Finsls of Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker Memorial Quiz conducted by Prof. Sambhu Ramachandran under the auspices of the PG Department of English, NSS College, Pandalam, Kerala.

1. Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker Memorial Intercollegiate Literary Quiz
2k19 v. 10.0
QM-Prof.Sambhu R.

2. My Sincerest Thanks
to…
Team English

3. ROUND 1

4.  BOUNCE.
 + 10 FOR ALL QUESTIONS,
WHETHER DIRECT OR PASSED.
 MAX TIME FOR A Q- 30 SECS
P.S- THE QUIZ MASTER’S DECISION IS FINAL, FINAL, FINAL!!!

5. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is
set in the year 632 A.F.
What does A.F stand for?
1

7. After Ford.
1 AF is equivalent to 1908 AD, the year in
which Ford's first Model T rolled off the
assembly line. The novel's actual year is AD
2540, but it is referred to in the book as AF
632.

8. Identify the poet from what is
given of his face.
2

10. Ted Hughes

11. If this sturdy piece of furniture draped in a multi-coloured
Iranian rug and scattered with cushions was used by X to
make the people who visited him lie down, without making
eye contact, and say whatever came to their mind, what are
we looking at here?
3

13. Freud’s Couch

14. The title of this 1916 novel by Tagore
illustrates the battle the author had to
fight with himself between the ideas of
Western and Eastern Culture.
Name the novel.
4

16. The Home and the World

17. “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is
coming again next year, and I expect to go out
with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of
my life if I don’t…”
Who am I?
5

19. Mark Twain

20. After which fictional character’s horse
is John Steinbeck’s van named?
6

22. Don Quixote

23. What has been blacked out? 7

25. Pooh

26. Statue in honour of which writer?
8

28. S.K. Pottekkatt

29. An English word was coined based on
this festival.
What is the word?
9

31. Juggernaut
The Rath Yatra of the
Jagannath of Puri in
Orissa inspired the word
juggernaut which means
“an unstoppable force.”

32. Identify this painting by John William Waterhouse
which takes its name from a carpe diem poem by
Robert Herrick.
10

34. Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

35. What has been blacked out from this postage stamp? 11

38. If the phrase that has been blacked out from this
advertisement for Pears was popularized by Kipling,
what is it?
12

40. The White Man’s Burden

41. ROUND 2

42. LONG VISUAL CONNECT
Points only for exact answers.
Negatives for wrong guesses.
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43. +50/-40

44. +40/-30

45. +30/-20

46. +20/-10

47. +10

49. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

50. ROUND 3

51.  EQUALITY ROUND.
 WRITE AMIGOS.
 +10 FOR EVERY Q/PART THEREOF IN CASE OF MULTIPLE
ANSWERS.
 *ED QUESTIONS CARRY 30 PTS. -10 IN CASE THE ANSWER IS
WRONG.
 MAX TIME FOR A Q- 60 SECS.
P.S- THE QUIZ MASTER’S DECISION IS FINAL, FINAL, FINAL!!!

52. X Books is an American publishing house owned by
Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
Its logo features a small variety of chicken called X.
X weight is also a weight class in boxing and MMA.
X is derived from the name of an Indonesian seaport where
European sailors are reported to have come across small
poultry useful for stocking on voyages.
Id X from the logo.

54. Bantam Books

55. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of X’s publication,
The University of Alabama School of Law and the
American Bar Association Journal instituted a prize
for Legal Fiction. According to the official website,
“the Prize will be given annually to the published
book-length work of fiction that best exemplifies
the role of lawyers in society, and their power to
effect change”.
The inaugural prize was won by John Grisham's
book "The Confession" in 2011.
The Prize is named after the author of X. Who?

57. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

58. X is a journalistic work which the person given in the
photographs spent four years writing with Harper Lee.
X is subtitled “A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its
Consequences.” It was an instant success and is at present
the second biggest-selling crime story after Helter Skelter
which is based on the Charles Manson murders.
Id X and the author.

60. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

61. X’s tomb in Pere Lachaise cemetery was sculpted by Jacob
Epstein by deriving inspiration from X’s own poem The Sphinx.
There is also a tradition of tourists who visit the tomb applying
lipstick and kissing the tomb, thus leaving a “print” of their kiss.
Id X.

63. Oscar Wilde

64. X is a postmodern masterpiece which runs to 1000 plus pages
and has 388 endnotes.
X is modelled after a Sierpinski Triangle which is composed of an
equilateral triangle subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral
triangles. The idea is that the smaller pieces of the novel can be
tied together episodically to get the total picture.
Infinite Summer was an online project started by Matthew
Baldwin in which participants were challenged to complete X at a
rate of 75 pages a week. The project was prompted by the
author’s suicide in 2008.
X’s title is taken from Act V, Scene 1 of Hamlet in which Hamlet
holds the skull of Yorik and exclaims, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew
him, Horatio: a fellow of X…”
Id X and the author.

66. Infinite Jest by DWF

67. Identify the author Aud Q

69. Chinua Achebe

70. Michael Hart passed away in September 2011.
The Economist in its obituary for him, noted that
on the night of the American Independence Day in
1971, Hart, a student at University of Illinois in
Urbana, began typing out the American
Declaration of Independence on a computer. He
then sent a link to friends saying they could
download it for free. Eventually, this voluntary act
led to more books being written out, and more
volunteers joining what could now be termed a
project.
What appropriate name did Hart give to this
project?

72. Project Gutenberg

73. The title of X written jointly by Larry Collins
and Dominique Lapierre is supposedly taken
from Hitler’s question following his order to
destroy a particular city rather than let it be
recaptured. However General Dietrich von
Cholititz disobeyed Hitler and surrendered
the city to Free French Forces, prompted by
the city’s cultural heritage and his belief that
Hitler had become insane.
Id X.
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75. Is Paris Burning?

76. X is a nonsense poem written by Y in the
manner of his earlier poem Jabberwocky.
Words like “bandersnatch”, “frumious”,
“jubjub” and “mimsiest” from Jabberwocky
reappear in X.
X follows a crew whose name starts with “B”
as they go hunting for an elusive creature
that Y originally wanted to call a “Boojum”.

78. X-The Hunting of the Snark
Y- Lewis Carroll

80. Which French philosopher and author does
this google doodle pay homage to? Put Funda.

82. Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus

83. The epitaph on this author’s memorial stone is a
palindromic phrase which also served as the title of his
twenty-second novel, based on the last days of John
Keats.
The phrase has several connotations: it means “father,
father” in Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew and other Semitic
languages.
It is also his initials forwards and backwards, and the
rhyme scheme of the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet.
Name the novelist and his epitaph/novel.

85. ABBA ABBA by Anthony Burgess

86. Guess what has been blacked out of
these feminist book titles.

88. 1.Lesbian
2.Vitruvian

89. T.S. Elliot called X “one of the stupidest and most
uninspired plays ever written by Shakespeare ".
Another critic, S. Clark House calculated the
atrocities in the play and came up with this
summary: “The play has 14 killings, 9 of them on
stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3
depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case
of insanity, and 1 of cannibalism—an average of 5.2
atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.”
In 1999, X was adapted into a movie, directed by
Julie Taymor, with Anthony Hopkins playing the role
of X.
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91. Titus Andronicus

92. The title of this African novel comes from the
image of the Biafran flag in which the red
symbolizes the blood of the Igbo slain in the
1966 pogrom, the black their deaths, the green
the prosperity of the country and the yellow its
glorious future.
Name the novel.
See next slide.

95. Half of a Yellow Sun

96. Of this woman does a Nobel-winning poet ask in his sonnet
No Second Troy,
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
Name the lady and the poet.

98. Maud Gonne
W.B. Yeats

99. On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the
Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality by
Ward Churchill is a controversial book that claims that the
September 11, 2001 attacks against the U.S. were a case of
“chickens coming home to roost” in response to the U.S.
policy of imperialism in the Islamic East.
The book cover is a parody of an iconic American painting by
Grant Wood that satirizes the pretentiousness and coldness
of American culture. The second part of the painting’s name
is also a reference to a branch of literature in which
mysterious adventures happen in spooky places like castles,
graveyards, etc.
See next slide.

102. American Gothic

103. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a
World War II organisation of the United Kingdom
formed in 1940 by Winston Churchill to “set Europe
ablaze.” Their primary duty was to conduct guerrilla
warfare through espionage, sabotage and
reconnaissance behind enemy lines against the Axis
powers and to help resistance movements in Europe.
Because of the location of their headquarters at
London, they were often called X, after a fictional
group employed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “to go
everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone.”
What was their nickname?

105. Name Umberto Eco’s debut novel which revolves around
the friar William of Baskerville arriving at a Benedictine
monastery to find that a murder has taken place in the spot
circled in red. X was later adapted into a film starring
Sean Connery. Id X.

107. The Name of the Rose

108. X refers to someone who is foolish and
is derived from the name of John Duns
Scotus, a Scottish Franciscan
philosopher and theologian who was
actually a very intellectual person.
The term ‘X’ came into origin when his
theories and methods were widely
discredited by Protestant and Humanist
scholars during the Renaissance.

110. Dunce

111. Name Derek Walcott’s epic poem
which very loosely echoes and
references Homer and some of his
major characters from The Iliad.
Some of the poem's major characters
include the island fishermen Achille
and Hector, the retired English officer
Major Plunkett and his wife Maud, the
housemaid Helen, the blind man
Seven Seas, and the author himself.

112. Omeros
OMEROS

114. Which famous poem is being
parodied here?
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116. Because I could not Stop for Death
by
Emily Dickinson

117. X’s Suspiria de Profundis which means “Sighs from the
Depths”is a collection of fantastical essays that is
considered to be the supreme prose fantasy of English
literature.
The French poet Charles Baudelaire was inspired by
Suspiria de Profundis and its prequel to write about X’s
hashish and opium addiction and its effect on X’s work.
The supernatural horror film director Dario Argento’s The
Three Mothers Trilogy (Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of
Tears) is partially derived from the concept of X’s "Our
Ladies of Sorrow.”
Id X.

119. Thomas de Quincey

120. Identify the literary
work from the film
adaptation shown
alongside.

122. Pygmalion