LSD - AQC Open MELA Quiz Finals

M.E.L.A. QUIZ
FINALS
M O S T LY E N T E R TA I N M E N T , L I T E R AT U R E , A R T S
Q U I Z
Q M : A M A N B A F N A

WRITTEN ROUND
• GUNS FROM FAMOUS MOVIES. ID THE MOVIE
• +5 FOR EACH ELEMENT
• +20 IF YOU GET ALL CORRECT

INFINITE POUNCE (CLOCKWISE
+20/-10
+10/0

In June 1943, while pregnant with her first child, actress Gene Tierney came down with German
measles, contracted during her only appearance at the Hollywood Canteen. The baby, Daria, was
born prematurely, weighing only 3 pounds, 2 ounces, and requiring a total blood transfusion. The
infant was also deaf, partially blind with cataracts, and severely developmentally disabled. The child
ultimately had to be institutionalised. Some time later Tierney was approached by a female fan for
an autograph at a garden party. The woman revealed that she had sneaked out of quarantine to
the Hollywood Canteen while sick with German measles to meet Tierney.
This incident serves as the inspiration for X. The title of the novel comes from the poem The Lady
of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is referred to by name several times in the novel, with these
lines being frequently quoted:
“Out flew the web and floated wide-
___ ______ ______ ____ ____ __ _____;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.”
Rituparno Ghosh created a Bengali language version of X as Y, which reset the story in the film
industry of Kolkata.
1

THE MIRROR CRACK’D FROM SIDE TO SIDE,
SHUBHO MAHORAT

“Anyway, X comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the
dress and says, 'You can't wear a bra under that dress.'
So, I say, 'Okay, I'll bite. Why?'
And he says, 'Because... there's no underwear in space.'
I promise you this is true, and he says it with such conviction too! Like he had
been to space and looked around and he didn't see any bras or panties or briefs
anywhere.
Now, X came to my show when it was in Berkeley. He came backstage and
explained why you can't wear your brassiere in other galaxies, and I have a sense
you will be going to outer space very soon, so here's why you cannot wear your
brassiere, per X. So, what happens is you go to space and you become
weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra
doesn't- so you get strangled by your own bra. Now I think that this would make
a fantastic obit- so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it
reported that _________________________.”
2

CARRY FISHER’S OBITUARY
I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra

Back in 1964, when Gene Roddenberry shot his original pilot for Star Trek, the show was
somewhat different. The Captain was not James Kirk, but Christopher Pike and the first
officer wasn’t Spock, it was a mysterious woman referred to only as “Number One,”
played by actress X. But 1965 was a very different time, and when the original pilot was
tested with execs and audiences, they rejected the notion of a woman first officer. Even
women in the test audiences allegedly said, “who does she think she is??” The network
demanded that for the second pilot, the first officer should be a man.
Nevertheless, X was still part of the cast when Star Trek finally went on the air in 1966.
She was told to bleach her hair blonde and play the ship’s nurse, Christine Chapel.
Network execs might not have been cool with a female first officer, but they were more
than fine with a blonde in a mini skirt playing a traditional nurse role. But X would go on
to play a much more important role in Star Trek history .
4

MAJEL BARRETT
she was the voice of the
Starfleet computer not only on the
original series, but also on all five
subsequent Star Trek TV series
and several of the films. Although Barrett
passed away in December of 2008, she
managed to record the voice of the
Enterprise computer one last time for JJ
Abrams’ Star Trek reboot.

ID X,Y,Z.
In the early 1980s, X was invited to a conference where he, too, had an
audience with Y. The synthesizer had yet to be installed, and X was still
speaking through his own disintegrating vocal cords. Apparently Y had
trouble understanding and knelt down beside X to hear him better,
prompting one scientist to deadpan that "things certainly have changed
since Z."
5

STEPHEN HAWKING, POPE JOHN PAUL
II, GALILEO

X was an American singer-songwriter who is regarded as one of the most significant figures in
American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your
Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically. His album of songs
about the Dust Bowl period, Dust Bowl Ballads, is included on Mojo magazine's 100 Records
That Changed The World. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.
Songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry
Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia,
Jay Farrar, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Childers, Sammy Walker and Tom Paxton have
acknowledged X as a major influence. He frequently performed with the slogan This machine
kills fascists displayed on his guitar. ID X
6

ID X, Y.
X is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, rapper, singer, and
songwriter. X attended DeKalb School of the Arts and was voted "Most Likely to Write
for The Simpsons" in his high school yearbook. X graduated from New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in dramatic writing in 2006.
In 2006, X was contacted by David Miner, to whom he sent writing samples including
a spec script that he had written for The Simpsons. Miner and Tina Fey were impressed
by X's work and invited him to become a writer for the NBC series 30 Rock. He currently
stars in the TV series Y, which he also created.
7

ID X AND Y
X, about his role in the cult film Y:
"I must have auditioned for the Judge Reinhold part 10 or 11 times," he says, calling the
film a "terrible experience." "I was underage, so I couldn't get it because I couldn't work
as many hours. And I was surrounded by actors, whose names I won't mention, who were
not very open to the idea of a young guy named "Coppola" being an actor. So that
movie was instrumental in me changing my name because of the kind of unfortunate
responses to my last name."
In fact, X says he was harassed on set. "They would congregate outside my trailer and say
things, like quoting lines from Apocalypse Now, and it made it very hard for me to
believe in myself.”
The film marks early appearances by several actors who later became stars, including
Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, and Anthony Edwards
8

NICHOLAS CAGE, FAST TIMES AT
RIDGEMONT HIGH

For decades, X and Y were Hammer Horror legends. On camera, they appeared together
in 22 films, and off-camera they were the best of friends. They were most known for their
various _______ films, with X playing the titular role, and Y his nemesis. However, there
were many other characters they would play together. As a final salute to one of the best
friendships in film history, X would go on to star in 2002’s STAR WARS II: ATTACK OF THE
CLONES, 25 years after his friend stared in STAR WARS IV: A NEW HOPE. They would go
to theatres to watch Looney Tunes cartoons together and were once kicked out for
laughing too hard.
9

The following flow chart is an xkcd comic referencing 3 fictional worlds. ID
10

MIDDLE EARTH, DISCWORLD, NARNIA

ID X, Y, Z.
DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenbergs posits that processing power must double every
time DreamWorks makes a ”X" film and he calls this Y. Despite the advances in
computing power over the 2000s decade, the increasing usage of novel techniques like
global illumination, physics simulation, and 3D demanded ever more CPU hours to
render the films. DreamWorks Animation noticed that every X film took roughly twice the
CPU hours than the previous film and thus labelled this trend as the ”Y". Similar to ”Z"
the Y says, "The CPU render hours needed to complete production on a theatrical sequel
will double compared to the amount of time needed on the previous film."
11

SHREK, THE SHREK’S LAW, MOORE’S
LAW
In 2001, Shrek required approximately 5 million CPU render hours. In 2004, Shrek 2
required over 10 million CPU render hours. In 2007, Shrek the Third required over 20
million CPU render hours, and the 2010 3D release of Shrek Forever After demanded
more than 50 million CPU render hours on account of rendering double amount of
frames. Puss in Boots, which was released only one year after the previous Shrek film,
utilized 63 million render hours.

INFINITE POUNCE COUNTER CLOCKWISE
+20/-10
+10/0

SONG, MOVIE AND THE MYTH
In 1969, X stated:
Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple
good-bye song... Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of
childhood. I really don't know. I think it's sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery
that it could be almost anything you want it to be.
Interviewed by Lizze James, he pointed out the meaning of the verse ”__________":
Sometimes the pain is too much to examine, or even tolerate... That doesn't make it evil,
though – or necessarily dangerous. But people fear death even more than pain. It's
strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the
pain is over. Yeah – I guess it is a friend…
The song was famously used in the opening sequence and during the end of the movie
Y. It evolved through months of performance at the Whisky a Go Go and was also the
cause of the band being fired from the club when X added an explicit retelling and
profanity-laden version of the ________ in the song.
12

THE END, APOCALYPSE NOW, MYTH OF
OEDIPUS

Realizing his precarious condition, X tried several times to end his drug addiction, finally
succeeding in 1954 after returning to his father's home in St. Louis for several months and
locking himself in a room until he had gone through a painful withdrawal. During this period, he
avoided New York City and played mostly in Detroit and other Midwestern towns, where drugs
were then harder to come by.
A widely related story, attributed to Richard (Prophet) Jennings, was that X—while in Detroit
playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy
Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis
Fuller and Donald Byrd—stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet
and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and
interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing "Sweet Georgia Brown" by
beginning to play "My Funny Valentine", and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into
the rainy night.
X was supposedly embarrassed into getting clean by this incident. In his autobiography, X
disputed this account, stating that Roach had requested that X play with him that night, and that
the details of the incident, such as carrying his horn in a paper bag and interrupting Roach and
Brown, were fictional and that his decision to quit heroin was unrelated to the incident. ID X
13

WHO REVIEWING WHOSE WORK?
….Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought
since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings
desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no
room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children
playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin
soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. _____, because in his own joyless mind he feels it
with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short
working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least
intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-
parades. ………..Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to
people “I offer you a good time,’’ _____ has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and
death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get
sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter
and starvation “Greatest happiness of the greatest number” is a good slogan, but at this
moment “Better an end with horror than a horror without end” is a winner. Now that we are
fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
14

GEORGE ORWELL ABOUT HITLER’S
MEIN KAMPF

ID X AND Y
X’s looks and mannerisms were based on Y. In one episode, X actually crosses paths
with Y, who is working as a busboy in a Hollywood restaurant; they find themselves
inadvertently yelling in unison, "Things will be different when I take over the world!”
The Y connection came from Maurice LaMarche, a big fan of Y, who had supplied
the voice for Y in the 1994 movie Ed Wood. LaMarche stated that on coming in to
audition for the character of the X, he saw the resemblance to Y and went with that
for the voice, and he was given the role on the spot. X's similarity to Y was made
explicit in one of the episodes which was based upon an outtake from one of Y’s
television commercials, colloquially known as Frozen Peas, in which he ranted about
the poor quality of the script. This cartoon was described by writer Peter Hastings as
"a $250,000 inside joke”. Other Y allusions included the episode "The Third Mouse",
a parody of ___________ in which X played the part of Y’s character and "Battle for
the Planet", in which X, inspired by Y’s infamous radio broadcast and the hysteria it
provoked, stages an alien invasion on television.
15

CONNECT AND GIVE THE LATEST
ENTRY TO THE LIST
• Aishwarya Rai
• Deepika Padukone
• Katrina Kaif
• Priyanka Chopra
• Sunny Leone
• Sonakshi Sinha
• Jacqueline Fernandes
• Lisa Hayden
• Urvashi Rautela
16

“X VERSUS Y HAS COME TO REPRESENT REBELLION VERSUS
AUTHORITARIANISM, A LIFE CONSTRAINED VERSUS A LIFE OF
FREEDOM, SEXUAL REPRESSION VERSUS SEXUAL LICENCE.”
The confrontation between X and Y has been a subject of a lot of historical research and
enquiry. The popular opinion has mostly been favourable towards X, with Y being
perceived as an overbearing tyrant. At the time of the incident, romanticism was at its
peak and X was championed by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Hollywood has also played
its role, with three major films on the incident depicting it as "the classic conflict between
tyranny and a just cause”. But recent historical research has been more sympathetic
towards Y, with evidence suggesting that he was a considerate master and coudnt be
blamed entirely for the turn of events.
18

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, FLETCHER
CHRISTIAN AND WILLIAM BLIGH

ALBUM COVERS MODIFIED FOR
RELEASE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

X is an American Comic Book series published by Vertigo, the mature comics arm of DC.
It was a landmark in the comic genre with unprecedented levels of profanity and graphic
sexual and violent scenes. The success of the series sparked off a series of adaptation
attempts, with Miramax, HBO and Columbia all buying the rights for a film/TV
adaptation, only to drop out later. Finally the series premiered on AMC on 22 May, 2016.
The series influenced Stephen King in his Comic book version of The Dark Tower. The
character Yorick from Y: The Last Man (another very popular Graphic Novel series), has a
Zippo lighter with the words "Fuck Communism" engraved, identical to the one owned
by the titular character in X. When asked about it he says it's "from this book I read
once... a graphic novel. You know, like a comic book."
20

This ancient Chinese divination text has had major influence on western pop culture:
• The protagonist in Philip K Dick’s The Man in the White Castle, keeps referencing this
book to know his future.
• Philip Pullman’s book The Amber Spyglass, features the text as one of the divination
methods used by Dr. Mary Mallone to communicate with dust.
• Pink Floyd’s first album, The Piper at the gates of dawn has lyrics adapted from the
text.
• Musician and composer John Cage used X to decide the arrangements of many of his
compositions.
21

OSKAR FISCHINGER, AN OPTICAL
POEM

Like so many great stories, the A saga has quiet a beginning. In May 1977, just after the
premiere of B’s C on a handful of screens around the country, the writer-director felt the
need to take a break from Los Angeles and his intense work on the film. He journeyed to
Hawaii for a vacation and met up with his longtime friend, director D who was shooting E
at the time. D recalled: “B thought C to be a monumental disaster.” In fact B and D
entered into an agreement to exchange 2.5% of the profits of their respective films, C
and E.
One week later, as B learned more about the phenomenal success of his film, “B was
suddenly laughing again,” D said. And he was ready to begin thinking about new film
projects.
As they sat on the beach one day, ”B was telling me how he really wanted to do a L film,
and that he actually went to the people who owned L and asked them if he could direct
one ... and they turned him down.” D recalled.
"So I said, 'Well, look, B, I've got a L film. It's great - it's just L but even better,” D said. "I
told him the story about this _____ and said it was like a Saturday-matinee serial, that he
just got into one mess after another. And B said, 'Fantastic, let's do this!’”.
L is a Royal Navy Reserve Commander, who was first played by M. M also plays the role
of the protagonist’s father in A.

B’s mentor in Hollywood was G who gave him his first job in Hollywood on his movie
Finian Rainbow. G was one of the most influential directors of his generation and
kickstarted the New Hollywood group which included B and D among other directors
who challenged conventional film making ideas. G’s movie H was one of the milestones
in Hollywood and cemented his position as one of the preeminent directors. Earlier, I was
being considered for directing H, but he left to direct his own American Crime movie,
Once Upon a time in America. I made a famous trilogy of westerns, one of which was
inspired by another legendary filmmaker J’s movie K. J successfully sued the producers
since they hadnt taken permission from him ofr remaking his film.

A Indian Jones
B George Lucas
C Star Wars
D Steven Speilberg
E Close Encounters of the Third Kind
G Francis Ford Coppola
H Godfather
I Sergio Leone
J Akira Kurosawa
K Yojimbo
L James Bond
M Sean Connery

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+5 FOR IDENTIFYING WHICH THING THEY RELATE TO

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