Mind Ripple ka MELA conducted by Mind Ripple at PDPU in November 2011.

1. Mind~Ripple
(In sync with chaos within...)
MELA
Prelims
1

2. 2

3. 3

4. 1. The given photograph is a tribute to
which famous album cover?
4

5. Abbey Road
5

6. 2. Which dyeing technique originally
from Java involves the application of
wax on patterned areas so that they
do not receive the colour?
6

7. Batik
7

8. 3. “In a compelling story of this genre we are continually
being asked to rethink our assessment of the relationship
between the various characters, and I decided to structure
my story in such a way as to emphasize the audience's
incomplete understanding of each new scene as it is first
presented”. This is X talking about Y. Id X and Y.
8

9. X- Christopher Nolan
Y- Non linear story line/movie/plot/genre
9

10. 4. This song was originally supposed to be just a part of
the background score of the movie. However the amazing
response from the crowd in a Dharamshala monastery
when the song was played prompted the director to
change his mind. Identify the song which was shot in
Panchatan studio in LA
10

11. Sadda Haq
11

12. 5. What do this two images combine
to form?
12

13. The tattoos on the torso of Michael
Scofield in Prison Break
13

14. 6. What is the inspiration behind the
poster of the Telugu movie
Velayutham?
14

15. Assasin’s Creed
15

16. 7. What is the connection between the
two photos?
16

17. The man on left is the great American
producer Sheldon Leonard
The names of the characters Sheldon
Cooper and Leonard Hosfstader are a
tribute to him
17

18. 8. Which actor plays the role of Ivan
Ivanovitch Sakharin in the latest Hollywood
extravaganza The Adventures of Tintin; The
Secret of the Unicorn?
18

19. Daniel Craig
19

20. 9. What is the name of this aircraft?
20

21. Ed Force One
21

22. 10. Which American group utilized
music pieces from the songs Ae
Naujavan from the 1972 film Apradh
and Yeh Mera Dil from the 1978 film
Don for their Grammy Award winning
single?
22

23. Black Eyed Peas for the song Don’t
Phunk With My Heart
23

24. 11. Which Indian actor’s only English
movie is Bloodstone, a 1988 American
mystery adventure film produced by
Ashok Amritraj and Sunanda Murali
Manohar?
24

25. ‘Superstar’ Rajnikanth
25

26. 12. He is associated with creating the
masala genre in Bollywod. His
directional venture was the movie
Chhalia in 1960 and his father was the
owner of Paramount Studios later
known as Filmalaya. Identify this very
famous Indian director.
26

27. Manmohan Desai
27

28. 13. Who was known as the ‘Elvis
Presley of India’?
28

29. Late Shammi Kapoor
29

30. 14.“Behind every great fortune there
is a crime”
Which famous book begins with this
quote?
30

31. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
31

32. 15. Which was the first Indian movie to
have a stereo soundtrack and to be
presented in a 70mm widescreen
format?
32

33. Sholay
33

34. 16. Identify the band/singer.
34

35. Pentagram/Vishal Dadlani
35

36. 17. The protagonist of which famous
novel/film writes a legal brief
concerning an oil tycoon who wants to
drill for oil in a Louisiana marshland
which is a habitat for endangered
pelican?
36

37. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
37

38. 18. Theme music for what?
38

39. Swat Cats
39

40. 19. Identify the painter.
40

41. Pablo Picasso
41

42. 20. When the color version of the
classic Mughal e Azam was released in
2004, who was the guest of honour at
its premier?
42

43. Naushad, Music Director of Mughal e
Azam
43

45. 1.
• I started my acting career with Ketan Mehta’s
Holi(1985) as Ranjit Prakash, one of the main
protagonists. The film also starred Aamir
Khan,Naseeruddin Shah , Om Puri and others.
• I have also acted in commercials for Close-up and
Lifebuoy. In 2005 I became a voting member of
the Academy of Motion Pictures and
Sciences(Oscars).
• I directed the film that debuted Aamir Khan as a
producer.

46. Ashutosh Gowariker

47. 2.
• I was born on 20th February 1967. I was
hyperactive and as a result I was given a drug
called Ritalin to help me concentrate in
school.
• My body was found on 8th April 1994 . A high
concentration of heroin and traces
of diazepam were also found in his body.
• I am widely remembered for the song ‘Smells
Like Teen Spirit’

48. Kurt Cobain

49. 3.
• I completed my Intermediate Arts from Cotton College in 1942, and went
on to Banaras Hindu University to complete his BA (1944) and MA (1946)
in Political Science. I soon began graduate studies at Columbia
University, USA earning a PhD (1952) on "Proposals for Preparing India's
Basic Education to Use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education”
• Some of my Achievements are:
Padma Shri (1977)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award(1987)
First Indian to win Best Music for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific
International Film Festival in Japan (1993)
Padma Bhushan - the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India
(2001)
• I am acknowledged widely in the Hindi film industry for introducing
Hindi film to the sounds and folk music of Assam and Northeast India.

50. Shri Bhupen Hazarika

51. 4.
• I was born in the East side of London in 1889.My father
was an alcoholic and my mother lived in an asylum
• I once came 3rd in my own lookalike competition. Late
in my life, I went into voluntary exile due to accusations
of being a communist sympathizer.
• My first ever public appearance involved me wearing a
baggy coat and size 14 shoes. In one of my films, I
played the role of a murderer and in another, that of a
barber. I was one of the most creative and influential
personalities of the silent-film era.

52. Charlie Chaplin

53. 5.
• I was created in 1947 by Carl Barks. I typically
wear a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-
nez glasses, and spats.
• I am named after a character from the 1843
novel A Christmas Carol, who is a
wealthy Scottish American business
magnate who is characterized as a
greedy miser.
• I am the maternal uncle of Donald Duck.

54. Scrooge Mcduck-The Richest Duck of
the World!

55. 6.
• I was born in Bay City-Michigan as Louise
Veronica Ciccone . I have many written children
books including The English Rose and Peabody
Apples and The Seven Thieves.
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion
Picture Musical or Comedy for my role
in Evita(1996)
• My famous songs include"Like a Virgin", "Papa
Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen",
"Music", "Hung Up", and "4 Minutes".

56. Madonna

57. 7.
• I was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956, was educated
at The Doon School, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where I was
awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology. His first job
was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi.
• My first work won Prix Médicis étranger, one of
France's top literary award, second work won
the Sahitya Akademi Award & the Ananda Puraskar and
my second last book was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize(2008)
• My famous works include The Glass Palace(2000) and
Sea of Poppies(2008).

58. Amitav Ghosh

60. Mixed bag

61. 1.Who is the executive producer of the
1995 animation hit Toy Story?

62. Steve Jobs

63. 2. Who plays the role of Alexander’s
Mother in the 2004 movie Alexander
starring Colin Farrell as Alexander?

65. 3. This famous pair of cartoon characters is called Dupont
et Dupond in French. How do we know them better?

66. Thomson & Thompson

67. 4. Who makes a guest appearance
as the Slutty Pumpkin in the 7th
season of How I Met Your Mother?

68. Katie Holmes

69. 5. Which band’s name came as a
result of its lead singer Ben Burnley
cracking a borrowed microphone
during a solo performance of a
Nirvana cover?

70. Breaking Benjamin

71. 6. Stanley Kubrick was the first choice
to direct the movie series but he
deemed the work too big to portray it
on screen. The movies were ultimately
shot over an eight year period in the
Director’s native country New Zealand
and marketed by New Line Cinema.
Which famous movie series are we
referring to?

73. 7. X is an anti-perspirant, originally sold by Mennen
until the company was acquired by Colgate-
Palmolive in 1992. The X line of products steadily
lost popularity after its peak in the early 1990s
When Mennen was acquired by Colgate-Palmolive in
1992, the X brand was said to be the most popular
product of its kind, and was the favorite of nearly 1/4
of all teenage girls due to something that happened
in 1991. Id X.

74. Teen Spirit

75. 8. Why is she in the news recently?

76. Orianthi, the guitar player in
Sadda Haq

77. 9. What was inspired by one of Genndy Tartakovsky's
drawings of a ballerina? This show had backup segments
like Dial M for monkey and the Justice Friends. Which
show?

79. 10. He won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for Camelot in
1968. He also has a Grammy to his name for his
album Jonathan Livingston Seagull . Mickie Rourke
dedicated his BAFTA best actor award to him. What was his
last contribution to the world of entertainment?

80. Richard Harris

81. 11. A hotel corridor was constructed by Guy Hendrix Dyas, the
Production Designer, Chris Corbould, the Special Effects
Supervisor, and Wally Pfister, the Director of photography. It
rotated a full 360 degrees to create the effect of alternate
directions of gravity. The idea was inspired by a technique used
in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). X said, "I was
interested in taking those ideas, techniques, and philosophies
and applying them to an action scenario". The filmmakers
originally planned to make the hallway 40 ft (12 m) long but as
the action sequence became more elaborate, the hallway's
length grew to 100 ft (30 m). The corridor was suspended along
eight large concentric rings that were spaced equidistantly
outside its walls and powered by two massive electric motors.
Who is X and what is being talked about?

83. 12. This cult movie was originally supposed
to be written by the noted Marathi
Playwright Vijay Tendulkar as the Director
wanted a mature writer. But due to his ill
health, the script was written by Anurag
Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla who ended
up playing an important role in the movie.
Which very famous movie are we talking
about?

85. 13.

87. Connect

88. Orbis non
sufficit

101. 101

102. 70s rock
American TV Series Indian TV Series
Indian artists
European art
Famous Movie New Age The Classics
Scenes Indian Cinema
Hip hop Indian Parallel Art
Cinema
Indian English Booker Prize 102
literature winning novels

103. Famous Movie Scenes
The song sequence/shot was a cinematographic
challenge due to the intense glare caused due
to the camera lights on the mirrors. The
problem was not solved even after consultation
with Hollywood experts. Finally the immortal
scene was shot after covering the thousands of
mirrors in a very thin covering of wax. Which
very famous song/scene am I talking about?
103

104. 104

105. Indian Artists
Which Indian artist was given the task of
beautifying the original manuscript of the
Constitution of India and painted one of the
most famous paintings of Mahatma Gandhi
later incorporated into a postage stamp?
105

106. Nandalal Bose
106

107. Booker Prize Winning Novels
It didn't matter that the story had begun,
because Kathakali discovered long ago that the
secret of the Great Stories is that they have no
secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you
have heard and want to hear again. The ones
you can enter anywhere and inhabit
comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills
and trick endings.
These are lines from which book? 107

108. The God Of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
108

109. The Classics
‘Tous pour un, un pour tous’
Who lived by this motto?
109

110. The Three Musketeers
by Alexander Dumas
110

111. Indian English Literature
My Son’s Father are the memoirs of which
famous Indian writer who was once the editor
of The Asia Magazine and a war correspondent
for BBC?
111

112. Dom Moraes
112

113. American TV Series
Identify the connection
between these three
locations and an
American TV Series.
113

114. Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
114

115. New Age Indian
cinema
Who played Yakub Memon in
Anurag Kashyap’s BlackFriday?
115

116. 116

117. Imtiaz Ali
117

118. 70s Rock
The backside looks like a sand pile my kids have
played in for some time. It's all beat up, no
definition, just a lot of bumps and holes.
-Astronaut William Anders
What is being talked about and how would you
relate it to 70s rock?
118

119. Dark Side Of The Moon
119

120. Indian TV Series
This show was produced by Ronnie Screwvala,
Zarina Mehta and Deven Khote and had Nupur
Asthana as the director. Vinay Pathak had
written dialogues for this show. It was first
aired on ZEE TV in 1998. The show had an
ensemble cast and a story which the youth
could relate to.
ID THE SHOW
120

121. 121

122. Hip Hop
122

123. Will Smith
123

124. Indian Parallel Art Cinema
chakravyuh me ghusane se pahale
mai kaun thaa aur kaisaa thaa
ye mujhe yaad hi na rahegaa
chakravyuh me ghusane ke baad
mere aur chakravyuh ke bich
sirf ek jaan-levaa nikatataa thi
isakaa mujhe pataa hi na chalegaa
chakravyuh se baahar nikalane par
mai mukt ho jaa_un bhale hi
phir bhi chakravyuh ki rachanaa me farq hi na padegaa
marun yaa maarun
maaraa jaa_un yaa jaan se maar dun
is kaa faisalaa kabhi na ho paayegaa
soyaa huaa aadami jab nid se uth kar
chalanaa shuru karataa hai
tab sapano kaa sasaar use dubaaraa
dikh hi na paayaegaa
us roshani me jo nirnay ki roshani hai
sab kuchh samaan hogaa kyaa?
ek palade me napusakataa
ek palade me paurush
h aur thik taraazu ke kaante par_____ ________
It is a poem by Dilip Chitre and the blank gives the title of a movie in which 124
the same poem was also featured.

125. Ardh Satya (English: Half Truth) is a
1983 film directed by Govind Nihalani.
It is still considered to be one of the
best cop films made in India
125

126. European Art
This painting was painted by Edvard
Munch. From 1893 to 1910, Munch painted
several versions of it which are exhibited at
different locations. Two versions of this
painting were stolen in 1994 and 2004
which were later recovered. Which
painting?
126

127. The Scream
127

128. Bhaag Bhaag…………………..
128

129. 129

130. 1.
1. The Rising Tide was the debut album of which Project?
2. Which is the only Bond movie to be shot in India?
3. Kaifiyaat is a collection of poems of which Indian poet?
4. The Starry Night is a painting by which famous painter?
130

131. 2.
1. With which famous band would you associate the hit singles
‘Bohemian Rhapsody and ‘We are the Champions’?
2. Which movie’s name also means a gastronomical disorder
experienced by foreigners having spicy Indian diet?
3. Device used in the Harry Potter series to view
memories?
4. The Madonna of the Rocks is a famous painting by which
artist?
131

132. 3.
1. Name of the supergroup formed by A R Rehman and Mick
Jagger.
2. Who played the role of Daastaan in the movie Prince of
Persia, The Sands of Time?
3. In which controversial book the protagonists turned into
Archangel Gabriel and the Devil in the story?
4. Who is being depicted in this picture?
132

133. 4.
1. Which is the only MJ song to be featured in every version
of the album King of Pop?
2. Which was the movie to be shot inside The Golden Temple?
3. The Tale of Two Cities is set in which two cities?
4. Identify the painter
133

134. 5.
1. Which famous American sitcom has its episodes from Season
5 to Season 8 titled after names of famous rock songs?
2. Which writer’s original name was William Sydney Porter?
3. The song Jai Ho was originally supposed to be a part of
which movie?
4.
134

135. 6.
1. How do we better know Curtis James Jackson III?
2. Who played the role of Sean Parker in the movie The Social
Network?
3. Which writer’s works include The Financial Expert, The
Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher
4. In which place will you find this monument?
135