1. Pounce and Bounce
• Each team have 4 pounces
• Each question carry +10 points
• On pounce it is +10/-5
• Team with highest points gets to answer the first
question and no negatives for them, but if they fail to
answer the question correctly the next question will be
the direct for next team
• The bounce will stop if a team correctly cracks the
answer. No negatives for wrong answer
2. Albert Einstein is best known for his most
astounding work popularly known as “ The Theory
of Relativity” (Special and General). In the Special
Theory, Einstein proved that time is not absolute,
rather its relative. Explaining the fact,
measurement of time always depends upon the
frame of references.
Why am I talking about a science theory in a
MELA quiz ? Put the Funda
Q.1
5. “One family, four generation and love with X”, this was
the part of introductory speech as seen in the very first
trailer of X.
This cult movie of 1981 explores the American music
of 20th century which still remains in the heart of its
viewers.
Identify the movie.
Q.2
8. While being the guest of Anupam Kher on his reality show
“The Anupam Kher Show”, “X” and “Y” were shown the
photograph of there old days at NSD. “X” tells that,
Shabana Azmi said, after watching the photograph, “How
the hell can two extremely ugly looking men can think of
being actors?”
Identify “X” and “Y”
Q.3
11. Supernatural, super-strange and super-sexy. This
HBO creation capitalizes on the _________ craze,
only they aimed squarely at adults. Following
Sookie Stackhouse and her circle of acquaintances
around Louisiana, this Golden Globe and Emmy
winning series winds mystery and fantasy with
problems like addiction and minority rights. This
T.V. series is set in the world where __________,
Humans and other creatures lives side by side, and
it is always thrilling.
Identify the T.V. series
Q.4.
17. A ________ is a tree nymph, or tree spirit, in Greek
mythology.
_______ are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in the
works of Coleridge, and in Thackeray's novel The
Virginians.
Keats addresses the nightingale as "light-winged _______
of the trees", in his "Ode to a Nightingale". In
the poetry of Donald Davidson they illustrate
the themes of tradition and the importance of the past
to the present.
FITB
Q.6
20. “X” is 2000 American comedy drama film which
tells a story of a child prodigy who gets hired
for a ___________ magazine to cover a fictitious
rock band and joins the Band on their trip.
Initially the child was jokingly called “The
Enemy” because he was a journalist, but he
quickly becomes part of their inner circle as he
loses his objectivity. And, his Mother thought
that he was being “Kidnaped” by the Rockstars.
Identify X.
Q.7.
21.
22.
23. Work out from the clues:
First appeared in Mickey's Revue, a song and a dance
show, in 1932.
His character is described by Babbit as, “Think of the
______ as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a half-
wit, a shiftless, good-natured colored boy and a hick.
"gawrsh!", along with "ah-hyuck!“ that is sometimes
followed by a "hoo hoo hoo hoo!“ were his usual
catchphrase
Who are we talking about ?
Q.8
26. Madonna - who is the main topic of the
opening conversation in the movie “X” -
really liked the film but refuted to the
director of the movie. Interpretation of her
song 'Like a Virgin'. She gave him a copy of
her 'Erotica' album, signed "To ________. It's
not about dick, it's about love. Madonna.“
Identify X.
Q.9.
29. With an expensive career that saw him compose
everything from a classical 02 box and one of the first
Jazz ballets X’s works was socially significant as it was
musically innovative. X opened one of the first Jazz
schools in Canada and his Hymn to Freedom was a
major anthem of the civil rights movement.
Deemed the maharaja of keyboard by Duke Ellington
“X” was one of the most talented and important Jazz
pianist of his generation.
Q.10
30.
31.
32. Arthur Lubok has described “X” as “an icon of
modern art, a Mona Lisa of our time”.
The painter of “X” got an inspiration for this
painting when he was walking with two of his
friends in the evening and when he observe the sun
set, it seems to him like the sky has suddenly
turned blood red, he lean on the fence, and his
friends walked on while he was trembling back
there.
Name X.
Q.11
35. Connect:
Standing up in the Milky Way
Some of the things that molecules do
When Knowledge conquered fear
A Sky full of Ghosts
Hiding the Light
Deeper, Deeper and Deeper Still
The Clean Room
Sisters of the Sun
The lost world of the Planet Earth
The Electric Boy
The Immortals
The World set Free
Unafraid of the dark
Q.12
36.
37.
38. Q.13
“X” is an American television drama series created by Tom
Fontana. This was HBO’s first offering to fully exploit the
lack of restriction offered on premium cable, taking place
at the ___________. This series literally features the
profanity, violence and uncomfortable to watch situation,
like the one when Veron lite his pen and marks a symbol
on the buttocks of a prisoner, meaning rape and murder
comes standard.
Identify X
41. Q.14
“X” is a fat, lazy orange tabby, who wants nothing more out of
life than to eat and sleep. He has a penchant for
consuming lasagna, enjoys tormenting Odie, and likes trying to
mail Nermal, his rival tabby, to Abu Dhabi.
Identify X.
