Metaphor Literature Quiz Finals

Round 1
 Infinite Pounce and Bounce.
 12 questions run clockwise.
 +15/-10 on Pounce.

1.
 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a
Reprint from the Reminiscences of
‘____’, : is a 1974 novel by Nicholas
Meyer, which has been adapted into a
1976 film of the same name.
 The book is supposed as a lost
manuscript, and traces a certain
character X’s recovery from addiction of
a certain product, as indicated by the
title, with the help of Z, who was, very
much an epoch-breaking real-life figure.
 X, and Z?

2.  Gregorio Fuentes was a fisherman and the first mate
of the Pilar, a ship owned by X. Fuentes would spend
his later years charging tourists $10 or $20 to take his
picture and regale them with stories of his domestic
partnership with X. Fuentes, a lifelong cigar smoker,
died from cancer in Cojimar in 2002, never having
read Y. He was 104 years old.
 While some claim Fuentes to be the inspiration behind
Y, Carlos Gutierrez also is famous for being friends
with X and many also attribute him to being the
inspiration behind Y. Gutiérrez had been fishing the
Gulf Stream for 40 years and was already an old man
when X first met him. X would credit the old fisherman
with teaching him everything he knew about catching
marlin.
 X, Y?

X= Ernest Hemingway
 Y= The Old Man and The Sea

3.
 Alibi, Burglar, Corpse, Deadbeat,
Evidence, Fugitive, Gumshoe, Homicide,
Innocence, Judgment, Killer, Lawless,
Malice, Noose, Outlaw, Peril, Quarry,
Ricochet, Silence, Trespass, Undertow,
Vengeance, Wasted,
 The latest addition came this year, titled
“X”.
 Funda

4.
 X was once asked by his friend Charles Poncet which he
preferred, football or the theatre. X is said to have replied,
"Football, without hesitation.”
 X played as goalkeeper for Racing Universitaire d'Alger (RUA
won both the North African Champions and the North African
Cup twice each in the 1930s) junior team from 1928 to
1930. The sense of team spirit, fraternity, and common
purpose appealed to X enormously.
 In match reports X would often attract positive comment for
playing with passion and courage. Any football ambitions
disappeared when he contracted tuberculosis at the age of
17. The affliction, which was then incurable, caused X to be
bedridden for long and painful periods.
 Maybe due to such history, a professional footballer appears
as a character in arguably X’s most seminal work Y and
football is discussed in the dialogue.
 X, Y?

5.
 Both Flesh and Not: Essays is a collection
of fifteen essays by author X published
posthumously. It is X’s third essay collection.
 The title comes from the first essay of the
book, describing Y as “both flesh and not”.
The original title of the essay when published
in The New York Times, however was titled
“Y as Religious Experience”. Y is most of the
time labelled as the best in his profession.
 X, is however, single-handedly known for
another fictional work.
 X, Y?

X= David Foster Wallace
Y = Roger Federer

6.
 ______, the title character with a funny name, is a
young Brooklyn prostitute who makes a living
propositioning sailors in bars and stealing their money.
In perhaps the novel X’s most notorious scene, she is
brutally gang-raped after a night of heavy drinking.
 Although critics and fellow writers praised the book on
its release, X caused much controversy because of its
frank portrayals of taboo subjects, such as drug use,
street violence, gang
rape, homosexuality, transvestism and domestic
violence. It was the subject of an important
obscenity trial in the United Kingdom and was banned
in Italy.
 ______, however inspired the English group Y, so
much so that one of their chart-toppers named them
repeatedly. Y, X?

X= The Last Exit to Brooklyn
 Y= Alt-J (Fitzpleasure starts with ‘Tra
..la…la”)

7.
 The song's lyrics were influenced by X, Y’s best known
work. The opening line ("Leaves are falling all around") could
be a paraphrase of the opening line of Y’s poem "Namárië".
 References to X appear later in the song's lyrics,
including the mention of ____ and _____.
Mine's a tale that can't be told,
My freedom I hold dear;
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air,
'Twas in the darkest depths of _____
I met a girl so fair.
But _____, the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.
 References to Y’s work also exist in other songs by the group,
such as "Misty Mountain Hop" and "The Battle of Evermore".
 The Song, and X?

“Ramble On”, by Led Zeppelin
X= The Lord of the Rings
 'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.

8.
 In the episode titled “The Unquiet Dead”, directed by
Mark Gatiss, of the first season of Doctor Who (2005
series), the Doctor, accompanied by Rose Tyler, goes
back in time to 1869 to Cardiff, where in a theatre X is
giving a lecture of sorts.
 The Doctor and Rose head back to the TARDIS at the
end, and X thanks them for their help. He decides to
leave immediately to patch up things with his family,
and to finish Y.
 The Doctor however, tells Rose that X will die, and Y
will be his last work and will be left unfinished, which it
is.
 The Doctor and Rose say their goodbyes and
disappear in the TARDIS, and the astounded X walks
away through the streets of Cardiff, greeting everyone
he passes and quoting another of his work: "God
bless us, everyone!“
 X, Y?

9. Before the bombing of ______

After the bombing of _______.
Id the city, or the book to which
these images refer to

10.
 “X” is a non-album single by British band The
Smiths, released in March 1985.
 Its title refers to a section of Virginia
Woolf's feminist essay A Room of One's
Own in which Woolf argues that
if ________ had had a sister of equal genius,
as a woman she would not have had the
opportunity to make use of it. Woolf's essay
was "one of the many feminist texts Shaun
Morrissey, the band leader embraced as a
sexually confused, politically awakened
adolescent.
 X?

 X= “Shakespeare’s Sister”

11.
 X, a gothic novel published in 1851, has a
background of the events which occurred with the
author’s grandfather, who was a court judge in
Salem during the Witch Trials of 1692. Since the
infamous trials, the author decided to change his
surname by adding an extra ‘W’ to their surname.
 The fictional setting of the plot involved the Y
family and their abode in Y street. It has been
since been found out that the Y family actually
existed, and were actually ancestors of
contemporary writer Y, a National Book Award for
Fiction.
 Name X, and Y.

12.
 “X", as a phrase, has been used by many writers,
the first (possibly) being Friedrich
Nietzsche in The Antichrist.
 In a Rolling Stone magazine interview, the author
said: "It came out of my own sense of fear, and
[is] a perfect description of that situation to me,
however, I have been accused of stealing it from
Nietzsche or Kafka or something. It seemed like
a natural thing.”
 The phrase is a part of the title of the author’s
most famous book. He first used the phrase in a
letter to a friend written after the Kennedy
assassination, describing how he felt about
whoever had shot President John F. Kennedy.
 X/The title?

Round 2
 Connect, written round.
 Six questions coming up, which
connect to a greater theme
 The pounce will be open at every
point after the 1st question, starting
from +50/-25, +40/-20, +30/-15, +20/-
10, +10/0
 Pounce is open only on theme.

1.
 "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"
is the last short story written by X. It deals
with the relationship between an artist and
her audience.
 Josephine is a rarity among the mouse
people, for she has the innate ability to sing,
which none other in the community has
displayed. She can not only sing, but she can
sing beautifully, helping all the mouse people
tolerate their unusually hardworking lives.
 In the short story, Josephine's music sounds
like whistling if heard from the wrong angle,
which may be a reference to Y's late
husband's ability to whistle with crackers in
his mouth.

3.
 X (1266–1290) was a woman who has
been commonly identified as the
principal inspiration for Y’s greatest work.
She appears as a guide to Y in a
journey of transcendence.
 According to academics, X, and Y met
only twice in their lifetime. Y has
manuscripts dedicated to X with a
personal message attached the end. Y
has often referred to her as “the glorious
lady of my mind”.

4.
 X (10 May 1886 – 6 September
1950) was a British philosopher and
author of influential works of science
fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into
the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of
Fame.
 X’s writings directly influenced Arthur C.
Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Stanisław
Lem, Bertrand Russell, and C.S.Lewis. X
was an agnostic who was hostile
to religious institutions, but not to
religious yearnings, a fact that set him at
odds with H. G. Wells in their
correspondence.

5.
 X is a pioneering character in more ways than one.
 In many of the pastiche works in tribute to X, his identity
is always revealed to be the creator of X himself.
 Jorge Luis Borges pays homage to X in "Death and the
Compass", by calling his main detective character Erik
Lönrott an “X-type detective. This is one of the stories
published by Borges in his Ficciones(1944). Borges
also translated the author's works into Spanish.
 X makes a guest appearance in the first two issues
of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I
comic book, helping to track down and subdue the
monstrous Mr Hyde.
 X?

6.
 X was the writer who coined the term
“modernity”. Apart from being a tremendous
poet, he was also a foremost literary critic,
with Eugene Delacroix and Manet in his
friends’ circle.
 X is the famous translator of Edgar Allan
Poe, and his "scrupulous translations" were
considered among the best. Since Poe’s
stories were based in Paris, X was the fitter
person to translate these. These were
published as Histoires
extraordinaires (Extraordinary stories)
(1852), Nouvelles histoires
extraordinaires (New extraordinary stories)
(1857).
 X?

 X= C.Auguste Dupin –The fist
detective.

Round 3
 Infinite Pounce and Bounce
 12 questions anti-clockwise.

1.
 In the plot of Douglas Adams's novel Dirk
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the title
character time travels to interrupt X’s working on
one of his vital works.
 During his rambling dialogue, intended to disrupt X
from unintentionally encoding information from a
ghost which could lead to the destruction of the
human race, Dirk Gently's references to Albert
Ross, another character from the novel, which has
an effect on X.
 X says this might be fruitful, giving him an idea for
something else he is working on, which X
considers superior to a previous idea involving a
meteor striking the Earth.
 X, and the work that in such a way is inspired?

X= Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

2.
 Members of this group have
included Dave Barry, Stephen King, Amy
Tan, Cynthia Heimel, Sam Barry, Ridley
Pearson, Scott Turow, Joel Selvin, James
McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount,
Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Robert
Fulghum, Matt Groening, Tad
Bartimus, Greg Iles, Aron Ralston and
honorary member Maya Angelou.
 What is this group named ?

3.
 X is a phrase is French for novel with a key, is
a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of
fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent
real people, and the "key" is the relationship
between the non-fiction and the fiction. This "key"
may be produced separately by the author, or
implied through the use of epigraphs or
other literary techniques.
 Created by Madeleine de Scudery in the 17th
century to provide a forum for her thinly veiled
fiction featuring political and public figures, X has
since been used by writers as diverse as Ernest
Hemingway, George Orwell, Victor Hugo, Phillip K.
Dick, Bret Easton Ellis etc.
 X?

4.
 In 1967-68 series of India against
Australia, the late Mansoor Ali Khan
Pataudi was playing his first test against
Australia.
 Early on in his double innings of 75 and 85
in the test match, he braved a hamstring
injury and kept on batting haphazardly in a
great display of endurance.
 After this innings in such a fashion, he was
compared to an iconic fictional character.
Which one?

Long John Silver (Treasure
Island)

5.
 This name has most often been interpreted as an
attempt to render a Scandinavian forename:
usually either “Jørg", a form of the
name George. Many versions of it appear in Saxo
Grammaticus, one of X’s source texts, as the
name of the queen's father. There has been no
general agreement to the origins.
 More recently Gerald Kilroy has suggested that it
is an anagram of the Greek word 'Kurios', which
he takes to be a reference to the Catholic
martyr Edmund Campion.
 A version of the name appears in the His Dark
Materials fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman.
 Name this character, who is almost never seen in
human form.

6.
 Mila 18 is a 1961 novel by Leon Uris set in German-
occupied Warsaw, Poland, before and during World
War II. Mila 18 debuted at #7 on The New York Times
Best Seller List. Based on real events, covers
the Nazi occupation of Poland and the atrocities of
systematically dehumanizing and eliminating
the Jewish People of Poland.
 Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis
Milestone and starring Peter Lawford, Frank
Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey
Bishop.
 Stalag 17 is a 1953 war film which tells the story of a
group of American airmen held in a German World
War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that
one of their number is an informant.
 What did these works lead to (very indirectly) in the
world of literature?
( Posters Next Slide)

 All these were rejected numbers for
“Catch 22”, because the editors didn’t
want the public confused.

7.
 Sir John ‘X’ was an English knight during
the Hundred Years War, who has enjoyed a more
lasting reputation as the prototype of a famous literary
character. Many historians consider, however, that he
deserves to be famous in his own right, not only as a
soldier, but as a patron of literature, a writer on
strategy and perhaps as an early industrialist.
 During the 1429 siege of Orleans, he famously battled
with Joan of Arc, and he acquired a disreputable name
due to his apparent cowardice and escapades during
crucial fights. it is true that John, Duke of
Bedford suspended him from the Order of the Garter
and he was subject of accusations of cowardice. This
interestingly shaped the influence he made on
literature.
 What?

Sir John Fastolf – “Falstaff”

8.
 Van Helsing: From Beneath The Rue Morgue is a
one-shot comic book from Dark Horse Comics, based
on the film Van Helsing. It is based on the premise
that Gabriel Van Helsing lived in Paris, and from his
own perspective.
 As can be seen from the title, the comic references
many literary works and characters, and places them
together in a parallel universe. In the plot, Van Helsing
battles a monster X who according to a news report
“is an Englishman from West Sussex who had an
accident”. He was created in the secret lab of Dr Y
(who is also a villain in the comic), after Y invented
something.
 Both X and Y are literary characters developed by
the same pioneering person in sci-fi literature.
 X, Y (Or the works in which they feature)?

X= The Invisible Man
Y= Doctor Moreau

9.
 Saint James/’Santiago Matamoros’ is the
name given to the representation in the form
of a painting or sculptures of the
apostle Saint James the Elder as a
legendary, miraculous appearance at
the Battle of Clavijo on 23 May 844, fighting
on the Christian side against the Muslims.
(Image next slide)
 There have been several theories regarding
the inspiration that St. James gave to the
author, who must have had him in mind when
he decided to frame a character (and his
actions) on this cult legend.
 Put funda.

Iago in Othello
(Matamoros=Moor Killer)

10.
 This is the book cover of Robert
Heinlein’s famous book. Name me the
source material/inspiration for this.
(Image next slide)
The tagline of the book reads:
 NAME: Valentine Michael smith
ANCESTRY: Human
ORIGIN: Mars

13.
 “X” is a 1979 drama thriller film directed
by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa
Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy
Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan.
 A disclaimer in the opening credits states
that what follows is an imaginary solution to
an authentic mystery.
 Basic plot- Vanessa Redgrave’s character
planning suicide in such a way as to frame
her husband's mistress for her "murder". An
American reporter, played by Dustin
Hoffman, follows her closely and stops the
plan.
(Poster next slide)

12.
 The dramatic reading in the mix is X (Act IV, Scene 6), lines 219–
222 and 249–262, added to the song on 29 September 1967, direct
from an AM radio which X, was fiddling with that happened to be
receiving the broadcast of the play on the BBC Third Programme.
 The first excerpt (ll. 219–222) moves in and out of the text,
containing fragments of lines only.
 Gloucester: (2:25) Now, good sir, wh-- (X appears to change the
channel away from the station here)
Edgar: (2:28) -- poor man, made tame by fortune -- (2:34) good pity
–
Oswald: (3:52) Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
If ever thou wilt thrive,(4:02) bury my body,
And give the (4:05) letters which thou find'st about me
To (4:08) Edmund, Earl of Gloucester; (4:10)seek him out
Upon the British party. O, (4:14) untimely Death!
Edgar: (4:23) I know thee well: a (4:25) serviceable villain;
As duteous to the (4:27) vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire.
Gloucester: What, is he dead?
Edgar: (4:31) Sit you down father, rest you.
Name the critically acclaimed single, and X, the play.

King Lear, I am The Walrus, and
John Lennon

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