Prelims of the MELA quiz set by me and conducted by Mayank Mujumdar

1. M.E.L.A
PRELIMS
YOGARSHI VYAS
FEAT. MAYANK MUJUMDAR

2. About the QM
• Pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
from IIT KGP.
• Completed schooling from St. Xavier‟s Loyola Hall.
• Passionate quizzer, likes tinkering with code, voracious
reader, country music fan, graphic novel
enthusiast, appreciates classic European cinema and has
fallen in love with Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at
Tiffany‟s over and over again.
Just so you know what to expect.

3. RULES
1. Mention your team details on the answer sheet.
2. 25 questions -1 point for each correct answer.
3. Q16-25 will be used to resolve ties.
4. Answer as clearly and legibly as possible.
5. Top 6 teams to compete in the finals.
6. No animals were harmed in making of this quiz.
7. The same cannot be predicted for the proceedings that follow.

4. 1.
Whose name is missing from this lineup?
• Atul Mittal on acoustic guitar, clarinet & backing vocals
• Kem Trivedi on keyboard
• Kenny Puri on drums
• __________ on lead vocals and guitar

5. Mohit Chauhan

6. 2.
What game is being
played here ?

7. Game of Thrones

8. 3.
• 22 April 1955 – 1,000th performance
• 9 December 1964 – 5,000th performance
• 17 December 1976 – 10,000th performance
• 16 December 2000 – 20,000th performance
• 25 November 2002 – 50th anniversary;
• 18 November 2012 – 25,000th performance
• Milestones in the history of what?

9. The Mousetrap

10. 4.
The titles "Changing Seasons", "Grand Tour" and “Till Death For Glory”
were used to ship reels of the installments of which movie series to prevent
any leaks?

11. Lord of the Rings trilogy

12. 5.
This song was written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 and was one of the
22 protest songs written during the Swadeshi period of Indian freedom
movement.
Along with “Amar Sonar Bangla”, it became one of the key anthems of the
Anti-Partition Movement in Bengal Presidency in 1905 and was first
recorded by Tagore himself around that time.
Which song ?

13. Ekla Cholo Re

14. 6.
Bob Saget is an American stand-up comedian, actor and television host
who is known for his family-friendly roles as Danny Tanner in Full
House and the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos. He is
also known for his very vulgar stand-up routines.
However, he is now known for lending his voice in a production since
2005.
Where would you have heard Bob Saget?

15. How I Met Your Mother
Future Ted Mosby

16. 7.
What Persian phrase used to ward off the evil eye in Iran, Pakistan and
some parts of north India is the title of an upcoming Hindi movie that is a
remake of a 1981 comedy of the same name?

17. Chasm-e-Baddoor

18. 8.
__________ is a German 2004 war film depicting the final 10 days
of Adolf Hitler's reign of Nazi Germany in 1945 that was widely acclaimed
and received tonnes of awards and nominations including the Academy
Nomination for the Best Foreign Film.
It has, however, been popularized and entered public consciousness due
to a viral internet phenomenon.
What movie?

19. Der Untergang
Downfall

20. 9.
What annual event, directed by Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple
and held in January at the Diggi Palace Hotel, was an initiative of the
Jaipur Virasat Foundation?

21. Jaipur Lit Fest

22. 10.
According to the urbandictionary, this social, political and economic doctrine is based
on the writing of a Scottish whisky distiller, expressing the conviction that the journey
of life can be enjoyed without giving up on the achieving of success.
A popular TV show has not only incorporated his surname into its title, but is also
inspired by the same philosophy - celebrating the spirit of driven individuals and their
conviction to pursue their passion blindly. It brings together (individuals) who have
embodied this spirit and followed their passions, and are now themselves a story of
inspiration to the others.
What is the last name of the aforementioned distiller?

23. Dewar

24. 11.
The ________ Period was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement
that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most
areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840.
Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it was also a revolt against the
scientific rationalization of nature. This movement emphasized everything
the previous age had not: feelings, emotions – the heart over the head –
mysticism and instinct, natural man over civilized man and so on.
What was this period called?

25. Romantic Period

26. 12.
A parody of a famous painting is being shown. Who was the original artist?

27. Rene Magritte

28. 13.
Which couple owns this production house?

29. Farah Khan & Shirish Kunder

30. 14.
______________ is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American speculative fiction
author Richard Matheson which was influential in the development of the zombie
genre and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse. The novel was a
success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega
Man (starring Charleton Heston) in 1971, and as another movie sharing the same title
as the novel in 2007.
What is the title of this book?

31. I Am Legend

32. 15.
In a Cracked.com article titled “Method acting – Is it worth
it?”, there were 4 levels of method acting described, depending
on the effort put in by the actors for preparation of a role. These
were:
• Some actors take their jobs really seriously.
• Some actors take it beyond that.
• Way, way beyond that.
• We're looking at you, ______ _______
FITB with the name of a person, famous (and notorious) for
taking his roles very seriously.

33. Daniel Day-Lewis

34. *16. What has been blanked out
from the second panel?

35. Otto Octavius
becoming the Superior Spiderman

36. *17.
Programmer Keith Shepherd gave up his job as developer of health-care
software sometime in 2008 to start his one-man game studio out of his
apartment.
The earliest releases of this company were a pair of well-reviewed word
puzzle games, followed by a game called Little Red Sled, in which
players tilt their phones to steer a sled down a series of snowy hills.
Name the company and what is its most famous product?
[No part points]

37. Imangi Studios
Temple Run

38. *18.
Operation Rügen was an raid carried out by the German and
Italian Air Forces on the Spanish town of X, which was said to be
the spiritual capital as well as the center of the Basque movement.
The bombing led to hundreds of civilian casualties and
international outrage.
At the time, Y was working on a mural for the Paris Exhibition to
be held in the summer of 1937, commissioned by the Spanish
Republican government. He deserted his original idea and on 1
May 1937 inspired by the bombings, began work on X.
Simply, what is X and who is Y? [no part points]

39. Guernica by Picasso

40. *19.
Zamzar is a web application to convert files from one format to another,
that allows user to convert files without downloading any, and supports
over 1,000 different conversion types.
From which literary character‟s surname, who can tell us a thing or two
about „conversion‟, is the name Zamzar take?
[0.5 points for the work in which he appears]

41. Gregor Samsa

42. *20.
This song from the soundtrack of the movie Gulaal has been inspired by
another song from a 1957 Indian classic.
Name the song and film in question [no part points].
<Audio removed (Duniya from Gulaal) >

43. „Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaaye‟ -Pyaasa

44. *21.
„Tarantula‟ is an experimental novel written in and around 1965-66 containing prose
and poetry and adapting the stream-of-consciousness style of writing in the style of the
Beat Generation of poets. It begins thus :
Guns, the Falcon‟s Mouthbook & Gashcat Unpunished:
Aretha/Crystal jukebox queen of hymn & him diffused in drunk transfusion wound
would heed sweet soundwave crippled & cry salute to oh great particular el dorado
reel and ye battered personal god but she cannot she the leader of whom when ye
follow, she cannot she has no back she cannot….
In 2003 Spin magazine did an article called the "Top Five Unintelligible Sentences
from Books Written by Rock Stars."
Who is the author, who came in first place with this line from Tarantula, "Now's not
the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns.”?

45. Bob Dylan

46. *22.
Which classic work of literature has inspired this commercial?
<video removed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9rYqm6CQPM >

47. Moby Dick

48. *23.
“He‟s being a pig. I mean, he‟s collecting the two franchises and holding them close
to his vest and he‟s probably the most talented director of that ilk we have, but he‟s
gone too far this time. I think of him as a buddy of mine, I‟ve taken him out for sushi.
It‟s time for (him) and I to have another sushi, and let me put him straight about two
of the largest franchises, and not employing me in either one of them is just
foolhardy.”
Against whom was this rant by William Shatner directed and why?

49. J. J. Abrams
Star Trek & Star Wars

50. *24.
Ethan Zuckerman is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist. To
simplify complicated concepts to the general public, he has proposed the usage of
names of celebrities as units to explain such phenomena.
Zuckerman said that he based the unit of attention on this celebrity since it only
mentions how much attention is paid, not how much attention is deserved and
so, naming the unit after someone who is famous for being famous seems
appropriate.
Who is this unit named after?

51. Kim Kardashian

52. *25.
Who‟s voice?
<Audio Removed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFGiiht0tk>

53. Hugh Laurie