U-25 MELAS Written Quiz (Qriosity 2017)

U-25 MELAS (Written)
By
Titash Banerjea
Balagopal Menon
Ananyo Brahma
Shubhraneel Barman

RULES OF THE HOUSE
• Please keep your phones on silent mode.
• No googling!
• QM’s decision is final.
• For questions with two or more parts, part
points going, if specified.

Question 1
A recent book by Heather Webb, _____’s Lover, tells the story of Camille Claudel, an
artist who was constantly under the shadow of her lover (she was also his muse and
pupil). Webb gives a fictionalized account of this relationship and how, even after
being an extremely talented sculptor in her own right, Claudel languished under the
lack of proper patronage for female artists in 19th century France. The following slide
shows the bust, sculpted by Claudel, of the person with whom she had her affair.
Identify the artist (alternately, fill in the blanks).

Question 2
The Two X is a 2010 documentary that portrays the link between organized crime,
sports and politics. Directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, the ESPN documentary,
now shown on Netflix, was thus promoted on the ESPN website:
“Two X uplifted the Colombian soccer team from obscurity. TX as team captain. YX as
the drug lord in the shadows. They shared a name and a violent fate.”
Though YX was murdered an year before the murder of the team captain, the
documentary looks at the ascent in drug trade, brought about by his death, which lead
to the murder of the TX. Though both share a common surname, X, they were
unrelated. Give me the names of both the drug lord and the team captain in question.

TX: Andres Escobar
YX: Pablo Escobar

Question 3
The Indian drama series, ________ (blanks not indicative), currently holds the
Guinness World Record for the longest single shot for TV for its special episode titled
“The Inheritance”. Shot entirely at a hotel in Lonavala, the 111 minutes long episode
was first aired, without a break, from 8 pm to 10 pm IST, on Sunday, 7 November 2004.
Be kind and fill in the blanks with a do path-breaking answer.

Question 4
In December 1888, X painted a portrait of Y during his visit to Arles, France. In the
painting, Y is shown, sitting at his easel, with a bouquet of sunflowers next to him as
he paints, depicting him painting from nature. However, because the painting was
created in December, a month when sunflowers would not be easily on hand, X
clearly created the painting from his memory or (most probably) imagination. The
painting today, is considered to be a major symbol of the contention between X and Y
--- whereas Y appreciated painting reality, X created his works based on his
imagination. Y reportedly hated the portrait as he believed it depicted him as a
madman. Later on, however, his views softened and he grew to appreciate the work.
Identify X and Y. (no part points)

X: Paul Gauguin
Y: Vincent Van Gogh

Question 5
Identify the actor, shown in the next slide, in the roles of a postman and a
toymaker in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal and Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
respectively.

Question 6
Independent pro-wrestler and trained actor, Deven MacNair began her career in Los
Angeles as a stunt double. Being one of the few female stunt coordinators in the film
industry, she soon got jobs choreographing scenes of a specific nature. In a recent
interview with LA Weekly, MacNair talks about the difficulty she experiences in coping
with the emotional difficulties brought about by her job. MacNair concludes the
interview by mentioning that her rising amount of work is rather worrying, from an
ethical viewpoint. Her résumé so far includes work in series and movies such as The
Handmaid’s Tale, Westworld, The Revenant, Nocturnal Animals, The Birth of a Nation
and 13 Reasons Why. What is her specialty?

Rape Choreography/Directing scenes depicting
rape in movies or series

Question 7
The following excerpt is taken from a book by Andrew Graham-Dixon, X: A Life Sacred
and Profane. Identify the subject of the book (X) and the speaker of the following
excerpt:
“I was instantly taken by the power of the pictures[…] he was choosing a moment that
was not the absolute moment of the beginning of the action[…] It was like modern
staging in film: it was so powerful and direct. He would have been a great film-maker,
there's no doubt about it [...] He was there in the way I wanted the camera
movement, the choice of how to stage a scene. The Calling of St Matthew, but in New
York!”

X: Caravaggio
Speaker: Martin Scorsese

Question 8
For Red Nose Day 2015, X collaborated with the cast of HBO’s Game of
Thrones and came up with the 12-minute parody video titled “X’s Game
of Thrones: The Musical”. The video featured the cast of the show
singing various songs that contain not-so-subtle references to the
various characters or events within the show (few examples include
“I’m a Real Bastard”, “Rastafarian Targaryen” and “Closer to Home”).
The following slide contains the audio and the lyrics to the song titled
“Still Going Strong”. Identify X and the character to whom the given
song is attributed. (No part points)

Lyrics:
Still going strong (He’s still going strong)
Yeah, yeah (He’s still going strong)
Remember Ned Stark, he was a lot of fun. (So fun)
But he didn’t make it past Season One (Oh no)
Robert Baratheon was part of that crew
But he never made it to Season Two
The King of the North was cool, you said (So cool)
Another favourite that ended up dead (He’s dead)
You thought that Joffrey had to survive
He ain’t in the credits for Season Five (Season Five)
Baby, you know I’m the man for all seasons
Characters get cut for various reasons (Ow ow)
Some people’s parts just ain’t that long
But not me (Not me, not me, not me)
I’m still going strong (He’s still going strong)

X: Coldplay
Character: Tyrion Lannister/Tyrion

Question 9
If Amitabh Bachchan narrated the Hindi version of the 2014
Rajinikanth-starrer Kochadaiiyaan, which famous non-actor was
the narrator for the Tamil version?

Question 10
The picture on the following slide is of the original bronze bust sculpted by Ramkinkar
Baij and placed at an outdoor monument in Balatonfüred, Hungary, in 1984, in
honour of the subject of the sculpture. At its unveiling, the then Cultural Minister of
West Bengal, Jatin Chakraborty, remarked that it did not look like its intended subject
and should hence be replaced. The matter was laid to rest soon after the
intervention of Satyajit Ray. However, in 2003, the bust was replaced by a different
appearing bust and the original was moved to Room 220 of the State Hospital for
Cardiology in Balatonfüred, the same room where the subject had stayed in 1926.
Identify the subject of this artwork.

Theme Round: Play/Writing
•Five questions, one point each.
•Each question features quotations from
different writers, the subject matter bearing a
direct relation to sports.
•Answer the questions as they are asked.
•This shouldn’t be tough, it’ll be over soon.

Question 11
The following excerpt, taken from Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir, Speak, Memory, is
the description of what sports-related profession?
“In Russia and the Latin countries, that gallant art has always been surrounded with a
halo of singular glamour. Aloof, solitary, impassive, the _______ is followed in the
streets by entranced small boys. He vies with the matador and the flying ace as an
object of thrilled adulation. His sweater, his peaked cap, his kneeguards, the gloves
protruding from the hip pocket of his shorts, set him apart from the rest of the team.
He is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.”

Question 12
The following excerpt is from an essay by George Orwell, ‘The Sporting Spirit’:
“Worst of all is ______. One of the most horrible sights in the world is a fight between white
and coloured ______ before a mixed audience. But a ______ audience is always disgusting,
and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not
allow them to attend its contests. At any rate, two or three years ago, when Home Guards
and regular troops were holding a ______ tournament, I was placed on guard at the door of
the hall, with orders to keep the women out.”
Referring to the blanks in the above passage, what sport did Orwell identify to be this
violently combative?

Question 13
In the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, most English newspapers of the time
reported on the hooliganism which was believed to have caused the disaster according to the
initial police report. One such article, ‘Is It Worth It?’ was published on May 1989. The
following quote is from the article:
“The British are a violent people […] Ironically, games like association football were once
considered a surrogate for the aggression of civil war or of colonisation of reputedly
barbarous territories […] If the educated can achieve their catharses through listening to
Beethoven or watching Hamlet, the proletariat can only purge themselves of their baser
instincts through an entertainment that arouses group solidarities and unleashes bellicosity
[…]There is something wrong with our culture if we have come to this.”
Identify the author of this article, a famous writer and composer who, as of today, is ironically
well-known as the author of a 1962 novel made famous by its controversial film adaptation
that glorifies sex and violence.

Question 14
“Scenes, I note, seldom illustrate my relation with Vanessa; it has been too deep for
‘scenes’. Vanessa and I were both what we call tomboys; that is, we played cricket,
scrambled over rocks, climbed trees, were said not to care for clothes and so on […]
sometimes she would lament her “responsibilities”. But beneath the serious surface
… there burnt also the … passion for art.”
Take a look at the picture in the following slide and identify the writer of the above
passage, who was describing her sister Vanessa Bell in a letter to a friend.

Question 15
Whom does David Foster Wallace describe thus:
“[…] one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt,
at least in part, from certain physical laws […] a type that one could call
genius, or mutant, or avatar, never hurried or off-balance. The
approaching ball hangs, for him, a split-second longer than it ought to.
His movements are lithe rather than athletic. Like Ali, Jordan, Maradona,
and Gretzky, he seems both less and more substantial than the men he
faces […] he looks like what he may well (I think) be: a creature whose
body is both flesh and, somehow, light.”

Crossword
8 Clues in the form of a crossword
1 point for each correct answer
2 points bonus for getting all answers correct

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64
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2
7
1 Across [4]
Composed of 24.6
kilograms of tripolymer
composites, 11.8
kilograms of
molybdenum cobalt
alloys and 1.3 kilograms
of bioplast sheeting.
Linear computational
speed- 60 trillion
operations per second
3

5
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2
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2 Down [10]
Titular character played by
him in the ninth installment of
a movie franchise
3

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Connect
3

3 letter connect
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Polyphemus is a gas giant
and the fourth planet
orbiting the star Alpha
Centauri in the Alpha
Centauri system. Its fifth
moon has the following
atmospheric
composition- Nitrogen,
Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide
(over 18%), Xenon (5.5%),
Methane and Hydrogen
Sulfide >1%
Name the moon

5
64
1
2
7
5 Across [7]
Identify the painter (1st name
is sufficient)
3

5
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2
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6 Down [7]
3
The lady in red came 2nd to her
twice and the lady in yellow came
2nd to her once at Rio 2016. Who
are we talking about? (only
surname required)

5
64
1
2
7
7 Across [5]
3
Who’s missing? (surname only required)

D A T A
5
64
1
2
7
1 Across [4]
Composed of 24.6
kilograms of tripolymer
composites, 11.8
kilograms of
molybdenum cobalt
alloys and 1.3 kilograms
of bioplast sheeting.
Linear computational
speed- 60 trillion
operations per second
- Data from Star Trek
3

D A T A
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a movie franchise
3

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a movie franchise
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3 letter connect
D A T
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atmospheric
(over 18%), Xenon (5.5%),
Sulfide >1%
Name the moon

D A T
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atmospheric
(over 18%), Xenon (5.5%),
Sulfide >1%
Name the moon

D A T
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is sufficient)
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Y
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A N
twice and the lady in yellow
came 2nd to her once at Rio 2016.
Who are we talking about? (only
surname required)

D A T
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A
C
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A
D
N
H A
A
5
64
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twice and the lady in yellow
came 2nd to her once at Rio
2016. Who are we talking
about? (only surname required)

D A T
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A
C
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A
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N
H A
A
5
64
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2
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Who’s missing? (surname only required)

D A T
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+1 for each correct answer
+2 for all correct

Question 24
• This is actor Julian Glover as
General Maximilian Veers from
Star Wars Episode V : The
Empire Strikes Back (1980).
• He has, however, become more
famous in this generation by
portraying another character on
a TV show.
• Identify the character and the
TV show.
• No part points.

Answer
• Game of Thrones
• Grand Maester Pycelle

Question 25
• The ______ (6) ____ (4) is a term coined by author X in reference to a
select group of students and aspiring filmmakers or theatre producers
whom he has granted permission to adapt one of his short stories for
$1.
• The term is used interchangeably to refer to the film or play itself, or
the maker (for example, "The Sun Dog" was made as a ______ ____ ,
or writer/director Frank Darabont was a ______ ____ ).
• Fill in the blanks and identify X. Part points going.

Answer
• Blanks = Dollar Baby
• X = Stephen King

Question 26
• XY was born on 14 November 1840. He was the second son of X
Adolphe Y and Louise Justine Aubrée Y, both of them second-
generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the
local parish church, as Oscar-X, but his parents called him simply
Oscar. Despite being baptized Catholic, Y later became an atheist.
• In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father
wanted him to go into the family's ship-chandling and grocery
business, but Y wanted to become an artist. His mother was a
singer, and supported Y's desire for a career in art.
• Who is XY?

Question 27
• According to 9GAG, what do
these four snapshots from
SpongeBob SquarePants
collectively depict?

Answer
• The plot of Doctor Strange

Question 28
• Danielle Bregoli is a 14 year old
girl.
• Danielle is doing product
placements on Instagram, where
she has 8.3 million followers, for
Fit Tea and Postmates.
• She is an Instagram sensation
set to ‘become a millionaire’ this
year.
• How do we better know her?

Answer
• Cash me ousside how bow dah?

Question 29
• Picking up the idea from
poet Dylan Thomas, X
resorted to a quiet garden
shed to escape from his
young, noisy family with 5
children.
• Some of his most well
known works were written
in this garden shed.
• Who is X?
• Picture in the next slide.

Question 30
• Whose Instagram account is
this?
• Picture and caption in the next
slide.

Question 31
• "There are no black people on Game of Thrones," X said. "You don't see
one black person in Lord of the Rings. I ain’t paying money to always see
one type of person on-screen. You see different people from different
backgrounds, different cultures, every day. Even if you’re racist, you have
to live with that. We can ruffle up some feathers.”
• Xs point was that his Star Wars character’s unmasking was an important
step forward for Hollywood.
• Hollywood still has a major diversity problem, and putting a black actor
behind the mask of a Stormtrooper was a wonderful decision.
• Name the actor (X).

Question 32
• Who is the artist of this famous
illustration on the cover of Die
Blechtrommel (1959)?

Question 33
• Who is the composer?
• What is the name of the
composition?
• Part points going.

Answer
• Giachhino Rossini
• La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving
Magpie)

Question 34
• Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a novel by X.
• His final work, it depicts an elderly author as he tries to write
a novel that is as successful as his earlier work. The novel was
published posthumously in 2000. The concept of the novel
mirrors that of the life of the author himself in that none of
his books sold nearly as well as Y.
• Identify X and Y. No part points.

Answer
• X = Joseph Heller
• Y = Catch-22

Question 35
• In August 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. The early stages of
the investigation were more conceptual than forensic, and suspicion initially
fell upon X and Guillaume Apollinaire
• X was hundreds of miles away from Paris when the Mona Lisa was stolen.
Nevertheless, soon after returning to Paris he was arrested in his Montmartre
studio and hauled away to the Palais de Justice on a bus.
• X had nothing to do with the theft of the Leonardo painting, but his conscience
wasn't entirely clear. He possessed a pair of Bronze Age Iberian statues stolen
from the Louvre by a Belgian masquerading as a French baron. The arresting
officers never noticed the stolen artworks in X's studio, but Apollinaire, who
had been arrested a few days earlier, had ratted out X for possessing stolen
merchandise.
• Who is X?

Question 36
• Lars Dittmann X (born 6 May 1964) is an actor
best known to international TV audiences for
his roles as Copenhagen mayoral election
candidate Troels Hartmann in the drama
series The Killing, Charles Augustus
Magnussen, the primary villain in the third
series of Sherlock, the Russian President Viktor
Petrov in House of Cards on Netflix, and Grand
Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels.
• Who is his well known younger brother?

Answer
• Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal, The
Hunt, Doctor Strange, Casino
Royale)

Question 37
• Who are they?
[0.5]
• What are they
parodying? [0.5]

Answer
• Amy Schumer
• J. K. Simmons
• American Gothic

Question 38
• Video from Epic Rap Battles of
History - Shakespeare vs. X
• Identify X. [0.5]
• Why isn’t he speaking? [0.5]

Answer
• Dr. Seuss
• He had oral cancer.

ACROSTIC
Q, R, I, O, S, I, T, Y
8 questions
1 point for each correct answer
2 points bonus for getting all answers & parts correct
For questions with two parts- 0.5 for each part

Q
It was originally made of patched leather with a strap attached
to it. It was later changed to its current scarlet colour. -------- -
pocking is a common foul that consisted of altering this by
poking holes in it to make it fall faster or zigzag. What am I
talking about?

R
He has represented 3 sides in ODI cricket. He is the only
cricketer from his country to lead his side to victory in overseas
Tests in South Africa, England and West Indies. He was the also
the leading run scorer for his country in an edition of the ICC
World Cup. Name the cricketer

I
His wife Janet and daughter Robyn working with the American
Museum of Natural History in New York established a fund
dedicated to him to support an annual debate named in his
honour. The debate is organized as part of the Museum’s
Planetarium programs. The topic of the 2016 debate was ‘Is the
Universe a Simulation?’. After whom was the debate named?

O
Few of the episodes of this popular television show include:-
• The --- Man and the Sea
• --- Well That Ends Well
• Lozt in Translation
• Farewell to ---
The blanks are filled with a 3 letter word/name/nickname. Fill
in the blanks/ name the television show.

S
The 2017 inductees into this hall of fame include Ambrose
Burnside, Friedrich W. Nietzsche, The Lorax, Larry Csonka and
Richard Pryor and Frida Kahlo. The hall of fame is split into 6
categories. In 2015 the inductees in a particular category
included- Freddie Mercury, Frank Zappa, John Oates, Lionel
Richie, Robert Goulet. Who was the sixth inductee in the said
category that year? And what hall of fame are we talking
about?

T
Identify this kickboxer nicknamed the ‘Big Fundamental’

Y
On the same night in August 2013 that the lady Y won a gold
medal, American Nick Symmonds won silver in a separate
event. About Y Nick Symmonds said “It blows my mind that
a young, well-travelled, well-educated woman would be so
behind the times. She said ‘normal, standard people’ in ------
-? Guess what – a lot of these people with ------- citizenship
are normal, standard homosexuals. They deserve rights too.”
Who is Y? And the name of which country has been blanked
out?

S
Salvador Dali, Moustache Hall of Fame

Question 47
• Related to badminton, what do the yellow
and green countries represent?

Question 48
• Whose statistics? (Hint: Check best bowling
performances, in the news recently.)

Question 49
• Who has been blanked out and which event?
Rank Athlete Qualification Final Total
1 Alin George Moldoveanu 599 103.1 702.1
2 Niccolo Campriani 599 102.5 701.5
3 __________ 598 103.1 701.1
4 Wang Tao 598 102.4 700.4
5 Peter Hellenbrand 596 103.8 699.8
6 Pierre Edmond Piasecki 596 103.1 699.1
7 Illia Charheika 597 101.6 698.6
8 Ole Magnus Bakken 597 94.5 691.5

Answer
Gagan Narang,
10 m Air Rifle (Men),
London Olympics 2012

Question 50
• What is the name given to such phenomena?

Question 51
• Isuru Udana while playing for
Wayamba against Central
District in the 2010 Champions
League, and Pravin Tambe for
Rajasthan Royals against
Kolkata Knight Riders in the
2014 IPL are the only two
instances of which peculiar
feat in the world of cricket?

Question 52
• Connect the seven men (exhaustive) related
to another man.

Answer
Goran Ivanisevic’s Wimbledon 2001
opponents

Question 53
• _____ was the captain of the national
team for eight years and became the
second woman from her country after
swimmer Dawn Fraser to win three
Olympic gold medals at three
separate Olympic Games: Seoul 1988,
Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. Who,
which country and which sport?

Answer
Rechelle Hawkes,
Australia,
Hockey

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