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Q1. What is his profession ?
Sarah Hall was nominated for a Booker in 2004 for her book The
Electric Michelangelo. This covers the life of her protagonist, Cy Parks
who is the “Electric Michelangelo” referred to in the title.
What is Cy Parks' profession?

Q2. Which novel ?
A segment of the Netflix documentary Inside Bill’s Brain covers the
early part of Melinda and Bill’s relationship. When Bill and Melinda were
first dating, she had a green light in her office that she would put on
indicating that he could come by.
This was inspired by a novel that both of them loved. Which novel ?

Q3. Name the poet and the song.
Receiving the Sahitya Akademi award at the age of 28, he remains its
youngest recipient to date. Born in 1936, the poet, author, and
playwright is still known for his works on lost love, death and other
tragedies of life.
According to certain sources, he fell in love with famous Punjabi writer
Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari’s daughter. But Gurbaksh was opposed to the
marriage because of caste difference. He married his daughter to an
NRI and she left for the US. This incomplete love story of his led the
poet in question to write a poem, which was reprised into a popular
2016 song by lyricist Irshad Kamil and singer Diljit Dosanjh.

Q4. What is the apt
title for the book?

Q5. What is the common name of the
piece?
Dance of the Knights is a famous work of classical music written by the
Russian composer Sergei Profokiev. It is commonly used as walk on
music and has been featured heavily in the song “Taken for Granted”
by Sia.
What is the popular name for this piece, inspired by two famous
warring families in literature ?

Q6. What event occurred here ?
The Old Swan Hotel in
Harrogate sees a major uptick
in prices due to the anniversary
of an event more than 90 years
earlier (on December 14).
What is the event in question ?

Q7. Book and author
In order to write prequels for this author’s
works, Arthur D. Howden had to get
permission from the executor of his estate.
Though he has written other prequels, his
most famous his Porto Bello Gold, written
in 1924.
What book is this a prequel to ? Who is the
author ? (No part points)

Q8. The author (X) and the book (Y)
This book Y written by the author X is influenced a harrowing personal
experience he/she underwent. Sentenced to death by firing squad, X
was 4th in line until a message came from the ruler of the country,
commuting X’s punishment to hard labor.
The central character in Y tells an almost identical anecdote to his
audience while musing on the cruelty of capital punishment
Give us X(the author) and Y(the book). Part points are available.

Q9. What is the name of the play ?
___ _____ is a 1938 play by British playwright Patrick Hamilton and
was known as Five Chelsea Lane and Angel Street in the US. The play is
set in fog-bound London and is characterized by a gloomy, dimly-lit set.
It centres around a upper middle class couple and an unsolved murder.
What is this play called, which has led to the origin of a widely used
term that was one of Oxford Dictionary’s most popular words of 2018 ?

Q10. Finite. Non-exhaustive. Connect.
- Where We Go From Here
- This Fight Is Our Fight
- Promise Me, Dad
- The Truths We Hold
- The Senator Next Door
- Shortest Way Home
- A Politics of Love

Q11. Which Book?
(4,2,3,6,2,4), published in 1976, is the best-selling autobiography by Ron Kovic, a
paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist.
The book's iconic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904
song, "The Yankee Doodle Boy" (also known as "Yankee Doodle Dandy").
Bruce Springsteen dedicated his 1978 performance of "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Green Day references the title of the book in their 2009 song "21st Century
Breakdown".
Ed Sheeran references the title of the book in his rap verse in Taylor Swift's 2017
song "End Game".

Q12. Give X and Y
When he received the Nobel Prize in 1958, X was forced to publicly
reject the award under pressure from his government. In 1964, Y made
known that he did not wish to accept his Nobel, as he had consistently
refused all official honors in the past. However the Nobel committee
does not acknowledge refusals, and includes X and Y in its list of Nobel
laureates.
Part points are available

Q13. ID the author and the subject
Fine Lines, a book written by Stephen Blackwell and Kurt Johnson,
which explores this author’s contributions to science, especially to
lepidopterology.
The Smithsonian even has an archive and holds exhibitions of this
author’s technical drawings of his favourite subject.
Who is the author ? What was his favourite subject ?

Q14. Which award-winning author
writing about his childhood?
X-Men helped me through school. I travelled almost 30 miles out of
Portmore, Jamaica [to get the latest issue]. The thing about X-Men is
that they are hated and feared by the world they are sworn to protect. I
was very unpopular in high school. I was one of the nerds and the gay
kids – and the cool kids gave me hell. But I used to do their homework
for them, because I always thought that if I did I would become their
friend. I even cheated in exams for them. But then they would scream
out “Fag!” in the middle of a bus station so the entire street heard. I
started to think, “You know what, I am an X-Man. I’m a goddamn
mutant helping these people who come after me.” I really connected
with the idea of having to be in a world that doesn’t want you.

Q15. Connect to a literary character.

Q16. Which book? Which creatures?
The Pacific iguana, and at least seven other groups of lizards have a
habit of diving headfirst into sand and making paddling motions with
their limbs as if they were swimming in water.
For decades, sand-swimmers have fascinated scientists (some have
even conducted races between snakes and lizards, in the interest of
science of course) and science journalists, who keep comparing them to
creatures from an epic Sci-Fi series.

Q17. Illustration for which Mark Twain
book?

Q18. Give X and Y.
A critical study of author X's works reveals a direct influence of author
Y's works. X travelled from India to New York in 1889, when he was an
unknown entity, to meet Y, already a legend.
Clearest indications of influence can be seen in their respective
masterpieces. X's protagonist treks over the Grand Trunk Road with a
holy man searching for spiritual liberation, much as Y's protagonist
floats down the Mississippi river with a runaway slave seeking his
freedom. Both defy prejudices to help their companions, even as their
authors deal in ugly racial stereotypes

Q19. Which historical figure?
Though a jihadist, he is astonishingly celebrated by the West. Warrior monks
scorned him as the whore of Babylon and son of Satan. Medieval England named
a tax after him, the ultimate slur. But, Crusader accounts celebrated his
reputation for mercy, generosity (lavished on Christian as well as Muslim visitors
to his court), and above all his adab, Arabic for chivalry.
Decades after his death Boccaccio and Petrarch extolled him. In The Divine
Comedy, he merits a place in Dante’s first circle of hell, alongside virtuous
pagans such as Plato — and seven levels above the Prophet Muhammad. He was
a hero of Victorian romantic novels; in the 20th century he gave his name to a
British battleship and a type of armoured car. Closer home, he lends his name to
a Salman Rushdie character.

Q20. Which poem?
In 1872, George Smith's decoding of a Cuneiform passage found in the
archaeological ruins of Mesopotamia made front page news around Britain.
Smith claimed that the passage, which described a devastating flood, was
evidence of the biblical Great Flood and thus another defender of the claim
that the Bible was historically accurate.
Smith's claim couldn't hold water for long, since other scholars studying the
Cuneiform source soon figured out that the whole thing was one long
mythical poem about an ancient king. To this day, the poem remains the
oldest long poem in the world, and its discovery is credited to George
Smith, though the man himself never realised it, thanks to an untimely
death soon after his Biblical evidence claim.

Q21. Who are we talking about?
In his memoir (September 2019), he describes XKEYSCORE as "the
closest thing to science fiction I’ve ever seen.” However, he says, his
colleagues saw it in less elevated terms. One popular pastime was to
use it for LOVEINT, rifling through the online lives of former or potential
lovers. Intercepted nudes were apparently office currency.

Q22. Why did they receive no news
coverage ?
Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis were star authors of their own era.
However, though they died on the same day, they curiously received
very less coverage in comparison to their popularity. Why?

Q23. Give author and the city.
The author's Nobel Prize citation says "who in the quest for the
melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the
clash and interlacing of cultures." His autobiographical work is titled
after the name of the city.

Q24. Give X and Y
When X's third book, Y, was published in 1963, it presented the world
of espionage in a harsh new light. Spies were not brave, suave heroes.
“They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too,” explains its
flawed and beleaguered protagonist. They are “sadists and drunkards,
people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
The novel preferred intrigue to adventure, gritty reality to escapist
fantasy. Readers expecting a finale in which good conquered evil were
instead offered convoluted twists and a bleak denouement.

Q25. Whose biography?
Explaining the title of the book, author Alice Schroeder writes the following epitaph at the
beginning of this person's biography, as a perfect metaphor for how he has conducted his
business:
"It is the winter of X's ninth year. Outside in the yard, he and his little sister Bertie are
playing in the snow.
X is catching snowflakes. One at a time at first. Then he is scooping them up by handfuls.
He starts to pack them into a ball. As the snowball becomes bigger, he places it on the
ground. Slowly it begins to roll. He gives it a push, and it picks up more snow. Soon he
reaches the edge of the yard. After a moment of hesitation, he heads off, rolling the
snowball through the neighborhood.
And from there, X continues onward, casting his eye on a whole world full of snow."

Q26. What did he write on ?
Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a celebrated Kenyan
novelist and one of the foremost writers
in the Gikuyu language.
Arrested in 1977, he managed to write
the first modern Gikuyu book, Devil on
the Cross, while in prison despite many
restrictions.
What did he write on, in the absence of
the proper equipment ?

Q2. Which novel ?
A segment of the Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain” covers the
early part of Melinda and Bill’s relationship. When Bill and Melinda were
first dating, she had a green light in her office that she would put on
indicating that he could come by.
This was inspired by a novel that both of them loved. Which novel ?

The light at the end
of Daisy Buchanan’s
dock from The Great
Gatsby

Poet: Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Song: Ik Kuddi from Udta Punjab

Agatha Christie’s
disappearance

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson

Books by 2020 US Democratic
Presidential Candidates

X: Boris Pasternak
Y: Jean Paul Sartre

Book: Dune
Creature: Sandworms

A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court

X: Rudyard Kipling
Y: Mark Twain

John F Kennedy was
assassinated

Author: Orhan Pamuk
City: Istanbul

X: John Le Carre
Y: The Spy who came
in from the cold

Welcome to the Finals !
● Infinite Pounce : Clockwise I
● Written Round I
● Infinite Pounce : Anti-Clockwise I
● Written Round II
● Infinite Pounce : Clockwise II
● Written Round III
● Infinite Pounce : Anti- Clockwise II

Clockwise I
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1. What connects the following poets and
poems (exhaustive) ?
1. Robert Frost - The Gift Outright (1961)
2. Maya Angelou - On the Pulse of Morning (1993)
3. Miller Williams - Of History and Hope (1997)
4. Elizabeth Alexander - Praise Song for the Day (2009)
5. Richard Blanco - One Today (2013)

Poems recited by
the poets at
Presidential
Inaugurations

2. What is the ‘work’ in question ?
Hitoshi Igrashi was a Japanese Scholar who completed his doctoral
programme in Tokyo and was a research fellow in Iran till 1979. He was
murdered in Japan in 1991. What was his most famous 'work' that also
led to his premature end ?

Translated Salman
Rushdie’s Satanic
Verses; killed as a
result of the fatwa

3. Author and what does the title mean ?
Zunge Zeigen is a political diary about the experiences of the author
and his wife when they visited the city of Calcutta for six months. He
talks about the inhuman conditions and how a prominent deity in the
region was a symbol for the conditions that enveloped the area due to
previous first world conflict.
Who is the author ? What does Zunge Zeigen mean / What was the
inspiration for the title ?

Gunter Grass
Zunge Zeigen - Show
Your Tongue (inspired by
Kali statues and temples
which he took to see as a
symbol of hunger
amongst the people)

4. What is the essay titled ?
In a commentary about violence against women and gun ownership in
the US, the fictional character Diane Nguyen (from Bojack Horseman)
writes a essay that she hopes will bolster the perception of safety
amongst women.
What is this essay titled, a pun on another famous seminal essay that is
considered as a major work of feminist literature ?

A Handgun of One’s
Own (will accept gun as
well)

5. Who are the two poets ?
An article by Louisa Mellor talks about patterns that emerge across quiz
shows, especially based in the UK. She goes on to say “ When
identifying poets for an obscure answer, it’s usually the Romantics. If
there’s a bird in it, try _____. A sheep, then ______ _____.
FITB with two poets (order is important).

6. Name both (similar sounding)
________ __ is a 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley
based on the adventures of Amyas Preston, a corsair who sailed with
Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh. The title derives from
traditional calls of boat-taxis on the River Thames to indicate their
destination.
_________ __ is Samuel Beckett’s penultimate prose text and puns on
Kingsley’s title. The title indicates Beckett’s tragicomic outlook on
humanity.

7. Give X,Y and the book
The author X was tremendously influenced by another author Y to such
an extent that he named his main antagonist in the book ___ _____ _
___ ____ after the author Y.
There are theories that the author Y was made an antagonist since X
disagreed with his conservative leanings. However, X said that he
simply thought than a blind librarian was an excellent plot point (Y had
been blind in his later life as well as in charge of his country’s national
library).

Umberto Eco
Jorge Luis Borges
The Name of the Rose

8. The creatures X, Y and the author
The author notes that he partly founded this line of creatures, X and
their assault because he was disappointed with the coming of “Great
Birnam wood to high Dusinane hill” in Y.
Identify the line of creatures (X), the piece of literature (Y) and the
author whose books feature X

Lettered Ladies of Literature
Each slide is an illustration by
Sandhya Prabhat in the shape of a
letter.
The illustration shows a popular
female character from literature
whose name begins with that letter.
9 slides. +5 for each.
+10 for full-house.

Exchange Sheets
Tatkal prabhav se

Bellatrix Lestrange
From the Harry Potter series

Elizabeth Bennett
From Pride and Prejudice

Offred
From The Handmaid’s Tale

Scout Finch
From To Kill a Mockingbird

Wicked Witch of the West
From The Wizard of Oz

Ygritte
From A Song of Ice and Fire

Anti-Clockwise I
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1. What am I talking of?
When the London Underground's new Elizabeth Line opened in 2018,
Harry Potter fans started speculating how this would affect a certain
character's anatomy that was referred to in the very first chapter of the
series, but never again.

Scar on Dumbledore’s left knee
When he's talking to McGonagall about Harry's lightning-bolt scar, he
says they can be useful as is in his case - his scar is the map of the
London Underground. So, when the new Elizabeth Line started fans
asked if the scar would've changed to reflect it, and in general if it ever
changed to reflect any of the countless changes that the Tube network
went through

2. Which exceptional Original?
In his book, Originals, and his 2016 TED Talk, Adam Grant illustrates, with the
help of this graph (next slide), how the highest quality music (y-axis) came
from composers who produced a high quantity of work (x-axis).
Notable exception is X, the composer, theatre director, polemicist, and
conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, X
wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works.
X revolutionised opera through his concept of Gesumtkunswerk ("total work of
art") by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic
arts, with music subsidiary to drama. It is probably this dedication to "holistic
depth" that led to greatness, despite the relatively smaller body of work.

3. Who is 'Asad'? Who is the kohkan?
teshe baġhair mar na sakā kohkan 'asad'
sargashta-e-ḳhumār-e-rusūm-o-quyūd thā
This sher translates roughly to:
Without his axe, the mountain-cutter couldn't die, O Asad!
He too was bewildered by the intoxication of earthly restrictions and
traditions

Ghalib | Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan
Kohkan refers to Farhad from the love
story Shireen-Farhaad.

4. Who?
“He is not of an age, but for all time,” wrote X, a peer of William
Shakespeare’s, in the preface to the First Folio—a collection of the
bard’s works published in 1623, seven years after he died. Today, those
words seem prophetic. In X's time, they were mostly just polite,
because X was the more recognized writer, a venerable recipient of a
royal pension for writing.
Over the centuries, however, X's popularity plummeted and was limited
to English literature graduates and B-list theatre productions, until a
dramatised version of his character appeared in the 2011 movie
Anonymous.

5. What did this book inspire?
In 1976, physicist and Princeton professor Gerard O'Neill published The
High Frontier, a bestselling book that sketched out the engineering
principles of human habitats in outer space. It offered three designs: a
cylinder, a pair of cylinders, and a torus. All rotate, with centrifugal
force on the walls standing in for gravity, have solar panels for energy,
and have a network of mirrors for uniform illumination inside.
This book inspired a then Princeton student to do something years later
in 2000, which has become very relevant in 2019 and might help USA
resurrect one of its long-standing ambitions in 2024.

Inspired Jeff Bezos to start Blue Origin

6. What is this list about? Exhaustive as of today.
The list (shown next slide) started in 1852, when a certain John Herschel
decided to move away from Roman and Greek mythologies as source material,
as was the recognized practice till then, and towards the more modern English
Literature.
To start off the list he chose magical spirits: the fairies Oberon and Titania from
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the sylph Ariel and
gnome Umbriel from Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (Ariel is also a
sprite in Shakespeare's The Tempest).
Over the years, others have extended the list as and when needed, and have
maintained deference to Herschel's choice of source material. The picture is the
exhaustive list, as of today.

The Madman (1918)
The Processions (1919)
The Forerunner (1920)
The Tempests (1920)
__________ (1923)
The Wanderer (1932)
The Storm (1994)
The Beloved (1994)
7. Finite. Not exhaustive. Writer & Blank.

Writer: Kahlil Gibran
Blank: The Prophet

Excerpt from Waking Up by
neuroscientist and modern meditation
philosopher Sam Harris.
Green blank is an institution, and the
orange blanks are name of a person.
8. Fill the two
coloured blanks

Green: Theosophical Society
Orange: Madame Helena Blavatsky

AI,Robot
Novels generated through AI after feeding them the opening lines.
+5 for the name of the novel
+5 for the name of the author
5 questions in all.

1.
__________________________________________________. Not having a
sufficient number of ______ would mean that one couldn’t afford to provide for
a family or a property, without further expenditure. As with all human beings, a
woman’s health requires that she do her own laundry. This means she has to
make her own food, wash clothes, bathe and dress herself. In order to do so,
they need a large supply of domestic duties. As mentioned earlier, many people
don’t seem to have enough. There are also problems for those who spend all
day in the home, even taking care of the children themselves. This does add up
when you consider the fact that it takes up a massive amount of money for an
__________ to sustain itself and to pay for his own expenses.

2.
______________________. I would hate for you to listen to it,
anyway.“What do you mean?” I blurted out.“We don’t want your blood.” said the
man that had been waiting in the back seat beside me. He said with a laugh that
when my parents and I had moved to Los Angeles from our native village of
Puyo in Northern Mexico back in 1974 he and his brother and I had given up our
family business and decided to move to San Diego, California to try to get a
piece of the action and then we had a real problem with the economy, and I had
become so bad at this that my brother, the one with the gun, was willing to put
me down for life. So here I was.

3.
________________________________________________. The whole
of it, when taken with our view of the castle, was pretty much an enclosure; the
castle wall, as far as it rose from the river, was formed of four tiers, and in
several places of one (with a slight slope) the same. But it must not be thought
that Adam’s Castle, like the other castles, is always the same. Here in the first
instance Adam’s is the main building of what may be termed a tower-
monument, a high wooden tower about twelve feet high, with an outer and
upper portion of wood ornamented with figures of serpents. The interior is made
out of two or three tiers of stilt-bedritto, each of twelve feet square and about
twelve inches wide, and on this plan they can be seen rising into what may be
called a long row, or row of rows, within the castle wall, rising about…

4.
_______________________________________________________. What do
you suppose that is? Happiness. What does that mean? It means to live in
accordance with those great ideals which are essentially dear to us, which would
at once establish a full measure of individual happiness in any community. The
common good is what I mean by the freedom of the individual, or the well-being
of mankind; in a word, the existence of personal freedom; and the result of this
is freedom for our individualities. A society in which there is no freedom of
individuality, to be sure

5.
______________________________. Not because of his age or its
commonalities: neither his blond hair nor his elegant manners, no, the very fact
of being an all-Jewish boy was enough. Instead, it was the chadarak like the first
time they had kissed when ___________ had been only a boy of two and
____________ could hardly believe that just then, years later, he would be a
believer in the past year.

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally
acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife

JD Salinger
Catcher in the Rye
If you really want to hear about it,
the first thing you’ll probably want
to know is where I was born, and
what my lousy childhood was like,
and how my parents were occupied
and all before they had me, and all
that David Copperfield kind of crap,
but I don’t feel like going into it, if
you want to know the truth

James Joyce
Finnegan’s Wake
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,
from swerve of shore to bend of
bay, brings us by a commodius
vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.

Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Happy families are all alike; every
unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way

Joseph Heller
Catch-22
It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the
chaplain he fell madly in love with
him.

Clockwise II
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1. Title of the articles
What is the common title, identical to a 1960 play/musical for the two
articles in the New York Times?
1. The disappearance of certain migratory North American species due
to urbanization
2. The retirement of a beloved original character actor from Sesame
Street in 2018
Give the title.

2. What is his debut novel ?
“The Tik” is a 2008 short story published by the author, John O’Brien’s
sister, also a writer. It is about a man facing his demons and is set in
the same neighbourhood all his books are set in.
O’Brien’s magnum opus however is his debut novel. He committed
suicide in 1994, two weeks after he signed the film rights for his novel,
with his sister calling the work “John’s suicide note”.
What is O’Brien’s debut novel ?

3. Who is X?
Otto I was the first king of Greece and ruled from 1832 to 1862 till he
was deposed and a provisional government set up. They eventually
moved to a referendum to select the new ruler.
However, before they moved to a referendum, they approached
multiple people who all refused to take the Crown, among them being
X, a famous author of his time.
X now comes back into significance every year due to the efforts of the
San Jose State University.

E M Forster writing in the foreword for which book?
"Well, if the Colonel thought A Passage to India dirty, what will he think about X,
which describes a day in the life of a sweeper in an Indian city with every realistic
circumstance. Is it a clean book or a dirty one ? Some readers, especially those who
consider themselves all-white, will go purple in the face with rage before they have
finished a dozen pages, and will exclaim that they cannot trust themselves to speak. I
cannot trust myself either, though for a different reason: the book seems to me
indescribably clean and I hesitate for words in which this can be conveyed. Avoiding
rhetoric and circumlocution, it has gone straight to the heart of its subject and purified
it. None of us are pure—we shouldn’t be alive if we were. But to the straightforward
all things can become pure, and it is to the directness of his attack that Mr. Y's
success is probably due."
4. Give X and Y

X: The Untouchable
Y: Mulk Raj Anand

5. Poet. Song.
While Harsh Goenka has now deleted this tweet (shown next slide),
what I need is simply the name of the poet for half the points. A
celebrated revolutionary, his work has also been turned into a song by
the group Indian Ocean. Give the song for the other half of the points.

Gorakh Pandey, Hilele Jhakjhor Duniya

6. Give X and Y.
X was an American author best known as one of the possible candidates
who could claim they invented the e-book and the founder of Project Y.
X published e-books years before the Internet existed via the ARPANET
and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers. Y is a project, probably the
first, to make e-books freely available via the Internet.
X devoted his life after founding Project Y in 1971 to digitizing and
distributing literature from works in the public domain with free and expired
copyrights. The first e-books were typed in plain text format and published
as text files; other formats were made available later. X typed most of the
early e-books himself; later, volunteers expanded the project.

X: Michael S Hart
Y: Project Gutenberg

7. Give the first book, and the venture
Chiki Sarkar, then with Random House, received a manuscript in 2010.
Since it was recommended by Nandan Nilekani and Pratap Bhanu
Mehta, she didn't even read the book and signed it on. She formed a
close bond with the authors of the book and became friends with them,
attending their wedding also. After certain rumours started doing
rounds, Chiki, no longer with Random House but having started her
own venture, convinced them to publish another book. This book was
recently published by her venture.
For part points, name the first book and the venture that published the
second book recently.

8. Which film?
__ (8 words film title) ___ is a 2011 animated short film directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg,
and produced by Moonbot Studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. Described as an "allegory about the curative
powers of story," the film centers on a bibliophile and his custodianship of a magical library.
The movie was inspired by William ___, children's books publisher at HarperCollins and Joyce's mentor.
Joyce wrote a story about a man who gives his life to books when he was on an airplane flight to visit
William ____. Joyce read the story to William ____, who died a few days after that.
The bibliophile was visually modeled after the silent film actor Buster Keaton. The film drew particular
inspiration from the storm scene in Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. and the tornado from The Wizard of Oz.
Also an inspiration was the real-life Hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans in 2005.
After winning over a dozen film festivals, the film was awarded the Best Animated Short Film at the 84th
Academy Awards in 2012.

The fantastic
flying books of Mr
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