Melas Quiz 2017, Final With Answers

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
• 1.THERE IS NO BLOCKING IN THIS QUIZ.THE
QM CAN GIVE HINTS WHENEVER HE WANTS
• 2.TEAMS CREATING UNNECESSARY CHAOS
AND DISTURBANCE CAN GET PENALTIES
• KEEP YOUR OWN SCORES IF POSSIBLE
• QM TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
QUESTIONS AND ANY RESEMBLANCES TO ANY
PPTX OR SLIDESHARE IS PURELY
COINCIDENTAL.
• PARTMARKING IS AVAILABLE ON SELECTED
QUES

QM’s NOTE:
• I CONVEY MY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO
ATMADEEP DAS FOR HIS HELP AND INSIGHTS
ON THIS SET
• QM HAS A BAD HABIT OF FRAMING LONG
QUESTIONS AND HE APOLOGISES FOR THAT.IF
YOU ARE TOO LAZY OR TOO BORED TO READ
JUST BE ALL EARS TO THE QM’s NARRATION.
• CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!

INSIGHTS
• WESTERN INFLUENCED=55%
• INDIAN INFLUENCED=30%
• BANGLA INFLUENCED=15%
• MUSIC= 20%
• ENTERTAINMENT= 35%
• LITERATURE=20%
• ARTS=10%
• SPORTS=15%
• CLASSICS=60%
• NEW= 40%
*approximate statistics

ROUNDS
• 1. 10 QUES: (DIFFERENTIAL POUNCE;BOUNCE)
• 2..WRITTEN 1: MAX 50 POINTS+BONUS
• 3.. 10 QUES: (DIFFERENTIAL POUNCE;BOUNCE)
• 4.WRITTEN 2: MAX 100 POINTS+BONUS
• 5. 10 QUES: (DIFFERENTIAL POUNCE;BOUNCE)
• 6. 5 ON SPORTS: ( POUNCE AND BOUNCE)
• 7. FAB FIVE : (POUNCE ONLY WITH POUNCE)

AB SIRF MELA.. “S” CLIMAX K LIYE

MELAS
• 30 QUES FROM MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
LITERATURE ARTS
• POUNCE WILL APPLY
(+20/-10 on POUNCE
+20 ON BOUNCE ATTEMPTS)

QUES 1
• X describes the deliberately display of a lack of or no emotion,
commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the
ridiculousness of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to
be blunt, sarcastic, laconic, or apparently unintentional.
• The oldest usage recorded by the Oxford English
Dictionary comes from The New York Times (1928), which
defines the term as "playing a role with expressionless
face".[2] An example of this usage is in a scene from the 1934
film The Gay Bride in which a gangster tells a man on the
other end of a phone conversation to "give it a X", so that the
man does not inadvertently alert anyone else in the room as
to the importance of what the gangster is about to say.
• BUSTER KEATON,WOODY ALLEN,STEVEN WRIGHT ARE THE
ONES TO DEVELOP AND POPULARISE X
• ID X(HINT IN NEXT SLIDE)

THIS EMOJI IS PARTICULARLY
DEDICATED TO X

QUES.2
• X was an American businessman, investor, pilot, film director, and
philanthropist Later in life, he became known for his eccentric
behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part
by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic
pain from a plane crash.
• As a maverick film tycoon, X gained prominence
in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-
budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928), Hell's
Angels (1930), and Scarface (1932). Later he controlled
the RKO film studio.
• Stan Lee has repeatedly stated he created the Marvel Comics
character Iron Man's civilian persona,drawing inspiration from X‘s
colorful lifestyle and personality. Additionally, the first name of
Stark's father is also same as X.
• In the "Dark Knight Trilogy", Director Christopher Nolan's
characterisation of Bruce Wayne is heavily inspired by X
• The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, in which X is portrayed
by Leonardo DiCaprio.
• ID X

QUES 3• X is a 1987 novel by Y. The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and
burgeoning sexuality. It is told from the first-person perspective of
Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student
living in Tokyo. Through Watanabe's reminiscences we see him
develop relationships with two very different women — the
beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko, and the outgoing, lively
Midori.
• The novel is set in Tokyo during the late 1960s, at a time when
Japanese students, like those of many other nations, were
protesting against the established order. While it serves as the
backdrop against which the events of the novel unfold, Y (through
the eyes of Watanabe and Midori) portrays the student movement
as largely weak-willed and hypocritical.
• the title X is taken from The Beatles song “X(This Bird Has Flown)",
written by John Lennon. This song is often described in the novel,
and is the favorite song of the character Naoko.
• A 37-year-old Toru Watanabe has just arrived in Hamburg, Germany.
When he hears an orchestral cover of the Beatles' song “X“ at the
airport, he is suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of loss and
nostalgia. He thinks back to the 1960s, when so much happened
that touched his life.
• NOW ID X and Y

ANS
• X=NORWEGIAN WOOD
• Y=HARUKI MURAKAMI

QUES 4
• X is a Bangladeshi song, which was first released in 2004 as
the title track of the teleplay Off Beat. The song was
composed and performed by Black. It was later featured in
Black's compilation album Shopnochura which was released
in 2004. In 2005, Y produced an acoustic version of the
song which was featured in his album Chaina Bhabish.
• The song was a turning point in Y's career as it helped him
to emerge into the Bangladeshi music scene.[2] The song is
still popular among the listeners, making it one of the most
demanded songs in the concerts of Y as well as in the FM
radio programs. The song was also used in the Kolkata
film Aamra.
• The USP of the song is its simple lyrics penned by Y’s ex-
wife Z which talks about a girl’s loneliness.
• Id X,Y,Z

ANS
• X=SHE JE BOSE ACHE EKA EKA
• Y= SHAYAN CHOWDHURY ARNOB
• Z=SAHANA BAJPAYEE

QUES 5• ZOYA AKHTHAR’S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT,Luck by Chance, begins, with a list
of acknowledgements. Then, alone in the frame, moments before the first
scene kicks off, appear the words: “for our friend Hassan Kutty.”
• Kutty, too, worked in the movie industry. But even the mostdedicated
cinemagoer in the country is unlikely to have heard of him. Those who did
know him, however, admired him immensely.
• He worked with MIRA NAIR for salaam bombay(1988)and Nair described
Kutty as “absolutely unforgettable,” and someone who would be
“considered an artist in any cinema system of the world.”he worked with
Reema kagti and manygreat directors.
• Kutty became Bollywood’s best-known specialist X though he also worked
as an AD. X is a position well established in the American and European film
industries. In India, however, though almost1,000 movies are produced
annually, mostfilmmakers choose not to use one.
• But now with a bunch of arthouse and indie films being made in bollywood
X is becoming a vital designation in the industry.
• X’s role is critical to any well-crafted film. It is their responsibility to ensure
that the film’s continuity is maintained—that visual details remain
consistent across shots and over the length of the film. This is a complex
task, because movies are seldom shot in the sequence in which they unfold
on screen.
• ID X (PIC IN NEXT SLIDE)

QUES 6
• What do the shark attacks mean in Stephen Spielberg’s 1975 film
“Jaws“? Theorist X investigates the question his latest film “The
Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”
• “Y, who loves the film, once said that for him it was obvious that
Jaws is kind of a leftist/Marxist film and that the shark is a
metaphor for brutal, big, capitalism exploiting ordinary American,”
X notes. But Jaws shouldn’t be seen as a metaphor for capitalism,
but the figure of the Other in fascism.
• We have, Y argues, a laundry list of fears about corporations,
immigrants, the environment and so on . “The function of the shark
is to unite all these fears so that we can, in a way, trade all these
fears for one fear alone.” He continues to note that fascism worked
in precisely this way.
“You need to generate an ideological narrative which explains how
things went wrong in a society, not as the result of the inherent
tensions in the development of this society, but as the result of a
foreign intruder…It’s the same operation as with the shark in Jaws.”
This, for the Nazis, was the figure of the Jew.
• ID X and Y

ANS
• X= SLAVOJ ZIZEK
• Y= FIDEL CASTRO

QUES 7• Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American film based upon the first half
of L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel of the same name. Directed
by Roger Christian and starring John Travolta, Barry
Pepper and Forest Whitaker, the film depicts an Earth that has been
under the rule of the alien Psychlos for 1,000 years and tells the
story of the rebellion that develops when the Psychlos attempt to
use the surviving humans as gold miners.
• The film has a disastrous imdb rating 2.4/10
• The film was a critical and commercial failure, and is frequently
described as one of the worst films of all time
• The film went on to receive a total of eight Golden Raspberry
Awards, which until 2012 was the most Razzie Awards given to a
single film, additionally winning Worst Picture of the Decade in
2010. It has since become a cult film in the "so bad, it's good" vein.
• Writer J. D. Shapiro received his Worst Screenplay award from
Razzies founder John J. B. Wilson during a radio program; he
commented that Travolta had called the script "the Schindler's
List of X“
• X is a particular philosophy on which the film was based on.ID X

QUES 8
• X is a subgenre of independent film characterized by naturalistic acting
and dialogue (often improvised), low-budget film production, an emphasis
on dialogue over plot, and a focus on the personal relationships of people
in their 20s and 30s. Filmmakers associated with the genre
include Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, Mark Duplass, JayDuplass and Ry
Russo-Young;though, these directors reject the term.
• The genre is a mostlyAmerican phenomenon, but Indian and German X
films have also been produced.
• Andrew Bujalski has been described as the "Godfather of X". His 2002
directorial debut, Funny Ha Ha, is generally considered to be the first legit
X film.
• 60s french director ERIC ROHMER films and films like
Manhattan (1979), StrangerThan
Paradise (1984), Slacker (1991)andBefore Sunrise (1995)are cited as its
early inspirations.
Directors like Sai Paranjpye have made films like Chashme Buddoor(1981)
and Kathā (1982)One of the more recent ones to come out from the Hindi
scene is Sulemani Keeda.These are also some X movies.
ID THIS CINEMATIC MOVEMENT X

QUES 9
• X is an American adult animated science-
fiction sitcom created by Justin
Roiland for Cartoon Network's late-night
programming block Adult Swim. The series
follows the misadventures of cynical mad
scientist his fretful, easily influenced
grandsonwho split their time between domestic
life and interdimensional adventures.The show is
known to be high on philosophical value and
often resonates with different philosophical
schools in its tone.

• A frequently-cited example is a point made in "Rixty
Minutes", where the protagonist argues that his sister
shouldn't run away from home in anger after learning
of alternative realities where her parents were happier
without her:
• Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere,
everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.
• This statement heavily resembles a quote from French
philoshopher Y:
• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs
itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
• ID X and Y

ANS
X=RICK AND MORTY
Y=JEAN PAUL SARTRE

QUES 10
• She lost her nose ornament, while she was on her way to
meet her husband to give him meals. In case of a man, if he
is a farmer, he will be working in his fields during mid day
time, his wife used to bring lunch / meal by preparing it,
also to give fresh food / meal to eat. One day she lost her
nose ornament some where on way and she does not know
where she lost it, and while going back to home, she asks
her husband to watch out on her footsteps which she
followed, to find her ornament and bring back if found. As
they might be commuting from home to fields via same
route, she is asking him to do so, while returning in evening
from fields. In this song, she is describing about the beauty
of her ornament.
• WHICH POPULAR FOLK SONG I AM TALKING ABOUT?

• THIS ONE WILL BE INSPIRED FROM
LITERATURE
• WE WILL SHOW YOU 10 TATTOOS BASED ON
LITERATURE CLASSICS
• YOU HAVE TO NAME THE INSPIRATIONS
• +5 FOR EVERY CORRECT ONE
• IF YOU GET MORE THAN 7 CORRECT: +20

ANS
• 1.HARRY POTTER
• 2.THE TEMPEST
• 3.PETER PAN
• 4.THE GREAT GATSBY
• 5.THE SONG OF ICE AND FIRE/GAME OF
THRONES

ANS
• 6.PABLO NERUDA
• 7.SLAUGHTERHOUSEFIVE
• 8.METAMORPHOSIS
• 9.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
• 10..THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

QUES 11
• X comes from a musical family originating from Pili
Mandori Village in Hissar district
of Haryana state.Jasraj is her uncle. Her older sister is
like her,an actress and playback singer. Her brothers are
famous music directors.
• She sang two popular songs in bengali movie “BIYER
PHOOL” named ‘cham cham nupur baje’ and ‘mon
amar ek notun’.
• She also sang for movies like Jo Jeeta Wohi
Sikandar (1992), Kabhi Haan Kabhi
Naa (1993), Saazish (1998)
• She acted in a blockbuster bengali movie directed by
Sujit Guha in 1987
• Id X(AUDIO WILL BE PLAYED)

QUES 12
• Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na is a 2008 Indian coming of
age romantic drama film, written and directed by Abbas
Tyrewala. The film stars Imran Khan and Genelia D'Souza in
pivotal roles.IT was Produced by Mansoor Khan, Aamir Khan.
• The film had a range of great track composed by AR
Rahman,among which “pappu can’t dance sala’ went on to
become a crazy party anthem and a instant chartbuster
• Due to lack of budget director Abbas forced one of the AD
on this film X to feature as Pappu in the song,though X
revealed in a recent interview that he had no acting
background.the director felt that X exactly looked like a
“PAPPU” so he roped him in the song.
• X is now a famous director having made 2 critically
acclaimed fims for Dharma Production but he stated that still
people recognise him as Pappu much to his embarrassment.
• Id X( image in next slide)

QUES 13• Riddhi Sen as Fowara
• Rwitobroto Mukherjee as Kochua
• Dhee Majumder as Charan
• Rajarshi Nag as Gopeshan
• Jishnu Bandyopadhyayas Tukai
• Surangana Bandopadhyayas Titir
• Rajatava Dutta as Gopeshwar
• Sudipta Chakraborty as Fowara's mother, Boishakhi
• Kaushik Sen as Mahim Halder
• Paran Bandopadhyayas Noton Da
• Sohini Sarkar as Iraboti
• Ambarish Bhattacharya as Herombo
• Aparajita Auddy as Gopeshwar's wife
• BiswanathBasu as Pulish
• Ritwick Chakraborty as grown-up Fowara
• X as someone disguised as LORD KRISHNA
• ID X who became famous for his “DISTURBING”skills :D
• PIC IN NEXT SLIDE

ANS
• RJ SAYAN OF “HAPPY TO DISTURB” FAME

QUES 14
• Final results
• Miss Universe 2004 Australia - Jennifer Hawkins
• 1st Runner-up United States - Shandi Finnessey
• 2nd Runner-up Puerto Rico - Alba Reyes
• 3rd Runner-up Paraguay - Yanina González
• 4th Runner-up Trinidad & Tobago - Danielle Jones
• Top 10 Colombia - Catherine Daza
• Costa Rica - Nancy Soto
• Ecuador - Susana Rivadeneira
• India - X
• Jamaica - Christine Straw

• WE saw THE RANKINGS OF MISS UNIVERSE 2004
• Suprisingly famous model Y who was the Miss Israel
got eliminated early and finished even below to X the
Miss India who came 9th .
• While X went on to act some forgettable bollywood
movies and was last seen in 2010 movie “Apartment”, Y
nicely struck the chord in hollywood and is now one of
the biggest actresses in the world
• Y reportedly said that she was not interestedin the
miss universe competition and never fought whole-
heartedly.
• ID X and Y

ANS
• X=TANUSHREE DUTTA
• Y=GAL GODOT

Ques 15
• X was a TV show broadcast on Sony TV in India in 1998.
• The show had stars like Pallavi Joshi, Aamir Bashir, Vikram Gokhale, Anajn
Srivastav, Sulbha Deshpande
• The story revolvesaround the life of 21-year-oldAmrita.
• She seems like a happy and healthy girl till one day, when she faints and is
rushed to the hospital. She never wakes up and goes into coma. While the
doctors try to solve the medical mystery, Amrita's grandparents run out of
money to foot the hospital bills. On the other hand, her fiance, Rohit, is
being pressurised to marry another girl. A year passes by and Amrita shows
no improvement.
• Amidst all the issues cropping up, it is found that she is 3 months pregnant.
Someone raped her while she was in coma.
• What follows is a heart-wrenching story of her helpless grandparents who
want justice for their once happy and healthy Amrita, a fiance who fights for
his love under parental pressure and accusations of rape on a girl whose
bodily integrity was snatched awayfrom her under the mostvulnerable
circumstances.
• Out of the various suspects ranging from hospital staff to even Rohit, it is
finally discovered that the senior mostdoctor in the hospital committedthe
heinous crime.
• ID X this indian television gem

QUES 16• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were
executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of
committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of
transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that
time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons.
They also provided top-secret information about radar, sonar, and
jet propulsion engines to the USSR.
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted by
executioner Joseph Francel at sundown on June 19, 1953.
It was never fully proved that they were guilt.this traumatic incident
during cold war had much impact on literature of that time.
The main character in X's novel, Y, is morbidly interested in the
Rosenbergs' case.The novel begins with the sentence, "It was a
queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the
Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.“
This incident took X in furthermore depression and X committed
suicide few months after.
id X and Y,the only novel written by X

ANS
• X=SYLVIA PLATH
• Y= THE BELL JAR

QUES 17• “X" is a song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became
most famous in 1942 when part of it was sung by the character
Sam (Dooley Wilson) in the movie Casablanca.
• The song was voted No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100
Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film. The song
has since become the representative song of Warner Bros. and
was also the title and theme song of the 1990s British romantic
comedy series of the same name.
• The original song in the film as sung and played by "Sam" was
recorded in D-flat major, but it has since been played in several
keys, commonly C major, but also B-flat major, as in Frank
Sinatra's recording, and others keys included including A major
and E-flat major.
• It inspired the title of the first memoir
of Beatles publicist Derek Taylor
• ID X

QUES 18• No Cohen album will drain you like “Songs of Love and Hate.” Released in
1971, it’s probably his most claustrophobic work, and so emotionally
oppressive that it’s exhausting: songs that see-saw from the flaming
intensity of Joan of Arc to the angry poison of Avalanche.
• X, though, has a foot in both camps. It’s a song of love and hate, of regret
and remorse. Cohen’s a cuckold and is writing a letter to the man who
temporarily stole his sweetheart, only he seems stuck.
• “It’s four in the morning, the end of December / I’m writing you now just
to see if you’re better / New York is cold, but I like where I’m living,” he
rambles, dancing aimlessly around the extra-marital elephant in the
room.
• The song is written in the form of a letter. The lyric tells the story of
a love triangle between the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the male
addressee, who is identified only briefly as "my brother, my killer.
• The lyrics contain references to the German love song "Lili Marlene,"
to Scientology, and to Clinton Street. Cohen lived on Clinton Street
in Manhattan in the 1970s when it was a lively Latino area.
• Ron Cornelius played guitar said “If I had to pick a favorite from the
album, it would probably be ‘X”
• Id X

QUES 19
• X is a famous 1960 itailian comedy drama film.
• OPENING SEQUENCE of X:
• A helicopter transports a statue of Christ over
an ancient Roman aqueduct outside Rome
while a second, Marcello Rubini's news
helicopter, follows it into the city.
• NEXT SLIDE……

• Y is a 2017 moderate hit bollywood film.its
opening sequence is reminicent to X and looks
somehow inspired.
• OPENING SEQUENCE:
• Goddess Durga being helicoptered across the
city of kolkata while the protagonist goes to
the roof to commit suicide.
• Id X and Y

ANS
• X= LA DOLCE VITA
• Y= MERI PYARI BINDU

QUES 20
• WE ARE PLAYING A 80s famous ARABIAN SONG
sung by AHMED ZAHIR
• BUT decades after later it got much popularity
due to X’s version performed in coke studio
pakistan
• X sung this song again for a bollywood movie
with some alteration in lyrics
• Id x
• And the movie

ANS
• LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA
• X=ZEB

• THIS ONE WILL BE INSPIRED FROM
BOLLYWOOD
• WE WILL SHOW YOU A VIDEO WHERE THERE
IS A MONTAGE OF SONGS PLAYING
• YOU HAVE TO NAME THE MOVIES
• +3 FOR EVERY CORRECT ONE

ans
• Ye Chand sa Roshan chehra - Kashmir Ki Kali (1964)
Ae Dil Mujhe Bata De - Bhai Bhai (1956)
Aajkal Tere Mere Pyar Ke Charche - Bhai Bhai (1968)
Mere saamne waali khidki mein - Padosan (1968)
Khwab tum ya koi haqeeqat - Teen Devian (1965)
Chala jata hoon kisiki dhun mein - Mere Jeevan Saathi (1972)
Hai apna dil to aawara - Solva Saal (1958)
Dil deke dekho - Dil deke dekho(1959)
Tumsa nahi dekha - Tumsa nahi dekha(1957)
Ude jab jab zulfe teri - Naya Daur (1957)
Shaam dhale khidki tale - Albela (1951)
Shola jo bhadke - Albela (1951)
Sar jo tera chakraaye - Pyaasa (1957)
Yeh dosti hum nahi todenge - Sholay (1975)
Ek ajnabee haseena se - Ajnabee (1974)
Yeh shaam mastani - Kati Patang (1971)

ans
• Ek din bik jayega maati ke mol - Dharam Karam (1975)
Kya Hua Tera Vada - Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977)
Dil Dhundta Hai - Mausam (1975)
Hum dono do premi - Ajanabee (1974)
Kanchi re kanchi - Hare rama hare krishna (1971)
Kabhie kabhie mere dil mein - Kabhie kabhie (1976)
Ban than chali - Kurukshetra (2000)
Anjaani raahon mein - Meri Jaan Hindustan(1997)
Dil hai chota sa - Roja (1992)
Haye re haye - Jeans (1998)
Tum paas aaye - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
Na tum jaano na hum - Kaho na pyaar hai (2000)
Main koi aisa geet - Yes boss (1997)
Pehla nasha - Jo jeeta wohi sikandar (1992)
Allah ke bande - Waisa bhi hota hai part 2 (2006)
Iktara - Wake up sid (2009)
Yuh hi chala chal - Swades (2004)
Kabira - Yeh jawaani hai deewani (2013)

QUES 21• "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by American poet Allen
Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956. In the poem,
the narrator imagines visiting a supermarket in California where he
finds X and Y shopping.Y, who is also discussed in "Howl", is a character
common in Ginsberg's poems, and is often referred to as Ginsberg's
poetic model.
• In the opening line, the poet addresses Y, or Y's spirit as he finds himself
"shopping for images“
• Ginsberg introduces the character of X in line 7, asking "..and you,X,
what were you doing down by the watermelons?”X was a
famous Spanish poet and playwright who had died in 1936, yet his spirit
appears in the supermarket in 1955 when the poem is written. X's
works were often classified as surrealistic and were considered to
have homoerotic tones.
• The narrator sees families of consumers shopping in the market
alongside the figures of deceased poets X and Y, both of whom
were homosexual poets like Ginsberg himself
• ID X AND Y

ANS
• X= FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
• Y= WALT WHITMAN

QUES 22
• X is a 1998 American satirical science fiction film.starring Jim Carrey as
T.Burbank
• Parallels can be drawn from Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, in which More
describes an island with only one entrance and only one exit. Only those who
belonged to this island knew how to navigatetheir way through the
treacherous openings safely and unharmed. This situation is similar
to X because there are limited entryways into the world that Burbank knows.he
does not belong to this utopia into which he has been implanted, and
childhood trauma rendered him frightened of the prospect of ever leaving this
small community. The "American Dream" concept in Truman's world serves as
an attemptto keep him happy and ignorant.
• Joel Gold, a psychiatrist revealed that by 2008, he had met five patients
with schizophrenia who believed their lives were reality television shows. Gold
named the syndrome“X delusion" after the film and attributed the delusion to
a world that had become hungry for publicity.
• Gold stated that some patients were rendered happy by their disease, while
"others were tormented". One traveled to New York to check whether
the World Trade Center had actually fallen—believing the 9/11 attacks to be an
elaborate plot twist in his personal storyline. Another came to climb the Statue
of Liberty, believing that he would be reunited with his high-school girlfriend at
the top and finally be released from the show.
• ID X

Ques 23
• X was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during
the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61
films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love goddess" to
describe her. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War
II.[1
. X is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film
noir, Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme
fatale in her first major dramatic role. Her greatest success was in
the Technicolor musical Cover Girl (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed
as one of the top-25 female motion picture stars of all time in the AFI's
survey
• X was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her
death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness
drew attention to Alzheimer's, and helped to increase public
and private funding for Alzheimer's research.
• 2nd part in next slide

• In 1948, X left her film career to marry Prince Y, a
son of Sultan Mahommed Shah,the leader of
the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.Her bridal trousseau
had been influenced by Dior's "New Look”.she
wished to convert to islam but never did
• while still married to X, Y was spotted dancing with
the actress Joan Fontaine in the nightclub where he
and his wife had met.X threatened to divorce him
in Reno, Nevada.
• In January 1953 X was granted a divorce from Y on
the grounds of extreme mental cruelty.
• ID X and Y whose affair still remains as one of the
most celebrated gossips in the glamour world

ans
• X= RITA HAYWORTH
• Y= PRINCE ALY KHAN

QUES 24
X is a 1986 Indian romantic drama film written and
directed by Y. The film narrates the life of
Divya(Revathi), who is robbed of her carefree existence
when she reluctantly marries Chandrakumar (Mohan).
Divya, mourning the shooting death of her former
lover Manohar (Karthik), does not really want to be
married. The story follows Divya's inner conflict
between holding onto her past and coming to terms
with the present and making a life with Chandrakumar.
X is often cited by movie critics as world’s first chick-
flick movie to be made even before the genre was
named.
Next slide…………………

• Unlike other women’s films, where women are caught in a struggle
between good and evil, chick flicks center on the romantic worldview of
females while gratifying their hopes and dreams usually through a warm
and fuzzy denouement. English professors Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory
Young write in Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies (2007)
chick flicks illustrate, reflect, and present “a return to feminity, the
primacy of romantic attachments, [and] girl power.”
• Told from Divya’s point of view, Mouna Raagam asks and answers a
question straight out of ‘chick lit’: ‘Why do women love bad boys and
dump nice guys?’ Yet, in the style of a chick flick, rather than bringing the
divorce between Divya and Chandrakumar to fruition, the narrative allows
romance to blossom between the estranged couple. Love actually, for
want of a better word, happens. Divya’s arranged marriage becomes a
love marriage.
• Film critic Bharadwaj Rangan said, “every girl who saw X when it was
released came out wishing for a boyfriend like Karthik and a husband like
Mohan.” This provides some anecdotal proof of the oneiric gratification
girls in particular gained from the film.despite being made by a male
director, was at its heart, an inquiry into a “woman’s psyche” AND can be
successfully termed as a “chick flick”
• Id X and Y

ANS
• X= MOUNA RAGAM
• Y= MANI RATNAM

QUES 25
• THE AUDIO CLIP HAS 2 DIFFERENT
INSPIRATION
• THE MUSIC DERIVES ITSELF FROM A MOVIE
• THE LYRICS HINTS TO A TV SHOW
• ID BOTH

ANS
• FROZEN
• BREAKING BAD

QUES 26
• Syed Jamil Ahmed’s latest stage directorial
venture X has garnered plaudits for its “anti-
genocide message” and “out-of-the-box
presentation.”
• the play depicts a region which has been torn
apart by a war waged in the name of religion.
Portraying the story of siblings X and Fatima, the
play shows the sufferings of the people who have
lost everything in the war.
• An adaptation of Urdu language poet Y poem “A
Country without a Post Office”
• ID X and Y

ANS
X=RIZWAN
Y= AGA SHAHID ALI

• THIS IS A PIC AND IN THE
• PREVIOUS SLIDE THERE WAS
• TWO SKETCHES FOR THE
• PLAYBOY PHOTOSHOT.
• NAME THE DESIGNER

QUES 28
• X was an American artist emerged from the “PUNK” scene.X first
achieved fame as part of SAMO©, an informal graffiti duo who wrote
enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East
Sideof Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-
punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was
exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums
internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a
retrospective of his art in 1992.
• X's art focused on "suggestive dichotomies", such as wealth versus
poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer
experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and
married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical
information mixed with contemporary critique. X used social
commentary in his paintings as a "springboard to deeper truths about
the individual", as well as attacks on power structures and systems of
racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their
criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. He died of
a heroin overdose at his art studio at age 27.
• ID X (PAINTINGS IN NEXT SLIDE)

QUES 29
• Old film tunes are often lifted, remixed and used without context
in new releases just in order to nostalgia.
• An exception is the otherwise messy Begum Jaan, which makes
thoughtful use of a classic tune.
• Set in 1947, Begum Jaan is about the titular brothel owner who
tries to save her bordello on the Indo-Pak border from being
razed. The song Woh Subah Kabhi Toh
Aayegi from X (1958)appears in the climax of Begum Jaan, with
the lyrics and context made relevant to the plot.
• While Ludhianvi’s political leanings were influenced both by
rebellious communists and passive socialists, his poetry is
coloured with peacenik ideas. X was adapted from Fyodor
Dostoevsky’s novel Y. The placement of the song in the film
highlights one of the book’s moral themes of the oppressed
fighting those who wield power through money which goes
perfectly with the theme of Begam Jaan and its brothel workers.
• Id X and Y
•

ANS
• X= PHIR SUBAH HOGI
• Y= CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Ques 30• I am talking of a love story which was presented to us by “extra gum”
• It was named the “sarah-juan love story”
• As Haley Reinhart's take on "Can't Help Falling in Love" plays in the
background, Sarah and Juan lock eyes, Sarah is so overwhelmed with the
romantic connection that she blushes.This sets the tone for the rest of
love story
• Through high school, picnics, prom, fights and long-distance, one thing
remains constant between Juan and Sarah -- Extra Gum.
• Each time Sarah gives Juan a stick of gum, Juan draws on the wrapper
afterwards. It all comes together at the end, when Sarah is led to a private
room to find that Juan had been saving these wrappers documenting their
journey. In a romantic and private setting, Sarah finds one wrapper with a
drawing of Juan proposing, only to turn around to Juan actually proposing.
• It is a serious tearjerker having all the elements of
love,kiss,fights,separation,long distance relationship,reunion and at last
surprise proposal
• Now this love story has a desi version of it named “adi-naira love story”
which is known to all of us starring shubham kumar and banita sandhu
• Ques in the next slide…………
•

• Now tell me,
• 1)what I am talking about
• 2)which song is associated with the desi
version
• 3)instead of wrapper art what was in the
climax scene of the desi version

ans
• 1) doublemint ad
• 2)ek ajnabi haseena se
• 3) domino effect of the gums

• 5 QUES FROM SPORTS
• POUNCE WILL APPLY
+20 FOR CORRECT POUNCES
-10 FOR INCORRECT POUNCES
+10 ON BOUNCE ATTEMPTS

ANS
• BAYERN PLAYERS IN THE STARTING LINEUP OF
EACH WORLDCUP FINAL

QUES 32
• THE LAST TIME X HAPPENED WAS IN 25 SEPT,1992.
• In 2013, Andy Murray responded to a Twitter user who asked
whether he would consider challenging Y for a X, saying "I’d be up
for it. Why not?". Y also reacted positively to the suggestion,
remarking "That would be fun. I doubt I’d win a point, but that
would be fun."
• In August 2015, John McEnroe was interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel
Live!. At that time, McEnroe was 56 years old but still active on the
seniors tennis circuit, Y was 34 years old and Is already a legend.
McEnroe mentioned to Kimmel that about 15 years prior, Donald
Trump had suggested that he would like to put together a “X"
match between McEnroe and Y. McEnroe said he would face Y but
that Trump was not offering a big enough payout. McEnroe boasted
that he believed he could take Y in a tennis match, but he joked that
he would not be so confident if it were a boxing match.
• ID X AND Y

ANS
• X= BATTLE OF SEXES
• Y= SERENA WILLIAMS

QUES 33
• Yamamotoyama Ryūta is a Japanese retired sumo wrestler from
the city of Saitama.He made his professional debut in January 2007,
and reached the top makuuchi division in January 2009. His highest
rank was maegashira 9. At 265 kg (584 lb), Yamamotoyama is the
heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler in history.In April 2011, he
was told to retire by the Japan Sumo Association after he and
several other wrestlers were found to be involved in match-fixing.
• In 2012 he appeared in Season 5 of India's biggest reality show Bigg
Boss. Before entering he told reporters that he had already seen
the 4th season and he that he loved both the show and Indian
culture, despite not knowing Hindi or English.
• Also in 2017 he was featured in the Hollywood motion picture John
Wick 2 with Keanu Reeves.
• In January 2017, he appeared in a music video for what song? The
song was originally written as something that would suit Rihanna.

Ques 34
X never had a victory pose.So while interviewing him in
Sky series’s “a league of their own” host, James
Corden, challenged the panellists to invent a move that
X could do at the Olympics, and the sports
commentator Clare Balding came up with the idea of
using the 'M' from the YMCA song by Village People.
The next time most people saw the pose again was in the
final throes of the men's 10,000m race in the Olympic
stadium. As X crossed the line he reincarnated the
move, which became in instant hit.
ID X and the name of the pose

ans
• X= mo farah
• And his iconic “MOBOT” pose

QUES 35
• This revised and expanded edition of X includes a new
introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-
before-published poems by Y
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been
instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a
remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic,
spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Y more
popular than ever.
X continues to be the bestselling of all Y’s books, and the
definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.
• HINT: RECENT SPORTS CONNECTION(COVER PIC IN NEXT
SLIDE)
• ID X and Y and put the funda

ANS
• X= THE ESSENTIAL RUMI
• Y= JALALUDDIN RUMI
• MITHALI RAJ WAS SEEN READING THIS BOOK
JUST BEFORE SHE CAME INTO CREASE IN A
RECENT WORLD CUP MATCH

• THERE WILL BE 5 QUESTIONS ON 5 DIFFERENT
TOPICS
• THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL SOLVE CLUES
• ONLY POUNCE
• 10/-5

QUES 36
• X: Meaning in the Madness
• Jeremy Y, the undrafted basketball phenom who has set records and
electrified NBA crowds since debuting this month for the New York Knicks.
What makes Y so compelling to so many, beyond his athletic prowess, is his
unique biography. He is the first American-born player of
Chinese/Taiwanese descent in NBA history. He attended Harvard, where he
majored in economics. And he is deeply and unabashedly religious,
thanking Christ in interviews for the opportunity he has been given.
• Y’s story is quintessentially American, bringing together diverse and
divergent facets of our country’s life and culture. It challenges our
stereotypes. And it inspires and speaks to Americans from manydifferent
walks of life.
• Popular sports are often dismissed as mere diversion or entertainment, but
“X” reminds us that at the best of times, sports are something more: a
common language across class, race and creed that reflects the values and
hopes we share as Americans.
• THIS TERM X GOT PRETTY MUCH FAME IN INDIA DURING IPL 10
• ID X AND Y

ANS HINT
• X= _ _ _ S _ _ _ _Y

ANS
• X= LINSANITY/LYNNSANITY
• Y= LIN

QUES 37
• I’ll try out the pencils
sharpened to the point of infinity
which alwayssees ahead:
• Green — good warm light
• Magenta— Aztec. old TLAPALI
blood of prickly pear, the
brightest and oldest
• [Brown —] colorof mole, of leaves becoming
earth
• [Yellow —] madness sickness fear
part of the sun and of happiness
• [Blue —] electricity and purity love
• [Black —] nothing is black — really nothing
• [Olive —] leaves, sadness, science, the whole
of Germany is this color
• [Yellow —] more madness and mystery
all the ghosts wear
clothes of this color, or at
least their underclothes
• [Dark blue —] color of bad advertisements
and of good business
• [Blue —]distance. Tenderness
can also be this blue
blood?

• X wrote the significance of
• Colors in X’s journal at a very
• Young age and later this stream
• Of consciousness was seen in
• Her handwritten letters to
• Diego Rivera.
• X was a Mexican painter, who mostly painted self-portraits. Inspired
by Mexican popular culture,X employed a naïve folk art style to
explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and
race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong
autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
• ID X

ANS HINT
• _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ L _

QUES 38
X was a famous Bengali footballer who was
bestowed with the title “India’s very own
Beckenbauer” for something he did back in
1977.
The person on the receiving end later remarked
“your no 14 did not allow me to move”
Who?

Ques 39
• X was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
• His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic
ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.His work addresses the
ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol,
relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. X wrote
thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels,
eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a
result of his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, in the LA
underground newspaper Open City.He was closely associated with
dirty realism and transgressive fiction movements.
• French cineaste Y praised X for his work creating the English
subtitles for his 1980 film Sauve qui peut la vie.
• Y was the part of “new wave” cinematic movement and his movies
are deeply rooted to existential and marxist philosophy
• Y he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, current President of
Peru.
• id X and Y

ANS HINT
• X= C_ _ _ _e_ _ u_ _ w_ _ _
• Y= J_ _ _-L_ _ _o_ _ _d

ANS
• X= Charles Bukowski
• Y= Jean-Luc Godard

Ques 40
• I am framing this from my memory,can’t recall the
source:
• There is a sweet story behind why south indian
superstar OR “ultimate star” X worked only in one hindi
movie Y
• X was already a accomplished actor after delivering hits
like “bhali”,”mugaveri”.but while shooting for
“Amarkalam” he met actress Shalini but was unable to
reciprocate his love.X then requested her sister Shamili
to convey his love to Shalini.though Shamili agreed,she
had one condition: X must work with SRK in a film so
that she could meet SRK easily.
• To fulfill this condition X hurriedly grabbed a small role
in the movie Y as SRK’s brother.
• X married Shalini as soon as “Amarkalam” wrapped up
and never ever worked in bollywood again
• id X and Y

Ans hint
• X= “T_ _ _A” A_ _ _ _ K_ _ _ _
• Y= _ś_ _ _

ANS
• X= THALA AJITH KUMAR
• Y= ASOKA

PART 1
• MPDG is a stock character type in films. Film
critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the term after
observing Kirsten Dunst's character
in Elizabethtown (2005), describes the MPDG as "that
bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in
the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-
directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to
embrace life and its infinite mysteries and
adventures."MPDGs are said to help their men without
pursuing their own happiness, and such characters
never grow up; thus, their men never grow up.
• GIVE THE FULL FORM OF MPDG

ANS
• MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL

PART 2
• ID THEIR CHARACTER NAMES/MOVIES

Ans
Holly-breakfast at Tiffany
Sam-garden state
Penny- almost famous
Clementine-eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
Annie- Annie hall
Summer- (500) days of summer
Claire- Elizabeth town
SandaE*- L.A.story
Amelie- amelie
Marla- fight club
Leeloo- the fifth element
Samantha- Her

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