Finals, The Second Plot- Chakra View 2016

The Second Plot
A MELA quiz by Anjan S
Finals

Rules of Engagement
• Clockwise round – 15 questions
• Anticlockwise Round – 15 questions
• Theme Round
• Pounce - +10/-10
• Bounce - +10
• Theme scoring to be announced later

1
• The picture on the next slide is one of 9 letters
written to an aspiring authoress Ms. Marjorie
Sheard in the 1940s by a person in his 20s, who
became famous in the later part of his life, so
much so that his works were influential to
extremes. This treasure trove of letters was sold
for an undisclosed sum in April 2013 to New York’s
Morgan Library & Museum by Sheard’s family after
almost 70 years to meet their financial constraints.
The letters have rekindled the interest in the
author’s initial life all over again since his reclusive
death in 2010.
• Identify the author of these letters.

2
• Remakes of this film have always been embroiled in
controversy. In 2009, Steven Spielberg and Will Smith
were linked to this project despite there being legal
scuffles with the Japanese publishers of the original
manga and the Korean producers of the 2003 cult hit.
• The 2006 Hindi remake faced issues from Show East,
the producers of the 2003 film, who had already sold
the remake rights to Dreamworks in 2004.
• When the film was finally remade in Hollywood in 2013
, it was a box office bomb. Identify the film.

3
• In the novel, _______ is the long-time friend of the
female protagonist with "autumn-leaf yellow hair",
a firm athletic body, and an aloof attitude.
• The writer has told in interviews that _____ was
based on the golfer Edith Cummings, a friend of
Ginevra King. Her name is a play on the two then-
popular automobile brands, the …… Motor Car
Company and the …….Motor Vehicle, alluding to
_______ "fast" reputation and the freedom now
presented to Americans, especially women, in the
1920s.

Jordan Baker from The Great Gatsby

4
• X is a "chinoiserie musicale" (or operetta) in one
act with music by Jacques Offenbach to an
original French libretto by Ludovic Halévy. It was
first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes
Parisiens, Paris, on 29 December 1855.
• Designed in 1864 by the architect Charles ,Duval,
X , since the early 1970s, has been a "legendary"
venue for rock music.
• ID X. The image on the next slide may help.

5
• Identify the guest creator of this Simpson’s
couch gag who is said to have been inspired
by reports that Simpsons characters are
animated in Seoul, South Korea.
• The opening sequence also takes a stab at Fox
and Rupert Murdoch.

6
• The first time this phrase was used was by Friedrich
Nietzsche in The Antichrist. Perhaps the most famous
use of this phrase in popular culture is by X in his “hippie
zeitgeist” novel Y.
• In a Rolling Stone magazine interview, X said: "It came
out of my own sense of fear, and [is] a perfect
description of that situation to me, however, I have been
accused of stealing it from Nietzsche or Kafka or
something. It seemed like a natural thing.“
• This phrase also finds place in a book , B by A, about
perhaps the greatest sporting rivalry that exists in the
modern day game.
• Give me the phrase ,X,Y ,A and B

• X- Hunter Thompson Y-Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas
• B- Fear and Loathing in La Liga A- Sid Lowe

7
• In September 2007, the show asked to use TripAdvisor, a
travel Web site, in an episode in which X turns his _____farm
into a bed and breakfast. Christine Petersen, the chief
marketing officer for TripAdvisor, was thrilled. “We don’t
have a big marketing budget and don’t do TV ads,” she said.
• TripAdvisor set up a review page, thinking it would be good
for a quick laugh or two. Paul Lieberstein, who wrote the
episode, called “Money,” never even went back to the site
afterward.
• Recently, TripAdvisor added a caveat explaining that the
farm was fictional, Ms. Petersen said. “We had a complaint
from someone who had wanted to go there.”
• Identify X and the _______.

8
• When he penned his autobiography, he said, “I
dedicated my book to Ayn Rand, Bruce Lee.
Urmila Matoandkar, Amitabh Bachchan ,Pornstar
Tori Black and a few gangsters”
• “The dedication to them was in accordance with
their tremendous contribution in my life one way
or the other,” he added.
• Identify this eclectic and often hated person
whose visual creations definitely mirror the title
of his autobiography.

9
• He Got Game was a 1998 sports film directed by Spike
Lee. It depicts Denzel Washington as a man named Jake,
who is in prison convicted for killing his wife. Jake is the
father of the top-ranked basketball prospect in the
country, and the film explores their relationship.
• Lee considered several top NBA players who he thought
could pass off for a high school senior to play Jake's son,
including Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Allen Iverson,
Kevin Garnett and Stephon Marbury. He ultimately
approached X to play the role during half-time of a game
he was involved in. X’s character’s name in the film gave
him his nickname, by which he is still known.
• Identify X and the nickname.

10
• Wes Anderson is a huge fan of the comic strip
series Y(1950-2000) and has allusions to it in
almost every film he makes. The Khaki Scouts in
The Moonrise Kingdom are said to be inspired by
the ______ scouts in Y.
• Anderson says on the commentary track for Royal
Tenenbaums that the family beagle in that film
was modelled on Y’s pooch.
• The primary character of Rushmore is said to be a
combination of A and B, the main protagonists of
the comic strip.

Peanuts, Charlie Brown, Snoopy

11
• At a ceremony hosted in Brussels in 2006, the Dalai
Lama presented the “Light of Truth” award to
Fanny Rodwell , who was representing an
organization that published a work on Tibet in the
same year that the Dalai Lama fled the Himalayan
kingdom.
• It is the most important Tibetan award in the world
that honors individuals or organizations who have
made a contribution to the concept of Tibet. What
contribution is being recognized in this particular
instance?
• Picture on next slide.

• Fanny Rodwell, wife of Hergé a.k.a Georges
Remi, the one who created Tintin, is accepting
the award on behalf of the Hergé Foundation
for “Tintin in Tibet”. According to the Dalai
Lama, the depiction of Tibet in the cartoon
series was the closest depiction of Tibet in
reality.

12
• In 1986, he set off for Cornell to earn a PhD in
environmental toxicology while music took a back
seat. His girlfriend Amita Baviskar joined him—to
do a doctorate too—and in ’88, they got married.
• He also applied to teach chemistry in high schools
in the West Indies. He sent off 30 letters. And got
three replies: One ‘no’, two setting up interviews
• He ended up returning to India and worked with
the Narmada Bachao Andolan, even getting jailed
briefly in 1993.
• Identify this musician of an iconic Indian band
whose filmography includes Hulla and Katiyabaaz.

13
• These are a couple of stills from "Shirley:
Visions of Reality", an Austrian production
that featured in the 'Forum' section of the
2013 Berlin Film Festival. What is the film
visually inspired by?

14
• François Truffaut directed his only English-
language film in 1966.
• What film?
• Why were its opening credits 'spoken' as
opposed to shown on screen in words as done
usually?

• Fahrenheit 451 because paper burns at 451 F
& only the spoken word is left

15
• In an article about Apple's products & their
culture of innovation, the simplicity in the
design of their products has been compared
to a series of lithographs by an artist of a
subject that is essentially stripped down to its
bare necessities.
• An example to showcase this simplicity is the
Apple mouse through time.

• What is the subject of the lithograph series &
by which artist?

• Bull by Pablo Picasso, where the detailed drawing of
a bull is simplified through a cubist approach over
11 lithographs into the basic lines that make it up.

Round 2
• Caricatures Round
• Ten character descriptions as in the book
followed by the caricature of the character will be
displayed. Give me the character or the novel.
• The year of publishing of the book in which the
character appears will also be given to help
narrow down the answer
• 3*no of teams not answering is the points
scheme

1(1909-1910)
• He is extraordinarily thin and his dress-coat hangs on a
skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly
see the fixed pupils. You just see two big black holes, as in
a dead man’s skull. His skin, which is stretched across his
bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow.
His nose is so little worth talking about that you can’t see
it side-face; and THE ABSENCE of that nose is a horrible
thing TO LOOK AT. All the hair he has is three or four long
dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears…And, in
this connection, I may say, that, when he went out in the
streets or ventured to show himself in public, he wore a
pasteboard nose, with a moustache attached to it,
instead of his own horrible hole of a nose. This did not
quite take away his corpse-like air, but it made him
almost, I say almost, endurable to look at.

2 (1977)
• Ullman folded his neat little hands on the desk
blotter and looked directly at _____, a small,
balding man in a banker’s suit and a quiet gray
tie… Danny’s face, so much like his own had
been, his eyes had been light blue while
Danny’s were cloudy gray, but the lips still
made a bow and the complexion was fair…His
eyes were far away and cloudy. His hair
hanging in his eyes, like some heavy animal. A
large dog… or a lion.

3 (1955)
• Pale-gray vacant eyes…asymmetrical freckles
on her bobbed nose…Only in the tritest of
terms (diary resumed) can I describe ____’s
features: I might say her hair is auburn, and
her lips as red as licked red candy, the lower
one prettily plump, bobbed nose…_____ of
the strident voice and rich brown hair—of the
bangs and the swirls and the sides and the
curls at the back upturned russet face.

4 (1893)
• My nerves are fairly proof,…, but I must confess to a
start when I saw the very man who had been so much
in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His
appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely
tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve,
and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head. He is
clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining
something of the professor in his features. His
shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face
protrudes forward and is forever slowly oscillating from
side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion. He peered
at me with great curiosity in his puckered eyes.

5 (2005)
• A pale, skinny young woman who had hair as
short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and
eyebrows. She had a wasp tattoo about an
inch long on her neck…On those occasions
when she had been wearing a tank top, a
dragon tattoo can be seen on her left shoulder
blade. Her natural hair colour was red, but
she had dyed it ivory black…Crooked smile.

6 (1862)
• Certain police officers have a peculiar
physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of
baseness mingled with an air of authority…The
human face of _____ consisted of a flat nose, with
two deep nostrils, towards which enormous
whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One felt ill at
ease when he saw these two forests and these
two caverns for the first time. When _____
laughed,—and his laugh was rare and terrible,—
his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only
his teeth, but his gums, and around his nose there
formed a flattened and savage fold, as on the
muzzle of a wild beast. ______, serious, was a
watchdog; when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for
the rest, he had very little skull and a great deal of
jaw…

7 (1847)
• I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer; I
sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose,
and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and
finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was
so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so
marked…“____, you look blooming, and smiling, and
pretty,” said he: “truly pretty this morning. Is this my
pale, little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-
faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-
smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?” (I had
green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for
him they were new-dyed, I suppose)… Having ascertained
that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there
was nothing to retouch—all being too close and plain,
braided locks included

8 (1959)
• The light shone down on his plump face, reflected
from his rimless glasses, bathed the pinkness of
his scalp beneath the thinning sandy hair as he
bent his head to resume reading…”Looking for a
room?” Mary made up her mind very quickly,
once she saw the fat, bespectacled face and
heard the soft, hesitant voice. There wouldn’t be
any trouble…The puckered lips were beginning to
tremble…The eyes behind the fat man’s glasses
seemed vacant.

9 (1930)
• ______’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a
jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.
His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller,
v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V
motif was picked up again by thickish brows
rising outward from twin creases above a hooked
nose, and his pale brown hair grew down—from
high flat temples—in a point on his forehead. He
looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

10 (1996)
• My power animal is ____…Black hair and pillowy French
lips. Faker. Italian dark leather sofa lips…___ stares up at
me. Her eyes are brown. Her earlobes pucker around
earring holes, no earrings…She actually felt alive. Her
skin was clearing up…___ never has any fat of her own,
and her mom figures that familial collagen would be
better than ____ ever having to use the cheap cow
kind…Short matte black hair, big eyes the way they are
in Japanese animation, skim milk thin, buttermilk sallow
in her dress with a wallpaper pattern of dark roses…Her
black hair whipping my face…The color of ____’s
brown eyes is like an animal that’s been heated in a
furnace and dropped into cold water. They call that
vulcanized or galvanized or tempered.

3.Dolores "Lolita" Haze, Lolita

4.James Moriarty, The Final Problem

5.Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo

9.Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon

1
• 2010 print of who by whom?
• The color tone & background should help
identify the whom & who respectively

• Keith Haring by Shepard Fairey

2
• 3 out of 9 works created by X with the blonde,
Y, as model for the 160th anniversary of
LeBonMarché, a famous retail store on the
Left-bank (Rive Gauche) of the Seine in Paris.
• Incidentally, this isn't the first time X and Y
have worked together, with Y having worked
in the adaptation of one of X's earlier works.
• Identify X (the artist) and Y (the model)

• X - Marjane Satrapi
• Y - Catherine Denueve
• Catherine Denueve voiced Mrs. Satrapi in the
film adaptation of the autobiographical
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.

3
• The _______- doctrine was formalized in Cuno
Engineering v. Automatic Devices, which held that
the inventive act had to come into the mind of an
inventor in a “______" and not as a result of
tinkering. "The new device, however useful it may
be, must reveal the _____, not merely the skill of
the calling. If it fails, it has not established its right
to a private grant on the public domain.“
• ____________ is also the name of a 2008 film
starring Greg Kinnear.
• FITB

4
• William Ernest Henley, an English poet, critic and
editor, a jovial fellow who had had his left leg
amputated from the knee after a childhood bout
of tuberculosis, was the authors inspiration for
this character. After the publication of ______,
the author wrote to his friend: “I will now make a
confession. It was the sight of your maimed
strength and masterfulness that begot the idea of
the maimed man, ruling and dreaded by the
sound, was entirely taken from you.”

Long John Silver; R L Stevenson

5
• Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempted to
recreate a painting by a famous artist by physically
constructing the setting to every single detail, in order to
prove that the artist created paintings with
'photographic' characteristics, as opposed to a human
eye view.
• As a first step, he made a 3D Model of the room that
would form the basis of the painting, before running a
step-by-step project where each object in the room was
built (with one or two articles being purchased).
• On the next slide is a picture of the 3D Model.
• Identify the painting he recreated & the artist.

• The Music Lesson
by Johannes
Vermeer .
• Here is the finished
setting with Tim
Jenison sitting in
the room.

6
• They Fought Like Demons is a 2003 book that
documents the stories of Jack Williams, Franklin
Thompson & Albert Cashier among roughly 250
soldiers who fought in the American Civil War.
• Who were these soldiers?
• Alternatively, give me the subtitle of the book.

• They were all women
soldiers who dressed as
men & fought in the
American Civil War. The
book is "They Fought Like
Demons: Women Soldiers
in the Civil War“.
• Jack Williams was Frances
Louisa Clayton, Franklin
Thompson was Sarah
Edmonds Seelye & Albert
Cashier was Jennie
Hodgers

7
• Ursula Andress was mentioned by name in the
novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and
described as a "beautiful movie star". As such,
Andress is the first of only two entertainers that
have actually starred in a Bond film to be
mentioned by Fleming in his James Bond novels.
• Who is the other actor who was mentioned by
Fleming? In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond
visits an exclusive ski resort in Switzerland where he
is told that X is a frequent visitor and in You Only
Live Twice, X is referred to as the only real
gentleman in Hollywood

8
• Payday 2 is a Co-op First Person Shooter video
game released in August 2013. As part of an
update on October 22nd 2014, that included a
Hitman perk deck (that among other things,
allows the player to dual-wield pistols), which
playable character was also added to the
game?

• John Wick.
• This was done 2 days prior to the worldwide
release of the film on October 24th.

9
• X share likenesses to notebooks that were popular
in Paris during the 19th and 20th centuries, handmade by
small French bookbinders who supplied the local
stationery shops.
• Around the turn of the 20th century, some notable users
of similar black notebooks include Oscar Wilde, Vincent
van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Henri
Matisse.
• X is fashioned after Bruce Chatwin's descriptions of the
notebooks he used in his travels. The name itself, is a
nickname that Chatwin uses in one of his most celebrated
writings, The Songlines (1986).
• Identify this famous brand whose collections have been
distributed in 22,000 stores across 95 countries.

10
• With its motto "All the best stories are true", the
prize covers current affairs, history, politics,
science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography
and the arts.
• The first Indian to be shortlisted for this prize was
Suketu Mehta for Maximum City: Bombay Lost
and Found.
• A) ID the prize
• B) Who is the second Indian to feature on the
shortlist and for what book?

11
• “Non-magic people (more commonly known as
Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in
medieval times, but not very good at recognizing it.
On the rare occasion that they did catch a real
witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever.
The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame-
Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with
pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation.
Indeed, Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned
so much that she allowed herself to be caught no
less than forty-seven times in various disguises”.
• What was J K Rowling believed to have been
inspired by while writing this?

12
• The Caproni Ca.309 X was an Italian aircraft used
in World War II. It was intended to serve as
a reconnaissance and ground-attack aircraft.
• The name of the aircraft served as the inspiration
for a movie studio famed for creating Academy
Award nominated movies in a certain genre.
• The name was given by Y, an honorary Oscar
award winner and a pioneer in this genre of
filmmaking.
• Additionally, the Italian noun “X" is based on the
Arabic name for the sirocco, or Mediterranean
wind, the idea being the studio would "blow a new
wind through the genre"

13
• In perhaps one of the more iconic scenes in the
film, the director pays homage to American
painter John Kacere, who worked in a photo-
realist style, focusing on the mid-section of
women’s bodies. Kacere’s work “Jutta” (1973)
comes to mind when looking at the beginning of
the film and it actually pops up at one point in
female protagonist’s hotel room during the
course of the film.
• Identify the film. Image of Jutta on the next slide.

14
• Identify the speaker in this track. The audio
track is part of Beyonce’s song called Flawless.

15
• This is a series of 13 prints by Damien Hirst
representing food items like Salad, Chicken,
Omlette,Mushrooms, etc. as tablets ready for
consumption.
• Like several of his other works, it is a
statement against something.
• What title does this series bear, borrowing
from a far more famous work?

• So long and thanks for all the fish

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