MELA Quiz (Finals) conducted for Aaftaab at IIT-Jodhpur. Test your knowledge of music , entertainment , literature and Art.

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Minimalism
Minimalist posters of
Books , TV Series and
Movies
Jhapatta Maar
Pounce , Bouce , Direct
GAMBLE
Strategize your Position
Your
Way
Towards
the
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Minimalism
Books
Shows
Movies
Don’t Copy.
Don’t Spill out the
answer
Exchange Sheet
+5/-5
RulesPatternScoring
Case Study

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Jhapatta Maar
Pounce open to all
Direct if not pounced
Bounce (only once) if not
pounced
If you spill the
answer out -10.
First Pounce
Then Direct
Then Bounce
Pounce : +15/-10
Direct : +10/0
Bounce : +5/0
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Which book by the Indian Diplomat Vikas Swarup
had the following contents
• 1,000
• 2,000
• 5,000
• 10,000
• 50,000
• 100,000
• 200,000
• 500,000
• 1,000,000
• 10,000,000
• 100,000,000
• 1,000,000,000
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While X has been adapted and
elaborated upon in many ways, its
sequel Y is often claimed to be its
greatest legacy.
ID THE BOOK X AND ITS SEQUEL Y
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X-The Hobbit
Y-Lord of the Rings

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The American web television series '13 Reasons Why' depicts
the story of a 17 year old girl, Hannah, who commits suicide
because of multiple reasons (13, to be precise). The series
itself is set in the time after Hannah's death.
Throughout the series' first season, the character of Clay
Jensen has an injury on his forehead which never seems to
heal. On the contrary, he gets into scenarios where his injury
gets bruised up again, multiple times, thereby making it last
throughout the season.
This was a clever method implemented by the producers to
ensure something without resorting to traditional methods.
Identify what purpose did Clay's never-healing scar fulfil given
the type of show it was.
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no scar – flashback ; scar –
present.
The story of Hannah is
revealed through flashbacks.
The audience can distinguish
between the present and
flashbacks by looking for the
scar : no scar – flashback ;
scar – present.

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What did they do ?
One of the most popular and widely believed urban legends of
the Hollywood is that - Walt Disney, the pioneer of the American
animation industry, is cryogenically preserved so that he could
be brought back to life once the science had been developed.
Other variations of this legend say that it was only his head that
was preserved and that he is currently 'stored' under
Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
While this may or may not be true, Walt Disney Animation
Studio did something in 2013 which has led to another amazing
conspiracy theory. It speculates that Disney Studio did this
specifically so as to overshadow the Google search results
related to the rumors about Walt Disney's cryogenic
preservation.
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Movie was named FROZEN
They released a movie called ‘Frozen’ so that whenever people search for
Disney Frozen, it shows the results for the hit film. The fact that they could
have named the movie anything better but chose to go with ‘Frozen’ makes
this conspiracy theory interesting.

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Which Rock Band Reference is shown in this
Simpson’s Episode
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Rolling Stone

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Identify X?
X completed his paratrooper training in just over eight months,
and Major General C. W. G. Rich awarded him the prestigious
Screaming Eagles patch on January 11, 1962. On June 29, 1962,
Captain Gilbert Batchman granted X an honorable discharge on the
basis of unsuitability. X later spoke of his dislike of the army and
falsely stated that he had received a medical discharge after
breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump. Paul McCartney
and Ringo Starr had first seen X performing on 11 January 1967 at
the Bag O'Nails club in London. On 4 june 1967 McCartney, George
Harrison, Jane Asher and Pattie Boyd watched them headline a bill
at the city's Saville Theatre. X opened his set with a version of the
title track from The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
album, which had been released just three days before. On that
night, X, played a white Stratocaster.
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Jimi Hendrix

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Identify the Series whose particular soundtrack
went viral in MEME World.
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Rick and Morty

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Who played the role of Nikola Tesla in the famous
movie The Prestige by Christopher Nolan
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David Bowie

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Known as the “X of the North,” this
painting represents the best of Dutch
art. Though ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’
by Johannes Vermeer is shrouded in
mystery (much like its Y counterpart),
it has become one of art history’s
most beloved paintings.
ID X and Y. (Y is the painter of X
version)
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X-MONALISA
Y-Leonardo Da Vinci

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The Palace of Illusions: A Novel is a 2008 novel by award-winning
novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
It is a deeply human novel about a “woman” born in a man’s world,
a world of warriors, gods and the ever manipulating hands of fate.
She harbors a secret love, endures a long exile in the wilderness,
instigates a catastrophic war, and slowly learns the truth about
Krishna, her mysterious friend."The novel is a rendition of the
Hindu epic X . You need to tell me why is this book different from
the original epic!!
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Mahabharata from the
perspective of Draupadi

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In addition to the many other things about the show X , the
font in the title card has caught the attention of the
viewers.
It ' s not such a surprise when you consider that font ,
called ITC Benguiat , is a hallmark of the era X so dotingly
pays reverence to . It graced the cover of countless Stephen
King novels , as well as an album cover by The Smiths .
A website has been started dedicated to allowing fans to
type things of their Interest in the same font .
Give X ( Picture follows )
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Stranger Things

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What has been Blanked out?12

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● Life Of Pi

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Gamble
First Bid your points
Submit the sheet
Final Evaluation
If you spill the
answer out -10.
Bid
Submit
Evaluation
+X/-X
0<Int(x)<=20
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What is so unique about this book?
“Professor” Sheridan Simove has produced a 200
page book entitled “What Every Man Thinks About
Apart From Sex”.
“Author” Sheridan Simove said: “This book is the
result of 39 years of painstaking research and
practical study into the subject. I left nothing to
chance and really threw myself into my work.
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book of blank pages

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Identify the song ?
Shortly before the album's release, speculation
arose that the song was deliberately trying to
refer to LSD, but the lead singer repeatedly
denied that he had intended it as a drug song.
While he instead attributed the song's fantastical
imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland books, other stories attribute the
song to be inspired by something his son did.
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Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds
Initials shorten to LSD

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Identify the catchphrase and Y ?
This catchphrase describes a certain fictional character – X’s
preference for the preparation of his Ys. A theory behind why
X has such a preference is that —
While preparing a Y in this way, more ice melts than in the
preparation by the other method. This dilutes the contents of
Y and thus helps X stay more sober and alert, which is quite
important given the type of profession he was in. Also, a Y
prepared in this way has more antioxidants than the one
prepared by the other method.
Y has been deemed as “the only American invention as
perfect as the sonnet” and “the elixir of quietude”.
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X- James Bond
Y- Vodka Martini
Catchphrase- shaken,not stirred.

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Shakespeare
Shakespeare (his grave in pic 1) left only his ‘second
best bed’ (pic 2) for his wife, Anne Hathaway (pic 3) in
his last will and testament.

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Reginald William Pierce, a former employee of Bombay
Dyeing was part of a closely selected group of dignitaries
which comprised of 5 Hindus, one Anglo-Indian, one
Christian and 2 Parsis. For over a month, this group, the last
of its kind, were in the public gaze. Finally Pierce decided to
defy his fellow group members and attracted lot of flak.
For over a month, Pierce, who worked in the textile
industry, was privy to one of the most talked-about murder
trials in the country. "He fired three shots at ____. One
missed, one grazed his head, and the third killed him. I saw
the skull, it was evidence in the court," recalls Pierce.
What is being talked about?
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Identify X and Y?
X’s attitude towards his most famous creation was ambivalent. In 1891 he
had written to his mother, “I think of slaying Y… and winding him up for
good and all. He takes my mind from better things.” His mother’s reply:
“You won’t! You can’t! You mustn’t!” In an attempt to deflect publishers'
demands for more Y stories, he raised his price to a level intended to
discourage them, but found they were willing to pay even the large sums
he asked. As a result, he became one of the best-paid authors of his time.
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X-Arthur Conan Doyle
Y-Sherlock Holmes