UTPT 2020 Lieut-En-Ent finals

Rules
1. 8 clockwise dries
2. Pounce: +10/-5
3. Bounce: +10/0

Q1
In 1917, a 23 year old X was hired as a French Professor at Eton College. One of his
pupils was ____ _____, who later adopts his more famous pen name. When
____ _____ wrote his famous novel some thirty years later, he sent a copy to his
teacher. Though X praises the novel, he also provided critique. Here is parts of
the letter X wrote back to ____ _____.
“I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the
book is … Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will
discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as
instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power
can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their
servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel
that the nightmare of Y is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world
having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Z.”
Here Y is ____ _____’s novel and Z is X’s novel. In essence, X says his novel is
better and will be true. ID all variables.

ANSWER
X - Aldous Huxley
Z - Brave new world.
Y - 1984
Eric Blair (Blank) adopted the nickname ‘George Orwell’

Q2
Malayalam filmmaker Salim Ahamed, made a movie X, about a poor perfume
seller whose only remaining wish in life is the Hajj pilgrimage, which he strives
hard to fulfill. This movie had been sent as India's official entry to the Academy
Awards in 2011. Salim later made a film about his experience at the Academy
Awards titled Y. Y detailed the trials and tribulations of an Indian filmmaker who
struggles to get his film noticed at the Oscars.
Based on Salim's own experiences, the film shows the protagonist, played by
Tovino Thomas, even starving because he has little money to promote his film
for the awards. The film reveals that it's not just the quality of a movie that can
ensure its performance at the awards – it's also about smart marketing and
networking, both of which require money. Y was also reported to be one of the
contenders before Gully Boy was chosen to be India’s 2019 entry for the Best
International Feature Film category in the Academy Awards.
ID the films X and Y.

ANSWER
X- Adaminte Makan Abu
Y- And the Oscar Goes To

Q3
Shown in the clip are Robert and Cecil Terwilliger, played by Kelsey Grammer
and X. These characters are recurring antagonists on the simpsons and the
brothers seem to have an uneasy, but cordial relationship, which later turns
sour. Though he is often portrayed as a murderous psychopath, Bob is shown to
appreciate the fine arts and wine and also breaks into song every now and then.
Several of Bob’s and Cecil’s interactions are peppered with references to
Grammer’s and X’s characters in a popular 90’s sitcom, Y, where Grammer plays
the titular character, a psychiatrist who hosts a radio talk show, and X his
brother.
ID X and Y

Q4
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian black comedy novel written by English writer
Anthony Burgess. The original novel has 21 chapters in all publications, except
the US. The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United
States prior to 1986.
Burgess explained that when he first brought the book to an American
publisher, he was told that U.S. audiences would never go for the final chapter.
At the publisher's insistence, Burgess omitted the 21st chapter and ended the
book at the 20th, an ending which the publisher insisted would be more realistic
and appealing to a US audience. Even Stanley Kubrick, who adapted the novel to
a film, called chapter 21 an extra chapter and has never considered using it. In
his opinion the final chapter was unconvincing and inconsistent with the book.
What could the final chapter in the book have been about?

ANSWER
The protag Alex sees the error of his ways and finds less
pleasure in violence

Q5
A custom of the sea is a custom that is said to be practiced by the officers and
crew of ships and boats in the open sea, different from maritime laws. Among
these customs is the practice of cannibalism among shipwrecked survivors, by
the drawing of lots to see who is to be killed and eaten so that the others might
survive.
R vs Dudley and Stephens case was a landmark case in 1884, when 4 people,
three of whom were Dudley, Stephens and a young cabin boy. After a few days,
due to lack of food, they killed the cabin boy, since he fell sick, and then
consumed him. This case set the precedent that necessity is not a defence to a
charge of murder, and gradually the practice was stopped.
So this case was the inspiration for a very popular movie. A story similar to this
case is told by the narrator of the movie as an ‘alternate version’ for his
journeys.
Which movie is this? What was the cabin boy’s name?

ANSWER
Life of Pi
Richard Parker

Q6
X adapted an incredibly deep manly voice to play a character, lowering the
register of his already deep voice. Doug Cockle, praised X's deep voice saying,
"What else are you going to do with him? You can't give him a squeaky New
York accent or something like that. He's gotta have that gruff voice."
Cockle said that many fans contacted him after the release of the trailer to ask
him if Xs deep voice had been influenced by him.
What role did X play? Put funda on the reason as to why X’s voice might have
been influenced by Cockle.

ANSWER
X – Henry Cavill
Witcher
Cockle is the voice actor who voices Geralt in the video games

Q7
Arrival is a 2016 science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film
follows a linguist’s attempts to translate an alien language after 8 of their pods
touch down on earth. These aliens, called heptapods, are shown to be
intelligent and attempt to communicate with the protagonist and her associate
over a span of several sessions. In the second session, her associate decides to
name the pair of extraterrestrials after a certain comedic duo of yore based on
their stature. The movie’s central theme revolves around communication and
the importance of linguistics.
What comedic duo are the aliens named after and why?

ANSWER
Abbott and Costello
Their most famous set, called “Who’s on first?” is a piece on
miscommunication

Q8
____ _______ is considered the progenitor of the progressive rock genre and
has had a cult following since its inception in 1967. The band's most popular
album is titled "In the court of the _______ ____", and explores metaphysical
themes while combining jazz with classical rock. The titular track in the album
speaks of an ominous figure, which inspired a modern day literary giant to
create a certain character, who is a comic entity and serves as the primary
antagonist of their most famous series.
What is the band called?

Rules
1. Written round, 6 questions
2. +10/0 for each question

Rules
This Round has a description of the training
or body transformation that actors have
undergone, in order to portray sportspersons
in cinema. ID the actor and sportsperson

1.
X trained five days a week, four hours a day to fill the shoes of Y, but just sport
specific training was not enough for X to get into shape. In an interview, X
mentioned that they spent a lot time in the gym trying to build muscle mass. X
initially focused specifically on strengthening their legs in order to be able to
execute the different types of jumps and spins, but quickly realized that this
was not working. X further mentioned that after talking to Y about their
progress, Y told X to forget about legs and focus on core training instead, as it
would provide stability. This advice undoubtedly paid off as seen by X’s
remarkable performance on screen.
ID X and Y.

2.
X had to get into serious shape to play Y, a world champion in his time. X was
obsessed with idea of playing Y and even convinced the director to film the
movie. In order to play Y, X was required to make a monumental physical
transformation twice. To get the full experience, X actually trained alongside Y
in the ring and they fought over 1000 practice rounds. In order to prepare
himself further to take the mantle of Y on-screen, X entered in three genuine
boxing matches and won two of them.
The second part of his transformation was the weight X had to gain to
accurately portray Y. X ate his way through Italy and gained 60 pounds in a
span of 4 months.
ID X and Y

3.
When X got the role of Y, he said “I’m hoping to become his shadow. I will
follow him wherever he goes and try to pick as much as possible from him. I
hope to get some tips on _______ and _______ from the man himself. I
trained for four hours everyday. I focus on my _______ and do a lot of physio.
I’m doing better in _______ because from my childhood, I’ve had a natural
ability for it."
X did indeed learn from Y, at a long bootcamp organized in Dharmshala where
he internalized Y’s style of playing. Apart from sport specific training, X went
to the place where Y led his team to victory and even stayed with Y for a span
of 10 days in order to understand the nuances of his character.
ID X and Y.

4.
The first step for actor X to play the role of Y was to lose weight. In Y’s
profession, the lighter you are the more likely it is that you would win. X
underwent extensive physical training to transform his body for the part,
which included 16 workouts a week and dropping from 160 to 137 pounds. He
also bought an equicizer, a contraption used to simulate the real deal and
trained on that several times a week.
X said in an interview - "I did not realize what kind of athletes _______ are. I
mean, they are just warriors these guys - it's unbelievable The first time I
actually got up and tried on the actual thing, I couldn't believe it. After a
couple of minutes, my legs were noodles; I could barely stand up. It's just
unbelievable and these guys are doing it seven days a week, 52 weeks a year."
ID X and Y

5.
In order to do justice to the role of Y, X refrained from his leisurely life with
respect to food, drinks and lifestyle for over a year. X was on a strict diet in
order to gain lean muscle mass, and did both athletic training as well as
functional and resistance training.
The objective of the athletic training was twofold - to teach X how a
professional in the sport does it, and to incorporate Y’s personal quirks. This
routine including 3 major components of the sport – upper leg motion, knee
lift and push off.
This was followed by functional training aimed at strengthening the core as
well as enhancing flexibility which is of importance for the sport. This was
followed by resistance training where the focus was on both aesthetics and
well as strengthening the musculature, especially around the legs.
ID X and Y.

6.
X, for the role of Y underwent multiple phases of training and preparation for
the role. Y’s story was as much of mental strength as physical strength.
Besides going through video footages and analyzing, he began to study the art
under Angelo Dundee, who for 21 years trained Z.
For authenticity, he rarely trained with weights and did most of cardio since
these sportspersons in the 1930s did not have access to sophisticated
methods. They designed a regimen that included kayaking, swimming,
running, biking, hiking mountains, skipping rope and working a bag – all
designed to build a naturally strong (but not overly muscular) body built for
power and endurance. This enabled him to emulate Y’s physique, that was
considered to be too light for his profession. Angelo Dundee was particularly
very important since he was one of the very few to have witnessed Y in
person.
ID X, Y and for bonus, Z

ANSWER
1. X – Margot Robbie, Y – Tonya Harding (I, Tonya)
2. X – Robert de Niro, Y – Jake la Motta (Raging Bull)
3. X – Ranveer Singh, Y – Kapil Dev (83)
4. X – Toby Maguire, Y – Red Pillar (Seabiscuit)
5. X – Farhan Akhtar, Y – Milkha Singh (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
6. X – Russell Crowe, Y – James Braddock, Z - Ali

Rules
1. Written round
2. +5/0 for each part, +10/0 for
final answer

Q
‫لترتجى‬ ‫شفاعتهن‬ ‫وإن‬ ‫العلى‬ ‫الغرانيق‬ ‫تلك‬
The above line is part of the A, words which Prophet Muhammad allegedly
mistook for divine revelation. It is said to follow the line:
Have you thought of al-Lāt and al-‘Uzzá
and Manāt, the third, the other?
and translates to ‘These are the exalted gharāniq, whose intercession is hoped
for’, thus claiming that gods other than Allah exist. No one is sure of
gharaniq’s exact translation as it appears only once in the text (called a B). A is
also the name of C’s controversial novel which caused a fatwa for his death to
be declared. C defied his ban to appear on-stage with the singer D at the
Wembley stadium, even exchanging his glasses to wear D’s signature
wraparound shades.

Q
D’s song ‘Shadows and Tall Trees’ is inspired by William E’s famous book
which deals with the end of innocence, the human capacity for savagery and
“the infinite cynicism of adult life.” Henry E acted in the 2018 romantic
comedy F about “comfortable” people where a pivotal scene happens over a
game of G, the Chinese tile-based game. Exchanging the vowels of G gives a
name which sounds like the Swedish parent H of the world’s best-selling video
game I. The final boss in this sandbox videogame is the J Dragon. J is also the
nickname of Andrew Wiggin, the boy genius of the eponymous military sci-fi
novel. If the last name of the actor who portrayed Wiggin in its movie
adaptation, actually existed in reality, which Indian god (at least, as a child)
would be delighted to see it?

ANSWER
A – Satanic Verses
B – Hapax Legomenon
C - Salman Rushdie
D – Bono
E – Golding
F – Crazy Rich Asians
G – Mah-jong
H – Mojang
I – Minecraft
J – Ender
Indian God - Krishna

Pick Your Pill
You chose - Poorly

Rules
1. Only Pounce and Direct
2. Pounce : +10/-10
3. Direct : +10/0

Documentary Classic Literature
TV Shows Art
Music Indian Cinema
Man Booker Prize Poetry

Q
__ ___ _____ _____ ____ is a documentary that follows the journey that 4-year-
old Marie Olmstead’s parents underwent after a Channel 4 broadcast accused
them of fraud, and what steps they took to try and prove that they were
telling the truth about their daughter creating a series of masterpieces. The
name of the documentary is taken from the common refrain that a particular
form of art, that Marie Olmstead produces, is met with. FITB and identify the
form of art.
Documentary

ANSWER
My kid could paint that
Abstract Art
Go Back Home

Q
In the novel’s initial version, Xs were a tribe of 3,000 amiable black pygmies who have been imported
from ‘the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before.’, and
have now replaced the sacked white workers. They used to lived on green caterpillars, beetles,
eucalyptus leaves, ‘and the bark of the bong-bong tree. When the book first appeared in the United
States in 1964 it was regarded with only acclaim and enthusiasm.
It wasn’t until 1972, nearly a decade later, that a wide-ranging attack on the book was published by
American writer Eleanor Cameron and the political agenda of the story finally began to be debated, due
to the racist connotations. After heavy backlash the author released a revised version of the novel,
where Xs appeared as dwarfish hippies with long ‘golden-brown hair’ and ‘rosy-white’ skin.” The movies
though, didn’t stick with this exact description, but came up with their own depiction.
Picture on the next slide.
Classics

ANSWER
Oompa Loompas
Go Back Home

Q
An episode from a popular television series X was written with the aim of
exploring what a police procedural would look like through X's eyes.
With that said, it’s also directly inspired by one of the director Y's own
experiences, in regards specifically to online hate.
Essentially, Y had written a satirical comedy article in a national newspaper,
where he jokingly called for the assassination of a politician.
After the article came out, he was faced with levels of social media hate that
he’d never seen before and didn’t know how to deal with it. This is reflected in
the episode, where throwaway comments made on social media went on to
massively affect the lives of the characters. ID X and Y.
TV Shows

ANSWER
X – Black Mirror
Y – Charlie Brooker
Go Back Home

Q
Thomas Was Alone is an indie puzzle platformer video game created by Mike
Bithell. He was inspired by a certain artist during the creation of the game as
can be seen in the way the game was created and looks. Who was he inspired
by?
Art

ANSWER
Piet Mondrians
Go Back Home

Q
Death Grips is an American experimental hip-hop band founded in 2010. Their
mixtape, “Exmilitary” was released in April 2011, and was received with much
acclaim, despite being very unconventional, to say the least.
For their track “Beware”, they sampled the audio from a very famous
interview with a certain individual, and overlaid a simple beat onto it.
ID the speaker.
Music

ANSWER
Charles Manson during his ‘I am the Money Man’ interview
Go Back Home

Q
The Film Heritage Foundation announced in March 2015 that they would be
restoring _________, a movie made in 1957 as a part of their restoration
project carried out in India.
A team of 165 people worked on this South Indian Classic for eight months;
they used 180,000 shades of colour to create a tone similar to human skin,
and employed 16.7-million-shade colour technology. During filming, they
created an illusion of moonlight, which was a first for an Indian film.
_______ was dubbed into Kannada with the same name in 1965; it remained
to be the last Indian film to be dubbed into Kannada until the announcement
of a dubbed version Kochadaiiyaan (2014) after 50 years.
Indian Cinema

Q
Many years ago, during a visit to Washington DC, Y's wife's cousin pointed out
to us a crypt on a hill and mentioned that, in 1862, while ________ was
president, his beloved son, Willie, died, and was temporarily interred in that
crypt, and that the grief-stricken ________ had, according to the newspapers
of the day, entered the crypt "on several occasions" to hold the boy's body. An
image spontaneously leapt into my mind – a melding of the ________
Memorial and the Pietà. I carried that image around for the next 20-odd years,
finally decided to take a run at it, in exploratory fashion, no commitments. The
bulk of the novel, which takes place over the course of a single evening, is set
in the _____ —an intermediate space between life and rebirth.
Name the author Y and the work that this incident inspired
Man Booker Prize

ANSWER
George Saunders and “Lincoln in the Bardo”
Go Back Home

Q
In the film Saving Private Ryan (1998), Private Reiben asks why eight men are
sent to save one. Corporal Timothy E. Upham replies with a quote from X,
"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die". Captain Miller responds
that it is about their "duty as soldiers" to follow their orders, which
supersedes everything, including their mothers, even if they think the mission
is doomed to failure. Captain Miller shows his acquaintance with Emerson's
works too. These foreshadow the later revelation that Captain Miller taught
English composition at Thomas Alva Edison High School for eleven years
before the war. X (a poem) chronicles another famous tale of soldiers
marching onto war without hesitation. ID X and the poet.
Poetry

ANSWER
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Charge of The Light Brigade
Go Back Home

Rules
1. Written round
2. +3/0 for each part
3. +10 bonus for all correct answers

Rules
The round has clips/pics/description of an anime
called Bungo stray dogs, where characters and names
after famous authors and their powers are derived
from their literary works.
ID the author and their work

1.
This character’s ability allows him to use his blood to write holy words which
he can then control. They can be used as bullets shields or any other form of
weapon. The character is often seen carrying a Bible as he is a man of God. He
believes he was given a mission by God to pass judgement on sinners.

2.
This character carries with himself a raw potato; and navaja, a tool used by
him in order to activate his ability. His ability allows him to to grow grapevines
from any part of his body. By grafting the vines attached to his to grow
grapevines from any part of his body. By grafting the vines attached to his
body to other plants, the flora in the entire vicinity become an extension of his
body.
His own branches, as well as the others from the flora, can be used as means
to capture and hold a person or object with tremendous strength, as well as
shield him from attacks.

3.
The character wears a green and white dress befitting that of a 'southern
belle.' She wears a light blue sun hat with a darker blue sash and a white
flower attached.
She has a weathering ability - able to break down materials. It is little known
what kind of materials are restricted, but it has been shown that she is able to
break garments, paper, and wood. She even threatened to turn a human into
a mummy.

5.
The characters ability takes form in what appears to be a mechanical white
animal that is able to float on the sky. However, he mentions that the animal
is in fact, a living being; one who freely roamed in the sky.
It is indicated that his ability also involves creating volant white variants of this
animal instead of simply controlling them.

6.
The character is shown to be extremely wealthy and proud. He is extremely
proud and arrogant, often boasting about his wealth.
His ability allows him to gain physical power in proportion to the money he
spends for a duration. He can activate his ability by just throwing off his
cheques as it is also counted as 'spending' his wealth

ANSWER
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Scarlet Letter
2. John Steinbeck and Wrath of the Grapes
3. Margaret Mitchell and Gone With The Wind
4. HP Lovercraft and Great Old Ones (Call of Chthulu)
5. Herman Melville and Moby Dick
6. S Jerome Fitzgerald and Great Gatsby

Rules
1. 8 Anti-clockwise dries
2. Pounce: +10/-5
3. Bounce: +10/0

Q1
X is an author known for her children’s books and novels, noted for works like
Desperate Characters and The Slave Dancer, the latter of which won a Newbery
in 1974.
Her granddaughter, Y, was born to a different family as X’s daughter was given
up for adoption. Y rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and founder of the
grunge/alt rock band Hole. Her confrontational lyrics and highly publicized
marriage with Z brought her immense public attention, so much that she is
talked about even today. Z was the front man of an immensely popular band
that recorded three studio albums of the same genres.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
X- Paula Fox
Y- Courtney Love

Q2
X is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series “The Mercury
Theatre on the Air” directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson
Welles as an adaptation of a novel of the same name.
The novel’s premise was slightly modified to move the story's setting to the
current date of the broadcast.
The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening
audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had
relatively few listeners.
What was the novel and why did it cause mass hysteria?

ANSWER
War of the Worlds
Listeners thought that an actual alien invasion was going on as
the first half of the episode was given in the form of news
flashes

Q3
The term was coined from the conventions of ancient Greek theater, where
characters with the capability to resolve conflicts were brought in abruptly using
mechanisms such as cranes or trapdoors. Aeschylus introduced the idea, and it
was used often to resolve the conflict and conclude the drama.
Part of the same term was used as a title of the game which is a set in a
dystopian cyberpunk world where humans have undergone cybernetic
transplants granting them superhuman abilities know as ‘Augmentations’
What is the term and it’s English translation?

ANSWER
Deus ex Machina
God from the Machine

Q4 This characteristic of pop songs is a widely contested one, with one side claiming
that pop music gets boring because of it, and the other asserting that this
characteristic is what makes pop music such an easy choice to listen to.
In 2017, a computer scientist named Colin Morris created a tool to prove this
characteristic of songs by taking songs from the “Billboard Hot 100” song chart
from each year since 1958, up until 2017, which amounted to about 15,000 songs
(graph on next slide). His findings revealed that most songs by famous artists like
Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Imagine Dragons, etc. have this characteristic,
whereas other artists like Eminem, Guns n’ Roses, Dolly Parton, etc. mostly have
songs which have the exact opposite of this feature.
This was also recognized by another computer scientist, Donald Knuth, who
published a journal paper called “The Complexity of Songs” in 1977, where he uses
notation frequently used in complexity theory to showcase this aspect of songs.
What characteristic is being spoken of here?

ANSWER
Repetitive nature of pop songs

Q5 X is a Singaporean band that plays a uniquely composed avant garde blend of
styles that includes black metal-influenced death metal with interpolations and
extended passages of traditional Carnatic music. The lyrical content is derived
from ancient literature which is incorporated into their song structures which
lends its name to the genre of music they describe themselves as.
The name of the band is also derived from the oldest of the texts they take
inspiration from.
ID the band X and the genre of music they play.

ANSWER
X – Rudra
Vedic Metal

Q6
The Andalusian is a horse
breed from the Iberian
Peninsula (Southwest Europe).
Throughout its history, it has
been known for its prowess as
a war horse, and was prized by
the nobility.
The Lipizzanis a breed of horse
originating in Lipica in Slovenia
is another breed of war
horses.
Where would you have seen
these horses used together in
an entertainment context?

Q7
The ending credits scene of the Netflix film “Two Popes” shows the two popes
watching something. Considering the nationalities of the two popes and Pope
Francis’s love for the sport, the scene seems plausible.
But on questioning, director Fernando Meirelles replied, “It seems Pope
Benedict doesn’t like [the sport]; he likes Formula 1. It would have been a good
opportunity, but we really made this up.”
What are the two doing in the scene?

ANSWER
Watching the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final (Germany vs.
Argentina)

Q8 Shown here are two paintings of water
lilies, a series of painting By French
impressionist Claude Monet. In 1923 he
underwent a surgery that would affect
anyone in his line of work severely. The
first painting depicted is pre-surgery,
and the later, post-surgery. People
have noted striking differences
between the two paintings and
postulated a theory explaining this
change.
What surgery did he undergo? What is
the theory that explains the differences
between the two paintings?

ANSWER
He underwent lens removal surgery to combat cataract, so
people started saying he could see the UV spectrum which is
normally blocked by the lenses, hence the violet hues in the
second painting

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