MELA Quiz

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Before We Begin-
 All Questions in this Presentation – even
those based on rubbish and boring
stuffs- are entirely Quizzical.
 Googling during the Quiz is injurious to
the Quizzing Spirit.
 No animals were harmed during the
making of this Quiz…..except for some
blood-sucking mosquitoes!
 Finally,
QM bears the sigil of House Rajinikanth.
Yenna, Raskala…Mind it!

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Just to be Clear….
They don‟t feature in any
answer!
(Yeah, Enough of TBBT & GoW)

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Almost Forgot….

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Write Bro.
+10 for each correct
No Negatives
Bonus +20 for all correct

ROUND I:
MERE DESH KI DHARTI

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1. Which fruit?
 The Paisley pattern is often used in
designs across the world. Though it
originated in the Middle East and
India, it gets this name from the Scottish
town of Paisley, because their weavers
were once the leading producers of
shawls bearing this pattern.
 In India, this motif is associated with a
fruit which it closely resembles.
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2. Plot of which movie?
(Hint: Doctor & his wife have teamed up in Matru ki
Bijlee Ka Mandola after 23 years)
 After years of painstaking research at the cost of his
personal life, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for
leprosy. However, Professional jealousy and abuse of
power threaten Dr. Roy, even as the Secretary of Health
reprimands him for breaking the news to the press. He
is asked to report to the Director of Health. Dr. Roy
suffers a mild heart attack but he refuses to go to the
hospital. His wife and a few others stand by Dr. Roy, but
the harassment continues. Also Dr. Roy transferred to a
remote village.
 The last straw is two American doctors receiving credit
for discovering the same vaccine. Dr. Roy is shattered.
However, at the end Dr. Roy gets an invitation from
John Anderson Foundation inviting him to be a part of
an eminent group of scientists working on other
diseases. Dipankar Roy realizes that his research was
fruitful. He decides to accept the invitation as he just
wants to work for the betterment of mankind.
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3.
 An upcoming
animated
movie.
 Which Indian
cricketer has
been roped in
to lend his
voice?
 It‟s publicized
that the movie
draws
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4. What is the style of drawing
called ?
 Pictograms used to
represent sports at
the Delhi CWG had
been inspired by a
particular style of
folk art prevalent in
India.

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5. Name the dude who is wicket-
keeping.

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6. How is he better known as?
 Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi wrote about
1700 songs in a career span of 5 decades.
 Some of his famous hits are:
◦ “Door hato ae duniya walo, Hindustan hamara hai
(Kismet)
◦ “Hum laye hain toofan se” (Jagriti)
◦ “Aao bachacho tumhen dikhayen” (Jagriti)
◦ “Yahan wahan jahan tahan” (Jai Santoshi Maa)
 His most memorable work is Aye Mere
Watan Ke Logo famously performed
live, by Lata Mangeshkar on Republic
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7. Whose logo?

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8. Which book?
 After the manuscript got rejected by 35 to 40 publication
houses, the author decided to apply his management
skills and promote his book.
◦ "I would be lying if I said that I was sure I would get a big
publisher for my first novel. I was a finance guy and a
staunch believer in digital marketing that has a better reach
in the books market. It actually puts up a conversation
rather than a two-minute wire on the same.“
 Together with his friends, he launched his promotion of
the book on the internet. He put up the entire first
chapter of the book as a digital download from his
website, so that the readers would get interested. With
the help of one of his musician friend, he launched
a live-action trailer film on YouTube and built an online
community in Facebook and Twitter, surrounding the
video, to further hold the reader's interest.

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9. What resulted?
 In words of Dr. Kiran Seth:
◦ “In 1976 when I returned to India to teach
at IIT Delhi, I remember asking my
students if anyone had ever heard the
name of one of the greatest sitar players
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, who was alive at
that time. Not a single student raised his
hand. It rang an alarm bell and we
decided to do something about it.”

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10. What‟s the bollywood
connection?
 Quotation from a speech in the
Parliament of the United
Kingdom given by British Prime
Minister Benjamin Disraeli referring
to William Ewart Gladstone in 1878:
“You see, the whole country of the system
is
juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin in the
atmosphere
because you are a sophisticated
rhetorician
inebriated by the exuberance of your own
verbosity.” QM - Devesh Pandey

11.
 The song was first published in the
September 1905 issue
of Bhandar magazine. Written by
Rabindranath Tagore
at Giridih, Jharkhand, it was one of the
22 protest songs written during the
Swadeshi period of Indian freedom
movement.
 The song became one of the
key anthem of the Anti-Partition
Movement in Bengal Presidency in 1905
along with "Amar Sonar Bangla".
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12. Who is this show-stopper in wheel
chair for Riyaz Ganji‟s 2011 summer
line?
Hint: Died last year

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Answers

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1. Which fruit?
 The Paisley pattern is often used in
designs across the world. Though it
originated in the Middle East and India,
it gets this name from the Scottish town
of Paisley, because their weavers were
once the leading producers of shawls
bearing this pattern.
 In India, this motif is associated with a
fruit which it closely resembles.
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Mango

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Saanjhi

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R K Narayan

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6. How is he better known as?
 Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi wrote about
1700 songs in a career span of 5 decades.
 Some of his famous hits are:
◦ “Door hato ae duniya walo, Hindustan hamara hai
(Kismet)
◦ “Hum laye hain toofan se” (Jagriti)
◦ “Aao bachacho tumhen dikhayen” (Jagriti)
◦ “Yahan wahan jahan tahan” (Jai Santoshi Maa)
 His most memorable work is Aye Mere
Watan Ke Logo famously performed live,
by Lata Mangeshkar on Republic Day, 26
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Kavi Pradeep

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SPIC-MACAY

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Amitabh‟s English Blabbering in
the song

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Itna Sannata Kyun Hai Bhai…

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6 A/V Qs
Scoring: +20/-5

ROUND II:
HEAR ME ROAR

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1. ID the guy in white hat.
or

Put funda behind his presence.
(Video Removed, Clip from Django Unchained)

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Buffer Slide

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2. Whose acting debut?
 <Video Removed>
 Trailer of a Hindi Movie „MAI‟.
 Clip featuring Padmini
Kolhapure, Ram Kapoor, Anupam
Kher to name a few.

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Asha Bhosle

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3. Name the singer.
 <Audio Removed>
 Song „Zara Zara‟ from Hindi movie
RHTDM

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Bombay Jayshree

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4. Song from Shor Bazaar.
Who is the subject of this song?
 <video removed>

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Savita Bhabhi

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5. Name of the poem.
 <Video Removed>
 Clip from „Skyfall‟
 M reading a poem by Lord Tennyson

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Ulysses by Lord Tennyson

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6. Theme Music
 <Audio Removed>

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The Post-Office Round:
Commemorative Indian Stamps
 6 Commemorative Stamps from India
Post
 Except for spelling mistake, correct
answer means blanked out part.
 Differential Scoring:
◦ 5*(6-c)
 Bonus +10 if all correct.

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Example:

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Answer:

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2.

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Commemorative Indian Stamps
Round

 Answers
 Exchange Sheets

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12 Qs on Infinite Bounce
Starting with team at Lowest Score
Scoring: +10/-0
Power Play for +20/-10

SMELLS LIKE TEEN
SPIRIT ROUND

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1. What‟s blanked?

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2. Cover for which magazine?

 A photo of John
Lennon and Yoko
Ono, made by a
famous photographer
- Annie Leibowitz.
 A few hours after this
photo was taken,
John Lennon was
murdered.
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3.
 She is a Booker prize-winning novelist (Heat & Dust)
and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter ( A
Room with a View- 1986 & Howards End- 1992).
 She was born in Germany to Jewish parents Marcus
and Eleanora Prawer. The family fled the Nazi regime in
1939, emigrating to Britain. During World War II she
lived in Hendon in London, experienced the Blitz and
began to speak English rather than German. She
became a British citizen in 1948.
 She married Cyrus H. Jhabvala, an
Indian Parsi architect, in 1951. The couple moved
to Delhi, India, in 1951 and they had three daughters:
Ava, Firoza and Renana. Her three daughters are living
all around the world: in India, in Los Angeles and in
England.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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4. Who?
Hint: 3 time Oscar Winner in Best Foreign Language Film
Category
 Woody Allen: "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since
the invention of the motion picture camera.
 Francis Ford Coppola: "My all-time favorite because he embodies
passion, emotion and has warmth.
 Stanley Kubrick: "I believe X, Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini are the
only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By
this I mean they don't just sit and wait for a good story to come along and
then make it. They have a point of view which is expressed over and over
and over again in their films, and they themselves write or have original
material written for them."
 Ang Lee: "For me the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all..."[
 Paul Schrader: "I would not have made any of my films or written scripts
such as Taxi Driver had it not been for X. What he has left is a legacy
greater than any other director.
 Martin Scorsese: "I guess I'd put it like this: if you were alive in the 50s and
the 60s and of a certain age, a teenager on your way to becoming an adult,
and you wanted to make films, I don't see how you couldn't be influenced
by X. You would have had to make a conscious effort, and even then, the
influence would have snuck through." QM - Devesh Pandey

Ingmar Bergman

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5.
 Booker prize, originally known as
the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the
sponsor company Booker-
McConnell started in 1968.
 In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it
was decided to choose a Booker of
Bookers Prize. Three previous judges of
the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David
Holloway and WL Webb, met and chose
which previous winner as "the best novel
out of all the winners“?
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6. A very popular tattoo design amongst
youths.
What‟s its significance?

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7. What‟s so iconic about this
novel?
 Opening lines of a novel Gadsby:
If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand
up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think;
and, possibly, do it practically, you wouldn't constantly run
across folks today who claim that "a child don't know
anything." A child's brain starts functioning at birth; and
has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of
dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility
for noticing an adult's act, and figuring out its purport.
Up to about its primary school days a child
thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play
contains disciplinary factor. "You can't do this," or "that puts
out out," shows a child that it must think, practically, or fail.
Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it
is plain that it will attain a position of "status quo," as with
our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog, or
lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such
animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and
schooling, that paramount position which Man Holds today.
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8. X?
 Brian May announced in a September 2010
BBC interview that Sacha Baron Cohen had
been chosen to play X in a film about his life.
 The motion picture is being written by Peter
Morgan, who had been nominated for Oscars
for his screenplays Frost/Nixon and The
Queen. The film, which is being co-produced
by Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions, will
focus on X's formative years and the period
leading up to 1985.
 The film is currently in development and is
tentatively scheduled for a release sometime
in 2014.

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Freddie Mercury

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9. X?
 X was a Russian physician, dramatist and
author who is considered to be among the
greatest writers of short stories in history. He
practiced as a doctor throughout most of his
literary career: "Medicine is my lawful
wife", he once said, "and literature is my
mistress."
 X's gun is a metaphor for a dramatic
principle concerning simplicity
and foreshadowing. It suggests that if one
shows a loaded gun on stage in the first act
of a play, it should be fired in a later act;
otherwise, the gun should not be shown in
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Anton Chekhov

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10.
 If you type www.lacunainc.com in the
Search Bar of your browser, where will
you be re-directed?

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Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless
Mind

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11. Opening line from classic?
 “All happy families are alike but an
unhappy family is unhappy after its
own fashion.”

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Trivia: Kareena Kapoor‟s
Namesake

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12. What‟s blanked in 2nd pic?
(Totally unrelated pics, 1st one is for explaining the Q
only)

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• Name of Paintings
• Differential Scoring: 5*(6-c)
• Brownie +5 Points for Painter
(if at least 2 teams don‟t get it)

PAINT MY LOVE ROUND:
LEGO TRIBUTES TO
PAINTINGS

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EXAMPLE:

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Answer:
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

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• Answers
• Exchange Sheets

PAINT MY LOVE ROUND:
LEGO TRIBUTES TO
PAINTINGS

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American Gothic
Grant Wood

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The Last Supper
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Pearl Earring
Jan Vermeer

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Andy Warhol
Marylin

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Marriage of the Virgin
Raphael

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Nighthawks
Edward Hopper

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Stairway to Heaven/Highway to
Hell:
Modified Rapid Fire Round
Rules:
1. One member of the team is shown a list for 10
seconds and then he has 120 seconds to
describe all the key-words in the list to his
teammate(s). They face away from each other so
that the communication is purely verbal.
2. They aren‟t to play charades.
• No splitting
• No conveying of the number of words/letters or
any letters.
3. Take as many guesses and give as many
descriptions as you want for any keyword.

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Stairway to Heaven/Highway to
Hell:
Modified Rapid Fire Round
Rules:
 The description has to be somewhat Quizzical
and not something like –”Movie we saw that day”,
“My favorite rock band”, “Facebook DP of
Tom/Dick/Harry” etc.
 Something like this is also unacceptable.

Key-word: November Rain
Description: Drizzle in 11th month of the year

Keyword: Neville Longbottom
Description: Someone whose bottom is long.

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Team I
 Madhubani Paintings
 Nine Inch Nails
 There and Back Again
 Merlin
 The House of Silk
 Thief of Baghdad
 Paranormal Activity

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Team II
 Hotel Rwanda
 Auguste Rodin
 Chokher Bali
 Akira Kurosawa
 Waiting for Godot
 Fire & Blood
 The Pieta

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Team III
 Eddie The Head
 O Henry
 Harishchandrachi Factory
 The Calcutta Chromosomes
 Caravaggio
 Rashomon Effect
 Patna Ke Presleys

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Team IV
 Rubber Soul
 Miles Morales
 Anita Desai
 Wonderful Tonight
 Bring up the Bodies
 Abanindranath Tagore
 Family Guy

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Team V
 Lenka
 Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
 S T Coleridge
 The Motorcycle Diaries
 Impressionism
 Living Things
 Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia

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Team VI
 The Dewarist
 The Divison Bell
 Alexander Dumas
 Gajagamini
 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet‟s
Nest
 Breaking Bad
 M S Subbalaxmi

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