MELA Session of COEP's Quiz Club conducted by me

1. MELA QUIZ
- Akshay Parale

2. Q.1.
• In 1932, Don Bradman and the Australian
team were touring North America and he
made the news after being dismissed for
a duck against New York West Indians. His
dismissal is said to have inspired something in
popular culture. What?

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5. Q.2.
• No Direction Home: ______ is a documentary
film that traces the life of _______. Focused
on his impact on 20th-century American
popular music and culture it encapsulates his
rise to fame as a folk singer and songwriter,
and the controversy surrounding his move to
a rock style of music. The title is taken from a
lyric of 1965 hit single, "Like a Rolling Stone".
• FITB and also who directed it?

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8. Q.3.
• Created during WWII to encourage the morale of women
working for Westinghouse Electric Factory, the ___ came
to represent millions of American women who worked
during the war effort
• Associated with a popular song “____” and adopted by
the feminist movement, what am I talking about?

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10. We can do it/ Rosie the Riveter
poster

11. Q.4.
• Tumhari Amrita is a epistolary play starring Shabana
Azmi and Farooq Sheikh.
• The story of unrequited love is read out through reams of
love letters between Amrita Nigam(Azmi) and Zulfikar
Haider(Sheikh), exchanged over 35 years, starting with
Amrita's eighth birthday party in the 1940, when she first
wrote to the ten-year-old Zulfi.
• The central character of Amrita is said to be modelled
on?

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13. Amrita Sher-Gil

14. Q.5.
• In 1984 _____ brought an action against the book in the
British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single
sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which
her son is said to have had a hold over her by his
accusing her of contributing to his father’s death through
her neglect. The case was settled out of court when the
author agreed to remove the offending sentence. FITB
and give me the name of the book that won the 1981
Booker Prize and the author.

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16. • Indira Gandhi
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

17. Q.6.
• In a particular scene of a 2002 movie (part of a
film franchise), the iconic character portrayed
by____ is shown picking up a copy of ‘Birds of
the West Indies’ and posing as an
ornithologist. What is so special about this
book with respect to the film franchise and
the series of books that inspired it? Also Id the
actor who was recently trolled for his new
found love of “crushed areca nuts” which left
the fans shaken and created quite a stir.

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19. The book was written by
ornithologist James Bond
who served as an
inspiration for naming the
character.

20. Q.7.
• What is this a list of? And which name
(the most popular one) has been blanked out?
S.H.Peters
James L Bliss
T.B.Dowd
Howard Clark
_________

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22. • The pen names of William Sydney Porter
• O.Henry.

23. Id the person, now an Internet sensation, behind this
tweet who was lauded for this hard hitting reply.
Q.8.

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26. Q.9.
White box: Individuals that are currently being monitored, but who do not pose an immediate threat.
White box with red corners and crosshairs: Indicates imminent violence by the indicated individual.
Red box: Relevant threats and individuals who pose a threat to the system.
Yellow box: Individuals who know about the aforementioned system.
Black box with yellow corners and crosshairs: Individuals who know about the system and
communicate with it.
Blue box: Government Agents
Boats, ships and ferries are assigned a white diamond
Airplanes and helicopters under normal operation receive a green triangle along with flight number and
airport codes and if under threat they are assigned a red triangle
Where exactly would you find these set of descriptions ‘relevant’?

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29. Q.10.
• _______, born at Mangeshi, Goa in 1900, was
popular for his good looks and melodious voice.
Such was his influence that the then giant of
the Marathi stage, Bal Gandharva publicly
declared that he would welcome the entry of X in
his organisation "by throwing a carpet of rupee
coins under his feet". He was the first musician to
openly defy the British Empire by performing and
singing songs penned by Veer Savarkar in the
presence of the British Viceroy, in Shimla. Who?

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32. Q.11.
• Who addressed this letter and to whom?

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36. Q.12.
Decode the artistic inspiration behind this
Daredevil Season 2 poster.
Image follows…

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39. The Last Judgement- Michelangelo

40. Q.13.
• X is a famous Marathi play written by
playwright Y based on the English play
‘Charley's Aunt’. It is best known for Vijay
Chavan's iconic role where he regaled in the
title role of his friend Moru's (Prashant Damle)
aunt.
• It served as an inspiration for a Bollywood
movie starring Govinda. Id X & Y.

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42. Y: Prahlad Keshav Atre / Acharya Atre

43. Q.14.
Coldplay’s magical rendition of the song ‘Pure Imagination’ from a 1971 movie at
Pepsi-Centre, Denver. To whom was this special cover dedicated?

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46. Q.15.
• X (literally translated as Z in English) is a
1958 Indian fantasy comedy film. It was Y’s first comedy
and first magical realist film.
• The film offered an early glimpse of Y's sense of humour,
centered on a middle-class clerk who accidentally
discovers X/Z which has been one of the most sought
after objects in alchemy in real world.
• Give me X,Y and Z. Also, the central plot of a 2001
British-American blockbuster revolves around Z.

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49. X: Parash Pathar
Y: Satyajit Ray
Z: Philosopher’s Stone

50. Q.16.
In a popular fictional world:
The Reyne family was obliterated after they rebelled against their liege
lord, Tytos, who was perceived as weak by his own vassals. To
restore their dominance, Tytos's son marched against the upstart
Lord Roger Reyne, known as the "Red Lion of _____". By the end of the
rebellion, _______ had been put to the torch and all members of
Reyne family were executed. How has this event been infamously
immortalized?
But now the rains weep o'er his hall,
with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall,
and not a soul to hear

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52. The Rains of Castamere

53. Q.17.
• Google Doodle dated 31st July, 2016
commemorating what?

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55. Munshi Premchand’s 136th Birth Anniversary

56. Q.18.
• Mahavir Singh Phogat is an Indian Amateur
wrestler and senior Olympics coach. He is the
father, and coach of wrestlers Geeta Phogat,
who won India's first ever gold medal in
women's wrestling in the 55 kg freestyle
category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
and Babita Kumari, who won the gold medal
in 2014 Commonwealth Games. Why is he in
the news?

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58. The upcoming Aamir Khan-
starrer ‘Dangal’ is based on
him.

59. Q.19.
• Which awards were originally known as the
Society of West End Theatre Awards,
presented annually by the ’Society of London
Theatre’ to recognise excellence in
professional theatre in London. Renamed in
the honour of a British actor who is ranked as
the 14th greatest male movie star by AFI.

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61. Laurence Olivier Awards

62. Q.20.
Put Funda

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64. MoU signed between ACK and Ministry of Urban
Development to publish special edition comics
on ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’

65. Archi-Designs
• This round contains graphical created by
Italian architect Federico Babini.
• Written Round (+10/0)

66. • Archidirector
• Archimusic
• Inkonic Faces
• Archiwriter
• Archist

67. ArchiDirectors

69. Archimusic

71. INKonic faces

73. Archiwriter

75. Archist

77. Answers
• 1. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2. Elvis Presley
• 3. Salvadore Dali
• 4. Dante Alighieri
• 5. Andy Warhol

78. Vehicles and Films
• Each vehicle is popularly associated with a
particular movie.
• Identify the movie from the vehicle shown

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95. Thank You