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

1. Infinite Bounce

2. Question
 X started as the MC of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The
Fresh Prince. They gained critical acclaim and won the
first Grammy awarded in the Rap category (1988).
X was nearly bankrupt in 1990, when the NBC television
network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
The show was successful and began his acting career.
X set for himself the goal of becoming "the biggest movie star
in the world,” and is now considered one of the most powerful
Hollywood stars.
ID X.

3. Answer
 Will Smith

4. Question
 If you are at NASA and you are taking the „Armageddon
Test‟, what are you doing ?

5. Answer
 NASA shows the film as part of its management training
program. Prospective managers are asked to find as many
inaccuracies in the movie as they can. At least 168
impossible things have been found during these screenings
of the film.

6. Connect

7. Answer

8. Question
 Spain‟s national film awards (considered by many as the
Spanish equivalent of the Oscars) are named X awards in
honour of X, legendary romantic painter of the 18th – 19th
century.
 The award itself is a small bronze bust of X created by the
sculptor José Luis Fernández.
 Id X.

10. Answer
 Goya awards

11. Question
 The X effect is commonly used by filmmakers to represent the
sensation of a "falling-away-from-oneself feeling" or a feeling of
unreality, or to suggest that a character is undergoing a realization
that causes him or her to reassess everything he or she had
previously believed. After Hitchcock popularized the effect by using it
in his movie X , the technique was used by many other
filmmakers, and eventually became regarded as a gimmick or cliché.
To achieve the effect the camera needs to be positioned at a certain
distance from the object that is supposed to remain still. The distance
is calculated as :
 Distance= width/2tan(0.5FOV)
where FOV is the field of view.

12. Answer
 Vertigo effect or Dolly Zoom

13. Question
 Shown here is an illustration
by Emile Beynard for the first
edition of this 1862 novel. This
iconic image has been ever
since associated with the work
– including the musical,
subsequent print editions and
the 2012 Hugh Jackman
movie.
 Which work ?

14. Answer
 Les Misérables

15. Question
 Where would you find these ?

17. Answer
 At the end of Chuck Lorre‟s shows – The Big Bang
Theory, Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg etc.

18. Connect
Director/Producer Ed
Drug smuggler George Jung
Wood
Bank robber John
Dillinger
Journalist/Author
Hunter S. Thompson
FBI officer Joseph D. Pistone

19. Answer
 Real life people portrayed by Johnny Depp in movies.
 George Jung – Blow (2001)
 Hunter Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
 John Dillinger – Public Enemies (2009)
 Joseph D. Pistone aka Donnie Brasco – Donnie Brasco
(1997)
 Ed Wood – Ed Wood (1994)

20. Question
 The „XY‟ brand of deodorants suddenly became a rage in the
early 90‟s, largely due the fact that they were inadvertently
featured in a 1991 rock song which went on to become one
of the most popular songs ever.
 However, its popularity slowly faded away and today it is a
very low-selling product.
 What is this product, and why the rage ?

22. Answer
 Teen Spirit
 Kurt Cobain‟s then girlfriend Tobi Vail used
Teen Spirit, a mutual friend Kathleen
Hannah spray painted “Kurt Smells Like
Teen Spirit” on Cobain‟s wall, thereby
giving him inspiration for the song‟s name

23. Connect
Kurt Cobain
The Hollywood Walk
of Fame boulevard
Station to Station
album by David Bowie
Swedish actress
Greta Garbo The planet Alderaan from
Star Wars

24. Answer
 „Californication‟ by RHCP.
 “little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations” – Greta
Garbo
 “buy me a star on the boulevard” – Hollywood Walk of Fame
 “Cobain can‟t you hear the spheres playing songs off “Station to
Station”
 “Alderaan‟s not far away, its Californication”

25. Question
 _________ Day is a popular tradition celebrated on February
2nd every year in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to
folklore, if it is cloudy when woodchuck emerges from its
burrow on this day, then spring will come early; if it is
sunny, the woodchuck will supposedly see its shadow and
retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will
continue for six more weeks.
 Although it was already a widely recognized and popular
tradition, it received widespread attention as a result of the
1993 Bill Murray starrer film _________ Day, which was set
in Punxsutawney.

26. Answer

27. Question
 Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 Broadway
Musical based on the painting X. The story of the musical
revolves around the painter being immersed in single-minded
concentration while painting his masterpiece and the people
in that picture. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama, two Tony Awards, numerous Drama Desk awards
and 2 Olivier awards.

29. Answer
 Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grand Jatte by
Georges Seurat.
 The painting is considered one of the pioneer works in
pointilism.