicted. Their mother said,'Oh, the
terrible conflagration, illuminating the whole universe and burning the forest
down, approacheth towards us, increasing my woe.’
Identify the blank or just how the place is known.

29. PAGE 20: ID X AND Y
X, a favourite of high-profile killers, will tell you that lovers have been
ghosting each other for centuries. X joined the army after the attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1942, and was still sending _ _ _ _ letters while he was
stationed in Georgia. Suddenly, she stopped responding. He found out why
when reading the papers. _ _ _ _ had moved to Los Angeles to become an
actress; while there, she met and married Y, a comic actor 36 years her
senior.
A spurned beau, X was so upset with _ _ _ _ that he wrote her a scathing,
scatological letter describing in disgusting detail his version of her
wedding night.
"It made me glad I was with Y and not with X” _ _ _ _ later said about the
letter.

30. PAGE 21: ID XY, A AND B
Most of us are familiar with XY as a genre. While it is easy to fall into clichés, it
should never be dismissed as some kitschy literary device. Its history and traditions
are firmly rooted in the literature of resistance, in the literature of re-visioning,
of re-imagination. By disrupting reality, it can give voice to the other.
However, when one thinks of the XY canon, hardly any female authors come to mind.
Although it is used to classify several texts today, Patricia Hart first used the term
“XZ” thirty years ago to describe the work of A, a Chilean-American author who was
compared to B, a Colombian author known for XY, until critics turned cobalt blue. A is
famous for writing hybrids of family history and fiction, giving voice to ghosts and
sexually empowered women alike.
ID XZ, A and B.

31. PAGE 22: ID X AND Y
According to Roman Legend, when Adonis died, Aphrodite wept
uncontrollably. Legend says that tears rolled down her cheek and
dropped to the earth turning into heart-shaped Xs.
Unsurprisingly, X is a popular symbol of love. However, it also
represents temptation and forbidden relationships. The most famous
description of X in literature is in Y where when _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
(9) is portrayed as being unfaithful to her husband; her handkerchief
is lined with Xs.

32. PAGE 23: FITB AND ID THE SUBCULTURE
What Café du Dôme was to the Lost Generation, the dining hall at
Bennington College, USA was to Generation X. Seated around the table
Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and charter member
of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of The
Fortress of Solitude and MacArthur genius; and X, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for ______ which the Pulitzer Prize jury hailed as “a
beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn
characters..., a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.”
X has been credited as one of the pioneers of a moody and literate
digital subculture that has taken off in recent years.

33. PAGE 24: CONNECT (HINTS ARE BLOCKED)
Hibernation: Neil Gaiman
The Sorkin Shower: Aaron Sorkin
Freeze your manuscripts: Joan Didion
Hoarding: Earnest Hemingway
Turn upside down: Dan Brown

34. PAGE 25: FITB/ ID THE WORK
Blanked out here is the first line of a stanza from the 1788 poem “The Gods
of Greece” by Friedrich Schiller, which was later set to music by Franz
Schubert in 1819.
__________
Oh face of nature’s purest bloom, return!
Now only in the fairy land of song
Still lives the image for which we yearn.
And barren mourn once blooming fields,
No Godhead lights up nature’s visage;
How from the world’s every living image,
Naught but a shadow yields!

35. PAGE 25: FITB/ ID THE WORK
The line was the inspiration behind the name of a
contemporary literary work, which, through the many
conversations among its characters, contemplated the
question that the line asks. The title took a greater
meaning by the time the work was released, as it was one of
the first popular fictional work to talk about the
pandemic.

36. PAGE 26: AUTHOR AND THE WORK
X was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and
social critic. They offered a vital literary voice during
the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s.
Their first novel is a partially autobiographical account
of their youth. X writes about race, identity, and
sexuality. They were extremely critical of their
masculinity and their writing reflects that. Interestingly,
their work has been overshadowed by female writers like
Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker.

37. PAGE 26: AUTHOR AND THE WORK
X’s novel Y is about a white American expatriate who must
come to terms with his homosexuality. Even though his
politics was rather radical, his inclusion of gay themes
resulted in a lot of savage criticism from the Black
community. Eldridge Cleaver, of the Black Panthers, stated
the X’s writing displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of
blacks.”
ID X and Y.

38. Answers

39. Before these writers gained literary attention, X and Y were childhood
friends, having grown up together in Alabama, with Y even being the
inspiration behind a tomboy character in X’s earlier novels. When Y
finally released her magnum opus, many suspected X, who had already
gained media attention by that time, to have ghost written it—a rumour
which persisted for decades. Y, in turn, contributed greatly to what
would become X’s most popular novel and the second-best selling novel of
its genre, conducting interviews and creating more than 200 pages of
notes. However, on finding herself only briefly mentioned in the
acknowledgments of the book, Y felt hurt, and the writers grew apart
after its publication.
PAGE 1: ID X AND Y

40. X- Truman Capote
Y- Harper Lee
1.

41. PAGE 2: ID X AND THE BOOK
After serving for the US army in WWII and being a Prisoner of War in
Nazi Germany, X saw the worst of humanity and came back to America with
a cynical and fatalistic view of the world, eventually starting his
Masters in anthropology on the “shapes of stories”, where he would
graph the fortunes of protagonists of different stories over time in
positive and negative values. X believed that the stories where the
graph converged to X axis were the most honest and realistic, and ended
up writing his own story as thesis for his Masters based on this
concept, which would go on to become his most popular book, as well as
establishing his signature style of dark, satirical comedy and
pioneering the genre of “Metafiction”.

42. X-Kurt Vonnegut
Book- Cat's Cradle
2.

43. At a time when there were strong prejudices held against
women in literature as well as pressure put on women writers
to be “serious”, X chose to rebel against the unfair
narrative by using ghosts and demons in her works, as well as
publicly describing herself as “a practicing amateur witch”.
While for much of her life she was dismissed as a writer, in
recent decades her work has been receiving attention and
praise from many for its themes that went beyond the horror
genre.
PAGE 3: ID X AND THE BOOK

44. PAGE 3: ID X AND THE BOOK
Her latest biographer writes that X used supernatural
elements in her work not to deliver cheap thrills but, in
the manner of Poe or James, “to plumb the depths of the
human condition,” or, more particularly, to explore the
“psychic damage to which women are especially prone.” This
can be seen clearly in one of her most popular works in
recent years, which was adapted into a critically
acclaimed series.

45. X- Shirley Jackson
Book- Haunting of Hill House
3.

46. PAGE 4: NAME THE NOVELLA
This is an online file converter and compressor which allows users
to convert files online, without downloading a software tool. The
name of this software is inspired by an early 20th century
novella. One of the company's directors read the story at school
and was impacted by the story’s main character, ______(6)
_____(5). The man’s surname was used as the basis for the company
name because of the similarities in its plot and the changes that
take place when we convert files. Name the novella which inspired
the name of the company.

47. Metamorphosis
4.

48. PAGE 5: WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT
In the following poem, Sylvia Plath compares a family figure
to a Nazi, and using this metaphor, tries to write about the
trauma of her childhood:
I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man,
O You Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Taking inspiration from this, Meena Kandasamy wrote a poem
against a certain figure. Who are we talking about?

49. Gandhi
(Bapu you fraud, I am done with you)
5.

50. PAGE 6: FITB
All revolutions start in ______ ______ you know.” In the Palaces of
Memory, Stuart Freedman traces its evolution in our country. The
space was inter-cultural you knew that you could meet people from
all backgrounds. I’ve heard that in Paris things were like this –
Sartre and Camus - I think that this was really our version”. He
comments that it is divided into three sections.
‘The third space is a terrace – unusual enough for Delhi – perhaps
fifty metres square in an ‘L’ shape flanked on one side by a
frantic radial of Connaught Place and on the other by several huge,
old, dusty trees, filled with monkeys.’

51. Indian coffee house
6.

52. PAGE 7: WHAT WAS THE REQUIREMENT?
Samuel Beckett learned that he had received the 1969 Nobel Prize
in Literature, via a telegram from his publisher, which read, “Dear
Sam and Suzanne. In spite of everything, they have given you the
Nobel Prize. I advise you to go into hiding,” The reclusive couple
were concerned, as they anticipated a spike in publicity and people
trying to reach them, and they were right. Subsequently, when
Swedish Television called him for an interview, he agreed only with
an absurd requirement, accomplishing both the channel's desire to
have him for an interview and his own to not give one.
What was the requirement?

53. The interviewer can't
ask any questions.
Silent interview.
7.

54. PAGE 8: IDENTIFY THE PLACE
Nobel-prize-winning poet Octavio Paz spent 6 years in India as the
Mexican Ambassador. The syncretic architecture of the country
fascinated him, and in the book Tale of Two Gardens, he writes about
the beauty of Delhi and its history. In one poem, he articulates,
Trees heavy with birds hold
the afternoon up with their hands.
Arches and patios. A tank of water,
poison green between red walls.
A corridor leads to the sanctuary:
beggars, flowers, leprosy, marble.

55. PAGE 8: IDENTIFY THE PLACE
Tombs, two names, their stories:
_______________, the wondering theologian,
_____________, the parrot's tongue.
Which is this place that so captured his attention?

56. Nizamuddin Dargah
8.

57. TW: casteist slurs
On 31 July 2004, members of the Bharatiya _ _ _ burned copies of iconic
nationalist-era writer's celebrated novel _ in an arena in the heart of New
Delhi.They saw themselves as a righteous group making a powerful case for
the need to fight upper-caste prejudice in literature and education.
According to their supporters,the novel is offensive and dangerous to the
“soft minds” of young students, who may become biased due to the novel’s
constant repetition of caste-specific terminology, specifically the
repetitive naming
of the main character of the novel, Surdas, as “Surdas Chamar.”
PAGE 9: ORGANISATION AND NOVEL

58. After a failed but influential court case, in a press release
from January 2006, NCERT finally agreed to change the word
‘Chamar’ to “the less offensive” _, and further committed to
incorporating such literature itself into the curriculum of Delhi
schools.
What is the name of this organisation, which stems from a
reclamation of an elite Indian literary organisation that was not
welcoming to them? Also give the name of the novel.
PAGE 9: ORGANISATION AND NOVEL

59. Dalit Sahitya Akademi,
Rangbhumi
9.

60. TW: death
In the book Boys in Zinc: Voices from a Forgotten War,
Svetlana Alexeivich, weaves testimonies about the hushed
up _ War during which citizens were told that troops had
been sent to work on humanitarian and infrastructure
projects, fulfilling what was called “international
duty.”
Which forgotten war is referenced by the author?
PAGE 10: WHICH WARS?

61. The title stems from zinc laced coffins that were
used by the government,which were quickly buried in
the death of the night in a hurried manner.
Recently, news about similar zinc laced coffins
came from another hushed up war, abandoned in
dumpsters in city centres. Which war are we talking
about?
PAGE 10: WHICH WARS?

62. Afghanistan War,
Ukraine War
10.

63. PAGE 11: WHO IS BEING REFERENCED?
When _ _ died on October 30, 1974, Agha Shahid ALi was in Delhi along with
Saleem Kidwai. He wrote an elegy for her right after returning
from her funeral. It was later published as “In Memory of __”.
"Do your fingers still scale the hungry
Bhairavi, or simply the muddy shroud?
Ghazal, that death-sustaining widow,
sobs in dingy archives, hooked to you.
You’ve finally polished catastrophe,
the note you seasoned with decades
of Ghalib, Mir, Faiz:
I innovate on a noteless raga."

64. Begum Akhtar
11.

65. PAGE 12: WHAT ELEMENT/CHARACTER
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
In an interview with the Harvard Gazette, Nick Barnes says,
I would hope that audiences are becoming more familiar with contemporary theater
puppetry.
The challenge with these puppets is that they can’t be molded, and because of the
size, we have to use a lightweight material (plastozote). It took us five months
of solid making and a team of eight to 12 makers.
_ _ (7,6), the ----- takes 20-25 weeks if one person were making him, but often
there is more than one.
This multiple award-winning adaptation was performed three years back for the
first time by the National Theatre.

67. Richard Parker, the
tiger (Life of Pi)
12.

68. PAGE 13: NAME THE POET
Considered one of the first expressions of non violent political
expression, the Masque of Anarchy is a poem that starts on the day of the
Peterloo Massacre and displays powerful images of the authority of the
Monarch, Clergy and Law. This is followed by a call for radical social
action by the masses. The crowd gathered are then protesting and are met
by assailants but they do not raise their hand on them.
Despite the poet being an Atheist, the poem features a number of Biblical
references as he thought it would help in UNIONIZING the masses. Although
he is primarily known as a Romantic poet, he had an aversion to tyrants
which made him more socialist.

69. Percy Shelley
13.

70. PAGE 14: ID X
As his work primarily talked about the lives and struggles of
migrant workers and farmers, X played into his image of a
struggling writer despite having large family wealth. Having
enrolled into Stanford before quitting to pursue writing, X had
a family mansion in California and used to travel first class
and stay in expensive hotels during his visits to Europe.
Despite this, X’s work was highly praised for its genuine
storytelling, especially Y, which when released during the
Great Depression, struck a chord among the workers, and was one
of the best-selling novels in America by the 40s.

71. John Steinbeck
14.

72. PAGE 15: WHICH FAMOUS HERO IS THIS
SYNDROME NAMED AFTER?
X syndrome, also known as Immigrant Syndrome of
Chronic and Multiple Stress, is an atypical set of
depressive, anxious, dissociative, and somatoform
symptoms that results from being exposed to extreme
levels of stress unique to the process of modern
migration. Rather than a mental disorder, this
syndrome is a natural reaction to toxic levels of
stress seen in migrants who are otherwise in normal
mental health.

73. Ulysses Syndrome
15.

74. PAGE 16: FITB
The book shown in the picture, by Bruce Sanguin, in
its essence, the book is a conversation between
religion, science, and the arts; and designer David
Drummond managed to capture its core in a
representative minimalist book cover.
Take a good look at the cover, and FITB (The First
One).

75. PAGE 16: FITB

76. Darwin
16.

77. PAGE 17: FITB
"Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice."
These are excerpts from the ___ Manifesto written by Marinetti, which can on one
scale be labelled a fetishization of patriotism, technology and masculinity.
1.We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the
beauty of speed.
2.Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive
character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force
them to bow before man.
Several scholars since have noted a deep and substantial collaboration between _ and
Fascism. In 1909, the _ announced that “time and space died yesterday.” In 1914,
Mussolini declared “that which existed yesterday is dead.”

78. Futurism/Futurist
17.

79. PAGE 18: ID THE POET AND THE FILM
Varun Grover writes about _ _ :
Like almost anyone who went to school in UP/Bihar/Rajasthan in the 1980s and
’90s, I must have also discovered him in debate competitions. Born in
Bijnore, UP, in 1933, he studied in Allahabad University. But most of his
literary life was spent in Bhopal, where he was employed by All India Radio
as a scriptwriter.
His poems have become the voice of the protest time and again during the
protests against Indira Gandhi during emergency, during Jan Lokpal andolan
and recently during Anti CAA NRC protests. One poem of this poet was used to
begin a love song in a cult-classic film that deals with the issue of inter-
caste love and violence. Who is this poet and which film are we talking
about?

80. Dushyant Kumar,
Masaan
18.

81. PAGE 19: FITB
The constantly looming threat of a water crisis that triggers a war comes alive
in Sarnath Banerjee’s cli-fi graphic novel, All Quiet in Vikaspuri. In this
excerpt, identify the 'mother of all rivers.'
Recently, the ASI started digging into the ‘myth’ of another place, all over
again. This place is referenced in the extract.
Vaisampayana said, 'When the fire blazed forth in the forest of ___, the infant
birds became very much distressed and afflicted. Their mother said,'Oh, the
terrible conflagration, illuminating the whole universe and burning the forest
down, approacheth towards us, increasing my woe.’
Identify the blank or just how the place is known.

82. Saraswati,
Khandavaprastha/Indraprastha
19.

83. PAGE 20: ID X AND Y
X, a favourite of high-profile killers, will tell you that lovers have been
ghosting each other for centuries. X joined the army after the attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1942, and was still sending _ _ _ _ letters while he was
stationed in Georgia. Suddenly, she stopped responding. He found out why
when reading the papers. _ _ _ _ had moved to Los Angeles to become an
actress; while there, she met and married Y, a comic actor 36 years her
senior.
A spurned beau, X was so upset with _ _ _ _ that he wrote her a scathing,
scatological letter describing in disgusting detail his version of her
wedding night.
"It made me glad I was with Y and not with X” _ _ _ _ later said about the
letter.

84. X- J.D. Salinger
Y- Charlie Chaplin
20.

85. PAGE 21: ID XY, A AND B
Most of us are familiar with XY as a genre. While it is easy to fall into clichés, it
should never be dismissed as some kitschy literary device. Its history and traditions
are firmly rooted in the literature of resistance, in the literature of re-visioning,
of re-imagination. By disrupting reality, it can give voice to the other.
However, when one thinks of the XY canon, hardly any female authors come to mind.
Although it is used to classify several texts today, Patricia Hart first used the term
“XZ” thirty years ago to describe the work of A, a Chilean-American author who was
compared to B, a Colombian author known for XY, until critics turned cobalt blue. A is
famous for writing hybrids of family history and fiction, giving voice to ghosts and
sexually empowered women alike.
ID XZ, A and B.

86. XZ: Magical Feminism
A: Isabel Allende
B: Gabriel García Márquez
21.

87. PAGE 22: ID X AND Y
According to Roman Legend, when Adonis died, Aphrodite wept
uncontrollably. Legend says that tears rolled down her cheek and
dropped to the earth turning into heart-shaped Xs.
Unsurprisingly, X is a popular symbol of love. However, it also
represents temptation and forbidden relationships. The most famous
description of X in literature is in Y where when _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
(9) is portrayed as being unfaithful to her husband; her handkerchief
is lined with Xs.

88. X: Strawberry
Y: Othello
22.

89. PAGE 23: FITB AND ID THE SUBCULTURE
What Café du Dôme was to the Lost Generation, the dining hall at
Bennington College, USA was to Generation X. Seated around the table
Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and charter member
of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of The
Fortress of Solitude and MacArthur genius; and X, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for ______ which the Pulitzer Prize jury hailed as “a
beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn
characters..., a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.”
X has been credited as one of the pioneers of a moody and literate
digital subculture that has taken off in recent years.

90. X: Dark Academia
Book- The Goldfinch
23.

91. PAGE 24: CONNECT (HINTS ARE BLOCKED)
Hibernation: Neil Gaiman
The Sorkin Shower: Aaron Sorkin
Freeze your manuscripts: Joan Didion
Hoarding: Ernest Hemingway
Turn upside down: Dan Brown

92. Ways to overcome writer's block
24.

93. PAGE 25: FITB/ ID THE WORK
Blanked out here is the first line of a stanza from the 1788 poem “The Gods
of Greece” by Friedrich Schiller, which was later set to music by Franz
Schubert in 1819.
__________
Oh face of nature’s purest bloom, return!
Now only in the fairy land of song
Still lives the image for which we yearn.
And barren mourn once blooming fields,
No Godhead lights up nature’s visage;
How from the world’s every living image,
Naught but a shadow yields!

94. PAGE 25: FITB/ ID THE WORK
The line was the inspiration behind the name of a
contemporary literary work, which, through the many
conversations among its characters, contemplated the
question that the line asks. The title took a greater
meaning by the time the work was released, as it was one of
the first popular fictional work to talk about the
pandemic.

95. Beautiful World, Where Are You
"Beautiful World where art thou flown"
25.

96. PAGE 26: AUTHOR AND THE WORK
X was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and
social critic. They offered a vital literary voice during
the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s.
Their first novel is a partially autobiographical account
of their youth. X writes about race, identity, and
sexuality. They were extremely critical of their
masculinity and their writing reflects that. Interestingly,
their work has been overshadowed by female writers like
Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker.

97. PAGE 26: AUTHOR AND THE WORK
X’s novel Y is about a white American expatriate who must
come to terms with his homosexuality. Even though his
politics was rather radical, his inclusion of gay themes
resulted in a lot of savage criticism from the Black
community. Eldridge Cleaver, of the Black Panthers, stated
the X’s writing displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of
blacks.”
ID X and Y.

98. 26. James Baldwin, Giovanni's
Room