MELAS - Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Sports. A fun world to be in or everything that's considered as 'hobbies'... BITS Goa Quiz Club, as part of Brainstorm'22, presents MELAS Quiz, a quiz that revolves around pop culture, sports and everything fun! Follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitsgoaquizclub/ Our quizzes: https://linktr.ee/bitsgoaquizclub

1. MELAS
Quiz 3:30 PM
QM: Eeshan Ghaisas
BITS Goa Quiz Club's
20 AUGUST 2022
P O W E R E D B Y
P R E S E N T S
BRAIN
STORM

2. ક
ે મ છો?
स्ते!
க
் கம
் !
ನಮ ಸ್ಕಾರ! ਸਤ ਸ
੍ਰ ੀ ਅਕਾਲ!
নমস্কার!
ആശംസകൾ!
స్వాగతం!
ନମସ୍କାର! Olá!
Bo
Hallo!
कस काय?
ક
ે મ છો?
Hi! नमस्ते!
ணக
் கம
் !
ಸ್ಕಾರ! ਸਤ ਸ
੍ਰ ੀ ਅਕਾਲ!
নমস্কার!
ആശംസ
స్వాగతం!
ନମସ୍କାର! O
Bonjou
Hallo!
कस काय?
ಸ್ಕಾರ! ਸਤ ਸ
੍ਰ ੀ ਅਕਾਲ! స్వాగతం! Bonjour!

3. Music
Entertainment
Literature
Art
Sports

4. tysm
Achintya Sharma
Aditya Sunkara
Aniket Agarwal
Aswin Narayanan
Atharva Phadnis
Athreya Krishnan
Ishita Jaiswal
Mannan Upadhyay
Rahul Chauhan
Raghav Mangalapalli
Vidhi Rai

5. Round 1
Dries

6. Rules
• All questions are infinite bounce pounce. Ask me to explain if unclear
about how IBP works.
• Bangalore Bounce to be followed.
• On bounce: +10/0
• On pounce:+10/-5
• We go from team 1 6

7. Q1.
Pictured on the next slide is the home jersey for the Championship club
Reading for the 2022-23 season.
What might be the significance of the historically unusual pattern on the
sleeves?

10. Climate Change Patterns

11. Q2.
Semantle, a Wordle spinoff, will tell you how semantically similar it thinks
your word is to the secret word. Pimantle is a version of Semantle, but
with a point-cloud visualisation of guesses. Along with a blue to red color
gradation corresponding to your guesses, the game also offers a “Frigid”
to “🔥🔥” word prompt.
What is the prompt further offered when you actually guess the word at
the center, a greeting used in the world of a 2005 anime-inspired
animated TV series?

15. Q3.
Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy
Quan, is one of the best works of film of this year, and possibly of recent
times. As the movie broadly deals with multiversal ‘jumping’, the directors
wanted to use stylistic elements to help differentiate the multiverses
covered.
In the clip from the film on the next slide, the directors pay homage to an
auteur by using elements from their film language to define the
cinematography of a certain universe. ID the auteur.

18. Wong Kar Wai

19. Q4.
In computing, there exist broadly two ways of storing multibit data-types
(integers, floats, etc). These methods differ only in their approach to dealing
with the order of storing bits: one stores the most significant byte at the
smallest memory address while the other stores it at the largest.
The technical names for these types are drawn from an 18th century work of
prose, where a similar difference of operation acts as satire on the religiously
fuelled wars of the day.
What are these two types called, and which work of prose are they drawn
from?

21. Big Endian and Little Endian
Gulliver’s Travels

22. Q5.
The image that follows is the conclusion from a write-up titled “ON HOLY
WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE” by computer scientist Danny Cohen, wherein
he elucidates the big and little endian problem, and aims to get people to
choose his side of the debate.
I have blanked out a word X from the image.
What could X be, created to reduce the time taken due to compatibility issues
of a different kind.

23. X

25. Esperanto

26. Q6.
The line “... and never the twain shall meet.” from the previous question is a
reference to the poem ‘The Ballad of East and West’ by Rudyard Kipling.
Kipling was also quite interestingly a part of an amateur cricket team with the
likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, AA Milne, PG Wodehouse and others. The
team was founded and captained by Sir James Barrie, the author of Peter
Pan.
What was the name of this team of literary superstars, a play on a phrase
praising God, and the name of its founder?

28. Allahakbarries

29. Round 2
Written

30. Rules
The round consists of six images, all generated from DALL-E, which was fed the
prompt:
“X as painted by Y”
where X is a famous artwork and Y is a famous artist.
WRITE down your answers and send them to the designated person when
prompted at the end of the round, please do not shout the answer out.
+5 for identifying X for each image, and +5 for identifying the artist Y.

31. 1.

32. 2.

33. 3.

34. 4.

35. 5.

36. 6.

37. Submit your answers

38. Answers

39. 1.
X- The Scream
Y- Vincent van Gogh

40. 2.
X- Mona Lisa
Y- Banksy

41. 3.
X- The Great Wave off
Kanagawa
Y- Georges Seurat

42. 4.
X- The Last Supper
Y- Edward Hopper

43. 5.
X- Starry Night
Y- Joseph Turner

44. 6.
X- Girl with a Pearl Earring
Y- Andy Warhol

45. Round 3
Redry, Rinse, Repeat

46. Rules
• Dries again.
• Bangalore Bounce to be followed.
• On bounce: +10/0
• On pounce:+10/-5
• We proceed in reverse order.

47. Q7.
X, often cited as one of the greatest rock bands in history, had a disastrous
reunion in 1985 at the historic Live Aid concert.
The troubles included the lead guitarist's ongoing drug abuse problem and,
more famously, bringing in Y as a drummer for the performance.
Y's name also features in one of Eminem's most famous tracks, 'Stan', with
specific reference to arguably Y's most famous song.
Identify X and Y

49. X- Led Zeppelin
Y- Phil Collins

50. Q8.
Pictured here is an Italian highway. The
motorway features in Italian film history
as the site of many towns and rural
landscapes pictured in neorealist
masterpieces.
This, however, is not the road’s only link to
modern cinema.
What is the name of this highway?

52. A24

53. Q9.
Tottenham Hotspur’s new billion pound stadium hosts a large variety of food
and beverage services for match going fans. The Goal Line Bar is, for good
reason, well-covered in the news, by virtue of it being Europe’s longest bar.
The stadium also has multiple smaller pubs for fans to grab drinks from; the
name is a play on an action that might be performed on the pitch, to applause
from either section of fans.
Finish this sitter, and tell me what might this name be?

55. Tap Inns

56. Q11.
“Inside” by Bo Burnham has been critically hailed for its music, direction, cinematography, and
presentation of life in the pandemic, all done by Bo inside a room.
Since he is a comedian (and a very good one at that), a lot of the songs are lighthearted and
don’t carry much meaning beyond themselves.
What was a visual gag that Bo set up, using a home appliance, during the song “Sexting”?

59. Q11.
What is this car all about? What is the “sports mode” named?

61. Sally Special, Kachow!

62. Q12.
There exists an author primarily specialising in educational books, targeted at school children. He
aims to teach math in a fun way, focusing on non conventional techniques. He is also a connoisseur
of literature, and as such, the names of some of his books are nods to famous works of literature.
X is a book that focuses on multiplication and encourages student the learn the most optimal
strategies for multiplication. The title is a nod the the opening sentence of a famous novel by a
different 19th century British Author.
Y is a math book that touches on many concepts, but the illustrations, examples and word
problems all involve fruit in some form or another. Y is a nod to the title of a novel by a famous
American author, set in Oklahoma.
ID X and Y.

65. Round 4
Rewritten, with a twist

66. Rules
Pictured next are a series of mosaics.
ID the movies pictured in said mosaics
+10 for each correct movie.
There is also an underlying connection between these images. Points for giving me
the connect will be displayed on the slide itself. Send your connect the same way
you would normally pounce, PLEASE don’t shout it out.

67. 1. +25/-20

68. 2. +20/-15

69. 3. +15/-10

70. 4. +10/-5

71. 5. +5/-0

72. Submit your answers

73. Answers

74. 1.
Rear
Window

75. 2.
The
Birds

76. 3.
Vertigo

77. 4.
North by
Northwest

78. 5.
Psycho

79. The connect is of course that they are all Hitchcock films.
These murals are part of an installation outside the Leytonstone Tube
Station, the area where he was born.

80. Round 5
OLT dries

81. Q13.
The term “_____ _______” is thought to have first been applied to the world of basketball by
the assistant executive secretary of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) and the
former teacher and coach. Describing the way fans looked forward to the annual statewide
high school basketball tournament, he wrote that a “little _____ _______ may complement
and contribute to sanity and help keep society on an even keel”, in an early 1939 issue of the
organization’s magazine Illinois High School Athlete.
(That’s also the same year, coincidentally, that Oregon beat Ohio State to win the first NCAA
championship on Mar. 27, 1939.)
What alliterative name is given to this period in the college sports season which is
synonymous for upsets?

83. March Madness

84. Q14.
Drive My Car, the award winning Japanese film from 2021, was based off of a 2014 short story
written by one of the most pre-eminent Japanese authors of our time.
The title of the first international sensation from this author in the late 1980s was drawn
from a song released by another international sensation, some two decades prior.
ID the Japanese author, and the other international sensation I have referred to here.

86. Haruki Murakami
The Beatles

87. Q15.
Amanita Muscaria (a.k.a Fly Agaric) is well known in popular culture for being one of those
“trippy” mushrooms, the kind that make you have hallucinations.
Apparently Siberians have been eating these for centuries to have religious experiences,
Vikings have been taking these to help their seafaring ventures.
Eating the flesh of the Amanita muscaria can also reportedly cause Micropsia, a condition in
which objects appear smaller than they really are, making the subject feel larger as a
consequence.
What pop culture phenomena does this provide an explanation for?

90. Q16.
One of the main characters throughout the BoJack Horseman series is a female pink Persian
cat. The series tends to hide a lot of it’s jokes via visual gags that are rarely referenced in
dialogue.
That being said, what is the number plate of her car, a play on an internet slang term that
from 2012 that an American news outlet described as "newest acronym you'll love to hate"?

93. Q17.
Who is this personality requesting
early adopter Indians to practically
be less horny on the Internet?
If it helps, he was a part of one of
the largest families to have worked
in the industry that he is best
known for.

96. Q18.
In soft matter physics, a certain type of active particle is coated with a metal oxide on one of
it’s hemispheres, allowing for it to show distinct properties on its different sides.
Given that such a particle can be seen to have “two faces”, what might such particles be
named?

98. Janus Particles
God of beginnings and endings.

99. Fin.

100. Break in case of tiebreaks.

101. TB1.
In the TV series The Boys, produced by Amazon, the conglomerate Vought
International manages most of the superheroes, and has diversified its
primarily pharmaceutical business interests to manage entertainment, theme
parks, movies, etc. centered around these superheroes.
The company also runs a music streaming service. What might such a service
be named?

103. Voughtify

104. TB2.
"Alfie" is a song by a British musician from 2006.
The lyrics directly describe her real life younger brother, criticizing him for his lazy behavior.
The accompanying music video portrayed Allen's brother as a puppet, and shows him jerking
off and smoking weed, which was what he was doing all day before he got an opportunity
which led him to becoming famously known as X.
Identify X, who is a bit of a puppet as well.

106. Theon Greyjoy
The British musician being Lizzy Allen.

107. TB3.
X is a show that follows Sora, and his younger sister Shiro, two hikikomori who make up the
identity of Blank, an undefeated group of gamers.
One day, they are challenged by the God of Games to chess and are victorious.
As a result, the god summons them to Disboard, a reality which revolves around games. Intent
on maintaining their reputation as the undefeated gamers, Sora and Shiro plan to conquer the
sixteen ruling species and to usurp the God of Games.
Identify the series X.

109. No Game No Life