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Questions by Rohan Danait with inputs from Amit Patil and Neelima Jha
Moderated by Mohit Karve
Results and report: http://notesandstones.blogspot.in/2012/10/qonnoisseur-mela-quiz-at-mindspark.html
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Date: 7th Oct '12
Questions by Rohan Danait with inputs from Amit Patil and Neelima Jha
Moderated by Mohit Karve
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Mains of Qonnoisseur, MELA quiz as part of Mindspark 2012 - COEP's technical festival. Date: 7th Oct '12
Questions by Rohan Danait with inputs from Amit Patil and Neelima Jha
Moderated by Mohit Karve
Results and report: http://notesandstones.blogspot.in/2012/10/qonnoisseur-mela-quiz-at-mindspark.html
Well, here is the pop culture and general quiz conducted by the quizmasters
1. Shikhar Dwivedi(3rd IT)
2. Neelesh Tripathi (3rd PL)
this is the 2nd of the weekly quiz series as conducted by Q-Frat in HBTI , Kanpur.
The set for the preliminary round for 'Does Grey Matter', a quiz organized by the ex-students of M. P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School Quiz Club, Quotient.
Elims - Qonnoisseur, MELA quiz as part of Mindspark 2012 - COEP's technical festival.
Date: 7th Oct '12
Questions by Rohan Danait with inputs from Amit Patil and Neelima Jha
Moderated by Mohit Karve
An inter-college solo quiz, conducted by the Literary, Stage and Debating Society of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, on February 27, 2009.
The Annual Republic Day India Quiz held at IIM Ahmedabad Chaos 2020 - presented by Quiz Cetera. Questions on a range of topics including Indian history, arts, politics, technology, travel and living, language and literature, cinema, arts, sports and business - practically everything Indian.
1. M.E.L.A QUIZ
Amol Agrawal
Second Year
Gnosis Quiz Club
NIT Allahabad
A
2. Rules and Stuff:
Keep your mobiles away unless there is an imminent danger of Alien
invasion or Zombie outbreak
You cant use Google/Wikipedia…They‘re in my team!!
Make as many guesses as possible…
Shrey Manish Cannot Participate
At last,as always,
Quizmaster is GOD
3.
4.
5. Round ….
MAD Magazine Spoofs
+5 for each correct.
Ans on paper.
Switch
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11.
12.
13. Answers
Close Encounters Of the Third Kind
Star Trek
X-Files/American Gothic
Space Invaders
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Smallville
14. Round
+10 for correct direct
+5 for pass
No Negatives
17. The official description of X which
has now been trademarked is
given as follows
1.a semi-long sound in the chest register,
2.a short sound up an interval of one octave plus a fifth from the preceding sound,
3.a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
4.a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
5.a long sound down one octave plus a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
6.a short sound up one octave from the preceding sound,
7.a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
8.a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
9.a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
10.a long sound down an octave plus a fifth from the preceding sound
19. Purnima is the advertising agency that has been
handling brand X‘s creative and media
mandate for the last 30 years and has been
consistently focussing on the value-for-money
angle. Its creation has continued to echo in the
drawing rooms of middle-class Indian homes
through the decades. While it stresses on the
product, it also salutes the savvy and budget-
conscious Indian housewife.
It was first aired on radio in 1975, was broadcast
on television in 1982. It is one of the longest
running of its kind and the spot has seen very
few changes since the time it was first aired.
21. Also known as frozen time, the big freeze, dead time, flow motion, or
time slice X is a special and visual effect that refers to a digitally
enhanced simulation of variable-speed (i.e. slow motion, time-lapse,
etc.) photography used in films, broadcast advertisements, and
video games. It is characterized both by its extreme transformation
of time (slow enough to show normally imperceptible and
unfilmable events) and space (by way of the ability of the camera
angle—the audience's point-of-view—to move around the scene at
a normal speed while events are slowed). This is almost impossible
with conventional slow-motion, as the physical camera would have
to move impossibly fast.
Gimme X and where did we first come across X.
23. The reason the secret police are called ―X" is because the New
Order was arranged on the model of the human body.
The Chancellor was the Head; the television station BTN was the
mouth;
visual and audio surveillance were the Eye and the Ear;
Inspector Finch was part of The Nose, the police force, and Creedy's
secret police were the Hand.
ID X or Gimme where
25. Since his debut in X, Neuman's likeness, distinguished by jug ears, a
missing front tooth, and one eye lower than the other has become
the face of X. His face is rarely seen in profile; he has virtually always
been shown in full frontal view, directly from behind, or in silhouette.
Harvey Kurtzman first spotted the image on a postcard pinned to
the office bulletin board of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff.
"It was a face that didn't have a care in the world, except mischief,"
recalled Kurtzman.
He has been characterised with a punch phrase
―What- Me Worry?‖
Where have we seen him??
26.
27. The following are the last lines of
Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Where did you recently come
across these lines??
“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
29. What has been carried out by the
following??
Slats (1917–1928)
Jackie (1928-1956)
Tanner (1934–1956) and George (1956–1958)
Leo (1957-present)
It has been parodied many a times replacing with it with a
character imitating the act.
Three times it did not perform its complete duty due to public
sentiments.
38. Who‘s the missing link??
In the early drafts he was known as ―Ormond Sacker―
His first name is revealed exactly 3 times throughout its history
Pics on Next Slide
41. Gimme X
X (April 26, 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Y in
Spain causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths, during
the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the German Luftwaffe
"Condor Legion" and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria was
called Operation Rügen.
The number of victims of the attack is disputed; The Basque
government reported 1,654 people killed, although modern
speculations suggests between 126 to 400 civilians The bombing has
often been considered one of the first raids in the history of modern
military aviation on a defenceless civilian population
46. ID the novel or the author
Due to implicit themes criticising the government and its policies this
novel was heavily banned and censored in the writer‘s motherland.
While smuggling the author is said to have remarked "You are
hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad.―
The author won the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature but was told that if
he left the country to receive the prize he may never return
He was threatened by exile from his motherland which was
prevented by intervention by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Bill Mauldin produced a political cartoon lampooning the country‘s
campaign against X. The cartoon depicts X and another convict
splitting trees in the snow. In the caption, Pasternak says, "I won the
Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?"
49. ID X
X was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios
(later Filmalaya)[1] from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt
films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi.
X was known for his family-centered, action-song-and-dance films
which catered to the tastes of the Indian masses and through which
he achieved great success. His movies defined a new genre called
masala films.
56. Inspiration behind what??
The world of X is a romantic vision of a dying Mars, which got its start
when Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli claimed he could see canals on
the surface. Writers and science popularizers like Camille
Flammarion, who was convinced that Mars was at a later stage of
evolution than Earth and therefore much more dry.
Y is transported to X in a way described by Flammarion in Urania
(1889), where a man from earth is transported to Mars as an astral
body where he wakes up to a lower gravity, two moons, strange
plants and animals and several races of advanced humans.
It has been argued that almost all fiction and fantasy literature took
direct/indirect inspiration from him.
58. X is a 1981 best-selling Pakistani pop album. Performed by Pakistani
singer Nazia Hassan with Zoheb Hassan, her brother, it was
produced by an Indian producer Biddu. It charted in fourteen
countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record
to-date. It changed trends in music across South Asia, where it broke
sales records, such as selling 100,000 records within a day of its
release in Bombay alone.[2] In South Asia, where the music industry
was previously dominated by filmi soundtracks
It was brought in limelight again in 2012 where the family members
accused Y of using the songs without proper licensing.
60. Whose Discography
Dilruba
Alibaba
Thanda Thanda Pani (a remake of vanilla‘s Ice Ice baby
Double Gadbad
Mai Bhi Madonna
Dr Dhingra
Indian Romyo in Tokyo
Tora Tora
Miss Loomba Loomba
America me Indian Dhaba
Welcome To Mumbai
Pinga Pinga
****'s Cross Connection
NEPAL'S Rap Rock's
Mumbai City (2012)
Pawa Pawa Pawan Kalyan (2012)
64. The Martha and Thomas ______ home for children was opened in
2012 for the city‘s at risk children after all the property of the owner
was disbanded after his supposed death.
FITB.
Pic on Next Slide
69. Algorithm to derive a phone-number from the 2003 book X:
Step 1: Create a new SMS.
Step 2: Change the mode to number mode.
Step 3: Enter the word that the organization is responsible for.
Step 4: End.
The number so gotten is the phone-number of the organization.
Id X.
71. X‗s only publication was in 1877. This was written,
despite the fact that she was dying at the time. Id
the book, the opening leaf of which is as shown.
72.
73. Motives for a crime in a recent
book. Id the book and author.
Motive 1: Caused by a ghost out for revenge, rather than Mahatma
Gandhi.
Motive 2: Protection of younger sister, who killed a man who
attempted to rape her, with rapist‗s gun.
Motive 3: Larry Page wanted to travel to India to get married, only
to discover that he has regularly been scammed.
Motive 4: Desire to marry sister of the deceased.
Motive 5: Recovery of an idol.
Motive 6: Problems caused by victim being alive.
74.
75. Round
Bounce
The team answering can choose
the next team to ans
If the next team answers correctly
then the team which passed gets
+5 too
You cannot pass to yourself or to
your immediate neighbours
76. The series written by Daniel Handler depict the
misfortunes of the Baudeliere children
gimme the series
The series includes thirteen novels as follows
The Bad Beginning (1999)
The Reptile Room (1999)
The Wide Window (2000)
The Miserable Mill (2000)
The Austere Academy (2000)
The Ersatz Elevator (2001)
The Vile Village (2001)
The Hostile Hospital (2001)
The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)
The Slippery Slope (2003)
The Grim Grotto (2004)
The Penultimate Peril (2005)
The End (2006)
79. The Greatest Story ever told is the movie
Tagline of Sholay
80. She was for some time known as ‗the poor man‘s
Zeenat Aman‘
In 1976, she was in the cover of Time magazine –
dressed in lingerie and posing like a 1930s Hollywood
screen goddess
When she quit movies in 1980, Shobhaa De wrote, ―…
she now existed in a delusionary world, eating up to
forty egg whites and raw lettuce a day, writing reams
and reams about Amitabh Bachchan‘s plans to
eliminate her…‖
Who?
85. Who‘s Y?
X is known in English as "Heroic Fighter" is an iconic photo of Y
wearing his black beret taken by Alberto Korda. It was taken on
March 5, 1960, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre
explosion and by the end of the 1960s turned the Y into a cultural
icon. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was
drawn to Y's facial expression, which showed "absolute
implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would
say that the photo showed Y‘s firm and stoic character.
Versions of it have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered,
tattooed, silk-screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every
surface imaginable, leading the Victoria and Albert Museum to say
that the photo has been reproduced more than any other image in
photography
92. X or the song??
An Ark Music Factory client told X's mother about the
company's production services in late 2010; X was 13 at
the time, and living in Anaheim Hills, California.X's
mother, Georgina Kelly, paid Ark Music $4,000 for a song
and accompanying video that included a choice of
two pre-written songs. According to Kelly, the payment
covered one half or less of the production costs of the
music video, and X's family could have paid nothing in
exchange for giving up all rights to the song.X chose ―Y",
as "the other song was about adult love – I haven't
experienced that yet. I felt like it was my personality in
that song.
According to Randy Lewis of Los Angeles Times, the
familiar structure contributes to the song's catchiness,
making it an "earworm"
93.
94. How do we better know him as
First appearing in 1971,Mr
Mojo Risin was used and
brought in focus because of
use in X which according to
John Densmore's,one of
many who created him,
―cause it contained the
black slang word mojo (for
sexual prowess), I got the
idea to steadily increase the
tempo back up to the
original speed, a la orgasm."
95.
96.
97.
98. There have been numerous rumours and theories as to X's identity.
Names often suggested include Robert Banks and Robin
Gunningham.[
Simon Hattenstone from The Guardian is one of the very few people
to have interviewed him face to face. Hattenstone describes him as
"a cross of Jimmy Nail and British rapper Mike Skinner" and "a 28-year
old male who showed up wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a silver
tooth, silver chain, and one silver earring.In the same interview, X
claimed that his parents think he is a painter and decorator
X himself states on his website:
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be X, but anyone
described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like X to me