A quiz on the fields of Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Sports that I conducted for institution NITK's creative carnival in 2021

2. MELAS Quiz
Researched and conducted by:
Rithwik Rao H

4. Special Thanks to:
● Literary, Stage and Debating Society, NITK
● Amal Mohan, Guinea Pig
● Swastik Udupa, Guinea Pig
● Dhruv Warrior, Guinea Pig
● Aditi Gupta, Guinea Pig
● Shashank Singit, for sacrificing his participation in order to assist me

5. The Royal Rumble:
The Prelims

6. Rules

7. Rules
1) 30 questions, 35 points. Questions 1-25 with a single answer will carry 1 point each.
Questions 26-30 with 2 answers will carry 2 points each.
2) Answers to be submitted only through the Google form given to you. Only one person
per team has to submit the Google form.
3) Please switch on your videos and make sure your hands are visible.
4) Top 8 teams into the finals.
5) Questions 11-20 are star marked and will be used to resolve ties.
6) Don’t Google. Any discovery of malpractice will lead to disqualification of the team.
7) Asking doubts, asking for and blocking hints to be done on the chat only. Please don’t
put up the answers on the chat!
8) I am the God. I am the one who knocks. My decision is final.

8. All the best!

9. 1
Shown in next slide was an advertisement in the form of a painting for a French
department store existing in the late 19th century.
The painting was to advertise the store’s collection of children’s toys to be sold
as New Year’s gifts in the mid 1880s. Despite the store closing down in 1891, a
replica of this particular painting has been sighted by most of us in a fictional
place since a little more than a century after the store’s end of operations.
In which fictional place have we seen this work of art?

10. 1

11. 2
Sometime in the 1980s, a few schools in the USA observed that teen students
(both male and female) had followed a viral trend of wearing only one glove of a
particular colour in their right hands during schooltime.
This resulted in at least one school in a northeastern state completely banning
gloves in school premises as the trend of wearing one glove distracted teachers
and students during classes. From there on, any student who was caught in
school were dealt with serious consequences, extending to even supension.
Who caused and kickstarted this viral trend in the first place?

12. 3
The origin of the name of this NBA team goes back to the time of it’s formation
when the owner wanted to choose a name to signify the players’ strength and
toughness.
When he was suggesting the names he thought of to his family, his youngest son
hated the names and to express this, he uttered a phrase to describe the bunch
of suggested names. This particular phrase caught the owner’s attention and
caused an epiphany as a certain part of it suited the required symbolisms of the
team.
Which NBA team is this?

13. 4
About four years ago, Indian movie-goers were stuck in a situation of confusion
and dilemma of whether to obey the same stringent rule for the second time
during screenings while watching a certain movie.
Indian Twitterati created a lot of buzz relating to this incident. Some of them
criticized the movie for not cautioning so that everyone would have been
prepared to abide by the rule. Some tweeted that they obeyed the rule for the
second time out of fear while some of them said they abided by it out of respect.
Which specific scene of a particular Indian film caused all this ruckus?

14. 5
In a certain 20th century novel, some of the characters who were introduced as
“young woman” or “young man” were over the age of thirty for a certain reason.
Another observation was it’s non-originality which was a consequence of the
aforementioned reason. An original quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage
breast” was changed to “Music hath charms to calm a wild bosom”. Another
original quote “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” was modified to “a charming
thing is a joy always.”
Which novel (or) what was the reason for such oddities?

15. 6
Shown in the image is a pendant
which is a historical artefact. The
artefact currently resides in a castle
in northeastern England.
What, situated about 2000
kilometres southeast of the
pendant’s current place of residence,
is said to have taken inspiration from
the human figure in the pendant?

16. 7
The attached audio clip plays the first minute of an early 1980s rock song.
A particular song of the new era is said to have been predominantly inspired by
this hit although a small fraction of theorists have pointed out to some other
songs from the early 80s as possible inspirations for the song in question.
Listen to the audio carefully and tell me which song of the new era is said to have
been inspired by this hit.
(Audio removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)

17. 8
Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational provider of children’s toys
with over 200 stores throughout Europe.
In September 2018, on popular demand, Smyths Toys came up with a new
product that was based on one of their old products. The old products were
basically drones with a spherical body. The new product only differed from the
old product by two additional features, a new look to the spherical body along
with the addition of identical extensions and a feature of object avoidance which
actuated after a small time delay.
What was this toy a plausible replica of?

18. 9
Guildhall is a municipal building in London. The building has been used as a
town hall for several hundred years and is the ceremonial and administrative
centre of the City of London.
However, in recent times, on a particular day generally in the month of July
every year, all the municipal ceremonies or operations have to be suspended to
host a ceremony honouring the achievements of about 30 people with a major
highlight of two specific people of these 30 flaunting their not so well known
dancing skills.
Which annual event, not having municipal relations, does the Guildhall host
every July?

19. 10
In an early episode of the TV show The Mentalist, the protagonist Patrick Jane
relates evidences together and finds the murderer in this episode. One of those
evidences is a copy of a popular book.
Patrick finds out that the culprit murdered the victim to avenge the murder of
his close friend and that the book was read by him to ignite his obsession for
revenge and motivate him to do the job without caring about the consequences,
Patrick asks “I confess. I never really did get to the end of the story. ____ does
die, doesn’t he?” to which the culprit replies saying “Yes. But so does the _____.”
proving his extreme obsession for revenge despite him going to prison for long.
Which famous book plays a crucial role in this episode?

20. Starred questions begin!

21. 11*
There exists a neurological disease which is characterized by loss of the ability to
produce language although comprehension is still functional. It is caused by
acquired damage to the anterior regions of the brain.
The speech of the person diagnosed with this condition only speaks out certain
important content words but leaves out functional words such as prepositions
and articles, limiting his/her vocabulary substantially.
How was a severe case of this disorder, according to several neurology experts,
made familiar to most of us roughly over the first half of the last decade?

22. 12*
The reasons why these four entities having a common theme are named so, are
given below although the fourth one is yet to come.
The first one was named so because new works were appended to the catalogue
of existing works in the related person’s early career and was a foundation. The
second one was named so to build on the first one exponentially and increase the
involved person’s fame. The third was named so to signify that the works were
meant to be between him and a special person to him. The fourth one will be
named so to strip down the number of related genres.
What are these entities that are being talked about?

23. 13*
About 15 years ago, The US Department of Energy released a publication which
revised new symbols and pictographs to various instructions or cautions with
respect to nuclear waste management.
One particular sign among the pictographs denoted just a face and hands. The
symbol was to be used as a non-language-specific symbol on the containers of
radioactive waste in order to warn the danger to future human civilisations
about the presence of the waste in the containers.
This symbol was a simplified version of which entity from the world of MELAS?

24. 14*
In 2014, a Japanese-French theatrical company came up with an adapted play
based on a famous literary work. The play, which was for a particular theatrical
festival in France, had the unique feature of having a robot playing the
protagonist.
The robot was chosen to be the protagonist to not only test the capabilities of AI,
but the experiment was put into action to also replace the original protagonist
who hardly communicates and to make the play visually more comfortable and
bearable to watch than the typical adapted plays of the same work.
Which literary work was adapted into this android play?

25. 14*

26. 15*
About 50 kilometres southeast of the Italian city of Bologna, lies a public
establishment which was built at a site abandoned since the 2000s.
The establishment complex consists of a concrete wall with sections of it painted
with hues green, blue and yellow, a specific statue of a person overlooking a
fence that is covered with various posters, shirts and flags and a municipal park
that surrounds these two landmarks.
What happened at this exact same spot (the wall) late last century, which also
serves as the theme of the complex?

27. 15*

28. 16*
In 2018, a certain statue, made of painted stainless steel and aluminium was
erected at a park in a locality of a northeastern US state as part of a large
public art exhibition.
The statue immediately sparked controversy when it was erected right in
front of a church with it’s rear facing the church entry, which was found to
be disrespectful to the church due to obvious reasons. Another problem was
that the children who would come to play in the park would go to the base of
the statue and look up which caused distress among parents.
What is this statue a tribute to which is something iconic from the middle of
last century?

29. 17*
L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French novel which was first published in the year
1942 and has nihilism as it’s primary theme.
In the second half of the book, the protagonist murders someone by shooting at
him from near sight but just before he does so, he has hallucinations due to the
sunstroke and thought that it was a dream. After the murder, he realizes that
there’s no turning back from this real occurrence. In the subsequent trial, he
says he murdered the victim for no reason and that it won’t matter what the
eventual verdict will be, which turns out to be a death sentence.
According to several critics, this subplot inspired the introductory part of which
work in another realm of MELAS about three decades after the book’s release?

30. 18*
In May 2014, several instances of vandalism were observed across England on
certain signboards conveying a 3 word cautionary message to prevent minor
injuries in public areas and shops, because of an occurence involving a celebrity.
In most of the cases, the name of this celebrity was either added or the name
replaced the cautionary message that these had and his name was written using
permanent markers and graffiti. There were also some instances where the
modified parodies of this signboard were deliberately manufactured and bought
by various shop owners across the country which had the name printed on it.
What occurrence caused these vandalising and parodying instances to mock the
celebrity?

31. 19*
Connect this non-exhaustive list with respect to something in the world of
MELAS:
1) A tapering huge rock generally having a square or rectangular cross section
2) A phrase that means to obtain a dosage of a drug
3) Figures of live births, deaths, marriages and divorces
4) Noisy aggregate of sounds

32. 20*
Shown in next slide is an image of a European military transport aircraft by
Airbus. The model is currently in use by the German, French, Spanish and Royal
(UK) Air Forces.
If the maiden flight of the model in December 2009 caused the first spike of the
model in it’s Google Trends graph, what is said to have caused the second and a
higher spike in the middle of last decade although the majority of the buzz was
about a person beside the plane?

33. 20*

35. Starred questions end

36. 21
The director of this project was looking for a way to narrate a story in the
forward direction in a short film where the actions were moving backwards.
When he was thinking of a story to narrate, he met X who had written a ballad
about going back to the very beginning which was very apt considering the
director’s idea for such a venture.
To make it look like X was narrating this piece of literature in the right direction
while the end product was played, X had to learn the ballad phonetically
backward for a month to narrate backwards while the recording was going on.
What was the end product of all this?

37. 22
In a book of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, the main antagonist
comes disguised to kidnap a group of three children.
While the children get to know about his identity, one of the children devises a
plan to expose him to which the toddler in the group replies saying “_______!”
instead of “Roger that!”. Despite this toddler being known for her usual baby
babble, this is actually an Easter Egg in the form of a tribute to another famous
book. This Easter Egg eventually turns out as a prediction to a homicide in
narrative in the same story.
Which famous book is being paid tribute to by the toddler (or) What was the
single word uttered by the toddler?

38. 23
There are four different versions of this
performance which lasts about a minute
and is generally executed by a group of
about certain 30 men. The translation of
the lyrics of the oldest version is shown
here.
(Legend: L - Lead, RoG - Rest of the group,
A - All)
What performance am I talking about?
L: “Hear hear! Be ready! Line up! Stand up!”
RoG: “Yeah!”
L: “Slap your hands against your thighs! Stomp the
feet as hard as you can!”
RoG: “As hard as we can!”
L: “I die! I die!” x 2
RoG: “I live! I live! x 2
A: “Here stands the hairy man who calls out to the
Sun and makes it radiate! Ride now! Ride now! Take
the initial step! Allow the sunshine in! Rise!”

39. 24
Shown here is a snap from a music
video of a song from late 2019 which
became viral on TikTok and social
media. The character’s look in the
music video is a tribute to a famous
fictional character.
Which character is being paid a
tribute to?

40. 25
This is a poster from the photoshoot of
an Olay product which was part of a
mid 2000s reality show featuring
supermodels.
The poster parodies something which
returned to worldwide fame in 1997,
courtesy a film featuring a familiar
character since our childhood.
What from the world of MELAS is being
parodied here?

41. Two pointers coming up!

42. 26
During the net practice sessions of this team, players unfamiliar to bowling in
actual matches used to have a go. The then manager of the team advised these
players to always focus to bowl on the line of the stumps because of their
inexperience and also to cramp batsmen for rooms to hit shots.
This particular simple tactic in the net sessions proved vital to the team when
they came across a very rare situation. To succeed in the task provided, the
team used 3 bowlers with 2 being occasional bowlers. The medium pacer X,
being one of the two, had bowled only a single digit number of deliveries in his
international career. He succeeded in the task and the team went on to win the
game as part of their eventually victorious campaign.
What task or situation am I talking about? (1 point) Who is X? (1 point)

43. 27
Late last century, an author went on a camping trip and things turned ugly when he
got involved in an altercation with campers and got his face disfigured. When he
went back to work the next day, no one asked him about his face and this incident
was what lead him to start writing his first book.
The book was adapted into a film of the same name few years down the line. One
character in the film was a drug addict with suicidal thoughts. Realizing the
attributes of the character, the actress playing the role assumed that the character
would be someone who would have shabby facial makeup and thus suggested a witty
method to her skilled makeup artist to get her look “right”.
Which book (or) film is being talked about? (1 point) What witty method was put into
action to help the actress get her shabby look? (1 point)

44. 28
In the earlier half of last year, several healthcare agencies in Michigan received
several food items for free as a mark of respect to them fighting the COVID-19
pandemic from a food chain owned by X.
Several cups of a food item Y, synonymous with the name of the food chain, were
donated to the health workers. The name of the dish/food chain Y is a reference
to an iconic fragment of X’s Oscar winning work. To this great gesture, one of the
agencies tweeted pictures of Y with the caption “Our #HealthcareHeroes ____
__________ (4, 10) in the delicious Y donated by X. Thank you for providing a
special meal to our team members”.
ID Y (1 point) and FITB (1 point).

45. 28

46. 29
In a certain book, the author of the book gives a brilliant alternative
interpretation of a famous phrase familiar to most of us involving two aliases of a
mythological person.
The protagonist of the book, who shares his name with this mythological person,
remembers the people of his country christening him with one of the
aforementioned aliases, which literally means the greatest of the Lords. He then
starts a pep talk with the country’s army on the way to their battlefield that
finally concludes with him crying this particular phrase and him explaining its
meaning that each and every person in the army is equal and supreme rather than
just him.
Which phrase? (1 point) Who is the author of this book? (1 point)

47. 30
Shown in next slide is a song’s music video from a 2019 Sandalwood film. The
film itself is loosely based on a famous Hollywood film and there are evidences of
the same in the song’s video with respect to majority of the video’s setting and
ambience. This fact was even accepted by the production designer.
The protagonist of the film also pays a tribute to a 19th century work at one
particular still in the video.
Which vintage Hollywood flick loosely inspires this film and the song’s video?(1
point) Which 19th century work is commemorated? (1 point)
(Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)

48. Submit your forms!

49. Answers coming up!

50. 1
Shown in next slide was an advertisement in the form of a painting for a French
department store existing in the late 19th century.
The painting was to advertise the store’s collection of children’s toys to be sold
as New Year’s gifts in the mid 1880s. Despite the store closing down in 1891, a
replica of this particular painting has been sighted by most of us in a fictional
place since a little more than a century after the store’s end of operations.
In which fictional place have we seen this work of art?

51. 1

52. Monica’s Apartment in F.R.I.E.N.D.S

53. 2
Sometime in the 1980s, a few schools in the USA observed that teen students
(both male and female) had followed a viral trend of wearing only one glove of a
particular colour in their right hands during schooltime.
This resulted in at least one school in a northeastern state completely banning
gloves in school premises as the trend of wearing one glove distracted teachers
and students during classes. From there on, any student who was caught in
school were dealt with serious consequences, extending to even supension.
Who caused and kickstarted this viral trend in the first place?

54. Michael Jackson

55. 3
The origin of the name of this NBA team goes back to the time of it’s formation
when the owner wanted to choose a name to signify the players’ strength and
toughness.
When he was suggesting the names he thought of to his family, his youngest son
hated the names and to express this, he uttered a phrase to describe the bunch
of suggested names. This particular phrase caught the owner’s attention and
caused an epiphany as a certain part of it suited the required symbolisms of the
team.
Which NBA team is this?

56. Chicago Bulls
“Dad, that’s a bunch of bullshit”

57. 4
About four years ago, Indian movie-goers were stuck in a situation of confusion
and dilemma of whether to obey the same stringent rule for the second time
during screenings while watching a certain movie.
Indian Twitterati created a lot of buzz relating to this incident. Some of them
criticized the movie for not cautioning so that everyone would have been
prepared to abide by the rule. Some tweeted that they obeyed the rule for the
second time out of fear while some of them said they abided by it out of respect.
Which specific scene of a particular Bollywood film caused all this ruckus?

58. The national anthem scene in Dangal

59. 5
In a certain 20th century novel, some of the characters who were introduced as
“young woman” or “young man” were over the age of thirty for a certain reason.
Another observation was it’s non-originality which was a consequence of the
aforementioned reason. An original quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage
breast” was changed to “Music hath charms to calm a wild bosom”. Another
original quote “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” was modified to “a charming
thing is a joy always.”
Which novel (or) what was the reason for such oddities?

60. Gadsby (or) no letter ‘e’

61. 6
Shown in the image is a pendant
which is a historical artefact. The
artefact currently resides in a castle
in northeastern England.
What, situated about 2000
kilometres southeast of the
pendant’s current place of residence,
is said to have taken inspiration from
the human figure in the pendant?

62. Creation of Adam (or) The Sistine Chapel fresco

63. 7
The attached audio clip plays the first minute of an early 1980s rock song.
A particular song of the new era is said to have been predominantly inspired by
this hit although a small fraction of theorists have pointed out to some other
songs from the early 80s as possible inspirations for the song in question.
Listen to the audio carefully and tell me which song of the new era is said to have
been inspired by this hit.
(Audio removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)

64. Blinding Lights by The Weeknd

65. 8
Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational provider of children’s toys
with over 200 stores throughout Europe.
In September 2018, on popular demand, Smyths Toys came up with a new
product that was based on one of their old products. The old products were
basically drones with a spherical body. The new product only differed from the
old product by two additional features, a new look to the spherical body along
with the addition of identical extensions and a feature of object avoidance which
actuated after a small time delay.
What was this toy a plausible replica of?

66. The Golden Snitch from Harry Potter series

67. 9
Guildhall is a municipal building in London. The building has been used as a
town hall for several hundred years and is the ceremonial and administrative
centre of the City of London.
However, in recent times, on a particular day generally in the month of July
every year, all the municipal ceremonies or operations have to be suspended to
host a ceremony honouring the achievements of about 30 people with a major
highlight of two specific people of these 30 flaunting their not so well known
dancing skills.
Which annual event, not having municipal relations, does the Guildhall host
every July?

68. Wimbledon Champions’ Dinner

69. 10
In an early episode of the TV show The Mentalist, the protagonist Patrick Jane
relates evidences together and finds the murderer in this episode. One of those
evidences is a copy of a popular book.
Patrick finds out that the culprit murdered the victim to avenge the murder of
his close friend and that the book was read by him to ignite his obsession for
revenge and motivate him to do the job without caring about the consequences,
Patrick asks “I confess. I never really did get to the end of the story. ____ does
die, doesn’t he?” to which the culprit replies saying “Yes. But so does the _____.”
proving his extreme obsession for revenge despite him going to prison for long.
Which famous book plays a crucial role in this episode?

70. Moby Dick

71. 11*
There exists a neurological disease which is characterized by loss of the ability to
produce language although comprehension is still functional. It is caused by
acquired damage to the anterior regions of the brain.
The speech of the person diagnosed with this condition only speaks out certain
important content words but leaves out functional words such as prepositions
and articles, limiting his vocabulary substantially.
How was a severe case of this disorder, according to several neurology experts,
made familiar to most of us roughly over the first half of the last decade?

72. This is the condition that Hodor suffers from

73. 12*
The reasons why these four entities having a common theme are named so, are
given below although the fourth one is yet to come.
The first one was named so because new works were appended to the catalogue
of existing works in the related person’s early career and was a foundation. The
second one was named so to build on the first one exponentially and increase the
involved person’s fame. The third was named so to signify that the works were
meant to be between him and a special person to him. The fourth one will be
named so to strip down the number of related genres.
What are these entities that are being talked about?

74. Ed Sheeran’s albums

75. 13*
About 15 years ago, The US Department of Energy released a publication which
revised new symbols and pictographs to various instructions or cautions with
respect to nuclear waste management.
One particular sign among the pictographs denoted just a face and hands. The
symbol was to be used as a non-language-specific symbol on the containers of
radioactive waste in order to warn the danger to future human civilisations
about the presence of the waste in the containers.
This symbol was a simplified version of which entity from the world of MELAS?

76. The Scream by Edvard Munch

77. 14*
In 2014, a Japanese-French theatrical company came up with an adapted play
based on a famous literary work. The play, which was for a particular theatrical
festival in France, had the unique feature of having a robot playing the
protagonist.
The robot was chosen to be the protagonist to not only test the capabilities of AI,
but the experiment was put into action to also replace the original protagonist
who hardly communicates and to make the play visually more comfortable and
bearable to watch than the typical adapted plays of the same work.
Which literary work was adapted into this android play?

78. 14*

79. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

80. 15*
About 50 kilometres southeast of the Italian city of Bologna, lies a public
establishment which was built at a site abandoned since the 2000s.
The establishment complex consists of a concrete wall with sections of it painted
with hues green, blue and yellow, a specific statue of a person overlooking a
fence that is covered with various posters, shirts and flags and a municipal park
that surrounds these two landmarks.
What happened at this exact same spot (the wall) late last century, which also
serves as the theme of the complex?

81. 15*

82. Ayrton Senna’s fatal crash

83. 16*
In 2018, a certain statue, made of painted stainless steel and aluminium was
erected at a park in a locality of a northeastern US state as part of a large public
art exhibition.
The statue immediately sparked controversy when it was erected right in front
of a church with it’s rear facing the church entry, which was found to be
disrespectful to the church due to obvious reasons. Another problem was that
the children who would come to play in the park would go to the base of the
statue and look up which caused distress among parents.
What is this statue a tribute to which is something iconic from middle of last
century?

84. Marilyn Monroe’s still with blown skirt in Seven Year
Itch

85. 17*
L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French novel which was first published in the year
1942 and has nihilism as it’s primary theme.
In the second half of the book, the protagonist murders someone by shooting at
him from near sight but just before he does so, he has hallucinations due to the
sunstroke and thought that it was a dream. After the murder, he realizes that
there’s no turning back from this real occurrence. In the subsequent trial, he
says he murdered the victim for no reason and that it won’t matter what the
eventual verdict will be, which turns out to be a death sentence.
According to several critics, this subplot inspired the introductory part of which
work in another realm of MELAS about three decades after the book’s release?

86. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
“Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.”
“Any way the wind blows
doesn't really matter to me, to
me.”
“Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's
dead.”

87. 18*
In May 2014, several instances of vandalism were observed across England on
certain signboards conveying a 3 word cautionary message to prevent minor
injuries in public areas and shops, because of an occurence involving a celebrity.
In most of the cases, the name of this celebrity was either added or the name
replaced the cautionary message that these had and his name was written using
permanent markers and graffiti. There were also some instances where the
modified parodies of this signboard were deliberately manufactured and bought
by various shop owners across the country which had the name printed on it.
What occurrence caused these vandalising and parodying instances to mock the
celebrity?

88. Steven Gerrard’s slip

89. 19*
Connect this non-exhaustive list with respect to something in the world of
MELAS:
1) A tapering huge rock generally having a square or rectangular cross section
2) A phrase that means to obtain a dosage of a drug
3) Figures of live births, deaths, marriages and divorces
4) Noisy aggregate of sounds

90. Original words for Asterix characters’ names (Obelisk -
Obelix, Cacophony - Cacophonix)

91. 20*
Shown in next slide is an image of a European military transport aircraft by
Airbus. The model is currently in use by the German, French, Spanish and Royal
(UK) Air Forces.
If the maiden flight of the model in December 2009 caused the first spike of the
model in it’s Google Trends graph, what is said to have caused the second and a
higher spike in the middle of last decade although the majority of the buzz was
about a person beside the plane?

92. 20*

94. Tom Cruise’s flight stunt in intro of Mission Impossible:
Rogue Nation

95. 21
The director of this project was looking for a way to narrate a story in the
forward direction in a short film where the actions were moving backwards.
When he was thinking of a story to narrate, he met X who had written a ballad
about going back to the very beginning which was very apt considering the
director’s idea for such a venture.
To make it look like X was narrating this piece of literature in the right direction
while the end product was played, X had to learn the ballad phonetically
backward for a month to narrate backwards while the recording was going on.
What was the end product of all this?

96. Music video for Coldplay’s The Scientist

97. 22
In a book of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, the main
antagonist comes disguised to kidnap a group of three children.
While the children get to know about his identity, one of the children devises
a plan to expose him to which the toddler in the group replies saying
“_______!” instead of “Roger that!”. Despite this toddler being known for her
usual baby babble, this is actually an Easter Egg in the form of a tribute to
another famous book. This Easter Egg eventually turns out as a prediction to
a homicide in narrative in the same story.
Which famous book is being paid tribute to by the toddler (or) what single
word was uttered?

98. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/ Ackroyd

99. 23
There are four different versions of this
performance which lasts about a minute
and is generally executed by a group of
about certain 30 men. The translation of
the lyrics of the oldest version is shown
here.
(Legend: L - Lead, RoG - Rest of the group,
A - All)
What performance am I talking about?
L: “Hear hear! Be ready! Line up! Stand!”
RoG: “Yeah!”
L: “Slap your hands against your thighs! Stomp the
feet as hard as you can!”
RoG: “As hard as we can!”
L: “I die! I die!” x 2
RoG: “I live! I live! x 2
A: “Here stands the hairy man who calls out to the
Sun and makes it radiate! Ride now! Ride now! Take
the initial step! Allow the sunshine in! Rise!”

100. The Haka dance by the New Zealand rugby team

101. 24
Shown here is a snap from a music
video of a song from late 2019 which
became viral on TikTok and social
media. The character’s look in the
music video is a tribute to a famous
fictional character.
Which character is being paid a
tribute to?

102. Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction

103. 25
This is a poster from the photoshoot of
an Olay product which was part of a
mid 2000s reality show featuring
supermodels.
The poster parodies something which
returned to worldwide fame in 1997,
courtesy a film featuring a familiar
character since our childhood.
What from the world of MELAS is being
parodied here?

104. Whistler’s Mother

105. 26
During the net practice sessions of this team, players unfamiliar to bowling in
actual matches used to have a go. The then manager of the team advised these
players to always focus to bowl on the line of the stumps because of their
inexperience and also to cramp batsmen for rooms to hit shots.
This particular simple tactic in the net sessions proved vital to the team when
they came across a very rare situation. To succeed in the task provided, the
team used 3 bowlers with 2 being occasional bowlers. The medium pacer X,
being one of the two, had bowled only a single digit number of deliveries in his
international career. He succeeded in the task and the team went on to win the
game as part of their eventually victorious campaign.
What task or situation am I talking about? (1 point) Who is X? (1 point)

106. Bowl-out in Ind vs Pak match in ICC T20 WC 2007
Robin Uthappa

107. 27
Late last century, an author went on a camping trip and things turned ugly when he
got involved in an altercation with campers and got his face disfigured. When he
went back to work the next day, no one asked him about his face and this incident
was what lead him to start writing his first book.
The book was adapted into a film of the same name few years down the line. One
character in the film was a drug addict with suicidal thoughts. Realizing the
attributes of the character, the actress playing the role assumed that the character
would be someone who would have shabby facial makeup and thus suggested a witty
method to her skilled makeup artist to get her look “right”.
Which book (or) film is being talked about? (1 point) What witty method was put into
action to help the actress get her shabby look? (1 point)

108. Fight Club
Makeup was done using the left hand of the makeup artist

109. 28
In the earlier half of last year, several healthcare agencies in Michigan received
several food items for free as a mark of respect to them fighting the COVID-19
pandemic from a food chain owned by X.
Several cups of a food item Y, synonymous with the name of the food chain, were
donated to the health workers. The name of the dish/food chain Y is a reference
to an iconic fragment of X’s Oscar winning work. To this great gesture, one of the
agencies tweeted pictures of Y with the caption “Our #HealthcareHeroes ____
__________ (4, 10) in the delicious Y donated by X. Thank you for providing a
special meal to our team members”.
ID Y (1 point) and FITB (1 point).

110. 28

111. Mom’s Spaghetti
Lost themselves

112. 29
In a certain book, the author of the book gives a brilliant alternative
interpretation of a famous phrase familiar to most of us involving two aliases of a
mythological person.
The protagonist of the book, who shares his name with this mythological person,
remembers the people of his country christening him with one of the
aforementioned aliases, which literally means the greatest of the Lords. He then
starts a pep talk with the country’s army on the way to their battlefield that
finally concludes with him crying this particular phrase and him explaining its
meaning that each and every person in the army is equal and supreme rather than
just him.
Which phrase? (1 point) Who is the author of this book? (1 point)

113. Har Har Mahadev
Amish Tripathi

114. 30
Shown in next slide is a song’s music video from a 2019 Sandalwood film. The
film itself is loosely based on a famous Hollywood film and there are evidences of
the same in the song’s video with respect to majority of the video’s setting and
ambience. This fact was even accepted by the production designer.
The protagonist of the film also pays a tribute to a 19th century work at one
particular still in the video.
Which vintage Hollywood flick loosely inspires this film and the song’s video?(1
point) Which 19th century work is commemorated? (1 point)
(Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)

115. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Napoleon Crossing The Alps by Jacques-Louis David

117. Finals coming up!