MELA QUIZ

- Akshay Parale

Q.1.

• In 1932, Don Bradman and the Australian team were touring North America and he made the news after being dismissed for a duck against New York West Indians. His dismissal is said to have inspired something in popular culture. What?

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Q.2.

• No Direction Home: ______ is a documentary film that traces the life of _______. Focused on his impact on 20th-century American popular music and culture it encapsulates his rise to fame as a folk singer and songwriter, and the controversy surrounding his move to a rock style of music. The title is taken from a lyric of 1965 hit single, "Like a Rolling Stone".

• FITB and also who directed it?

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Q.3.

• Created during WWII to encourage the morale of women working for Westinghouse Electric Factory, the ___ came to represent millions of American women who worked during the war effort

• Associated with a popular song “____” and adopted by the feminist movement, what am I talking about?

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We can do it/ Rosie the Riveter poster

Q.4.

• Tumhari Amrita is a epistolary play starring Shabana Azmi and Farooq Sheikh.

• The story of unrequited love is read out through reams of love letters between Amrita Nigam(Azmi) and Zulfikar Haider(Sheikh), exchanged over 35 years, starting with Amrita's eighth birthday party in the 1940, when she first wrote to the ten-year-old Zulfi.

• The central character of Amrita is said to be modelled on?

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Amrita Sher-Gil

Q.5.

• In 1984 _____ brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son is said to have had a hold over her by his accusing her of contributing to his father’s death through her neglect. The case was settled out of court when the author agreed to remove the offending sentence. FITB and give me the name of the book that won the 1981 Booker Prize and the author.

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• Indira Gandhi• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Q.6.

• In a particular scene of a 2002 movie (part of a film franchise), the iconic character portrayed by____ is shown picking up a copy of ‘Birds of the West Indies’ and posing as an ornithologist. What is so special about this book with respect to the film franchise and the series of books that inspired it? Also Id the actor who was recently trolled for his new found love of “crushed areca nuts” which left the fans shaken and created quite a stir.

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The book was written by ornithologist James Bond who served as an inspiration for naming the character.

Q.7.

• What is this a list of? And which name (the most popular one) has been blanked out? S.H.Peters James L Bliss T.B.Dowd Howard Clark _________

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• The pen names of William Sydney Porter • O.Henry.

Id the person, now an Internet sensation, behind this tweet who was lauded for this hard hitting reply.

Q.8.

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Q.9.White box: Individuals that are currently being monitored, but who do not pose an immediate threat.

White box with red corners and crosshairs: Indicates imminent violence by the indicated individual.

Red box: Relevant threats and individuals who pose a threat to the system.

Yellow box: Individuals who know about the aforementioned system.

Black box with yellow corners and crosshairs: Individuals who know about the system and communicate with it.

Blue box: Government Agents

Boats, ships and ferries are assigned a white diamond

Airplanes and helicopters under normal operation receive a green triangle along with flight number and airport codes and if under threat they are assigned a red triangle

Where exactly would you find these set of descriptions ‘relevant’?

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Q.10.

• _______, born at Mangeshi, Goa in 1900, was popular for his good looks and melodious voice. Such was his influence that the then giant of the Marathi stage, Bal Gandharva publicly declared that he would welcome the entry of X in his organisation "by throwing a carpet of rupee coins under his feet". He was the first musician to openly defy the British Empire by performing and singing songs penned by Veer Savarkar in the presence of the British Viceroy, in Shimla. Who?

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Q.11.

• Who addressed this letter and to whom?

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Q.12.

Decode the artistic inspiration behind this Daredevil Season 2 poster.Image follows…

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The Last Judgement- Michelangelo

Q.13.

• X is a famous Marathi play written by playwright Y based on the English play ‘Charley's Aunt’. It is best known for Vijay Chavan's iconic role where he regaled in the title role of his friend Moru's (Prashant Damle) aunt.

• It served as an inspiration for a Bollywood movie starring Govinda. Id X & Y.

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Y: Prahlad Keshav Atre / Acharya Atre

Q.14.

Coldplay’s magical rendition of the song ‘Pure Imagination’ from a 1971 movie at Pepsi-Centre, Denver. To whom was this special cover dedicated?

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Q.15.

• X (literally translated as Z in English) is a 1958 Indian fantasy comedy film. It was Y’s first comedy and first magical realist film.

• The film offered an early glimpse of Y's sense of humour, centered on a middle-class clerk who accidentally discovers X/Z which has been one of the most sought after objects in alchemy in real world.

• Give me X,Y and Z. Also, the central plot of a 2001 British-American blockbuster revolves around Z.

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X: Parash PatharY: Satyajit RayZ: Philosopher’s Stone

Q.16.In a popular fictional world:The Reyne family was obliterated after they rebelled against their liege lord, Tytos, who was perceived as weak by his own vassals. To restore their dominance, Tytos's son marched against the upstart Lord Roger Reyne, known as the "Red Lion of _____". By the end of the rebellion, _______ had been put to the torch and all members of Reyne family were executed. How has this event been infamously immortalized?

But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear. Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear

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The Rains of Castamere

Q.17.

• Google Doodle dated 31st July, 2016 commemorating what?

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Munshi Premchand’s 136th Birth Anniversary

Q.18.

• Mahavir Singh Phogat is an Indian Amateur wrestler and senior Olympics coach. He is the father, and coach of wrestlers Geeta Phogat, who won India's first ever gold medal in women's wrestling in the 55 kg freestyle category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and Babita Kumari, who won the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games. Why is he in the news?

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The upcoming Aamir Khan-starrer ‘Dangal’ is based on him.

Q.19.

• Which awards were originally known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, presented annually by the ’Society of London Theatre’ to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London. Renamed in the honour of a British actor who is ranked as the 14th greatest male movie star by AFI.

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Laurence Olivier Awards

Q.20.Put Funda

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MoU signed between ACK and Ministry of Urban Development to publish special edition comics on ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’

Archi-Designs

• This round contains graphical created by Italian architect Federico Babini.

• Written Round (+10/0)

• Archidirector• Archimusic• Inkonic Faces• Archiwriter• Archist

ArchiDirectors

Archimusic

INKonic faces

Archiwriter

Archist

Answers

• 1. Alfred Hitchcock• 2. Elvis Presley• 3. Salvadore Dali• 4. Dante Alighieri• 5. Andy Warhol

Vehicles and Films

• Each vehicle is popularly associated with a particular movie.

• Identify the movie from the vehicle shown

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Thank You