Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar. Winners: 1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal 2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli 3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das

1. Maut ka Kuan

2. Questions set by:
Angshuman Biswas
Siddhanth Purkayastha
Sandipan Goswami

3. 1. Performances of this kind have appeared in various films
including My House in Umbria (2003), Spare a Copper (1941),
Roustabout (1964), Eat the Peach (1986), There Is Another Sun
(1951).
A short-length Greek documentary film on the practice in Greece,
"Ο γύρος του θανάτου" ("The Spin of Death"), released in 2004,
made the rounds of various film festivals in the country.
An earlier full-length feature Greek film of the same name,
produced in 1983, features a protagonist who is a performer at
such shows; the film became a cult classic.
What kind of performance are we talking about?

4. Answer
Wall of Death / Motordrome / Silodrome / Well of
Death / Maut ka Kuan

5. 2.

7. 3.* They are a Angloquian-speaking tribe of native Americans who, in
the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut. Which
fictional ship from a 1851 novel was named after this tribe?

8. Answer
The Pequod from Moby Dick, named for the Pequot tribe

9. 4.* This postage stamp issued by the Government of France in
1961 depicts which painting by which painter?

10. Answer
The Card Players by Paul Cezanne

11. 5. Urban Dictionary definition of which term?

12. Answer
0.8 Direction

13. 6. The Stone Roses is the debut album by English rock band The Stone
Roses, released in 1989. It is widely considered by critics as the seminal
record of the Madchester movement that originated in Manchester,
England and was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and as being
highly influential on the mid-1990s resurrection of British guitar music
that came to be known as Britpop.
As with most Stone Roses releases, the cover displays a work by
guitarist John Squire titled “Bye Bye Badman” which makes reference to
the May 1968 riots in Paris. This cover artwork is heavily influenced by
the style characteristic of which painter? (pic in next slide)

15. Answer
Jackson Pollock

16. 7. In Greek mythology, X is the son of Pallas and
Styx and is the personification of strength and
power. His presence in popular culture can be
recognized with his iconic grey skin which has
an equally interesting back story behind it and
a red line over his torso.
Identify.

17. Kratos

18. 8.
• 2D provides the lead vocals and plays the keyboard. He
is voiced by Blur front man Damon Albarn
• Russel Hobbs provides the drums and was
conceptualized as the hip hop aspect of their music.
• Murdoc is the bassist and his appearance and
personality is based on young Keith Richards.
• Noodle is a 13 year old girl who is also the lead
guitarist.
Identify the band.

20. 9. The first paragraph of the upper part reports: “________, architect,
puts in his work on architecture that the measurements of man are in
nature distributed in this manner, that is:
a palm is four fingers
a foot is four palms
a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man
a pace is four cubits
a man is 24 palms
and these measurements are in his buildings".
The second paragraph reads: "if you open your legs enough that your
head is lowered by one-fourteenth of your height and raise your hands
enough that your extended fingers touch the line of the top of your
head, know that the centre of the extended limbs will be the navel, and
the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle".
The lower section of text gives these proportions:
the length of the outspread arms is equal to the height of a man (contd.)

21. from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of the height of
a man
from below the chin to the top of the head is one-eighth of the height of
a man
from above
the chest to the top of the head is one-sixth of the height of a man
from above the chest to the hairline is one-seventh of the height of a
man.
the maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of the height of a man.
from the breasts to the top of the head is a quarter of the height of a
man.
the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of the
height of a man.
the distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of the height of
a man.
the length of the hand is one-tenth of the height of a man.
the root of the penis is at half the height of a man.
the foot is one-seventh of the height of a man.

22. from below the foot to below the knee is a quarter of the height of a
man.
from below the knee to the root of the penis is a quarter of the height
of a man.
the distances from below the chin to the nose and the eyebrows and
the hairline are equal to the ears and to one-third of the face.
What are we talking about?

23. Answer
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci

24. 10.* The front man of this iconic band explained
it’s name as being a rough translation taken
from the rare manuscript Argus Apocraphex.
“ It’s a metaphor for the future, that we are so
close to something that is not a tangible idea.
Also X is the God of War.”
The front man is also in news making geeks all
over the world jump with joy.

26. 11.* This painting called Intimacy by Cesar Santos, a
contemporary Cuban-American realist painter, shows
a lady painting another lady (herself most probably).
The painting inside the painting is actually a 17th
century Dutch masterpiece by X. X’s painting has
inspired a 1999 novel, a 2003 film and a 2008 play.
Give X and name the masterpiece.

28. Johannes Vermeer,
The Girl With the Pearl
Earring (c. 1665)

29. Intimacy
Cesar Santos

30. 12. The developers of this comic series was
inspired by daredevil. Thus as a tribute to it’s
icon, the protagonist is shown to have it’s
origin from the same accident that had given
daredevil his powers. Which comic series am I
talking about?

32. 13. Referred to as the Frida Kahlo of India, the following
painting is the first work to be painted by X after returning to
India from Europe in 1934. Simply known as “Group of Three
Girls”, the painting won the Gold Medal at the annual
exhibition of the Bombay Art Society in 1937. Aurora
Zogoiby, a character in Salman Rushdie's 1995 novel "The
Moor's Last Sigh," was inspired by X.
Identify X.

33. Group of Three Girls
(1935)

34. Amrita Sher-Gil

35. 14.* Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System is
the central core designed to control, guide and
oversee the Aperture Science centre and is also the
prime antagonist in this cult first person simulator
game which makes the use of a Z gun throughout
the game.

37. 15. The band shares it’s name with a mythological
demon in male form who engage in sexual activity
with sleeping human beings.
It’s female counterpart is called succubus.
The band is multi platinum selling dwelling in the
alternate rock genre.
Identify the band.

39. 16. Identify the art and TV series.

40. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali;
The Simpsons

41. 17.

43. 18.

45. 19.

47. 20.

49. 21.