This document provides the details of the MELAS QUIZ finals competition including the structure, rules, and sample questions. The quiz consists of 62 total questions split between two rounds of 26 questions called Infinite Bounce and one round of 10 written differential questions. Teams are allowed up to 3 incorrect "pounces" or guesses across the two Infinite Bounce rounds. Sample questions cover topics in history, arts, literature, sports and more with the answer being provided after a short description or image. Scoring is awarded based on correct answers within time limits or by using one of the allowed pounces.

1. The MELAS QUIZ
Qriosity 2014
FINALS

2. What’s in store?
Infinite Bounce I 26 questions
Written Differential 10 questions
Infinite Bounce II 26 questions
_________
62 questions

3. Pouncing Powers!
ONLY THREE incorrect pounces allowed in the
entire quiz – two IB rounds.
A team can pounce its direct question.
Scoring?
10 on the bounce
15 on pounce
no negatives for incorrect pounces
Po unce will be o pe n till 5 se cs afte r the QM finishe s re ading the que stio n
o r the AV clip is o ve r

4. Infinite Bounce I

5. 1.
• The classic Surrealist photograph was a joke about
the painter Ingres, whose nudes had dramatically X-like
proportions. Y got his famous model Kiki of
Montmartre to pose naked, except for a turban –
like one of Ingres' orientalist fantasy women. Then,
through the magic of the darkroom – actually just a
paintbrush – he turned her back into an actual X.
• X and Y?

6. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

7. Violin, Man Ray, Le Violon d'Ingres (1924)

8. 2.
• In1952, the legend goes, the sport was turned on
its head. At the world championships in Bombay,
an obscure Japanese player named Hiroji Satoh
showed up with ‘something’. He went onto beat
everybody.
• The contemporary sport is rife with such
innovations an ‘arms race’ as it were. Lately
players have taken to ‘boosting’ utilising illegal
glues and oils to maximise the impact.
• What had Hiroji Satoh done?

9. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

10. Used a rubber-padded TT racket
instead of a wooden one

11. 3.
• Murlikant Petkar was a soldier from Electronics
and Mechanical Engineering (EME) unit of Indian
Army switched to swimming, athletics, table tennis
and slalom after sustaining severe bullet injuries
during combat in the India-Pakistan war of 1965.
• What record does he hold which is popularly
believed to be held by the people in the next slide.

13. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

14. The first Indian to win an individual gold medal
in either Paralympics or Olympics
• He achieved the feat in the 1972 Paralympics at
Heidelberg, Germany – well before either Devendra
Jhajharia (javelin gold in 2004 Paralympics) and
Abhinav Bindra (10m air rifle gold in Beijing
Olympics) had a shot at the pinnacle.

15. 4.
• The six hour long overnight performance by Kasba
Arghya involved a pan-Indian cast and was based
on a 2nd century work.
• Players include Soraj Nambiar, a Sangeet Natak
awardee from Kerala, Ajith Kumar (Kalaripayattu
artist from Trivandrum), Bharatnatyam dancer
Ambali Praharaj and a group of santals, and Arun
Warrier a Kathakali guru.
• Which work, literally meaning the ‘breaking of
thighs’ and what does the title refer to?

16. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

17. Urubhangam by Bhasa

18. 5.
• In 2001, merely days before Y were to take on the
New York Giants in the Super Bowl, a note was left
on X’s grave which read “The New York Giants.
Darkness and decay and the big blue hold dominion
over all. The Y. A thousand injuries they will suffer.
X evermore.”
• The note seemed to indicate that Y would lose in the
Super Bowl. This angered many fans, but the
prediction would not come true. Y beat the New York
Giants and won the Super Bowl by the score of 34 to
7.
• X, Y and which literary work was referenced in the
note.

19. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

20. Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore Ravens,
The Masque of Red Death

21. 6. Who’s speaking?
• “When I was working for El Espe ctado r, I used to
do at least three stories a week, two or three
editorial notes every day, and I did movie reviews.
Then at night, after everyone had gone home, I
would stay behind writing my novels. I liked the
noise of the Linotype machines, which sounded like
rain. If they stopped, and I was left in silence, I
wouldn’t be able to work. “

22. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

23. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

24. 7.
• In British football parlance being ‘cup tied’ is that
you can’t play for two teams in the same cup
competition in the same season.
• However, the rule is not set in stone, the most
formidable example would be Ernie Taylor and
Stan Crowther.
• They were allowed to represent which club and for
what reason was the rule relaxed ?

25. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

26. Manchester United, Munich air
disaster
• The FA reserve the right to waive it and did so in
1958, when, just days after the Munich disaster,
Manchester United faced Sheffield Wednesday in
the FA Cup. Unsure whether United could raise 11
players, the team sheet in the match programme
was famously left blank. Stan Crowther and Ernie
Taylor should have been ineligible, after appearing
for other clubs in earlier rounds, but were allowed
to play in a 3-0 United win.

27. 8.
• The book could not, at first, find a publisher. In
desperation, X asked his friend George Lamming if
he could help, who had not long before published In
the Castle o f My Skin, and he used its succè s d'e stime
to sell X’s manuscript.
• Years later it was learned that it was Lamming who
had named it – almost. His definite article was
substituted with an indefinite one by the publisher.
• In 1963, John Arlott hailed it as the ‘finest book’ to be
written on the subject
• Book, X?

28. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

29. CLR James, Beyond a Boundary

30. 9.
• This term refers to a setting in which societies with
ultramodern technology have reverted to patterns
from earlier time periods while remaining at a
futuristic technological level.
• The same term also closely resembles the name of
a1967 Moody Blues album where the title refers to
the course of twenty four hours in a person's life.
• How was this term brought back into popular
consciousness earlier this year?

32. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

33. Days of Future Past

34. 10.
• X was on the phone with his sister Deborah, who
had graduated from Boston University Law School
and signed up for a three-year stint with the Navy
Judge Advocate General's Corps. She was going to
Gitmo to defend a group of soldiers. X took that
information and wrote much of his story on cocktail
napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on
Broadway.
• X? What transpired as a result?

35. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

36. X- Aaron Sorkin; A Few Good Men

37. 11.
• In 1936, a troupe of 35 acrobats from a small town in
Central India traveled to the Berlin Olympic Games.
• The team’s intricate feats of contortion, strength, and
death-defying gymnastics atop a skinny, eight-and-a-half
foot pole thrilled Adolf Hitler; the Führer
personally bestowed each acrobat with an honorary
Olympic medal.
• Currently practised in a few ramshackle gymnasiums
scattered throughout Maharashtra, what sport is this?
• (Image on next slide)

39. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

40. Mallakhamb

41. 12.
• Nahar Singh, was a contemporary of X at the Saifia
College in the mid-1960s. By that time, Nahar was
already known to most in the city by a different name.
• In 1975, Nahar Singh went to court, alleging he had
been defamed. The case was settled out of court though
it created quite a sensation in the town.
• One night in 1979, he went to Bhadbhada check-post of
BMC to drop a colleague on his scooter. While
returning, a truck knocked down his scooter.
• X and what was the other name?

42. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

43. Javed Akhtar, Soorma Bhopali

44. 13.
• A remarkable group of writers including Arthur
Koestler and Harold Schonberg had turned up for
the match between X and Y.
• When the match ended Schonberg predicted that X
would never play another. Indeed, the only match
he ever did play was in 1992 when he played Y
again, this time in Yugoslavia.
• What was the moniker given to this sporting event
from 1972? X and Y? (continued on next slide)

45. Images from a 2013 movie centred
around this event

46. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

47. Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky;
Match of the Century

48. 14.
• X could have retired in 1971 and still have four #1
singles to his name, I Want Yo u Back, ABC , The
Lo ve Yo u Save , and I’ ll Be The re .
• However X chose to forge his own career and
acquire a royal honorific which apparently MTV
was obligated to use so that they could air a certain
video.
• X? The video?

49. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

50. Michael Jackson, Black or White

51. 15.
• A rock concert produced by Red Curtain (one of
Kolkata’s oldest English theatre groups mentored by
Sumit Roy), featured a song called X Empire
suggested the name for the entity.
• Armed with a seed capital of Rs.5 lac forwarded by
the ITC, X was launched on 20 June, 1982.
• X has over the years commissioned original work
such as the What was Communism? series including
writings by Mo Yan.
• X?

52. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

53. Seagull Books

54. 16.
• The arrest of her best friend, Bettie du Toit, in 1960
and the Sharpeville massacre spurred her entry into
the movement. Thereafter, she quickly became
close friends with X's defence attorneys (Bram
Fischer and George Bizos) during his 1962 trial.
• She also helped X edit his I Am Pre pare d To Die
speech, given from the defendant's dock at the trial.
• She passed away in July 2014. X? Who?

55. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

56. X- Nelson Mandela; Nadine
Gordimer

57. 17.
• This Urdu ghazal was written in Behe r-E-Ramal/
Mazahif Musamman, the favourite meter of
the poet. He had written almost 35 ghazals in this
meter.
• Apart from being sung in a couple of films it has
also been recited by Atul Kulkarni and Piyush
Mishra in two different movies.
• The ghazal? Who wrote it?

58. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

59. Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna; Ram Prasad
Bismil

60. 18.
• November 1925: in search of health and sun, X
arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife Frieda,
and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling
Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives
and vines. But over the next six months Frieda will
be fatally attracted to their landlord, a dashing
Italian army officer, and X will write two stories
prefiguring Y, namely, Sun and The Virg in and the
Gypsy; both tales of women drawn to earthy,
muscular men.
• X and Y?

61. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

62. DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s
Lover

63. 19.
• This Guinne ss Bo o k o f Wo rld Re co rd holder’s foray
into dubbing was accidental. Nonetheless, he has
thereafter been assigned as the default dubbing
artist for Kamal Hassan in Telugu dubbed versions
of Tamil films and vice versa. For the Telugu
version of Dasavathaaram he gave voice to seven
characters (including the female character) out of
10 characters played by Kamal Hassan?

64. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

65. SP Balasubrahmanyam

66. 20.
• Daniel Andre Green was driving the stolen cherry-red
Lexus, and Larry Martin Demery was sat in the
back seat behind the body. They pulled off a rural
highway onto a dirt road and stopped so they could
rummage through the glove compartment.
• Green reached for the wallet of the dead man and
pulled out his driver's license, Britt said. He turned
to Demery and said, "I believe we killed X’s dad.“
• What was the immediate sporting repercussion of
this incident?

67. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

68. Michael Jordan’s first retirement

69. 21.
• …After X became a super hit, I once heard Y da
say, “Tell those who say that I have copied Z from
Te quila that I have indeed based it on another tune,
but not copied it. And it is not Te quila. The tune is
inspired from a sung song during the boat race of
Comilla. I am a Bengali. There’s a lot of musical
wealth scattered all over my Bengal. I will first take
all of those before turning to the West.”
• X, Y and Z?

70. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

71. Aradhana, S D Burman, Mere Sapno
Ki Rani

72. 22.
• Why was every major New
York news photographer at
the corner of 52nd Street and
Lexington on the night of
September 15, 1954?
• Or alternatively, what term is
used by psychologists to refer
to declining interest in a
monogamous relationship
after a ce rtain period of time?

73. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

74. Marilyn Monroe upskirt; Seven Year
Itch

75. 23. What is common to these
photographs?

76. continued

77. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

78. Photographs that inspired Norman
Rockwell paintings

79. 24.
• What word, an agglomerate of a verb, an adverb, an
adjectival ending and a prefix was first seen in a
letter written by Raymond Chandler in 1947,
bemoaning the ridiculous words added to the OED?
• Satyajit Ray used this to refer to The Mahabharata
and The Ramayana in Go lo kdham Ro ho syo
• This word has been part of the Bengali popular
consciousness since 1983. How?

80. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

81. Unputdownable, The Telegraph

82. 25.
• American boxer Michael Nunn, in the late 1980s,
was considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in
the world and was quite literally, ‘…… .. ….’,
especially when he became middleweight champion
of the world.
• What used to be written on his shorts?
• Alternatively fill the first two blanks.

83. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

84. Second to

85. 26.
• “But I made a commitment: when Afghanistan is
freed, I will build a school in X. I’ll call it the Y
School, and give this prize on behalf of UNESCO
to the students of that school. We’ve also started a
series of actions in collaboration with UNICEF for
the education of Afghan children… In various
Iranian cities, towns and villages, these schools are
established and staffed.”
• X won the Y prize in 2001
• Y has won the most number of Oscars in history in
the Best Foreign Language Film category

86. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

87. Mohsen Makhmalbaff, Kandahar,
Federico Fellini

88. SCORES?!

89. Written
Differentials
10 questions
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

90. 1.
The name for such (wooden) stands hails from 1889
America and has perhaps has got to do with the fact
that they remain exposed to the sun for long hours.
Which website derives its name from them?
imag e o n ne xt slide

92. 2. Connect with someone and
a 2014 movie

93. 3.
Which indie act of the 90s shares its name with a
French novel about a boy and his dog living in a
small French Alpine village?

94. 4.

95. 5. American artist flagged in Simpsons. Who?

96. 6.
Certain clubs in Germany and Spain are called
Fahrstuhlmannschaft and e quipo asce nso r
respectively, meaning lift or elevator teams.
What tautonym is used refer to such clubs in
British football?

97. 7.
Dharti Ke Lal –
mid 40 s
Who is the
female actor?
She was a
member of the
IPTA

98. 8.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was brought to the
attention of Tsar Nicholas II, thanks to
one particular 1908 work. Which work/subject?
With the Tsar’s funding and authority, he used a
specially adapted railroad car as a darkroom and
traversed the length and breadth of the Russian
Empire, recording what he saw in more than 10,000
full-color photographs. picture s fo llow

99. The Emir of Bukhara, 1911

100. 9.
Who’s singing?
Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis

101. 10.
Artist Martin Feijoo during his trip in Mexico was
reminded of the e xpe rt ballo o n twiste r clowns he
was told about as a kid.
What followed then was impulsive doodles,
resulting in the Shaping _ _ _ _ Pro je ct.
Some works from the project are on the next slide.
Fill in the blanks.

103. ANSWERS

104. 1.
The name (nickname?) for such (wooden) stands
hails from 1889 America and has perhaps has got to
do with the fact that they remain exposed to the sun
for long hours.
Which website derives its name from them?
imag e o n ne xt slide

106. Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

107. 2. Connect with someone and
a 2014 movie

108. Salman Khan voiced them in
Main Tera Hero
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

109. 3.
Which indie act of the 90s share their name with a
famous French novel about a boy and his dog living
in a small French Alps mountain village?

110. Belle and Sebastian
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

111. 4.

112. Based on the works of Ashutosh
Mukhopadhyay
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

113. 5. American artist flagged in Simpsons. Who?

114. Jasper Johns
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

115. 6.
Certain clubs in Germany and Spain are called
Fahrstuhlmannschaft and e quipo asce nso r
respectively, meaning lift or elevator teams.
What tautonym is used refer to such clubs in
British football?

116. Yo-Yo
Teams which keep relegating from
and promoting to the top leagues
in Dutch – to-and-fro
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

117. 7.
Dharti Ke Lal –
mid 40 s
Who is the
female actor?
She was a
member of the
IPTA

118. Zohra Sehgal
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

119. 8.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was brought to the
attention of Tsar Nicholas II, thanks to
one particular 1908 work. Which work/subject?
With the Tsar’s funding and authority, he used a
specially adapted railroad car as a darkroom and
traversed the length and breadth of the Russian
Empire, recording what he saw in more than 10,000
full-color photographs. picture s fo llow

120. The Emir of Bukhara, 1911

121. Leo Tolstoy
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

122. 9.
• Who’s singing?
Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis

123. Anupam Roy
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

124. 10.
Artist Martin Feijoo during his trip in Mexico was
reminded of the e xpe rt ballo o n twiste r clowns he
was told about as a kid.
What followed then was impulsive doodles,
resulting in the Shaping _ _ _ _ Pro je ct.
Some works from the project are on the next slide.
Fill in the blanks.

126. Clouds
Scoring:
25… 1team
20… 2 teams
15… 3-4
10… 5-6
05… 7

127. SCORES?!

128. Infinite Bounce II

129. AUDIENCE
• Which English entertainer is seen as Mr Kite in
Acro ss the Unive rse ? The video is an outtake.

130. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

131. Eddie Izzard

132. 1.
What change happened two
weeks after this?
What explanation was given for
the change if limitation of
field of play was not the
reason?
Footage from 1984 - Uwe
Hohn’s famous throw

133. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

134. Heavier Javelins | Flat Landing
• centre of gravity was shifted by 3 cm to make it
land head first
• flat landing lead to debate over actual score
• Hohn - 104.80m - previous world record of 99.7 -
could no longer be contained in the infield –
shortened throws by 10%

135. 2.
X on being asked about his
favourite works by Y.
Who are X and Y?

136. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

137. Shepard Fairey on Banksy

138. 3.
March 1940 Mein Kampf review (excerpts next slide)
Who is the reviewer? He writes that publisher was pro-
Hitler, and the preface note was to ‘tone down Hitler’s
ferocity’.
1941 - republished with a jacket. To sort of make up, the
publishers announced that a cut of the profits would
be donated. Who received the funds?

140. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

141. George Orwell | Red Cross
The money was donated to help during the War

142. 4.
Montage clip from a 1960s TV series
Identify
the actor
the character

143. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

144. Otto Preminger | Mr Freeze

145. 5
The Le xico n o f Comicana introduced many widely-accepted
words. HE wrote a piece for the National
Cartoonists Society (USA) called Le t’s Ge t Down
to Grawlixe s. What are grawlixes – also parallely
employed on the Internet?
The author’s best known creation was inspired by
his experiences after quitting school and has many
characters based on his fraternity mates at the
University of Missouri. Who is the author?
(picture o n ne xt slide )

147. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

148. Mort Walker; using special characters to
indicate expletives

149. 6.
This video illustrates the possibility a certain
technique/device the artist employed in as many as
14 portraits, including his own.
Identify both.

150. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

151. Vermeer | Camera Obscura
The Ge o g raphe r

152. 7. Dehydration forced the Mighty Atom out of the
Melbourne Games.
Four years later in Rome, he won GB’s only
athletic Gold in the ’60 Olympics.
In 1991, he aged 58, he became Britain’s oldest
international athlete after he was invited for a
French championship.
Who? Which sport? (pictures on next slide)

154. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

155. Dom Thompson | Walking (50 km)

156. 8.
What’s so special about these book covers?
(larg e r imag e s o n ne xt two slide s)

159. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

160. Book covers with original (working)
titles of novels

161. 9.
Roysten Abel’s fantastic show The Mang aniyar
Se ductio n features around 40 musicians of the Muslim-
Rajput community in a brilliantly lit
stage set-up.
The set draws inspiration from two things - a structure
and an area in an European capital.
(image+video on next slide)
Name both.

163. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

164. Hawa Mahal;
Amsterdam’s Red Light District

165. Burns and ___ were a Playboy Club-promoted duo
who disbanded in 1962, but released an album (on
next slide) in 1963.
10.
Who’s the other guy?
(images on next slide)

167. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

168. George Carlin

169. AUDIENCE
The next picture shows Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
speaking to over 61, 000 fans on 4 July 1939.
Why are the trophies on the ground/ man in the centre
looking at it remorsely?

172. Lou Gehrig was already weak enough
to not lift the trophies
• Yankees and Senators- doubleheader – farewell
match

173. 11.
Who broke his long silence on the recent Gaza
conflict with this two-panel drawing in
The Natio nal (and then posted on his FB page)?
Bigger image on next slide
I’ve spent a lifetime trying to NOT think
about Israel—deciding it has nothin more to
do with me, a diasporist, than the rest of
the World's Bad News on Parade. Israel is
like some badly battered child with PTSD
who has grown up to batter others.

175. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

176. Art Spiegelman

177. 12.
JMW Turner depicts the plight of X’s troops (218 BC)
in the harsh conditions of the Aosta Valley in Italy.
Whose troops – take gif (from Pushe r II ) as clue?
It’s thought to be a response to an 1805 painting. Which
one?
(big g e r pic + g if o n ne xt slide )

179. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

180. Hannibal
JLD’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his
Army Crossing the Alps

181. 13.
Twenty-five African nations boycotted the Montreal
Games in 1976 after the IOA refused to ban New
Zealand.
This marked the beginning of several politically
motivated boycott of the Olympics.
Why were they protesting
against New Zealand’s participation?

182. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

183. All-Blacks were touring South Africa
Five Maori players were
given ‘white status’

184. 14.
Count Giovanni ___ della Mirandola was a philosopher
patronised by the Medici family. His text Oratio n o n
the Dig nity o f Man is one of the most iconic texts of
the 15th c. He’s also known for his translations of
Plato’s – his guru – works from Greek to Latin.
Which author/ writer of culture gets his name
from Mirandola?
Which office stores the portrait of his
on the next slide?

186. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

187. Pico Iyer | Uffizi, Florence

188. 15. Two similar NYT articles .
Jun 21, 2013 - The X’s Vanishing Act
- Dave Miley, ITF’s director of development, says it
gives one more time with open stance.
- Employed by 8 of the top 30 men, but 3 of the
top 50 women
ne xt slide

189. Aug 24, 2014 - The Death of the X
- Fifty years ago, virtually everyone, pros and hackers
alike used X. 24 in the men’s Top 100, down from
nearly 50 a decade ago
-Wimbledon has historically been the premier
showcase
- the disappearance was actually the result of impatient
coaches and parents who were no longer willing to
sacrifice short-term results

190. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

192. 16.
It’s camento light in 2003 and has since been an
annual feature.
What is inspired from the two photographs on the
next two slides?

193. Frantisek Drtikol, Dark Waves, 1925

194. E O Hoppe, Margot
Fonteyn, dancer, Saddlers
Wells Ballet, 1935

195. ANSWER
(also known as the safety slide)

197. 17.
mid-90s novel
original title - ______ ____: A Failed Entertainment
takes its name from this Hamlet A5,S1 – next slide
author is the subject of the book on next slide
Which book and author?

198. First Clown:
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue!
'a pour'd a flagon of Rhenish on my
head once. This same skull, sir, was,
sir,
Yorick's skull, the King's jester.
Hamlet:
This? [Takes the skull]
First Clown:
E'en that.
Hamlet:
……..
………
excellent fancy. He hath bore me on
his back a thousand times, and now
how abhorr'd in my imagination it is!

199. ANSWER
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200. Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace

201. 18.
6 tennis players arranged from 2 to 5 on next slide.
X leads the record list. Who is X?
X was born in a country that has a museum (imag e
afte r o ne slide ) dedicated to an artist of X’s
nationality. Here, the country and nationality are
separate identities.
Which artist OR What country?

204. ANSWER
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205. Fabrice Santoro | Tahiti | Paul Gaugin
most Grand Slam appearances

206. 19.
In 1977, Canadian hard rock band Triumph released
their second album called Ro ck and Ro ll Machine .
A band in the mid-80s took their name from the
album, but later had to shorten it to fit into a gig
poster, thanks to low budget.
It again changed its name (and line-up) and this time
after a 3,200-km long river.
Which group?
(picture + audio o n ne xt slide )

208. ANSWER
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209. Rock Machine  Indus Creed

210. 20.
This parody poster
came out in 1983
in the
We e kly SUN.
This was a
response to what?
Who is the man?
Zo ome d-in te xt o n ne xt slide

212. ANSWER
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213. Nirad Chaudhuri | Gandhi

214. 21.
They have had a string of impressive performances
in recent times and made headlines with one
particular victory in July 2014.
Earlier in January, it beat Angola by 7 points to clinch
Gold in a competition. This was after the team beat
Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.
A - What team – nicknamed the Young Cagers?
B - Which competition/ event?
C - Where was it hosted/ venue?

215. ANSWER
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216. Indian Basketball Team
Lusophony Games | Goa

217. 22. Connect and weave story
Distant Drums (1951)

218. ANSWER
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220. 23.
The next slide shows two paintings which were
created simultaneously.
Where were they painted?

221. Manet
Renoir

222. ANSWER
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223. Monet’s garden (Giverny) – lady is
Monet’s wife

224. 24.
The January 1977 issue of British fanzine
Side burns came with a legendary instruction –
often later quoted by musicians across genres -
which led to the phrase ‘he re are thre e cho rds _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ ’.?
The magazine was wholly dedicated to what –
through the instruction it upheld the ethos of it?
(picture s o n ne xt slide )

226. ANSWER
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227. Now form a band | Punk
It referred to the DIY nature of the genre –
anyo ne can play guitar

228. 25.
What’s the bowl of this veena made of?

230. ANSWER
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232. AUDIENCE
The Lew Alcindor Rule was introduced in 1967 in
American college basketball. It stopped who from
doing what?

233. ANSWER
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234. Kareem Abdul Jabbar from
slam dunking

235. 26.
Ee r Bir Phatte – song from Amitabh Bacchan’s
1996 album Aby Baby .
What language is this song in?
Shares its name with a cuisine.
The most well-known literary work of this language
was begun on the ninth day of Chaitra in 1631.
Which text?

236. ANSWER
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237. Awadhi | Ramcharitmanas
The poem was written by Harivansh Rai Bacchan
Ninth day o f Chaitra - Ram Navami