Music Entertainment Literature Arts - IIM Shillong Season Quiz 2018 Hosted by Sanchari Das & AKD

1. MUSIC . ENTERTAINMENT .
LITERATURE . ARTS
The MELAnge of
AKD
And
Sun4e
Finale Round

2. Round 1:
Category
Roulette
Rules of the Game
• There are 6 categories in this
Roulette. This will follow the Pounce
and Bounce Format.
• The categories are an indication of what
genre the question belongs to.
• Citius – Easy
• Altius – Medium
• Fortius – Difficult
• The scoring pattern for each question is
given in the category window .
• In case of Pounce, the scoring pattern
would be as the Direct.

4. Myth(ya)
La La Land
Picasso Please
Paparazzi
Reader’s
Digest
I am feeling
Lucky

5. Round 2: GRID ROUND
Rules of the Game
• There are 16 questions in this round. 8 clockwise and 8 anti-clockwise
• Each Correct answer on Direct will fetch +20/-10. On Pass, Each Correct Answer would fetch +10/0
• Differential Scoring for the Golden Bonus (The Hidden Photo)
• 1-3 : +30
• 4-7 : +20
• 8-11 : +10
• 12-15 : +5

7. Round 3:THE NEWSPAPER
ROUND Rules of the Game
• There are 16 Questions in this Round. The round follows the
Pounce and Bounce Format.
• The Pounce is applicable to even the Direct Team.
• Direct Answer : +20/0
• Pounce Answer : +30/-15
• Passing Answer : +10/0

9. Q1.
“X” are found also on sheets of paper that are printed for books, but those
“X” are cut off during the binding process. The purpose of the “X” is as
follows:
When a sheet of paper is passing through a printing press, and the paper
has more than one colour on it, the printer needs to know that his machine
is printing colours properly. “X” helps in conveying this information.

11. Ans.
Colour Dots at the
Bottom of your
newspaper

13. Which movie does this
track belong to? And
identify funda
Q2.

15. The titles of each of the tracks are
taken from the scientific names for
different genera of bat.
The titles of tracks 4 through 9
form an acrostic: Barbastella,
Artibeus, Tadarida, Macrotus,
Antrozous, and Nycterus all come
together to spell "Batman
Ans.

17. Q3.
X was used for long-distance transmission of textual or
symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without
the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
X required that the method used for encoding the message
be known to both sender and receiver. Many methods are
designed according to the limits of the
signalling medium used. The use of smoke
signals, beacons, reflected light signals, and flag semaphore
signals are early examples.
Various versions of X included optical, electrical, Cooke and
Wheatstone system, Morse system, etc

19. Ans.

21. ConnectQ4.

23. SCARLET
JOHANSSON
Ans.

25. Q5.
X was first was created in 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita.He was part of the team
working on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet platform. Kurita took inspiration from
weather forecasts that used symbols to show weather, Chinese characters and street signs,
and from manga.
X was initially used by the NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile(formerly Vodafone).
These companies each defined their own variants of using proprietary standards. The first
set of 176 12×12 pixel was created as part of i-mode's messaging features to help facilitate
electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services.
For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, X is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, X are
specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in
the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS.

27. Ans.
Emojis

29. ID THIS OSCAR
WINNING ACTOR
AND THE FAMOUS
SERIES HE WAS JUST
REMOVED FROM
Q6.

31. Democracy is overrated.
House of Cards is not

33. Q7.
The people who should know best have this to say of her.
Sir Mortimer Wheeler – “There is her little Baluchi-style face with pouting lips and insolent
look in the eye. She's about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there
with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment,
perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's no one like her, I think, in the world.
John Marshall – “She gives a vivid impression of the young ... girl, her hand on her hip in a
half-impudent posture, and legs slightly forward as she beats time to the music with her
legs and feet...”
Who am I talking about?

35. Ans.
Mohenjo Daro Dancing Girl

37. IF YOU CONNECT THE FIRST TWO, you will be able to
tell us the blank in the third and fourth
Q8.

39. Feluda

41. Q9.
This activity was invented by American, Howard Garns in 1979 before Japanese publisher
Nikoli got hold of it.
This activity had got its hold since 2005 and went on to become so viral that it became
troublesome for many companies to keep their employees in check and maintain work
productivity. One interesting incident forced British Airways to forcibly ban the flight
attendants from engaging in this activity during flight take-offs and landings.
Till date, it has not been determined how many followers of this activity actually exist in the
world.
As per researchers, this activity is known to have benefits such as boosting your
concentration and focus, preventing or easing depression and possibly even preventing
dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Identify this phenomenal activity.

43. Ans.
Solving Sudoku

45. A very recent major
event compelled Louvre
to drape our Mona Lisa
in different colours.
We wonder what that
could be?
Q10.

47. France Winning the
World cup

49. Q11.
He first appeared on television in 1989, as one of the jury members on the trial of Bruce
Banner for sexual assault. There has been no stopping for him since.
His next appearance was in the role of a hot dog vendor in the X-Men franchise when
senator Kelly emerged from the sea as a mutant. He has since appeared in movies such as
Spiderman (2002, 2004, 2007, 2014), Iron Man series, Hulk Series, Captain America series,
etc.
On the role of J. Jonah Jameson from the Spiderman franchise, he had this to say:
He was me. He was irascible, he was bad-tempered, he was dumb, he thought he was
better than he was. He was the version that so many people had of me! And I always
wanted to play him in the movie.
Who are we referring to who has been a regular at your favourite superhero franchisees?

51. Ans.
Stan Lee

53. -------------is a character from Mahabharata who fought against the Pandavas, was extremely powerful. Because
of this, he was cursed with immortality for 3000 years.
--------------literally translates to 'black mass' or 'time puzzle'. It is also the name of a poison created from the sea
when Devas and Asuras churned it in order to obtain Amrita, the nectar of immortality
------ and ---------were two demon brothers in Hindu mythology. According to legend, they invited saints to
dinner after which the elder demon, Atapi, turned the younger one into food and served him to the priests
----------means 'killing of a Brahmin.’
-------------being referred to as the female dog of the Gods
------------is part of the Garuda Purana, one of the 18 Mahapuraṇa texts in Hinduism
---------------is a Rigvedic deity associated with wind or storm
--------------was cursed with premature old age and had asked his son, Puru, to swap their ages
Q12. Give Funda

55. ASHWATHAMMA is a character from Mahabharata who fought against the Pandavas, was extremely
powerful. Because of this, he was cursed with immortality for 3000 years.
HALALA literally translates to 'black mass' or 'time puzzle'. It is also the name of a poison created from the sea
when Devas and Asuras churned it in order to obtain Amrita, the nectar of immortality
ATAPI AND VATAPI were two demon brothers in Hindu mythology. According to legend, they invited saints to
dinner after which the elder demon, Atapi, turned the younger one into food and served him to the priests
BRAHMATYA means 'killing of a Brahmin.’
SARAMA being referred to as the female dog of the Gods
PRETAKALPA is part of the Garuda Purana, one of the 18 Mahapuraṇa
texts in Hinduism
RUDRA is a Rigvedic deity associated with wind or storm
YAYATI was cursed with premature old age and had asked his son, Puru, to swap their ages
Ans.

57. Q13.
Born on September 20, 1948, X is a superstar in the world of literature, loved, respected
and revered by millions of fans.
X started off with writing sci-fi stories, many of them set in an imagined future known as
“The Thousand Worlds”. His first novel, Dying of the Light (1977), reflects the same
desolation and desperation that defines his claim to fame, having been described as
“senselessly tragic.”
When former Beatles band manager (X’s namesake) died in March’2016, his fans went into
a panic. X had to issue a statement to clarify that he was not, in fact, deceased.

59. Ans.
George R.R Martin

61. Connect:
Jessica, Anne and Di
Sean P.F Harris
Jill Prewett and Aine Kiely
Peter Ronald Ridley and Susan Sladden
Neil Jessica and David Mackenzie
Neil, Jessica, David Kenzie, Di, Anne and you
Q14.

63. Book dedications
Ans.

65. Q15.
Identify whom are we talking about specifically.

67. Ans.
Wimbledon Pigeon-Scaring Hawk

69. The inspiration of this cartoon
came from the cartoonist’s
son who refused to take a nap
and always messed up his
room
Q16.

71. Ans.

73. Round 4 : Really Long Visual Connect
1
2
3
4
5
6
Rules of the Game
• The Really Long Visual Connect
follows Write & Check Format.
• Differential Scoring for the Final
Long Connect as per the
consecutive slide.
• Each Correct Answer of
Individual Slides will fetch 10
Points
• After release of all 6 Individual
Answers, a Correct Final Long
Connect will fetch 10 Points

75. Q1. Connect
1
+50 / -25

77. Slurp Slurp 2
Q2. Connect
+45 / -20

79. Q3. Connect
3
+40 / -15

81. 4
Q4. Connect +30 / -10

83. Q5. Connect
5
+25 / -5

85. (In exhaustive list)
6
Q6. Connect +20 / 0

87. And the Answers Are:
1. Kailash Satyarthi
2. Bournvita
3. Bob Dylan
4. Choker Bali
5. Bangladesh
6. Shanti Niketan
+10 / 0

88. The Really Long
Visual Connect is:

90. The
Winners
Are