MELA Quiz Finals

Quiz Club IIT Guwahati
 Sagar Mewar
 Rishabh Jain

Rules
 4 Rounds :
 12 questions bounce and pounce
 Rapid Fire
 12 questions bounce and pounce
 Long Visual Connect

ROUND 1 : Bounce and Pounce
 12 questions
 Normal bounce and pounce rules apply.
 +10/0 on bounce, +20/-10 on pounce.

1. Identify the blanked out face
Although used on numerous websites
such as Reddit, 9GAG, etc. the source of
these comics has largely been attributed to
4chan in mid-2007.
The first comic was posted to the 4chan
/b/random board in 2008. It was a simple
4-panel strip showing the author's anger
about getting "splashback" while on the
toilet, with the final panel featuring a
zoomed-in face, known as X .

2. Identify the band
XY is a Scottish rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.
"Mainly we just liked the way it sounded," says Bob. "We liked the alliteration.“
"He was an incredible figure as well," continues Alex. "His life, or at least the
ending of it, was the catalyst for the complete transformation of the world and
that is what we want our music to be. But I don't want to over-intellectualize the
name thing. Basically a name should just sound good … like music." Paul offered, "I
like the idea that, if we become popular, maybe the words XY will make people
think of the band instead of the historical figure"

3. Identify X
 Although X is easily one of the world’s most iconic paintings, its permanent home
is a convent in Milan, Italy. And moving it would be tricky, to say the least. Da
Vinci painted the religious work directly (and fittingly) on the dining hall wall of
the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie back in 1495.
 Though X is one of Italy's must-see sites, the convent in which it is located was not
built for big crowds. Only 20 to 25 people are allowed in at a time in visiting blocks
of 15 minutes.
 It is recommended visitors book tickets to see X at least two months in advance.
And be sure to dress conservatively, or you may be turned away from the convent.

4. Name of the novel and funda
 Wright wanted to prove that a great author could work around such a restriction
and still tell a gripping story.
 While vividly describing a wedding scene, Wright manages to avoid the words
“bride,” “ceremony,” and even “wedding” (he calls it “a grand church ritual”). To
explain away the verbosity of the language, he uses a narrator whose poor
command of English and circumlocution even irritates the story’s other characters.
 With no one left to promote it and few copies in existence, it faded into obscurity for
a time, but has gradually gained steam over the years and today is something of a
classic, albeit in the “oddity” category, rather than for its literative qualities.
Nevertheless, thanks to its notoriety and scarcity, today a first edition copy, even
one not in that great of shape, tends to cost around $4,000-$5,000.

Opening lines of the novel (Chapter 1) :
If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a
doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically, you wouldn't
constantly run across folks today who claim that "a child don't know anything." A
child's brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions,
thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing
an adult's act, and figuring out its purport.

Gadsby
50,000 word novel
without the letter ‘E’

5. Identify X
X is a fictional male alter-ego to a famous
singer created in 2010.
"Beginning as an invention of my mind, X
was created with Nick Knight as a
mischievous experiment. After working
together tirelessly and passionately for
years, eating bovine hearts, throwing up on
ourselves, giving birth to an alien nation
and an AK-47, Nick and I began to wonder:
how much exactly can we get away with?

6. Identify X
This is the movie poster of the
2011 film “Winnie the Pooh”.
Which famous painting is this
inspired from?

7. Identify the book
• The idea of writing the book was proposed to X by Max Amnan, his
business manager.
• X’s book was transcribed mainly by Rudolf Hess, because X could not type,
was slow with his hand-writing and was a poor speller.
• He initially wanted to call his book “My Long Struggle against Lies,
Stupidity and Cowardice”, however his publisher opted for a shorter title.
• The book was gifted to every newly-wed couple throughout the country.

8. Identify X andY
On 12th September 2012, a British radio manufacturers sent a legal notice to the
makers of a Bollywood movie X for using their trademark “Y baby” in the title
track of the film. Y is also the protagonist’s name, but due to his disability becomes
X.
However, producer admits there is no infringement and they will respond the
notice. "The brand has been presented in a very positive light and we will be
responding to the notice," he added.

9. Identify X
A group of lawyers is reportedly planning a law suit against Harry Potter
producers Warner Bros over apparent similarities between X and CGI-tastic
Chamber of Secrets star Dobby the elf.
In a story so strange it has to be true, legal representatives of X believe they can
prove the bald, floppy-eared, pointy-nosed, bug-eyed creature is based on X.
Similar suggestions have been circulating on the internet in recent months, with the
BBC's children's website CBBC even going so far as to post a poll on the matter. Of
5,500 votes cast, just over 54 per cent agreed that X and Dobby had probably been
separated at birth.

10. Identify X
 Early use can be seen in India, as an apotropaic gesture very commonly used by
Gautama Buddha (who was born in Nepal) as Karana Mudra which is
synonymous with expulsion of demons and removal of obstacles like sickness or
negative thoughts.
 The apotropaic usage of X can also be seen in Italy and in other Mediterranean
cultures where, when confronted with unfortunate events, or simply when these
events are mentioned, X may be given to ward off bad luck.
 Ronnie James Dio was known for popularizing X in heavy metal.

11. Name the painting
 Scholars estimate the painting was completed in 1665. The painting is an example
of a type of work called a tronie. Popular in the Dutch Golden Age, tronies were
paintings that focused on the face of a subject with an added element of fantasy or
an exaggeration of expression that differentiates them from portraits.
 The girl in this painting is believed to be the painter’s eldest daughter, Maria, who
was about twelve or thirteen years old at the time it was created.
 Regarded as the painter’s masterpiece, this canvas is often referred to as the Mona
Lisa of the North or the Dutch Mona Lisa.

The Girl with the Pearl Earring

12. Identify X
 Popularly known as Uncle Pai, Anant Pai was born on September 17, 1929 in
Karkala, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
 Trained as an engineer, he moved to journalism and worked for a national
newspaper.
 In 1967, Pai left his job and started X in an attempt to teach Indian children about
their cultural heritage, after he watched a quiz contest on Doordarshan where
participants could answer questions on Greek and Roman mythology but were
unable to answer the question: "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?"

ROUND 2 : Rapid Fire
 Written Round
 7 Minimalist Posters
 15 seconds per slide
 +10/0 for each poster
 +30 bonus if all correct (Total 100)

ROUND 3 : Bounce and Pounce
 12 questions
 Normal bounce and pounce rules apply.
 +10/0 on bounce, +20/-10 on pounce.

13. Identify X
 Born Ab’ul Hasan Yamin ud-Din X in 1253 , he was a disciple of Nizamuddin Aulia
of Delhi.
 X is regarded as the "father of qawwali" (a devotional music form of the Sufis in
the Indian subcontinent), and introduced the ghazal style of song into India, both
of which still exist widely in India and Pakistan.
 X is also credited with the invention of the Sitar and the Tabla, along with the
contribution of Khayal and Tarana styles to Hindustani Classical Music.
 X was an expert in many styles of Persian poetry which were developed in
medieval Persia, from Khāqānī's qasidas to Nizami's khamsa.

14. Identify X andY
Similarities between X and the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes created by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appear throughout the series.
The series creator has said in an interview that X's character is partly inspired by
Sherlock Holmes. Both characters play instruments (X plays the piano, the guitar and
the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take drugs (X is addicted to Y; Holmes uses
cocaine).
In the season 2 finale, X was shot by a crazy man named “Moriarty”. Most notably X
lives in an apartment numbered 221B which is an obvious reference to Sherlock
Holmes’ famous residential address 221B Baker Street.

15. Identify X
Mumbai artist Priyesh Trivedi has recently blown up on the Internet with his
painted comic series, X , in which Trivedi takes the familiar icon of 80's Indian
school-texts and educational charts and re-purposes him in a variety of subverted
images and narratives
It began with one image: last year, Trivedi made a poster of a young boy rolling a
joint with ‘T for Toke’ emblazoned across the top in Devanagari script that
emulated the Barakhadi charts, which would depict a young boy undertaking
various 'good' and 'correct' practices, used in many Indian schools. The image
proved popular, spreading quickly thanks to the internet, and selling a number of
prints.

16.Which prez?
• The Unfinished Portrait is a watercolor of an American President X by
Elizabeth Shoumatoff.
• Shoumatoff was commissioned to paint a portrait of the President and
started her work around noon of 12th of April, 1945. At lunch, X complained
of a headache and subsequently collapsed. The President, who had suffered
a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke), died later that day.
• Shoumatoff never finished the portrait, but she later painted a new, largely
identical one, based on memory. The Unfinished Portrait hangs at X's
retreat, the Little White House, in Warm Springs, Georgia, and its finished
counterpart beside it.

17.What work?
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie.
The novel is set in New York in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the
story of a jinnia princess and her offsprings during the "strangenesses."
When asked about the title, Rushdie said “I just rather loved it. You’ve got two, eight,
twenty-eight – you’ve got another symmetrical number describing that very famous
symmetrical number.”
What famous number (in a different famous work) was Rushdie referring to?

18. Identify the band
• Tim Cook and X announced that the band’s new album would be
automatically gifted to Apple’s over 500 million iTunes users following the
announcement of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but many iTunes
users were not happy with seeing music from the band added to their
iTunes libraries (even for free).
• While iTunes supports a way to “hide” previous purchases, the complaints
and confusion apparently grew loud enough to warrant a dedicated
support site for permanently removing the free album from iTunes
purchase history.

Best Foreign Films when there was an
Indian nomination

20. Connect (2 more pics on next slide)

21. Connect
• Sammohito
• Peditto
• Loh Bhasmam
• Pawakam
• Sharpatham
• Bangdham
• Prakashit Bhava
• Aagmano
• Ruthi Avirodham

Hindi
Translations of
Harry Potter
spells

22. Reason? (image on next slide)
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the
Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It represents four major rivers of the four
continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing
Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and
the Río de la Plata representing the Americas.
Each has animals and plants that further carry forth identification, and each
carries a certain number of allegories and metaphors with it. The Ganges
carries a long oar, representing the river's navigability. The Nile's head is
draped with a loose piece of cloth. Why?

No one at that
time knew exactly
where the Nile's
source was

23.Top 10 list of?
1. "I Gotta Feeling" Black Eyed Peas
2. "Poker Face" Lady Gaga
3. "Boom Boom Pow" Black Eyed Peas
4. "I'm Yours" Jason Mraz
5. "Viva la Vida" Coldplay
6. "Just Dance" Lady Gaga & Colby O'Donis
7. "Low" (feat. T-Pain) Flo Rida
8. "Love Story" Taylor Swift
9. "Bleeding Love" Leona Lewis
10. "Tik Tok" Ke$ha

Most downloaded songs on iTunes

24.The book that connects them
 Hitoshi Igarashi : Translated the book into Japanese, and was stabbed to death
on 11 July, 1991 outside his office at Tsukuba University.
 Ettore Capriolo : Translated the book into Italian, and was also stabbed in his
apartment in Milan but survived suffering knife wounds on his neck, chest and
hands.
 William Nygaard : On 12 April 1989 he was responsible for publishing the
Norwegian edition. On the morning of 11 October 1993, he was shot three times
outside his home in Dagaliveien in Oslo.
 Aziz Nesin : At a cultural festival in Sivas, Turkey, the protestors were angered
by the presence of Aziz Nesin, a writer who had translated and published
extracts from the book. The hotel was set alight, and the fire claimed 35 lives.

ROUND 4 : Long Visual Connect
 8 pictures, one on each slide
 Guess theme anytime
 15 * Slides remaining points awarded.
 -30 for first incorrect guess, -60 for second incorrect
guess and so on.

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