1. The document announces a literary quiz to be held by Chettinad Vidyashram with 6 rounds including general trivia, picture rounds, audiovisual rounds, Indian literature and a buzzer round. 2. It provides the rules of the quiz, with time limits for direct and passed questions and point values for correct and incorrect answers in the buzzer round. 3. The rounds and questions cover topics ranging from Shakespeare to Harry Potter to novels by Leo Tolstoy, Dan Brown and more, testing participants' knowledge of literature, history and trivia.

1. Chettinad Vidyashram
Presents
Literary Quiz
2015
QM: Ashwin Senthil Kumar

2. Rounds
1. General Trivia
2. Picture Funda
3. Audio Visual Round
4. Indian Literature
5. Pictionary
6. Buzzer Round

3. Rules
• 30 seconds for a direct question
• 5 seconds for a passed question
• +10 points for answering a direct question
• +10 points for answering a passed question
• In the Buzzer Round, +10 for a correct answer
and -10 for a wrong answer

4. Round I
General Trivia

6. 1. The seven-year period between when his twin children
were born and when Robert Greene called him an
"upstart crow“ is known as “______ _______ ______“,
because no evidence has survived to show exactly where
he was or why he left ‘Stratford’ for London. Several
theories have been put forth to account for his life during
this time, and a number of stories are given by his earliest
biographers, including that he fled Stratford after he got
in trouble for poaching deer from Thomas Lucy or that he
wrote a scurrilous ballad about him. Who and FITB

7. Answer
William Shakespeare;
Shakespeare’s Lost Years

8. 2. Identify the book from the excerpt: "X had been
born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born
mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some
men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With X it was
all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he
inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction
than all the rest and people who met him were always
impressed by how unimpressive he was."

9. Answer
Catch-22

10. 3. This fictional character has appeared in
four books by the same author. Tom
Hanks has played this character's role in
two films. Who is this fictional character
I'm talking about?

11. Answer
Robert Langdon
(From Dan Brown Novels)

12. 4. One for all you Harry Potter fans.
What is being depicted here?
Perceived: ___→ Gregorovitch →Grindelwald
→Dumbledore →Snape → Voldemort
Actual: ___→ Gregorovitch → Grindelwald →
Dumbledore → Malfoy → Harry

13. Answer
Masters of the Elder Wand

14. 5. Taking its title from 17th century haiku poet
Matsuo Bashō's famous haibun, Oku no
Hosomichi, best known in English as
_____________________, the novel is epic in form
and chronicles an Australian century, with one
horrific day at its heart on the Burma Railway in
August 1943. As that day builds to its climax, the
novel grows to encompass the post war lives of
Japanese and Korean prison guards as well as
Australian Far East Prisoners of War. The novel
deals both with the effects of war and the many
forms of love. FITB

15. Answer

16. 6. These are the last few stanzas of a
poem by Roger Mcgough, the last line
representing the final moments of
every human being:
I welcomed you
At birth
Shall bid farewell at death
I am the Kiss of Life
its ebb and flow
With your last gasp
You will call my name:
O O O O O O O O
What is the title of this poem?

17. Answer
Oxygen

18. 7. 'A tale of Two Cities' (1859) is a novel
by Charles Dickens, set before and during
the French Revolution. Which are the
two cities the novel refers to?

19. Answer
London & Paris

20. 8. I started as a twelve year old boy
suffering from dyslexia and ADHD. Till
date I have appeared in a total of seven
books. I’m a demigod who can breathe
under water and can heal myself while in
contact with water. Who am I?

21. Answer

22. Audience Question
What's the name of Sherlock
Holmes's older and even
more brilliant brother?

23. Answer

24. Round II
Picture Funda

25. 1. Rhyme it!

26. Answer

27. 2. This Google Doodle commemorated the 186th
Birthday of which legendary novelist

28. Answer
Leo Tolstoy
(The scene is from Tolstoy’s epic
‘War and Peace’)

29. 3. The man in the picture is the 'last survivor'
who returned home to tell the story. ID the story

30. Answer

31. 4. ID the woman in the picture.

32. Answer
Jane Austen

33. 5. Given below is the map of an Indian 'city',
which is located on the banks of River Sarayu.
Identify it.

34. Answer
Malgudi

35. 6. A sitter. Who is Robert Galbraith?

36. Answer
J.K.Rowling

37. 7. This is the map of the trip of which 1873
fictional character?

38. The itinerary
London, United Kingdom to Suez, Egypt
rail and steamer across the Mediterranean
Sea
7 days
Suez to Bombay, India
steamer across the Red Sea and the Indian
Ocean
13 days
Bombay to Calcutta, India rail 3 days
Calcutta to Victoria, Hong Kong steamer across the South China Sea 13 days
Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japan
steamer across the South China Sea, East
China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean
6 days
Yokohama to San Francisco, United States steamer across the Pacific Ocean 22 days
San Francisco to New York City, United
States
rail 7 days
New York to London steamer across the Atlantic Ocean and rail 9 days
Total 80 days

39. Answer

40. 8. This is the 40ft stack of books sculpture at the
Berlin Walk of Ideas, commemorating the
invention of ________________ . FITB

41. Answer
Modern Day Printing/ Printing of Books

42. Audience Question
Identify the author.

43. Answer

44. Round III
Audio Visual Round

45. 1.

46. The video shown is the trailer of a
blockbuster 1993 film directed and
co-produced by Steven Spielberg.
The film is based on a novel by
Thomas Keneally. Name the film
and the novel.

47. Answer
Schindler’s List;
Schindler’s Ark

48. 2.

49. Give me the name of the victor
of this chariot race, whose
name is also the title of the
movie and the novel from
which it was adapted!

50. Answer
Judah Ben Hur/ Ben Hur/
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

51. 3.

52. This is the teaser of the long
awaited adaptation of Susanna Clarke‘s
2005 Hugo Award-winning fantasy novel ‘X’,
which tells the story of two nineteenth-
century men who rediscover a lost form of
magic. The series will air on BBC America
later in 2015. Identify ‘X’

53. Answer
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

54. 4.

55. The Motorcycle Diaries,
adapted from a book bearing
the same title, is a 2004 Biopic
on which South American
Revolutionary?

56. Answer
Che Guevara

57. 5.

58. The movie ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ is
adapted from the novel ‘Chitty-Chitty-
Bang-Bang: The Magical Car’. This novel
has the distinction of being the only
children’s novel written by its famed
author. Who is the author?

59. Answer
Ian Fleming

60. 6.

61. This is the trailer of the
upcoming film ‘Ramanujam’,
which is adapted from a novel by
Robert Kanigel. Name the
novel.

62. Answer
The Man Who Knew Infinity

63. 7.

64. Put the Funda behind
this video

65. Answer
Revision of ‘The seven
Commandments’ of Animal Farm by
Napoleon and the other pigs

66. 8.

67. What is the literary device
employed in this song?

68. Answer
Onomatopoeia

69. Round IV
Indian Literature

70. 1. 'One Part Woman' is the English Translation of the
controversial Tamil Book Madhorubagan. Who is the
author of this book who recently tweeted in his
twitter account that the "author in him has died"

71. Answer
Perumal Murugan

72. 2. The Rath Yatra at Puri, Orissa has led to the
creation of an English word, which means ‘any
large, overpowering, destructive force or object’.
What word, and from what exactly has it been
coined?

73. Answer
Juggernaut from ‘Jagannath’

74. 3. ‘The White Tiger’ is a debut novel by a
famous Indian author. It was first published
in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize
in the same year. Who is the author?

75. Answer

76. 4. This comic book character made his debut in
January 1983. Unlike other characters in the
magazine, this character was not originally
conceptualized by the creators of the magazine.
He grew out of three stories sent to the magazine
by a certain Sameer Salman from Trichy. Artist
Ram Wareekar illustrated the stories and
continued drawing this character until 2003.
Identify this character.

77. Answer

78. 5. 'The Palace of Illusions' is a 2008 novel by
award-winning novelist and poet Chitra
Banerjee Divakaruni. It is a deeply human novel
about a "woman" born into a man's world, a
world of warriors, gods and the ever
manipulating hands of fate. The novel is a
rendition of the Hindu epic ____________. FITB
and tell me why is this book different from the
original epic.

79. Answer
Mahabharata;
It is written from the perspective of
Draupadi

80. 6. Born In Motihari , Bihar in 1903. He adopted the
pseudonym X because, as he told Eleanor Jacques,
"It is a good round English name.” X's work continues
to influence popular and political culture, and the
term X is descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian
social practices that has entered the language
together with several of his neologisms, including
Cold War, thought police, Room 101, doublethink,
and thought crime.

81. Answer
George Orwell

82. 7. Among the many tablets in Mesopotamia,
there are some which detail out specific trade
in wood, copper, tin, carnelian beads, shell and
monkeys from a region which archaeologists
and historians today identify as the cities of the
Indus and Saraswati Valley, possibly Dholavira
or Lothal, which were major trading hubs.
What was the name given to this region on the
tablets?

83. Answer
Meluha (Popularized by Amish Tripathi’s
‘The Immortals of Meluha’)

84. 8. Which famous author wrote the following on
his hand during an Anna Hazare protest?

85. Answer

86. Audience Question
Who wrote “Turning Points- A
journey through challenges”?

87. Answer

88. Round V
Pictionary

89. Round VI
Rapid-fire Round

90. 1. Connect
A locket
A diary
A ring
A diadem
A snake
A cup
A boy

91. Answer
Horcruxes (Harry Potter Series)

92. 2. What has been blanked out?

93. Answer
Life of Pi

94. 3. Opening Quote of?
“Behind every great fortune,
there is a crime.”

95. Answer

96. 4. ‘Tous pour un, un pour tous’.
Who lived by this motto?

97. Answer

98. 5. This Shakespearean character’s
father was murdered by his uncle
by pouring ‘poison in his ears while
he was sleeping’. This story is one of
the most powerful and influential
tragedies of all time. Name the
character.

99. Answer
Hamlet

100. 6. Connect

101. Answer
Sherlock Holmes!

102. 7. Which Latin words were used
by Caesar which translate into
“I came, I saw, I conquered”?

103. Answer
Veni Vidi Vici

104. 8. "No sentence can end with
because because, because is a
conjunction“. Identify the
speaker of these words.

105. Answer
C. N. Annadurai

106. The End