INTO THE MELAS

Siddharth Mishra

B.Tech - Mechanical

The following six pictures are a part of HootSuite’s Halloween advertising – encouraging people to use social media more.

Identify the movies they are referencing. For extra points, name the director.

1.

ALFRED HITCHCOCKTHE BIRDS

2.

CLIVE BARKERHELLRAISER

3.

MARY HARRONAMERICAN PSYCHO

4.

STANLEY KUBRICKTHE SHINING

5.

DANIEL MYRICK/EDUARDO SANCHEZTHE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

6.

GORE VERBINSKITHE RING

The following five questions are albums that have their cover art inspired by famous paintings.

Identify the artists and the paintings. +10 for either.

1. BOW WOW – LAST OF THE MOHICANS

EDOUARD MANETLE DÉJEUNER SUR L’HERBE

2. JONI MITCHELL – TURBULENT INDIGO

VINCENT VAN GOGHSELF PORTRAIT WITH A BANDAGED EAR

3. RAMMSTEIN - LIEBE IST FÜR ALLE DA

REMBRANDT’S THE ANATOMY LESSON OF DR. NICOLAES TULP

4. CYNDI LAUPER’S - SHE’S SO UNUSUAL

VAN GOGHSTARRY NIGHT

5. DEPECHE MODE – NEW LIFE

 SALVADOR DALÍGEOPOLITICUS CHILD WATCHING THE BIRTH OF THE NEW MAN 

Q. The FIFA Order of Merit is the highest honour awarded by FIFA. The award is presented at the annual FIFA Congress. It is normally awarded to people who are considered to have made a significant contribution to association football.

In 2004, on its centennial anniversary, FIFA awarded the Order of Merit to two football clubs. One of them was Real Madrid, for being the best club of the 20th Century.

Which is the other?

Sheffield FC.

Founded in 1857, they are world’s oldest club playing association football.

Q. In the last sages of his life, he was always paranoid about the FBI spying on him. He even had electroshock therapy as many as 15 times on the recommendation of his physician. Later, it was revealed that the FBI were right to spy on him as he was a former KGB agent, recruited in 1941 and given the codename ‘Argo’.

Which Nobel prize winning author am I talking about?

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Q. Name of the award?

Laureus World Sports Awards

Also known as the Sports Oscar.

Q. Why was this monument bothering a world leader a few months ago?

Bulgarians repeatedly kept defacing Soviet War Monuments.

Q. ‘Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender, Apple computer has lost its most eloquent apologist. And I have lost an irreplaceable intellectual companion and one of the kindest and funniest men I ever met.’

This is Richard Dawkins, talking about whom?

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Q. Dafuq is this!?

FUQ : Which famous entertainer would you associate with that logo?

Q. Ad by? (apologies for the poor editing)

Q. ‘X woah woah, X woah woah, He’s hiding in Kabul;

X woah woah, X woah woah, He loves the Arsenul’

Arsenal fans, singing about which of their celebrity fans?

Q. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke released a song in 2009 called ‘The Hollow Earth’, the video of which contains work from an artist flip by at a fast speed.

While the video was later debunked as being fan made and not official, it has become quite popular for its clever art-music fusion.

Identify the aartist.

BANKSY

Q. In Poker, a Ace and King starting suit is something that looks good but it isn’t as it doesn’t give you much success.

How is this A-K hand known more popularly, in a sports connection?

THE ANNA KOURNIKOVA

Because it looks good but doesn’t win much.