MELA quiz finals

WRITTEN ROUND
• The following illustrations are classic movies
recreated in Miniature Style paintings by the
artist Murat Palta. ID .
• Scores - +10/0 , or +15/-5 on stake

Answer:
Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Finals
• Which work of art that re-entered public consciousness some time
last year credits the painting “Nighthawks” and a French science
fiction comic magazine Métal Hurlant ("Heavy Metal") as the
inspiration behind its aesthetics ?

Finals
• The Order of the Coagula is a secretive white supremacist cult of
prospective and wealthy Caucasian buyers and a villainous faction
in the 2017 horror/thriller movie Get Out. Founded by Roman
Armitage somewhere around the 1940s and headed by the
Armitage Family themselves, members of this unusual secret
society seek out, kidnap, brainwash, and finally "trade places" with
healthy and youthful Afro-Americans via [partial] "transmutation“,
which is to implant the brains of the members, their old relatives
and friends, into the bodies of the far younger and fitter black
people.
• Roman, being a competitive athlete, started this cult after a
devastating loss . Put funda.

ANSWER
• Roman was defeated by Jesse Owens in the
1936 Olympics.

Finals
• Where have we popularly seen the following, together, –
• A Harlequin (the best-known of the zanni or comic servant
characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte),
• A Pierrot (a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell'arte
whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of
players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne) ,
and
• A monk
• If the Pierrot and the monk are supposed to represent Guillaume
Apollinaire, and Max Jacob respectively, then who is the Harlequin a
representation of?

ANSWER
• The Three
Musicians by
Picasso, the
harlequin being
Picasso himself.

FITB.
• An article issued by The Guardian on 6th March , 2018 dealt with a
story about road collisions involving autonomous vehicles.
• According to the article, two of the six collisions involving
autonomous vehicles in California so far this year involved humans
colliding with self-driving cars, apparently on purpose, according to
incident reports collected by the California department of motor
vehicles.
• The headline of the article read – “____ _______ ___ _______: self-
driving cars attacked by angry Californians, Local residents are
hitting back at their new robot neighbors – literally – as reports
detail assaults on driverless cars ”.

ANSWER
• Rage against the Machine

• Pamphilus de amore (or, simply, Pamphilus) is a 780-line, twelfth-
century Latin comedic play, probably composed in France, or
possibly Spain.It was one of the most influential and important of
the many pseudo-Ovidian productions concerning the “Art of Love"
' in medieval Europe,and 'the most famous and influential of the
medieval elegiac comedies, especially in Spain.
• The main protagonists are Pamphilus and Galatea. The poem
mainly deals with Pamphilus’s actions trying to woo Galatea
through the mediation of a procuress.
• This small work was issued by itself without covers. It became
extremely popular and was widely copied and circulated on its
own.
• What word of the English lexicon owes its origin to this poem?

• Ernie Ball (born Roland Sherwood Ball; August 30, 1930 –
September 9, 2004) began as a club and local television musician
and small business entrepreneur, building an international business
(of the same name) in guitars and accessories that would eventually
gross US$40 million a year.
• In 2016, Ernie Ball launched Ernie Ball: ______ ______, a web series
that focuses on how today's top guitarists and bassists came to use
the specific alloy(s) and gauge(s) of guitars that help them achieve
their signature sounds. Artists to have been featured on this show
include Kirk Hammett, Justin Chancellor, , Paul Gilbert, Kenny
Wayne Shepherd, Steve Stevens , Ilan Rubin , The White Buffalo,
and more.
• The blanks refer to what the show deals with, and also a theoretical
framework that might remind you of Physics textbooks.

• This , here, is Han - a
fictional character in
The Fast and the Furious
franchise.
• Give me his full name –
one that is a tribute to
another extremely
iconic character, and a
pun on Han’s native
place.

• The following artworks are by Scott Wade, also known as the “The
_____ ___ Artist” .
• These , rather moving , pieces are created on a medium, upon
seeing which , an average adult would be motivated to get some
work done to “rectify the situation”.
• Identify the medium on which Scott creates his artworks,
something we might have tried out as well in our childhood.
(Images follow) .

Gimme X , and FITB (5,2,3,5).
• The following art installation “_____ __ ___ _____” is a part of X’s
experiment Better Out Than In . It tackled the issue of factory
farming and animal cruelty , with this installation hitting New York’s
meatpacking district on October 11th, 2013, continuing to tour
citywide for the next two weeks.
• ‘_____ __ ___ _____’ is in essence a depressed and weathered
green slaughterhouse delivery truck, labelled Farm Fresh Meats,
crammed with 60 cuddly soft toys on the road to a swift death. The
collection of stuffed animals are accompanied by a variety of
screams and squeals playing in the background as they stick their
heads and snouts through the slits in their mobile prison.
• FITB, punning on the name of a 1991 cult classic. (Image)

• Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist
and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th
century, successfully fooling Dutch art experts and, more importantly,
Hermann Göring !
• Initially starting out to be a painter himself, Meegeren received negative
reviews from many art critics of that time.
• Frustrated, and eager to get back at them , he started creating art fakes ,
the most famous being a Vermeer fake called “The Supper at Emmaus”
(based on Caravaggio’s painting) . This was created following a journey to
the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and painted using the ultramarine
blues and yellows preferred by Johannes Vermeer and other Dutch Golden
Age painters.
• It created public furor at that time, as it was assumed to be the first
Vermeer of its kind. Put funda.

ANSWER
• It was considered to be the first Vermeer
dealing with a religious theme.

• "I often think that the best way to liberate Iran is to just to drop
________ consoles from the air," X says, "and Big Macs.”
• In his third-person memoir , one that was written during the time X
was forced into hiding, X tells about how Marianne would come
around and scold him for playing video games. Thanks to Zafar, he
had grown fond of the amazing world of Y, and according to X, Y
helped him get through some of his toughest times.
• Id X and Y, Y being something that surely occupied countless hours
in our childhood as well.

ANSWER
• X – Salman Rushdie
• Y – Super Mario World

Gimme Y.
• According to a certain Dr. Fredric Wertham, a Y complex is a
damaging condition under which one enjoys fantasies "of sadistic
joy in seeing other people repeatedly punished while the hero
remains immune."
• However, according to Max Carey's book "The Y complex" (a book
which seeks to diagnose overachieving workers in danger of burning
out) , people with a Y complex tend to think they can solve any
problem and sacrifice any amount of sleep or food to get the job
done. As you might imagine, they’re also manipulative, narcissistic,
and difficult to work with.

Written Round 2
On iconic friendships and partnerships

In 1958, an Irish Nobel laureate moved to the village
of Moulien in France. One of his neighbours helped
him with settling at the new place and he became
friends with the latter’s family.
To repay his neighbour’s favour, he agreed to drive
their 12-year old son (image attached) to school. The
boy’s acromegaly prevented him from using the bus,
which is where our Laureate came in. This led to an
unlikely friendship among two individuals who are
still remembered as true greats in their fields.
ID both.

Now a screen legend, she got her big break in a 1939
classic. In one of the scenes, she almost lost her life
when a Winkie guard stepped on her foot.
She spent two weeks recuperating at her co-star’s
residence. The two developed a close attachment to
each other, so much so that her co-star wanted to
adopt her, but was promptly refused.
ID both.

X made his debut as an actor after director K
Amarnath saw him at a wedding. He acted in a dozen
or so movies, including Teesri Manzil, but never
achieved success as an actor.
While acting in the movie Sarhadi Lootera, he met Y,
who was a clapper boy on the sets. A last minute
change forced Y to become the dialogue writer of the
movie.
Realising the dearth in the industry in a field, X
learnt the requisite skills and together with Y, formed
a formidable partnership.
X and Y?

• Professional peers and musical collaborators as well as close
friends, X and Y shared a bond beyond the stage, and beyond life
itself.
While the duo didn't work together often, they shared the stage
when Y toured with X's band Z in 2007 — and again the following
year, when Y and Z headed up the Projekt Revolution package tour.
• "When we toured Australia, X broke his wrist on like, the third song
and then finished the whole set with a broken wrist," recalled Y.
"That kind of dedication and passion, like, 'This is what I'm doing,
this is the most important thing there is, I'm onstage right now.'
That affects me.“
• "I'm such a fan I think that's the most important aspect of why I do
what I do and how I do it. I've got to play with a lot of guys that I've
grown up loving; I get to sing on stage with Y," added X. "I'm just
like, 'What world do I live in? 'Cause this can't be real.'

Id X and Y
• La Grenouillere (meaning "frog pond" in French) was a resort
located on the Seine featuring boating and other activities. Y was
visiting his friend and fellow artist X (who lived by La Grenouillere )
when they both decided to paint nearly identical scenes at there,
featuring various people enjoying a small floating dock in the
painting's center, as well as various boats. La Grenouillere serves as
a perfect example to compare and contrast the two masters' styles.
(Images follow)

• X wanted to represent a single moment of light and evoke feelings and
emotions about the power of Nature. Thus, he began with detailed
concentration on the flowers in the meadow which lead us into the water of
the pond, then to the trees and shrubs in the background, and then into the
sky above.

• Y chose to paint a closer view of the scene, with much more of a focus on the
people, along with a few dogs that are absent from X's painting – creating an
overall more bustling and active effect. Y also paints details in the scene, such
as a docked rowboat, and leafy branches hanging from a tree, with sharper,
more defined lines.

Answer
Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant

Answer
Judy Garland and Toto the dog

Answer
X-Salim Khan, Y- Javed Akhtar

Answer
Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell

ANSWER
• X – Monet
• Y - Renoir

The 2016 Disney movie Moana, starring Auli’i
Carvalho and Dwayne Johnson, was a soaring success
and grossed $643 million worldwide.
However, it wasn’t without its issues.
The movie had to be released with the title Oceania
in Italy. The Disney execs were forced to do so to
avoid identification with a person whose profession
made her a strict no for the target audience.
Why was the name changed?

To avoid confusion with Moana Pozzi, an
Italian pornstar

Follow-up:
One of the supporting characters of the movie
is Tamatoa, a treasure-hoarding coconut crab.
Who voiced the character in the Hindi-
dubbed version of the movie? (Image follows)

“_____ _______ ________ ____ _______ ____
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.“
The above is an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet. In the
play, Friar Lawrence uses the quote to caution Romeo
about the ephemerality of his thrilling romance with
Juliet and the potentially fearful consequences. He
advises Romeo to not act impulsively and remain clear-
headed.
The blanked phrase recently re-entered public
consciousness when it was used by a certain character to
set his plan in motion, culminating in a _______ ___ for
the character (last two blanks).

These violent delights have violent ends, from
Westworld

This singer got his first big break at HMV. He had finished
recording two songs for his album when he was called for
a photoshoot for the album cover.
Acting on an impulse, he decided to change something
about his appearance, conscious of the fact that he
would have to stick with it for the rest of his life.
This irked his father who was a God-fearing person and
he cut off contact with him for some time. Eventually
they reconciled on the condition that the singer would go
back to how he looked before. But his growing fame and
fortune made his father give up on the idea.
Identify this singer and the change he brought about in
his appearance.

Jagjit Singh, stopped wearing a turban

The picture in the next slide shows a castle in
Odenwald, overlooking Darmstadt in Germany.
In 1673, a man named Johann Conrad Dippel was
born in the castle and later worked as a professional
alchemist. Dippel created an animal oil known
as Dippel’s Oil which was supposed to be an
equivalent to the "elixir of life". It was rumoured that
during his stay at the castle, Dippel also practiced
anatomy.
A century later, someone visiting this locale was
inspired by the mystery surrounding this castle to
create an iconic work.
Name the castle or the classic.

This is Emilio “El Indo” Fernandez, one of the most
prolific directors of the Golden age of Mexican
cinema in the ‘40s and ‘50s. His statuesque figure
also earned him a number of acting roles in Mexico
as well as Hollywood.
However, his most popular contribution to cinema
came about when he was forced by MGM’s art
director Cedric Gibbons to pose in the nude.
What did this lead to?

He was the model for the Oscar statuette

Eminem’s recently released album Revival had a song
called In your head.
The response to the song, like most in the album,
was lukewarm. However, in light of recent events,
the song has seen a resurgence of sorts.
What is unique about the song?

It sampled The Cranberries’ Zombie

The following list of four were used by an entity to
maintain their anonymity:
• An original creation. Some argue it was used as early
as 1537 to represent Saturn. The only one in the list with
letters.
• A single circle intersecting a triquetra, chosen from the
Book of Signs.
• Three interlocking rings, chosen from the same book.
• A feather within a circle. Based on a sign of the
supposed Mu civilisation.
This list of four was the only identifying mark on an
untitled work released by the entity in question to lash
back at their critics.
Identify the entity/the name of this list.

The Four Symbols used by Led Zeppelin
members on Led Zeppelin IV

One half of the inspiration behind The Who’s “Baba
O’ Riley” is Meher Baba, whose philosophy
influenced guitarist Pete Townshend greatly. The
“Baba” part of the song is a direct reference to him.
To create the backing track for the song, Townshend
planned to do something that would reinforce Baba’s
influence on the song and lend it a personal touch.
However, the idea fell through due to technical issues
and he had to make do with a Lowery TBO-1 organ,
using its marimba repeat feature to create the
backing track.
What had Townshend originally planned to do?

He wanted to input the vital signs and
personality of Mehar Baba into a synthesizer,
which would generate the backing track based
on the data.

In Russian literary formalism, fabula refers to the
chronological order of the raw material of the story.
On the other hand, syuzhet is the order in which the
story is presented to the reader/viewer.
Identify the movie from the fabula vs syuzhet plot in
the next slide.

At the Katz’s Deli in New York, one would find a sign
above one of the tables that says:
“Where _____ ___ _____. Hope you have what she
had. Enjoy!”
Over the years, countless customers have taken their
place at the table and tried to recreate the original
by ordering a hot pastrami sandwich and indulging
in an eyebrow-raising activity; something the
employees there have grown used to by now.
Which popular movie scene do the customers try to
recreate?

The fake orgasm scene in When Harry met Sally

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