Lit Quiz

RULES
● There are 20 questions in this round.
● +1 , 0 and part points wherever applicable.
● There is no negative marking, feel free to guess.
● After the question is read, you will have one minute to discuss with your team
and answer.
● You must send your answer on Whatsapp to your designated panelist in the
following format:
Team Number_Question Number_Your Answer
Ex: 8_17_Roald Dahl
● If there are two parts to a question, send them together in a single message.
● Do not google.

QUESTION 1
This author was the first to make use of new findings and innovations which she
advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes X the first true Y
story. Asimov has been quoted saying:
X is the first seminal work to which the label Y can be logically attached. Although
normally associated with the gothic genre, X introduces Y themes such as the alien
as antagonist and furnishing a view of the human condition from an outside
perspective.
ID X (the novel) and Y.

ANSWER
Y - Frankenstein
Z - Science Fiction

QUESTION 2
The species name of the _______ ________ wasp was chosen because of its
unusual behavior towards cockroaches. As it stings its prey, it releases a toxin into
the cockroach's neural nodes, which blocks the victim's stress hormone receptors.
The cockroach is left alive, but docile and with impaired motility.
This behavioural resemblance of the wasp with that of X (a creature from a
massively popular franchise) is what gives the wasp its name.
ID X / give the species name of this wasp.

QUESTION 3
Connect the following / ID X
1. Adam Worth, an 1844 born German master criminal.
2. Jonathan Wild, a notable London Underworld ﬁgure, of the 18th century.
3. Simon Newcomb, a multi-talented genius, with a special mastery of mathematics,
and a reputation for spite and malice.
4. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Srinivasa Ramanujan and George Boole, whose work in a
certain common ﬁeld are parallel to X

ANSWER
Inspirations for the character of James Moriarty.

QUESTION 4
Xs were popularised in the Victorian era (1800s) of serialised novels, and it's
popularisation is commonly attributed to Y, a pioneer of the serial publication of
ﬁction. X's created reader anticipation and thus demand, generating a plot and
subplot. This was particularly helpful when the release of the novel was episodic.
The term X, however is considered to have originated not by Y but with the
serialised version of Thomas Hardy's ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’ in which one of the
protagonists, is literally left _______ off a _____.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
Cliff-hangers
Charles Dickens’ perfected the art of writing cliffhanger endings for his serialised
novel ‘The Pickwick Papers’.

QUESTION 5
For the centenary of the birth of the author Jules Verne, in 1928 a Danish
newspaper organized a contest for young adventurers. That’s how a 16-year-old
Danish youth, won a trip around the world.
The story of this teenager became famous and the young man appeared in all the
European newspapers. This story inspired another European to create a series,
which then went on to be one of the most popular series of its kind in the 20th
century.
Which series is being talked about here?

QUESTION 6
Before World War II, X were not considered a social demographic, and there were
no books being published with them in mind. That changed in 1942 when a book by
Maureen Daly was released. The book is about first love and is considered to be the
first true novel specifically aimed at X.
The term “Y” was then coined later in the 1960s to describe this group, and the
literature of the time focused on mature and realistic themes for this group.
ID the phrase Y

ANSWER
Y = Young Adult
X = Teenagers

QUESTION 7
His early 20th century novels revolving around the X were so successful that the
author decided on a similar series for girls. Although he believed that a woman's
place was at home, he was aware of the popularity of the X novels among female
readers and wished to capitalize on it. Thus, the character Y was born.
Critics suggest that the X embody American ideals of boyhood and masculinity and
the possibility of the triumph of good over evil, while Y embodies simple wish
fulﬁlment and contradictory ideas about femininity.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
X - Hardy Boys
Y - Nancy Drew

QUESTION 8
Following X's inauguration, this particular genre of novels gained a surge of
popularity.
The reason is likely due to the highly controversial nature of X, since this genre is
known for its depth of political and societal exploration. This genre's stories often
can be springboards for change, offer warnings against governmental control or
even offer potential solutions to a turbulent political climate.
ID X and the genre.

QUESTION 9
A lesser-known fact about this early 19th-century author who was famous for his
book about a Dutchman who fell asleep for 20 years, is that he was also the first to
call New York City; X.
X which was inspired by the name of a village in Nottinghamshire was first
introduced by the author in 1807 in one of his periodicals. More than a century later
it was adopted by a popular franchise in their stories as a fictional depiction of the
geographical locations of New York and New Jersey and the name of the
hometown of one of their protagonists.
ID this famous fictional place X

QUESTION 10
"I go to seek a _____ _______."
"On the contrary..."
"Damn it, how will I ever get out of this
labyrinth!"
"Yes, and I fear seriously."
"We are all going."
"They couldn’t hit an elephant from
this dis—"
"Lord help my poor soul."
"Now comes the mystery."
"I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I
do believe that’s a record."
"Oh God. What’s happened?"
"It’s very beautiful over there.”
Connect the following non exhaustive list. (bonus for FITB)

ANSWER
Famous last lines quoted by Miles in Looking for Alaska
(famous last words is enough)
Blanks: great perhaps

QUESTION 11
When X saw on Twitter, that a film adaptation of Y was in the works, s/he
called their agent asking to contribute to the film. Thus, X served as one of the
executive producers of the film, and also bagged a major role in the movie.
"The book had a profound effect on me. It made me uncomfortable and made
me think about a part of the world that we sort of desensitize ourselves to.
When I read the book, I was fascinated with the perspective of the narrative."
ID X, and which recently adapted novel ‘Y’ is being talked about?

ANSWER
X - Priyanka Chopra
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

QUESTION 12
John _______ is an American graphic designer who worked with X when he was dabbling in
a musical career. Together they released a CD titled Y, which would later also be the title of X's
ﬁrst commercially successful novel released in 2001.
John created the ambigrams (words that read the same, both right side up and upside down)
for the CD's artwork. Later these ambigrams were re-used in the novel Y's cover pages and
even within the plot.
As a testament to John's art, X gave his protagonist the same surname as John.
'John’s art changed the way I think about symmetry, symbols, and art – he looks at
[everything] from different perspectives. I was so impressed by the artwork of John
_______ that I commissioned him to create an album cover for my new CD of music (called
Y), which dealt with many of the religious themes that already interested me.
ID X, and name this recurring protagonist.

ANSWER
X - Dan Brown
Robert Langdon

QUESTION 13
This (image) is a Canadian folk band.
In 2005, Warner Bros. offered CAD$5,000 to the band for the rights to use their
name in the ﬁlm version of the book X which involved a scene in which a band of
the same name appeared at a dance. However, the offer was refused, and
instead the band ﬁled a legal case against Warner Bros. The band even reported
death threats from passionate fans of the book who were angry.
The name of this band was also the name given to the three prophetic witches in
the play Macbeth.
Which book, and which band?

ANSWER
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Weird Sisters

QUESTION 14
The movie adaptation of this 2014 novel has a slightly different, and more positive,
ending than the original. The director said in an interview, "I would not have wanted
to do an ___________ movie that didn't have a hopeful ending."
The movie depicts a scenario where people with a certain (otherwise debilitating)
condition are shown to have an advantage, while the novel ends with people
inﬂicting the condition upon themselves.
ID the book and the original ending.

ANSWER
Bird Box
In the novel, the survivors blind
themselves to avoid seeing the Creatures

QUESTION 15
Unmarried herself, author X had one particular request that she resented deeply:
young girls who read her novel wanted to see characters Y and Z married in the
sequel. A radical feminist, she was unwilling to oblige, and wrote in her journal that
she wouldn't marry Y and Z to please anyone. Instead, she "made a funny match"
of Y with someone older "out of perversity", as she described in a letter to her friend.
This literary decision is one that breaks hearts to this day.
ID characters Y and Z.

ANSWER
Jo and Laurie from Little Women

QUESTION 16
These are some lyrics from the song __:
And I have so many questions
About life, the universe
And everything
I look up at the
Stars at night
And I sometimes wonder if the
Atheists were right
What is the title of the song?/ FITB.
So hey I think I found my __ It's you,
It's you, it's you, it's you It's you
Hey we can _________ far past the
Moon* Cause it's you, it's you, it's you
My __

ANSWER
42
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

QUESTION 17
When asked about the purpose of this museum X, the founder says -"...Books play a
very important role in this. They represent a direct connection to the mind of the
author, and the crystalized ideas they deemed worthy of sharing....We started the
museum because there should be some small corner of the world, some tiny little
place where these ideas can be _________, and contemplated."
What does the museum specialise in? (Image in the next slide)

QUESTION 18
The author was conveying his own frustrations about the over-commercialisation
of Y when he created his most renowned character X.
"I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noted
a very Xish countenance in the mirror. It was me!" said the famous children's
novelist in a 1957 interview. "Something had gone wrong with Y, I realized, or more
likely with me. So I wrote the story about my sour friend, X, to see if I could
rediscover something about Y that obviously I'd lost.”

ANSWER
X - Grinch
Y - Christmas

QUESTION 19
Two authors met every Monday morning for a while to talk about writing. Soon
others started to join them and they then met every Thursday evening to share and
discuss their work and hence a writing group called ________ , also associated
with a famous university was formed in the 1930s.
At the time they were both working on their soon to be some of the most famous
novels which also coincidentally belonged to the same genre.
ID the two authors and genre.

ANSWER
J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S Lewis
Genre - Fantasy

QUESTION 20
The author ﬁrst thought of this 19th century story X when he was staying at a
country estate, where he enjoyed spending time watching the beauty of nature. He
spent a year writing X and later told friends it was a reﬂection of his own life.
The story recognised his own impoverished childhood and his misery after his
father's death. He described attending school as being the most "bitter" and
"darkest" experience of his life. He became depressed, but writing helped him to
express himself and he later became a popular published author.
ID X.

RULES
● The pounce will be clockwise.
● 10 questions on direct. One direct question per team.
● If you want to answer a question not directed to you, you can either pounce to
your designated panelist or wait for your turn in bounce.
● Pounce is open for 45 seconds after question is read.
● Pounce format: @Your panelist Your answer
● If there are two parts to a question, make sure your pounce contains both the
parts (in a single message).
● +10 or 0 points on direct or bounce.
● +10 or -5 points on pounce.
● Part points on bounce as applicable. No part points on pounce.
● Reminder: Do not Google. :)

QUESTION 1
ID the literary ﬁgure being referred to in the ad.

QUESTION 2
‘The Huckleberry Finn ‘(1885) has been banned multiple times due to the fact that it
contains a certain offensive word which is repeated over 200 times.
Around 10 years ago, an editor made a change in the book introducing The
_______ Huckleberry Finn, where the offensive word was replaced with the word
in the blanks. This made the book classroom friendly as well as cool and trendy.
ID the offensive word as well as the replacement used (blank).

ANSWER
N-word
Hipster Huckleberry Finn

QUESTION 3
The following lines are from the 2016 work X where the protagonist X is describing
his political career and clashes with his colleagues.
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy
Without my having to name the play
They think me Y, ambition is my folly
I'm a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain”

QUESTION 3 contd.
The third line is a clever reference to a theatre superstition called the Scottish curse
which says that speaking the name of the play Y inside a theatre, will cause disaster.
Uttering the name of Y did not cause any disasters in the production of X, but it is a
foreshadowing to the 'destruction' of X's career and personal life after this song.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
X - Hamilton
Y - Macbeth by Shakespeare

QUESTION 4
Although X said that his main character Y was based on 'nobody in particular', he
most likely used aspects of his fishing buddy Gregorio Fuentes when developing the
character. Fuentes, a lifelong cigar smoker, was also gaunt and thin, had blue eyes,
came from the Canary Islands, and had a long history as a fisherman. Even though
he died never having read X's book, the two often discussed the story while they
were out fishing.
However, some say the actual inspiration was X's first mate, the original captain of
the boat before Fuentes - Carlos, since he was already an ___ ___ when X met
him.
ID X and the character that is being talked about?

ANSWER
X - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man (Santiago) from
The Old Man and the Sea

QUESTION 5
Bungou Stray Dogs is an anime based on the supernatural action manga of the
same name that follows a group of skilled agents gifted with supernatural powers
which they use to solve mysteries, ﬁght Yokohama’s underground maﬁa, and
occasionally blast a building or two into the sky.
The interesting part of this series is that all the characters are named after popular
authors, with their supernatural abilities usually named after their most famous
works.

QUESTION 5 contd.
One of the main antagonists of the series is X, a young (shady) businessman and
millionaire, who parades through the streets of Yokohama, just as the ‘real-life’ X’s
______ probably paraded through the streets of New York City during the Roaring
Twenties. X's ability is also a modiﬁcation of the author's (X) most famous work to
include the author's name instead of his character.
Give X and his ability.
Another one of the antagonists is Y, an extremely famous Russian writer. His
character in the anime has an ability named after arguably his most famous work,
_____ ___ __________, which is suspected to allow him to kill anyone on touch.
He calls himself a god and always talks about the sinful nature of man, which is why
he believes they need to be taught a lesson.
Give Y and his ability.

ANSWER
X - Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Fitzgerald
Y - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

QUESTION 6
"Fish Out of Water" is the fourth episode of the third season of the American series
BoJack Horseman. The episode features BoJack travelling to a film festival in the
ocean, where he wears an oxygen-filled bubble to continue breathing. Fitting to the
theme of the episode, it features a painting which is a spoof of George Bellows'
Stag at Sharkey's.
The spoof, like other references in Bojack, is a modification involving an animal but
is also a literary reference. The boxers were replaced by two literary characters
fighting it out.
What literary pair did the painting refer to?

ANSWER
Capt. Ahab and his whale.
(Moby Dick)

QUESTION 7
X was a Latin American diplomat and politician who was more famously known for
his surrealist, historical, and romantic style of writing and poetry. X always wrote in
_____ ___ because it stood for the concept of ‘Verde Esperanza’ literally
meaning _____ hope and apparently helped his creative process.
Later in 2010, two children's authors paid tribute to this great poet by publishing
their book about X's childhood in _____ ___.
ID X and Fill in the blanks (5,3). Both blanks contain the same two worded phrase.

ANSWER
X - Pablo Neruda
Blanks - Green ink

QUESTION 8
ID the now common phrases that were popularised by Shakespeare in his plays
from the excerpts given in the next slide.
Fill in the two orange blanks in the two excerpts on the next slide.
All the black blanks are the same word.

QUESTION 9
Characters X and Y are commonly mistaken for each other, due to the fact that
they share similarities in name, visual appearance and demeanour, and the fact
that they appear in consecutive novels of the same mid-19th century series. This
confusion was perpetuated by the Disney animated ﬁlm, where X delivers several of
Y's statements; and further perpetuated by the live-action ﬁlm adaptation, where X
and Y are played by the same actress.
ID the characters.

ANSWER
The Queen of Hearts (from Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland) and
the Red Queen (from Alice
Through the Looking Glass)
Both characters were played by
Helena Bonham Carter

QUESTION 10
This popular trope surged in usage as a way to reconcile with the Hays code and
recently since been heavily criticized. The trope involved killing certain characters
thus making them less important. One of the earliest instances of this trope is a
gothic novel X published in the late 19th century that created a scandal in Victorian
England. Some of the book reviewers said that the author deserved prosecution for
violating laws guarding public morality.
ID X and the trope (description will do).
Context: Hays code was censorship carried out by hollywood, it outlined topics that
are not allowed to be shown on screen.

ANSWER
X - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Trope - Bury your gays

RULES
● This is a buzzer round.
● +10, +7 points will be awarded based on recognition order by the Mod.
● Only one member from each team must go to -
https://www.cosmobuzz.net/#/play and write your team number as your
name and join using the Room Code provided by Mod.
● To answer a question in this round, your team must be recognized. The mod will
ask a question such as, “Name 2 fruits that start with the letter A.” Then the
representative from your team can buzz.
● The main question will be read aloud and shown ﬁrst for about 30s.
Immediately after the viewing time gets over, it will be hidden and the mod will
ask the recognizing question. If Team 1 buzzes ﬁrst, they must unmute and give
the answer to the recognizing question immediately. If they get that right they
will be allowed to attempt the main question

RULES contd.
● If Team 1 answers the main question correctly, they get +10 points. And we
move on to a new main question.
● However, If they do not, a new recognizing question will be asked with Team 1
not being able to participate with the buzzer. The next team to have buzzed 1st
will follow the same process and attempt the main question. If they get it right
they will be given +7 points.
● This process repeats and only 2 attempts will be allowed for each main
question.
● However, if Two teams are unable to answer correctly, the question will be open
to all, but no points will be awarded on getting it correct.

QUESTION 6
a) A lunatic businessman tortures children slowly in front of their parents.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
b) Older sister ruins younger sister's chance of being on television.
Hunger Games trilogy

QUESTION 7
a) Town gets terrorised periodically by a dancing shapeshifter.
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b) Couple discovers the utility of common Christmas shopping lists.
The Gift of Magi

QUESTION 8
a) A man can't stand living on his own, so he tries to get back home.
The Martian
b) Awkward teenage girl thinks boys are just whatever but falls for an
108-year-old man.
Twilight saga

QUESTION 9
a) Indecisive high schooler must decide on a career or be homeless.
Divergent
b) Narcissistic kid has horrible peers and lives to write about it (probably our ﬁrst
encounter with an unreliable narrator).
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

QUESTION 10
a) Teacher grooms 6 year old to get promoted and steal a house from a relative.
Matilda
b) An agrarian community learns the power of innovative web design to save a
life.
Charlotte’s Web

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