Freshers’ MELA Quiz

Quiz Club, IITKwelcomes you to

And Presenting your Quizmasters

• Raunak Raj • Enayat Ullah• Shashank Bhandari• Rishav Raj Agarwal

General Instructions• Split up into teams of three• Keep some space between you and your neighbouring team• Grab a paper and a pen• And, “Let it Rip”

*P.S. By participating in this quiz, you have agreed that if any one of us invents time travel in future, we’ll come back to the this moment to test it on.

Prelims

Specific Rules• Each question is worth 1 point, unless mentioned otherwise.• There will be four starred questions for tiebreakers.• Let the Games begin!

*Justin Bieber references will be frowned upon

1. Identify the map shown.

Malgudi

2.

The book is divided in 5 parts• Mitra-bheda• Mitra-labha or Mitra-samprapti• Kakolukiyam• Labdhapranasam• Apariksitakarakam

Name of the book?

Panchtantra

3.

Where would you find this quotation“I show not your face but your hearts desire”?

Mirror of Erised

4. Gimme X.

X was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.

Rudyard Kipling

5. Identify this wonderful man.

He is a National Award winning Indian Hindi film actor of Gujarati background who has appeared in a large of Hindi movies either playing a villain or in a comedy role, mostly.

Paresh Rawal

6. Connect these lovely ladies.

Nirma Washing Powder

7. Jo hai mujh mein samaya…• X is a 3 word Arabic phrase which refers to the act of

manifesting, existing or being. In the Qur'an, Allah commands the universe 'to be' and 'it is'. Which 2011 popular sufi song attributes it's title from the phrase?

Kun Faya Kun

8.

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set before and during the French Revolution. Which are the two cities the novel refers to?

London and Paris

9.

There is a school for ‘Gifted Youngsters’ at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a city in Westchester County, New York although every human can see it as the Westchester chapter of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What are the students who study here, collectively known as?

X-Men

10. Give us X and Y

• Svartalfheim• Niflheim• Nidavellir• Muspelheim• Jotunheim• Vanaheim• Alfheim• X• Y

Asgard and Midgard

*11.This is the present day photo of 21 year olds Spencer Elden who is not at all famous for anything today.But when he was 3 months old, he was cast in something which is still considered iconic and was apparently the unwitting star of a breakthrough feature - one that would catapult the artists to super-stardom. What was it.

12.

George Lazenby is last on the list of what?

List of actors no. of times portraying James Bond

13. Connect

The Da Vinci Code

14.

14. Connect

Back To The Future

15.

Exhaustive list of what?• Heidi Klum - (1999 - present) • Adriana Lima - (2000 - present) • Alessandra Ambrosio - (2004 - present) • Miranda Kerr - (2006 - present) • Marisa Miller - (2007- present) • Doutzen Kroes - (2008 - present)

Victoria Secret Angels

*16. Tell us the name of the movie.This movie ranks twenty-fifth on the American Film Institute(AFI)'s list of the greatest American movies of all time and also takes the first spot in AFI’s list of Ten Greatest films in the category ‘Courtroom Drama’. Also, in 2003, AFI named the protagonist ‘Atticus Finch’ the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.

To Kill a Mocking Bird

*17• Dasher• Dancer• Prancer• Vixen• Comet• Cupid• Donder• Blizten• Rudolph

An Exhaustive List of what?

Reindeers of Santa

*18.

Knowing that moviemakers and novelists have a penchant for naming their works from phrases in poems, identify the poet of the given stanza and the name of the critically acclaimed 2004 movie which is blanked out in the stanza. The Wikipedia page of the movie also adds that the title is taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by X, the story of a tragic love affair, where forgetfulness became the heroine's only comfort.

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.______ _______ __ ___ ________ _____!Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;”

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

19. Who are these gentlemen dressed as?

Thomson and Thompson

20. Connect?

Sunny Leone

21. What is blacked out?

Life of Pi

22. Connect.• 2006- Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Padm Shri Dr Nerla

Venumadha, dancer Astad Deboo.• 2007-Atif Aslam, Poets of the Fall• 2008- Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Farhan Akhtar• 2009-KK, Jaded Sun• 2010-Shafqat Amanat Ali, Vasundhara Das• 2011-Sunidhi Chauhan• 2012- Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Antaragni