The document provides details about the MELA Finals Round 3 trivia competition, including that players receive +10 points for correct answers and -10 points for incorrect "pounces" or guesses. It then presents 13 trivia questions on topics like Geoffrey Chaucer, Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," details from poems and books, and identifies matching people, places, or things. The questions cover literature, art, music, and film.

1. MELA Finals

2. Round 3

3. Infinite Pounce
• +10 for every right answer
• -10 for every wrong pounce

4. Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the
South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high
number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and
commemorated there recognising their contribution to the
British culture. Famous people buried here include Thomas
Hardy, Rudyard Kipling etc.,
Who was the first person to be interred here in 1556?
1.

5. Answer

6. Geoffrey Chaucer

7. I was walking along the road with two friends
The Sun was setting – the Sky turned blood-red.
And I felt a wave of Sadness – I paused
tired to Death – Above the blue-black
Fjord and City Blood and Flaming tongues hovered
My friends walked on – I stayed
behind – quaking with Angst – I
felt the great ____ in Nature
2.

8. Answer

9. The Scream by Edvard Munch

10. The lyrics to song X, is said to be inspired by contemporary
newspaper articles. Some of those articles are given here.
In another line, Y was alluding
to his role in the film How I
Won the War, released on 18
October 1967, having filmed
his part in September 1966
3. X and Y

11. Answer

12. X - A day in the life by Beatles
Y - John Lennon

13. “Ey! Goddes mercy!” seyde oure Hooste tho,
“Now swich a wyf I pray God kepe me fro!
Lo, whiche sleightes and subtilitees
In wommen been! for ay __ ____ __ ____
Been they, us sely men for to deceyve,
And from the soothe evere wol they weyve;
By this marchauntes tale it preveth weel.
But doutelees, as trewe as any steel
I have a wyf, though that she povre be,
But of hir tonge, a labbyng shrewe is she,
And yet she hath an heep of vices mo;
Eh! By God’s mercy!” cried our host. Said he:
“Now such a wife I pray God keep from me!
Behold what tricks, and lo, what subtleties
In women are. For always ____ __ ____
Are they, us simple men thus to deceive,
And from the truth they turn aside and leave;
By this same merchant’s tale it’s proved, I feel,
But, beyond doubt, as true as any steel
I have a wife, though poor enough she be;
But of her tongue a babbling shrew is she,
And she’s a lot of other vices too.
4.

14. Answer

15. “Ey! Goddes mercy!” seyde oure Hooste tho,
“Now swich a wyf I pray God kepe me fro!
Lo, whiche sleightes and subtilitees
In wommen been! for ay as bisy as bees
Been they, us sely men for to deceyve,
And from the soothe evere wol they weyve;
By this marchauntes tale it preveth weel.
But doutelees, as trewe as any steel
I have a wyf, though that she povre be,
But of hir tonge, a labbyng shrewe is she,
And yet she hath an heep of vices mo;
Eh! By God’s mercy!” cried our host. Said he:
“Now such a wife I pray God keep from me!
Behold what tricks, and lo, what subtleties
In women are. For always busy as bees
Are they, us simple men thus to deceive,
And from the truth they turn aside and leave;
By this same merchant’s tale it’s proved, I feel,
But, beyond doubt, as true as any steel
I have a wife, though poor enough she be;
But of her tongue a babbling shrew is she,
And she’s a lot of other vices too.

16. X, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who,
according to a legend rode naked through the streets of
Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive
taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The term Y
for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend in
which a man named Z had watched her ride and was struck
blind or dead. Pic related next slide.
X,Y and Z
5. I’m a racing car…

17. John Collier’s impression of X

18. Answer

19. X - Lady Godiva
Y - Peeping Tom
Z- Tom

20. This is Margaret Keane posing with some of her paintings. For many
years since her marriage her husband Walter took credits for her
paintings hiding her from the limelight. The characters in the paintings
are eerily similar to the characters in film-maker X’s movies. X went on
to make a biopic Y (2015) based on the couple starring Christoph
Waltz and Amy Adams. Give X and Y
6.

21. Answer

22. X - Tim Burton
Y - Big Eyes

23. Reverse Infinite Pounce
• +10 for every right answer
• -10 for every wrong pounce
Scores, please.

24. Rocket Boys is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer
Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a
boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.
Published in 1988, it is one of the most often picked
community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied
in many school systems around the world. Rocket Boys was
followed by The Coalwood Way (2000) and Sky of Stone
(2002).
This book was made into a film in 1999 titled X (an anagram of
‘Rocket Boys’). Which movie?
7.

25. Answer

27. This was the menu of the restaurant in london’s O2 arena
between July 1 and July 20, 2014 commemorating what might
be the last show of X. The shows included surprise cameos of
Stephen Fry, Mike Myers, and Professors Brian Cox and
Stephen Hawking (among others). Y was scheduled to be the
special guest for the final night but declined, as he was
reportedly "suffering from severe depression" at the time,
which ultimately contributed to his suicide in August 2014.
When the show was released on DVD, it was dedicated to Y
Identify X and Y.
8.

29. Answer

30. X - Monty Python
Y - Robin Williams

31. Graphic designer Annie Atkins spent a very snowy winter on
the German-Polish border, as the lead graphic designer on X.
Annie had this to say about her experience.
“Creating this entirely fictional country that Y had written – the
State of _______ _[…] it meant that every little detail had to be
made from scratch – flags, banknotes, postage stamps,
everything. I use traditional methods in graphic prop-making
wherever possible: a real 1930s typewriter for typewritten
documents; a dipping pen and ink and for any handwriting [...]
pieces have to be aged [...] I have some tricks of the trade
that I’ve learnt over the years… mostly involving a big vat of
tea and a hair dryer”.
9.

33. Answer

34. X - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Y - Wes Anderson

35. Bioshock is a game inspired by the fictional and philosophical
works of X. The philosophy of the game’s character Andrew
Ryan, creator of the underwater city, Rapture, was based on X.
His name is a partial anagram of X. Both Andrew Ryan and X
were originally from the Soviet Union, but moved to America to
avoid the increasing tensions of Communism. Both created
their own city to explore their ideas: X created Y while Ryan
created Rapture. BioShock explores a single question in X’s
fiction and philosophy: “What would a society look like if
everyone were really only in it for themselves and owed no
allegiance to anyone but themselves?”
Give X and Y
10.

36. Answer

37. X - Ayn Rand
Y - Atlas Shrugged

38. X mentioned in an interview that the one liner of this story was
inspired from Virata Parva of the Mahabharata. If we try to
relate it in fact, X’s character in the movie Y is a mix of the
mythological Arjuna (who, transforming into a eunuch in
Virata’s Kingdom, is an acclaimed dance-exponent) and
Bhima (who is a great cook, and so is X in this film). His uncle/
boss (aptly named Jagannath) is like a mentor, much like
Krishna to Arjuna. The opening dialogues of Y is a tribute to
The Godfather - I.
11.

39. Answer

40. X - Kamalhaasan
Y - Vishwaroop/Vishwaroopam

41. The only time X was actually able to nab an Emmy was for the
critically acclaimed but now mostly forgotten miniseries The
Corner, which won awards for Outstanding Miniseries and
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Movie. The Corner
depicted life in a poverty-stricken american city. The Corner
overlaps thematically with Y and also shared a bevy of cast
members. X decided they would shoot Y with 4:3 aspect ratio
instead of a 16:9, which he thinks “feels more like real life and
real television and not like a movie.”
Give X and Y
12.

42. Answer

43. X - David Simon
Y - The Wire

44. The artwork in the next slide is Picasso’s rendition of another notorious
painting X famous for its depiction of zoophilia. Playing with themes
popular in Japanese art, it depicts a young diver entwined sexually
with a pair of octopuses. The artist who painted X, Hokusai, is more
famous for his series of paintings depicting thirty six views of a certain
entity Y. Can you name X,Y and Z, the first and the most famous of the
series of thirty six paintings?
13.

46. Answer

47. X - The dream of a fisherman’s wife
Y - The great wave of Kanagawa

48. Round 4
Connect

49. For the connect
•+30/-15
•+20/-10
•+10/0
•+5/0
10 points each in first three
questions.

50. The picture to the right is the death mask of X, a writer. His
magnum opus Y describes the events of an ordinary day, June
16 ( also known as Z) of 1904, which was the day of his first
date with his future wife. Also Ted Hughes and Sylvia plath
were married on June 16th in honor of Z.
Give me X, Y and Z
X goes into the connect
+30/-15

51. Answer

52. X - James Joyce
Y - Ulysses
Z- Bloomsday

53. “Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires; Trimalchio; Trimalchio
in_____; On the Road to _____; Under the Red, White, and
Blue; Gold-Hatted ____ and The High-Bouncing Lover.” are
some of the titles X had in mind for Y. The epigraph for this
great american novel was written by Thomas Parke D’Invilliers,
a fictional character in one of X’s previous works.
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”
+20/-10

54. Answer

55. X - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Y - The Great Gatsby

56. The title for X’s memoir Y, a play on the term for a holy day
whose date is not fixed, was suggested by X’s friend and
biographer A. E. Hotchner, who remembered X saying, in a
letter which is referenced at the beginning of the book: "If you
are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then
wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for
Paris is a Y." Albert Camus also used the term out of it's
traditional religious context in his 1942 novel The Stranger,
"...Masson remarked that we'd had a very early lunch, but
really lunch was a Y, one had it when one felt like it. This set
Marie laughing..."
+10/0

57. Answer

58. X - Ernest Hemingway
Y - A moveable Feast

59. +5/0

60. Answer