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NITK Fine Print 2021 MELAS Quiz - Prelims

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A quiz on the fields of Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Sports that I conducted for institution NITK's creative carnival in 2021

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NITK Fine Print 2021 MELAS Quiz - Prelims
MELAS Quiz Researched and conducted by: Rithwik Rao H
NITK Fine Print 2021 MELAS Quiz - Prelims
Special Thanks to: ● Literary, Stage and Debating Society, NITK ● Amal Mohan, Guinea Pig ● Swastik Udupa, Guinea Pig ● Dhruv Warrior, Guinea Pig ● Aditi Gupta, Guinea Pig ● Shashank Singit, for sacrificing his participation in order to assist me
The Royal Rumble: The Prelims
Rules
Rules 1) 30 questions, 35 points. Questions 1-25 with a single answer will carry 1 point each. Questions 26-30 with 2 answers will carry 2 points each. 2) Answers to be submitted only through the Google form given to you. Only one person per team has to submit the Google form. 3) Please switch on your videos and make sure your hands are visible. 4) Top 8 teams into the finals. 5) Questions 11-20 are star marked and will be used to resolve ties. 6) Don’t Google. Any discovery of malpractice will lead to disqualification of the team. 7) Asking doubts, asking for and blocking hints to be done on the chat only. Please don’t put up the answers on the chat! 8) I am the God. I am the one who knocks. My decision is final.
All the best!
1 Shown in next slide was an advertisement in the form of a painting for a French department store existing in the late 19th century. The painting was to advertise the store’s collection of children’s toys to be sold as New Year’s gifts in the mid 1880s. Despite the store closing down in 1891, a replica of this particular painting has been sighted by most of us in a fictional place since a little more than a century after the store’s end of operations. In which fictional place have we seen this work of art?
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2 Sometime in the 1980s, a few schools in the USA observed that teen students (both male and female) had followed a viral trend of wearing only one glove of a particular colour in their right hands during schooltime. This resulted in at least one school in a northeastern state completely banning gloves in school premises as the trend of wearing one glove distracted teachers and students during classes. From there on, any student who was caught in school were dealt with serious consequences, extending to even supension. Who caused and kickstarted this viral trend in the first place?
3 The origin of the name of this NBA team goes back to the time of it’s formation when the owner wanted to choose a name to signify the players’ strength and toughness. When he was suggesting the names he thought of to his family, his youngest son hated the names and to express this, he uttered a phrase to describe the bunch of suggested names. This particular phrase caught the owner’s attention and caused an epiphany as a certain part of it suited the required symbolisms of the team. Which NBA team is this?
4 About four years ago, Indian movie-goers were stuck in a situation of confusion and dilemma of whether to obey the same stringent rule for the second time during screenings while watching a certain movie. Indian Twitterati created a lot of buzz relating to this incident. Some of them criticized the movie for not cautioning so that everyone would have been prepared to abide by the rule. Some tweeted that they obeyed the rule for the second time out of fear while some of them said they abided by it out of respect. Which specific scene of a particular Indian film caused all this ruckus?
5 In a certain 20th century novel, some of the characters who were introduced as “young woman” or “young man” were over the age of thirty for a certain reason. Another observation was it’s non-originality which was a consequence of the aforementioned reason. An original quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” was changed to “Music hath charms to calm a wild bosom”. Another original quote “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” was modified to “a charming thing is a joy always.” Which novel (or) what was the reason for such oddities?
6 Shown in the image is a pendant which is a historical artefact. The artefact currently resides in a castle in northeastern England. What, situated about 2000 kilometres southeast of the pendant’s current place of residence, is said to have taken inspiration from the human figure in the pendant?
7 The attached audio clip plays the first minute of an early 1980s rock song. A particular song of the new era is said to have been predominantly inspired by this hit although a small fraction of theorists have pointed out to some other songs from the early 80s as possible inspirations for the song in question. Listen to the audio carefully and tell me which song of the new era is said to have been inspired by this hit. (Audio removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
8 Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational provider of children’s toys with over 200 stores throughout Europe. In September 2018, on popular demand, Smyths Toys came up with a new product that was based on one of their old products. The old products were basically drones with a spherical body. The new product only differed from the old product by two additional features, a new look to the spherical body along with the addition of identical extensions and a feature of object avoidance which actuated after a small time delay. What was this toy a plausible replica of?
9 Guildhall is a municipal building in London. The building has been used as a town hall for several hundred years and is the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London. However, in recent times, on a particular day generally in the month of July every year, all the municipal ceremonies or operations have to be suspended to host a ceremony honouring the achievements of about 30 people with a major highlight of two specific people of these 30 flaunting their not so well known dancing skills. Which annual event, not having municipal relations, does the Guildhall host every July?
10 In an early episode of the TV show The Mentalist, the protagonist Patrick Jane relates evidences together and finds the murderer in this episode. One of those evidences is a copy of a popular book. Patrick finds out that the culprit murdered the victim to avenge the murder of his close friend and that the book was read by him to ignite his obsession for revenge and motivate him to do the job without caring about the consequences, Patrick asks “I confess. I never really did get to the end of the story. ____ does die, doesn’t he?” to which the culprit replies saying “Yes. But so does the _____.” proving his extreme obsession for revenge despite him going to prison for long. Which famous book plays a crucial role in this episode?
Starred questions begin!
11* There exists a neurological disease which is characterized by loss of the ability to produce language although comprehension is still functional. It is caused by acquired damage to the anterior regions of the brain. The speech of the person diagnosed with this condition only speaks out certain important content words but leaves out functional words such as prepositions and articles, limiting his/her vocabulary substantially. How was a severe case of this disorder, according to several neurology experts, made familiar to most of us roughly over the first half of the last decade?
12* The reasons why these four entities having a common theme are named so, are given below although the fourth one is yet to come. The first one was named so because new works were appended to the catalogue of existing works in the related person’s early career and was a foundation. The second one was named so to build on the first one exponentially and increase the involved person’s fame. The third was named so to signify that the works were meant to be between him and a special person to him. The fourth one will be named so to strip down the number of related genres. What are these entities that are being talked about?
13* About 15 years ago, The US Department of Energy released a publication which revised new symbols and pictographs to various instructions or cautions with respect to nuclear waste management. One particular sign among the pictographs denoted just a face and hands. The symbol was to be used as a non-language-specific symbol on the containers of radioactive waste in order to warn the danger to future human civilisations about the presence of the waste in the containers. This symbol was a simplified version of which entity from the world of MELAS?
14* In 2014, a Japanese-French theatrical company came up with an adapted play based on a famous literary work. The play, which was for a particular theatrical festival in France, had the unique feature of having a robot playing the protagonist. The robot was chosen to be the protagonist to not only test the capabilities of AI, but the experiment was put into action to also replace the original protagonist who hardly communicates and to make the play visually more comfortable and bearable to watch than the typical adapted plays of the same work. Which literary work was adapted into this android play?
14*
15* About 50 kilometres southeast of the Italian city of Bologna, lies a public establishment which was built at a site abandoned since the 2000s. The establishment complex consists of a concrete wall with sections of it painted with hues green, blue and yellow, a specific statue of a person overlooking a fence that is covered with various posters, shirts and flags and a municipal park that surrounds these two landmarks. What happened at this exact same spot (the wall) late last century, which also serves as the theme of the complex?
15*
16* In 2018, a certain statue, made of painted stainless steel and aluminium was erected at a park in a locality of a northeastern US state as part of a large public art exhibition. The statue immediately sparked controversy when it was erected right in front of a church with it’s rear facing the church entry, which was found to be disrespectful to the church due to obvious reasons. Another problem was that the children who would come to play in the park would go to the base of the statue and look up which caused distress among parents. What is this statue a tribute to which is something iconic from the middle of last century?
17* L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French novel which was first published in the year 1942 and has nihilism as it’s primary theme. In the second half of the book, the protagonist murders someone by shooting at him from near sight but just before he does so, he has hallucinations due to the sunstroke and thought that it was a dream. After the murder, he realizes that there’s no turning back from this real occurrence. In the subsequent trial, he says he murdered the victim for no reason and that it won’t matter what the eventual verdict will be, which turns out to be a death sentence. According to several critics, this subplot inspired the introductory part of which work in another realm of MELAS about three decades after the book’s release?
18* In May 2014, several instances of vandalism were observed across England on certain signboards conveying a 3 word cautionary message to prevent minor injuries in public areas and shops, because of an occurence involving a celebrity. In most of the cases, the name of this celebrity was either added or the name replaced the cautionary message that these had and his name was written using permanent markers and graffiti. There were also some instances where the modified parodies of this signboard were deliberately manufactured and bought by various shop owners across the country which had the name printed on it. What occurrence caused these vandalising and parodying instances to mock the celebrity?
19* Connect this non-exhaustive list with respect to something in the world of MELAS: 1) A tapering huge rock generally having a square or rectangular cross section 2) A phrase that means to obtain a dosage of a drug 3) Figures of live births, deaths, marriages and divorces 4) Noisy aggregate of sounds
20* Shown in next slide is an image of a European military transport aircraft by Airbus. The model is currently in use by the German, French, Spanish and Royal (UK) Air Forces. If the maiden flight of the model in December 2009 caused the first spike of the model in it’s Google Trends graph, what is said to have caused the second and a higher spike in the middle of last decade although the majority of the buzz was about a person beside the plane?
20*
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Starred questions end
21 The director of this project was looking for a way to narrate a story in the forward direction in a short film where the actions were moving backwards. When he was thinking of a story to narrate, he met X who had written a ballad about going back to the very beginning which was very apt considering the director’s idea for such a venture. To make it look like X was narrating this piece of literature in the right direction while the end product was played, X had to learn the ballad phonetically backward for a month to narrate backwards while the recording was going on. What was the end product of all this?
22 In a book of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, the main antagonist comes disguised to kidnap a group of three children. While the children get to know about his identity, one of the children devises a plan to expose him to which the toddler in the group replies saying “_______!” instead of “Roger that!”. Despite this toddler being known for her usual baby babble, this is actually an Easter Egg in the form of a tribute to another famous book. This Easter Egg eventually turns out as a prediction to a homicide in narrative in the same story. Which famous book is being paid tribute to by the toddler (or) What was the single word uttered by the toddler?
23 There are four different versions of this performance which lasts about a minute and is generally executed by a group of about certain 30 men. The translation of the lyrics of the oldest version is shown here. (Legend: L - Lead, RoG - Rest of the group, A - All) What performance am I talking about? L: “Hear hear! Be ready! Line up! Stand up!” RoG: “Yeah!” L: “Slap your hands against your thighs! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!” RoG: “As hard as we can!” L: “I die! I die!” x 2 RoG: “I live! I live! x 2 A: “Here stands the hairy man who calls out to the Sun and makes it radiate! Ride now! Ride now! Take the initial step! Allow the sunshine in! Rise!”
24 Shown here is a snap from a music video of a song from late 2019 which became viral on TikTok and social media. The character’s look in the music video is a tribute to a famous fictional character. Which character is being paid a tribute to?
25 This is a poster from the photoshoot of an Olay product which was part of a mid 2000s reality show featuring supermodels. The poster parodies something which returned to worldwide fame in 1997, courtesy a film featuring a familiar character since our childhood. What from the world of MELAS is being parodied here?
Two pointers coming up!
26 During the net practice sessions of this team, players unfamiliar to bowling in actual matches used to have a go. The then manager of the team advised these players to always focus to bowl on the line of the stumps because of their inexperience and also to cramp batsmen for rooms to hit shots. This particular simple tactic in the net sessions proved vital to the team when they came across a very rare situation. To succeed in the task provided, the team used 3 bowlers with 2 being occasional bowlers. The medium pacer X, being one of the two, had bowled only a single digit number of deliveries in his international career. He succeeded in the task and the team went on to win the game as part of their eventually victorious campaign. What task or situation am I talking about? (1 point) Who is X? (1 point)
27 Late last century, an author went on a camping trip and things turned ugly when he got involved in an altercation with campers and got his face disfigured. When he went back to work the next day, no one asked him about his face and this incident was what lead him to start writing his first book. The book was adapted into a film of the same name few years down the line. One character in the film was a drug addict with suicidal thoughts. Realizing the attributes of the character, the actress playing the role assumed that the character would be someone who would have shabby facial makeup and thus suggested a witty method to her skilled makeup artist to get her look “right”. Which book (or) film is being talked about? (1 point) What witty method was put into action to help the actress get her shabby look? (1 point)
28 In the earlier half of last year, several healthcare agencies in Michigan received several food items for free as a mark of respect to them fighting the COVID-19 pandemic from a food chain owned by X. Several cups of a food item Y, synonymous with the name of the food chain, were donated to the health workers. The name of the dish/food chain Y is a reference to an iconic fragment of X’s Oscar winning work. To this great gesture, one of the agencies tweeted pictures of Y with the caption “Our #HealthcareHeroes ____ __________ (4, 10) in the delicious Y donated by X. Thank you for providing a special meal to our team members”. ID Y (1 point) and FITB (1 point).
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29 In a certain book, the author of the book gives a brilliant alternative interpretation of a famous phrase familiar to most of us involving two aliases of a mythological person. The protagonist of the book, who shares his name with this mythological person, remembers the people of his country christening him with one of the aforementioned aliases, which literally means the greatest of the Lords. He then starts a pep talk with the country’s army on the way to their battlefield that finally concludes with him crying this particular phrase and him explaining its meaning that each and every person in the army is equal and supreme rather than just him. Which phrase? (1 point) Who is the author of this book? (1 point)
30 Shown in next slide is a song’s music video from a 2019 Sandalwood film. The film itself is loosely based on a famous Hollywood film and there are evidences of the same in the song’s video with respect to majority of the video’s setting and ambience. This fact was even accepted by the production designer. The protagonist of the film also pays a tribute to a 19th century work at one particular still in the video. Which vintage Hollywood flick loosely inspires this film and the song’s video?(1 point) Which 19th century work is commemorated? (1 point) (Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
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1 Shown in next slide was an advertisement in the form of a painting for a French department store existing in the late 19th century. The painting was to advertise the store’s collection of children’s toys to be sold as New Year’s gifts in the mid 1880s. Despite the store closing down in 1891, a replica of this particular painting has been sighted by most of us in a fictional place since a little more than a century after the store’s end of operations. In which fictional place have we seen this work of art?
1
Monica’s Apartment in F.R.I.E.N.D.S
2 Sometime in the 1980s, a few schools in the USA observed that teen students (both male and female) had followed a viral trend of wearing only one glove of a particular colour in their right hands during schooltime. This resulted in at least one school in a northeastern state completely banning gloves in school premises as the trend of wearing one glove distracted teachers and students during classes. From there on, any student who was caught in school were dealt with serious consequences, extending to even supension. Who caused and kickstarted this viral trend in the first place?
Michael Jackson
3 The origin of the name of this NBA team goes back to the time of it’s formation when the owner wanted to choose a name to signify the players’ strength and toughness. When he was suggesting the names he thought of to his family, his youngest son hated the names and to express this, he uttered a phrase to describe the bunch of suggested names. This particular phrase caught the owner’s attention and caused an epiphany as a certain part of it suited the required symbolisms of the team. Which NBA team is this?
Chicago Bulls “Dad, that’s a bunch of bullshit”
4 About four years ago, Indian movie-goers were stuck in a situation of confusion and dilemma of whether to obey the same stringent rule for the second time during screenings while watching a certain movie. Indian Twitterati created a lot of buzz relating to this incident. Some of them criticized the movie for not cautioning so that everyone would have been prepared to abide by the rule. Some tweeted that they obeyed the rule for the second time out of fear while some of them said they abided by it out of respect. Which specific scene of a particular Bollywood film caused all this ruckus?
The national anthem scene in Dangal
5 In a certain 20th century novel, some of the characters who were introduced as “young woman” or “young man” were over the age of thirty for a certain reason. Another observation was it’s non-originality which was a consequence of the aforementioned reason. An original quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” was changed to “Music hath charms to calm a wild bosom”. Another original quote “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” was modified to “a charming thing is a joy always.” Which novel (or) what was the reason for such oddities?
Gadsby (or) no letter ‘e’
6 Shown in the image is a pendant which is a historical artefact. The artefact currently resides in a castle in northeastern England. What, situated about 2000 kilometres southeast of the pendant’s current place of residence, is said to have taken inspiration from the human figure in the pendant?
Creation of Adam (or) The Sistine Chapel fresco
7 The attached audio clip plays the first minute of an early 1980s rock song. A particular song of the new era is said to have been predominantly inspired by this hit although a small fraction of theorists have pointed out to some other songs from the early 80s as possible inspirations for the song in question. Listen to the audio carefully and tell me which song of the new era is said to have been inspired by this hit. (Audio removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
8 Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational provider of children’s toys with over 200 stores throughout Europe. In September 2018, on popular demand, Smyths Toys came up with a new product that was based on one of their old products. The old products were basically drones with a spherical body. The new product only differed from the old product by two additional features, a new look to the spherical body along with the addition of identical extensions and a feature of object avoidance which actuated after a small time delay. What was this toy a plausible replica of?
The Golden Snitch from Harry Potter series
9 Guildhall is a municipal building in London. The building has been used as a town hall for several hundred years and is the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London. However, in recent times, on a particular day generally in the month of July every year, all the municipal ceremonies or operations have to be suspended to host a ceremony honouring the achievements of about 30 people with a major highlight of two specific people of these 30 flaunting their not so well known dancing skills. Which annual event, not having municipal relations, does the Guildhall host every July?
Wimbledon Champions’ Dinner
10 In an early episode of the TV show The Mentalist, the protagonist Patrick Jane relates evidences together and finds the murderer in this episode. One of those evidences is a copy of a popular book. Patrick finds out that the culprit murdered the victim to avenge the murder of his close friend and that the book was read by him to ignite his obsession for revenge and motivate him to do the job without caring about the consequences, Patrick asks “I confess. I never really did get to the end of the story. ____ does die, doesn’t he?” to which the culprit replies saying “Yes. But so does the _____.” proving his extreme obsession for revenge despite him going to prison for long. Which famous book plays a crucial role in this episode?
Moby Dick
11* There exists a neurological disease which is characterized by loss of the ability to produce language although comprehension is still functional. It is caused by acquired damage to the anterior regions of the brain. The speech of the person diagnosed with this condition only speaks out certain important content words but leaves out functional words such as prepositions and articles, limiting his vocabulary substantially. How was a severe case of this disorder, according to several neurology experts, made familiar to most of us roughly over the first half of the last decade?
This is the condition that Hodor suffers from
12* The reasons why these four entities having a common theme are named so, are given below although the fourth one is yet to come. The first one was named so because new works were appended to the catalogue of existing works in the related person’s early career and was a foundation. The second one was named so to build on the first one exponentially and increase the involved person’s fame. The third was named so to signify that the works were meant to be between him and a special person to him. The fourth one will be named so to strip down the number of related genres. What are these entities that are being talked about?
Ed Sheeran’s albums
13* About 15 years ago, The US Department of Energy released a publication which revised new symbols and pictographs to various instructions or cautions with respect to nuclear waste management. One particular sign among the pictographs denoted just a face and hands. The symbol was to be used as a non-language-specific symbol on the containers of radioactive waste in order to warn the danger to future human civilisations about the presence of the waste in the containers. This symbol was a simplified version of which entity from the world of MELAS?
The Scream by Edvard Munch
14* In 2014, a Japanese-French theatrical company came up with an adapted play based on a famous literary work. The play, which was for a particular theatrical festival in France, had the unique feature of having a robot playing the protagonist. The robot was chosen to be the protagonist to not only test the capabilities of AI, but the experiment was put into action to also replace the original protagonist who hardly communicates and to make the play visually more comfortable and bearable to watch than the typical adapted plays of the same work. Which literary work was adapted into this android play?
14*
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
15* About 50 kilometres southeast of the Italian city of Bologna, lies a public establishment which was built at a site abandoned since the 2000s. The establishment complex consists of a concrete wall with sections of it painted with hues green, blue and yellow, a specific statue of a person overlooking a fence that is covered with various posters, shirts and flags and a municipal park that surrounds these two landmarks. What happened at this exact same spot (the wall) late last century, which also serves as the theme of the complex?
15*
Ayrton Senna’s fatal crash
16* In 2018, a certain statue, made of painted stainless steel and aluminium was erected at a park in a locality of a northeastern US state as part of a large public art exhibition. The statue immediately sparked controversy when it was erected right in front of a church with it’s rear facing the church entry, which was found to be disrespectful to the church due to obvious reasons. Another problem was that the children who would come to play in the park would go to the base of the statue and look up which caused distress among parents. What is this statue a tribute to which is something iconic from middle of last century?
Marilyn Monroe’s still with blown skirt in Seven Year Itch
17* L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French novel which was first published in the year 1942 and has nihilism as it’s primary theme. In the second half of the book, the protagonist murders someone by shooting at him from near sight but just before he does so, he has hallucinations due to the sunstroke and thought that it was a dream. After the murder, he realizes that there’s no turning back from this real occurrence. In the subsequent trial, he says he murdered the victim for no reason and that it won’t matter what the eventual verdict will be, which turns out to be a death sentence. According to several critics, this subplot inspired the introductory part of which work in another realm of MELAS about three decades after the book’s release?
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality.” “Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.” “Mama, just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.”
18* In May 2014, several instances of vandalism were observed across England on certain signboards conveying a 3 word cautionary message to prevent minor injuries in public areas and shops, because of an occurence involving a celebrity. In most of the cases, the name of this celebrity was either added or the name replaced the cautionary message that these had and his name was written using permanent markers and graffiti. There were also some instances where the modified parodies of this signboard were deliberately manufactured and bought by various shop owners across the country which had the name printed on it. What occurrence caused these vandalising and parodying instances to mock the celebrity?
Steven Gerrard’s slip
19* Connect this non-exhaustive list with respect to something in the world of MELAS: 1) A tapering huge rock generally having a square or rectangular cross section 2) A phrase that means to obtain a dosage of a drug 3) Figures of live births, deaths, marriages and divorces 4) Noisy aggregate of sounds
Original words for Asterix characters’ names (Obelisk - Obelix, Cacophony - Cacophonix)
20* Shown in next slide is an image of a European military transport aircraft by Airbus. The model is currently in use by the German, French, Spanish and Royal (UK) Air Forces. If the maiden flight of the model in December 2009 caused the first spike of the model in it’s Google Trends graph, what is said to have caused the second and a higher spike in the middle of last decade although the majority of the buzz was about a person beside the plane?
20*
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Tom Cruise’s flight stunt in intro of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
21 The director of this project was looking for a way to narrate a story in the forward direction in a short film where the actions were moving backwards. When he was thinking of a story to narrate, he met X who had written a ballad about going back to the very beginning which was very apt considering the director’s idea for such a venture. To make it look like X was narrating this piece of literature in the right direction while the end product was played, X had to learn the ballad phonetically backward for a month to narrate backwards while the recording was going on. What was the end product of all this?
Music video for Coldplay’s The Scientist
22 In a book of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, the main antagonist comes disguised to kidnap a group of three children. While the children get to know about his identity, one of the children devises a plan to expose him to which the toddler in the group replies saying “_______!” instead of “Roger that!”. Despite this toddler being known for her usual baby babble, this is actually an Easter Egg in the form of a tribute to another famous book. This Easter Egg eventually turns out as a prediction to a homicide in narrative in the same story. Which famous book is being paid tribute to by the toddler (or) what single word was uttered?
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/ Ackroyd
23 There are four different versions of this performance which lasts about a minute and is generally executed by a group of about certain 30 men. The translation of the lyrics of the oldest version is shown here. (Legend: L - Lead, RoG - Rest of the group, A - All) What performance am I talking about? L: “Hear hear! Be ready! Line up! Stand!” RoG: “Yeah!” L: “Slap your hands against your thighs! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!” RoG: “As hard as we can!” L: “I die! I die!” x 2 RoG: “I live! I live! x 2 A: “Here stands the hairy man who calls out to the Sun and makes it radiate! Ride now! Ride now! Take the initial step! Allow the sunshine in! Rise!”
The Haka dance by the New Zealand rugby team
24 Shown here is a snap from a music video of a song from late 2019 which became viral on TikTok and social media. The character’s look in the music video is a tribute to a famous fictional character. Which character is being paid a tribute to?
Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction
25 This is a poster from the photoshoot of an Olay product which was part of a mid 2000s reality show featuring supermodels. The poster parodies something which returned to worldwide fame in 1997, courtesy a film featuring a familiar character since our childhood. What from the world of MELAS is being parodied here?
Whistler’s Mother
26 During the net practice sessions of this team, players unfamiliar to bowling in actual matches used to have a go. The then manager of the team advised these players to always focus to bowl on the line of the stumps because of their inexperience and also to cramp batsmen for rooms to hit shots. This particular simple tactic in the net sessions proved vital to the team when they came across a very rare situation. To succeed in the task provided, the team used 3 bowlers with 2 being occasional bowlers. The medium pacer X, being one of the two, had bowled only a single digit number of deliveries in his international career. He succeeded in the task and the team went on to win the game as part of their eventually victorious campaign. What task or situation am I talking about? (1 point) Who is X? (1 point)
Bowl-out in Ind vs Pak match in ICC T20 WC 2007 Robin Uthappa
27 Late last century, an author went on a camping trip and things turned ugly when he got involved in an altercation with campers and got his face disfigured. When he went back to work the next day, no one asked him about his face and this incident was what lead him to start writing his first book. The book was adapted into a film of the same name few years down the line. One character in the film was a drug addict with suicidal thoughts. Realizing the attributes of the character, the actress playing the role assumed that the character would be someone who would have shabby facial makeup and thus suggested a witty method to her skilled makeup artist to get her look “right”. Which book (or) film is being talked about? (1 point) What witty method was put into action to help the actress get her shabby look? (1 point)
Fight Club Makeup was done using the left hand of the makeup artist
28 In the earlier half of last year, several healthcare agencies in Michigan received several food items for free as a mark of respect to them fighting the COVID-19 pandemic from a food chain owned by X. Several cups of a food item Y, synonymous with the name of the food chain, were donated to the health workers. The name of the dish/food chain Y is a reference to an iconic fragment of X’s Oscar winning work. To this great gesture, one of the agencies tweeted pictures of Y with the caption “Our #HealthcareHeroes ____ __________ (4, 10) in the delicious Y donated by X. Thank you for providing a special meal to our team members”. ID Y (1 point) and FITB (1 point).
28
Mom’s Spaghetti Lost themselves
29 In a certain book, the author of the book gives a brilliant alternative interpretation of a famous phrase familiar to most of us involving two aliases of a mythological person. The protagonist of the book, who shares his name with this mythological person, remembers the people of his country christening him with one of the aforementioned aliases, which literally means the greatest of the Lords. He then starts a pep talk with the country’s army on the way to their battlefield that finally concludes with him crying this particular phrase and him explaining its meaning that each and every person in the army is equal and supreme rather than just him. Which phrase? (1 point) Who is the author of this book? (1 point)
Har Har Mahadev Amish Tripathi
30 Shown in next slide is a song’s music video from a 2019 Sandalwood film. The film itself is loosely based on a famous Hollywood film and there are evidences of the same in the song’s video with respect to majority of the video’s setting and ambience. This fact was even accepted by the production designer. The protagonist of the film also pays a tribute to a 19th century work at one particular still in the video. Which vintage Hollywood flick loosely inspires this film and the song’s video?(1 point) Which 19th century work is commemorated? (1 point) (Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Napoleon Crossing The Alps by Jacques-Louis David
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  • 2. MELAS Quiz Researched and conducted by: Rithwik Rao H
  • 4. Special Thanks to: ● Literary, Stage and Debating Society, NITK ● Amal Mohan, Guinea Pig ● Swastik Udupa, Guinea Pig ● Dhruv Warrior, Guinea Pig ● Aditi Gupta, Guinea Pig ● Shashank Singit, for sacrificing his participation in order to assist me
  • 7. Rules 1) 30 questions, 35 points. Questions 1-25 with a single answer will carry 1 point each. Questions 26-30 with 2 answers will carry 2 points each. 2) Answers to be submitted only through the Google form given to you. Only one person per team has to submit the Google form. 3) Please switch on your videos and make sure your hands are visible. 4) Top 8 teams into the finals. 5) Questions 11-20 are star marked and will be used to resolve ties. 6) Don’t Google. Any discovery of malpractice will lead to disqualification of the team. 7) Asking doubts, asking for and blocking hints to be done on the chat only. Please don’t put up the answers on the chat! 8) I am the God. I am the one who knocks. My decision is final.
  • 9. 1 Shown in next slide was an advertisement in the form of a painting for a French department store existing in the late 19th century. The painting was to advertise the store’s collection of children’s toys to be sold as New Year’s gifts in the mid 1880s. Despite the store closing down in 1891, a replica of this particular painting has been sighted by most of us in a fictional place since a little more than a century after the store’s end of operations. In which fictional place have we seen this work of art?
  • 10. 1
  • 11. 2 Sometime in the 1980s, a few schools in the USA observed that teen students (both male and female) had followed a viral trend of wearing only one glove of a particular colour in their right hands during schooltime. This resulted in at least one school in a northeastern state completely banning gloves in school premises as the trend of wearing one glove distracted teachers and students during classes. From there on, any student who was caught in school were dealt with serious consequences, extending to even supension. Who caused and kickstarted this viral trend in the first place?
  • 12. 3 The origin of the name of this NBA team goes back to the time of it’s formation when the owner wanted to choose a name to signify the players’ strength and toughness. When he was suggesting the names he thought of to his family, his youngest son hated the names and to express this, he uttered a phrase to describe the bunch of suggested names. This particular phrase caught the owner’s attention and caused an epiphany as a certain part of it suited the required symbolisms of the team. Which NBA team is this?
  • 13. 4 About four years ago, Indian movie-goers were stuck in a situation of confusion and dilemma of whether to obey the same stringent rule for the second time during screenings while watching a certain movie. Indian Twitterati created a lot of buzz relating to this incident. Some of them criticized the movie for not cautioning so that everyone would have been prepared to abide by the rule. Some tweeted that they obeyed the rule for the second time out of fear while some of them said they abided by it out of respect. Which specific scene of a particular Indian film caused all this ruckus?
  • 14. 5 In a certain 20th century novel, some of the characters who were introduced as “young woman” or “young man” were over the age of thirty for a certain reason. Another observation was it’s non-originality which was a consequence of the aforementioned reason. An original quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” was changed to “Music hath charms to calm a wild bosom”. Another original quote “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” was modified to “a charming thing is a joy always.” Which novel (or) what was the reason for such oddities?
  • 15. 6 Shown in the image is a pendant which is a historical artefact. The artefact currently resides in a castle in northeastern England. What, situated about 2000 kilometres southeast of the pendant’s current place of residence, is said to have taken inspiration from the human figure in the pendant?
  • 16. 7 The attached audio clip plays the first minute of an early 1980s rock song. A particular song of the new era is said to have been predominantly inspired by this hit although a small fraction of theorists have pointed out to some other songs from the early 80s as possible inspirations for the song in question. Listen to the audio carefully and tell me which song of the new era is said to have been inspired by this hit. (Audio removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
  • 17. 8 Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational provider of children’s toys with over 200 stores throughout Europe. In September 2018, on popular demand, Smyths Toys came up with a new product that was based on one of their old products. The old products were basically drones with a spherical body. The new product only differed from the old product by two additional features, a new look to the spherical body along with the addition of identical extensions and a feature of object avoidance which actuated after a small time delay. What was this toy a plausible replica of?
  • 18. 9 Guildhall is a municipal building in London. The building has been used as a town hall for several hundred years and is the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London. However, in recent times, on a particular day generally in the month of July every year, all the municipal ceremonies or operations have to be suspended to host a ceremony honouring the achievements of about 30 people with a major highlight of two specific people of these 30 flaunting their not so well known dancing skills. Which annual event, not having municipal relations, does the Guildhall host every July?
  • 19. 10 In an early episode of the TV show The Mentalist, the protagonist Patrick Jane relates evidences together and finds the murderer in this episode. One of those evidences is a copy of a popular book. Patrick finds out that the culprit murdered the victim to avenge the murder of his close friend and that the book was read by him to ignite his obsession for revenge and motivate him to do the job without caring about the consequences, Patrick asks “I confess. I never really did get to the end of the story. ____ does die, doesn’t he?” to which the culprit replies saying “Yes. But so does the _____.” proving his extreme obsession for revenge despite him going to prison for long. Which famous book plays a crucial role in this episode?
  • 21. 11* There exists a neurological disease which is characterized by loss of the ability to produce language although comprehension is still functional. It is caused by acquired damage to the anterior regions of the brain. The speech of the person diagnosed with this condition only speaks out certain important content words but leaves out functional words such as prepositions and articles, limiting his/her vocabulary substantially. How was a severe case of this disorder, according to several neurology experts, made familiar to most of us roughly over the first half of the last decade?
  • 22. 12* The reasons why these four entities having a common theme are named so, are given below although the fourth one is yet to come. The first one was named so because new works were appended to the catalogue of existing works in the related person’s early career and was a foundation. The second one was named so to build on the first one exponentially and increase the involved person’s fame. The third was named so to signify that the works were meant to be between him and a special person to him. The fourth one will be named so to strip down the number of related genres. What are these entities that are being talked about?
  • 23. 13* About 15 years ago, The US Department of Energy released a publication which revised new symbols and pictographs to various instructions or cautions with respect to nuclear waste management. One particular sign among the pictographs denoted just a face and hands. The symbol was to be used as a non-language-specific symbol on the containers of radioactive waste in order to warn the danger to future human civilisations about the presence of the waste in the containers. This symbol was a simplified version of which entity from the world of MELAS?
  • 24. 14* In 2014, a Japanese-French theatrical company came up with an adapted play based on a famous literary work. The play, which was for a particular theatrical festival in France, had the unique feature of having a robot playing the protagonist. The robot was chosen to be the protagonist to not only test the capabilities of AI, but the experiment was put into action to also replace the original protagonist who hardly communicates and to make the play visually more comfortable and bearable to watch than the typical adapted plays of the same work. Which literary work was adapted into this android play?
  • 25. 14*
  • 26. 15* About 50 kilometres southeast of the Italian city of Bologna, lies a public establishment which was built at a site abandoned since the 2000s. The establishment complex consists of a concrete wall with sections of it painted with hues green, blue and yellow, a specific statue of a person overlooking a fence that is covered with various posters, shirts and flags and a municipal park that surrounds these two landmarks. What happened at this exact same spot (the wall) late last century, which also serves as the theme of the complex?
  • 27. 15*
  • 28. 16* In 2018, a certain statue, made of painted stainless steel and aluminium was erected at a park in a locality of a northeastern US state as part of a large public art exhibition. The statue immediately sparked controversy when it was erected right in front of a church with it’s rear facing the church entry, which was found to be disrespectful to the church due to obvious reasons. Another problem was that the children who would come to play in the park would go to the base of the statue and look up which caused distress among parents. What is this statue a tribute to which is something iconic from the middle of last century?
  • 29. 17* L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French novel which was first published in the year 1942 and has nihilism as it’s primary theme. In the second half of the book, the protagonist murders someone by shooting at him from near sight but just before he does so, he has hallucinations due to the sunstroke and thought that it was a dream. After the murder, he realizes that there’s no turning back from this real occurrence. In the subsequent trial, he says he murdered the victim for no reason and that it won’t matter what the eventual verdict will be, which turns out to be a death sentence. According to several critics, this subplot inspired the introductory part of which work in another realm of MELAS about three decades after the book’s release?
  • 30. 18* In May 2014, several instances of vandalism were observed across England on certain signboards conveying a 3 word cautionary message to prevent minor injuries in public areas and shops, because of an occurence involving a celebrity. In most of the cases, the name of this celebrity was either added or the name replaced the cautionary message that these had and his name was written using permanent markers and graffiti. There were also some instances where the modified parodies of this signboard were deliberately manufactured and bought by various shop owners across the country which had the name printed on it. What occurrence caused these vandalising and parodying instances to mock the celebrity?
  • 31. 19* Connect this non-exhaustive list with respect to something in the world of MELAS: 1) A tapering huge rock generally having a square or rectangular cross section 2) A phrase that means to obtain a dosage of a drug 3) Figures of live births, deaths, marriages and divorces 4) Noisy aggregate of sounds
  • 32. 20* Shown in next slide is an image of a European military transport aircraft by Airbus. The model is currently in use by the German, French, Spanish and Royal (UK) Air Forces. If the maiden flight of the model in December 2009 caused the first spike of the model in it’s Google Trends graph, what is said to have caused the second and a higher spike in the middle of last decade although the majority of the buzz was about a person beside the plane?
  • 33. 20*
  • 36. 21 The director of this project was looking for a way to narrate a story in the forward direction in a short film where the actions were moving backwards. When he was thinking of a story to narrate, he met X who had written a ballad about going back to the very beginning which was very apt considering the director’s idea for such a venture. To make it look like X was narrating this piece of literature in the right direction while the end product was played, X had to learn the ballad phonetically backward for a month to narrate backwards while the recording was going on. What was the end product of all this?
  • 37. 22 In a book of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, the main antagonist comes disguised to kidnap a group of three children. While the children get to know about his identity, one of the children devises a plan to expose him to which the toddler in the group replies saying “_______!” instead of “Roger that!”. Despite this toddler being known for her usual baby babble, this is actually an Easter Egg in the form of a tribute to another famous book. This Easter Egg eventually turns out as a prediction to a homicide in narrative in the same story. Which famous book is being paid tribute to by the toddler (or) What was the single word uttered by the toddler?
  • 38. 23 There are four different versions of this performance which lasts about a minute and is generally executed by a group of about certain 30 men. The translation of the lyrics of the oldest version is shown here. (Legend: L - Lead, RoG - Rest of the group, A - All) What performance am I talking about? L: “Hear hear! Be ready! Line up! Stand up!” RoG: “Yeah!” L: “Slap your hands against your thighs! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!” RoG: “As hard as we can!” L: “I die! I die!” x 2 RoG: “I live! I live! x 2 A: “Here stands the hairy man who calls out to the Sun and makes it radiate! Ride now! Ride now! Take the initial step! Allow the sunshine in! Rise!”
  • 39. 24 Shown here is a snap from a music video of a song from late 2019 which became viral on TikTok and social media. The character’s look in the music video is a tribute to a famous fictional character. Which character is being paid a tribute to?
  • 40. 25 This is a poster from the photoshoot of an Olay product which was part of a mid 2000s reality show featuring supermodels. The poster parodies something which returned to worldwide fame in 1997, courtesy a film featuring a familiar character since our childhood. What from the world of MELAS is being parodied here?
  • 42. 26 During the net practice sessions of this team, players unfamiliar to bowling in actual matches used to have a go. The then manager of the team advised these players to always focus to bowl on the line of the stumps because of their inexperience and also to cramp batsmen for rooms to hit shots. This particular simple tactic in the net sessions proved vital to the team when they came across a very rare situation. To succeed in the task provided, the team used 3 bowlers with 2 being occasional bowlers. The medium pacer X, being one of the two, had bowled only a single digit number of deliveries in his international career. He succeeded in the task and the team went on to win the game as part of their eventually victorious campaign. What task or situation am I talking about? (1 point) Who is X? (1 point)
  • 43. 27 Late last century, an author went on a camping trip and things turned ugly when he got involved in an altercation with campers and got his face disfigured. When he went back to work the next day, no one asked him about his face and this incident was what lead him to start writing his first book. The book was adapted into a film of the same name few years down the line. One character in the film was a drug addict with suicidal thoughts. Realizing the attributes of the character, the actress playing the role assumed that the character would be someone who would have shabby facial makeup and thus suggested a witty method to her skilled makeup artist to get her look “right”. Which book (or) film is being talked about? (1 point) What witty method was put into action to help the actress get her shabby look? (1 point)
  • 44. 28 In the earlier half of last year, several healthcare agencies in Michigan received several food items for free as a mark of respect to them fighting the COVID-19 pandemic from a food chain owned by X. Several cups of a food item Y, synonymous with the name of the food chain, were donated to the health workers. The name of the dish/food chain Y is a reference to an iconic fragment of X’s Oscar winning work. To this great gesture, one of the agencies tweeted pictures of Y with the caption “Our #HealthcareHeroes ____ __________ (4, 10) in the delicious Y donated by X. Thank you for providing a special meal to our team members”. ID Y (1 point) and FITB (1 point).
  • 45. 28
  • 46. 29 In a certain book, the author of the book gives a brilliant alternative interpretation of a famous phrase familiar to most of us involving two aliases of a mythological person. The protagonist of the book, who shares his name with this mythological person, remembers the people of his country christening him with one of the aforementioned aliases, which literally means the greatest of the Lords. He then starts a pep talk with the country’s army on the way to their battlefield that finally concludes with him crying this particular phrase and him explaining its meaning that each and every person in the army is equal and supreme rather than just him. Which phrase? (1 point) Who is the author of this book? (1 point)
  • 47. 30 Shown in next slide is a song’s music video from a 2019 Sandalwood film. The film itself is loosely based on a famous Hollywood film and there are evidences of the same in the song’s video with respect to majority of the video’s setting and ambience. This fact was even accepted by the production designer. The protagonist of the film also pays a tribute to a 19th century work at one particular still in the video. Which vintage Hollywood flick loosely inspires this film and the song’s video?(1 point) Which 19th century work is commemorated? (1 point) (Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
  • 50. 1 Shown in next slide was an advertisement in the form of a painting for a French department store existing in the late 19th century. The painting was to advertise the store’s collection of children’s toys to be sold as New Year’s gifts in the mid 1880s. Despite the store closing down in 1891, a replica of this particular painting has been sighted by most of us in a fictional place since a little more than a century after the store’s end of operations. In which fictional place have we seen this work of art?
  • 51. 1
  • 52. Monica’s Apartment in F.R.I.E.N.D.S
  • 53. 2 Sometime in the 1980s, a few schools in the USA observed that teen students (both male and female) had followed a viral trend of wearing only one glove of a particular colour in their right hands during schooltime. This resulted in at least one school in a northeastern state completely banning gloves in school premises as the trend of wearing one glove distracted teachers and students during classes. From there on, any student who was caught in school were dealt with serious consequences, extending to even supension. Who caused and kickstarted this viral trend in the first place?
  • 55. 3 The origin of the name of this NBA team goes back to the time of it’s formation when the owner wanted to choose a name to signify the players’ strength and toughness. When he was suggesting the names he thought of to his family, his youngest son hated the names and to express this, he uttered a phrase to describe the bunch of suggested names. This particular phrase caught the owner’s attention and caused an epiphany as a certain part of it suited the required symbolisms of the team. Which NBA team is this?
  • 56. Chicago Bulls “Dad, that’s a bunch of bullshit”
  • 57. 4 About four years ago, Indian movie-goers were stuck in a situation of confusion and dilemma of whether to obey the same stringent rule for the second time during screenings while watching a certain movie. Indian Twitterati created a lot of buzz relating to this incident. Some of them criticized the movie for not cautioning so that everyone would have been prepared to abide by the rule. Some tweeted that they obeyed the rule for the second time out of fear while some of them said they abided by it out of respect. Which specific scene of a particular Bollywood film caused all this ruckus?
  • 58. The national anthem scene in Dangal
  • 59. 5 In a certain 20th century novel, some of the characters who were introduced as “young woman” or “young man” were over the age of thirty for a certain reason. Another observation was it’s non-originality which was a consequence of the aforementioned reason. An original quote: “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” was changed to “Music hath charms to calm a wild bosom”. Another original quote “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” was modified to “a charming thing is a joy always.” Which novel (or) what was the reason for such oddities?
  • 60. Gadsby (or) no letter ‘e’
  • 61. 6 Shown in the image is a pendant which is a historical artefact. The artefact currently resides in a castle in northeastern England. What, situated about 2000 kilometres southeast of the pendant’s current place of residence, is said to have taken inspiration from the human figure in the pendant?
  • 62. Creation of Adam (or) The Sistine Chapel fresco
  • 63. 7 The attached audio clip plays the first minute of an early 1980s rock song. A particular song of the new era is said to have been predominantly inspired by this hit although a small fraction of theorists have pointed out to some other songs from the early 80s as possible inspirations for the song in question. Listen to the audio carefully and tell me which song of the new era is said to have been inspired by this hit. (Audio removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
  • 64. Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
  • 65. 8 Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational provider of children’s toys with over 200 stores throughout Europe. In September 2018, on popular demand, Smyths Toys came up with a new product that was based on one of their old products. The old products were basically drones with a spherical body. The new product only differed from the old product by two additional features, a new look to the spherical body along with the addition of identical extensions and a feature of object avoidance which actuated after a small time delay. What was this toy a plausible replica of?
  • 66. The Golden Snitch from Harry Potter series
  • 67. 9 Guildhall is a municipal building in London. The building has been used as a town hall for several hundred years and is the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London. However, in recent times, on a particular day generally in the month of July every year, all the municipal ceremonies or operations have to be suspended to host a ceremony honouring the achievements of about 30 people with a major highlight of two specific people of these 30 flaunting their not so well known dancing skills. Which annual event, not having municipal relations, does the Guildhall host every July?
  • 69. 10 In an early episode of the TV show The Mentalist, the protagonist Patrick Jane relates evidences together and finds the murderer in this episode. One of those evidences is a copy of a popular book. Patrick finds out that the culprit murdered the victim to avenge the murder of his close friend and that the book was read by him to ignite his obsession for revenge and motivate him to do the job without caring about the consequences, Patrick asks “I confess. I never really did get to the end of the story. ____ does die, doesn’t he?” to which the culprit replies saying “Yes. But so does the _____.” proving his extreme obsession for revenge despite him going to prison for long. Which famous book plays a crucial role in this episode?
  • 71. 11* There exists a neurological disease which is characterized by loss of the ability to produce language although comprehension is still functional. It is caused by acquired damage to the anterior regions of the brain. The speech of the person diagnosed with this condition only speaks out certain important content words but leaves out functional words such as prepositions and articles, limiting his vocabulary substantially. How was a severe case of this disorder, according to several neurology experts, made familiar to most of us roughly over the first half of the last decade?
  • 72. This is the condition that Hodor suffers from
  • 73. 12* The reasons why these four entities having a common theme are named so, are given below although the fourth one is yet to come. The first one was named so because new works were appended to the catalogue of existing works in the related person’s early career and was a foundation. The second one was named so to build on the first one exponentially and increase the involved person’s fame. The third was named so to signify that the works were meant to be between him and a special person to him. The fourth one will be named so to strip down the number of related genres. What are these entities that are being talked about?
  • 75. 13* About 15 years ago, The US Department of Energy released a publication which revised new symbols and pictographs to various instructions or cautions with respect to nuclear waste management. One particular sign among the pictographs denoted just a face and hands. The symbol was to be used as a non-language-specific symbol on the containers of radioactive waste in order to warn the danger to future human civilisations about the presence of the waste in the containers. This symbol was a simplified version of which entity from the world of MELAS?
  • 76. The Scream by Edvard Munch
  • 77. 14* In 2014, a Japanese-French theatrical company came up with an adapted play based on a famous literary work. The play, which was for a particular theatrical festival in France, had the unique feature of having a robot playing the protagonist. The robot was chosen to be the protagonist to not only test the capabilities of AI, but the experiment was put into action to also replace the original protagonist who hardly communicates and to make the play visually more comfortable and bearable to watch than the typical adapted plays of the same work. Which literary work was adapted into this android play?
  • 78. 14*
  • 80. 15* About 50 kilometres southeast of the Italian city of Bologna, lies a public establishment which was built at a site abandoned since the 2000s. The establishment complex consists of a concrete wall with sections of it painted with hues green, blue and yellow, a specific statue of a person overlooking a fence that is covered with various posters, shirts and flags and a municipal park that surrounds these two landmarks. What happened at this exact same spot (the wall) late last century, which also serves as the theme of the complex?
  • 81. 15*
  • 83. 16* In 2018, a certain statue, made of painted stainless steel and aluminium was erected at a park in a locality of a northeastern US state as part of a large public art exhibition. The statue immediately sparked controversy when it was erected right in front of a church with it’s rear facing the church entry, which was found to be disrespectful to the church due to obvious reasons. Another problem was that the children who would come to play in the park would go to the base of the statue and look up which caused distress among parents. What is this statue a tribute to which is something iconic from middle of last century?
  • 84. Marilyn Monroe’s still with blown skirt in Seven Year Itch
  • 85. 17* L'Étranger (The Stranger) is a French novel which was first published in the year 1942 and has nihilism as it’s primary theme. In the second half of the book, the protagonist murders someone by shooting at him from near sight but just before he does so, he has hallucinations due to the sunstroke and thought that it was a dream. After the murder, he realizes that there’s no turning back from this real occurrence. In the subsequent trial, he says he murdered the victim for no reason and that it won’t matter what the eventual verdict will be, which turns out to be a death sentence. According to several critics, this subplot inspired the introductory part of which work in another realm of MELAS about three decades after the book’s release?
  • 86. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality.” “Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.” “Mama, just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.”
  • 87. 18* In May 2014, several instances of vandalism were observed across England on certain signboards conveying a 3 word cautionary message to prevent minor injuries in public areas and shops, because of an occurence involving a celebrity. In most of the cases, the name of this celebrity was either added or the name replaced the cautionary message that these had and his name was written using permanent markers and graffiti. There were also some instances where the modified parodies of this signboard were deliberately manufactured and bought by various shop owners across the country which had the name printed on it. What occurrence caused these vandalising and parodying instances to mock the celebrity?
  • 89. 19* Connect this non-exhaustive list with respect to something in the world of MELAS: 1) A tapering huge rock generally having a square or rectangular cross section 2) A phrase that means to obtain a dosage of a drug 3) Figures of live births, deaths, marriages and divorces 4) Noisy aggregate of sounds
  • 90. Original words for Asterix characters’ names (Obelisk - Obelix, Cacophony - Cacophonix)
  • 91. 20* Shown in next slide is an image of a European military transport aircraft by Airbus. The model is currently in use by the German, French, Spanish and Royal (UK) Air Forces. If the maiden flight of the model in December 2009 caused the first spike of the model in it’s Google Trends graph, what is said to have caused the second and a higher spike in the middle of last decade although the majority of the buzz was about a person beside the plane?
  • 92. 20*
  • 94. Tom Cruise’s flight stunt in intro of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
  • 95. 21 The director of this project was looking for a way to narrate a story in the forward direction in a short film where the actions were moving backwards. When he was thinking of a story to narrate, he met X who had written a ballad about going back to the very beginning which was very apt considering the director’s idea for such a venture. To make it look like X was narrating this piece of literature in the right direction while the end product was played, X had to learn the ballad phonetically backward for a month to narrate backwards while the recording was going on. What was the end product of all this?
  • 96. Music video for Coldplay’s The Scientist
  • 97. 22 In a book of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, the main antagonist comes disguised to kidnap a group of three children. While the children get to know about his identity, one of the children devises a plan to expose him to which the toddler in the group replies saying “_______!” instead of “Roger that!”. Despite this toddler being known for her usual baby babble, this is actually an Easter Egg in the form of a tribute to another famous book. This Easter Egg eventually turns out as a prediction to a homicide in narrative in the same story. Which famous book is being paid tribute to by the toddler (or) what single word was uttered?
  • 98. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/ Ackroyd
  • 99. 23 There are four different versions of this performance which lasts about a minute and is generally executed by a group of about certain 30 men. The translation of the lyrics of the oldest version is shown here. (Legend: L - Lead, RoG - Rest of the group, A - All) What performance am I talking about? L: “Hear hear! Be ready! Line up! Stand!” RoG: “Yeah!” L: “Slap your hands against your thighs! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!” RoG: “As hard as we can!” L: “I die! I die!” x 2 RoG: “I live! I live! x 2 A: “Here stands the hairy man who calls out to the Sun and makes it radiate! Ride now! Ride now! Take the initial step! Allow the sunshine in! Rise!”
  • 100. The Haka dance by the New Zealand rugby team
  • 101. 24 Shown here is a snap from a music video of a song from late 2019 which became viral on TikTok and social media. The character’s look in the music video is a tribute to a famous fictional character. Which character is being paid a tribute to?
  • 102. Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction
  • 103. 25 This is a poster from the photoshoot of an Olay product which was part of a mid 2000s reality show featuring supermodels. The poster parodies something which returned to worldwide fame in 1997, courtesy a film featuring a familiar character since our childhood. What from the world of MELAS is being parodied here?
  • 105. 26 During the net practice sessions of this team, players unfamiliar to bowling in actual matches used to have a go. The then manager of the team advised these players to always focus to bowl on the line of the stumps because of their inexperience and also to cramp batsmen for rooms to hit shots. This particular simple tactic in the net sessions proved vital to the team when they came across a very rare situation. To succeed in the task provided, the team used 3 bowlers with 2 being occasional bowlers. The medium pacer X, being one of the two, had bowled only a single digit number of deliveries in his international career. He succeeded in the task and the team went on to win the game as part of their eventually victorious campaign. What task or situation am I talking about? (1 point) Who is X? (1 point)
  • 106. Bowl-out in Ind vs Pak match in ICC T20 WC 2007 Robin Uthappa
  • 107. 27 Late last century, an author went on a camping trip and things turned ugly when he got involved in an altercation with campers and got his face disfigured. When he went back to work the next day, no one asked him about his face and this incident was what lead him to start writing his first book. The book was adapted into a film of the same name few years down the line. One character in the film was a drug addict with suicidal thoughts. Realizing the attributes of the character, the actress playing the role assumed that the character would be someone who would have shabby facial makeup and thus suggested a witty method to her skilled makeup artist to get her look “right”. Which book (or) film is being talked about? (1 point) What witty method was put into action to help the actress get her shabby look? (1 point)
  • 108. Fight Club Makeup was done using the left hand of the makeup artist
  • 109. 28 In the earlier half of last year, several healthcare agencies in Michigan received several food items for free as a mark of respect to them fighting the COVID-19 pandemic from a food chain owned by X. Several cups of a food item Y, synonymous with the name of the food chain, were donated to the health workers. The name of the dish/food chain Y is a reference to an iconic fragment of X’s Oscar winning work. To this great gesture, one of the agencies tweeted pictures of Y with the caption “Our #HealthcareHeroes ____ __________ (4, 10) in the delicious Y donated by X. Thank you for providing a special meal to our team members”. ID Y (1 point) and FITB (1 point).
  • 110. 28
  • 112. 29 In a certain book, the author of the book gives a brilliant alternative interpretation of a famous phrase familiar to most of us involving two aliases of a mythological person. The protagonist of the book, who shares his name with this mythological person, remembers the people of his country christening him with one of the aforementioned aliases, which literally means the greatest of the Lords. He then starts a pep talk with the country’s army on the way to their battlefield that finally concludes with him crying this particular phrase and him explaining its meaning that each and every person in the army is equal and supreme rather than just him. Which phrase? (1 point) Who is the author of this book? (1 point)
  • 114. 30 Shown in next slide is a song’s music video from a 2019 Sandalwood film. The film itself is loosely based on a famous Hollywood film and there are evidences of the same in the song’s video with respect to majority of the video’s setting and ambience. This fact was even accepted by the production designer. The protagonist of the film also pays a tribute to a 19th century work at one particular still in the video. Which vintage Hollywood flick loosely inspires this film and the song’s video?(1 point) Which 19th century work is commemorated? (1 point) (Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk)
  • 115. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Napoleon Crossing The Alps by Jacques-Louis David