Quiz Meet Quiz: M.E.L.A.S Quiz conducted by Rajdeep Dasgupta of LnD on 21st August, 2016 Disclaimer: All questions are original. Any resemblance whatsoever to other questions of similar kind is purely coincidental.

1. MELAS
(Music/Ent/Lit/Arts/Sports)
Finals
-Rajdeep Dasgupta

2. ROUND 1: DRIES Clockwise
• +10/-10
• Infinite Pounce (all parts)

3. 1.
• X is a deodorant originally sold by Mennen then by Colgate-Palmolive.
The X line of products lost its popularity rapidly after its peak in
1990’s. This peak however was largely due to inadvertently being
featured in an extremely popular song in 1991.
• Name the Deo Brand, and the Band of the song.

4. (Smells like) Teen Spirit
Nirvana

5. 2
Anopheles is a Greek word meaning useless.
X is the opposite of that, meaning helpful or aid.
X is a painting by British artist Sir John Everret Millias, depicting X, a
character from a famous literary piece by Shakespeare.
It is presently held at Tate Britain London and is valued at at least
30million pounds by experts.
X is also the name of a moon of Uranus.
X?

7. Ophelia

8. 3
• The book X is widely rumored to be the most popularly read “Non-
fiction”, narrowly succeeding the Diary of Anne Frank
• This book has two versions
• X happens to be the inspiration for an extremely famous book W as
well as movie series, which deals with magic and enchantment.
• W is written by Z
• One of the X movies, Y, holds a shared record with Ben Hur and
Titanic for the max number of Oscars in a year

9. • X-The Bible
• W-LOTR
• Z-J.R.R. Tolkien
• Z-LOTR: Return of the King

10. 4.
Who?
At the age of 15, he was given a chance to play for Rangers
FC, but he turned it down. He was present when the Dunblane
Massacre took place. A guy named Thomas Hamilton walked into a
primary school and shot down the kids. X wrote in his autobiography
that his mom had once given a lift to Thomas as well. During the 2006
FIFA World Cup he stated: I would support any other team apart from
England.

11. Andy Murray

12. 5.
• Howard the Duck was released in 1986.
• Ed Gale, Chip Zien and Timothy Rose star in it
• There is nothing too special about the movie except that it was the
first of its kind and what followed from the makers there on was
unstoppable
• Put Funda

13. • First Marvel Comic to be made into a movie

14. 6.
• Today Jason Segel, James Franco and Seth Rogen are amazing
mainstream Hollywood Actors.
• All three of them began their acting career with a show __________
• __________ was cancelled after just one season
• It is ranked first in the list of shows “Cancelled too soon” by TV Guide.
• FITB

15. • Freaks and Geeks

17. All Based on Novels by Stephen King
• 1408
• The Shining
• Secret Window
• Quitter’s Inc.

18. 8.
X is a form of celebration.
Most people believe that the origin of X is in pre-battle motivation. However the true origin
lies in Motherwell’s club song Since I was Young as that is where its first usage was recorded.
Since mid-June, X has been highly popular on TV as well as on the Internet; YouTube in
particular. Today it has become associated with underdogs all over the world.
X?

19. The Viking Clap

20. 9
• 1. ?
• 2. Sentenza
• 3.Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez
• These are three titular characters in a famous movie.
• Who is 1?

21. The man with no name
(The good, the bad and the ugly)

22. 10.
• The Quran at various places says that Allah created the earth in six
days.
• “The originator of the heavens and the earth! When he descreeth a
thing he said unto it only : Be! And it is!”
• What is the Arabic translation of “Be! And it is!” which you may have
heard in the refrain of a famous Bollywood song.

23. Kun Faya Kun

24. Also Put Funda

25. A comedy of errors; the first recorded usage
of the word football

26. 12.

27. Vuvuzela

28. 13.
• Surprising though it would seem, X and Y are cousins.
• In a recent event in Manchester, X was promoting his upcoming
movie Ride Along : 2.
• His cousin Y paid him a surprise visit during this and they took a few
penalties at each other.
• X and Y?

29. X- Kevin Hart; Y- Joe Hart

30. Who is X and what else is he known for?
14.
• X is an actor who has acted in movies like The Condemned and
Blueprints.
• He played the role of the Villain Juggernaut in X-Men the last stand.
• He also played the coach in the movie She’s the man as well as
Football Captain in the movie Mean Machine.
• He has played Freddie the Dog in Madagascar 3.
• He was the first host for the show The Friday Night Project
• X was a housemate on the reality television show Celebrity Big
Brother 7,

32. Vinnie Jones
professional footballer who played as a midfielder
from 1984 to 1999 notably for Wimbledon, Leeds
United, Sheffield United and Chelsea.

33. Chester Bennington and Eminem

34. 16. FITB with the title of a TV show

35. Orange is the new Black

36. MINIMALIST POSTERS

45. Exchange sheets

47. STAR WARS : THE FORCE AWAKENS

48. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

51. DONNIE DARKO

53. Round 3: List

54. LIST ALL THE FIFA WORLD CUP WINNERS

55. • Germany
• Spain
• Italy
• West Germany
• Argentina
• Uruguay
• France
• Brazil
• England

56. • List the male actors who have won more than one Oscar for best
actor

57. • Sean Penn
• Marlon Brando
• Danny Day Lewis
• Tom Hanks
• Gary Cooper
• Dustin Hoffman
• Fredric March
• Jack Nicholson
• Spencer Tracy

58. List all the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court as
shown in Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End

59. • Lieutenant Chavalle
• Gentleman Jocard
• Sri Sumbhajee
• Mitsress Ching
• Sao Feng/Elizabeth Swann
• Jack Sparrow
• Hector Barbossa
• Armand the Corsair
• Eduardo Villanueva

60. Round 4 : Anticlocwise Dries

61. 1.
Bilaal Yusuf Mohommad was born on 7th April, 1983 in Boulougne-ser-
Mer and raised in a low income neighborhood. When he was two years
old, his family met with a car accident. His face was smashed against
the windshield of a truck, and he underwent over a hundred stitches
on his face, which have resulted in a permanent scar.
Today he is regarded as one of the few footballers who didn’t win the
Balon d’Or because his title wasn’t Messi or Ronaldo.
Who?

62. Franck Ribery

63. 2.
• X s an American singer-songwriter, classically trained pianist and
composer. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Y.
Along with her contributions with the band, she has also participated
on numerous other musical projects including Walt Disney Records'
Nightmare Revisited and Muppets: The Green Album.
• Y is often regarded as a gothic band though it is not.
• According to Revolver Magazine as of 2011, X is the sexiest singer
alive.
• X,Y?

64. • X- Amy Lee
• Y-Evanessence

65. 3.
• It is widely said that X was Y’s greatest ever film as an actor. Seeing that he
won the Oscar for it in 1995, that was probably justified.
• It also bagged the best picture, film editing, visual effects as well in the
Oscars
• Y in this movie also formed a strong partnership with Z- a classic
partnership of a mentally retarded man with a perfectly sane one- which
would be replicated in later movies as well.
• X is third on the list of the greatest movie characters ever compiled by
Limka
• Z was also nominated for the best actor in a supporting role
• X,Y,Z?

66. 4.
• X-FORREST GUMP
• Y-TOM HANKS
• Z-GARY SINSE

67. 5.
• This song by _____________ is considered to be one of the best in its
particular field. While the song is in no means conventional, it is extremely
catchy.
• Its video takes the song to an all new level. There are also references to The
Matrix, The Walking Dead, Hellraiser and the video games Pong, Portal and
Super Mario Bros. in the video. The video received three nominations at
MTV Video Music Awards 2014 in the categories "Best Art Direction", "Best
Editing", "Best Visual Effects“.
• The song has the maximum number of words in a single ever :1560.
• It lost the grammy to Kendrick Lamar’s I.
• The song and FITB

68. 6.
• Rap God
• Eminem

69. 7.
• The X syndrome is named after a famous movie character
• You are said to have X syndrome if you happen to start visualizing
untrue or deceptive images in the middle of the day, often in which
you happen to be the hero or protagonist
• This usually occurs in situations where your mind lacks a sense of
drive or adventure
• X was termed as the “New Forrest Gump”
• X?

70. Walter Mitty Syndrome

71. 8.
• X(male) divorced Y(female) when X was directing A and Y was
directing B.
• At the following Oscars, X’s A was supposed to sweep the Oscars away
as per tabloids while Y’s B, although nominated in several categories,
was supposed to go down as an also ran.
• Miraculously, A only received 3 Oscars, while B got 6, and one of the
headlines was Y pipping X for the Best director, and while A broke
certain records of Sci-Fi, B remains one of the best movies of all time.
• These Oscars were held in 2010.
• A,B,C,D?

72. • X-James Cameron
• Y-Katheryn Bigelow
• A-Avatar
• B-The Hurt Locker

73. ID the Movie with this Star Cast
• Jack Black
• Robert Downey Junior
• Danny McBRide
• Bill Hader
• Ben Stiller
• Matthew McCounaghey
• Steve Coogan
• Jay Baruchel
• Brandon T. Jackson
• Tom Cruise

74. Tropic Thunder

75. 10.
Alfred Enoch plays the character __________ on the TV show X.
The show is set in a criminal law background with special emphasis on
bringing up an aspiring lawyer.
The show is set in a college, which is not unlike the setting for which
one might otherwise know Alfred Enoch.
For he plays a character Y in the Bizzarely popular Series Z, which most
people consider is the best teenage novel series
Y is known to be a West Ham United Fan.
X,Y?

76. 11.
• X-HTGAWM
• Y-Dean Thomas

77. 12.
• What are all of these?:
• The Windmill
• The Spasm
• The Whirlgig
• The Duckwalk
• The Shoulder Rider
• The Scizor Kick
• Using a violin Bow

78. • Guitar moves

79. 13.
This is a minimalist poster for?

80. • Ozzy Osbourne : Bit off a bat’s head in a live show

81. 14. As on March 2015 what is this a list of?
X(11,303)
Chicago((7629)
Cats(7493)
The Lion King(7224)
Les Miserables(6680)

82. Longest running broadways
phantom of the opera

83. 16.
• When X (a particular event) took place, a lot of people thought
______ ___________ did it, for he was the foremost artist at the
time.
• Luckily for him, Vincenzo Peruggia, confessed to the crime soon after.
• X,FITB?
• Image on next slide

85. X- theft of mona lisa
Pablo Picasso

86. 17.
Anurag Kashyap is one of the most well known directors in the Bollywood
industry today. However one of his earliest ventures, Paanch (2002), is a
movie that was never given a certificate by the Censor Board and was not
allowed to be screened. Directors all over the country have recommended
that it be released. The reasons the censor board gave was that it was too
graphic in both gore and sexual content.
In a public statement, Anurag Kashyap had then said : The Censor board has
just blown away my dreams into smoke, but this fact will not be forgotten by
those who have a keen ear and watch my movies to come.
In a song in the movie Dev D in 2009, Mr. Kashyap reminds his fans of this.
Funda/How?

87. The opening lyrics of the song Emotional Atyachaar are “ek,
do,teen,chaar, che”, skipping paanch.

88. 18
Words uttered by TV stars don’t often get embedded in youth folklore.
But X from the stupendously popular show Y said the phrase (1)_
______ _____ __ ______.
Today this phrase is imprinted on a lot of t shirts.
The print on the shirt also contains the phrase (2) ____ ____ ___ ,
Which was started in 1939 during the second world war as a
motivational poster which said : “(2) carry on”.
Irony abounds as the crux of (1) is war.
(2) And (1)?

89. Keep Calm and Demand Trial By Combat

90. Mucho Mucho Gracias.