M.E.L.A. Quiz

M.E.L.A
Music Entertainment Literature and Arts Quiz
By
Yash Patley

Rules for Prelims
• This round comprises of 20 questions.
• Every question carries 2 points.
• Question no. 10 to 15 are star marks.
• In the situation of ties, teams will proceed to further round on the
basis of maximum correct answers of star marked question.
• If number of star marked answers are equal, in the situation of tie,
first team to answer correctly the first star marked question will
qualify.
• In the end, Quiz Master’s decision is final.

Q.2.
Work out from the clues:
X ranges from simple written words to elaborate ____ paintings, and they
have existed since ancient times with examples dating back to Ancient
Egypt, Ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire.
X may also express underlying social and political messages and a whole
genre of artistic expression is based upon spray paint.
Tell me X.

Q.3.
Inexhaustive list of what ?
The Duck
Muddywood
Balckie
Lucy
Micawber
Lucille
Fireplace or Red Special
Old Black

All Names of
“Guitars” of the
famous Guitarists
Muddywood: BillyGibbon
Balckie: Eric Clapton
Lucy: George Harrison
Micawber: Keith Richard
Lucille: B.B. King
Fireplace or Red Special: Brian May
Old Black:Tony Iommi

Cameos in Austin
Powers in
Goldmember

Q.5.
X is a character which was partly inspired by the short story “Rappaccini's
Daughter”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a maiden who tends a
garden of ______ plants.
The sources of Hawthorne's story lie in Ancient India. In the
play Mudrarakshasa, one of two political rivals employs the gift of a visha
kanya, a beautiful girl who is fed on _______. This theme of a woman
transformed into a phial of ______ is popular in Indian literature and
appears in the Puranas.
Identify X

Q.6.
Originally named The Poet, _________ was initially a figure in a large
commission, begun in 1880, for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell.
__________ was initially a figure in a large commission, begun in 1880, for a doorway
surround called The Gates of Hell. Its sculptor based this on The Divine
Comedy of Dante, and most of the many figures in the work represented the main
characters in the epic poem. Some critics believe _________, at the center of the
composition over the doorway and at about 70 cm high larger than most other
figures, was originally intended to depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his
great poem.
FITB

Q.7
A well-known underlying theme in “X” is misogyny. _____ uses satire to
openly mock misogyny throughout the book, with one of the most cited
examples of this comes from Y's description of a woman:
"I must confess no Object ever disgusted me so much as the Sight of her
monstrous Bosom, which I cannot tell what to compare with, so as to give
the curious Reader an Idea of its Bulk, Shape, and Colour.... This made me
reflect upon the fair Skins of our English Ladies, who appear so beautiful to
us, only because they are of our own Size, and their Defects not to be seen
but through a magnifying glass....”
Identify X

Gulliver’sTravel: A
Voyage to Brobdingnag

Q.9
In a certain sitcom, Jill was trapped in an
ATM antechamber with X.
Tell me X.

Q.10*
The Fortunate Pilgrim, a literary masterpiece, is the real birthplace of X. As the writer of the
book says, the book's hero, Lucia Santa, is based on his own mother:
"Whenever Y, lead character in X, opened his mouth, in my own mind I heard the voice of
my mother. I heard her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family
and for life itself. … Y's courage and loyalty came from her; his humanity came from her…
and so, I know now, without Lucia Santa, I could not have written X.”
Give me X andY

X:The Godfather
Y: DonVito Corleone

Q.11*
Connect
• "Yada, yada, yada"
• "No soup for you!"
• "These pretzels are making me thirsty"
• "Not that there's anything wrong with that!”
• Festivus
• spongeworthy
• double-dipping
• re-gifter
• Serenity Now!

Q.12*
Quentin Tarantino has said that X might be the greatest character
he has ever written. He originally wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for
the part. But then director decided to have the character played by
a German actor. The role ultimately went to “Y” who later describes
X's character as one who has an understanding of how the world
works, stating that the swastika means nothing to him.
Identify the name of the character.

X: Hans Landa
Y: ChristophWaltz

Q.13*
X, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter of professor Archimedes.
She becomes the love interest and later the wife of Y, and subsequently the mother
of their son Korak.
She develops over the course of the series from a conventional damsel in distress,
who must be rescued from various perils, to an educated, competent and capable
adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her
own.
Identify X and Y.

Q.14*
Identify the movie from
the minimalist poster.

Q.15*
February 19, 1980 was a very grievous day for the band who had just embraced the
fame, every band has ever dreamed of, after their breathtaking album X.
On that day, the lead singer of the album X, Bon Scot, died while recording of their
upcoming album Y. Instead of disbanding, lead guitarist of the band decided to
continue recording and Y turned out to be humongous success. Additionally, Y’s cover
was designed such that it indicates band’s internal grief for Bon Scot.
Identify X andY.

Q.16
So how could it have gone so wrong?
How could such friendships fail?
Why, I was there, so I can tell
The whole sad, sorry tale.
Who said these lines?

Q.18
A woman flies to France to confront her
straying fiancé, but gets into trouble
when the charming crook seated next to
her uses her for smuggling.
How do we know this better in
Bollywood?

Q.19
Sean Connery's portrayal of British secret agent James Bond was one of the
primary inspirations for the character X , a reason Connery was chosen for the
role of X's father in one of the film franchise.
In the same film, X’s father told the story of the origin of X’s name and
revealing that the birth name was ‘Henry’ and their dog’s name was X.
Identify X.

Q.20
X introduced the fringe hairstyle in the Indian film industry in her first
film Love in Shimla. R.K. Nayyar, the director of the movie and her
future husband, suggested the fringe style in order to make her forehead
look narrower.
X says: "They tried to stick a strip near the hair-line, but it didn’t work
out." Nayyar then suggested she go for the fringe style as was then
sported by the Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn. The fringe soon
became popular and a fashion fad in the 1960s.
Many girls copy this hairstyle and it is still famous by her name. The look
suited the role of naughty, pretty, glamorous Sonia that she played.
Identify the actress.

Welcome to the Finals
May the odds be in your favor!!!

Rules:
• +5 for every correct answer.
• No negative marking.
• If a team gets all of the questions correctly, a +10 bonus
for the team.
Round I

Worst Description of a Movie
Bloke punches himself. Encourages others to punch him.
Leaves his job. Shaves his head. Bad influence on
Meatloaf.
Identify the Movie.

And another bad one!
Patrick Stewart sets up a school for dangerous adolescents where none
of the staff have any teaching qualifications.
Identify the movie.

Identify the movie
from its minimalist
poster.

This is a representation of a
movie in the form of
miniature painting by Murat
Palta.
Identify the movie.

FITB
From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes ___ _____ __ _____, an
otherworldly fable set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa
1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where a lonely
woman works, trapped in a life of isolation. Her life is soon going to change
when she and her co-worker discovers a secret classified experiment.

“As time goes by” is a song sung by Dooley Wilson in an American romantic
drama film “X” directed by Michael Curtiz. This song is at the heart of the movie
and also reflects its central theme.
Identify X.

Please exchange your answer sheets

Rules ofThe Godfather:
• Infinite pounces per team
• Direct: +10/-0
• Pounce: +20/-10
• Bounce: +5/-0
Round II
Pounce and Bounce

• Meaning of the title of the song literally refers to the individualism of the world of
unconventional people, artists specially, who have romantic ideals for art rock.
• The song can be sub-divided into six parts which are as follows,
• Intro
• Ballad
• Guitar Solo
• Opera
• Rock
• Outro
• This song has become a Rock Anthem after its release and has gain tremendous
amount of popularity.

Apart from not getting excellent reception
from box office this movie is based on a very
phenomenal literary work of Charles Dickins.
A heart broken girl who carries a child
encounters thing, so vicious and ominous, that
one doesn’t want to face them, even in
dreams. May be this is the reason why that
same girl bars that child from continuing a love
relationship by sending her away from her love
interest. But fate has its own accord with
occurrence of events in someone’s life. After
several years paths of the two entwined soul
crossed once again and they commence an
amorous intrigue.
Identify the literary work.

Name the actor impersonated by Jim Carey.

Tell me X or the movement
Before the 1860s the term “X" was originally used to describe the effect of a
natural scene on a painter and the effect of a painting on the viewer.
By the 1860s, the term was used by transference to describe a painting
which relayed such an effect. In turn, “X” came to describe the movement
as a whole.
The painting which is, most often, considered as the commencement of the
movement is on next slide.

• Gaspar
• Melchior
• X
They were the three magis who visited Jesus when he
was born. X was considered to be the king of Arabia and
he was the one who gave the gift of myrrh which
symbolizes the future death of the king.
Complete the list

Ernesto Samper was conspired to obtain indirect funding for his
election campaign from a bigshot organization, X, who made its
fortune by selling drugs. A DEA agent, Y, uncovers this conspiracy to a
journalist and the whole nation was on street after that and
asked Samper to resign.
Identify X andY

X: La Cali Cartel
Y: Javier Peña

Round III
Pick your Poison
Rules:
• Infinite pounces per team.
• Direct: +20/-5 (if unable to answer the question)
• Pounce: +20/-10
• Bounce: +10/-0

Categories
• Lit-Ent
• Whose line is it anyway?
• Music
• T.V. series
• Arts
• Hollywood

This 1997 American neo-noir crime
film directed, produced and co-written
by Curtis Hanson is based on a book by James
Ellroy.
In the movie, during the investigation of the
multiple homicides at Nite Owl, a coffee shop,
one of the lead detectives, White, encounters
a woman who looks like Veronica Lake (in the
picture) and begins a relationship with her.
Identify the movie.

• While the novel “X" is set in 1989, the film adaptation is set in 1987. This
is evidenced by the scene where lead of the film is briefly reading
Zagat's Survey: 1987. Also, the televised speech by President Ronald
Reagan, as shown the final scene of the film, also occurred in 1987.
• The movie has an iconic business card scene where all the cards were
identical when presented and it was enough to send ______ ______ into
a case of heart-stopping status anxiety.
Identify the movie

• [looking in the mirror]Yeah. Huh?
• [draws] Huh? Huh? Faster than you, you fuckin' son of a...I saw you comin', you fuck. Shit-
heel.
• [reholsters] I'm standin' here.You make the move.You make the move. It's your move.
Huh?
• [draws gun from concealed forearm holster] Don't try it, you fuck.
• [reholsters]You talkin' to me?You talkin' to me?You talkin' to me?
• [turns around to look behind him]Well, then who the Hell else are you talking-You talking to
me?Well, I'm the only one here.Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah?
Huh? 'kay.
• [whips out his gun again] Huh? Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who
would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the
filth, the shit. Here is someone who stood up. Here is...]
• [draws his gun]You're dead.
Identify the actor.

An excerpt from a very famous dialogue
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking
for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very
particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills
that make me a nightmare for people like you.
Identify the actor.

This is a part of a warner bros. studio where a
photograph is taken for the cover of a
_______’s album.
Album’s conceptual theme reflects one of the
band member’s feeling that the camaraderie
that had served the band was, by then, largely
absent. One particular band member was
fondly recalled by lines such as, “remember
when you were young, you shone like the
sun”.
FITB

Identify the song and the singer X
A song was released as a promotional single form X’s debut album.
But this song, as many music aficionados might notice, sounds
almost as same as the song “Same Old Love” recorded by Selena
Gomez in 2015.
Video on next slide

Her name is Jhanak Sharma who starred in an Indian TV
Show named ________ __ ________. The show was based
on an American comedy science fiction sitcom aired in first-
run syndication from September 7, 1985, to May 20, 1989.
The show chronicles the family of an engineer who created
a ----- and endeavored to conceal its identity from his
neighbors.
Tell me the name of both Indian and
AmericanTV shows.

SmallWonder
Karishma ka
Karishma

Work out from the clues
• The show focuses on an upper-middleclass African-American family living in
Brooklyn, NewYork.
• The show is inspired from a 1951 American TV sitcom, I Love Lucy, thus the
creator of the show wanted one of its lead character, Clair, to be a Dominican
who would go into Spanish tirades when angry.
• B.B. King guest starred as a character named "Riley Jackson". King's real first
name was "Riley".
Identify the Show.

FITB
In 1907 Pablo Picasso created a large oil painting named Demoiselles, which,
according to many art historians, is considered to be the commencement of an art
movement which is now known as ______.
The art historian Douglas Cooper states that, ”Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne were
particularly influential to the formation of ______ and especially important to the
paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907.”
The critical use of the term, ______, goes back at least to May 1901 when Jean Béral,
reviewing the work of Henri-Edmond Cross at the Indépendants in Art et Littérature,
commented that, “he uses a large and square pointillism, giving the impression of
mosaic.”

X had a rivalry with Michelangelo
• The two artists were constantly compared and competed for commissions. X
was favored between them and received the best projects due to his character
and great charm.
• Despite this, he secretly viewed Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
and paid homage to his rival by painting him in “School of Athens”.
Who is X?

Bollywood in Hollywood
Three hindi songs from old Hindi movies can be heard playing in the
background in a certain scene of movie X.The songs are as follows,
• "Mera Man Tera Pyasa” from the movie Gambler (1971) performed
by Mohammed Rafi.
• "Tere Sang Pyar Main" from the movie Nagin (1976) performed by Lata
Mangeshkar.
• "Wada Na Tod" also by Lata Mangeshkar from the movie Dil Tujhko
Diya (1987).All three songs are listed in the original soundtrack credits.
Identify the movie

Round IV
Rules:
• Infinite pounces to every team.
• +20 for correct answer.
• -10 for a wrong answer.

When X asked _______ about someone imitating Ravaillac as the punishment inflicted
upon him may deter anyone who might even think about it, _______ replied,
“There will be, in all times and in all countries, particularly if religious divisions exist in
those countries, fanatics who ask nothing better than to become martyrs. Ay, and
observe – it just occurs to me that the Puritans are furious against -----------, and their
preachers designate him as the Antichrist.”
Then as it has been conspired in the book Y by Z, as the accomplice of an assassinator is
never known to anyone as they were too high-placed, X was an accomplice of John
Felton who assassinated Duke of Buckingham.
Identify X,Y and Z

X: Milady Clarik
Y:TheThree Musketeers
Z: Alexandre Dumas

It’s hard to believe that the X’s career was once in the doldrums, but in the
early Eighties he prioritized his cocaine habit over work. His role as
obscenity-screaming, sado-masochistic underworld boss _______ in David
Lynch’s surreal film revived his fortunes and made X the go-to bad guy for a
new generation. Other actors considered for the part of Booth felt that the
character was too deranged and disturbed, but X reportedly said: “I’ve got to
play _____, because I am ______.”
Identify the movie.

X: Dennis Hopper
Y: BlueVelvet
Frank Booth was the character played by Dennis

Written over a seven-year period from 1914 to 1921, the novel was serialised in the
American journal The Little Review from 1918 to 1920, when the publication
of the Nausicaä episode led to a prosecution for obscenity under the Comstock
Act of 1873, which made it illegal to circulate materials deemed obscene in the U.S.
mail.
In 1919, sections of the novel also appeared in the London literary journal The
Egoist, but the novel itself was banned in the United Kingdom until 1936. ______
had resolved that the book would be published on his 40th birthday, 2 February
1922, and Sylvia Beach, Joyce's publisher in Paris, received the first three copies
from the printer that morning.
Identify the book.

X as Ellis Boyd Redding, _____’s best friend and the film's narrator; convicted of
murder in 1927.
Before X was cast, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, and Robert
Redford were each considered for the role. Although written as a middle-aged
Irishman with greying ------- hair (as in the novella), Darabont cast X for his
authoritative presence and demeanor; he could not see anyone else as -------.
Identify X

Oprah Winfrey Receives Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018
Golden Globes

FITB
The writers of __________ strove to create a realistic vision of an American city
based on their own experiences. Simon, the executive producer of the show,
originally a journalist for The --------- Sun, spent a year researching a Homicide Police
Department for his book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, where he met
Burns. Burns served in the --------- Police Department for 20 years, and later became
a teacher in an inner-city school. The two of them spent a year researching the drug
culture and poverty in --------- for their book, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an
Inner-City Neighborhood. Their combined experiences were used in many of the
storylines of ___________.

RoundV
• There are total 26 variables in this
round.
• Every correct answer will fetch you
+1 mark.
• There aren’t any negative marking.
• If the team gets all the variables
right, a +25 for the team as a bonus.

In 2002, an Indian romantic drama film was released, directed by ‘A’.
The central character in the film was played by ‘B’. The film was based on a
splendid work of literature by ‘C’ published in 1917. The film’s story
revolves around a wealthy youngster ‘D’ who has returned from his study
of law from London. The film also stars ‘E’ as ‘F’, D’s childhood sweetheart
and ‘G’ as ‘H’, a courtesan in a brothel.
The affair of ‘E’ and ‘I’ has been a subject of much discussion and
speculation in Bollywood after their scorching chemistry in a 1999 movie
‘J’ also directed by A. ‘I’ being one of the central figure
in Bollywood industry appeared in a not so famous movie ‘K’ in 2008 in
which he portrayed the character of aTV anchor.
HEREWE GO…

Movie ‘K’ is based on a 2002 Hollywood fantasy comedy film ‘L’, directed by Tom Shadyac. L
starred ‘M’ (theTV anchor) and ‘N’ (M’s wife) as the central cast of the movie.
But ‘N’ is rather famous for her character of ‘O’ in the an American T.V. sitcom ‘P’. In one of the
episode of P’s season six, ‘Q’ made a guest appearance and dated ‘O’ for sometime as a plot line of
the show. Ironically, ‘Q’ was the father of the girl who was dating ‘R’ at the time and it wasn’t a
secret that ‘R’ and ‘O’ had a romantic relationship in past.
‘Q’ has appeared in a 1988 action film ‘S’ as an off-duty NYPD officer. ‘T’ played a negative role in
the film as ‘U’, one of the greatest villains in the history of Hollywood.
‘T’ is also famous for his role of ‘V’ in a British-American film series ‘W’ which is based on novels,
that goes by the same name, written by ‘X’. X is also an author of a 2013 crime fiction novel ‘Y’
which is published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Y is the first novel in the ‘Z’ series of
detective novel written by X.

• A: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• B: Shahrukh Khan
• C: Sharat Chandra
Chattopadhyay
• D: Devdas
• E: Ashwarya Rai
• F: Paro
• G: Madhuri Dixit
• H: Chandramukhi
• I: Salman Khan
• J: Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam
• K: God tussi Great ho
• L: Bruce Almighty
• M: Jim Carrey
• N: Jennifer Aniston
• O: Rachel Green
• P: Friends
• Q: BruceWillis
• R: Ross Gellar
• S: Die Hard
• T: Allan Rickman
• U: Hans Gruber
• V: Professor Snape
• W: Harry Potter
• X: J.K. Rowling
• Y:The Cuckoo’s Calling
• Z: Cormoran Strike
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