M.E.L.A QUIZ

Amol Agrawal Second Year

Gnosis Quiz Club NIT Allahabad

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Rules and Stuff:

Keep your mobiles away unless there is an imminent danger of Alien invasion or Zombie outbreak

You cant use Google/Wikipedia…They’re in my team!! Make as many guesses as possible… Shrey Manish Cannot Participate

At last,as always,Quizmaster is GOD

Round ….

MAD Magazine Spoofs +5 for each correct. Ans on paper. Switch

Answers

Close Encounters Of the Third Kind Star Trek X-Files/American Gothic Space Invaders Breaking Bad Sopranos Smallville

Round

+10 for correct direct +5 for pass No Negatives

Missing Link??

Da Vinci Code

The official description of X which has now been trademarked is given as follows

1.a semi-long sound in the chest register, 2.a short sound up an interval of one octave plus a fifth from the preceding sound, 3.a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound, 4.a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound, 5.a long sound down one octave plus a Major 3rd from the preceding sound, 6.a short sound up one octave from the preceding sound, 7.a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound, 8.a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound, 9.a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound, 10.a long sound down an octave plus a fifth from the preceding sound

Tarzen Yell

Purnima is the advertising agency that has been handling brand X’s creative and media mandate for the last 30 years and has been consistently focussing on the value-for-money angle. Its creation has continued to echo in the drawing rooms of middle-class Indian homes through the decades. While it stresses on the product, it also salutes the savvy and budget-conscious Indian housewife.

It was first aired on radio in 1975, was broadcast on television in 1982. It is one of the longest running of its kind and the spot has seen very few changes since the time it was first aired.

Washing Powder Nirma……

Also known as frozen time, the big freeze, dead time, flow motion, or time slice X is a special and visual effect\ that refers to a digitally enhanced simulation of variable-speed (i.e. slow motion, time-lapse, etc.) photography used in films, broadcast advertisements, and video games. It is characterized both by its extreme transformation of time (slow enough to show normally imperceptible and unfilmable events) and space (by way of the ability of the camera angle—the audience's point-of-view—to move around the scene at a normal speed while events are slowed). This is almost impossible with conventional slow-motion, as the physical camera would have to move impossibly fast.

Gimme X and where did we first come across X.

Bullet Time - Matrix

The reason the secret police are called “X" is because the New Order was arranged on the model of the human body.

The Chancellor was the Head; the television station BTN was the mouth;

visual and audio surveillance were the Eye and the Ear; Inspector Finch was part of The Nose, the police force, and

Creedy's secret police were the Hand.

ID X or Gimme where

Fingermen

Since his debut in X, Neuman's likeness, distinguished by jug ears, a missing front tooth, and one eye lower than the other has become the face of X. His face is rarely seen in profile; he has virtually always been shown in full frontal view, directly from behind, or in silhouette. Harvey Kurtzman first spotted the image on a postcard pinned to the office bulletin board of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff. "It was a face that didn't have a care in the world, except mischief," recalled Kurtzman.

He has been characterised with a punch phrase “What- Me Worry?”

Where have we seen him??

The following are the last lines of Ulysses by Lord Alfred TennysonWhere did you recently come across these lines??“We are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Skyfall- M’s Speech

What has been carried out by the following??

Slats (1917–1928) Jackie (1928-1956) Tanner (1934–1956) and George (1956–1958) Leo (1957-present)

It has been parodied many a times replacing with it with a character imitating the act.

Three times it did not perform its complete duty due to public sentiments.

MGM LION

Round

+10 for direct +5*no of teams passing for

passed correct No negatives

Whose Family tree

Who’s Blanked Out?

Who’s the missing link??

In the early drafts he was known as “Ormond Sacker“ His first name is revealed exactly 3 times throughout its history Pics on Next Slide

Missing??

Martin Freeman as John Watson

Gimme X

X (April 26, 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Y in Spain causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths, during the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria was called Operation Rügen.

The number of victims of the attack is disputed; The Basque government reported 1,654 people killed, although modern speculations suggests between 126 to 400 civilians The bombing has often been considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenceless civilian population

Geurnica by Pablo Picasso

What comes next???

Professor Flitwick

ID the novel or the author

Due to implicit themes criticising the government and its policies this novel was heavily banned and censored in the writer’s motherland.

While smuggling the author is said to have remarked "You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad.“

The author won the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature but was told that if he left the country to receive the prize he may never return

He was threatened by exile from his motherland which was prevented by intervention by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

Bill Mauldin produced a political cartoon lampooning the country’s campaign against X. The cartoon depicts X and another convict splitting trees in the snow. In the caption, Pasternak says, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?"

Boris Pasternek

ID X

X was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios (later Filmalaya)[1] from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi.

X was known for his family-centered, action-song-and-dance films which catered to the tastes of the Indian masses and through which he achieved great success. His movies defined a new genre called masala films.

Manmohan Desai

Round

Bounce IF the team answers correctly it

can choose to answer the next question too

For +20 /- 20 Only for direct questions

Exhaustive Connect (Think Feet :P)

Cars owned by Late MF Hussain

Connect

“Katie”-a street tough girl “Gilda”-a

colleague

The Big Bang Theory(The Original Pilot)

Inspiration behind what??

The world of X is a romantic vision of a dying Mars, which got its start when Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli claimed he could see canals on the surface. Writers and science popularizers like Camille Flammarion, who was convinced that Mars was at a later stage of evolution than Earth and therefore much more dry.

Y is transported to X in a way described by Flammarion in Urania (1889), where a man from earth is transported to Mars as an astral body where he wakes up to a lower gravity, two moons, strange plants and animals and several races of advanced humans.

It has been argued that almost all fiction and fantasy literature took direct/indirect inspiration from him.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s

X is a 1981 best-selling Pakistani pop album. Performed by Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan with Zoheb Hassan, her brother, it was produced by an Indian producer Biddu. It charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record to-date. It changed trends in music across South Asia, where it broke sales records, such as selling 100,000 records within a day of its release in Bombay alone.[2] In South Asia, where the music industry was previously dominated by filmi soundtracks

It was brought in limelight again in 2012 where the family members accused Y of using the songs without proper licensing.

Disco Deewane

Whose Discography Dilruba Alibaba Thanda Thanda Pani (a remake of vanilla’s Ice Ice baby Double Gadbad Mai Bhi Madonna Dr Dhingra Indian Romyo in Tokyo Tora Tora Miss Loomba Loomba America me Indian Dhaba Welcome To Mumbai Pinga Pinga ****'s Cross Connection NEPAL'S Rap Rock's Mumbai City (2012) Pawa Pawa Pawan Kalyan (2012)

ID.

The Martha and Thomas ______ home for children was opened in 2012 for the city’s at risk children after all the property of the owner was disbanded after his supposed death.

FITB. Pic on Next Slide

Connect

Algorithm to derive a phone-number from the 2003 book X: Step 1: Create a new SMS. Step 2: Change the mode to number mode. Step 3: Enter the word that the organization is responsible for. Step 4: End. The number so gotten is the phone-number of the organization. Id X.

Ministry of Magic62442 ("MAGIC").

X‘s only publication was in 1877. This was written, despite the fact that she was dying at the time. Id the book, the opening leaf of which is as shown.

Motives for a crime in a recent book. Id the book and author.

Motive 1: Caused by a ghost out for revenge, rather than Mahatma Gandhi.

Motive 2: Protection of younger sister, who killed a man who attempted to rape her, with rapist‘s gun.

Motive 3: Larry Page wanted to travel to India to get married, only to discover that he has regularly been scammed.

Motive 4: Desire to marry sister of the deceased. Motive 5: Recovery of an idol. Motive 6: Problems caused by victim being alive.

Round

Bounce The team answering can choose

the next team to ans

If the next team answers correctly then the team which passed gets +5 too

You cannot pass to yourself or to your immediate neighbours

The series written by Daniel Handler depict the misfortunes of the Baudeliere childrengimme the series

The series includes thirteen novels as follows The Bad Beginning (1999) The Reptile Room (1999) The Wide Window (2000) The Miserable Mill (2000) The Austere Academy (2000) The Ersatz Elevator (2001) The Vile Village (2001) The Hostile Hospital (2001) The Carnivorous Carnival (2002) The Slippery Slope (2003) The Grim Grotto (2004) The Penultimate Peril (2005) The End (2006)

Connect

The Greatest Story ever told is the movie Tagline of Sholay

She was for some time known as ‘the poor man’s Zeenat Aman’In 1976, she was in the cover of Time magazine – dressed in lingerie and posing like a 1930s Hollywood screen goddessWhen she quit movies in 1980, Shobhaa De wrote, “… she now existed in a delusionary world, eating up to forty egg whites and raw lettuce a day, writing reams and reams about Amitabh Bachchan’s plans to eliminate her…”Who?

Connect

Who’s Y?

X is known in English as "Heroic Fighter" is an iconic photo of Y wearing his black beret taken by Alberto Korda. It was taken on March 5, 1960, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion and by the end of the 1960s turned the Y into a cultural icon. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was drawn to Y's facial expression, which showed "absolute implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would say that the photo showed Y’s firm and stoic character.

Versions of it have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered, tattooed, silk-screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every surface imaginable, leading the Victoria and Albert Museum to say that the photo has been reproduced more than any other image in photography

Guerrillero Heroico

Connect

All Music documentaries directed by Martin Scoresese

Round

Pounce Time!!!!

+20/-10

Put Funda

Beliebers…Justin Beiber’s own Cult..:@

Yes I stooped so low to make a question.

X or the song?? An Ark Music Factory client told X's mother about the

company's production services in late 2010; X was 13 at the time, and living in Anaheim Hills, California.X's mother, Georgina Kelly, paid Ark Music $4,000 for a song and accompanying video that included a choice of two pre-written songs. According to Kelly, the payment covered one half or less of the production costs of the music video, and X's family could have paid nothing in exchange for giving up all rights to the song.X chose “Y", as "the other song was about adult love – I haven't experienced that yet. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

According to Randy Lewis of Los Angeles Times, the familiar structure contributes to the song's catchiness, making it an "earworm"

How do we better know him as

First appearing in 1971,Mr Mojo Risin was used and brought in focus because of use in X which according to John Densmore's,one of many who created him, “cause it contained the black slang word mojo (for sexual prowess), I got the idea to steadily increase the tempo back up to the original speed, a la orgasm."

There have been numerous rumours and theories as to X's identity. Names often suggested include Robert Banks and Robin Gunningham.[

Simon Hattenstone from The Guardian is one of the very few people to have interviewed him face to face. Hattenstone describes him as "a cross of Jimmy Nail and British rapper Mike Skinner" and "a 28-year old male who showed up wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a silver tooth, silver chain, and one silver earring.In the same interview, X claimed that his parents think he is a painter and decorator

X himself states on his website: I am unable to comment on who may or may not be X, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like X to me

Banksy

Chronological order of what

That’s All Folks!!