LUMIERE 2016FINALS

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prizes

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Instructions

• The quiz will have 4 rounds (2 written rounds and 2 IR)

• The sequence will be IR, written, IR, written.

• No negative marking for any question.

• An IR round will have 12 questions each (Total = 24 Q’s)

• A Written round will have 5 questions each (Total = 10 Q’s)

• The QM’s decision will be final and binding.

• May the best team win!

Infinite Rebound 1

• Clockwise round.

• Standard bounce and pounce rules apply.

• +10 on directs, 2 directs rule applies.

• Infinite pounces, +10/-10 on pounce.

• Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

Q.1.

• Abbott and Costello were a comedy double act by the

team of William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello whose

work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television

made them a popular comedy team during the 1940s and

early 1950s.

• Their patter routine "Who's on First?" is one of the best-

known comedy routines of all time and set the framework

for many of their best-known comedy bits.

• Why were they back in spotlight recently OR which

fictional duo from a recently released film is named after

them?

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

The two aliens who make the first contact with the humans

in the film "Arrival" are named Abbott & Costello

Q.2.

• This is a theatrical medium or as a performance art which involves acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech and is not to be confused with silent comedy.

• This art form has its origins in Ancient Greece and takes its name from a single masked dancer called Pantomimus.

• Ravish Kumar, a news anchor at NDTV, recently used this art form in his show "Prime Time" to protest the decision of I&B Ministry after it announced that NDTV will be taken off-air for 24 hours on November 9.

• Which art form? (Not to be confused with a popular internet phenomenon)

• Also, the same show brought back into news a popular song from the 1969 film Aaradhna, sung by Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar.

• Which song, which apparently trended on social media after he used it in his show.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Mime & Baghon Mein Bahar Hai

(He asked the mime actors who were portrayed as

‘authority’ if he can ask them as simple a question as

“Bagon main bahar hai?”)

Q.3.

• Maulana was an Asiatic lion at Gir Forest National Park.

• He was amongst the oldest lions in National Park, who

passed away recently due to old age.

• Where you would have seen Maulana, along with seven

other lions?

• Image on next slide.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Khushboo Gujrat Ki advertisement

Q.4.

• Which organization, headed by K Durga Prasad, has

published comics named Sardar Post: Ek Shaurya Gatha,

Veer Brighunandan, Shurveer Prakash, Janbaz Elango,

Ayodhya ke Shoorvir and Diler Divyanshu, to honor the

exploits of its officers and men.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force)

Q.5.

• While the first part of this movie trilogy is inspired from

Hamlet, the second part of this trilogy is based on Romeo

and Juliet.

• The 1 1/2th part of the movie trilogy (i.e. midquel to other

two parts) is said to be somewhat influenced by a play

named "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".

• Which movie series?

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

The Lion King

Q.6.

• What is this flash mob recreating?

• Video on next slide

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

The Night Watch

Q.7.

• According to Samuel Johnson, it is the last refuge of

scoundrel.

• According to Henry David Thoreau, it is a maggot in their

heads.

• According to Oscar Wilde, it is the virtue of vicious.

• The image on the next slide is an allegory of the topic

which we are talking about at the "Monument to the Fallen

for Spain" in Madrid.

• What are these three people talking about and what is the

allegory of the sculpture, also a hotly debated topic in

recent times?

• Image on next slide.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Patriotism

Q.8.

• This is a song named "Maharashtra Desha" released by

Bharatiya Digital Party, a YouTube channel.

• The male vocalist is Gandhaar, an upcoming singer.

• Who is the female vocalist, who first came into spotlight

for the cover of Can't Take My Eyes off You, with the cups,

inspired from a song by Anna Kendrick and soon became

an Internet sensation.

• Id the female vocalist.

• Video on next slide.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Mithila Palkar

Q.9.

• X's contributions to the literary works of Y are relatively unknown.

• It is said that X acted as an unofficial copy editor for Y, providing line-by-line corrections to the books written by Y.

• The corrections which X provided were factual and grammatical rather than ideological.

• In a certain book written by Y named "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor", X pointed out that there was a mistake in the calculation of the speed of the boat.

• In another book written by Y named "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", X pointed out an error in the specifications of a hunting rifle.

• Also, X offered advice about the compatibility of bullets with guns used by Y's characters.

• Id X and Y, whose friendship is a central theme of a certain book written by Angel Esteban and Stephanie Panichelli.

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Answer

X - Fidel Castro & Y - Gabriel García Márquez

Q.10.

• This is a song named Hey Dil Kunacha from the movie

"Saavli Premachi".

• Id the actor from the song and tell me something done by

the actor in the song, which is departure from what he

would commonly do at other place with which we normally

associate him.

• Video on next slide.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Sunil Gavaskar and he bats left handed in the song

whereas he was a right handed batsman

Q.11.

• In October 2016, investigative reporter Claudio Gatti published an article which relied on financial records related to some real estate transactions and royalties payments, to draw the conclusion that Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator of Indian origin, is the real author behind the Neapolitian Novels, a series of books that follows the lives of two perceptive and intelligent girls, Lenù Greco and Lila Cerullo.

• This article was criticized by many in the literary world as a violation of privacy.

• British novelist Matt Haig tweeted, "Think the pursuit to discover the ‘real’ X is a disgrace and also pointless. A writer’s truest self is the books they write."

• However, a few others have suggested that knowledge about X's identity is indeed relevant, as X has now published her first non - fiction titled "Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey".

• Id X.

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Answer

X - Elena Ferrante

Q.12.

According to a Zurich based researcher Kynan Eng,

Courage Under Fire took 300000 dollars,

Saving Private Ryan took 100000 dollars,

Titan A.E. took 200 billion dollars,

Syriana took 50000,

Green Zone took 50000,

Elysium took 100 million dollars,

Interstellar took 500 billion dollars and

The Martian took 200 billion dollars.

What are we talking about here?

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Money that has been spent saving Matt Damon

End of IR 1

Scores

Written Round 1 – Cars & Films

• Write down your answers on a piece of paper

• 5 images of cars will be shown

• Id the movie with which the cars are famously associated

• +10 for every right answer

• +10 bonus if you get 50/50

For example:

Answer

Goldfinger

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Exchange your sheets

1.

Answer

A Clockwork Orange

2.

Answer

Psycho

3.

Answer

The Godfather

4.

Answer

The Spy Who Loved Me

5.

Answer

Rain Man

End of Written round 1

Scores

Infinite Rebound 2

• Anti - clockwise round.

• Standard bounce and pounce rules apply.

• +10 on directs, 2 directs rule applies.

• Infinite pounces, +10/-10 on pounce.

• Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

Q.1.

• This is a 2001 film directed by Stanislaw Mucha about

____’s extended family, whom he never met, from rural

Slovakia.

• The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through

eastern Slovakia to interview ___'s surviving relatives,

ethnic-Ruthenians living near the Polish border in Miková.

• FITB or Id the blanked out part from the image.

• Image on next slide

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Warhol(a)

Q.2.

• There was a real 20th-century ship's master bearing this

unlikely but appropriate surname: Captain Herbert ____ ,

who had been the skipper of the White Star Line’s

passenger vessel Olympic.

• He had also been temporarily at the helm of Olympic's

even more famous sister ship Titanic before Titanic was

officially handed over to White Star for her doomed 1912

maiden voyage.

• He also shares his last name with a saltwater fish found in

North Atlantic Ocean and associated seas.

• Give me the famous last name, which makes it quite

appropriate considering comic culture.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Haddock

Q.3.

• This is a popular Pakistani music television series which features live studio-recorded music performances by underground artists.

• The show is produced by a popular beverage brand owned by Nestle.

• The artists are recruited and mentored by Xulfi, a popular Pakistani singer and songwriter.

• For this show, they recruit young, exceptionally talented, but unknown musicians who can sing and can play a variety of instruments and they are trained under Xulfi.

• The show is currently in its fourth season and has churned out some exceptionally talented singers.

• However, the most well known discovery from this show is of a certain Pakistani singer, whose has a bachelors degree in engineering and mathematics and has done some playback singing for the band "Soch".

• Id the show and the singer.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Nescafé Basement & Momina Mustehsan

Q.4.

• Several rumours and misconceptions have grown up

around this 1942 film, one being that ____ was originally

chosen to play the lead.

• This originates in a press release issued by

the studio early on in the film's development, but by that

time the studio already knew that he was going into the

Army, and he was never seriously considered and the role

went to Humphrey Bogart.

• Id the original choice (as per rumours), who was best

known for latter half of his career for an entirely different

reason and also Id the much acclaimed movie.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Ronald Reagan & Casablanca (1942)

Q.5.

• Which artist, recipient of the Turner Prize (1991) seems to

have an understanding with Surrey Nanosystems over a

particular product that they develop?

• On the next slide is a poster by Federico Babani that

shows some commonly observed features in the

aforementioned artist’s works.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Anish Kapoor

Q.6.

• “Sanctuary” was a single released by a British band in

1980.

• The cover art of this single sparked controversy over its

depiction.

• The band manager explained the artwork’s concept :

“The artwork is very tongue in cheek, as usual. At that

time, Maggie had visited the old USSR and, following her

tough stance with them, had been christened the Iron

Lady. ___ took offence to this, and even more so when

she started taking our posters.

• Which band and what was depicted on the original cover?

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Iron Maiden’s mascot Eddie is wielding a knife while

crouching over the corpse of then British Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher

Q.7.

• If Tariq Ali, a left-wing novelist is to believed, Begum Akbar Jahan, the wife of three-time J&K CM Sheikh Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah’s mother, was previously married to an Arab Karam Shah.

• He disappeared after Calcutta newspaper Liberty reported that he was actually X, while he was stationed in India at that time.

• X enjoyed recognition as a writer, an archaeologist and a military officer.

• The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as _____.

• Id X, who was the subject of a popular 1962 movie.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

T.E. Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia

Q.8.

• The original work depicts a bartender, dressed in a white uniform behind a triangular bar, a man in a suit and hat with his back to the observer, and a younger couple to the left of that man.

• A similar setting was created in Gottfried Helnwein’spainting featuring Elvis Presley as the bartender, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart as the couple, and James Dean, whose back is no longer toward the viewer but is turned and taking his characteristically “cool” stance while seated. Helnwein tried to connect the bleak mood of the original artwork and the tragic fate of decade’s best loved celebrities in his version.

• Id both the artworks.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Nighthawks and Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Q.9.

• First published in 1951, it is considered as the most

famous work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

• It has been suggested that it was written for Thomas'

dying father, although he did not die until just before

Christmas 1952.

• Which poem am I talking about, that generated interest

around two years back over its repeated use by a fictional

professor cum scientist and by other supporting

characters?

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Do not go gentle into that good night

Q.10.

• The text was considered lost by colonial era scholars, until a manuscript was discovered in 1905.

• Written in 1st millennium BCE Sanskrit, it can be interpreted in many ways, with English and Sanskrit being grammatically and syntactically different languages.

• It has been called, by Patrick Olivelle—whose translation was published in 2013 by Oxford University Press—as the "most difficult translation project I have ever undertaken", parts of the text are still opaque and the translation of X's intrigue and political text remains unsatisfactory.

• Name the ancient Indian treatise, which according to former NSA Shiv Shankar Menon, gives a realist description of the art of running a state.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Arthashastra

Q.11.

• Spin City

• The Nanny

• The Associate

• The Little Rascals

• Zoolander

• Eddie

• Sabrina, The teenage witch

(uncredited)

• Monk (uncredited)

• Marmalade

• Horrorween

• The Jeffersons

• Ghosts Can't do it

• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

• The Pickle (uncredited)

• Across the Sea of Time

• Nightman

• The Job

• Suddenly Susan

• Sex and the City

• The Drew Carey Show

• Two Weeks Notice

The most famous and commonly known is missing from it &

tell me what this list is about?

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

These are the cameo Appearances of Donald Trump

Q.12.

• _____, Sunrise (French: _____, soleil levant) is a

painting by Claude Monet depicting the port of Le Havre,

his hometown.

• Monet claimed that the title was due to his hazy painting

style in his depiction of the subject: "They asked me for a

title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view

of Le Havre, and I said: ‘Put _____.’ ”

• FITB and also tell me what trend did it inspire?

• Image on next slide.

SAFETY SLIDE

Answer

Impression and Impressionism

End of IR 2

Scores

Written Round 2 – Simpsons Art

• Write down your answers on a piece of paper

• 5 images will be shown

• Id the artwork and artist from which the images are inspired

• +10 for every right answer (+5: Artwork & +5: Artist)

• +10 bonus if you get 50/50

1. Around 1819-1823

2. 1937

3. 1656

4. 1942-1943

5. 1851

Exchange your sheets

1. Around 1819-1823

Answer

Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya

2. 1937

Answer

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

3. 1656

Answer

Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

4. 1942-1943

Answer

Freedom from Want (also known as The Thanksgiving

Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas) by Norman Rockwell

5. 1851

Answer

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb

Leutze

End of Written round 2

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