Finals of the MELA Quiz held at Techno India, Salt Lake, on 5th April, 2014.

2.  Written Round.
 Infinite Bounce and Limited Pounce.
 List-It Round.
 Infinite Bounce and Limited Pounce.

3.  Written Round.
 8 IMDb Error 404 : Webpage Not Found
Messages.
 Name the movie being referenced.
 +5 for every correct answer.
 +20 for a full house.

31.  20 Questions.
 Infinite Bounce.
 Maximum No. of Pounces : Seven.
 +10/0 on bounce.
 +20/-10 on Pounce.
 Clockwise.

32.  Which Oscar-winner's directorial debut
was the short film 'I Killed My Lesbian
Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and
Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at
Disney'?

35.  New York City (January, 2013)
 Rio de Janeiro (February, 2013)
 Rome (March, 2013)
 Sydney (April, 2013)
 Tokyo (May, 2013)
 Miami (June, 2013)
 Paris (July, 2013)
 Beijing (August, 2013)
 Moscow (September, 2013)
 New Orleans (October-November, 2013)
 London (November-December, 2013)
 Mumbai (January, 2014)
 Miami (January, 2014)
 Seoul (February, 2014)
 New York City (March, 2014)
 Mexico City (March, 2014)
Whose ongoing “World Tour” is this?

38. Connect.

41. This is a scene from the closing credits of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.
What is the name of the character in the green coat?

44.  Geldrop is a town in the Dutch province
of North Brabant. It is located in the
municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo.
 It is known for having a neighbourhood with
something unique about its street names.
What is unique about the street names?

47. ID the two missing movies and the role Morgan Freeman
played in them.

50.  Paul Ribera is a painter from Bairstow, California. In a recent
interview to Huffington Post, he said :
“I, personally, have been interested in the effects of drugs and
what it does to people and, unfortunately, in the town I live
in, it‟s a way of life. I want people to know what goes on in the
boarded up houses and how it‟s not all Kim and Kanye and
happy stadium proposals the media tends to give off.”
 Using his paintings as a commentary on the substance abuse
problem in his hometown, he “decided to go as dark as hell
with it and let the popular images the world knows turn into
what I've seen on a daily basis for the past twenty years.”
What does he paint?

53. Recent agitations against the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott have produced a
large number of hilarious banners. Seen here is one that says “I‟d prefer X over Tony
Abbott.”
ID X.

56. Glenn McDuffie passed away on March 9th, 2014. McDuffie once said that he had to
pass five polygraph tests to verify his claim to be a certain individual, before he was
finally confirmed to be that person.
What is his claim to fame?

59. These are some of the options X might have had
before he settled for Y :
 Motor Marvel Dildo.
 Immortal Love Rodd.
 Mortal Dildo Mover.
 Old Immortal Lover.
 Mild Doormat Lover.
 Dermal Drool Vomit.
 Mr. T. O. Dildo Removal.
 Mom – Dildo Art Lover.
ID X and Y.

62.  X was born in Russia on January
16, 1948. He graduated from the
Lenin Komsomol Chernigov
Higher Military Aviation School in
1972.
 He has been the recipient of
many prestigious awards,
including, the Hero of the Soviet
Union, the Order For Merit to the
Fatherland, the Order of Lenin,
and the Order of the October
Revolution.
 He holds a world record that
someone was “determined to
break” in 2013.
ID X and his world record.

65. Reviews for X:
 “Besides „The Killing‟, X also has elements of Y and „Breaking
Bad.‟” – New York Post.
 “It can be seen as more Murdered Girl TV or baroquely religious
serial killer misogyny (See: Y for reference).” – InsideTV.
 “Will X fully give in to its genre urges a la „Hannibal‟ and Y?” –
IGN.
 “Wildly entertaining and likely the most original cop show since
Y.” – Aintitcool.com.
 “I got a Y kind of vibe while watching the trailer.” – Bubblews.
ID X and Y.

68.  “How Ya Like Me Now?” is a portrait by
artist David Hammons, depicting X as a
blue-eyed, pink-cheeked blonde
man. On November 29, 1989, moments
after the 14 x 14 ft. work was installed on a
Washington D.C. street, some angry
young black men attacked it with a
sledgehammer, knocking it down.
 Hammons, saddened by the assault, said,
“I just wanted people to see how racism in
America works."
 X himself viewed the painting after its
dismemberment and admitted that, at
first, he was a bit startled, but he believed
that "The portrait is not an attempt to
degrade me. It is a statement of the white
solution to the race problem. White folks
want all of us to be white like them."
ID X, who was in news in Kolkata a couple of
months back.

71.  Swara Bhaskar is a
Bollywood actress, most
famous for her role as
Bindiya in Raanjhanaa.
 She is the narrator of a
2014 TV show, X, directed
by Y. The first look of the
show was officially
launched on 20th February
2014, the penultimate day
of 15th Lok Sabha by
Pranab Mukherjee in the
Parliament House, New
Delhi.
ID X and Y.

74.  The Moroccan actor
Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni
was cast as X in the History
Channel series, The Bible
(2013). He was also
supposed to reprise his role
of X in Son of God (2014),
the corresponding movie
adaptation of the show.
 But after a controversy, the
filmmakers have edited his
scenes out of Son of God.
ID X. And what was the
controversy?

77.  Red = Drama.
Orange = Fiction.
Yellow = Miscellaneous.
Green = Crime Fiction.
Dark Blue = Autobiographies.
Purple = Essays.
Cerise = Travel and Adventure.
Grey = World Affairs.
Put funda.

80.  In the Rapid Fire round of Koffee With
Karan Season Four, Anurag Kashyap was
asked by Karan Johar to complete a set
of sentences.
 One of them was “X is..”. Anurag‟s reply
to which was a blunt “X was.”
ID X.

83.  “Twenty-four hours which is mainly spent
smoking the drug marijuana, in an effort to
end boredom. May have originated in
California in the mid-80's.”
According to urbandictionary.com, what is
this the definition of?

86.  In February 2014, the Editors‟ Guild of India
condemned barbs on the media hurled by
politicians and other public figures.
 The trigger was a statement by former army
chief V.K. Singh who used a pejorative term
„X’ to describe journalists over a report on
the movement of army units that he felt
had caused concern to the government.
What is X?

89.  X, created by Y, first appeared in a comic strip
in May, 1965. On the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the first issue, Y said, “In my
mind, X is aged about 19. It is his name that
came to me first. Then I fleshed out the
character, puffed chest and all.”
 Although X initially fought local goons, when a
war broke out in real life, the publishers
demanded that X should be send to the
battlefield. Thus his superhuman powers got
accentuated and he started blowing off tanks
and blocking torpedoes with his bare hands.
ID X and Y.

93.  Written List-It Round.
 Question and Rules on the next slide.

94. List all the official Disney
princesses.
 11 official Princesses.
 The „official‟ Disney princesses are the ones whose
merchandise are marketed by Disney.
 The QM wants the names of the princesses, and NOT the
franchise they belong to.
 +5 for each.
 +20 for a full house.
 -5 for each extra name if any team writes more than 11 names.
 Total time : 5 minutes.
 Clarification : Anna and Elsa, from Frozen, have not YET been
added as Disney princesses. Hence, they do not feature in the
list.

110.  20 Questions.
 Infinite Bounce.
 Maximum No. of Pounces : Seven.
 +10/0 on bounce.
 +20/-10 on Pounce.
 Anti - Clockwise.

111. Each of these is a video
game series. Connect them.
Which is the most famous one
that is missing?

114.  An excerpt from Pratim D. Gupta‟s review
of Ragini MMS 2 :
“And in the film when Sunny goes to meet the
Ragini from the first film in the asylum to
research her character, someone quips:
„Research? Yeh X se Y kaise ban gayee?‟
Now, who would have imagined Sunny Leone
to be mentioned with Y? Blame it all on the
chaar botal vodka.”
X is something we associate Sunny Leone
with. ID both X and Y.

117. The singer of this song is known by a certain moniker. What?
 Audio from :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0A
hrY9GjA

120.  A controversial plot decision in the movie X provoked
a lot of heated arguments in comic book stores.
 While most comic book lovers denounced the plot
decision, a few who stood by it used a panel from The
Price, the 22nd issue of a comic book series, that
released in 1988, to justify their point.
 Most of them were perhaps unaware of the fact that
even though, in the comic book, Y‟s decision is
arguably just, for a year afterwards his comics were all
about Y being so eaten up with guilt and shame that
he goes half-crazy and exiles himself.
ID X.
What was there in the issue being talked about?

123.  X, an electrician by
profession, was born in
1950, and died on 12th
September, 1992. X
once famously said :
“I am my own physician.”
Who is X?
What illegal organization
did he start?

126. The first is a photograph by Andres Serrano.
The second is a sculpture by Tania Kovat.
Why are they controversial?

129. If the one in
the left was
the second
and the one
in the right is
going to be
the third,
who was the
original?

132. If the one in the left was the first one and the one in the right
was the second, which was the third?

135. This band was formed in 1998, and became a rage in Asia after the release
of their first single in 2002. Their first album sold more than 40,000 copies in
their native country and more than 2,50,000 copies in Asia. After the failure
of their second album, they disbanded and has not been in news since.
Here the band is singing in chorus. ID the band.
 Audio from :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LbE
wd246Uo&feature=kp

138. Connect :
 A reality game show produced in many countries throughout the
world where contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete
for cash and other prizes.
 To check or block normal breathing by compressing or obstructing
the trachea or by poisoning or adulterating available air.
 “Wherever you go in the world, women use the same tones.
Rhythmically, there are shared patterns. They are usually in triple
metre or 6/8 time, giving them a characteristic swinging or rocking
motion.” says Sally Goddard Blythe of The Institute for Neuro-
Physiological Psychology.
 The motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person
or people, without the aid of special effects, for the purpose of
distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation.
 A tribe of diminutive humans in Greek mythology who were involved
in a constant war with the cranes, which migrated in winter to their
homeland on the southern shores of the earth-encircling river
Oceanus.
[The list is inexhaustive here, but can be made exhaustive.]

141. Connect and explain.

144.  At the start of a meeting with tech industry CEOs
on NSA surveillance, Barrack Obama quipped,
“I‟m just wondering if Reed Hastings brought
advance copies of X.”, according to a pool
video camera in the room.
 He said further, “I wish things were that ruthlessly
efficient. It‟s true. It‟s like Y, man, this guy‟s
getting a lot of stuff done.”
ID X and Y.
Who is Reed Hastings?

147.  X conceived an earlier version of Y when he was taking
a high school German class and producing a two-
page comic. When he was in college, he reworked the
strip, but decided not to publish it for various reasons.
 Later on, after finishing college, X came up with the
name Y and made what he hoped was a professional
strip with Y as a hero. Y was a “diminutive loudmouth”
with a Charlie Chaplin moustache who explored space
with his sidekick.
 All the newspaper syndicates rejected this early strip
and Y was never made into a comic strip.
ID X and Y.

150. This graphic shows which production house has the film rights of which
Marvel character. The rights to X and Y have been acquired by both Marvel
Studios and 20th Century Fox, which will lead to a weird situation as the
characters would appear in both X-Men : Days of the Future Past (2014) and
Avengers : The Age of Ultron (2015) but will be played by different actors.
ID X and Y .

153.  On 24th March, 2014, which famous group
completed thirty years of their meeting for
the first time on a Saturday morning at the
Shermer High School in the Chicago suburb
of Shermer, Illinois?

156. Connect.

159. A joke doing the rounds on
the Internet.
FITB.

162.  Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes.
Originally performed in Athens in 411 BC, it is
a comic account of one woman's
extraordinary mission to end the
Peloponnesian War.
 It contains the first recorded instance of a
certain strategy to force soldiers to
negotiate peace.
Which strategy?

165. They are the most popular
examples of being tagged by a
certain moniker by the critics
and the media.
What moniker?

168.  This is artist Nick
Hoffman‟s interpretation of
an extremely famous
group.
Which group?