M.E.L.A.S QUIZ FINALSResearched and Conducted by

Dr. Aakash Roy

Rounds

48 Questions

Written (6)

Clockwise (18)

Theme (6)

Anti-Clockwise (18)

Myth Busted

6 Visuals.

5 Points each.

+10/-5 if you are Staking your answer.

1 Which club, not to be confused with a soft drink enterprise ,gets its name from this gentleman ?

2Who is this Pulitzer winner ?

3Who is this man from fiction ?

4 Who is this air force pilot with his distinctive bowling action ?

5Whose bust at Hedua Park in Kolkata ?

6Whose statue is being unveiled ?

1 Which club, not to be confused with a soft drink enterprise ,gets its name from this gentleman ?

Colo Colo

2Who is this Pulitzer winner for criticism ?

Roger Ebert

3Who is this valet ?

Sancho Panza

4 Who is this air force pilot with his distinctive bowling action ?

Keith Miller

5Whose bust at Hedua Park in Kolkata ?

Gobor Guha

6Whose statue is being unveiled ?

Rajesh Khanna

Clockwise

18 Questions clockwise.

Infinite Bounce with Infinite Pounce.

+10/-10 on Pounce.

+10 on Bounce.

Question does not come back to a team if it goes unanswered.

1 In 1997, this band decided to tour the war

torn Bosnia & Herzegovinia, and true to expectations performed a 1995 hit single along with Luciano Pavarotti singing the interlude Opera portions of the song.

A documentary was made in 1999 to showcase this iconic concert which is an wordplay on the name of the original song.

What are the song and the documentary ?

Miss Sarajevo, Missing Sarajevo

2 Swedish high jumper Emma Green Tregaro, who won

a bronze medal at the 2005 worlds, and sprinter Mao Hjelmer took a stand against homophobia during their events at Luzhniki Stadium at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

Someone in news now, criticised this by saying “If we allow to promote and do all this stuff on the street, we are very afraid about our nation because we consider ourselves like normal, standard people…”

Who is the speaker and What unique way to protest was chosen by the Swedes ?

Yelena Isinbayeva, Painted their nails in rainbow colours

3 The lady about to

embrace her Best man is a certain Jennifer Lowe, a dairymaid from United Kingdom who was a bookie’s favourite to win.

Which dark horse caused an upset ?

Reita Faria

4 “If you see the replays of all the leg before

decisions that I gave, you will see that I have not committed any mistake. The only mistake that I made in this match, was when I did not give Jason Gillespie out on the morning of the second day of the Test….”

This was someone’s defence when enquired about his hand in creating a certain “first” in that test match.

Which bespectacled gentleman and Which “first” is being referenced ?

S.K. Bansal, First Indian Test Hattrick

5 The Fall is a 2016 docu -

drama featuring these two ladies. One of them was involved in a doping scandal, while another has a cult following in

her home country, although she chooses to live in South Carolina,

USA.

Who are they or What was their contribution to one of 20th centuries top 100 sporting moments ?

Mary Decker, Zola Budd, 1984 Olympics 3000 meter final

6 _______ _______ is a song written and composed by two

legends of two neighbouring countries respectively.

X, a cancer survivor made waves, when she appeared in a 1996 music video featuring this song and hence till last year could rest her claim to being

the “_______ girl”.

However, since last year, Y is being proclaimed as the “_______ girl” after she too performed the song along with the nephew of the original composer in a

TV show.

FITB and Identify both X and Y.

Aafreen, Lisa Ray, Momina Mustehasn

7 “On a June day in 1969 a very large man stood

outside Northampton general hospital to pose for photographers. He was wearing jacket and tie,

dark glasses and an eyepatch, and a broad grin. He also had a nurse on each arm; they too were

laughing delightedly.”

This is an excerpt from “The Guardian” previewing a play “When the eye has gone”

which held its first show at the Northamptonshire County ground, earlier in November, this year.

Who is the subject of the play ?

Colin Milburn

8  The play is a farce based on the real-life events

surrounding Italian railwayman and anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell – or was thrown – to his death from the fourth floor window of a Milan police station in 1969. Pinelli was accused of bombing a bank (the Piazza Fontana bombing) but was cleared of the charge.(Poster next slide)

The playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 and has been known for his anti-fascist stands.

What is the name of the play ?

8

Accidental Death of An Anarchist

9 A nomadic artist, a lifelong solitary of

homosexual inclinations, the one-time art master to Queen Victoria, he burst on to the literary scene in 1846 with A Book of Nonsense, a collection of some 115 limericks.

A philanthropist, scholar and playwright his most famous work was a Bengali translation of Mahabharata.

How can a certain creature connect the two eccentric minds of the 19th Century ?

Owl – The Owl and the Pussycat & Hutom Pyachar Naksha

10 Shikari was a 1963 B-grade Bollywood film

starring Ajit, K.N. Singh and Madan Puri, directed by Mohammed Husain.

Singh was the mad scientist Cyclops, who created X , Puri was the nasty businessman who wanted to commercially exploit X, Ajit played the dashing hunter who helped the team capture X while falling in love with Ragini, a circus owner’s daughter.

Identify X and his more popular American cousin.

10

Otango, King Kong

11 Isaak Brodsky paints a shock-

worker, as these super-strong labourers were known, half-naked and raised up on scaffolding against the night sky similar to the antics of another individual 400 years ago and hence has been attributed as A Muscovite ________.

FITB to give me the name of the painting.

11

A Muscovite Michelangelo

12 Niranjan Pattnaik ,Odisha Pradesh Congress

Committee president said Samabalpuri music has its unique flavour and charm, which should not be distorted for commercial reasons.

“I am not against artistic freedom and quite see the need to strike a chord with the new generation so that they begin to appreciate Odisha’s folk culture and popular music.”

Which cocktail served by the two artists on the following slide earned the ire of Mr. Pattnaik?

12

Rangabati mixed with Vande Utkal Janani

13 The Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific

Institutions and Historic Monuments  is an inter-American treaty. The most important idea is the legal recognition that the defence of cultural objects is more important than the use or destruction of that culture for military purposes.

 To identify the objects that are in need of protection – the Banner of Peace was designed and this remains the first international treaty signed inside the Oval office.

Who, with a significant Indian marital connection is it named after ?

13

Roerich Pact

14

The nickname of Columbian National women Football team is Las Chicas Superpoderosas.

The English translation of this name should bring back fond memories of every 90s kid regarding something which was based out of the US city of Townsville.

Why ?

The Powepuff Girls

15 “Koodal” is a Tamil word which means a meeting

point, the union, an assembly of images says the typewritten screen card from the directorial debut of an iconic figure.

Its title appears, first in Tamil script then in English letters, spelled out in tall, stylized white blocks jammed close and crowded. Looming just behind is the deep black eye of a bull, its pupil reflecting a hot bulb on the wet stones of a charnel-house floor.

Who is the director of this 1970 documentary ?

Tyeb Mehta

16 The memorial on the next slide is

located at Phulia of Nadia district of West Bengal to celebrate a famous son of this place.

How can you connect this memorial with a July 1953 venture by X, Ananda Bagchi and Dipak Majumdar ?

Identify X .

16

Krittibas Magazine , Sunil Ganguly

17 This Virgin Comics adaptation

was a brainchild of Shekhar Kapoor and Deepak Chopra, and is based at a fictional place in 3392 AD post the 3rd nuclear war.

The city council sends the four sons of the ruler to various outposts of the kingdom to provide assistance.

What is the blanked out word in the poster ?

Ramayan Reloaded

18 The 160-yard track was considered the fastest in

the USA, as X would himself later concur. The air was thick with cigar smoke but X only found that invigorating.

The promoters had devised a re-run of X’s famous exploit from the previous Olympics where he won the 1500m and 5000m within the space of two hours. Here X would run two races, one mile and 5000m, inside an hour, ending up winning both, setting world records.

Who is X and What was the venue for the “X” Mile as it came to be known in later years ?

Paavo Nurmi, Madison Square Garden

Thematic

6 Questions.

5 points each.

10 bonus on a full house.

Points for cracking the theme are mentioned on the respective slides.

1 +30/-25

Tov Kronsteen, is a villain from the Bond franchise, who makes his appearance in “From Russia with Love”. Apart from being the chief strategist of SPECTRE he holds an unique distinction amongst all Bond villains.

What ?

2 +25/-20

In this book, Alice follows a certain trail as she meets the various characters. Ultimately, at the end of the Eighth chapter she becomes a Queen.

What was unique about Alice’s journey in this book ?

3 +20/-15What iconic movie sequence featured these two gentlemen ?

4 +15/-10Identify the Painter

5 +15/-10

_____ _______ is a computer that was created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent species of beings (whose three-dimensional protrusions into our universe are ordinary white mice) to come up with the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

What did it inspire in the 1980s ?

6 +10/-5Whose voice ?

1 Tov Kronsteen, is a

villain from the Bond franchise, who makes his appearance in “From Russia with Love”. Apart from being the chief strategist of SPECTRE he holds an unique distinction amongst all Bond villains.

What ?

Chess Grandmaster

2 In this book, Alice follows

a certain trail as she meets the various characters. Ultimately, at the end of the Eighth chapter she becomes a Queen.

What was unique about Alice’s journey in this book ?

Alice was a pawn, entire book was set as a game of chess

3What iconic movie sequence featured these two gentlemen ?

Chess Match with Death in ‘The Seventh Seal’

4Identify the Painter

Marcel Duchamp's Chess Players

5

_____ _______ is a computer that was created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent species of beings (whose three-dimensional protrusions into our universe are ordinary white mice) to come up with the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

What did it inspire in the 1980s ?

Super Computer Deep Thought by IBM that took on Kasparov

6Whose voice ?

Birju Maharaj from ‘Shatranj ki khildai’

Anti-Clockwise

18 Questions Anti-clockwise.

Infinite Bounce with Infinite Pounce.

+10/-10 on Pounce.

+10 on Bounce.

Question does not come back to a team if it goes unanswered.

19 Swingers and swappers,

strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in this legendary exposé of the diseased underbelly of '60s American society.

How did this book cement its place in popular culture ?

The Velvet Underground Band got its name from the title

20 A 13th century Peruvian mummy was brought to

Belgium as a part of a collection of artefacts by Baron Jean Baptiste de Terloo during a journey to Lima in 1840. It is now being preserved in the Museum of Ancient Art in Brussels.

In December 1999, a study regarding the medical imaging of this mummy was published in The Lancet. The researchers said that the difficulty in imaging procedures was due to the foetal position of the mummy.

By What name was this mummy popularised and How?

20

Rascah Capac of Tintin stories

21 The gentleman on the left is

a farmer in his native village of Khanal Khurd in Sangrur.  He gave up a promising career due to lack of state backing and like many Indian dreams, his too was nipped in the bud.

However he can stake his claim as the only Indian to have done something.

What ?

Only Indian to fightMuhammad Ali

22 A football tournament, started in 2005 in Khaniyara,

about 7 km from Dharamsala town in Himachal Pradesh was named after this King George VI Medal awardee of 1937.

However, the local Gorkha community rue that political leaders and government officials come to the village to inaugurate the event, but have never done anything noteworthy in recognition of this individual.

Who is he and What was his seditious contribution to the nation ?

Captain Ram Singh Thakuri, Qadam Qadam Baraye Jaa

23 The sculpture titled

“Esmeralda and her Goat, Djali” depicts a character from a 19th century literary classic.

Which book and How can she be linked to a notorious event in Kolkata a few days ago?

The Hunchback of Notre Dam, She was abducted as a baby by the Gypsies

24Who will make this list exhaustive and How ?

24

Under the Southern Cross I Stand Singers, Nathan Lyon

25 Recently, social groups like Swachh

Pune-Swachh Bharat and Let’s Rise participated in an initiative carrying buckets of colour and brushes and could be seen painting the walls of the RTO building and within few hours, the paan -stained walls of the building could be seen carrying beautiful _______paintings.

FITB

25

Warli Paintings

26 The French press faced a problem when the then President of a

particular nation visited France in 2000.

Catherine Clement, a personal friend of the individual said in his defence, that the French people only understand two words, pariah and __________.Pariah is far worse and has practically disappeared from ordinary usage. _________is the only word the French public understands today. Nobody knows the word X. In fact, X in a French paper would be confused with an alcohol.

The title of the main article "An ________at Elysee" shocked many.

FITB with the name of a 1935 book and Identify the President.

Untouchable,K.R.Narayanan

27 This song, developed for a minstrel show to

project black people in poor light as a source of humour, was composed in the beats of Polka, the Czech dance form that made its way into Americas in the 19th century.

However the opening verse itself mentions a stringed musical instrument (picture next slide) carried by the singer , and hence has been traditionally performed with that class of instruments.

Which song ?

27

Oh Susanna !

28 Jessie Knight stood no taller than 1.2m.(4 feet). She

shot her abusive husband but he did not die, because Jessie a former circus sharp shooter ,hadn’t aimed for murder but revenge, for kicking her beloved dog down the stairs.

An exhibition last week in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall put up a few artworks of this feisty woman on display.

What first as a woman was attributed to her by The Guardian in an article titled ‘Life at the Sharp end’ ?

28

First Female Tattoo artist

29

Which two powerhouse actresses played the roles of Manu and Abha, (picture next slide) Gandhi’s nieces who were on either side of him during his assassination, in Attenborough’s “Gandhi” ?

29

Neena Gupta, Supriya Pathak

30 The story begins in an obscure Augustinian

abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s.

What is the apt title of this thought provoking novel by an author, whose debut novel won the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction category ?

The Gene

31 This structure was

modelled on the gateways of Istanbul or Constantinople.

That way, it has derived its current name and has no relation with the best selling poet in the US according to a BBC survey in 2014.

What is the name of this structure ?

Rumi Darwaza, Lucknow

32 In an early 90s movie, a billionaire is shown putting

a bet that his lady luck would surely enjoy their first sex on a ship called “Gryphon” owned by him.

He insists that he cannot lose the bet. Subsequently, he does something which has huge resemblance

to a key plot point of a 1975 Bolly movie.

The lead pair of a 1997 Bollywood movie was shown watching this 90s movie on TV in a hotel room.

Which movie and What did the billionaire do ?

Indecent Proposal, Tossing a coin with identical faces

33 Doug Adler, a former Aussie Tennis player was

suspended by US broadcaster ESPN due to a remark he made during Venus Williams’ third

round encounter with Stephanie Vogel. Adler, however, was quick to defend himself by

suggesting that he had used the word _________ (a nine lettered word) instead of

the alleged ________ (a seven lettered word) because of Venus’s approach of quickly

sneaking up to the net, during the match.

What are the two words that raised a storm in the teacup in Melbourne this year ?

Guerrilla, Gorilla

34 This is the original

poster of a 1993 Walt Disney

production that was loosely based out of a true story of the preceding decade.

What anomalous event was the

subject of this movie ?

Jamaican Bobsled Team in 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics

35 The image shows buildings of

a specific place West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, where many erstwhile music companies had their offices

and the large number of cheap upright pianos would

play all day long playing different tunes creating a

noisy acoustic experience.

Which derogatory nomenclature had such an

origin ?

Tin Pan Alley

36 Victoria and Albert Museum,

London in July 2016 organised a show named “__________ re

imagined”.

The show opens with the famous clip of Ursula Andress stepping from the waves in Dr No and picking a large shell from the beach, an allusion to

X not often acknowledged.

FITB and what did this clip refer to in the first place ?

Botticelli Reimagined, Birth of Venus