1. MELA Quiz
Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017
Research, Presentation & Conducted by
Somnath Chanda
2. Rules
* 25 questions.
* All the questions are 1 pointers. Half-a-point will be clearly
specified by the QM.
* Star-marked questions (Q. 1 & multiples of 5, i.e, 5, 10, 15, 20
& 25) will be counted to break the ties.
* If the tie persists, countback from Q. 1 will be done.
3.
4.
5. The concept/system, greatly influenced by the
gradual fall of the Mughal Empire that forced
talented practisioners of different art-forms to
move out from Delhi, was originated from the
Sanskrit word for house .
What is being talked about?
1
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6. Which Oscar-nominated brothers are played by
Nicolas Cage in the Spike Jonze-directed 2002 movie
’Adaptation’?
2
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7. Sea Venture was a 17th century English sailing ship,
that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609. The Coat
of Arms of Bermuda features a representation of
that incident.
It is widely believed that this shipwreck heavily
influenced which literary creation, thought by
many critics to be the last solo-piece by an author?
3
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9. The first public and international exhibition of the
paintings was organised in Paris in May 1930, at the
Gallerie Pigalle . The painter who started pretty late
had a peculiar colour sense, probably because of red-
green colour blindness.
Who?
4
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12. The Hargrove Couple - John and his wife Rosalea
started Southern Maid Donuts in Dallas, Texas, in
1937. The company became one of the first sponsors
of Louisiana Hayride when it began in the Spring of
1948. Few years later, a 19-year old guitar picker
from Memphis, started playing his guitar at the
Hayride and was quickly introduced to SMD.
Who was this guitarist whose only commercial
endorsement was done for his favorite donut?
5
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13. The then US Ambassador to India, George V. Allen
was the chief guest. Some noted performers
during the proceedings included Talat Mahmood,
Vyjayanthimala, Geeta Dutt, Mohammed Rafi and
Kamini Kaushal. Soulful rendition of Vande
Mataram by Nalini Jaywant brought it to an end.
What is being talked about?
6
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14. The song was originally written for an abandoned
1950s musical adaptation of V.S. Naipaul's novel
A House for Mr. Biswas . It came back into public
attention a few years later in a new avatar.
What?
7
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15. This set of real &
re-imagined
paintings of Marc
Chagall were done
in the context of
which movie
franchise?
8
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17. In The Simpsons Movie, when Green Day made an
appeal for environmental action, they were booed
and pelted with trash. To make matters worse, the
barge they were performing on is corroded by the
polluted waters in Lake Springfield, and started to
sink. As this happened, the band members pull out
violins and start playing Nearer My God To Thee
as the barge sank, killing them all.
This particular sequence is supposedly inspired
from which reallife incident?
9
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18. After turning down the role in a play and two TV
projects, he (vis) finally agreed for an ambitious
movie. He had a harrowing experience while filming.
He was struck by lightning. An actor accidently made
a 14-inch gash in his back during torture scenes. He
dislocated his shoulder carrying the heavy burden,
caught pneumonia and a lung infection, endured cuts,
scrapes and backaches from the entire exercise.
Which role did he play in that movie?
10
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20. One of the richest literary
prizes in the world, it is also the
most prestigious award given
for Spanish-language
literature. The candidates are
proposed by the Royal Spanish
Academy. Some of the past
winners are - Octavio Paz, Mario
Vargas Llosa and Carlos
Fuentes.
Which award is this?
11
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21. Done in a Romano-gothic style, the friezes on the
Crawford Market in Bombay (vis) was one of the
prestigious projects of this person who was
probably not the most famous member of his
family. He had also designed the uniforms and
decorations for the Imperial Assemblage
at Delhi in 1877, organized by the Viceroy of
India, Lord Lytton, at which Queen Victoria was
proclaimed Empress of India.
Who was he?
12
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23. This veena, invented after years of research, was
named by it s inventor after giving emphasis on two
facts - it combines 3 materials (metal, wood and
leather) and produces mixed tone of 3 instruments
(Sarod, Veena and Guitar).
What is it named?
13
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24. Agartala-born Rajinder took admission in FTII to be
an actor. But realising his true potential, he changed
his goal and made his bolly-debut as an editor with
the 1978 Kiran Kumar-starrer Laadli. 11 years later
another turn in his career happened with the Kumar
Gaurav s Jurrat. Currently, his sons are taking the
family-name forward.
How do we better know Rajinder who is wellknown
for his 17-movies association with a leading bolly-
hero?
14
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25. Whose flag was introduced thus, in the issue # 246
of Action Comics?
15
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26. This statue from the
Gandhara Period is
one of the main
exhibits of the Lahore
Museum.
Whose statue is this?
16
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27. Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley
Armstrong stars in this video as Stan's ill-fated
girlfriend.
How is she better known to us?
17
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28. This is a clip from the Raj Kapoor produced 1957 film
– Ab Dilli Door Nahin.
Identify the child actor with a multicolour cap on
his head.
18
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29. Chris Gayle recently
created records playing
for Rangpur Riders in
the BPL. The logo of the
team has an uncanny
resemblance with
someone s signature
symbol.
Whose symbol?
19
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30. The marble slab was cut for an artist named
Agostino di Duccio, who planned to turn it into a
statue of Hercules. He abandoned his plan midway
and it was unused for 10 years until another
sculptor, named Antonio Rossellino, decided to
work with it. Rossellino found marble too difficult
to sculpt and left.
What did that slab ultimately turn into?
20
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31. One of the first productions that resulted from this
project by Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan is this number.
Identify the project which shares it s name with
the utility space for a building located
underground.
21
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32. Located in the Chommel sector, a region in the
galactic Mid-Rim, the Planet X is the third planet of
the X star system. The X system comprises five
planets, namely Moth (Venus type), Erep (Venus
type), X (Earth type), Widow (Mars type) and Storm
(Jupiter type). The planet X has three moons - Ohma
D'un, Rori and Tasia (the only moon to be seen).
What is X?
22
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33. The author who wrote the 1956 screenplay for Moby
Dick, wanted to name one of his novels The
Fireman . But the publishers considered it very
boring and called a local fire station to get some
additional information. The firemen put everyone
on hold while they did something and then reported
back to the publisher. The rest is history.
Which book got it s title thus?
23
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34. 73-year old Tatsuo Horiuchi found his passion in
digital art 13 years ago. This is one of his highly
appreciated artworks.
What does he use to create his masterpieces?
24
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35. Why this peppy number from the group Ottawan
has been featured in today s quiz?
25
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36.
37.
38. The concept/system, greatly influenced by the
gradual fall of the Mughal Empire that forced
talented practisioners of different art-forms to
move out from Delhi, was originated from the
Sanskrit word for house .
What is being talked about?
1
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
40. Which Oscar-nominated brothers are played by
Nicolas Cage in the Spike Jonze-directed 2002 movie
’Adaptation’?
2
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
41. Charlie Kaufman and his
brother, Donald – a fictitional one
2
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42. Sea Venture was a 17th century English sailing ship,
that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609. The Coat
of Arms of Bermuda features a representation of
that incident.
It is widely believed that this shipwreck heavily
influenced which literary creation, thought by
many critics to be the last solo-piece by an author?
3
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
45. The first public and international exhibition of the
paintings was organised in Paris in May 1930, at the
Gallerie Pigalle . The painter who started pretty late
had a peculiar colour sense, probably because of red-
green colour blindness.
Who?
4
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
49. The Hargrove Couple - John and his wife Rosalea
started Southern Maid Donuts in Dallas, Texas, in
1937. The company became one of the first sponsors
of Louisiana Hayride when it began in the Spring of
1948. Few years later, a 19-year old guitar picker
from Memphis, started playing his guitar at the
Hayride and was quickly introduced to SMD.
Who was this guitarist whose only commercial
endorsement was done for his favorite donut?
5
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
51. The then US Ambassador to India, George V. Allen
was the chief guest. Some noted performers
during the proceedings included Talat Mahmood,
Vyjayanthimala, Geeta Dutt, Mohammed Rafi and
Kamini Kaushal. Soulful rendition of Vande
Mataram by Nalini Jaywant brought it to an end.
What is being talked about?
6
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
53. The song was originally written for an abandoned
1950s musical adaptation of V.S. Naipaul's novel
A House for Mr. Biswas . It came back into public
attention a few years later in a new avatar.
What?
7
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
55. This set of real &
re-imagined
paintings of Marc
Chagall were done
in the context of
which movie
franchise?
8
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
58. In The Simpsons Movie, when Green Day made an
appeal for environmental action, they were booed
and pelted with trash. To make matters worse, the
barge they were performing on is corroded by the
polluted waters in Lake Springfield, and started to
sink. As this happened, the band members pull out
violins and start playing Nearer My God To Thee
as the barge sank, killing them all.
This particular sequence is supposedly inspired
from which reallife incident?
9
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59. Sinking of RMS Titanic9
The song NMGTT is believed to be the last song that the band
aboard the RMS Titanic played as the ship was sinking.
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
60. After turning down the role in a play and two TV
projects, he (vis) finally agreed for an ambitious
movie. He had a harrowing experience while filming.
He was struck by lightning. An actor accidently made
a 14-inch gash in his back during torture scenes. He
dislocated his shoulder carrying the heavy burden,
caught pneumonia and a lung infection, endured cuts,
scrapes and backaches from the entire exercise.
Which role did he play in that movie?
10
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
63. One of the richest literary
prizes in the world, it is also the
most prestigious award given
for Spanish-language
literature. The candidates are
proposed by the Royal Spanish
Academy. Some of the past
winners are - Octavio Paz, Mario
Vargas Llosa and Carlos
Fuentes.
Which award is this?
11
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
65. Done in a Romano-gothic style, the friezes on the
Crawford Market in Bombay (vis) was one of the
prestigious projects of this person who was
probably not the most famous member of his
family. He had also designed the uniforms and
decorations for the Imperial Assemblage
at Delhi in 1877, organized by the Viceroy of
India, Lord Lytton, at which Queen Victoria was
proclaimed Empress of India.
Who was he?
12
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
68. This veena, invented after years of research, was
named by it s inventor after giving emphasis on two
facts - it combines 3 materials (metal, wood and
leather) and produces mixed tone of 3 instruments
(Sarod, Veena and Guitar).
What is it named?
13
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
70. Agartala-born Rajinder took admission in FTII to be
an actor. But realising his true potential, he changed
his goal and made his bolly-debut as an editor with
the 1978 Kiran Kumar-starrer Laadli. 11 years later
another turn in his career happened with the Kumar
Gaurav s Jurrat. Currently, his sons are taking the
family-name forward.
How do we better know Rajinder who is wellknown
for his 17-movies association with a leading bolly-
hero?
14
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
74. This statue from the
Gandhara Period is
one of the main
exhibits of the Lahore
Museum.
Whose statue is this?
16
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
76. Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley
Armstrong stars in this video as Stan's ill-fated
girlfriend.
How is she better known to us?
17
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
78. This is a clip from the Raj Kapoor produced 1957 film
– Ab Dilli Door Nahin.
Identify the child actor with a multicolour cap on
his head.
18
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
80. Chris Gayle recently
created records playing
for Rangpur Riders in
the BPL. The logo of the
team has an uncanny
resemblance with
someone s signature
symbol.
Whose symbol?
19
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
82. The marble slab was cut for an artist named
Agostino di Duccio, who planned to turn it into a
statue of Hercules. He abandoned his plan midway
and it was unused for 10 years until another
sculptor, named Antonio Rossellino, decided to
work with it. Rossellino found marble too difficult
to sculpt and left.
What did that slab ultimately turn into?
20
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
84. One of the first productions that resulted from this
project by Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan is this number.
Identify the project which shares it s name with
the utility space for a building located
underground.
21
Questions by SomnathMELA Quiz (Prelims) Inter IIT Cultural Meet - 2017I I
86. Located in the Chommel sector, a region in the
galactic Mid-Rim, the Planet X is the third planet of
the X star system. The X system comprises five
planets, namely Moth (Venus type), Erep (Venus
type), X (Earth type), Widow (Mars type) and Storm
(Jupiter type). The planet X has three moons - Ohma
D'un, Rori and Tasia (the only moon to be seen).
What is X?
22
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88. The author who wrote the 1956 screenplay for Moby
Dick, wanted to name one of his novels The
Fireman . But the publishers considered it very
boring and called a local fire station to get some
additional information. The firemen put everyone
on hold while they did something and then reported
back to the publisher. The rest is history.
Which book got it s title thus?
23
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90. 73-year old Tatsuo Horiuchi found his passion in
digital art 13 years ago. This is one of his highly
appreciated artworks.
What does he use to create his masterpieces?
24
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92. Why this peppy number from the group Ottawan
has been featured in today s quiz?
25
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