MELA Prelims

1. A rough plot

Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix

What is being filmed in the pic?

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Star wars title narration

This piece of modern art by Alighieri Boetti consists of a mirror-lined black box or crate holding a single light bulb and a circuit underneath. This piece plays with ideas of randomness and time. What is so unique about this bulb?

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The artwork is called Lampada Annuale. The bulb is programmed to light up for a random eleven seconds every year. No one has ever seen it lit yet.

X and Y are good friends. This is what X had to say about Y in an interview. “Y is a huge guy. But I can tell you, based on a real test I can out-bicycle him any day of the week. I’m built for speed. He’s built for breaking things.”

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X - Bill Nye Y - Neil Degrasse Tyson

The plot is a love story about a powerful ruler of medieval X and a beautiful commoner girl named Zabibah. Zabibah's husband is a cruel and unloving man who rapes her. Although the book is on the surface a romance novel, it is (and was intended to be read as) an allegory.The story revolves around Arab, as he becomes the king of X.

Who is the Author of this book?

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Zabibah was intended to represent the people of Iraq, and the cruel husband the United States.

Identify6

In 1952 X was labeled as a communist and was not allowed to in the United States. He was then eventually permitted to come

back home on April 2, 1972, to receive an honorary Oscar. He also received his only competitive Oscar for best original score following the re-release of his movie Y. Identify X and Y

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An X is a structural part of a number of species of plants, once it is mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem, and rolls away in the wind. It is a cliche of Western movies, emphasising silence or stillness, e.g. as the hero rides into an apparently deserted frontier town. This is also famously used throughout The Big Lebowski as a metaphor to the laid back nature of the protagonist. What is X?

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Tumbleweed

This TV Show has its own brand of wine. Identify the show.

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This is a statue of the tamil poet, Thiruvalluvar built on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Kanyakumari. The height of this colossal monument has a very significant meaning. What is its height and what does it signify?

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133 feet - signifies the number of chapters or adhigaram in Thirukkural

11.Road map that follows which American classic?

The code of Hammurabi is the longest preserved text from the babylonian period. Law 196 in the Code of Hammurabi states that, "If a man destroy X of another man, they shall destroy his X. …. If one destroy X of a freeman he shall pay one gold mina. If one destroy X of a man's slave he shall pay one-half his price.” What is X and what famous phrase does this Law give rise to?

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X - eye An eye for an eye

X is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty and romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. An impulsive person or act might be regarded as (adj.)X. The term is derived from the name of the protagonist of the novel Y. Give me X, Y and Y’s author.

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X - Quixotism Y - Don Quixote by Cervantes

_______ Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz

y _______

14. Who is this?

Pablo Picasso

This is when the actor X used to play in his country’s national basketball team. After meeting a certain sportsman at his gym he decided to switch sports. This decision was pretty obviously one of main reasons for him to be cast as Y in Z, his main acting role.

X, Y and Z.

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Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson alias the mountain Game of Thrones

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19. Seinfeld