This set was organized by the newest members of our society, Nitesh Dureja and Ambika Dubey, and one of many online sessions the society has been holding since the pandemic began. Both QMs handled the vagaries of technology in stride like seasoned veterans. Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both School and College students in the circuit.

2. Rules
 +10/0 on Bounce and +10/-5 on Pounce.
 For pounce mention any of us in your
Team’s WhatsApp Group.
 Ask for hints if you want.

4. Q 1 :- R&B Singer Akon discovered X while she
was performing a burlesque show that she created,
called “X and the starlight revue.” Impressed,
Akon signed the performer to his label under the
interscope umbrella, Kon live.
X has also won an academy award in the category
of ‘best original song.’
She was recently in news because of her
performance in a very “famous event.”
Identify X and the event.

6. ANS 1 :- X- Lady Gaga
Event- US President Joe Biden’s
swearing-in ceremony

7. Q 2 :- This famous work of art is assumed to have been started
around 1495-96. It portrays one of the most famous betrayals
in history. This wall painting was commissioned by Ludovico
Sforza, the Duke of Milan. In the ensuing centuries, the painting
sustained additional damage. During WWII the painting suffered
its greatest catastrophe. After years of maltreatment, the painting
underwent an extensive and controversial 20-year restoration
that was completed in 1999. When the restored painting was
revealed, many critics argued that the restorers had removed so
much of the painting that very little was left of the original
artist’s work.
Name this famous piece of art and it’s artist.

9. ANS 2 :- “Last Supper” by
Leonardo da Vinci

10. Q 3 :- The still on top of next slide is from a sci-fi
movie, which is set in a dystopian future and a
depleted, barren Earth. It is a sequel to a film from
the 1980s.
The photo on bottom is from an event in 2020. This
comparison struck fear in the hearts of people on
internet as it indicates that a dystopian future is not
too far ahead of us.
Where was the image on the bottom (captioned
reality) clicked?
Identify the movie.

11. Fiction :-
Reality :-

13. ANS 3 :- San Francisco, California
Blade Runner 2049

14. Q 4 :- Internet sensation ________ recently broke the
internet once again after posting a short three-second
clip of his breathing on Twitter.
The YouTube sensation is no stranger to dominating
the platform’s trending pages, having featured
numerous times, often over the most minuscule
things. Following a similar pattern, his latest tweet
attracted a significant amount of interest online and
had fans gushing over him in no time.
_______ is chronically ill, and has conditions such as
fibromyalgia, thoracic outlet syndrome and GERD,
the latter of which has partially caused his voice to
become deeper.
Identify this famous personality.

16. ANS 4 :- Corpse Husband

17. Q 5 :- __________ is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language
drama film which was inspired by the 1962 movie
The Miracle Worker. Unlike many other Bollywood
films, this movie has only one song. Time magazine
selected the film as one of the 10 best movies of the
year 2005 from around the globe. This movie has won
56 awards in total. Snow was essential for the story,
so for the first part of the shoot, the entire unit went to
Shimla in mid-January. It was cold but there was no
sign of snow. So the production unit used ________
in place of snow and it looked so much authentic
that even the locals had to touch it to check whether it
was real or not.
Fill in the blanks.

19. ANS 5 :- Movie-Black; Salt bags

20. Q 6 :- In 1915, an agricultural economist named John
Lessing met his future wife and got married in 1917,
and immediately moved to Anhwei (Anhui) province
in China, from where the lady gathered the material
that she would later use in her masterpiece work. The
book has been translated into German, French, Dutch,
Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Chinese and
garnered a then unheard-of $50,000 from MGM
studios to be made into a movie. This was the
largest sum Hollywood had ever paid for the rights to
a book in those times. The writer won Pulitzer prize
for this novel in 1932 and it was also influential in
her winning the Nobel prize for literature.
Name the writer and the work.

22. ANS 6 :- The Good Earth, by Pearl S.
Buck

23. Q 7 :- X has been called “one of the greatest avant-garde
women artists of the early 20th century”. X’s depiction of the
plight of women has made her art a beacon for women
everywhere. Her work is deemed to be so important to Indian
culture that when it is sold in India, the Indian government has
stipulated that the art must stay in the country-fewer than 10 of
her works have been sold globally. In 2006, her painting
__________ sold for Rs. 6.9 crore at an auction in New Delhi
which was at the time highest amount ever paid for a painting
in India. X’s work is a key-theme in the contemporary Indian
novel Faking it whose writer co-incidentally shares her first
name with the artist herself.
Identify X and FITB .

26. ANS 7 :- Amrita
Sher-Gill, Village
scenes

27. Q 8 :- The cosmic dance of Shiva symbolises the interplay
of dynamic and static divine energy flow, containing the
five principles of eternal energy- creation, preservation,
destruction, illusion and emancipation. Dance patterns
considered sacred to Lord Shiva are in two major dance
forms recognized by Sangeet Natak Akademi. One of them
is the oldest classical dance tradition in India. A famous
example of it’s illustrative sculpture is in the southern
gateway of the Chidambaram temple dedicated to Lord
Shiva where 108 poses of this dance form are carved in
stone. This dance form remained exclusive to Hindu
temples through the 19th century because It was banned by
the colonial British government in 1910, but due to
protests by Indian community the ban was lifted.
Identify this dance form.

29. ANS 8 :-
Bharatnatyam

30. Q 9 :- Benedict Cumberbatch a british actor
played a lead role in a mystery thriller show of
same name as the lead character .
X a well known Indian actor also did a mystery
thriller movie based on a fictional character which
is called Indian version of the British character
mentioned above .
Id. the actor and the name of the movie . (This
movie also shares its name with the main character
like the British show)

32. ANS 9 :- X = SSR (RIP)
Movie = Detective Byomkesh Bakshy

33. Q 10 :- X is a singer who was the first singer in his
genre to have won an oscar . Although he was not
there in the oscars to accept his award .
He played the lead role himself in the movie for
which he made the winning song Y . He has won 15
Grammy awards so far in his career .
He was in news again last year with something
related with oscars .
Id the singer X and the song Y.

35. ANS 10 :- X = Eminem
Y = lose yourself

36. Q 11 :- In the movie X , Nick Fury a.k.a.
Samuel L. Jackson tells a story about his
grandfather working as Y who clutches a
lunch bag filled with $1s and a small gun .
Samuel L. Jackson has confirmed his real –
life grandfather used to do the same job as
his character’s grandfather who also carried a
sack of $1s and a gun .
Id the movie X in which this story was told
and the job Y .

38. ANS 11 :-X =Captain America:Winter Soldier
Y = Elevator Operator

39. Q 12 :- According to mathematicians the
Monalisa painting is so much liked by the
people as it perfectly follows a mathematical
concept X which is widely observed in nature .
The things which follows this concept instantly
feels attractive to us .
Leonardo da vinci also used a painting
technique in this painting which was used for
the first time ever in any painting .(very widely
used in photography now)
Id the mathematical concept and the technique
used by him .

41. ANS 12 :- Fibonacci series / golden ratio
Technique – Blurred background

42. Q 13 :- X is considered to be the dumbest experiment ever
(not true) which was performed to explain a phenomenon Y .
This phenomenon was used to create a major plot twist in a
very famous sci-fi thriller web series .
There is a scene in the show where you can find a scientist
explaining this whole experiment for sake of convenience of
the general audience .
The whole dimension of the study in which this phenomenon
lies is extremely opposed by one of the biggest physicist of
all time . He used to say that " God _____ _____ ____ "
Id X and the phenomenon Y which it explains
(brownie points for filling the blanks)

44. Y = Quantum
superposition
Albert Einstein " god never plays
dice "

45. Q 14 :- X is a youtube video series in which a person plays 2
characters that are talking to each other and while pretending
to be discussing about a movie or show , they make fun of the
movies and point out all the plotholes and inappropriate things
that happens in the movie .
He makes these videos in collaboration with an entertainment
media company Y which runs a blog and a youtube channel
in which they make content about movies and tv shows .
This video series has crossed 220 episodes this month with
each video varying from 4 to 8 minutes .
Id X and Y ( X is a part of film making process itself )

46. Finding the answer to
this question is
“ super easy , barely an
inconvenience ”

47. ANS 14 :- X = Pitch Meetings
Y = Screen Rant

48. Q 15 :- X is a Hollywood actor known for his
signature charm . He did a movie in 2000s in
which he plays a role of a struggling stock broker
who is very smart but is unable to make his ends
meet . This movie was a biopic .
He also did a sci-fi movie Y in 2013 which is a
classic case of nepotism . This movie was really
hated by people due to very bad acting of his son
and very weak storyline with a lot of pothole .
This movie has a rotten tomatoes rating of 11%
Id the actor X and the 2013 movie Y .

50. ANS 15 :- X = will smith
Y = After Earth

51. Q 16 :- Connect the pictures

53. ANS 16 :- Kids’
Books written by
Enid Blyton

54. THE END
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