MELA Quiz Genesis '13 QBIT Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

1. THE GENESIS ROUND

2. G
 Foxboro Hot Tubs is the garage rock side project of the band
X, which includes all the members of X plus Kevin Preston
of Prima Donna. Their first album Stop Drop and Roll!!! was
released on April 22, 2008. The band is currently used by X
to book „secret shows‟. While performing as the Foxboro Hot
Tubs, the band performs most of Stop Drop and Roll!!! and X
"covers”.
 When asked about the Hot Tubs, the lead singer of X stated
“The only similarity between Foxboro Hot Tubs and X is that
we are the same band”.
 Id X

3. Answer
 Green Day

4. E
 X initially wrote fan fiction under the pen name "Snowqueen's
Icedragon.” X described her breakthrough trilogy of books as
- "my midlife crisis, writ large. All my fantasies in there, and
that's it.“
 X was also named one of "The World's 100 Most Influential
People” in 2012 by Time magazine.

5. Answer
 E L James

6. N
 The song „Emosanal Attyachar‟ from the movie Dev .D
featured the brass band „Patna ke Presley's‟. The two singers
were BandMaster Rangeela and BandMaster Rasila. If
BandMaster Rasila was Nitin Chainpuri, the associate
director of the movie, who was BandMaster Rangeela ?

7. Answer
 Nawazuddin Siddiqui

8. E
 In the movie Rock On, Farhan Akhtar‟s character says “We
never broke up, we just took a 14-year long break”.
 This is a direct reference to the band X, whose lead singer
spoke the same lines when their band reunited and
performed together after a gap of 14 years.
 Id X.

9. Answer
 Eagles

10. S
 Reviewing this film for The Times of India, Khalid Mohammed
wrote : “REJOICE. India's answer to Quentin Tarantino is
here”, where he was comparing the impact made by the
director of the film to QT.
 It is one of the rare movies which have got a 5-star rating
from Khalid Mohammed.
 Which 1998 film are we talking about ?

11. Answer
 Satya

12. I
This picture shows a torture
device used in the medieval
ages.
What is its connection to
music?

13. Answer
 Iron Maiden
 The band got its name when Steve Harris learned about the
torture device after watching a movie adaptation of The Man
In The Iron Mask.

14. S
 The James Bond super-villain
Blofeld served as an
inspiration for this famous bald
villain, who operates from a
remote island outside India
equipped with modern
gadgets.
 (One of Kulbhushan
Kharbanda‟s most iconic
roles).

15. Answer
 Shaakal