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Lit Quiz Final April 26th'2015
1.
2. Again, the rules ……..
2 Written rounds of 5 questions each. 5 marks per Q, full house
30 marks.
48 questions, 2 rounds of 24 each, on bounce and full pounce,
one clockwise and one anti-clockwise.
Pounce carry a golden strike of 3, which means if you get 3
negatives on your pouncing, then you are disqualified from
pouncing anymore.
In case of a tie, prelims score will prevail.
10 for bounce and +10/-10 for pounce. Half-points at the
discretion of the QM.
BEST OF LUCK
14. 1. He probably grew up in a village called Malka Hans
where he resided in a small room adjacent to a historic
masjid, which is now called the Masjid …….. ……... His
mausoleum (the architecture of which is a mix of Lahore
and Tughlaq tradition) is a place of pilgrimage today,
especially for those in love.
A great artist of Sufi, he was believed to have composed
his most famous piece of rendition of a folk lore, after
being influenced by his own unrequited love for a
woman, and hence gave the story a tragic end which was
not the case originally. This work by him has become a
treasure trove of literature now.
Who was he? What is the famous literary work?
17. 2. This fictional detective has appeared in more than
4000 stories written by around 200 different authors all
around. He has had several movie, TV and Radio
adaptations. He has been often described as a poor
man’s Sherlock Holmes. What is his name? (There is
also a rock band by the same name)
20. 3. This novel (2nd part of a trilogy) was written
by Thomas Dixon Jr. and published in 1905. He
wrote it as a message to the Northerners of
USA to maintain racial segregation, as Dixon
claimed that the Blacks if given freedom might
turn into savages thereby committing crimes,
rapes, murders etc. An extreme racist, he was
denounced. However, this book was adapted
into a groundbreaking Hollywood movie.
Which movie?
23. 4. By what name is the first Sunday after
Easter generally called/ known, which is
also the name of an iconic literary
character who falls in love with a girl
called Esmeralda? (This character was
actually named after this Sunday)
26. 5. The Sanskrit drama ‘Ratnavali’ is a very charming
play about the romantic triangle between Udayana
and Princess Ratnavali and Udayana’s original wife
Vasavadatta. Though the original story was believed
to have been taken from ancient Buddhist and various
other Indian literatures, this play itself is very lucidly
written and enjoys the distinction of being one of the
most popular Sanskrit works of literature.
Which great Indian emperor has been attributed to be
its author? (It is one of the 3/4 plays which has been
attributed to him)
29. 6. Captain Charles Johnson was a British author who wrote
the book ‘A General History of the Robberies and Murders of
the most notorious Pyrates’ in 1724, which was a collection of
biographies of many contemporary well-known and unknown
pirates. He was the person who actually made the pirates
very famous in popular culture.
However, Captain Johnson’s identity is still unknown. In the
20th century, the American scholar John Moore derived that
he is actually X writing under this pseudonym, as Moore
compared both their writing styles and found similarities.
Moore’s study and his reputation as an X scholar, was so
convincing that most libraries recataloged this book under the
name of X. Though this was later refuted by other scholars.
Who’s X?
32. 7. According to some stories, this author had created his
suave private investigator but he was not finding a
suitable name for him.
So, when once, he was standing looking at the
‘Kanchenjunga’ in Darjeeling, it was all very cloudy and
the mountain was not properly visible. Suddenly,
everything cleared and the golden sunshine came out on
the peak of the Kanchenjunga and it seemed that the
mountain was wearing a golden crown, and there the
author got the name, the meaning of which is equivalent
to somebody wearing a golden crown.
What is the name of this private investigator?
35. 8. This first novel of this trilogy (the trilogy is named after
a semi-autonomous city state during the inter-war period
which is now a city in modern day Poland) is a magic
realism involving a protagonist called Oscar who keeps on
speaking to Jesus and satan throughout the book and
calls his penis satan later in the book.
The initial response to this novel was severe as people
called it pornographic and legal action was taken against
its author, but now it has achieved a cult status. It was
adapted into a movie in 1979 which won the Palme d’Or
together with ‘Apocalypse Now’ and also won the Best
foreign language film at the Oscars.
What is the name of this novel? What is the name of the
Trilogy?
38. 9. This is a painting by William Holman
Hunt based on a famous Lord
Tennyson ballad, which itself is a
recreation of a story of the Arthurian
legend.
This lady lives in an island castle in a
river and suffers from a mysterious
curse where she has to weave images
continuously looking at the world
through her mirror, and not directly.
So, this painting shows that she has
turned to see a famous Arthurian
knight (and thereby brought on the
curse to her) whose image on the
mirror made her fall in love with him.
Who was that famous knight? What is
the name of this Tennyson ballad?
41. 10. This fast bowler was once hit by a
Fanie de Villiers bouncer and got so angry
that he was supposed to have said these
famous words to the slip cordon ‘you guys
are history’ and went on to rip through
the South African batting order with
figures of 9-57. Later on, he wrote a book
with the same above title ‘You Guys Are
History’. Who was this bowler?
44. 11. This city of the Abbasid caliphate was said
to be the centre of learning in the middle east
at that time. It had a Grand Library which
contained numerous precious historical
documents and books on subjects ranging from
medicine, astronomy etc. So, it is said that
when a grandson of Genghis Khan attacked and
destroyed this city, its famous river became
absolutely black from the ink.
Which city? Who was the grandson?
47. 12. She was an 18th century women rights advocate, writer and
philosopher. She wrote a very famous book on feministic
philosophy (out of many other books).
She married a philosopher and a writer who is famous as one of
the forefathers of the ‘anarchist movement’ and also famous for
his book ‘Caleb Williams’.
Their daughter went on to write one of the most popular novels
of all time.
The daughter married one of the best English romantic poets of
all time.
Who was she? Her husband? Her daughter? Daughter’s husband?
50. 13. The medieval Latin work of ‘Opus Majus’ is the best work of
Roger Bacon as per many experts. It deals with all aspects of
natural sciences, philosophy, logic, alchemy and a lot of other
things.
In one part of the book, Roger Bacon describes the process of
manufacturing of something (he has described the same in his
other works as well), for which he has been ascribed the
distinction of being the first European to do so. It is believed
though, that Bacon got the idea from William of Rubruck who
visited the court of Mongols at that time.
What does ‘Opus Majus’ describe which is believed to have been
invented when some alchemists were searching for an elixir of
immortality?
56. 15. This popular rock band from Boston whose
lead vocalist is also the father of a famous
actress, was believed to have named their band
after the famous 1925 Sinclair Lewis novel,
though this is not true.
The band members though were required to
read this book in school, but they repeatedly
and adamantly deny any connection. The
spelling also differs.
What is the name?
59. 16. This is a Lord Alfred Tennyson poem about a lady called
Kapiolani and her brave display of dispelling the local myth of the
fear of the Goddess of volcanoes:
‘Great and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine,
Kapiolani
Climb the mountain, and flung the berries, and dared the Goddess,
and freed the people
Of …………….!
A people believing that …………the Goddess would wallow in fiery
riot and revel
On Kilaue-ä,
Dance in a fountain of flame with her devils, or shake with tier
thunders and shatter her island’,
Which place did Kapiolani belong? What is the name of this
Goddess of Volcanoes who has a similar sounding name with the
nickname of a great footballer?
62. 17. This novel starts with the narrator saying that
he is something because of people’s refusal to
see him.
Published in 1952, this novel is unique not only
in the literature world for its improvisational
jazz-inspired style, but also in the political world
for adding a new voice to the discussion about
blacks in America.
This novel also shares its name with an iconic
novel of 1897. Which novel?
65. 18. This is the English translation of a poem called
‘Kabul’ by the 17th-century Iranian poet Saib
Tabrizi:
‘Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye,
Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass,
One could not count the moons that shimmer on
her roofs,
And the …………. ………… …….. that hide behind her
walls.’
Fill in the blanks.
68. 19. Ardhendu Sekhar Mustafi was a great actor in
19th century Bengal. According to some stories,
while acting for an iconic Bengali work (where he
alone played four roles), the role of Mr. Wood
who was a villain was so overpowering that
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, who was in the
audience at that time, was so taken in by the
realism of the performance that he threw a shoe
at Mustafi, who ofcourse took it as a compliment.
Which Bengali work was this?
71. 20. This is one of the two most popular stories of ‘The Sketch
Book’ which made the author a household name (the other story
being the one which the author felt after writing it that he has
woken up from a long sleep).
The protagonist of this story is a thin, lanky, unattractive
schoolmaster who shows high morality in the classrooms but
outside it has little of it. He only wants his own gratification and
self-advancement. He attempts to further his cause by
impressing the daughters of rich families with his learning. He is
extremely superstitious and believes in ghosts etc.
In one of the famous adaptations, he was played by Johnny Depp
but in a much positive light.
What is the name of this character? What is the name of this
story?
74. 21. According to ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’ and
also many other ancient literature, this
demon was created to kill Indra. He came
out of the sacrificial fire as a fearful
personality who looked like the destroyer of
the entire creation, and he grew so big and
fierce that he seemed to cover the entire
planetary system. Hence, he has been
named something which means ‘one who
covers everything’. What was the name?
77. 22. This novel written in the form of an
autobiography, by an English author is
considered to be one of the best novels of the
20th century. The author claimed that he got
the inspiration of the novel after the Emperor
came to his dream one night and demanded
that his true story be told. Which novel?
80. 23. He was an English knight who fought against ‘Joan
of Arc’ and lost but there is no documentary evidence
that he was a coward. Infact, many historians believe
that he ought to be famous in his own rights as he was
a patron of literature, a writer of strategy and an early
industrialist.
But the loss in the war made him a scapegoat and he
was believed to be the person behind the naming of a
world famous literary character, who was created
maybe as a ridicule and hence shown as a coward and
buffoon, by probably the greatest writer in the English
language.
Which famous character?
83. 24. The famous siege of this city lasted from September
1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The
allies of French, Ottoman, and British landed
at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a
triumphal march to this city with their army.
A Russian great in order to record his experience of this
siege wrote a collection of three short stories.
What is the name of that collection? Who was the
Russian great?
(The famous Balaklava of Lord Tennyson is now a part of
this city. Battle of Balaclava was part of this siege)
86. Second written round: Nom de plumes.
1. Which popular writer whose sons are also authors now,
once wrote novels under the name ‘Richard Bachman’?
2. What pen name did Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum use for
her ‘Objectivism’?
3. Who wrote under a pen name which means ‘the wild
flower’ in Bengali?
4. How is Dhanpat Rai Srivastav better known to us?
5. Which writer published works under numerous
pseudonyms, including A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M.
Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and
Robert Parr?
88. 1. Stephen King.
2. Ayn rand.
3. Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay.
4. Munshi Premchand.
5. Erle Stanley Gardner.
89. 25. This renaissance work is a pentalogy of novels
about two giants, the father and his son. The
novels present the comic and satiric story of the
giant and his son, whose travels and adventures
are a vehicle for ridicule of the follies and
superstitions of the times. This work has also
introduced hundred of words to everyday French
which the writer being an expert in ancient Greek,
invented the words from the Greek. Treated with
suspicion and contempt at that time, this work has
now become one of the pillars of literature.
What is the name of this famous father-son duo?
93. 26. Gyles Brandreth writes a series of
historical murder mysteries. Which 19th
century real life Irish author is the
protagonist investigator of that series?
96. 27. Whose memoir (a 20th century icon) ends
with these lines:
“I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal
a view of the glorious vista that surrounds
me, to look back on the distance I have
come. But I can rest only for a moment, for
with freedom come responsibilities, and I
dare not linger, for my ……….. ………. is not
yet ended.”?
99. 28. This best selling novel of early 2000 decade,
chronicles the impact of a mutated gene on
three generations of a Greek family, causing
momentous changes in the protagonist's life,
who cannot be distinctly identified as male or
female.
According to experts, the novel explores
themes like gender identity, differing
experiences between men and women etc.
Hence the name of the novel. (This name was
also an English county).
What’s the name of the novel?
102. 29. In the poem ‘Requiem for the
Croppies’, Seamus Heaney gives a
voice to the numerous voiceless Irish
peasants who were massacred in the
1798 rebellion against the
British. These rebel peasants were
nicknamed Croppies because of their
fashion of keeping closely cropped
hair, which they copied from the
French revolutionaries of that time.
Why did these rebels kept such
hairstyle/ fashion?
104. Cropped hairstyle (thus keeping short hair) was
a symbol of being anti-wig and thus anti-
aristocrats. Hence, the style and nickname.
105. 30. This book won the Pulitzer Prize
for fiction in the early 80’s. After it
was adapted into a movie, there was
controversy that inspite of many
critics considering it the best movie
of the year, it did not win a single
Oscar.
Some critics also felt that the
director (who was then famous due to
his popular movies) was a bad choice
for handling such a complex subject.
What book are we talking about?
108. 31. According to mythology, the source of this Indian literary work goes
like this:
Malyavan after getting a curse from Parvati for overhearing the part of
the tales narrated by Shiva had to release these tales to the world to
come out from the curse. So he was born and became a minister to a
king. He went to the forest and got the tales from the Pisacha and wrote
it in his blood in the now lost Paisachi dialect of Prakrit.
He took the work to the king who refused to acknowledge it. Malyavan
then took the work to the forest, set a fire and after reading, started
dropping one by one to the fire. His reading enthralled all the animals of
the forest who gathered near the fire, and the king who was on hunting
in the forest at that time and unable to find any animal came to the fire
and after hearing the tales, just managed to stop Malyavan from
dropping the last chapter.
This last chapter remains and is believed to be the basis of many later
Sanskrit works like ‘Panchatantra’ etc. What is the name of this Indian
epic now lost?
111. 32. Writer A wrote the famous play ‘Sarojini’. Once,
while working to stage this play, the writer B who was
then a student used to study next to the room where
the preparation of this play was going on. ‘Sarojini’ is
about the Rajput daughter who committed ‘jauhar’.
So, after hearing about the preparation, writer B
suggested that the scene where the Rajput women
were to enter fire to commit ‘jauhar’ cannot be
expressed and portrayed properly in prose form and it
can only be presented in the form of a song which
writer B composed for that part and writer A included
it in the play.
Who are writers A and B here?
114. 33. This book also known as ‘The Long Parliament’
was written as a follow-up book of an earlier
scandalous political work (both the books are named
after creatures from the Hebrew Bible). This book
(written in 1668) too created controversy and King
Charles II did not allow it to be published.
This book is a discourse between two speakers where
one is an witness and insider of the English civil war
and the other is a student who is trying to
understand the reason for the breakdown of the then
English govt.
The writer was a famous philosopher whose name has
been used by Bill Watterson in one of his most
famous creations in modern times.
Who was the writer? What is the popular name of the
aforementioned book?
117. 34. This Biblical name has been taken by John Dryden in
his famous satirical poem ‘…………… and Achitophel’.
William Faulkner’s famous Southern gothic novel which
has also helped him to win a Nobel has used the same
name.
This name in Bible is the son of King David of the
‘Kingdom of Israel’ who revolted against his father and
was killed by the general Joab against the instructions
of David who told Joab to deal with him gently.
What name are we talking about? (ironically, the name
means ‘father of peace’ in Hebrew)
120. 35. This is called the Zamzama Gun installed during
the Ahmed Shah Durrani reign and now placed
outside the Lahore Museum. This gun is also named
after a famous fictional boy who earns his living in the
novel (which is a masterpiece) in the streets of Lahore
by begging and running small errands. What?
123. 36. This famous children’s novel of the
late 19th century by Frances Hodgson
Burnett was very popular and gave rise to
a very popular children’s fashion. The
description of the clothing is as follows:
‘A velvet cut-away jacket and matching
knee pants worn with a fancy blouse with
a large lace or ruffled collar.’
What was/is this clothing called?
126. 37. Priscus of Panium was a 5th century
historian. In his ‘History of Byzantium’
(probably the name of the work), he gave a
possible description of somebody as follows:
‘Short stature, broad chest, large head, small
eyes, thin beard which is a bit grey, flat nose
and tanned skin.’
According to some scholars, that somebody’s
name might also mean ‘universal ruler’. Who
are we talking about?
129. 38. This superhero is the founding member
of a group. His first name is Benjamin and
being trapped for the most part in a body
he loathes (he was mutated in the cosmic
ray storm), he can be prone to bouts of
depression in a nod to classic stories like
Frankenstein and Beauty and the Beast (his
blind girlfriend, Alicia Masters, providing
the beauty). How do we know him better?
132. 39. It is said that at an early age, he learnt and
memorized something by heart just by listening
to its recitation by his father.
He is the most popular poet of a certain Asian
country where his works are found in almost
every household and where a day is also
celebrated in his name.
A lot of people from Goethe to Sir Conan Doyle
were highly influenced by him (Holmes even
quotes him in one of the stories). Who?
135. 40. This creek known as …………….... …………… is the
place of the infamous native American massacre of 1890
in South Dakota, US. Now the place (an 870 acre area )
has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
This place is also mentioned in a poem called ‘American
Names’ as:
"I shall not be there
I shall rise and pass
Bury my heart at ………………. …………..“.
The last line above is also the name of a path breaking
book which tells the real story about the barbarous
treatment of the native Americans in the American West.
What is the name of this place?
138. 41. Richard Flanagan, wrote his famous
Man Booker Prize winner book in tribute
to his late father, who survived the
horrors of “The Line”. But thousands more
did not. Beaten and starved, riddled with
cholera, ulcers, beriberi and many other
horrors they died.
What is ‘The Line’ which is also the
subject of another novel and an award
winning movie?
140. Burma Death Railway
(The Burma–Siam Railway, the Thailand–Burma Railway and
similar names, was a 415 kilometres railway between Ban Pong,
Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma, built by the Empire of
Japan in 1943, to support its forces in the Burma
campaign of World War II. This railway completed the railroad link
between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma . The line was
closed in 1947, but the section between Nong Pla Duk and Nam
Tok was reopened ten years later in 1957).
141. 42. Dr. S.N. Pandey was a prolific writer
and he wrote many books on many things
in life like medical books, books on sexual
problems, agriculture etc. and even got
famous under the pen name ‘Srivrigu’ for
his astrology books. However, how is he
better known to us?
144. 43. What name connects a fictional super-
villain who later becomes an ally of
Spiderman, another comic book series by
an English author, a mythical character in
European folklore who brings good
dreams by sprinkling something onto the
eyes of people while they sleep at night,
and a famous number by a metal band?
147. 44. It is the first science fiction novel to have appeared
on the reading lists of three of the five United States
military branches like Navy, Marine Corps etc.
Many people have criticized this novel that it glorifies
war and military and some have criticized it to be even
racist, fascist etc.
There is a 1997 movie of the same name (though the
plot differs) which has Denise Richards, Neil Patrick
Harris etc. Which famous novel?
150. 45. Which famous novel’s title has been
taken from the story of the last Muslim king
of Granada, Boabdil’s last reaction while
looking back at Granada (after he has
surrendered it) from a spot called ‘Puerto
del Suspiro del Moro’?
152. The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie). Puerto
del Suspiro del Moro means ‘Pass of the Moor's
Sigh’.
153. 46. Which famous fictional continent
consists of seven kingdoms namely the
North, the Iron Islands, the Vale, the
Westerlands, the Stormlands, the Reach,
and Dorne, and a largely unmapped area
to the north, separated by a massive wall
of ice and old magic?
156. 47. This prolific Hindi writer was the
brother of a great actor. He has written
many wonderful novels, short stories,
plays and even the biography of his
brother, but his most famous novel was
made into a cult television movie in the
late 80’s. The name of this novel when
translated into English is ‘Darkness’. What
is the name of this novel and the writer?
159. 48. Which famous novel was reportedly
started by this Indian author at the age of
eighty-three and finished at the age of
eighty-five and he said his intention of
writing it in this words that as a man gets
older, his sex instincts travel from his
middle to his head?
