The MELA Quiz - DoMS, IIT Roorkee

LIGHTS – CAMERA – POUNCE
The MELA Quiz
Karun Sethi – IIT Roorkee

ROUNDS
• Round I –TheWarm-Up (10)
• Round II –The Usual (18)
• Round III –The Copycats (6)
• Round IV –The Usual Sequel (18)
• RoundV –TheWarm-Up Sequel (10)
• RoundVI –The Simpsons Parodies (6)
• RoundVII –The Copied Posters (6)
• RoundVIII –We SingToo! (6)
• Round IX – Pehchaan Kaun? (10)
• Round X –The Long Connect (7)

THEWARM-UP
• Written Round
• 10 minimalist posters of animated movies
• +1 for each correct
• +5 bonus for all correct

THE USUAL
• 18 questions (clockwise)
• +3/0 on bounce
• +3/-3 on pounce

1.TOO CLICHÉD, BUT IT’S JUSTTHE BEGINNING

2. BALANCE IS IMPORTANT
Michael Dobbs is a British Conservative politician and best selling author, most famous for his trilogy
of thrillers, the first of which was titled _____________ published in 1989.The second part was titled
To PlayThe King (1992) and the third one was The Final Cut (1994). Each of these novels was adapted
by BBC into a miniseries.
Fill in the blank.

3. LIVES IN OUR HEARTS
Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German graphic and industrial fair designer, architect, artist and
interior designer from Munich and her mother is an interior designer, landscaper and currently does
social work as a volunteer to help alcoholics and addicts. She herself has been involved with Cancer
PatientsAid Association, PETA, CRY and has worked extensively with the government of Andhra
Pradesh to spread HIV awareness. She is on the board of the Coca Cola foundation that works
towards development in rural India. Identify.

4. CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
Four Indian actors are collectively referred to as the “Walking Acting school of India”. If Naseeruddin
Shah, Om Puri and Irrfan Khan are three of these, who is the fourth?

5. SITTER
Connect (exhaustive, in-order):
- Prem Abeed
- Shammi Kapoor
- Manoj Kumar
- Sonu Sood
- Bobby Deol
- Ajay Devgan
- Siddharth Narayan

PORTRAYED BHAGAT SINGH IN MOVIES

7. ANOTHER CHILDHOOD FAVOURITE
Where would you find these rooms?
- Brain Room
- Entrance Room
- Space Chamber
- Death Chamber
-Time Chamber
- Hall of Prophecy
-The Ever-Locked Room

DEPARTMENT OF MYSTERIES, MINISTRY OF MAGIC

8. FRIEND OR FOE?
The name of which fictional character in Arabic literally translates as “The Demon’s Head”?

9.WHAT DIDTHESE GENTLEMEN CREATE?

TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE – SOUTH PARK

11. NEWSPAPER PHENOMENON
X has been described as “the most shining example of the American success story in the comic strip
field” and also “arguably the longest story ever told by one human being”.This is ironic, given that
X’s theme has mostly been about “the great American un-success story”. Identify.

12. HOLD ON, FELLAS
This is the logo of a company called Framestore. According to their website: “we work with you to
create amazing images that entertain, communicate, influence and shape people’s views about
subjects as diverse as health, music, films, television and many aspects of our society.” What is their
biggest claim to fame?

CREATEDTHEVISUAL EFFECTS FOR GRAVITY

13. PERSONAL FAVOURITE
Esquire magazine’s annual feature “Sexiest Woman Alive” is billed as a benchmark of female
attractiveness, very similar to People magazine’s feature “Sexiest Man Alive”. Who is the only woman
to win this coveted title twice?

14. ANOTHER SITTER, IFYOU ARE ATRUE FAN
EmmaThomas is currently a British film producer, who worked as a script supervisor earlier and was
an assistant to director Stephen Frears on High Fidelity (2000).Thomas graduated from University
College Londonwhere she met her future husband. Since 1997, she has produced all her husband’s
movies.Who is the lucky husband?

15.YOU HAVE DEFINITELY HEARDTHE NAME
The name of which Bollywood classic from the 1970s literally translates to “pure of heart” in Urdu?

16. HELPING STUDENTS LEAD ACTIVE LIVES
Who is behind this noble initiative?The name of this organization is very similar to the mannerisms
and accent of this person.

17.VERSATILE PERSONALITY
In 2011, whose name officially entered the Guinness Book ofWorld Records for the most studio
recordings (singles) for recording up to 11,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs and in over 20
Indian languages since 1947?

18.THIS CAN BEWORKED OUT
These are the young photographs of actorsTimothy Carlton andWandaVentham.Their son, born in
1976 is equally handsome.Who is this gentleman, who has a great fan-following in India as well?

THE COPYCATS
• 6 questions (1 direct per team)
• 6 Hollywood movie summaries along with the respective posters is given
• You have to guess its Bollywood remake
• +5/0 on bounce
• +5/-5 on pounce

THE COPYCATS – 1
A just-divorced man must learn to care for his son
on his own, and then must fight in court to keep
custody of him.

THE COPYCATS – 2
Realizing his secret girl-friend Dorothy’s pregnancy
will sour her relations with her ultra-rich father,
career-minded Philadelphia student Jonathan
Corliss coolly murders her, making it look like
suicide. He then moves to NewYork to woo her twin
sister Ellen. All seems to go well for him, although
Ellen’s continued investigations into what she is
convinced was no suicide forces him to kill again.

THE COPYCATS – 3
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a
wife home to his farm, his brothers decide that they
want to get married too.

THE COPYCATS – 4
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is
helped by a man who’s actually a reporter looking
for a story.

THE COPYCATS – 5
Doug is a young man who works all day as a
concierge at a luxurious hotel, saving money to
make his own business. Unfortunately, when he
finds the financial supporter he needs, he discovers
that his “saviour” is having an affair with the
woman he loves. Now, he must choose between
money and love.

THE COPYCATS – 6
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six
months at the Empire State Building – but will it
happen?

THE USUAL SEQUEL
• Same as Round II
• 18 questions (anti-clockwise)
• +3/0 on bounce
• +3/-3 on pounce

20. FROMTHE LIT WORLD
A __________ ___________ is deemed to have occurred:
a) when a local councilor fails to make his declaration of acceptance of office within the proper time.
b) when his notice of resignation is received.
c) on the day of his death.
Fill in the blanks.

22.THE MUSE OF ART,THE ELECTRON OF SCIENCE
The first name that was suggested was “Ike” but it was also the popular nickname of World War
II hero and future U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and therefore something more unique was
chosen. Finally television engineer Harry Lubcke, suggested a name which was a term commonly
used for the image orthicon tube used in the early cameras.What name was thus finalized?

23. HANDLE WITH CARE
Before the late 19th century, only hand written copies of X were prepared.The first printed copy of X
was made in 1864. Since the early 20th century, X has been printed in a standard 1430 pages. Any
copies of X which are too badly damaged to be used, and any printer’s waste which has any of its
text on, are cremated with a similar ceremony as cremating a deceased person. Such burning is
called Agan Bhet. Identify X.

24.WHENTHE GAME PLAYSYOU
X is a Zulu word meaning “many effects”. It is the title of a 1981 fantasy children’s picture book,
written and illustrated by the American author ChrisVan Allsburg. It was made into a 1995 film of the
same name.Van Allsburg approved the movie despite the changes not being as “idiosyncratic and
peculiar” as the novel, declaring that “The film is faithful in reproducing the chaos level that comes
with having a jungle animal in the house. It's a good movie.” Identify X.

25. LETS HEAD EASTWARDS
Connect the following movies (exhaustive list):
• Sacrifice – 1927
• Milan – 1947
• Kabuliwala – 1961
• Uphaar – 1971
• Lekin... – 1991
• Char Adhyay – 1997
• Kashmakash – 2011

HINDI MOVIE ADAPTATIONS OFTAGORE'S WORKS

26.THE REAL KING
In 2013, a crater on Mercury was named in this artist’s honour, considered among the greatest
painters in the history of Indian art. Identify.

27. SITTER –WHO IS ONTHE RIGHT?

28. GIVE ME AVERY SPECIFIC CONNECT.

ALL ADAPTATIONS OF STEPHEN KING’S WORKS.

29.WHO ISTHE SUBJECT OFTHIS BOOK?

30. EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE
Leon David Black (born 1951) is an American businessman. He specializes in leveraged buyouts and
private equity. He founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in 1990. In July 2012,
TheWall Street Journal reported that Black had anonymously paid $119.9 million to obtain X, thus
making headlines the world over. Identify X which is famous in popular culture too and has been
used in advertising, cartoons andTV series.

31. PERSONAL FAVOURITE – PART II
Connect the following:

32. BARE BEGINNINGS
Tiger Child, released on May 15, 1970 is a short 17 minute movie directed by Canadian filmmaker
Donald Brittain and produced by Roman Kroitor and Kichi Ichikawa. What unique feat does it hold in
the world of entertainment?

THE FIRST IMAX MOVIE EVER MADE

33.THETIMING IS PERFECT
Baskiceball is a mash-up of basketball and ice hockey. It is an extremely violent sport described as
having no rules; a game in which the competitors simply “bail on each other”.The sport was
invented by three brothers. Where has this sport been mentioned?

HOW I METYOUR MOTHER
The sport was invented by Marshall and his brothers, Marvin and Marcus.

34. ALSO POPULAR IN MODERN CULTURE
X is a very old “verse-format” of poetry. It is an independent verse, the meaning of which is complete
in itself.As regards its origin, Hermann Jacobi had suggested that the origin of X can be traced to the
Greek Hexametre, that it is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line. Jacobi’s theory rests on the
premise that Indians possessed a translation of Homer’s works as asserted by Dio of Alexandria.
Identify X.

35. IDENTIFYTHIS RISING INDIAN CELEBRITY.

NEHA KAKKAR
Sunny Sunny, O Gujariya and all that jazz.

36. DON’TTRYTHIS AT HOME (AS IF IT’S POSSIBLE)
In the world of literature, what are these: Blagging, Blatching, Blurting, Bumphing, Cobbing, Flacking,
Haversacking, Stooging?
These are the most common ones, although 700 of these exist.

ROUND V – THE WARM-UP
SEQUEL

THEWARM-UP SEQUEL
• Written Round
• 10 minimalist posters of literary classics
• +1 for each correct
• +5 bonus for all correct

ROUND VI – THE SIMPSONS
PARODIES

THE SIMPSONS PARODIES
• Written Round
• 6 Simpsons posters parodying a movie,TV series, book etc.
• Differential Scoring pattern
• Each correct answer gives you (6-N) marks, where N = no. of teams answering correctly

ROUND VII – THE COPIED
POSTERS

THE COPIED POSTERS
• Written Round
• 6 movie posters would be shown
• You have to guess either the movie it is copied from or copied as (example on next slide)

WE SINGTOO!
• 6 audio clips will be played
• Identify the voice
• +5/0 on bounce
• +5/-5 on pounce

AUDIO CLIP 1
• Clip 1: Can’tTake My Eyes OffYou

AUDIO CLIP 2
• Clip 2:The Moon Song [From 0:17 sec]

AUDIO CLIP 3
• Clip 3: InThe RoomWhereYou Sleep [From 0:13 sec]

AUDIO CLIP 4
• Clip 4: Can’t Keep It Inside

AUDIO CLIP 5
• Clip 5: I Dreamed A Dream

AUDIO CLIP 6
• Clip 6: River [From 0:18 sec]

PEHCHAAN KAUN?
• Written Round
• Real names of 10 celebrities are given
• You have to mention their “more famous” names

PEHCHAAN KAUN?
1.Tramar Lacel Dillard
2. Harihar Jethalal Jariwala
3. Paul Michael Levesque
4. Robyn Fenty
5. Kulbhushan Pandit
6. Maqsood Mehmood Ali
7. John Prakasa Rao Janumala
8.Tim Bergling
9. Jaikishen Kakubhai
10. OnikaTanya Maraj

THE LONG CONNECT
• Written Round
• 7 questions having a common connection/theme
• NOTE: The connection is non-exhaustive and not-in-order
• Each individual answer carries +10 marks
• Scoring for the connection is mentioned on each slide

+30/-15
X lived primarily with his mother as his father, a magician, disappeared when he was very young.He
was raised for the first four years of his life with a baby gorilla named Magilla. After flunking 8th
grade, his mother had him evaluated, and the results were that the tests were too easy for him and
he was bored. X’s ex-wife describes him as “having the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old” and she,
his housekeeper and his ex-girlfriend have all described him as needy.However, he cares about the
environment, and does not believe in lending money, as it is never repaid and leads to resentment of
the person to whom the money is lent; instead he prefers to just give it away. Identify X.

+20/-10
X was created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed byThe Walt Disney Company. X is portrayed in
animations as speaking with a slight Scottish accent, also sometimes known as a Scottish burr. X has
enjoyed international popularity, particularly in Europe, and books about him are frequently
translated into other languages. X’s misanthropic thoughts in his first story are quite
pronounced: ”Here I sit in this big lonely dump, waiting for Christmas to pass! Bah!That silly season
when everybody loves everybody else! A curse on it! Me – I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate
everybody!”

+15/-5
• Robert the X was the King of Scots from 1306-1329 and was one of the most famous warriors of
his generation and is today remembered in Scotland as a national hero.
• AnthonyY was a US Army officer where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned
him promotion to brigadier general and the sobriquet Mad Anthony.
• The names X andY were supposedly the inspiration for someone. Who?
[PICS FOLLOW]

+10/-5
I’m looking for the blanked part and NOT the
name of the movie.

LARA CROFT – TOMB RAIDER SERIES

WALDEN SCHMIDT – TWO AND A HALF MEN

JAY GATSBY –THE GREAT GATSBY

ROBERTTHE BRUCE AND ANTHONY WAYNE

CHRISTIAN GREY – FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

CONNECT
Lara Croft
Walden Schmidt
JayGatsby
Scrooge McDuck
BruceWayne
Christian Grey
Tony Stark
RICHEST FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
ACCORDING TO FORBES.

THE FULL LIST – IF ANYONE’S INTERESTED

Feedback: karunsethi.iitr@gmail.com
THANKYOU

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