MELAS Quiz at AURA 2019, AIIMS Jodhpur

MELAS QUIZ
AURA: AIIMS JODHPUR
SNEHASHIS PANDA

CREDITS
• The organising team at Aura 2019, AIIMS Jodhpur
• Anshul Sharma, for managing everything in the
backdrop
• Atishay Jain & Sayantan Guha at MiQuest
• Sanjay Krishna, Antra Fuloria and Tanay Khare
• The Bombay Quiz Club, for inspiring as always

HOW WE ROLL
• 25 questions
• 1-20 are a point each, halves wherever applicable
• 21-25 are double pointers
• 30 points on offer
• Questions follow the M-E-L-A-S order, symbol at the
bottom right indicates genre
• Top 6 teams qualify

THE NEW ORDER
• Music (Everything but Dhinchak Pooja) -1,6,11,16,21
• Entertainment (Movies, TV, GIFs, The Shebang)-2,7,12,17,22
• Literature (Novels, Fanfic, Graphic Novels, Comics)- 3,8,13,18,23
• Arts- 4,9,14,19,24
• Sports – 5,10,15,20,25

QUESTION 1
• Filhaal starring Sushmita Sen, Tabu, Sanjay Suri
chronicled multiple debuts during the course of the
movie.
• The movie was the directorial debut for Meghna Gulzar,
of Talvar & Raazi fame.
• The movie also featured the cinematic & playback
debuts for an UCMS, Delhi graduate comes from a
family of Rajvaidyas and is the 17th generation
physician of his family.
• Who?

QUESTION 2
• “I think about my father being called 'boy', my uncle being called
'boy', my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called
'boy'. So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do
before he's given the respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years
old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old
enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be
called a man. I self-ordained myself (_______) so the first word out
of everybody's mouth is ”___" That's a sign of respect that my
father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother
didn't get.”
• This is the reasoning behind Laurence Tureaud using a
particular honorific, thus explaining his popular name.
• Who?

QUESTION 3
• Barings Bank, London is the world's second oldest merchant
bank (after Berenberg Bank), founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a
British-born member of the German-British Baring family of
merchants and bankers.
• The bank collapsed in 1995 after suffering losses of £827 million
(£1.6 billion today) resulting from fraudulent investments,
primarily in futures contracts, conducted by its employee Nick
Leeson, working at its office in Singapore.
• However, the bank is most particularly known for guaranteeing a
£20,000 cheque, deposited on the 2nd of October, 1872.
Who deposited the same?

QUESTION 4
• In 2014, childhood friends Pakhi Sen (22, illustrator and
artist), and Samira Bose (23, a master’s student of Arts
and Aesthetics at JNU, New Delhi) were having a
discussion about artists who include themselves in
their work.
• They immediately thought of Frida Kahlo, post which
their thoughts headed towards a contemporary of
hers.
• Sen & Bose decide to recreate prints by the latter &
went viral on the internet for a brief period.
• Whose recreations are these?

QUESTION 5
• In Jan 2015, Sir Alex Ferguson, known as a racing
enthusiast, took over a 2 year old horse who went on to
make his debut at Salisbury.
• The horse was titled with context to SAF, owing its
origins to Mark Hughes and once forced Pete Barnes to
hide in a bath to avoid it.
• What is the horse called?

QUESTION 6
• Violins of Hope is a collection owned by father and son
team Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein.
• Starting 2008, Weinstein started to use the collection to
initiate concerts, with the first one fittingly at Jerusalem.
• Simply, what is special about this collection?

In an episode of HIMYM, Barney introduces his theory of The ____ Line which he uses
to guess the age of people.
The theory states that people born on or before May 25, 1973 don't appreciate _______.
People born after May 25, 1973,
were 10 years or less when they
watched the movie in the
theatres and still loved their
teddy bears, giving them an
increased appreciation for the
______.
FITB
QUESTION 7

QUESTION 8
• At first, he had trouble coming up with a name for the
setting of his most famous work.
• Then one day he found himself looking at the filing
cabinet in his study. There were three drawers marked
“A to G,” “H to N,” and so on.
• A serendipitous look at the third drawer sparked a
name.
• Who are we talking about?

QUESTION 10
• What recent incident is being parodied by this
Skechers ad?

QUESTION 11
• Taxi Fabric, headed by Sanket Avlani (a MICA CCC
Alumnus) has, for close to 4 years, been working to
make the seats of Mumbai taxis a canvas for their art.
• The goal is to bring art to the streets, and into a
Mumbaikar’s daily commute, one taxi (and now even
rickshaw) at a time.
• In Jan 2016, Avlani was responsible for supplying a
particularly artistic taxi for appropriately popular
artists visiting India.
• Where would you have seen the taxi?

QUESTION 12
• Picked up from comedian Paul Rieser's book, Couplehood,
this phenomenon is said to judge how compatible two
people are as partners.
• It says that if one person likes ________ and the other person
hates _______, then they are perfect for each other and would
make a great couple because things are perfectly
balanced.
• Name the phenomenon popularised by a TV show and
debunked by a couple in the said show.

QUESTION 13
• Early drafts accounted for the owl and it is believed that
the parrot was another choice. Parodies included
turkeys, gazelles and whooperwills.
• The actual choice was inspired by Grip, a character from
Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge, with the possibility of
the choice’s ‘croakings being heard prophetically in
the course of drama.’
• What is all of this convoluted talk all about?

QUESTION 14
• In a scene from the Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora
(Zoe Saldana) laments the filthiness of Peter Quill's
(Chris Pratt) ship The Milano, leading to Quill's quip
about his bedroom:
• "Filthy? She has no idea. If we had a blacklight, it
would look like a _______ _______ ________.”
• What appropriate art reference fills in the blanks?

QUESTION 15
• In 2015, Sheffield United announced it was renaming a
stand at their Bramall Lane stadium after a sponsorship
deal with local estate agent Redbrik.
• For three years prior to that, since 2012 the stand had
been named in honour of one of their own’s
achievements at London 2012.
• Who?

QUESTION 16
• In Feb 2018, Singer Songwriter X came to India to “soak
in the culture”. It was during this time that X ended up
celebrating Holi with the who’s who of Bollywood and
even ended up creating a meme with his post Holi
portrait, where he didn’t look so happy.
• He ended up using the colourful festival as his
inspiration for a new line of sneakers in collaboration
with Adidas – NMD Hu. However, the range was met
with outrage over alleged cultural-appropriation.

QUESTION 17
• The Deadpool franchise is known to use a number of pop-culture
references in the movies. Continuing the tradition, for the post credit
scene, the director Tim Miller turned to one of the best-known, earliest-
discovered post-credits scenes ever.
• Ryan Reynolds - in full Deadpool costume - delivers an impression at the
close of _____________ , openly wondering why the audience has
remained, finally shooing them to go home.
• That is, until Wade caps off the film with a "chicka-chickaaaa" of his
own, emulating the credits song of ____________, "Oh Yeah" by Yello.
• FITB with this famous coming of age movie from 1986.

QUESTION 18
• Gotham by Gaslight is a DC Comics one-shot by Brian
Augustyn and Mike Mignola, with inks by P. Craig Russell.
• The story revolves around a 19th century version of Bruce
Wayne making his debut as Batman in Gotham City. At the
same time, a series of murders of women take place and
some people begin to suspect that Batman is the murderer.
• However, the similarity in the murders ultimately reveal the
culprit, ending in a showdown between him & Bats at the
end of the story.
• Who is the perpetrator, also responsible for having killed
Bruce Wayne’s parents in this alternate storyline?

QUESTION 19
• If this painting by George Seurat titled Bathers at
Asnieres mirrors the right bank of the river Seine, what
depicts the left bank of the same setting & who painted
it?

QUESTION 20
• Henry Kissinger (1976)
• Bob Hope (1977)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1989)
• Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
• Nelson Mandela (1996)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999)
• Pope John Paul II (2000)
• Jesse Jackson (2001)
• Pope Francis (2015)
• Robin Roberts (2015)
• This is an exhaustive list of honorary members of an entity, from across the
globe.
• Which entity?

QUESTION 21
• Every year Jodhpur plays host to a folk music festival
with attendees from across the globe, topping it off with
Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones acting as an
international patron.
• What is the musically appropriate acronym for the
event?
• What is the venue for the event, with the museum trust
for the location being one of the stakeholders?

QUESTION 22
• The person in question taught marine biology for three
years, between 1984 and 1987. It was during this period
that he drew an educational comic strip to be used in
his lessons. Titled 'The Intertidal Zone', it explained
animal life in tidal and/or rock pools.
• Decades later, the comic strip would go on to inspire
something. What?

QUESTION 23
• Despite all of the turmoil in her life, this author came up
with Bed Book, a series of poems about beds, for her
own kids. It was quite unusual compared to the rest of
her bibliography.
• Who was the author?
Take a look at the visuals, and take a guess at who the
illustrator was.

QUESTION 24
• In 1530, to escape the wrath of the Pope, he was holed
up in a tiny secret room under the Medici Chapel of the
Basilica di San Lorenzo. The artist had been working on
the lavish tomb when all hell broke loose in and he was
forced into hiding.
• With nothing but time and a little charcoal on his hands,
he covered the bare walls with some prisoner graffiti,
reproducing components of his most famous creation.
• Who and what creation?

QUESTION 25
• The 2005 US Grand Prix is perhaps the most controversial GPs in
the history of Formula1.In the practice sessions preceding the race,
most teams that used X as a product supplier, realized that it would
be difficult for them to compete in the race. This was further
cemented with the crashes of Ralf Schumacher and Ricardo Zonta.
Hence, X recommended that their clients did not compete in the
race to avoid further safety issues.
• On the race day, 14 out of the 20 cars that entered the race,
deliberately pitted during the formation lap and hence retired from
the race.
• The race therefore began with only 6 cars, which used
competitor Y as their supplier, on the grid (Image attached).It was
also the only time that Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan scored
points by finishing 4th.
• Name X and Y

QUESTION 3
• Barings Bank, London is the world's second oldest merchant
bank (after Berenberg Bank), founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a
British-born member of the German-British Baring family of
merchants and bankers.
• The bank collapsed in 1995 after suffering losses of £827 million
(£1.6 billion today) resulting from fraudulent investments,
primarily in futures contracts, conducted by its employee Nick
Leeson, working at its office in Singapore.
• However, the bank is most particularly known for guaranteeing a
£20,000 cheque, deposited on the 2nd of October, 1872. The
sum was half of someone’s total wealth, with the other half being
used to prove a point.
Who deposited the same?

ANSWER 8
L Frank Baum, the
author of the Wizard of
Oz

QUESTION 10
• What incident is being parodied by this Skechers ad?

ANSWER
Duke star player Zion
Williamson’s injury due
to his Nike shoe
splitting after 39
seconds

QUESTION 12
• Picked up from comedian Paul Rieser's book, Couplehood,
this phenomenon is said to judge how compatible two
people are as partners.
• It says that if one person likes ________ and the other person
hates _______, then they are perfect for each other and would
make a great couple because things are perfectly balanced.
• Name the phenomenon popularised by a TV show and
debunked by a couple in the said show.

ANSWER 13
The Raven by Edgar
Allen Poe

ANSWER
Jackson Pollock
painting

QUESTION 17
• The Deadpool franchise is known to use a number of pop-culture
references in the movies. Continuing the tradition, for the post credit
scene, the director Tim Miller turned to one of the best-known, earliest-
discovered post-credits scenes ever.
• Ryan Reynolds - in full Deadpool costume - delivers an impression of
Matthew Broderick at the close of _____________ , openly wondering why
the audience has remained, finally shooing them to go home.
• That is, until Wade caps off the film with a "chicka-chickaaaa" of his own,
emulating the credits song of ____________, "Oh Yeah" by Yello.
• FITB with this famous coming of age movie from 1986.

ANSWER
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

ANSWER
A Sunday Afternoon on
the island of La Grande
Jette by Seurat himself

ANSWER
Honorary members of
the Harlem
Globetrotters

ANSWER 21
Jodhpur RIFF
(Rajasthan International
Folk Festival)
Mehrangarh Fort

ANSWER
The late Stephen
Hillenburg
Spongebob
Squarepants

ANSWER
Sylvia Plath
Quentin Blake

ANSWER
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel

QUESTION 25
• The 2005 US Grand Prix is perhaps the most controversial GPs in the
history of Formula1.In the practice sessions preceding the race, most
teams that used X as a product supplier, realized that it would be
difficult for them to compete in the race. This was further cemented
with the crashes of Ralf Schumacher and Ricardo Zonta. Hence, X
recommended that their clients did not compete in the race to
avoid further safety issues.
• On the race day, 14 out of the 20 cars that entered the race,
deliberately pitted during the formation lap and hence retired from
the race.
• The race therefore began with only 6 cars, which used competitor Y
as their supplier, on the grid (Image attached).It was also the only
time that Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan scored points by finishing
4th.
• Name X and Y

HOW WE ROLL
• 16 questions in a clockwise manner
• +10/0 on the bounce
• +10/-5 on the pounce

QUESTION 1
• Described as one of the first sci-fi-influenced pop songs
this hit by the Tornados from 1962 features George
Bellamy on guitar.
With the aid of the visual, what is the song named after?
• 5 decades later, in 2006, Bellamy’s son sampled the song
in one of his songs titled Knights of Cydonia.
Which band does Bellamy’s son frontline?

QUESTION 2
• Jim Hamilton, a researcher, said in response to a query:
• “It would depend on the surface you hit. Maybe if you hit
a rocky beach. People who fall into meadows or marshes
or sand leave a human-shaped impression on the
ground. They almost tend to bounce sometimes. I would
think that would be more likely than breaking apart.”
• What was the query asked to Jim?

ANSWER
“What would happen if
you hit fall from the
Moon Door?”

QUESTION 3
• Beginning with the popularization in the 18th century,
the word started appearing on the cover under the title.
• While it might seem obvious to the modern reader, the
genre wasn’t clearly labeled on a shelf, so identifying the
book was essential.
• It still occasionally appears on modern works of fiction,
partly out of tradition, and occasionally when the title
and cover alone doesn’t make the subject clear.
• What are we talking about, seemingly obvious?

QUESTION 4
• When he was five-years-old, he was taken to the grave
of his brother and told by his parents that he was the
incarnation of his older sibling.
• His older brother, also of the same name, had died
almost nine months to the day before he was born.
• He came to believe he was his older brother’s
reincarnation and featured him in several of his
paintings, including Portrait of My Dead Brother.
• Who are we talking about and what did this perception
lead to?

ANSWER 4
Salvador Dali and his
tendency to
generate a shadow
in each of his
artworks

QUESTION 5
• The original emergency surgery post the incident ensured
that his career was cut short.
• Dr. Chandy at the Christian Medical College near Madras
who gave him fresh hope after inserting a perforated steel
mesh on his skull.
• But he never turned out for his country ever again, ending
career in 1972 with a century and a 93 in his final match.
• Years later, in 2009, a memorial committee invited him to
the West Indies to witness the formation of a series of blood
banks.
• Who is the committee named after and how is he related to
the aforementioned cricketer?

ANSWERS
Nari Contractor
Frank Worrell, the West
Indian captain in the
match who was the first
to donate blood

QUESTION 6
• In 1878, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli gave a
speech in Parliament in which he referred to his bitter
rival Willam Gladstone as a ‘sophisticated rhetorician
intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity’.
Hundred years later, someone repeated the lines in
India and brought it back to public conscience.
• The said person went on to explain theories like ‘the
coefficient of linear expansion with juxtaposition of the
haemoglobin in atmosphere’.
• Who? / What am I talking about?

ANSWERS
My Name is Anthony
Gonsalves

QUESTION 7
• Built by Delos Destinations Inc., this is a one of a kind
amusement park using state of the art technology invented
by the late Arnold Weber and Robert Ford.
• A ticket to the park starts at a whopping $40,000 a day.
• The park is huge in size and can take days for guests to fully
explore. The park provides a real life simulation to the guests
with employees performing different roles and interacting
with the guests at regular intervals.
• Each guest gets to decide his or her experience and is left to
free will. The employees at the park are extremely dedicated
to their job and never break character.
• Name the park

QUESTION 8
• This was the brainchild of Pammi Bakshi, editor of Movie
magazine, who developed the series for her magazine's publisher,
India Book House (IBH), under their imprint Star Comics.
• In an interview, Pammi Bakshi stated that the name came about
from actor Randhir Kapoor's tag to describe a particular superstar.
• Bakshi recalled that she roped in Gulzar as a consultant, and for
the character design, approached Pratap Mullick, then an
illustrator for the Amar Chitra Katha comic books.
• The character also possessed a falcon named Shaheen inspired by
a particularly famous movie featuring said superstar.
• Which character and who was the inspiration for the same?
• What inspired the bird Shaheen?

ANSWER
Amitabh Bachchan as
Supremo
Allahrakha, the bird from
Supremo

QUESTION 9
• The Nintendo DS game, Ganbare Goemon: features an
antagonist named Peruri, who comes to Japan to
conduct foreign trade, but the people were afraid of
him. He was later met by a person named Sakura, who
promises to help him if he helps him obtain the three
Weapons of the Heavens.
• Who is the character of Peruri based on?
• The arrival of the inspiration for the character in Japan
leading to the West discovering an artist whose works
had been considered vulgar for a long while.
• Who?

ANSWER
Commodore Matthew
Perry
Hokusai

QUESTION 10
• Miguel Almiron has recently made the switch from
America to try and win the hearts of Newcastle fans.
• He impressed on his full-debut against Huddersfield,
and is clearly having a positive effect on a team that was
previously struggling for form.
• He’s come a long way, having worked at a Chinese
restaurant part-time to fuel his career.
• All of these similarities with another Geordie legend
have had NUFC fans pretty excited?
• Who is Almiron being compared to?

ANSWER
Santiago Munez from Goal

QUESTION 11
• TV Dinners released in August 2014 is a music album by
composer/music producer/singer Mikey McCleary.
• This album is a first of its kind with respect to its content.
• How is this album unique?

ANSWER
All of the songs are
advertisement jingles

QUESTION 12
• In an interview, JK Rowling said the following
• “In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the
sixth film, and they had Albus saying a line to Harry early
in the script, which went like, “I knew a girl once, whose
hair—” I had to write a little note in the margin and slide
it along to the scriptwriter saying ______________ ___
_____!.
• What did the note say?

QUESTION 13
• Whose autobiography is aptly named
“I’ve started, so I’ll finish.” ?

ANSWER
Magnus Magnusson of
Mastermind

QUESTION 14
• The Ig Nobel awards as we all know, are commissioned
by the annals of improbable research for silly
experiments that strike gold.
• Which appropriate work of art topples over to truly
signify the seriousness of the Ig Nobel awards?

QUESTION 15
• Historians believe that the tradition was started by Thomas
Wolsey, an extremely powerful figure in the court of King
Henry VIII.
• He was known as the king's right-hand man, as well as the
Lord Chancellor. In 1514 Thomas built a grand palace along
the riverside, which today we know as Hampton Court.
• Researchers think it was down to logistics, as Thomas would
entertain at least 600 guests at a time. All of which were fed
extravagant feasts twice a day.
• The Tudors thought nothing of eating their way through 44
courses at the dinner table, so a dish that didn't need much
preparation would have been appealing to the palace staff.
• What did Wolsey come up with?

ANSWERS
Strawberries and Cream
at Wimbledon

QUESTION 16
• “He actually sent a tape across, because he wanted
Freddie to hear it. Freddie wasn’t very well by that time.
• I took it round and he listened to it and watched it – and
he loved it. So, he got the seal of approval from Freddie.”
This was Brian May talking about someone looking for
Freddie Mercury’s approval.
• Who and what did this lead to very specifically?

ANSWERS
Mike Myers was allowed
to use Bohemian
Rhapsody in Wayne’s
World, which lead to its
immense rise in
popularity

HOW WE KEEP ROLLING
• 16 questions in an anti-clockwise manner
• +10/0 on the bounce
• +10/-5 on the pounce

QUESTION 17
• Lenny’s Pizzeria has been around in Brooklyn since 1953
and is your typical East Coast pizza place offering and
delivering the usual quick Italian wares.
• The place is always occupied by particular fans,
especially packed on weekends.
• Why is the place always mobbed?
• Also, with regards to the food, what is the specific order
that rules most of their menu?

ANSWER
The pizzeria that
Travolta visits in the
opening of Saturday
Night Live
Double Decker Pizzas

QUESTION 18
• Where possible, the Washington Post will adopt the following
standard in fact-checking the claims of a politician, political
candidate, diplomat or interest group.
• They do make some allowance for statements made in live
interviews, as opposed to a prepared text. They will judge more
harshly statements from a prepared text, on the grounds that the
politician and staff had time to discuss the statistic.
• They also make allowances if the politician or interest group
acknowledges an error was made. Finally, they also have a feature
called "Recidivism Watch," which highlights claims repeated by
politicians even though the claim has been previously debunked.
• What is this entire fact-checking procedure popularly called?

QUESTION 19
• The person paid tribute in this Indian Post stamp on the
left was heavily inspired by the style of painting on the
right.
• Identify both.

ANSWER
Jamini Roy
Kalighat style/Kalighat
Pat

QUESTION 20
• The Estadio Alberto J. Armando stadium is popularly
known as La Bombonera. It is said that the nickname came
along the project of Viktor Sulcic during the process of
development.
• On occasion of Sulcic's birthday, a friend gave him a ____ __
______________ as a gift. After that, Sulcic used to go with the
gift at meetings with engineer Delpine and other people
who collaborated with the project, to show them that the
shape was very like the one of the stadium they were
designing.
• What does La Bombonera translate to?
• Which club plies its trade at the stadium?

ANSWER
The Chocolate Box
Boca Juniors

QUESTION 21
• According to author Mark Lewisohn, it is uncertain who had the idea
, but the suggestion was conceived just days before the actual
event.
• Keyboardist Billy Preston was brought in as an additional musician,
in the hope that a talented outside observer would encourage the
proceedings to be tight and focused.
• When the event begun, there was some confusion from spectators
watching five storeys below, many of whom were on their lunch
break. As the news of the event spread, crowds of onlookers began
to congregate in the streets and on the roofs of local buildings.
• While most responded positively to the concert, the Metropolitan
Police grew concerned about noise and traffic issues.
• What was all of this fanfare occurring at 3 Saville row?

ANSWERS
The Beatle’s Rooftop
concert, which ended
up being there last

QUESTION 22
• When the film was originally screen tested, it included a
scene in which X beats the ever loving shit out of Y’s
character.
• In the universe of the movie, this makes sense, but not a
single person in the audience believed it.
• Ultimately, the producers agreed to do reshoots Y could
pound X’s ass in a way that better reflects what
audiences imagine would happen if those two ever
actually threw down.
• Which little known comedy drama from 1993 and who
are X and Y?

ANSWER
Mad Dog and Glory
Bill Murray
Robert De Niro

QUESTION 23
Life at the Playboy Mansion may seem like one big
party, but according to former playmate Holly Madison’s
chilling book, that’s not the case.
The 35-year-old former "Girls Next Door" reality star
shared her story, which details years of abuse,
manipulation and drug use in her memoir, “___ ___ ___
___: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a
Former Playboy Bunny.“
The title pays homage to a very famous literary work.
Just FITB.

ANSWER
Down the rabbit hole,
an allusion to Alice in
Wonderland

QUESTION 24
• The book Pickles over Pittsburgh tells of the kids from the previous
story receiving a postcard from their grandfather, who claims to be
visiting the ruins of what was once the fabled town of
Chewandswallow.
• This book was cinematically adapted as the sequel for a 2009 animated
film.
• Which one?
• In the Israeli cinematic adaptation of the same, what changed was
made to the name to cater to the population who were not aware of
global cuisine?

ANSWER
Cloudy with a chance of
Meatballs
Cloudy with a chance of
Falafel

QUESTION 25
• In 2001, Alessandro Rosa Vieira was 23 and established as
one of Brazil’s best players after prolific spells with
Corinthians, Atletico Mineiro, Banespa and Jaragua.
• He went on trial with Palmeiras, playing 59 minutes of a
training game against minnows Flamengo de Guarulhos in
which he found the back of the net before cramps set in.
Palmeiras did not offer a contract and Viera returned to
familiar settings.
• In 2005, Viera signed for Sao Paolo FC, sparking intense
controversy before his career petered out within 13 matches.
• How do we know him better and where did he make his
mark?

QUESTION 26
• In 2015, shortly after Taylor Swift revealed plans to sell
new merchandise in China, people began noticing
something about the Swift-themed clothing: Much of it
bore the initials "T.S." and the year 1989.
• It was an ode to her most recent album then, 1989.
• However, given the context, the notation seemed
controversial.
• How so?

ANSWER
People thought T.S.
could also stand for
Tiananmen Square, and
1989 is the year of the
infamous Tiananmen
Square massacre of
students and
democracy activists.

QUESTION 27
• What connects the following inexhaustive elements:
• The French cop who captures Frank Abnagale Jr. at the
end of Catch me If you Can
• The friendly waitress at the restaurant post Erin’s
accident in Erin Brockovich
• The judge governing the case in The People vs Larry
Flynt, who eventually sentences Flynt to prison

ANSWERS
All instances of real life
people encountering
their reel life characters
in movies based on
them

QUESTION 28
• WiR is a website created in 1999 by a group of feminist comic book
fans that lists examples of the comic book trope whereby female
characters are injured, raped, killed, or depowered as a plot device,
and seeks to analyze why these plot devices are used
disproportionately on female characters.
• This originates from a Green Lantern storyline where Kyle Rayner
comes home to find his girlfriend Alexander DeWitt dead.
• What does WiR stand for?
• Another famous work of entertainment meant to use the same
device for time travel but changed it due to two reasons.
If one was that they wanted the device to be mobile, what was the
other reason?

ANSWER
Women in Refrigerators
They were afraid
children would
suffocate to death,
playing around with
them

QUESTION 29
• Who is the painter?
• What is the artwork titled?
• What did the babies go on to do?

ANSWER
Reubens
Romulus and Remus
Founders of Rome

QUESTION 30
• The flying wedge was a radical formation where
offensive players assumed a V-shaped formation behind
the line of scrimmage, then converged en masse on a
single defensive lineman.
• What was battlefield inspiration for this formation?
• In the 1905 season, with over 18 deaths and 180+ injuries
there was a desperate need for makeover. Who went
about bringing changes in the system, horrified having
seen his son face the brunt as well?

ANSWER
Napoleonic war tactics
Teddy Roosevelt

QUESTION 31
• Erik Schrody, better known by his stage name Everlast,
has dedicated the past 24 years of his life to the music
industry. He started out in the business as a solo rapper
releasing his debut album Forever Everlasting in 1990.
• He wrote the song “Sixty-Five Roses” which speaks
about the hardships that his wife and he went through
trying to deal with something that his daughter was
going through.
• What is the funda behind the choice of the song title?

ANSWER
Sixty Five roses is how
children pronounce
Cystic Fibrosis which is
what is daughter was
suffering from

QUESTION 32
• In the bootlegged movie, Mr Albert Hannaday, Jack Black is Jessica
Alba's boyfriend who is being taken home to meet her grandmother
for the first time.
• But Black, not quite content with Alba, opts for her older relative
instead.
• Her grandmother, played by 82-year-old Cloris Leachman, develops a
crush on Black and the two end up in a compromising situation after
he helps her naked out of the bath.
• Alba is spurned in favour of the octogenarian, but ultimately Black has
his heart broken when he discovers his elderly lover with another
toyboy.
• Where would you have watched this movie, surely providing you with
a lot of relief?

ANSWER
The Office Super Bowl
special Stress Relief
where Dwight performs
the ‘revive’

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