1. The artwork Lampada Annuale is a piece that contains a single light bulb programmed to light up randomly for 11 seconds every year, so that no one has seen it lit. 2. X and Y are good friends but X believes he can outperform Y in bicycling despite Y's large size, implying X is faster while Y is stronger. 3. The number 133 signifies the chapters in the Tamil classic Thirukkural, as represented by the height of the statue of its poet Thiruvalluvar near Kanyakumari, India.

1. MELA Prelims

2. 1. A rough plot

4. Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix

5. What is being
filmed in the pic?
2.

6. Star wars title narration

7. This piece of modern art by Alighieri
Boetti consists of a mirror-lined black
box or crate holding a single
light bulb and a circuit underneath.
This piece plays with ideas of
randomness and time.
What is so unique about this bulb?
3.

8. The artwork is called Lampada Annuale. The bulb is
programmed to light up for a random eleven seconds
every year. No one has ever seen it lit yet.

9. X and Y are good friends. This is what X had to say about Y in
an interview. “Y is a huge guy. But I can tell you, based on a real test
I can out-bicycle him any day of the week. I’m built for speed. He’s
built for breaking things.”
4.

10. X - Bill Nye
Y - Neil Degrasse Tyson

11. The plot is a love story about a powerful ruler of medieval X
and a beautiful commoner girl named Zabibah. Zabibah's
husband is a cruel and unloving man who rapes her.
Although the book is on the surface a romance novel, it is
(and was intended to be read as) an allegory.The story
revolves around Arab, as he becomes the king of X.
Who is the Author of this book?
5.

12. Zabibah was intended to represent
the people of Iraq, and the cruel
husband the United States.

13. Identify
6

15. In 1952 X was labeled as a communist and was not allowed to
in the United States. He was then eventually permitted to come
back home on April 2, 1972, to receive an honorary Oscar.
He also received his only competitive Oscar for best original
score following the re-release of his movie Y. Identify X and Y
7.

17. An X is a structural part of a number of species of plants, once it is
mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem, and rolls away in the
wind. It is a cliche of Western movies, emphasising silence or stillness,
e.g. as the hero rides into an apparently deserted frontier town. This is
also famously used throughout The Big Lebowski as a metaphor to the
laid back nature of the protagonist. What is X?
8.

18. Tumbleweed

19. This TV Show has
its own brand of wine.
Identify the show.
9.

21. This is a statue of the tamil poet,
Thiruvalluvar built on a small island
in the Indian Ocean near
Kanyakumari. The height of this
colossal monument has a very
significant meaning. What is its
height and what does it signify?
10.

22. 133 feet - signifies the number of
chapters or adhigaram in Thirukkural

23. 11.Road map that follows which American classic?

25. The code of Hammurabi is the longest preserved text from
the babylonian period. Law 196 in the Code
of Hammurabi states that,
"If a man destroy X of another man, they
shall destroy his X. …. If one destroy X of a
freeman he shall pay one gold mina. If one
destroy X of a man's slave he shall pay
one-half his price.”
What is X and what famous phrase does this
Law give rise to?
12.

26. X - eye
An eye for an eye

27. X is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals
manifested by rash, lofty and romantic ideas or extravagantly
chivalrous action. An impulsive person or act might be
regarded as (adj.)X. The term is derived from the name of the
protagonist of the novel Y. Give me X, Y and Y’s author.
13.

28. X - Quixotism
Y - Don Quixote by Cervantes

29. _______ Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno
María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz
y _______
14. Who is this?

30. Pablo Picasso

31. This is when the actor X used to play in his country’s national
basketball team. After meeting a certain sportsman at his gym he
decided to switch sports. This decision was pretty obviously one of
main reasons for him to be cast as Y in Z, his main acting role.
X, Y and Z.
15.

32. Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson alias the mountain
Game of Thrones

33. 16.

35. 17.

36. 18.

37. 19. Seinfeld