MELA Quiz Finale

Infinite Bounce

1.

• "I read it and thought it was pretty good. That afternoon I wrote the song and went in the next week and did it... It was a job of work for me in a way because writing a song around a title like that's not the easiest thing going.“ –X

• The song was for the soundtrack of the film adaptation of Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name.

• X and the book/song/movie.

• Paul Mccartney and Live and Let Die

2.

Name the artist whose works inspired this poster.

• Salvador Dali

3.

• X’s top 5 favorite novels

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

• Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

• Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• something by William Gibson or Kurt Vonnegut

• X’s top 5 favorite movies

• The Godfather

• The Godfather Part II

• Taxi Driver

• Goodfellas

• Reservoir Dogs

• High Fidelity

• Rob Fleming

4.

• In 1928 X was charged by Cecil B. DeMille with writing a script for what would become the film Skyscraper. The original story, by Dudley Murphy, was about two construction workers involved in building a New York skyscraper who are rivals for a woman's love. X rewrote the story, transforming the rivals into architects. One of them, Howard Kane, was an idealist dedicated to his mission and erecting the skyscraper despite enormous obstacles. The film would have ended with Kane throwing back his head in victory, standing atop the completed skyscraper. In the end DeMille rejected X's script, and the actual film followed Murphy's original idea, but X's version contained elements that she would later use in Y.

• Give me Y.

• Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead

5.

Mine's a tale that can't be told,

My freedom I hold dear;

How years ago in days of old

When magic filled the air,

'Twas in the darkest depths of W

I met a girl so fair.

But X, and the evil one crept up

And slipped away with her.

The song and X.

• Ramble On; Gollum

6.

• Syd Barrett

7.

The painter Francis Bacon listed a very famous movie scene as the inspiration for this painting. He has painted a lot of other paintings based on iconic images from the same film.Give me the movie which is listed as one of the greatest propaganda films of all time.

• Battleship potemkin

8.

• “A" is an urban legend suggesting that X of Y died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike.

• In September 1969, American college students published articles claiming that clues to X's death could be found among the lyrics and artwork of the Y recordings. Clue-hunting proved infectious and within a few weeks had become an international phenomenon. Rumours declined after a contemporary interview with X was published in Life magazine in November 1969. Popular culture continues to make occasional reference to the legend.

• Give me A.

• Paul is Dead.

9.

• “You just have to draw a hat. If you can draw a hat, then you've drawn ________, you just draw kind of a shape for his face and put some black blobs on it and you're done.“-X

• Name the character being talked about.

• Rorschach

10.

• “The chaos unfolding seems to happen in closed quarters provoking an intense feeling of oppression. There is no way out of the nightmarish cityscape. The absence of color makes the violent scene developing right before your eyes even more horrifying. The blacks, whites, and grays startle you--especially because you are used to see war images broadcasted live and in high-definition right to your living room.”- a reviewer.

• “...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.” -X

• Guernica- Picasso

11.

• The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West.

• X wanted to break the myth about the old west, about the outlaws, about the time.

• X delayed the project, partly because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his western films.

• It was viewed as a fitting eulogy to the western genre.

• Unforgiven- Clint Eastwood

12.

• A preview screening of the film did not go well, as Tony Curtis fans were expecting him to play one of his typical nice guy roles and instead were presented with Sidney Falco. Mackendrick remembered seeing audience members "curling up, crossing their arms and legs, recoiling from the screen in disgust". Burt Lancaster's fans were not thrilled with their idol either, "finding the film too static and talky". The film was a box office failure, and Hecht blamed his producing partner Hill. "The night of the preview, Harold said to me, 'You know you've wrecked our company? We're going to lose over a million dollars on this picture,'" Hill recalled. However, Lancaster blamed Lehman, who remembers a confrontation they had: "Burt threatened me at a party after the preview. He said, 'You didn't have to leave – you could have made this a much better picture. I ought to beat you up.' I said, 'Go ahead – I could use the money.'“

• Today, this movie holds a 100 percent rating on rotten tomatoes and a metascoreof 100. Times change.

• Sweet Smell Of Success

Sid & Nancy Round

Rules

• Select a partner team.

• You will be shown a range of topics

• Out of the topic you choose, your ‘Nancy’ team will be asked the question, if she answers -5 for ‘Sid’. If she doesn’t +5 for ‘Sid’.

• Whichever team answers the question will get +10 points as always.

• Western

• Soundtrack

• Sci-Fi

• Led Zeppelin

• Jazz

• Post impressionism

• AlbumArt

• Hitchcock

• Hitchhiker’s

• LOTR

• SH

• Quizmaster’s Special

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Western

• "There's some merit to the charge that the Indian hasn't been portrayed accurately or fairly in the Western, but again, this charge has been a broad generalization and often unfair. The Indian didn't welcome the white man... and he wasn't diplomatic... If he has been treated unfairly by whites in films, that, unfortunately, was often the case in real life. There was much racial prejudice in the West.”

• The director filmed a movie on the sentiment in which the protagonist sets out to find his niece who had been taken away by the Indians. Over the years, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable until he finally decides to kill her, since she had also become an Indian now.

Soundtrack

Sci-FiThis character from Fritz Lang’s legendary Sci-fi film ‘Metropolis’ was the inspiration for a certain other famous character in the sci-fi universe. Just tell me the character.

The inspired character, that is.

Led Zeppelin

• It has been suggested that the title of the song was originally supposed to be known as "Wheelchair Song" as an acknowledgment of Plant's broken ankle which caused him to fear he would never walk again. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Plant's experiences in Morocco.

• Plant specifically refers to Morocco's Atlas Mountains in the line: "The mighty arms of Atlas hold the heavens from the Earth". This is a double-meaning to imply the Atlas mountains in a physical sense seeming to hold up the sky, as well as the reference to the Titan Atlas and his task to hold up the sky on his shoulders and thus separate it from the Earth. Plant's lyrics were also inspired by some of the poetry he was reading at the time, which includes William Blake. "Albion remains/sleeping now to rise again" is a reference to Blake's engraving The Dance Of Albion. The following is an excerpt from the poem that goes with the song:

• “Albion rose from where he labour'd at the Mill with Slaves.Giving himself for the Nations he danc'd the dance of Eternal Death.”

Jazz

Post-impressionism

Album Art

• Marlene Dietrich, Carl Jung, W.C. Fields, Diana Dors, James Dean, Bob Dylan, Issy Bonn, Marilyn Monroe, Aldous Huxley, KarlheinzStockhausen, Sigmund Freud, Aleister Crowley, T. E. Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Marx, Sir Robert Peel, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Marlon Brando, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and Lenny Bruce

• Which Album’s Artwork features all these people?

Hitchcock

• Alfred Hitchcock had agreed to do a film for MGM, and they had chosen an adaptation of the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes. Composer Bernard Herrmann had recommended that Hitchcock work with his friend Ernest Lehman. After a couple of weeks, Lehman offered to quit saying he didn't know what to do with the story. Hitchcock told him they got along great together and they would just write something else. Lehman said that he wanted to make the ultimate Hitchcock film. Hitchcock thought for a moment then said he had always wanted to do a chase across Mount Rushmore.

HitcHHiker’s

• The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over moredistant hills, like a man saying “X" twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.

LOTR

• He calls himself the "Eldest" and the "Master". He claims to remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn", and "knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless — before the Dark Lord came from Outside." He does not neatly fit into the categories of beings Tolkien created. Speculative ideas about his true nature range from one of the Ainur, angelic beings (who came after the Dark Lord and shaped the earth), to God, who is called Eru Ilúvatar and "the One" in Tolkien's legendarium although Tolkien rejected the notion that X is God. This is however reinforced when Frodo asks Goldberry just who X is, and she responds by simply saying "He is"(which Tolkien was careful to distinguish from the Biblical "I Am that I Am".)

SH

• In the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Doctor Watson compares Holmes to X, to which Holmes replies: "No doubt you think you are complimenting me ... In my opinion, X was a very inferior fellow... He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Y appears to imagine". Alluding to an episode in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", where X deduces what his friend is thinking despite their having walked together in silence for a quarter of an hour, Holmes remarks: "That trick of his breaking in on his friend's thoughts with an apropos remark... is really very showy and superficial“.

• X is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction. The character served as the prototype for many that were created later, including Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie.

QM’s special

• Jeanne Moreau incarnates the style of the Nouvelle Vague actress. The critic Ginette Vincindeau has defined this as, "beautiful, but in a kind of natural way; sexy, but intellectual at the same time, a kind of cerebral sexuality, — this was the hallmark of the nouvelle vague woman." Though she isn't in the film's title Catherine is "the structuring absence. She reconciles two completely opposed ideas of femininity“.

• According to ShortList, "The pacy energy of [Goodfellas] was influenced by Scorsese’s love of French New Wave cinema, especially François Truffaut’s doomed love triangle classic X. He wanted a similar voiceover to open, along with extensive narration, quick cuts and freeze frame shots. He called it a “punk attitude” towards film convention, mirroring the attitude of the gangsters in the film."

The Theory Of Everything Round

Rules

• Written Round

• Fictional Theories, Set in books, movies, songs.

• In addition, words with negative meanings are removed as redundant, so "bad" becomes "ungood". Words with comparative and superlative meanings are also simplified, so "better" becomes "gooder", and "best" becomes "goodest". Intensifiers can be added, so "great" became "plusgood", and "excellent" and "splendid" become "doubleplusgood". Adjectives are formed by adding the suffix "-ful" to a root word (e.g., "goodthinkful", orthodox in thought), and adverbs by adding "-wise" ("goodthinkwise", in an orthodox manner).

• It is the only language of the world whose vocabulary reduces every year.

• One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a ________ egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.

• The record number of twins from a single ovary at the London Hatchery is 16,012 in 189 batches. Centers in tropical climates can get better numbers: Singapore created over 16,500, and Mombasa has touched 17,000

• Mostly Harmless.

• An astronaut who travels to a distant place at near the speed of light. Because of the time dilation that takes place at these speeds, he and his crew return home a hundred years later. He has aged only a year but sadly finds that his wife has long passed on, and that he is about the same age as his grandchildren.

• Cochran :...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is X. X is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But X lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

• Gerald Broflovski :Damn it! ... He's using the Y!• Cochran :Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall

Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about X! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If X lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.

• The bra for men.

• Newspeak- 1984

• Bokanovsky’s Process- Brave New world

• Earth – The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

• ‘39 - Queen

• The Chewbacca defense – South Park

• Bro/Mansere – Seinfeld.