Faccha Introductory MELA Quiz IIT BHU

Faccha Introductory
Lonewolf M.E.L.A. Quiz
’cause Batman walks alone
Researched and Presented by
Mahendra Mohan Das

An “easy” MELA quiz. ;-)
• Guess. Just guess. If
you don’t know about
any Indian actor,
answer Amitabh
Bachchan (or
Rajinikanth). If you
don’t know about any
English musician,
answer Michael
Jackson. Who knows,
you might be correct!

Rules
• I’m Batman..So your argument is
invalid..(whatever it is)
• If you think I’m wrong in any question, read the
above rule again.
• Medium of the quiz if Hinglish. Don’t thank me,
you’re welcome.

If you think this is Entertainment..
Then..

Prelims
• 20 questions.
• 1 mark per question.
• No negative marking.
• Remember the rules from the previous page.
• Star questions will resolve ties (whether single
star or double), in case there is any.
• For equal no. of star questions, double star
questions will be considered.

1) An easy question to start with.
• Identify the movie and the singer.
• NO HALF POINTS.

2) Which reality show?
• This reality based show was first aired on 16th
June 2007 and since then it has aired 16
seasons.
• 1st season had the tag line 'Jodi jamegi, public
hassegi' guarantees hysterics and aired for 13
weeks, Kashif Khan & Ali Asgar being declared
the winner.

3) What is X?
• According to a story, X was a large cannon,
which was strategically placed on the wall. A
shot from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in
damaging the wall beneath X which caused the
cannon to tumble to the ground. The Royalists,
or Cavaliers attempted to raise X on to another
part of the wall, but because the cannon was so
heavy that they couldn’t place it back.

*4) Which character?
• Born as Anakin Skywalker, this movie character
was one of the main antagonists in the original
trilogy and the main protagonist in the prequel
trilogy.
• Falling to the dark side, he ultimately redeems
himself by sacrificing himself to save his son
Luke.

5) Who?
• It was created as a replacement for Oswald the
Lucky Rabbit, an earlier cartoon character
created by the Disney studio for Charles Mintz of
Universal Studios. His body was designed out of
circles in order to make the character simple to
animate, which is most noticeable in his ears.
This made him easily recognizable to audiences
and made his ears an unofficial personal
trademark.
• In 1978, it became the first cartoon character to
have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

*6)
• Which work of
art is this
minimalist poster
referencing?

**8) Telivision appearances of whom?

9) Which famous character?
• She is the wife of Ashok Patel.
• UK-based businessman Puneetk Agarwal has
tried to bring back the character ___ ___ in the
form of an animated movie titled ___ ___
Movie which released for online viewing on 4th
May 2013.
• The filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma is reported to
be making a cinema movie bringing ___ ___'s
character to celluloid.

*10) What are they representing?

13) Who?
• He received powers from seven gurus who
trained and blessed him with "yogic shakti which
was natural power." He was the chosen warrior
against evil by siddha gurus of a cult named
Suryavanshi. They are followers of Sun. As part
of training he trained with Kundalini Yoga to
waken the 7 chakras of body and gain 'super
natural' powers from them.

**14)• Discovered in 2008 in the remote Fuja
Mountains of Indonesia, what popular nickname
did this frog species get from its resemblance to
a character in literature?

15) Kaun?
• It is a BBC television
dramatisation of a
famous personality
where Benedict
Cumberbatch is
portraying the person.
• Who?

*17) Who is talking about what?
• "The sport it resembles the most is Basketball
which is probably the sport I enjoy watching the
most. I had a lot of fun making up the rules and I
have still got the notebook I did it."

*18) Kaun si movie?
• Cathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win
the Academy Award for Best Director for The
Hurt Locker.
• Question is, for which film did her ex-husband
win the Academy Award for Best Director?

19) What’s the gooooood word?
• X is a musical performance that has little to do
with the film in which it appears, but is
presented to showcase beautiful dancing women
in revealing clothes, to lend support to the
marketability of the film. The term is commonly
used in connection with Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
and Telugu cinema, to describe a catchy, upbeat,
often sexually provocative dance sequence for a
song in a movie.

Answers follow…
• Submit your sheets.
• Keep sitting. Volunteers will take the sheets from
you.

Savita Bhabhi.
You Dirty minded bsatard you..

J. K. Rowling about Quidditch.

Item Number.
(Item Song will do)

Finals in a while…
• SIT. DON’T YOU DARE GO. :-P

Faccha Introductory
Lonewolf M.E.L.A. Quiz
’cause Batman walks alone
Finals
Mahendra Mohan Das

Round EK.
• 12 questions, clockwise.
• No infinite bounce, I have a better plan.
• +10 for each correct answer.
• If you surely know the answer and it’s not your
turn, DON’T SPEAK IT, raise your hand, and
write it down. If you’re correct, you get +10, if
wrong, you get -10, there IS negative.
• You are at my mercy. If every team wants hint, I
might give one. I’m not that much merciless.

Quiz.
• Quiz was Charles Dickens’ nickname.
• Bournvita organised BQC, one of India’s most
famous quiz show ever.
• Neil O’brien, India’s first quizmaster; also the
father of Derek O’brien and Barry O’brien.
• Dublin, where the word is said to have
originated in 1791.

2) FITB.
• A ___ is a supernatural being in Norse
mythology and Scandinavian folklore.
• In Internet slang, a ___ is a person who sows
discord on the Internet by starting arguments or
upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,
extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online
community (such as a forum, chat room, or
blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate
intent of provoking readers into an emotional
response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-
topic discussion.

Troll.
• Learn to read the definitions and questions
carefully. :-P

3) Which character?
• Auguste Piccard was a
Swiss physicist,
inventor and explorer.
• Question is, he is the
inspiration behind
which famous comic
character?
• Hint: Imagine him with
a goatee and a hat. Bas!

4) Who?
• 1.Knowledge of Literature - Nil.
• 2.Knowledge of Philosophy - Nil.
• 3.Knowledge of Astronomy - Nil.
• 4.Knowledge of Politics - Feeble.
• 5.Knowledge of Botany - Variable. Well up in
belladonna, opium and poison generally. Knows
nothing of practice gardening.
• (contd.)

• 6.Knowledge of Geology - Practical, but limited.
Ability to differentiate between different soils.
• 7.Knowledge of Chemistry - Profound.
• 8.Knowledge of Anatomy - Accurate, but
unsystematic.
• 9.Knowledge of Sensational Contemporary
Literature - Immense.
• 10. Plays the violin well.
• 11.Expert boxer.
• 12. Has good knowledge of law

5) Which painting? Painter?
• A theory suggests that the inspiration for the
painting X came to the painter Y when he was
sitting among the hills of Cape Creus of Spain. It
was a hot August day. He sat there, eating a
lunch, when he noticed that his Camembert
cheese was melting. It was very runny. The
cheese gave Y inspiration to give other objects
distorted shapes as well. In tribute to the place
where it was created, Y decided to make the
background of the painting to seem like the cliffs
of Cape Creus.

6) Who was 7th in Google’s most
searched woman’s list?
• 1. Lady Gaga
• 2. Ke$ha
• 3. Madonna
• 4. Beyoncé
• 5. Rihanna
• 6. Britney Spears
• 7. ___ ___
• 8. Miley Cyrus
• 9. Paris Hilton
• 10. Avril Lavigne

7) Which book?
• “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A
man can be destroyed but not defeated. ”
-famous quote from a novel.
• This book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel
Committee as contributing to the awarding of
the Nobel Prize in Literature to the writer in
1954.

8) Which famous singer/musician?
• Born in 1969 in London, England, to an Indo-
Pak family, as a teenager X, when performing on
the piano at a TV program in Stockholm, was
noticed by the famous U.S based Keyboard
Magazine as being the 'Fastest man on Keyboard
in the world & the Keyboard Discovery of the
Nineties'. He went on to learn Indian classical
music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the
Santoor maestro in India.

9) Half points for each part.
• Who is the singer?
• Who is the original singer?
• Link
• (freeze)

Chester/Linking Park, Adele.
• Linkin Park Cover
• Original Song by Adele

10) Which beautiful actress?
• As a child, she landed the role of Gertie, the
younger sister of Elliott, in E.T. the Extra-
Terrestrial, which made her one of the most
famous child stars of the time.
• She successfully made the transition from child
star to adult actress with a number of films
including Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the
Side, Everyone Says I Love You and Charlie’s
Angels. Subsequently, she established herself in
romantic comedies such as The Wedding Singer
and, later, 50 First Dates.

11) What are these?
• 1) The Death of Rosa Wolf
• 2) Corpse in A Garden
• 3) The Grim Butcher
• 4) The Dockyard Killer
• 5) A Russian Case
• 6) Good Cop Dead Cop
• 7) Death by Crucifixion
• 8) Beautiful No More
• And so on…
• Hint: Facebook.

12)
• You’ve seen this dude in Iqbal. He served as
director of the Film and Television Institute of
India and chairman of the Sangeet Natak
Akademi; and is one of the rarest people to win
both Sangeet Natak Akademi award and
Jnanpith award, India’s highest honour to
practicing artists
and India’s highest
literary honour
respectively.
• Who?

Round DO.
• 12 variables. A to L. All are interlinked with each
other. Hints, links and descriptions are provided
in the next 2 slides.
• Write down A to L and solve the variables.
• +5 for each correct variable. No negative
marking.
• When I say “Stop,” stop. And exchange sheets.

• Regarded it as one of the finest shows in
television history, A is an American sitcom
created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman,
which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to
May 6, 2004.
• B was a lead actress of A, portraying a fashion
enthusiast, and is ex-wife of the famous actor C.
• C’s current partner D was declared Holywood's
higest-paid actress by Forbes a week ago.
• In an interview, C said about the Indian actress
E, “Given a chance, I would like to work with E
because she’s a versatile actor. (contd.)

• She has worked brilliantly in films like The
Mistress of Spices, The Last Legion, The Pink
Panther 2 and Provoked to name a few,” he said.
• After E was awarded Padmashri, it was the fifth
Padma award in the family.
• E’s father-in-law lent his voice in the famous
song “Jodi Tor Daak Shune Keo…” written by F
in the 2012 movie G, starring famous actress H.
H’s debut Hindi movie was I, which was based on
a Bengali novel of the same name written by J.
• H is married to K, who is an Indian business
person, film producer and the CEO of L.

Exchange sheets.
Answers follow…

• A= F.R.I.E.N.D.S
• B= Jennifer Aniston
• C= Brad Pitt
• D= Angelina Jolie
• E= Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
• F= Rabindra Nath Tagore
• G= Kahaani
• H= Vidya Balan
• I= Parineeta
• J= Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
• K= Siddharth Roy Kapur
• L= UTV Motion Pictures

Who said this? About what?
• “In an ever changing world, it is a single point of
consistency. If my life were expressed as a
function on a four-dimensional Cartesian
coordinate system, that spot, at the moment I
first sat on it, would be (0,0,0,0).”

Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
• About his spot, of course!

Id the painting.
• The figures were modeled by the artist's sister
and their dentist. The woman is dressed in a
colonial print apron evoking 19th-century
Americana , and the couple are in the traditional
roles of men and women, the man's ___
symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the
woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity.
It is one of the most familiar images in 20th-
century American art, and one of the most
parodied artworks within American popular
culture.

Round TEEN. Just like Round EK.
• 12 questions, anti-clockwise.
• No infinite bounce, I have a better plan.
• +10 for each correct answer. No negative.
• If you surely know the answer and it’s not your
turn, DON’T SPEAK IT, raise your hand, and
write it down. If you’re correct, you get +10, if
wrong, you get -10, there IS negative.
• You are at my mercy. If every team wants hint, I
might give one. I’m not that much merciless.

2) Who is the singer?
• Song
• (freeze)

Enjoy the song. Isn’t she a beauty?
• Katy Perry

Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• The five categories for Hollywood Walk of Fame.

4) Who?
• He is a professor of religious iconology and
symbology (a field related to the study of historic
symbols) in Harvard University. His standard
attire being a turtleneck, Harris Tweed jacket,
khakis, and collegiate cordovan loafers, which he
wears to all instances, from lectures to social
events; a frequently referred to accessory is his
Mickey Mouse watch, a gift from his parents on
his ninth birthday.

6) Which organization’s logo?
• Hint: 2nd August.

• Did you go to the peformance on 2nd August?

7)
• X loves his Aunty Maya, Uncle Bhim and
girlfriend Meera Jain.
• Nalin Oberoi, a local crime lord, uses an amulet
to perform an ancient ritual, where he gets
possessed by a demon committed to opening the
gate for other demons to get back to Earth.
• While being chased by other kids, X encountered
an ancient yogi who gives him the power of Y to
fight evil. While discovering his powers, he
refused to help a woman being attacked by
several men. He left the place, but came back
when he heard a cry.
• Id X.

Pavitra Prabhakar.
• Yes, yes, the Indian
version of Spider-Man.

8) FITB.
• Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known by
her stage name ___ ___, is an American singer-
songwriter, record producer, activist,
businesswoman, fashion designer and actress.
• She has consecutively appeared on Billboard
magazine's Artists of the Year, ranked fourth in
VH1's list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, is
placed on Forbes magazine lists, including The
World's 100 Most Powerful Women from 2010 to
2013, and was named one of the most influential
people in the world by Time magazine.

9)• How the Whale Got His Throat
• How the Camel Got His Hump
• How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
• How the Leopard Got His Spots
• The Elephant's Child/How the Elephant got his
Trunk
• The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
• The Beginning of the Armadillos
• How the First Letter Was Written
• How the Alphabet Was Made
• The Crab That Played with the Sea (contd.)

Who wrote these?
• The Cat That Walked
by Himself
• The Butterfly That
Stamped
• The Tabu Tale

10) I need the “___ ___” part.
• William "Billy" Ray _X_ (born August 25, 1961)
is an American country music singer,
songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who has
achieved great success worldwide.
• However, he is more famous among children for
acting in the role of Robby Stewart, the father of
___ Stewart or “___ ___”, played by ___ _X_,
his own daughter in real life.

12) Either X or the song please.
• X is an American pop singer and dancer who
gained extensive media attention with the 2011
single “___". Her mother paid $4,000 to have
the single and an accompanying music video put
out as a vanity label through the record label
ARK Music Factory.
• After the video went viral on YouTube and other
social media sites, “___" was derided by many
music critics and viewers, who dubbed it "the
worst song ever.“
• Hint-cum-pic on next slide.

Friday, Rebecca Black.
• Do you really want to watch the video?

Round Chaar
(Written)
Keep It Simple,Silly..
15 Minimalist Posters
Write the answers and earn 10 points
Rohan Kulkarni

That’s all, folks! 
• Join our Facebook group:
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/qciitv/
• And DO COME to Fine Arts workshop
• 15th August, 10 A.M., G-11.
• Thank you.

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