Bookworm Quiz 2014- finals

Rules
• The word “Bookworm” has 8 letters.
• Chose any 1. The answer to the
corresponding question starts with the
same letter.
• Direct: +15
• Pass: +10
• No negative marking.

B
This is the family tree of X. Identify him.

O
X is a large and hideous looking fictional
creature, whose name is derived from
the last biblical giant. In children’s
novels, X first made it’s appearance in
Charles Perrault’s Puss in Boots. It later
began to appear in hundreds of story
books, including some famous ones like
Jack and the Beanstalk. Identify X.

O
This famous author has been switching jobs for a long
time. In 1931, he began working at the First National
Bank of Austria as a teller and a bookeeper. This bank
was operated informally and he was apparently
careless in keeping books and may have embezzled
funds. In 1894, he was accused by the bank of
embezzlement and lost his job. A federal indictment
followed and he was arrested on charges of
embezzlement. It was during his tenure in jail that he
met a prison guard whose name he later adopted as his
pseudonym. Name the author.

K
The Rudyard Kipling book was first published serially in
McClure’s Magazines and Casell’s Magazine in 1901.
The protagonist’s name is also the name of the book.
The protagonist is th orphaned son of an Irish soldier
and a poor Irish mother who both have died in
poverty. He befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who is on
a quest to free himself from the wheels of things by
finding the legendary river of the Arrow. This boy
becomes his chela or disciple and accompanies him in
his journey .The rest of the story is about this journey.
In 2003 this book was listed on BBC’s The Big Read Poll
of the UK’s “best loved novel”. Identify the novel

W
This person possesses quite a few
weapons, including the Lasso of
Truth, a pair of indestructible
bracelets, a tiara which serves as a
projectile, and, in some stories,
an invisible airplane. The alter ego of
this person is ‘Diana Prince’. Who am
I talking about?

O
The story begins with Roderigo, a rich and
dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, an
ensign, that Iago has not told him about the
secret marriage between Desdemona, the
daughter of a Senator named Brabantio,
and X, a Moorish general in the Venetian
army. He is upset by this development
because he loves Desdemona and had
previously asked her father for her hand in
marriage. Identify X.

R
This novel was written by Daniel Defoe in
1719. As was the procedure in those days, this
novel had a ridiculously long name: “The Life
and Strange Surprising Adventures of X, Of
York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty
Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on
the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the
Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast
on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men
perished but himself. With An Account how he
was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates”.
Identify X.

M
In the Oxford Dictionary, this word is
defined as “A person who is not
conversant with a particular activity or
skill”. The Urban Dictionary defines it
as a colloquial term for marijuana. It
has, however, an entirely different
meaning in the world of fantasy. Which
word am I talking about?

RULES
• A Simple Buzzer round.
• Minimal Posters appear on screen, +10 for a
right answer and -10 for a wrong answer.

Scores
After the first two rounds

Rectilinear Propagation
Round 3

RULESRULES
• A direct round
• +10 on a direct answer
• +5 on a pass
• First 6 would be Clockwise and the next 6
anticlockwise

Q2.
• As a teenager X wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his
mother this she responded with “My dear your father is an
engineer a logical, a reasonable man with a clear vision of
this world .Do you actually know what it means to be a
writer ?”. After researching X concluded that a writer “always
wears glasses and never combs his hair” and has a “duty and
obligation never to be understood by his generation”,
amongst other things.
• Between the ages of 16-20 he was committed in a mental
asylum from where he ran away 3times.
• His book revolves around the themes of self-improvement,
spirituality and personal growth.
• Identify the author

Q3
• The book X looks at a futuristic American
society where books are banned. It is named X
after the temperature at which paper catches
fire. The book burnings during the Nazi regime
is said to have inspired the author into writing
this book.
• Id the book.

Q4.
• What am I talking about?
• House Baratheon - Ours is the Fury
• House Greyjoy - We Do Not Sow
• House X - Hear Me Roar!
• House Stark - Winter is Coming
• House Tully - Family, Duty, Honor
• House Piper - Brave and Beautiful

House mottos in Game of Thrones
X= Lannister

6. Who’s the Author of these books?
• Break with a Banshee
• Gadding with Ghouls
• Holidays with Hags
• Marauding with Monsters
• Travels with Trolls
• Voyages with Vampires
• Wanderings with Werewolves
• Who Am I?
• Dancing with the Wailing Widow

Q7. Identify
this novel on
which an
Oscar
winning
movie is
based.

Q8.Identify the author of the book

Q8
• Described as “one
of the most sinister
Disney villains”,
whose character is
being portrayed by
Angelina Jolie.

Answer
• Sirius Black’s family tree

Q10.
• Which celebrity’s biography is entitled ‘First
step 2 Forever: My Story’?
• On the back cover of this book it is written
“My family tells me to always be thankful. So
thank you. I wouldn’t be anywhere without
you. I see you from the stage; now you can
see me as I really am. This is how my world
changed so much, so fast thanks to your
undying support. This is me….and it is just the
‘First Step 2 Forever’.”

Q11. One of the most famous people of all time, this
author wrote just the 6 poems. Name him.
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
• Sonnet 116
• The Rape of Lucrece
• A Lover's Complaint
• Sonnet 130
• Sonnet 1

Answers-FAKE IPL PLAYER/ANUPAM
MUKHERJEE

Audience.
Why is this swimming pool a tourist spot ?

Answer
• This is the swimming pool in Puducherry, from
where the myth about the origin of name “Pi
Patel “ has come.

Audience. Identify this villain

Audience- Which recent bollywood
movie is inspired from this book ?

RULES
• Pictures appear on screen you need to tell me
the connect between them.
• Buzzer round
• +10 if you give me the connect and +5 for
explanation. Each question has a value of 15
points.
• -10 for a wrong answer

Answer
• NAMES OF TINTIN COMICS WHEN
TRANSLATED TO HINDI

Scores
After the four rounds of quizzing

Rules
1. A simple buzzer round.
2. +10 if you get it right and -10 if you get it
wrong.
3. Identify the author or the character on whom
the doodle is based

Q4.Identify the book or the author

Answer-DOUGLAS ADAMS
who wrote the “Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy”.

RULES
• A direct round.
• Clues appear one by one, +15 if you get it right
on the first clue. +10 on the second and +5 on
the third.
• If the team is not able to answer after the
third clue then the question passes clockwise.
• +5 for a passed question

Q1.
• A statue of one of the characters created by
him sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbor in
Langelinie. This small and unimposing statue is
a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist
attraction.

Clue 2
• The 2013 Walt Disney movie “FROZEN” is
based on his fairy tale “The Snow Queen”

Clue 3
• April 2, his birthday, is celebrated
as International Children's Book Day.

Answer- HANS CHRISTIANANDERSEN

Q2
At age sixteen, he released his first substantial
poems under a pseudonym which in English
means "Sun Lion“.

Clue 2
• He despised rote classroom
schooling which he called the "The
Parrot's Training", a bird is caged and
force-fed textbook pages—to
death. So, he visiting Santa Barbara,
conceived a new type of university
and named it Santiniketan.

Clue 3
• He is the only person in the world who has
written the national anthem of two countries.

Q3
• While at Oxford, He volunteered to spy on the
French for the German secret service, and
wrote for the notoriously Right-wing and anti-
Semitic journal The Patriot.

Clue 2
• A 4 day International Festival
takes place in the writer's home
town of Berkhamsted (England)
on dates as close as possible to
the anniversary of his birth (2
October).

Clue 3
•He was the person who
helped R K Narayan publish
his most famous book
Swami And His Friends.

Q4.
• He is notable for his depiction
of the lives of the
poorer castes in traditional
Indian society. Hence, he is
referred to as the “Charles
Dickens of India.”
Q4.

• His first book, The Untouchables, was
inspired by his aunt's experience when
she had a meal with a Muslim woman
and was treated as an outcast by his
family. It depicts a day in the life of
Bakha, a young "sweeper", who is
"untouchable" due to his work cleaning
latrines.

• His famous work, Morning
Face, has won him the Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1971.

Q5.
•Established in 1954, the
award comprises a plaque
and a cash prize of Rs.
100,000.

• The 2013 award was presented in
mid-2014. Among the winners is
a Rajya Sabha MP, for his work of
poetry in Urdu titled "Lava".

• It is also known as India's
National Academy of Letters.

Q5.
• This book has been challenged for
content dealing with sexually explicit
situations. Two teachers at Depew High
School near Buffalo, New York, used the
book for eleventh grade instruction. A
letter was sent to parents advising the
book contained controversial content.

Clue 2
• Chip Martin, Takumi Hikohito,
Lara Buterskaya and Mr. Starnes
are the main characters of this
book.

Clue 3
• This is John Green’s first novel
which won the 2006 Michael L.
Printz Award from the American
Library Association.

Rules!
• 10 questions on the buzzer.
• A game-changing 150 points at stake.
• +15/-10

1.
Lord Tywin (father)
Ser Jaime (brother)
Cersei (sister)
Ser Kevan (uncle)
Joffrey Baratheon (nephew)
Tommen Baratheon (nephew)
Myrcella Baratheon (niece)
Who am I talking about?

2.
Written by Jeff Kinney, the series
comprises of 9 books. The names
of the 2nd
to 9th
books are Rodrick
Rules, The Last Straw, Dog Days,
The Ugly Truth, Cabin Fever, The
Third Wheel, Hard Luck and The
Long Haul.
Name the first book of the series.

3. What’s this?
https://www.facebook.com/AshutoshRanjan233

Answer: Spiderman’s web shooter

4.
Written by David Morrell in 1972,
the protagonist of this book is X, a
Vietnam War veteran. He is being
hunted down by Captain Sam
Trautman and Sheriff Teasle. This
book was later adapted into a 1982
movie starring Sylvester Stallone.
Which book am I talking about?

Answer: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

6. Jack Canfield founded the Self
Esteem group. This group aims at
improving a persons respect for
one’s self. The author
implemented a few ideas from this
group into his series of books
which is also based on this
concept. Name the series.

7. This is the symbol of Cirth no. 19
‘G’, the trademark of a certain
wizard of the Istari order. Name
him.

8. XKCD parody of which famous
short story?

9. X was the penname adopted by
a certain author. X was,
incidentally, also the name of the
cupbearer in Omar Khayyam’s
Rubaiyat. Thus, references to the
Rubaiyat is made in many of X’s
stories, the “Reginald on Christmas
Presents” in particular. Identify X.

Tie Breaker 1
• This particular fictional character was
originally depicted as suffering from a form of
arithmomania.
• The best way to ward them off was to spill salt
or seeds over them. This creature would den
fall under a compulsion to count each grain of
salt or the number of seeds.
• Identify this character

Answer
• Tripods or fighting-machines from the H.
G. Wells' classic novel The War of the
Worlds .

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