General Quiz

MELAS 2017
MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT
LITERATURE
ARTS
SPORTS

prelims
 20 questions
 5 starred questions in case of tie breakers
 No negatives

Q1
X is an Oromo word meaning "The Man". But wait. In Latin, the same word
means "Nobody"! In Homer's Odyssey, when Ulysses blinds the Cyclops, the
Cyclops asks him: "Who are you?", to which Ulysses replies (in the Latin
translation): “X.“
Give me X
Hint needed?

Q2
 Normally, X is formed by the aging of paints. It can be used to determine
the age of paintings and to detect art forgery, because X is a hard-to-forge
signature of authenticity. Different types of art can be distinguished on the
basis of their Xs :
 Italian: usually perpendicular to the grain of the panel
 Flemish: usually ordered network
 Dutch: usually connected network
 French: usually curved cracks
 Italian: can have small to large islands
 Give X/funda

Q3
 How do we better know Tracy McConnel?
Hint- she is the reason an entire TV show exists, or is sort of the subject of the
show.

Q5
what does this video hint to?

Q6
 Google doodle as a tribute to whom?

Q7 what formula?
 Team 2’s par score = team 1’s score*(team 2’s resources/team 1’s resources)

Q8 what’s X?
 In big Industries, to make Xs ; they paralyze(or stun) the bird (most
likely goose/Duck) and pluck some feathers from its left wings (not all are
plucked . The birds aren't killed . Also they are bred and kept in a very
secure environment (So they can't get infected and become useless ). they
are fed nicely too. They aren't plucked when the birds are conscious .

Q9*
 X claims to be born in Kuzcek to Asimbala and Boltok. He has a brother,
Bilo who is mentally retarded. He has attended Astana University where he
studied English, journalism and plague research. He is a famous “television
personality”

Q10*
 Bluebottle
 Cleansweep (1-11)
 Comet (140,180,260,290)
 Moontrimmer
 X series
 Shooting star
 Oakshaft ‘79
 What is X (most popular one) in this list?

Q11*
 Its earliest use can be seen in India, as a gesture very commonly used by
Gautama Buddha. The same usage can be seen in Italy and Mediterranean
culture as well where, when confronted with unfortunate events, or simply
when these events are mentioned, the X may be given to ward off bad
luck. In many Mediterranean and Latin countries, such as Argentina, Brazil,
Colombia, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay, when directed
towards someone and swiveled back and forth, the X implies cuckoldry (an
act of adultery by a woman). Ronnie James Dio was known for popularizing
X. X?

Q12
 The spasm
 The windmill
 The scissor kick
 The powerslide
 The bow
 The duckwalk
List of what?
(not limited to these)

Q13
 Julian
 Anne
 Dick
 Georgina
 Timmy
Connect

Q14*
 2 ________ is a Persian word and it was given as an honorary title to a
person who has achieved a mastery over languages , especially in British
India. In modern Persian, this word is also used to address clerks and
secretaries and those persons also use it as their surname . It became a
surname to those people whose ancestors had received this title. Which
famous Indian author holds this title as an honorary prefix?

Q15 give me advertiser and actor
(part points)

16
 Who is this reading whose tweet as whom?

17
 5 X is a musician who got his stage name because he once performed a in
yellow and black striped sweater, early in his career. From then on, the
name X stuck, so much so that when a journalist called him ‘Gordan’ (his
real name), he replied that “My children call me X, my mother calls me X,
who is this Gordon character?”. He went on to say that you could shout
‘Gordon’ in the street and I would just move out of your way. X?

18
 Mary Westmacott
 Richard Bachman
 Pablo Neruda
 Mark Twain
 Ayn Rand
And many more…..
List of what?

19
 This ad for Van Heusen , made by Y features X whom I have blanked out.
This ad belongs to the time when X was still an actor in the 50s and 60s
after which he changed his field to another
 Give X and Y, half points

20
 X is a fictional town situated in Massachusetts. It is an integral part of the
Lovecraft Country (a term coined by Keith Herber for the New England
setting, combining real and fictitious locations) setting created by H. P.
Lovecraft, and it is featured in many of his stories and those of other
Cthulhu Mythos writers.
 The Elizabeth X Y for the Criminally Insane is where it is more famous.
 Give me X (Y would be a give away)

Pierre de Coubertin medal(modern
olympic games)

Speculation that Da Vinci was gay

Q7
 Team 2’s par score = team 1’s score*(team 2’s resources/team 1’s
resources)

Q8 what’s X?
 In big Industries, to make Xs ; they paralyze(or stun) the bird (most
likely goose/Duck) and pluck some feathers from its left wings (not all are
plucked . The birds aren't killed . Also they are bred and kept in A very
secure environment (So they can't get infected and become useless ). they
are fed nicely too. They aren't plucked when the birds are conscious .

Badminton
shuttlecocks/shuttles/birdies

Q11*
 Its earliest use can be seen in India, as a gesture very commonly used by
Gautama Buddha. The same usage can be seen in Italy and Mediterranean
culture as well where, when confronted with unfortunate events, or simply
when these events are mentioned, the X may be given to ward off bad
luck. In many Mediterranean and Latin countries, such as Argentina, Brazil,
Colombia, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay,when directed
towards someone and swiveled back and forth, the X implies cuckoldry.
Ronnie James Dio was known for popularizing X. X?

Q14*
 2 ________ is a Persian word and it was given as an honorary title to a
person who has achieved a mastery over languages , especially in British
India. In modern Persian, this word is also used to address clerks and
secretaries and those persons also use it as their surname . It became a
surname to those people whose ancestors had received this title. Which
famous Indian author holds this title ?

Round 1
Infinite bounce
+10/0 on direct
+10/-10 on pounce
Pounce to death

 FOR THE ENTIRITY OF THIS QUIZ, DOGE MEMES WILL SERVE AS FILLER
SLIDES.
 SO FILLER
 WOW

Q2
 The word X comes from the French word meaning 'a unit', from the name
of a small roman coin. It originally meant the side of dice with only one
mark. Since this was the lowest roll of the die, it traditionally meant 'bad
luck' . But X was often used in a different context and slowly its meaning
has since changed to mean 'high-quality, excellence'. This connotation has
seen the word applied more generally as a person proficient in their field,
especially a sporting field. X?

Q3
 The X is a dark brown oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped limbs,
invariably ending up broken in half or in various other states of destruction
and disfiguration. Although X is inanimate, Y often pretends it is alive. Y
behaves as if X is real, buying it a Christmas present or trying not to wake it
in the mornings. X is often privy to Y’s various schemes and doubles as a
dish cloth or paint brush in an emergency and it has also been
decapitated. X. ID X and Y

Q4
 Bone of the father, conditionX + Flesh of the servant, conditionY + Blood
of the enemy, conditionZ = ?

Recipe to make Voldemort
 ?= Voldemort
 X=unknowingly given
 Y=willingly sacrificed
 Z=forcibly taken

Q5
 The guest Doodler for Xs google doogle is Aaron Renier, another artist
known for portraying large crowds. “I approached X’s work by pretending I
was drawing with him,” says Renier. “I chose his most popular style, very
flat with criss-crossing interactions.” In this homage to him, we see a rich
litany of people, each unique in their perspective. “That is what I liked most
about his work,” Renier explains, “trying to pick out who knows who, who's
watching who, who's annoyed by who, who's enamored by who. Hopefully
people will see something of Xs spirit in it.”

Round 2
 Anti clockwise
 No infinite bounce
 Pounce to death
 +20/-10 on direct
 +20/-20 on pounce

Q1
 This term refers to a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid
changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or “chest voice”)
and the high pitch head register or falsetto. It started off as a longtime
rural tradition in the Alps, and became popular in the 1830s as an
entertainment in theaters and music halls. In India, this technique was
introduced into playback singing by Tamil comedian JP Chandrababu, but
is more commonly associated with playback singer Abhas Kumar Ganguly

ANS-yodelling
Abhas kumar Ganguly- Kishore Kumar

Q2
 Despite being a well-loved writer, it seems that X wasn’t a very pleasant
person. She cheated on her husband, and when they were going through a
divorce she tried to stop him seeing their children. Her daughter, Imogen,
she was “arrogant, insecure and pretentious”
 She is reported to have Alzheimer’s disease and was moved to a nursing
home where she died on 28th of November 1968 at the age of 70. She was
a bestselling author with over 600 million copies of her books sold.

Q4 who produced this song? (he is
also said to have added a guitar rift
here)

Q5
 Born In Motihari , Bihar in 1903, he adopted the pen name X because, as
he told Eleanor Jacques, "It is a good round English name.”
 X's work continues to influence popular and political culture
 one of his works has recently been in Indian news after an Indian actress
suggested it as a book for school curriculum.
 Identify the novel and the author (part points will be awarded)

 George Orwell
 Animal Farm
 Shilpa Shetty

Round 3
 Random link list
 Pick up a chit and the number you get is the question which you get to
answer first(for example if you pick up 3 yours will be the first team to
answer question no 3 )
 From there on normal link list
 +30/-30,+25/-25,+20/-20,+15/-15,+10/-10 on each consecutive pass
 No pounce
 You can choose which team to pass to

Q1
 This item of clothing was popularized, when an extremely famous Indian
posed for Vogue in 1964 wearing his trademark garment, making it an
instant hit. A year later the fashion skyrocketed when it was sported by the
Beatles when they performed in New York and later by talk show host
Johnny Carson, footballer Joe Namath, The Monkees and singer Sammy
Davis Jr. (who was reported to own two hundred of them). After the fad
ended within a few years, it became a symbol of dated clothing. In the
Austin Powers movies of the late 1990s and early 2000s, about a spy who
is frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in the 1990s, a character wears this
garment at almost all times.

Q2
 The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that X wrote about
Professor Challenger.It was written in 1913, set in a time where the earth
passes through a poisonous belt called ‘ether’, roughly a year before the
outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a single room in
Challenger's house in Sussex – rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost
World, a story set largely outdoors in the wilds of South America. This
would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which
time X's spiritualist beliefs had begun to influence his writing

Q3 identify the “instruments” used in
this orchestra

Q4
 The sound of the X traveling, comes from two tracks of the engine noise of
a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, with one track slightly out of synchronization
with the other to introduce a phasing effect. To this, sound designer Ben
Burtt added the hum of the cooling fans on the motion-control rig at
Industrial Light & Magic

Q5
 Unlike other Hindi sitcoms, which continuously air throughout the year, X
is one of the earliest shows on Indian television to adopt the Western
model of appearing in seasons.
 It is widely considered by audiences and television critics to be one of the
finest examples of true situation comedy in India.
 It does not use a laugh track like many Indian comedy shows, but instead
relies on its deadpan humour and its witty lines to become its unique
selling point
 It also shares its name with a dish

Round 4
 10 QUESTIONS
 NO POUNCE
 INFINITE BOUNCE
 +20/-10

Q1
 “I find myself privileged enough to be working along with someone I have
idolised all my career and that is Rahul Dravid. We had a couple of chats
and it is good to hear from him as a person and as a player on what are
the areas that I would look to improve on in terms of playing spin and I
spoke to Rahul about,” X said on the eve of Delhi Daredevils IPL opener
against Kolkata Knight Riders. X became famous because of his explosive
last over efforts in a major cricket tournament final last year.

One ring to rule them all, one ring to
find them, One ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

Q3 this tt racquet has a grip which
differs from that of the average tt
racquet. Why?

Q4
 ICHIBAN means “ first” in Japanese.
 It is also the name of a restaurant in Delhi, where Chinese, Japanese and
Thai food is available.
 Connect ICHIBAN to something(a product) which is highlighted in a very
famous TV Series by a very famous character.
 (points only if both product and show given)

Q5 What is the name of IIT Bombay’s
quiz club, which is a punny version of
X, Which is one of the best-selling
novels of all time?
(give both)

Q6
 Operation Nifty Package was a United States Delta Force-operated plan
conducted in 1989 designed to capture Panamanian leader Manuel
Noriega. When Noriega took refuge in the Apostolic Nunciature of the
Holy See (diplomatic quarter), psychological warfare tactics were used to
convince him to exit and surrender himself. What role did Angus Young,
Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams play in this surrender?

The US military blared AC/DC songs as
part of the psychological warfare for 2
days before he surrendered.

Jeremy Clarkson where he slapped the
director of TopGear

Q8
 The Billie Awards, named after legendary tennis player Billie Jean King,
honours media excellence in the portrayal of girls and women in sports
and physical activity. It is given in four categories - breakthrough and
innovation, entertainment, journalism and outstanding journalist. What
won the award in the entertainment category in 2008?

Q9
 This is the mascot of a certain baseball team called the las vegas Xs
because of something one may find 80 kilometres North of Las Vegas.

Q10 -why this concert special ?, +5 for the song
and the band

Metallica, concert in antartica, nothing
else matters

Final round
 Random link list
 Pick up a chit and the number you get is the question which you get to
answer first(for example if you pick up 3 yours will be the first team to
answer question no 3 )
 From there on normal link list
 +30/-30,+25/-25,+20/-20,+15/-15,+10/-10 on each consecutive pass
 No pounce
 You can choose which team to pass to

Q1
 To create the image Fitzpatrick made a paper negative on a piece of
equipment called a grant. Fitzpatrick "wanted the image to breed like
rabbits" and hand printed thousands of images to give away to anyone for
free in London, in addition to getting friends to pass them out while
encouraging others to make their own versions.. Fitzpatrick never
copyrighted the image because he wanted it to be mass produced. What
image?

Che Guevara- Guerrillero Heroico

Q2
 X’s last masterpiece is the Y now hangs in the Vatican Museum. The Y
shows a new sensibility that is like the prevision of a new world, turbulent
and dynamic; in its feeling and composition it inaugurated the Mannerist
movement and tends toward an expression that may even be called
Baroque. Y is also a subject taught at the Hogwarts school of witchcraft
and Wizardry. Identify X and Y.

X = Raphael, y= Transiguration

Q3
Series creator David Shore has said in an interview that X's character is partly
inspired by Y. The name “X" is a play on “Y”. Both Y and X are experts who are
brought into cases that have proven too difficult for other investigators. Both
characters exhibit remarkable powers of observation and deduction, a
tendency to come to rapid conclusions after the briefest examination of the
circumstances, drug use, talent with a musical instrument , and only one real
friend, who connects the detached hero to human concerns

X=Gregory House y=Sherlock Holmes

Q4 image on next slide
 This is a 2013 art-installation by Milwaukee artist Niki Johnson, who was
appalled on hearing a particular speech made by the subject of this
painting while on a tour to Africa in 2009. Consequently, Johnson used
17,000 _______ to come up with this work, which is meant to be viewed
from the front as well as the back, where the open ends of the material
used gives the portrait a more abstract feel. What is the material used?

Q5
 The lines "We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time
you like / But you can never leave!" were used by an economist to refer to
how the appeal of a host country to foreign investors may be countered by
the cost of exit on leaving the country. A term "X Effect" was then used to
refer to the negative effect of financial regulations on investment, and the
problems foreigner investors faced when getting their money out of China.
It has also applied to other ideas such as leaving a service provider or
social media network.

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