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Qonnoisseur 2014 MELA Quiz at COEP, set and conducted by Rohan Danait and Aman Shaikh.
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Qonnoisseur
Quizmasters – Rohan Danait and Aman Shaikh
Mains
Rounds
• IR 1
• Written Round
• IR 2
Infinite Rebound 1
• 17 questions clockwise
• +10/-0 for a direct or passed question
• Onefinite pounce - A team cannot pounce
further once it gets a question wrong on
pounce
• +15/-0 on pounce
• Teams can pounce on their own directs
1
The word for a discussion or conference,
especially one between enemies over terms of a
truce derives from the French verb "to speak".
Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the
expansion of monarchs, it was a meeting held
between kings and their Chief Retainers and
was a part of the many changes in Europe,
especially regarding governments. The Pirates
of the Caribbean series refers to it as being part
of the pirate code. What's the good word?
Answer
Parley
2
X dressed as Y and Y dressed as X. Identify
both.
Answer
David Bowie and Tilda Swinton
3
The name of this song refer to the black U.S.
cavalry regiments, that fought in the Indian
Wars after 1866. The singer likened their fight
to a fight for survival, and recasts it as a
symbol of black resistance. The name
originiates from the fact the African
Americans' hair felt and looked like a
particular animal, or how fiercely they fought.
Others claim it was in reference to how the
troops tirelessly marched. Which song and
artist?
Answer
“Buffalo Soldier” by Bob Marley
4
Connect:
Sangharsh
Kyon Ki
Sarkar
Life in a Metro
Answer
Bollywood films inspired by Oscar for Best
Picture winners
5
This polymath used various pen names in his
lifetime like Alice Addertongue, Anthony
Afterwit, Benevolus, Caelia Shortface, Martha
Careful, Polly Baker and Richard Saunders.
His most famous pen name has not been
included in this list. Who? And what was his
most famous pen name?
Answer
Benjamin Franklin and Silence Dogood
6
Sung Kang is an actor best known for playing Han in the
Fast and Furious franchise. Han's last name is revealed
only in Fast Five, and is set to be a word play on the
name of a cult character from a film trilogy and the
capital of Sung Kang's native country. What is his last
name?
Answer
Han Seoul-Oh (Han Solo)
7
"Directors fear casting this particular actor in a major
production, or do not reveal his character in the trailers
to ensure that the climax of the movie is kept intact." This
statement is actually false and is based on a very
famous urban legend which is reinforced by X's roles in
major film and TV roles. However the urban legend is not
completely true and can be refuted by citing movies such
as Flightplan, National Treasure, Anna Karenina and
theatre productions such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
and based on interpretation Maid of the West. What
Urban Legend?
Answer
Sean Bean always dies
8
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II, written
by Studs Terkel, won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General
Non-Fiction. It is a firsthand account of people involved
before, during and after the war. It inspired author Max
Brooks to write a novel which was in fact a follow up to
one of his earlier works which was a kind of survival
manual. It deals with the fictional potentiality of a ______
attack and contains detailed plans for the average citizen
to survive ______ uprisings of varying intensity and
reach, and describes "cases" of ______ outbreaks in
history. Identify the follow up novel which was later
adapted into a film of the same name.
Answer
World War Z
9
There is a classic Twilight Zone episode,
entitled "The ___ ___ ______ Caper", in
which criminals cryogenically freeze
themselves to hide from a robbery, and wake
up hundred years later. It is named after the
titular character of a short story published in
the early 19th Century. Fill in the blanks.
Answer
Rip Van Winkle
10
1Q84 is a novel published in three volumes
set in a fictionalized 1984. The author spent
four years writing the novel after coming up
with the opening sequence and title. The title
is a play on the native language
pronunciation of the year 1984 and a
reference to George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four. The letter Q and the number 9
are homophones, which are often used in
wordplay in that language. Which author?
Answer
Haruki Murakami
11
For the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, this TV
show was nominated in the "Drama Series"
category instead of the "Miniseries" category.
The two lead actors ended up presenting the
Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a
Miniseries or Movie" which was given to
Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock. Which 2
actors? Which TV show?
Answer
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson
for True Detective
12
During the production of the game Deus Ex,
which was released in 2000, the developers
forgot the add the Twin Towers to the New
York skyline. The discrepancy was explained
in-game as a result of what?
Answer
A terrorist attack
13
The title of this non-fiction book, later adapted
into a film, comes from a phrase once
traditional in American prisons, to designate a
man condemned to death. Prior to the 1960s,
when guards would lead a condemned man
down the prison hallway, prisoners used to
call out this phrase. What phrase?
Answer
Dead Man Walking
14
Identify the book from the excerpt: "X had
been born too late and too mediocre. Some
men are born mediocre, some men achieve
mediocrity and some men have mediocrity
thrust upon them. With X it was all three.
Even among men lacking all distinction he
inevitably stood out as a man lacking more
distinction than all the rest and people who
met him were always impressed by how
unimpressive he was."
Answer
Catch 22
15
Galle is a crater on Mars. It is located on the
eastern rim of the huge impact basin Argyre
Planitia. It is named after the astronomer
Johann Gottfried Galle. The crater was used
as a story location in X after it's similarity to
one of the key motifs in X was noted by one
of the creators. According to him, the
similarity "was almost too good to be true. I
worried that if we put it in, people would
never believe it." Identify X.
Answer
Watchmen
16
In 1974, Uderzo and Goscinny set up their
own animation studio called Studio Idefix.
Idefix was Dogmatix’s French name. The
studio’s logo was a direct imitation of MGM's
in which the lion was replaced by Idefix. And
MGM's motto "Ars Gratia Artis" was replaced
by "Delirant Isti Romani". What does "Delirant
Isti Romani" mean?
Answer
These Romans are Crazy
17
The English name for this drink is Bison Grass
Vodka. It is a dry, herb-flavored vodka that
has a unique flavour of woodruff, vanilla,
coconut, and almond notes. The original
name is the Polish name for bison grass. A
fictional country named after this vodka is
where the events of a film, inspired by the
works of Austrian author Stefan Zweig take
place. Which film?
Answer
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Scores
Written Round
• 6 questions on Pokémon
• Teams have to write down their answers
• Differential scoring –
• +20 if 1/2 teams gets it
• +10 if 3/4 teams get it
• +5 if 5 teams get it
• No points if all teams get it
1
Gengar is a dual-type Ghost/Poison Pokémon
which has a habit of pretending to be a
person's shadow and mimicking the person.
Which English word (actually a loan word
from German) is this Pokémon's name
derived from?
Answer
Doppelganger
2
This Electric-type Pokémon is simply based
on a sheep and its electric aspect comes
from how wool builds up static charges. It is
inspired from a classic science fiction novel
(which was also adapted into a film). Its name
is derived from a nursery rhyme. Which
novel? Which nursery rhyme?
Answer
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Mary Had A Little Lamb
3
This Kicking Pokémon was originally known
as "Sawamura" in Japanese, based on
Japanese kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura. His
English name is derived from the name of X.
On the other hand, the Punching Pokémon
was originally known as "Ebiwara" in
Japanese, based on Japanese former two-
time world flyweight boxing champion
Hiroyuki Ebihara and his English name is
derived from the name of Y. Identify X and Y.
Answer
Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan
4
This is the Psychic Pokémon called Girafarig.
What does its name signify?
Answer
It is palindrome, which reflects the forward and
backward heads
5
Heracross is a Bug-Fighting type pokemon
which is based on a certain species known
for its extraordinary strength and hence
named after X. It also has two alternative
names after another animal AND another
mythological animal, due to one of its
distinctive features. Identify the species and
X.
Answer
Hercules beetle/Rhinoceros beetle/Unicorn
beetle
Hercules
6
Milotic is a Water-type Pokémon named after
one of the most famous ancient Greek
sculptures which depicts the Greek/Roman
goddess of love and beauty, and, like Milotic,
possesses no arms. The arms of the
sculpture were lost following its discovery.
Which sculpture?
Answer
Venus de Milo
Infinite Rebound 2
• 17 questions clockwise
• +10/-0 for a direct or passed question
• Onefinite pounce - A team cannot pounce
further once it gets a question wrong on
pounce
• +15/-0 on pounce
• Teams can pounce on their own directs
18
The author X was posted in Paris as a young
Reuters foreign correspondent in 1962 when Y
had just granted independence to Algeria to end
the eight-year Algerian War, a highly
controversial act that had incurred the wrath of
the ultra-right terrorist group Organisation Armée
Secrète (OAS) which then vowed to assassinate
him. X befriended many of Y's bodyguards and
personally reported from the scene of the failed
August 1962 assassination attempt on the life of
Y. Identify X and Y.
Answer
X: Frederick Forsyth
Y: Charles de Gaulle
19
In the movie Captain America: The Winter
Soldier, what Biblical quotation is inscribed
on the character Nick Fury's tombstone?
Answer
Ezekiel 25:17
20
This character's name was inspired by Kim
Noonien Singh, a pilot who flew in the
Second World War. The creator of this work
of fiction served with Singh and eventually
lost touch with him. He had hoped that the
character's similar name might attract Singh's
attention and renew his old acquaintance.
Which character?
Answer
Khan Noonien Singh
21
Roberto Benigni directed and starred in the 1997 tragicomedy Life Is
Beautiful, which is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect
his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration
camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he
must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. The film was attacked
by critics who accused it of presenting the Holocaust without much
suffering, and some who considered that "laughing at everything"
was not appropriate. However, some praised Benigni's artistic
daring and skill to create a sensitive comedy involving the tragedy, a
challenge that X confessed he would not have done with his film Y
had he been aware of the horrors of the Holocaust. Identify X and Y.
Answer
X: Charlie Chaplin
Y: The Great Dictator
22
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist,
known for his contributions in gravitational
physics and astrophysics. A long-time friend and
colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan,
he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical
Physics at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) until 2009 and one of the world's
leading experts on the astrophysical implications
of Einstein's general theory of relativity. What
new project is he involved in 2014?
Answer
Interstellar (as Exec Producer)
23
When this band released their cassette in Iran,
a leaflet in Persian was enclosed which gave
the explanation of the lyrics of a certain song
as being about a man who has accidentally
killed a man, and sold his soul to the devil,
much like Faust. On the night before his
execution, he calls out for God and with the
help of angels regains his soul. Which song?
Answer
Bohemian Rhapsody
24
The Inklings was a literary group which started
with just authors X and Y meeting on Monday
mornings to talk about writing. It went on the
become an important group associated with
the University of Oxford, England, for nearly
two decades between the early 1930s and
late 1940s. Members were literary
enthusiasts who praised the value of
narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing
of fantasy. Id X and Y.
Answer
CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
25
The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a US
scientific research station. Most personnel leave by the
middle of February, leaving a few dozen who keep the
station functional through the months of Antarctic night.
The winter personnel are isolated between February and
October. As a tradition, every year, the winter personnel
watch two films on the first winter evening. One of them
is a 1982 film based in an Antarctic research station. The
other is a 1980 film in which the characters are isolated
from the outside world for a long period of time. Both
films have now gained a cult following. Identify both.
Answer
The Thing
The Shining
26
For No Good Reason is a documentary about
Ralph Steadman, a cartoonist best known for his
work with author X. It stars the actor Y who pays
a visit to Steadman. Y was a fan and longtime
friend of X, and has acted in two films based on
X's works. Y accompanied X as his road
manager on one of the author's last book tours.
In 2006, he contributed a foreword to a
posthumous biography of X and also narrated a
documentary film based on X's life. Identify the
author and the actor.
Answer
Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp
27
Mount Roraima serves as the triple border
point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. The
tabletop mountains in this area are
considered some of the oldest geological
formations on Earth, dating back to some two
billion years ago in the Precambrian. The
production team of which movie went to
Mount Roraima and climbed it for inspiration
and ideas for the making of it?
Answer
Up
28
These are three paintings of three rather
famous members of this extremely artistic
family. The third artist (third image) left his
paintings untitled to "leave the meaning of the
painting open to interpretation". Which artistic
family?
Answer
Tagore. The first is Pratima Visarjan by
Gaganendranath Tagore (Sharmila Tagore's
great grandfather). The second is End of A
Journey by Abanindranath Tagore, his
younger brother. The third is by Rabindranath
Tagore, their uncle.
29
Screenshot from the game Plants vs Zombies.
The character in the image was replaced by a
generic disco dancing zombie after the family
of a certain deceased personality raised
objection. Put funda.
Answer
Michael Jackson’s family complained that the
Michael Jackson in Thriller inspired zombie
was objectionable after the pop star's death
and hence was replaced.
30
Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major is a
rather popular piece of classical music. It was
used as a background scores in movies like
Se7en, Battle Royale and The Spy who loved
me. Its most popular arrangement,
specifically the 2nd movement, was done by
August Willhelmj, who titled it what?
Answer
Air on the G string
31
The National Front (NF) is a British far-right political party
for whites only, opposed to non-white immigration, and
committed to a programme of repatriation. While denying
accusations of fascism, it has cultivated links with neo-
Nazi cells at home and abroad, and the British police
and prison services forbid their employees to be
members of the party. The NF was founded in 1967. The
party has never won a seat in Parliament, and its few
council seats have only been obtained through defection
and appointment. The National Front were particularly
strong in the early 1980s, and their paper is called The
Flame. What’s the entertainment connect?
Answer
Norsefire from V for Vendetta
32
X is known as the voice of Y, but at his own
request, was originally uncredited for the release
of the first two films. He said, "When Linda Blair
did the girl in The Exorcist, they hired Mercedes
McCambridge to do the voice of the devil coming
out of her. And there was controversy as to
whether Mercedes should get credit. I was one
who thought no, she was just special effects. So
when it came to Y, I said, no I'm just special
effects. But it became so identified, I said OK, I'll
let them put my name on it." X and Y?
Answer
X: James Earl Jones
Y: Darth Vader
33
Season 1 Episode 8: The Pointy End
Season 2 Episode 9: Blackwater
Season 3 Episode 7: The Bear and the Maiden Fair
Season 4 Episode 2: The Lion and the Rose
What's common to this exhaustive list?
Answer
Writing credits for George R.R. Martin
34
In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, a
hospital nurse who is watching over Dave
Bowman's mother throws down a TIME
magazine to go and check on her. The
magazine cover is supposed to have
photographs of the US and the Russian
presidents. Which 2 people feature on the
magazine?
Answer
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke