mela quiz iit-bhu prelims

Prelims

The inevitable RULES

• 20 questions• Multiples of 5 are star marked in case of

ties.• Quizmaster cannot be cursed for a lot of

movies and TV questions.• The quizmaster may guide you on

discretion of other participants.

Minimalist PosterBecause a MELA quiz is never complete without them

Sufficient information but not necessary. Eg:

1. Minimalist poster for which Bollywood movie?

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2. Now its time for Hollywood!!Which movie’s minimalist poster?

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3. Which upcoming movie’s cast?

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4. Monument and its significance?

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• Imagine Peace Tower• A memorial to John Lennon from his

widow, Yoko Ono

*5. Identify her. She became the first Indian movie star to appear on the TIME magazine cover.

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• Parveen Babi• Poor man’s Zeenat Aman!!

6. Id the guy in the video.

• Video• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=7InRmTGU0Hg

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• The Mountain – Ser Gregor Clegane• Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson

7. Solve for X and Y.• X is a fictional antihero appearing in American comic books

published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in The New Mutants #98 (February 1991). X was depicted as a supervillain when he made his first appearance in The New Mutants, but has since evolved into the role of an antihero. X is a disfigured and mentally unstable mercenary with the superhuman ability of an accelerated healing factor. He is known as the "Merc with a Mouth" because of his talkative nature and tendency to break the fourth wall, which is used by writers to create humorous effect.

• Y portrayed the character in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine and will reprise the role in the upcoming 2016 film X.

• Give me X and Y.

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• X: Deadpool• Y: Ryan Reynolds

8. Id the TV show.

• X is an American television thriller series created by Joshua Safran. The series' protagonist is Alex Parrish, who is suspected of committing a terrorist attack. Flashbacks tell her story and the ones of her fellow recruits at the FBI Academy in X.

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• Quantico

9. Id him from the video.

• X is a song parody writer and performer and the most popular song parody maker on Youtube.

• He reached 1,000,000 subscribers on July 15, 2013 and 1 billion views on November 6, 2014.

• Video• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=KffirUobCfI

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• Bart Baker

*10. Salma Hayek is portraying whom?

• She is a Mexican painter best known for her self portraits.

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• Frida Kahlo

11. End credits song for which extremely famous movie?

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• Fight Club

12. Which famous Indian cartoonist?

• A recipient of Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. He has held solo exhibitions in over 22 countries, including the United States, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, France, Yugoslavia, and Portugal.

• His murals in Café Mondegar in Mumbai are shown in the next slide.

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• Mario Miranda

13. Which famous song?• The track went on to win the Grammy for Best Dance

Recording on the 2001 Grammy Awards and is sung by the group called Baha men.

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• Who let the dog’s out!!

14. Id this meme.

• This is the earliest known video instance of this meme.

• Video• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=GoUWdzNp9SM

• A precursor to this meme.

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• Video• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-

xE6mGsWDM

*15. What particular feat?• In 2014, Viola Davis began

starring as Annalise Keating on the ABC drama How to Get Away with Murder, and in 2015 won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. What particular feat did she achieve when she won the award.

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• She became the first African American woman, as well as first Black woman of any nationality, to win an Emmy.

16. Id this writer.• He is an American novelist and physician. After his debut novel in

2003 which became a huge success, he left his job as a physician to write full time.

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• Khaled Hosseini

17. Id this author.

• “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the World is full of people running about with lit matches.”

• This is what the author X had to say about censorship and banned books. Id. X

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• Ray Bradbury

18. Id the writer.

• This author was born on 25th January 1903 in Motihari which is present day Bihar.

• His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism

• In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"

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• George Orwell

19. Connect.

• These three are the more famous ones. Connect this non exhaustive list.

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• Joker

*20. Which famous movie and artform?

• These specific type of strings used to control puppets are famous because of an artform practiced in Italy, especially in Sicily. This artform doesn’t come under the general puppeteering. Name this art form or what are these strings called?

• Poster for a famous movie features these strings. Identify the movie.

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• Marionette Strings

Finals