MELA Quiz- Finals

Round 1- Infinite Pounce• 9 Questions, to be passed around in order• Right Answer gets +10• On Pounce +10/-5

1. Man on a MissionIf you had scene the Nike Ad- The last game, in the run up to the Fifa World Cup, you would recollect these bunch of scenes where the football players are shown idling their time away doing rather menial tasks after being replaced by the clones. Consequently, Ronaldo became a underwear model/mannequin, Rooney worked on the docks, Ibra tried selling his autobiography while Iniesta was just depicted sitting coolly on the countryside. I am bad at embedding videos in powerpoint, hence attaching a snipe on the next slide. ID the reference

Don Quixote

2. What was the trail of Easter eggs left for the audience?For those who haven’t seen the movie, sorry for the spoiler.The director of the movie X apparently left a trail of easter eggs all the way till the end letting the audience figure out the plotline while watching this movie. Also, this style of leaving the easter eggs in this fashion is derived from the Howard Hughes movie, Scarface (Clues on next slide)

X marks the Spot

3.Salman Rushdie published a book titled 2 years, 8 months and 28 Fellangis in September 2015. About this book he said, ““I just rather loved it. You've got two, eight, twenty-eight – you've got another symmetrical number describing that very famous symmetrical number.“

Give the title famous work that he is referring to

1001 Arabian Nights• 2 years 8 months and 28 days= 2*365+4*31+3*30+1*29+28= 1001

4.X is a religion/philosophy, like Scientology, derived from the lifestyle of x (X and x are related like chutiyappa and chutiya). It was founded by Oliver Benjamin in 2005 and an estimated 250,000 priests of X have been identified worldwide, with some of them even performing marriages under the X faith. The logo is on the next slide. ID X

Dudeism- The Big Lebowski

5.• The X Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows

the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally.

• Y is the second most common surname in Poland. It translates to Smith’s son. Jan Y would be similar to John Smithson.

• Z is the more common name for NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3

Rico, Kowalski, Private- The penguins of Madagascar

6.• ‘____ ____ ____ ____ Anymore' is a documentary by Vinod Kapri, which

has won this year's National Award in the Best Film on Social Issues category. Technically it shared the award with a movie called Daughters of Mother India, but we’ll keep that aside. It is a movie about the lack of public toilets (for women) in rural India. What is the title? All dashes are 4 lettered

7.• The original was- Chinks do it, Japs do it Up in Lapland little Laps do it• The original line can be heard in several early recordings of the song,

but X changed it to something else when he found that this was offensive 

Let’s fall in Love

Ulta PultaX B Y is a book by an Indian author. It was supposed to be the first of a two-part series but was released later. Y A X is the other one, released earlier but originally planned to be the second part of the series.Get X B Y and Y A X.P.S. – A and B are indicative.

X B Y – Gandhi Before IndiaY A X – India After Gandhi

Band and Album?In 1977, X were under tremendous pressure to ensure that Y -- their long-awaited album -- was a commercial success. The answer was simple: They commissioned a gigantic helium-filled pig and strapped it to London's Battersea Power Station, because nothing drums up publicity for a progressive rock record like a giant inflatable pig. This was done in a bid to reproduce the album art on their cover. A shot of the same can be seen alongside. Gimme X and Y.

X - Pink Floyd, Y - AnimalsThe album cover shows a pig floating over the Battersea Power Station.

Round 2- Written Round• ID the Movie References, +5 for each correct, +5 if all correct

IMDB does some really cool stuff with its error 404 pages. It puts up messages in the form of warped dialogues from famous movies. Let’s have you give us the movie each of these error messages is referring.1. This is not the webpage you’re looking for.2. The page? You can’t handle the page!3. It’s the one that says ‘Page not found’4. I am Jack’s missing page5. Where we are going, we don’t need any pages

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AnswersThis is not the webpage you’re looking for –Star Wars: Episode IVThe page? You can’t handle the page! – A Few Good MenIt’s the one that says ‘Page not found’ – Pulp FictionI am Jack’s missing page – Fight ClubWhere we are going, we don’t need any pages – Back to the Future

Round 3- Reverse Infinite Pounce• 9 Questions, to be passed around in order• Right Answer gets +10• On Pounce +10/-5

1. ABCDXYZABCD is a cult rap song by artist X. It samples the song Y by the iconic rock band Z. The lead guitarist of Z plays the guitar solo at the end of the song, and a sample of the lead singer singing the chorus of Y is used in the chorus of this song. In the song, X says “A” when Z’s lead singer starts to sing the chorus and X also says “A with me” in the chorus.David Bowie cited, “In ABCD, which includes a which includes a tirade against the media and politically motivated prosecutors, the intensity of his delivery overcomes the hoariest of ideas -- incorporating a portion of an overly familiar classic-rock oldie, Z’s Y. The song becomes a clarion call of suburban kids everywhere, not just an easy route to a hit.”Give me ABCD for full points.

ABCD – Sing for the MomentX – Eminem, Y – Dream On, Z - Aerosmith

2. AllegoriesAn allegory is a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.One of X’s most famous books, an allegory, might seem childish by the title but is far from it.X does, however, have a children’s book to his credit (his only one), again an allegory.ID X and the children’s book the author has written.

X – Salman Rushdie, Book – Haroun and the Sea of Stories

3. IDA war hero who was one of the last Hurricane pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion, he didn't start writing for children until he had children of his own. At that point, from his garden shed writing room, he single-handedly transformed children's literature with his unsentimental, dark humour and utterly unexpected endings. 

Roald Dahl

_________ was a temporary art project organised by street artist _____, constructed in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana, a disused lido, was "a sinister twist on Disneyland" that opened during the weekend of 21 August 2015 and closed permanently on September 27, 2015, 36 days later. _____ described it as a "family theme park unsuitable for children.“ Its logo is shown alongside.Give me the name of the theme park only.P.S. – Blanks are indicative

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Dismaland, Banksy

5. ID the artist• Around 8 days before her death, heavily drugged, Y

added the inscription "X" to one of her painting, as if signing off. The phrase "X" reflected the artist's irony of acclaiming life while suffering physically.

• This inspired the title of an album. When asked about it, the lead singer said: "She went through a lot of shit, of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said 'X', I just loved the boldness of it.", referring to Y's strength, enduring polio, a broken spine, and a decade of chronic pain.

• Give Y

Frida Kahlo

6.• “X" is a phrase referring to a controversial change made to a scene in the movie ‘Y’.

This alteration is disagreeable to some longtime fans of the series, provoking some to create an online petition demanding that the changes be retracted. The primary objection to the revision is that it alters the character's initially morally ambiguous character, making his later transition from anti-hero to hero less meaningful. Film students have labored for years to issue their own entire custom-edited rereleases of the ’Y’ films in an effort to redact and correct L's changes, especially this scene.

• “X” has now become a colloquial retort to series creator L's explicit cinematic assertion supporting the change. In a 2004 interview, ‘L’ explained, "to me, [the original movie] doesn’t really exist anymore. ... I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be.“

• In 2012, he explained the changes in the scene as “ What I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted him to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn't.”

• In a 2014 Reddit interview with fans, when asked about this, the film’s star ‘H’ simply replied, "I don't know and I don't care.“

• What’s X?

Han shot First

7.• While playing shows in England in 1969, the band discovered they were being

mistaken for another English group named Earth, and decided to change their name.

• A cinema across the street from the band's rehearsal room was showing the 1963 Boris Karloff horror film X directed by Mario Brava.

• While watching people line up to see the film, they noted that it was "strange that people spend so much money to see scary movies.". Following that, they wrote the lyrics for a song called "X", which was inspired by the work of occult writer Dennis Wheatley, along with a vision that Butler had of a black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of his bed.

• Making use of the musical tritone, also known as "The Devil's Interval", the song's ominous sound and dark lyrics pushed the band in a darker direction, a stark contrast to the popular music of the late 1960s, which was dominated by flower power, folk music, and hippie culture.

• Inspired by the new sound, the band changed their name to X in August 1969. • X?

Black Sabbath

8.This painting ‘Lady with an Ermine’ by Leonardo da Vinci, when exhibited in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was described as "signaling a breakthrough in the art of psychological portraiture".

It was one of the visual inspirations for Philip Pullman's concept of Y, appearing in the X series of novels. Identify X and Y.

His Dark Materials, Daemon

9.• X's release was not greeted with fanfare, but it hit a cultural nerve, quickly becoming an

underground word-of-mouth hit. It became the first novel to win the "triple crown" of science fiction awards—the Nebula, the Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Award for paperback original, an unprecedented achievement described by the Mail & Guardian as "the sci-fi writer's version of winning the Goncourt, Booker and Pulitzer prizes in the same year".

• It is among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history, and appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. The novel was also nominated for a British Science Fiction Award in 1984.

• The Observer noted that "it took the New York Times 10 years" to mention the novel. By 2007 it had sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.

• The 1999 cyberpunk science fiction film The Matrix particularly draws from X both eponym and usage of the term "Matrix". "After watching The Matrix, author Y commented that the way that the film's creators had drawn from existing works was 'exactly the kind of creative cultural osmosis" he had relied upon in his own writing.

• X and Y ?

Neuromancer, William Gibson

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