Brave New World

1. Conducted by:
Debasish Bhattacharjee

2. He worked as a torpedo operator
aboard the ship HMS Royalist. His
last unfinished book was entitled “The
Rose of Kashmir”.
He also published two novels under
the pseudonym "Ian Stuart" in order
to prove that the popularity of his
books was due to their content rather
than his name on the cover. They sold
well, but he made no attempt to
change his writing style and his fans
may easily have recognized him
behind the Scottish pseudonym.
ID

3. Alistair Maclean

4. The brand in the pic has inspired a fictional brand
in a critically acclaimed book.
Name the book.

5. The God of Small Things
Paradise Pickle Company

6. Sumerian texts repeatedly refer to three important
centers with which they traded: Magan, Dilmun, and X.
There are scholars today who confidently identify X with
the Harappan Civilization on the basis of the extensive
evidence of trading contacts between Sumer and this
region.
It is also suggested that X is the origin of the Sanskrit
word "mleccha", meaning "barbarian" or "foreigner".
What is X?

7. Meluha

8. The author has said that the inspiration for this book came
from channel surfing on television.
On one channel she observed people competing on a
reality show and on another she saw footage of the
invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very
unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed.
The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the
story, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the
framework.
Which book?

10. Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a
fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players
and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental
insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter
home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.
Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game
shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at
the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an
embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace
yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life.
Starting lines of which book?

12. In Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel of
1951, made into a successful film, Captain Queeg
becomes increasingly delusional, among other things
accusing the crew of stealing from his special store of
strawberries, until his first lieutenant Tom Keefer is
forced to take over the command, leading to Keefer’s
court-martial for mutiny.
The book was called "The X Mutiny" (also made into
a movie), and inspired Maurice Micklewhite to adopt
his screen name.
Either give the screen name or fill in X.

13. The screen name is Michael Caine, with the title of
the book/movie being “The Caine Mutiny”

14. The name of the American
football team, The Baltimore
Ravens is derived from a
poem, written by X who
lived for a time in the city
and died there in 1849.
ID X

15. Edgar Allen Poe, the poem was called “The
Raven”

16. Entrance to Wimbledon Centre Court.
From whose poem have the lines shown in the pic
been taken?

17. Rudyard Kipling

18. Market Street is the central street of X, the location of
several big shops including Bombay Anand Bhavan and
Truth Printing Works.
Kabir Street is the residence of the elite of X, while Lawley
Extension is a new upcoming lane housing the rich and
the influential. Ellammn Street is home to the oil-mongers.
Between Ellammn Street and the river lie Nallappa's
Grove and the cremation ground. The Untouchables and
sweepers live on the lower banks of the river.
What is X?

19. Malgudi

20. In 2006, British librarians ranked the
book ahead of the Bible as one "every
adult should read before they die".
Since 1990, a play based on the novel
has been performed annually in the
author's hometown of Monroeville,
Alabama.
To date, it is the author's only
published novel and has also been
made into an Oscar winning movie.
ID the book (hint in the pic)

22. This book chronicles the passage of the protagonist
through 16 June 1904. This was the day of the author's
first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle.
The author once said that he had "put in so many enigmas
and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for
centuries arguing over what I meant," which would earn
the novel "immortality".
The book gets its name from the Latinized name of the
hero in one of Homer's poems.
Which book?

23. Ulysses, by James Joyce

24. Seven people mysteriously win a free vacation. On the way to their
destination, the plane has engine trouble and they are left abandoned
in a remote seaside location along with the steward Anand (Manoj
Kumar). The location is haunted by a female singing a song whom
none seem to find.
They find shelter in a large mansion inhabited by a comical butler
(Mehmood). One by one, they are murdered and the remaining
vacationers try to figure out why they were chosen for the trip and
what they have in common.
This is the storyline from the 1965 suspense thriller "Gumnaam". As
was usually the case during those days, the movie is an “uncredited”
adaptation of a famous Agatha Christie thriller.
Which one?

25. And Then There were None

26. She is the first British author, and
the first woman, to achieve a
Booker double in Oct 2012.
“Bring Up the Bodies” is also the
first sequel to win the prize.
“You can see as much Don
Corleone in this book as D.H.
Lawrence,” said Times Literary
Supplement editor Peter
Stothard, who chaired the Booker
judging panel.
ID her.

27. Hilary Mantel

28. What name was assumed by Salman Rushdie,
when he was concealing his real identity from the
death squads dispatched by the regime in Iran?

30. X (name of the book) focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of
Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who
formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her
cash.
Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with
Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a
higher purpose.
In the book, Raskolnikov commits a crime which is inspired by one
committed by noted felon Pierre François Lacenaire, almost to the last detail.
Which book?

31. Crime and Punishment

32. There is an apocryphal story that the rhyme is actually about Thomas
X, who was steward to Richard Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury
before the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII of
England.
Prior to the abbey's destruction, the abbot sent X to London with a
huge Christmas pie which had the deeds to a dozen manors hidden
within it and that during the journey X opened the pie and extracted
the deeds of the manor of Mells in Somerset.
Since the manor properties included lead mines in the Mendip Hills,
the Y mentioned in the rhyme is a pun on the Latin word for lead.
ID the nursery rhyme.

33. Little Jack Horner; the plum being a reference to
“plumbus”, Latin for lead.
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said 'What a good boy am I!

34. Cover of which book?

36. Which is the “foreign” language that we see in the
pic?

37. Nadsat; from “A Clockwork Orange”

38. Part I: A Voyage to X (4 May 1699 – 13 April 1702)
Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (20 June 1702 – 3 June
1706)
Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg,
Glubbdubdrib, and Japan (5 August 1706 – 16 April 1709)
Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms (7
September 1710 – 2 July 1715)
How are these collectively known?

39. Gulliver’s Travels; X is of course Lilliput

40. X's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's
The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O X,
That has such people in't.
Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. – "After Ford" ), the novel
anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-
learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning
that combine to profoundly change society.
ID the book.