YES THEORY INDIA presents MELA Quiz (Boredom Buster 1.0)

MELA Quiz
QMs -
Tushar Agrawal
Samarth Varshney
Music, Entertainment, Literature, Art
Associated with -
YESTHEORY INDIA

PRELIMS
● 12 questions to be answered in a written format.
● Note down your answers for the questions, and at the end of the
prelims DM the answers in a single message to the QM.
● 12 participants with the highest no. of correct answers will proceed for
the MAINS.
● In case of a tie, sudden death rule will apply i.e. the participant with the
first wrong answer while evaluating the answers serially will be
eliminated.

Sample Question
The Director of this film was having a hard time of a realistic enough
portrayal of this villian X. The problem was solved when the director
brought a book of Francis Bacon’s art to the set (images follow). A
concerted effort was made to incorporate Bacon’s distortions and mixtures
of colour into the villian’s representation, ‘letting it have a kind of slightly
worn-through quality’.He also talks about the artist’s use of dark spaces in
his art, and how this relates to his filmmaking -
“I quite like the paradoxical nature of it. The more he removes, the less he
tells you really about what’s out there, the more I find myself thinking about
what’s in that dark space behind.” ID the character X.

Some of the paintings from the set

1
‘Izzat’ is a 1968 Bollywood movie which among others had Dharmendra
playing a double role. This movie saw the Bollywood debut of the actress
shown here. Which actress?

2
_______ ____ is a family based British sitcom on the BBC, dealing with the
trials and tribulations of one Pakistani Muslim, Mr. Khan, quite well settled
down in East Birmingham with his family.
What is the title of the sitcom, a pun on a classic American movie?

3
In 1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing The Tonight Show
reruns on the weekends. He wanted to save those reruns for the extra
vacation days he was planning to take during weekdays. NBC wanted to fill
those weekend slots so they hired Lorne Michaels to develop a show X.
ID X.

4
In January of this year, an EDM song by Emo G Records has hit the Top 10
on SoundCloud charts. The solo producer of the song once again is in the
news due to his second ever song release after ‘RIP Harambe’. At the
time of writing it has racked up 2.77 million plays and spawned remixes
from artists as notable as Netsky. Due to this success the net has been
obsessed with “EDM”. Name the song and the famous personality.

5
The X, a DC character, was a vampire created to help a white-supremacy
group eliminate non-whites. His name is a word play on a rather important
component of his diet. ID X.

7
Guess the movie (+2 for each correct)

8
X set a record on 7 November 2004, when B.P. Singh entered the Lima
Book of World Records and Guinness Book of World Records for Filming
the entire episode named “The Inheritance”/X 111 in a single shot of 111
minutes without a single cut. The episode was shot from 6.30PM IST to
8.20PM IST on 8 October 2004 at Lonavala in Mumbai, and was telecasted
on Sunday, 7 November 2004, without a break from 8PM IST to 10PM IST.
ID X.

10
The genius of this piece is its representation of pictures of an adult
situations within childlike settings. It tells the story of Cry Baby feeling like
she’s nothing more than a friend to someone who seems to care very little
about her, even though they get together quite often.
This makes the protagonist of the piece call herself a X, because she
believes that is all she is to her ‘friend’.
What’s X?

11
This is the Pangong Tso Lake (image follows), recently in the news due to
the India-China border disputes. However, this lake is also a popular
shooting location for various Hindi Entertainment Industry like Jab Tak Hai
Jaan and Dil Se. But the most popular one is a 2009 hit. Name the movie.

12
Robert Norman, born in 1942, a painter and television personality who was
popular on a PBS television show due to his scenic painting style. After
serving in the US Air Force, he popularized the wet-on-wet style oil
painting which was a quick style to paint the Alaskan landscapes where he
first started painting. He is better known as X, being projected as a
loveable hippie persona, unique hair and a soothing and intimate voice.

5
The X was a vampire created to help a white-supremacy group eliminate
non-whites. His name is a word play on a rather important component of
his diet. ID X.

8
X set a record on 7 November 2004, when B.P. Singh entered the Lima
Book of World Records and Guinness Book of World Records for Filming
the entire episode named “The Inheritance”/X 111 in a single shot of 111
minutes without a single cut. The episode was shot from 6.30PM IST to
8.20PM IST on 8 October 2004 at Lonavala in Mumbai, and was
telecasted on Sunday, 7 November 2004, without a break from 8PM IST to
10PM IST. ID X.

Answer
Blackout Tuesday/ Black Lives Matter Movement

10
The genius of this 2015 music piece is its representation of pictures of an
adult situations within childlike settings. It tells the story of Cry Baby feeling
like she’s nothing more than a friend to someone who seems to care very
little about her, even though they get together quite often.
This makes the protagonist of the piece call herself a X, because she
believes that is all she is to her ‘friend’.
What’s X?

Answer
Melanie Martinez - Play Date

Answer
3 Idiots - Reunion Scene

MAINS
● 24 questions based on Bounce/Pounce format.
● Bounce >> +10/0, Pounce >> +10/-5

Question 1
‘Washington crossing the Delaware’ is a sonnet written by American
lexicographer and cryptographer David Shulman in 1936, based on the
painting. What is unique about this sonnet?

Answer:
It is an Anagrammatic sonnet. Each line is an anagram of ‘Washington
crossing the Delaware.’

Question 2
The character of X in the novel Y was based on Z. Like X, Z mysteriously
got a role in the film ‘From here to Eternity’ and then won an Oscar for it
too which revived his career. Just the year before he had claimed that his
vocal cords had become hemorrhaged, similarly X complains of “his voice
becoming weak”. Many other similarities were also noted. Identify X, Y and
Z.

Answer:
X-Johnny Fontaine
Y-The Godfather
Z-Frank Sinatra

Question 3
Before the death of this famous singer due to heart attack, he played a role
of scientist X in the 2006 film Y. Person X is also played by John. C. Reilly
in the show Drunk History Vol. 6.
The entrance of the singer in the movie as X is a spectacle and is
considered as a “rockstar entrance”. Give the singer name and the scientist
X.

Answer
David Bowie
X - Nikola Tesla in The Prestige

Question 4
William Brodie was a Scottish cabinet-maker, president of a trades guild
and Edinburgh’s city councillor. He maintained a secret life as a thief in the
18th century.
By day, Brodie was a respectable cabinet-maker and his work was to install
and repair locks. At night, however, he became a housebreaker. He used
his daytime work as a way to gain knowledge about the security
mechanisms of his customer’s houses and to copy their keys using wax
impressions. As the best locksmith in the city, he worked at the richest
houses in Edinburgh. He used the stolen money to maintain his second life,
which included a gambling habit and 5 children from 2 mistresses.
The plot of which famous novel was inspired by William Brodie?

Answer:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Question 5
Lata Mangeshkar had the following to say of the English band, X:
“People say that the X are a fad. But I don’t think so...If you listen to the X
properly you get a feel of old Roman music. Sometimes, you get a feel of
Indian music, sometimes you get a feel of Assamese folk songs. On the
face value you may feel it as a bad thing but, no, there is inner soul to the X
music. Moreover, they are more experimental.
ID X.

Question 6
Claudius was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy. Because he
was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a young
age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office until his
consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula.
Caligula was an emperor who once said “Let them hate me as long as they
fear me”. He was assassinated and Claudius was said to have had a hand
in the assassination.
Which two fictional characters did this duo inspire?

Answer:
Tyrion Lannister and Joffrey Baratheon

Question 7
For most of history, X in a painting or photo was considered radical, and
even Mark Twain once wrote, “A photograph is a most important
document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than
a silly, foolish X caught and fixed forever.”
The absence of X can be evidently seen in the photos and paintings of the
past.
This has obviously changed over the years as X is considered to be an
important element of a photo and is appreciated by the capturer in present
day. X?

Question 8
X is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, loved and
appreciated by his fans worldwide. The creator of X, Y, hated him though. Y
considered X to be a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep”
In the essay “Why I got fed up with X”, Y wrote that “be very careful what
central character you create – you may have him with you for a very long time!”
Y hated X so much that he/she wanted to kill X at any cost and hence when
he/she thought that he/she won’t survive the World War II, Y included the
death story of X in his/her will. Luckily Y survived and the death story was
published 30 years later.
ID X&Y

Answer:
X-Hercule Poirot
Y-Agatha Christie

Question 9
X is a song by the British punk rock band Y. It was released as a single
from the band's 1979 double album X. This apocalyptic, politically charged
rant features the band's post-punk sound, electric guitar and vocals.
X was named after a phrase used in a BBC show during WWII:
"Good morning America, this is X"
ID X.

Question 10
A and C, apart from being two of the greatest songs ever written also share a
very important connection.They were both recorded on the same piano.
D used the same century old Bechstein Grand piano to record C as B did
seven years earlier for A. Both songs were recorded at Trident Studios in
London’s Soho sector.
A evolved from a ballad that B wrote for the son of his fellow band member.
C, in the words of a fellow band member of D is “a fairly self-explanatory song
with a bit of nonsense in the middle.”
ID A&C.

Answer:
A-Hey Jude
C-Bohemian Rhapsody

Question 11
In 2019, X, not particularly known for his writing, released the first volume
of a children’s fantasy book series, The Wizenards, published through his
multimedia content company Granity Studios including his autobiography,
The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, in 2018. Most recently, X was working with
Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho, author of the book The Alchemist on a new
children’s book aimed at inspiring underprivileged children to overcome
adversity. However, soon after an infamous incident, Coelho deleted the
draft they were working on saying that it didn’t make sense anymore,for
obvious reasons.
Identify X and the reason that Coelho deleted the draft.

Answer:
X- Kobe Bryant and the draft was deleted because of his death

Question 12
This Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film X inspired a film and music festival which
originated in 1987 in Austin, Texas by the title Y, a wordplay on X. For the
first time ever, the 2020 event was cancelled as a result of local health
concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Give X and Y.

Answer:
X - North By Northwest
Y - SXSW (South By Southwest)

Question 13
X tried a number of stage costumes, such as Spider-Man, Zorro, a gorilla
and a parody of Superman, named Super-Ang, before setting on his
signature Y at the suggestion of his sister.
To match this image the press and public were told that X wa born in 1959
and not in 1955. The original uniform was created by his sister Margaret
and when it fell apart from wear and tear, he used his uniform from an
institute.
Later Y was also the preferred costume of the group and protagonist of a
cult 2003 movie as a tribute to X.

Answer:
X-Angus Young
Y- School Boy Costume

Question 14
The reason for picking X in a popular Netflix Crime show poster instead of his
contemporaries is primarily because X here used as a symbol for his political
presence rather than his exceptional skills in his own field.
X is arguably the most important figure of the surrealist movement in the
earliest in the early 20th century; although the movement is typically
associated with France, X was Spanish and spent a significant portion of his life
living in Spain. X’s surrealist work has made him a symbol for revolution, which
was the primary reason for choosing him here.
Also X’s iconic facial features made him an easy choice.
Who’s X, and what choice is being talked about?

Answer:
Salvador Dali
Dali Mask/Moustache

Question 15
The BBAs are a series of ‘negative prizes’ which recognize“government
and private sector organizations which have done the most to threaten
personal privacy”. They are intended to draw public attention to privacy
issues and given yearly to authorities, companies, organizations, and
persons that have been acting consistently to threaten or violate people’s
privacy, or disclosed personal data to third parties.
The first annual United States BBAs were made in Washington in 1999, on
the 50th anniversary of something which influenced the naming of the
prizes.
Expand BBA.

Question 16
Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s 2016 visit to this
controversial war memorial, Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese
Ambassador to the UK wrote an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph that Abe is
trying to whitewash Japan’s wartime history in order to to restore Japan
into an aggressive military power in the region :
“If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo
is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul.”
The Ambassador seems to be hoping that a hometown “Harry Potter”
appeal will make the UK an ally in an increasingly contentious diplomatic
tussle between China and Japan. ID X & Y.

Answer:
X - Voldemort
Y - Horcrux

Question 17
“You haven’t Done Nothing” is a 1974 funk single by Stevie Wonder.
It was one of his angriest political statements and was aimed squarely at X,
who resigned two days after the record’s release.
The B-side “Big Brother”, also a political statement, was taken from
Wonder’s earlier album, Talking Book.
ID X.

Question 18
Camembert is a type of soft, creamy cheese, made from the cow’s milk and
primarily produced in Normandy.
About which famous 20th century painting, its painter once said that it was
inspired by, “the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the sun”.
(Image follows)

Answer:
The persistence of memory by Salvador Dali

Question 19
X, a science fiction author, devised three laws of Y in his 1950 collection Z.
Y words has its origin from Czech meaning “forced labor, compulsory
service, drudgery". However, philosophers detected some major loopholes
in the foundation of the laws. These laws and loopholes were exploited in
the 2004 movie Z. Id X, Y and Z.

Question 20
Raghava Yadaviyam (Ram Krishna) by Venkatadhvari, written in the 17th
century is an anulom-vilom kavya (backward and forward poetry). It
showcases ‘the encryption capabilities of Sanskrit’ and the verbal
ingenuities of the poet’. Only 30 slokas long, it is a short work, but is a very
noteworthy work. Why?

Answer:
Read forward, it’s the story of Ram. Backward, it’s Krishna’s story.

Question 21
About Signora Gherardini’s life, little is known and much is speculated.
Married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local
official, she was mother to five children.
Not long after childbirth in the year 1503, she undertook an “arduous task”
at the will of her husband.
After his death, Gherardini became a nun. She died in 1542 at the age of
63 and was said to be buried near the Sant'Orsola convent altar. How do
we better know Signora Gherardini?

Question 22
A Subtlety (also known as the Marvelous _____ Baby) is a 2014 installation by
Kara Walker at the defunct Domino Refinery in Brooklyn. Its central piece is a
white sculpture depicting a woman with African features in the shape of a
sphinx, 75 ft long and 35 ft high, and was constructed from 330 polystyrene
blocks covered in nearly 40 tons of _____ donated by Domino, a substance so
precious that it was used to justify the human slave trade in the 17th through
19th centuries. Ms. Walker has written: “_____ crystallizes something in our
American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of
becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of
energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.” What is the
material which coats the sphinx? (Image follows)

Question 23
This is Kolmanskop (image follows), a ghost town in southern Africa’s Namib
Desert, in the middle of a region known as “the forbidden zone.” Hordes of
prospectors descended on the area on the discovery of diamonds. By 1912, a
town had sprung up, producing a million carats a year, or 11.7 percent of the
world’s total diamond production. Soon, the town was abandoned due to
intensive mining and people shifting to other diamond fields.
In 2002, a local private company called Ghost Town Tours was awarded the
concession to manage Kolmanskop as a tourist attraction, bussing visitors into
the forbidden zone to explore and photograph the sand-covered ruins. This
inspired a cover and the name of a recently released music album (indicating
the descent of opportunists and abandonment of town soon in 1930s). ID.

Answer:
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

Question 24
Among the many parodies (Images follow) of a Pulp Fiction scene, the
Minions version perhaps best reflects a modification applied in Banksy’s
take on the scene. This modification was made as the scene was deemed
too violent for the streets and as having an augmenting influence on crime
rates. What modification are we talking about?

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