Prelims of the MELA quiz conducted at NLUJA, Guwahati by Vinay Upadhyay and Quriozzity team.

1. THE MELA QUIZ
NLUJA, Guwahati
23rd April, 2017
PRELIMINARIES

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3. RULES
• 21 questions in the preliminaries.
• No negative marking. So take your best guess
in case you don’t know the answer.
• Six teams qualify for the finals. In case of a tie,
team with the most consecutive correct
answers from Q1 shall qualify.
• In case of a tie in the finals, the marks from
the preliminaries shall help decide the winner.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final for the purposes
of the quiz. Any disagreements can be
discussed after the quiz.

4. SPECIAL THANKS
SANDIPAN GOSWAMI
Research

5. BEST WISHES!

6. 1
The voice of which famous personality, also having a
quizzical connect, did you hear in the first part of the
song?
Audio- The song ‘Tamma Tamma’ from ‘Badrinath Ki
Dulhaniya’

7. AMEEN SAYANI

8. 2
Part of the lyrics from "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic", by Julia Ward Howe:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the
Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where ___ ______ __
_____ are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible
swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
The name of which novel, upon the novelist’s wife’s
suggestion, is taken from the four blanks in the lyrics
above?

9. THE GRAPES OF WRATH

10. 3
This is a collection of oil
paintings and stories of US
military veterans. Who is the
painter/author?

11. GEORGE W BUSH

12. 4
The tussle between two characters for a job in Indian
Capital Investment Bank forms part of the plot for
which 2000 movie?

13. HERA PHERI

14. 5
The song, of course, is “Andy Warhol”. The singer
himself has portrayed Warhol on screen. Who is the
singer?

15. DAVID BOWIE

16. Pictured here is Edward Stratemeyer, an
American publisher and prolific writer who
is known to have produced more than 1,300
books himself. He pioneered the book-
packaging technique of producing a
consistent, long-running series of books
using a team of freelance writers. Given
below is a list of series created by
Stratemeyer. Give the two blanked out
series, the most famous of the lot.
• The Rover Boys
• The Bobbsey Twins
• Tom Swift
• ___ _____ ____
• _____ ____
6

17. THE HARDY BOYS; NANCY DREW

18. Following is the main cast of which upcoming film? Also
name the blanked out actors.
• ______ _______ (protagonist)
• ________ _____ (antagonist)
• Zac Efron as Matt Brody
• Alexandra Daddario as Summer Quinn
• Kelly Rohrback as C.J. Parker
7

19. BAYWATCH
DWAYNE JOHNSON; PRIYANKA CHOPRA

20. The titles of these two albums by Queen are a tribute to
which person(s)?
8

21. THE MARX BROTHERS

22. 9
An ex-director of a multinational company, his socialite
wife; their elder son who is a cosmetic surgeon, his
homemaker wife and their younger son- a theatre
artist, wannabe actor and poet. You probably
encountered the family before and are likely to do so in
the near future. Put context.

23. SARABHAI VS SARABHAI

24. 10
Originally, a manufacturer of warplanes, this Italian
company wasn’t allowed to produce warplanes after
WW2, hence the company decided to redirect efforts
towards developing a product so that mainly women in
skirts could traverse the battle scarred roads without
getting dirty. The oldest of its kind was recently sold at
an auction for 191,000 Euros. This particular product
featured somewhere which tremendously boosted its
sales. Where did you probably see it?

25. ROMAN HOLIDAY

26. 11
Just identify this director
who won the National Film
Award for Best Director this
year. Naming the film will
fetch you half points.

27. RAJESH MAPUSKAR
VENTILATOR

28. 12
Aurora Zogoiby is a character in Salman Rushdie’s “The
Moor’s Last Sigh”. She is a famous national artist and
the mother of the narrator. On which famous artist is
the character of Aurora Zogoiby based?

29. AMRITA SHERGIL

30. 13
The digital and mobile entertainment platform of Star
India is Hotstar; for Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt
Ltd, it is Sony LIV; what is the video on demand
platform for Viacom 18?

31. VOOT

32. 14
Both the singers please. The male singer was also the music
director.
Audio- ‘Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon’

33. SHAMSHAD BEGUM
C RAMCHANDRA

34. 15
The painting is called
“Ganesh Janani”. The
painter was one of the
founders of what came to
be known as the Bengal
School of Art. Who?

35. ABANINDRANATH TAGORE

36. 16
Circa 1964, Mr Bruce Langhorne arrived at a recording
session with an oversized Turkish drum arrayed with
bells. The inspiration for which song came to the
writer upon seeing Mr Langhorne thus?

37. MR TAMBOURINE MAN
by Bob Dylan

38. 17
In literary criticism, it is a literary genre that focuses on
the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist
from youth to adulthood, in which character change is
extremely important. Often called novel of formation,
novel of education, or coming of age story, it is better
known by the German term coined by Karl
Morgenstern and popularized by Wilhelm Dilthey.
Examples include David Copperfield, Gone with the
Wind, The Catcher in the Rye, among many others.
What literary genre (the German term please)?

39. BILDUNGSROMAN

40. 18
The singer please.
Audio – Title Track of ‘Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne’ (solo performance)

41. KISHORI AMONKAR

42. 19
This movie recently won the Best Feature Film Award at
the 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Who
is this movie about?

43. PRATIMA PANDEY BARUAH

44. 20
The title of this 2009 Bollywood comedy-drama film
starring Naseeruddin Shah, Tannistha Chatterjee and
Vijay Raaz is XY where X is a number and Y is an old
currency unit. In the movie Insaf, Akshay Kumar asks
Shilpa Shetty to return him his XY (XY being merged to
form one word). Further back in 1958, the same
amount finds mention in a song where the lady
proclaims herself to be “the song of the stars” while the
gentleman asks for money owed to him (Something
plus XY). Give me XY.

46. 21
It is a mythical creature seen in
many Hindu temples, often
sculpted on pillars. It may be
portrayed as part lion, part
elephant and part horse, and in
similar shapes. It is a motif in
Indian art and is widely used in
South Indian sculpture. What is its
name, addition of a vowel and a
space to which may remind you of
a popular Zubeen Garg Hindi song?

48. YALI
(Also called Vyala/Vidala)

49. Thank You
Finals follow