The prelims to the literature quiz conducted by Dwiref Oza and Rajdeep Dasgupta, on the 17th of September, 2017.

2. this is not a prelim

3. ●26 questions
●The clues given are deliberately confusing
Use them only if the answer is at the tip of
your tongue
●Or enjoy a fun filled goose chase
●Questions marked with a delta will change the
game (geddit?)
●Oh yeah, this not-a-quiz has puns. In the
plural, yes.

4. ●
The age old rule applies – QMs are...not
gawds.
●
But our word is final anyway.
●
1 mark per question
●
If a question has part points, we will not
disclose it – bullshit away for as many
points as you can.
●
We will tell you if a question has multiple
points though.

5. Shoutouts in no particular order to:
●
Lucky Kaul, BITS Goa
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Siddhant Patra, DTU
●
Syed Adil Pasha, VP of Conquiztadors
●
Palash Thakur for putting up with
two loud LDQ+EEE brothers

6. Light your pipes, Ladies
and Gents

7. It is rumored, that CS Lewis, upon being extremely
frustrated with the improper usage of words by
people and the distorted notions about them in and
around the country, came up with this creation.
The incident goes that one fine evening, at a
gathering at his house, as he was speaking to a
young man, he said, “The atmosphere here is just
stunning”, to which C.S. Lewis replied: What do you
mean the atmosphere is stunning? I’m not saying
that your singing is beautiful to look at, or that
your walking is eloquent. That’s ridiculous, you’re
literally killing the verb
What word did he create, making a spin off another
word for murder?
Q. 1

8. Perhaps the most famous works of George Eliot is
Silas Marner.
In the book, Eliot creates a character Godfrey
Cuss, who harbours a secret. He is married (in
secrecy) to a woman of low birth, Molly Farren,
while he is set to marry Nancy, a woman of high
birth and nobility. Thus Godfrey struggles with
this existential crisis of a dual identity.
The character Godfrey is a reference to Eliot’s
own life, as Eliot too harbors a secret, per se,
which Eliot does to be accepted into society.
What/
Who exactly, is George Eliot the pen name of?
Q. 2

9. Which Greek Hero has
been depicted here?
clue:
He looks completely dotty,doesn’t
he?
Q. 3

10. Q. 4
What’s the
good pun?

11. - dead as a doornail
- fair play
- all of a sudden
- in a pickle
- night owl
- wear your heart on your sleeve
- star-crossed lovers
- off with his head
- green-eyed monster
Their origin being?
Q. 5

12. One of the first figurines of its kind was
that of the Virgin Mary, hence there is a
possibility that the origin of the term
_____________ lies in there. (French
Translation).
There is a chance that the origin of the
phrase pulling strings comes from there as
well.
FITB
What is the lit connect, as seen on the
cover of a famous book?
Q. 6

13. This is a cell in Eastern State
Penitentiary, Chicago. What’s special
about it?
Q. 7

14. 27.6648° N, 81.5158° W
18.2208° N, 66.5901° W
32.3078° N, 64.7505° W
What?
Q. 8

15. Way back when Google was just becoming
the search engine byword, some folks
decided to be funny and launch their
own search engine, while claiming to be
a parody site. If you think hard
enough, you’ll be able to guess why
Google sued them for misleadingly
alluding to/misusing their pristine
brand image.
Which website?
Q. 9

16. X, BORN JANUARY 31ST NINETEEN
FIFTY EIGHT IS A BADASS WHO
COULD ONLY BE DEFEATED BY
UNLIMITED POWER. HIS FAVORITE
PASTIME IS YELLING Y.
clue
Say what
Q. 10

17. Someone who is fed up of
people is a X.
clue
this is not a quiz
Q. 11

18. Shown in here is Sunrisers Hyderabad Skipper,
Shikhar Dhawan, shown celebrating a match winning
knock in the opening game for IPL 2017.
The next day, an online twitter thread started
following a news headlines with the caption
“First Day, First Show : _ _________ ______”.
The blanks are the title of a famous 1962 work,
and later an immensely popular movie.
FITB
Q. 12

19. “Qasar, Qasar, _______ _____” is a set of
essays by famous Sci-Fi afficianado Isaac Asimov.
It is a supposedly a reflection on his
afterthoughts of the Robots series.
A Qasar is a celestial object of high
luminousity. The most powerful quasars have
luminosities exceeding 1041 W, thousands of times
greater than the luminosity of a large galaxy
such as the Milky Way.
Given the nature of the Qasars, and what they do,
what pun, on a age old famous poem did Asimov use
to describe the functioning of Qasar?
Q. 13

20. Q. 14
An ad by?

21. An obvious choice of wordplay.
There exists a service that will
play only the 4 million songs on
Spotify that no one has ever
heard.
What is the apt name borne by
this service?
Q. 15

22. Sitter.
When Lucas de Groot designed X, he
would never have guessed the impact it
would have, or that it had the
capability to topple an entire
government. Recently, X achieved
exactly this.
Give me X and the name given to the
surrounding political controversy
Q. 16

23. Q. 17
Guess the
blanked out
street name

24. Q. 18
The crew t-shirt for what?

25. Q. 19
Headlines in 1986: Jambo rescues little boy
in 1996: Binti Jua saves boy
in 2016: ___________?

26. Q. 20
As any swashbuckling tale will tell you, boots
are the perfect places to hide knives and pistols
to bring to a fight. Eventually though, the same
trick began to be exploited for shadier deeds.
What word owes its origin to this development?

27. Q. 21
• Legend of the _________ Court is a less famous
installment to a rather well known series of
books, and moreover, movies.
• It has a set of Five stories describing the
adventures of a young X, the main protagonist,
gallivanting, pilfering, bootlegging and stealing
his way into the world.
• It ends with a journey to the Isla de Muerta, which
X became the youngest person to accomplish.
• FITB, Name the book Series, X?

28. Q. 22
• Mathew Reily is an American Author, best known
for his books with a US Marine as the lead-
Captain Shane Schofield.
• As in special Marines forces, none of the
captains are called by name, they are given
codenames, and the one for Schofield is X,
which, incidentally is the fifth book in the
series.
• X is also the name of a fictional supervillain
in the DC Comics world. He is known to have
been not as commanding as the Joker, but
vastly terrifying, hence, the logic to X.

29. Q.23
When Mark Cerasini wrote the book in 1996, he titled it
________ Returns, which was ironic considering this was
the first installment to what was about to perhaps
become one of the greatest names in the world of
fantasy.
Akira Ifukube, who gave us the acoustic requirements for
________ was stunned when she read the book, and
immediately applied for direction of sound in the movie
to be made subsequently.
FITB, which is also Matthew Broderick’s only meaningful
contribution to the world of Hollywood.

30. Q.24
• Aldous Huxley is a well known, if somewhat
outspoken author of, among others, Brave New
Worlds.
• In 1954, he authored the Doors of Perception,
an essay about mind space withdrawal, upon
the consumption mescaline, a drug having
effects similar to those of LSD.
• This particular book/essay was back in news in
October 2016, for what particular reason?

31. Q.25
(a) An X is a story written as a series of documents. They
can be papers, essays, observations or even diaries. The
most common example would be that of The Diary of Anne
Frank or Diagramma by Galileo.
(b) The Y is an epistolary written in 1996, but set in the
early 1900s, written by Christopher Priest. It is a set of
two diaries of rivals in their fields, being read by their
grandchildren, Kate Angier and Andrew Westley (born
Nicholas Borden) . Misdirection and Scientific foolery are
the key elements to this book, while there is a certain
ebb and flow to the entire theme.
X and Y?

32. Q.26

33. Answers Follow

34. It is rumored, that CS Lewis, upon being extremely
frustrated with the improper usage of words by
people and the distorted notions about them in and
around the country, came up with this creation.
The incident goes that one fine evening, at a
gathering at his house, as he was speaking to a
young man, he said, “The atmosphere here is just
stunning”, to which C.S. Lewis replied: What do you
mean the atmosphere is stunning? I’m not saying
that your singing is beautiful to look at, or that
your walking is eloquent. That’s ridiculous, you’re
literally killing the verb
What word did he create, making a spin off another
word for murder?
Q. 1

35. Verbicide

36. Perhaps the most famous works of George Eliot is
Silas Marner.
In the book, Eliot creates a character Godfrey
Cuss, who harbours a secret. He is married (in
secrecy) to a woman of low birth, Molly Farren,
while he is set to marry Nancy, a woman of high
birth and nobility. Thus Godfrey struggles with
this existential crisis of a dual identity.
The character Godfrey is a reference to Eliot’s own
life, as Eliot too harbors a secret, per se, which
Eliot does to be accepted into society.
What/
Who exactly, is George Eliot the pen name of?
Q. 2

37. Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot was her pseudonym

38. Which Greek Hero has
been depicted here?
clue:
He looks completely dotty,doesn’t he?
Q. 3

39. Hercules

40. Q. 4
What’s the
good pun?

41. mortgagefreeman.com.au

42. - dead as a doornail
- fair play
- all of a sudden
- in a pickle
- night owl
- wear your heart on your sleeve
- star-crossed lovers
- off with his head
- green-eyed monster
Their origin being?
Q. 5

43. Words and phrases coined by William
Shakespeare

44. One of the first figurines of its kind was
that of the Virgin Mary, hence there is a
possibility that the origin of the term
_____________ lies in there. (French
Translation).
There is a chance that the origin of the
phrase pulling strings comes from there as
well.
FITB
What is the lit connect, as seen on the
cover of a famous book?
Q. 6

45. Marionettes

46. This is a cell in Eastern State
Penitentiary, Chicago. What’s special
about it?
Q. 7

47. Al Capone’s cell

48. 27.6648° N, 81.5158° W
18.2208° N, 66.5901° W
32.3078° N, 64.7505° W
What?
Q. 8

49. Bermuda Triangle

50. Way back when Google was just becoming
the search engine byword, some folks
decided to be funny and launch their own
search engine, while claiming to be a
parody site. If you think hard enough,
you’ll be able to guess why Google sued
them for misleadingly alluding
to/misusing their pristine brand image.
Which website?
Q. 9

51. Booble.com

52. X, BORN JANUARY 31ST NINETEEN
FIFTY EIGHT IS A BADASS WHO
COULD ONLY BE DEFEATED BY
UNLIMITED POWER. HIS FAVORITE
PASTIME IS YELLING Y.
clue
Say what
Q. 10

53. X- Samuel L. Jackson
Y- Motherfucker

54. Someone who is fed up of
people is a X.
clue
this is not a quiz
Q. 11

55. Cannibal

56. Shown in here is Sunrisers Hyderabad Skipper,
Shikhar Dhawan, shown celebrating a match winning
knock in the opening game for IPL 2017.
The next day, an online twitter thread started
following a news headlines with the caption
“First Day, First Show : _ _________ ______”.
The blanks are the title of a famous 1962 work,
and later an immensely popular movie.
FITB
Q. 12

57. A Clockwork Orange

58. “Qasar, Qasar, _______ _____” is a set of
essays by famous Sci-Fi afficianado Isaac Asimov.
It is a supposedly a reflection on his
afterthoughts of the Robots series.
A Qasar is a celestial object of high
luminousity. The most powerful quasars have
luminosities exceeding 1041 W, thousands of times
greater than the luminosity of a large galaxy
such as the Milky Way.
Given the nature of the Qasars, and what they do,
what pun, on a age old famous poem did Asimov use
to describe the functioning of Qasar?
Q. 13

59. Tyger, Tyger, Burning
Bright

60. Q. 14
An ad by?

61. Veet

62. An obvious choice of wordplay.
There exists a service that will
play only the 4 million songs on
Spotify that no one has ever
heard.
What is the apt name borne by
this service?
Q. 15

63. Forgotify

64. Sitter.
When Lucas de Groot designed X, he would
never have guessed the impact it would
have, or that it had the capability to
topple an entire government. Recently, X
achieved exactly this.
Give me X and the name given to the
surrounding political controversy
Q. 16

65. X- Calibri Font
Nawaz Sharif removed from office for
the Panama Paper controversy

66. Q. 17
Guess the
blanked out
street name

67. Nicholas Flamel

68. Q. 18
The crew t-shirt for what?

69. Han Solo

70. Q. 19
Headlines in 1986: Jambo rescues little boy
in 1996: Binti Jua saves boy
in 2016: ___________?

71. Harambe

72. Q. 20
As any swashbuckling tale will tell you, boots
are the perfect places to hide knives and pistols
to bring to a fight. Eventually though, the same
trick began to be exploited for shadier deeds.
What word owes its origin to this development?

73. Bootlegging

74. Q. 21
• Legend of the _________ Court is a less famous
installment to a rather well known series of
books, and moreover, movies.
• It has a set of Five stories describing the
adventures of a young X, the main protagonist,
gallivanting, pilfering, bootlegging and stealing
his way into the world.
• It ends with a journey to the Isla de Muerta, which
X became the youngest person to accomplish.
• FITB, Name the book Series, X?

75. • Bretheren
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Jack Sparrow

76. Q. 22
• Mathew Reily is an American Author, best known
for his books with a US Marine as the lead-
Captain Shane Schofield.
• As in special Marines forces, none of the
captains are called by name, they are given
codenames, and the one for Schofield is X,
which, incidentally is the fifth book in the
series.
• X is also the name of a fictional supervillain
in the DC Comics world. He is known to have
been not as commanding as the Joker, but
vastly terrifying, hence, the logic to X.

77. Scarecrow

78. Q.23
When Mark Cerasini wrote the book in 1996, he titled it
________ Returns, which was ironic considering this was
the first installment to what was about to perhaps
become one of the greatest names in the world of
fantasy.
Akira Ifukube, who gave us the acoustic requirements for
________ was stunned when she read the book, and
immediately applied for direction of sound in the movie
to be made subsequently.
FITB, which is also Matthew Broderick’s only meaningful
contribution to the world of Hollywood.

79. Godzilla

80. Q.24
• Aldous Huxley is a well known, if somewhat
outspoken author of, among others, Brave New
Worlds.
• In 1954, he authored the Doors of Perception,
an essay about mind space withdrawal, upon
the consumption mescaline, a drug having
effects similar to those of LSD.
• This particular book/essay was back in news in
October 2016, for what particular reason?

81. Stan Lee was holding this book in his
Cameo appearance in Dr. Strange

82. Q.25
(a) An X is a story written as a series of documents. They
can be papers, essays, observations or even diaries. The
most common example would be that of The Diary of Anne
Frank or Diagramma by Galileo.
(b) The Y is an epistolary written in 1996, but set in the
early 1900s, written by Christopher Priest. It is a set of
two diaries of rivals in their fields, being read by their
grandchildren, Kate Angier and Andrew Westley (born
Nicholas Borden) . Misdirection and Scientific foolery are
the key elements to this book, while there is a certain
ebb and flow to the entire theme.
X and Y?

83. X-Epistolary
Y-The Prestige

84. Q.26