MELA Quiz by HeadRush

M.E.L.A. Quiz
HeadRush, DA-IICT
QM: Kunal Doshi

Rules
 25 questions in the prelims.
 Star-marked questions will be used in case of ties
 Please mark all starred questions on the answer
sheet.
 Quizmaster’s decision is final.

The YouTube links for video
questions can be found in the
presentation transcript. The
title of the video may contain
answers.

1. A tribute to which famous movie?

2.
__________ is a translation of the Latin phrase "Quis custodiet
ipsos custodes?" made famous by the Roman Poet Juvenal in his
satires.
Contextually it referred to the notion that male guards should not
guard women against sexual assault as they themselves are capable
of committing such crimes.
Give me the quote made famous by a graphic novel.

*3. This poster of a Telugu movie has been inspired from
the poster of which Hollywood movie?

4. Name the two people about whom this movie was
made. Bonus point for identifying the controversy on
which the movie was based.

4. Jay Leno and David Letterman
David Letterman the host of the Late Night Show wasn’t made
the host of The Tonight Show. Instead regular guest host Jay
Leno was asked to host after Johnny Carson’s departure.

5. What is this is a top 10 list of?
1. The Beatles
2. Elvis Presley
3. Michael Jackson
4. Madonna
5. Elton John
6. Led Zeppelin
7. Pink Floyd
8. Mariah Carey
9. Celine Dion
10. Whitney Houston

5. These are the best-selling music
artists.

6.
X, an American author was born shortly after a visit by Y
in 1835, and he predicted that he would "go out with it,"
too. He died the day following Y’s subsequent return in
1910.
X,Y?

X - Mark Twain
Y- Halley’s Comet

7. Where is this music video inspired from?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ursHXBzddp8

7. Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video

8. These pictures are illustrations of
which famous novel.

9. This episode of Glee pays tribute to
which artist?

10. Which famous author’s statue is this?

11. This picture is a mashup of the works of which
author. (Larger pic on next slide)

12.
The following describes an album cover: The photographer took
a series of pictures of the group dressed in butcher smocks and
draped with pieces of meat and body parts from plastic baby
dolls. A photograph of the band smiling amid the mock carnage
was used as promotional advertisements. The band described it
as "our comment on the Vietnam war.
Give me the band and the album

12. Beatles’ Yesterday and Today album
cover (Butcher cover)

13.
The second installment of the game proved to be the installment that
truly established this franchise as fighting-game royalty, and its innovative
use of “combo” attacks was a big part of that success. This came as a
surprise to the developers of the game, who considered the “combo”
system an easily overlooked, acceptable bug in the programming. The
system of timing certain button sequences in order to string attacks
together was uncovered while testing the game at a late stage, and the
developers decided to leave it in the game as an Easter Egg of sorts. What
started out as an accident soon became the hallmark of the games, and
future installments of the game made combos an intentional, finely tuned
element of each sequel.
Name the game.

14. Absolut’s tribute to which artist?

15. These are pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch from upcoming
movie ‘The Imitation Game’. Which real-life person does he play
in the movie.

16. Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover

17. Whose description?
X is described as either dark, bone-white or pale yellow. He wore
dark clothes and was often seen in poor light. He has pockets, in
which he keeps a tooth-sharpening-rock, wet shells, and a scrap of
bat wing. He is thin, with only six teeth sharpened into points. The
author describes him as a small slimy creature and emaciated and
gaunt, but possessing a vicious, wiry strength.

18.
The guy in the picture is YouTube
user PewDiePie. What type of
content does he post on YouTube
and why is he currently in the
news?

18. His channel has the highest number of
subscribers. He posts ‘Let’s Play’ type gaming
videos.

19. Give the second and most famous movie
of this trilogy.
1. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2. X
3. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Pokemon game versions
 Red and Blue
 Gold and Silver
 Ruby and Sapphire
 Diamond and Pearl

21. Whose job profile?
 Baby Proofer
 Bartender
 Beef Jerky Manufacturer
 Blackjack Dealer
 Boxer
 Butler
 Ice cream Truck Driver
 Garbage Commissioner
 Grease Collector
 Guard
 Coach
 Farmer
 Food Critic
 Fisherman
 Inventor
 Mall Santa Claus
 Oil rig worker
 Food Critic
And many more

22.
Music Is Better Than Words is the debut album of a famous
personality. When asked what type of music he’d like to do,
he said "a classic Sinatra-style album". Identify the singer.

23. Give me the two blanks in this tweet
by deadmau5.

24. Which movie is this scene inspired
from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6iezwGOtcc

The following slides have pictures of actors playing a
particular person in history. Identify the person.
+5 for each
+10 for all

Infinite Pounce 1
Clockwise
12 questions

1.
HitRecord is an online collaborative production company founded
and owned by a famous actor/director . The production company
uses video, music, literature, photography, performance, spoken
word, screenwriting, graphic art, etc. from different artists around
the world to make various projects and workings such as short
films, books, and DVDs. HitRecord also produced a full-length
feature film which released in 2013. The site now hosts nearly
80,000+ members and pulls in about 1,000 videos, songs, text pieces
and artworks daily.
Identify the actor/director who founded this company.

The Dark Slide
The slide this quiz deserves, but not the one it needs.

2.
The artist about a song:
I wasn't just trying to get that racy word X in a lyric. I was saying ... that I
may not really be a X — I've been battered romantically and emotionally
like many people — but I'm starting a new relationship and it just feels so
good, it's healing all the wounds and making me feel like I've never done
this before, because it's so much deeper and more profound than anything
I've ever felt.
Give me the name of the artist and the song.
Hint: Connect this to a very famous monologue in a movie.

2. Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’
 Movie being ‘Reservoir Dogs’

3.
One of the band members had an issue of Astounding Science
Fiction (October 1953) whose cover-art depicted a giant
intelligent robot holding the dead body of a man which was done
by American sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas. The caption read:
"Please... fix it, Daddy?" to illustrate the story "The Gulf
Between" by Tom Godwin.
Which album’s cover was derived from this painting?
Hint: Picture of original art on next slide (if nobody objects).

3. Queen – News of the World

4. Given is a clip from That 70s Show.
Which artwork is being recreated in this scene.
Give painter as well.

4. Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

5.
Somnium was a fantasy novel written in Latin. In the narrative, an
Icelandic boy and his witch mother learn of an island named
Levania (our Moon) from a daemon (demon). Somnium presents a
detailed imaginative description of how the Earth might look when
viewed from the Moon, and is considered the first serious scientific
treatise on lunar astronomy. Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov have
referred to it as the first work of science fiction.
Identify the author of this novel.

6.
Once John Lennon got a letter from Quarry Bank High School,
Liverpool that their professor was making the students analyse
Beatles’ lyrics. So John intentionally made the most confusing lyrics
he could and added a lot of gibberish to it.
A few lyrics from the song are:
‘Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye’
‘Elementary Penguin singing Hari Krishna’
Name the song.

7. This subreddit is about which scene from a
movie?

7. Being John Malkovich’s scene where John
Malkovich goes down his own wormhole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug

The man in the picture is
Ian William
Richardson, CBE. He is a
leading Scottish
Shakespearean stage actor.
However he is best
remembered for playing a
character in 1990 which
again rose to prominence in
2013. Which character?
8.

9. Francis Urquhart. Francis Underwood
in ‘House of Cards (US)’

9. Identify the person that Leonardo
Dicaprio is talking to in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BkfJBAgJs

10. Identify the artist(s) of this song and
the movie associated with this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1BCAgu2I8

10. Simon and Garfunkel and the movie
is The Graduate

11. What is this a list of? (Exhaustive)
 Richard Rodgers
 Helen Hayes
 Rita Moreno
 John Gielgud
 Audrey Hepburn
 Marvin Hamlisch
 Jonathan Tunick
 Mel Brooks
 Mike Nichols
 Whoopi Goldberg
 Scott Rudin
 Robert Lopez
 Barbra Streisand
 Liza Minnelli
 James Earl Jones

11. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
award winners (EGOT)

12.
The "Space Trilogy" is a series of science fiction novels written by
C.S. Lewis. It dealt with what Lewis saw as the de-humanising
trends in contemporary science fiction.
The main character Elwin Ransom is based on another writer who in
real life was a friend of Lewis. This friend was previously supposed
to write one of the books in the series but wasn’t able to.
ID the author.

The next slides will have advertisements which are
inspired by a work of art or by the style of an artist.
It will be specified whether you have to ID the
painter or the artwork or both.
+5 for correct
+10, if all correct

Ascending and Descending by MC Escher.

Salvador Dali’s Madonna of Port Lligat.

Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
by Piet Mondrian

Infinite Pounce 2
Anti-Clockwise
12 questions

1. David Lynch
Director of movies like Mulholland Dr., Eraserhead, Blue Velvet etc.

2.
This picture on the next slide is a drawing by the child of the
lead singer of a band. The singer was inspired by this drawing
and wrote a song about it. The inspiration behind this song
has been supposed to be a drug, but it is an innocent song
about a child’s drawing.
Name the song.

2. Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds

3.
"Singin' In the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music
by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929. However, it is unclear
exactly when the song was written. Gene Kelly danced on the song in
his movie of the same name. This dance sequence became very
famous and was one of the defining moments of Kelly’s career.
However, this song was used in another movie in a very objectionable
manner. Gene Kelly was reportedly disgusted when it was used in the
film and walked away from the actor at a party on whom the scene
was pictured.
Give me the name of the movie along with the scene. (No part points)

3. The rape scene from ‘A Clockwork
Orange’

4.Identify the two artists that have
worked on this short film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU

4. Walt Disney and Salvador Dali

5.
The author had originally titled his novel X, but shortly before it
was to be published, the much more famous novelist Leon Uris
published a novel entitled Mila 18, and the author’s editors
thought it best to change course. The author told Playboy in
1975. “I was heartbroken, I thought 18 was the only number.” As
it turns out, X works much better for the novel, full of doubles
upon doubles, and may have contributed to its long-term success.
Name the book.

5. Joseph Heller’s ‘Catch-22’

6. These are stills are from Hong Kong
movie ‘City of Fire’ released in 1987.

Give me the movie which has heavily
borrowed from this film.

7.
It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and
became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its
perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of
the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the
protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist. Because of this
controversy, many have questioned the appropriateness of teaching
the book in the US public school system.
Identify this very popular book.

7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

8. Which movie is this clip parodying?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIZLKOcf5g

9. Identify the singer of this song more
famous in a different field.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH2zJfK0B0Q

10.
Roger Ebert in his review of the film:
This film is like nothing they’ve seen before, with its startling
landscapes, architecture and locations, its exuberant colors, its sudden
and joyous musical numbers right in the middle of dramatic scenes, and
its melodramatic acting (teeth gnash, tears well, lips tremble, bosoms
heave, fists clench). At the same time, it’s a memory of the films we all
grew up on, with clearly defined villains and heroes, a romantic
triangle, and even a comic character who saves the day. X is a well-
crafted, hugely entertaining epic that has the spice of a foreign culture.
Which movie?

11.
James Cameron was dubious about casting Arnold Schwarzenegger in
The Terminator as he felt he would need someone even bigger to play
the Terminator. The studio had suggested X for the role of the
Terminator, but Cameron did not feel that X would be believable as a
killer. Give me the original candidate for the role.
Hint: Irony

12.
It was originally planned for the film to end with a scene that was
filmed, with everyone in the room involved in a pie fight. Accounts
vary as to why the pie fight was cut. In an interview, the director said:
"I decided it was farce and not consistent with the satiric tone of the
rest of the film. The fight was intended to be less jovial but the entire
cast was laughing, it was unusable. Later on, the director said “it was
a disaster of Homeric proportions.”
Picture of the fight on the next slide. (if nobody objects)
Give the movie.

12. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To
Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

A-Z Round
+2 for each correct
+10 if 20 or more are correct
+15 if 24 or more are correct

A is a famous American director, widely known for his movie B, which
became the first sequel to win the Oscar for Best Picture. C, the
nephew of A is an Oscar-winning actor and acts under a different
surname as he didn’t want to be treated differently because of his
family. D, the daughter of A, is also a film director. D made the movie E
in 2003 starring F, famous for his role in the movie ‘Ghostbusters’ and G.
F is a regular in the movies of H and has starred in 7 of his films. H,
known for his distinctive style of directing, made the animated movie –
I, which released in 2009. I was based on a children’s book of the same
name written by J.

J most famous for his book K, has written the screenplay of a James
Bond movie titled L, released in 1967. K has been adapted twice on
screen, with the later one being directed by Tim Burton. M played the
role of James Bond in L. M played the role of the father of a whip-
wielding archeologist in the movie N. O, the director of N, is considered
to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. In 2011, O directed the
movie P, an animated movie based upon the character of an
investigative journalist which was created by the author Q. The sequel
to P will be directed by R.

R is best known for adapting the S trilogy written by British author T. The
actor U starred in the S trilogy in a computer generated role of the
character V. U was denied an Oscar nomination for his role of T as he
wasn’t physically present in the movie. A similar thing happened with G
for her role in the movie W. X stars in the lead role in another trilogy of
movies which have also been adapted from the works of T. X became
popular for his role of a sidekick in a TV show. Y plays the lead role in
the show which has been adapted from the works of the author Z.

A. Francis Ford Coppola
B. Godfather Part 2
C. Nicholas Cage
D. Sofia Coppola
E. Lost in Translation
F. Bill Murray
G. Scarlett Johansson
H. Wes Anderson
I. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
J. Roald Dahl
K. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
L. You Only Live Twice
M. Sean Connery
N. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
O. Steven Spielberg
P. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Q. Herge
R. Peter Jackson
S. Lord of the Rings
T. JRR Tolkien
U. Andy Serkis
V. Gollum
W. Her
X. Martin Freeman
Y. Benedict Cumberbatch
Z. Arthur Conan Doyle

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