MELA quiz@ IRMA-2015

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15-01-2015

Transcript of MELA quiz@ IRMA-2015

15-01-2015

Prelims

20 questions

*Marked question to break tie (will be announced in the course of the event)

QMs decision final, ‘cause Hell hath no Fury like a woman scorned ;)

1.• Developed by Alexey Pajitnov in Moscow in

1984, this game is the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US. With more than 70 mn physical copies and over 100 mn copies for cell phones, it is the highest paid-downloaded game of all time.

• It derives its name from a special kind of polyominoes (geometric strutures) incorporated in the game, and the developer’s favourite sport. ID.

• TETRIS (Tetra+ Tennis)

2.

• Born Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn X in 1253, this disciple of Nizamuddin Aulia of Delhi is credited with the invention of the sitar and the tabla, along with the contribution of khayal and taranastyles to Hindustani classical music. Regarded as the father of Qawwali and the introducer of Ghazals to the Indian Subcontinent, his compositions are sung in Sufi shrines and film songs in India and Pakistan.

• ID.

• Amir Khusro

3.

• Ravi Balakrishnan of The Economic Times states that the film " has gained a surprising amount of cult popularity over the last year and a half or so, with several adulatory reviews and even fan-sites cropping up. But when we first saw X, back in 2005, a full seven years after its unheralded release in 1998, it was the first any of us had heard of the film or its prolific director.“

• Mayank Shekhar of the Mumbai Mirror says that "Gladwell hasn’t seen X (probably, neither have you). He must. He’d be glad. In my living memory, I have yet to notice a more startling revelation of the mysterious ‘tipping point’ anywhere of my social circle. Over the past few months, about four unrelated sources from three parts of the world have asked me if I’d seen X.“

• "Watch X, so that you can say to your grandkids that you were part of the generation that saw it first" says Kamayani Sharma of The ILIKE Times.

• Which movie is being talked about?

*4.

• This was a type of fiction publication 19th

century Britain that usually featured serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks.

• Its name is derived from the nature of its content and the price readers paid for a copy.

• Penny Dreadful!

5.

• In the Game of Thrones universe, how is the High Valyrian phrase ‘Valar Morghulis’ responded to?

• What does the response translate as?

• Valar Dohaeris: All Men Must Serve

6.

• In the world of entertainment, what makes EGOT club members distinct from others?

• Recipients of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards

7.

• As per the direction, the actors do not memorize the script but read out the letters kept on their writing desks throughout the performance. The play lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes and is an Indian context adaptation of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters. The play has toured the world, including US, Europe and Pakistan, performing over 300 shows and acquired a cult status.

• The lead actress Shabana Azmi has said that it is the character she has enjoyed playing the most in her life.

• The play completed its 20-year run in 2012, and hasn’t been performed since 2013 owing to the death of the lead actor.

• Name the actor AND the play.

Farooq Sheikh, Tumhari Amrita

8.

• Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a Swiss-born Greek writer, television personality and publisher of Legendary Times magazine that features articles by Erich von Daeniken (Chariots of the Gods fame), David Hatcher Childress and Luc Burgin on a certain topic.

• Pop Culture reference?

The Aliens Guy on History

• Recently an advertising agency won Cannes Bronze Lions for these print ads

• ID the brand and product

*9.

• Godrej Security Solutions

10.

• The national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India in 31st

May, 1952

• Need its Hindi name

• Sangeet Natak Akademi

11

• The Zoroastrian holy book, was written in a language, which is closely related to Vedic Sanskrit.

• This language gives part of the full name of Parsis’ holy book. Name the holy book.

• Zend Avesta

12. Name the book…

• A management guide with an innovative twist, this book gives you a unique perspective on thirty of the most fundamental and effective mantras for both business and life management.

• Released in 2012 this is neither an auto bio nor a bio but this book is backed by a legend (a Padma bhushan)

13. Who is the person?

• Has assault and dangerous driving charges similar to a previous model of same brand when he launched a product in 1992

• Photoshop allegations over the body

14.

• Originally titled Insomnia Cafe, this show is interpreted by many social scientists as the story of a group of patients in a mental asylum who delude themselves into thinking that they lead happy, perfect lives in West Village, NY.

• Wrapped up in 2004, it featured many celebrities in its decade-long run like Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Sean Penn, Julia Roberts, Jean-Claude Van Damm and Sting.

• ID the show

*15.

• The inspiration for this came from a box of matches: by laying the matches across the box Harold Searles Thornton had formed the basis of his game.

• Invented in 1921 and patented in 1923, this game, also called baby-foot now has a federation of its own, which has been organising a World Cup every year since 2009. Surfaces on which the World Cup matches are played include Bonzini, Roberto Sport and Garlando.

• What game/sport is being talked about?

Fussball/ Foosball!

16.

• Cheraw dance was originally performed with the hope of providing solace to soul of a deceased mother who had left her newborn child on earth. With the passage of time the repertoire has expanded to include many themes in dance steps which mimic movements in Nature. A similar dance, called Tinkling is found in the Far East and Philippines.

• The dance is now one of the most well known identifiers of this state, employing props made of a king of grass which covers 44% of the state’s area.

• ID.

Bamboo dance

17. Identify the corporation!

• This corporation’s economy would make it the 68th largest country in the world

*18.

• Intended to raise the morale of the public threatened by air raids in major cities during WWII, some 2.45 mncopies of this were printed by the British Government. However, hardly any were publicly displayed until a copy was rediscovered in 2000. It has since been re-issued and used as a decorative theme, inspiring coffee-mug motifs to internet memes.

• ID this “[not only a] distillation of a crucial moment in Britishness, but also an inspiring message from the past to the present in a time of crisis“

*19.

• Rodrigo Santoro is a Brazillian actor who has appeared in many successful movies like Brainstorm (2001), Love Actually (2003), Che(2008) and Rio (2011).

• He is most well known, however, for a very different role in a 2006 partly fictionalised account of a historical event . What?

Xerxes (300)

20. What is this ad saying?