The MELA-ish General Quiz

This is a General quiz. But it might get a little MELA-ish at some parts.

CAUTION

Quizmaster :’)

Rules :

1. This is a general quiz.

2. The quiz master (me, -_-) has researched all the questions, and has tried to cross-check almost every info. Any resemblance to questions in other blogs/pages/quizzes are purely coincidental. But there may be arguments, and I would like to handle that after the quiz. I am not the God, neither the Boss, I am a mere human. So have pity on me.

3. There may be grammatical and spelling mistakes. Forgive me for that, a quiz in 3 days is not ধে�মালী.

There will be pounce and………

Wonder-Bounce

Differential marking in PounceOn pounce….If correct, 1 team : 20 points2 teams : 15 points

If wrong, - 10 in all cases

Direct/Indirect : +10

1. X and Y ??

Browne, born Thomas Arthur Browne, was an extremely popular English strip cartoonist, painter and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Though known for creating many other cartoons, he is best known for creating ‘X’ for the brand ‘Y’. He created ‘X’ in 1908 and modeled it after the owner of ‘Y’.

‘X’ was used to symbolize ‘Y’`s innovative thinking and never-ending pursuit of greatness.

In 2009, ‘Y’ commissioned British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty to create a brand video outlining its history, called The Man Who Walked Around the World. This award winning short film features famed Scottish actor Robert Carlyle telling the tale of ‘Y’ in one incredible take – during which, like the ‘X’, he never stops walking.

X – Striding Man

Y – Johnnie Walker

2. X and the author ??

X is a famous trilogy, and the name comes from the name of the ship, where the characters of the book first met. The protagonist of the trilogy, the woman, sees the ship in her dreams, as it was to become the central to her destiny.

The trilogy is a historical fiction and describes ‘The Great Experiment’ between the two countries.

The third book in the trilogy is yet to be released (duh, why call it trilogy then ? -_- ) as sea turned in to a river, and the river will turn in to a flood.

Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire)By Amitav Ghosh

3. Solve for the three variables. No part points.

‘X’ uses advanced motion detection to determine when a device has been left unattended for a significant amount of time, and puts it into a super deep sleep mode that radically reduces power consumption.

‘Y’ unveiled a new feature for ‘Z’ called ‘X’, which aims to improve smart-phone battery life by being "smarter when it comes to power".

X - Doze

Y – Google

Z – Android 6.0 Marshmallow

4. X and FITB ??

This is a tempera painting by ‘X’ called ___ ____ ______. It was one of the 135 paintings that ‘X’ drew for his close – friend, Thomas Butts. Apart from writing poems to Butts, he drew these 135 paintings from the Bible. ‘Ancient Days’, ‘The Body of Abel found by Adam and Eve’, etc are some of them. However, this painting has its name exactly similar to another famous painting.

X – William Blake

The Last Supper

5. Which incident ??

Bridge of Spies is an upcoming 2015 American historical biographical drama thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen. The film stars Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. It is based on an incident from the Cold War era, which can be somehow related to the music world.

1960 U-2 incident

6. X ??

In the 19th century Admiral William Henry Smyth, wrote in his nautical lexicon The Sailor's Word-Book about ‘X’, “The Dies Infaustus, on which old seamen were desirous of not getting under weigh, as ill-omened.”

Therefore , sometime in the 19th century, the Royal Navy attempted to finally dispel this old superstition among sailors who though it to be bad luck. To demonstrate the falseness of this belief, they decided to commission a ship named HMS ‘X’. Her keel was laid on a ‘X’, she was launched on a ‘X’, and she set sail on her maiden voyage on ‘X’, under the command of a Captain James ‘X’. She was never seen or heard from again.

Friday

or to be precise,

7. Which American football team ??

In 1967 an ownership group led by Paul Brown, a head coach, was granted a franchise in the American Football League. Brown named the team ‘Y’(the second word in the answer) in order "to give it a link with past professional football in ‘X’(the first word in the answer)“. Another ‘Y’ team had existed in the city and played in three previous American Football Leagues from 1937 to 1942. The city's world-renowned zoo was also home to a rare white Tiger of a particular species. However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team. He added black as the secondary color. Brown chose a very simple logo: the word “Y" in black lettering.

Cincinnati Bengals

8. X ??

‘X’ is a Lao and Thai, clear, spicy and sour soup. It is widely served in neighbouring countries such as Cambodia ,Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, and has been popularised around the world. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lime juice, fish sauce, and crushed chili peppers.

Tom – Yum – Goong

9. Which incident ??

It is one of the most famous incidents in the Indian Independence struggle. A ‘smarak’ was made in the names of the peasant martyrs only in 1993, Sampat Chamar, Abdullah, Vikram Ahir, Meghu Tiwari, Lal Muhammed, Sahdeo Kahar being some of them. However, the British made a memorial in the name of the policemen who died and a famous revolutionary couplet by poet Jagdamba Prasad Mishra now adorns the place:

Shahidon ke chitaaon par lagenge har baras mele, watan pe marne walon ka yahi baki nishan hoga

Chauri – Chaura incident

10. Which fight ??

This is something about a fight. But it is more of a fight among their fans. This is one para from Moviepilot`s article about the same thing.

“Both are aliens from dead civilizations, the last of their kind who found another home in another planet and it's people. Both have incredible powers and are fighting for good. Still, their levels of power is different and this difference decides who will come out triumphant.

____ uses Ki energy which is the balanced force in his body which is created by his physical, emotional and mental existence. He can manipulate this energy to be used as a body enhancer to be stronger, faster and use his abilities. We can say that this is like sunlight for ________. Without Ki, he is only barely stronger than an average human. As a ______, he heals faster than a human, gets stronger after each battle, lost or won. However, Ki is not magic, the ___ Universe has clearly stated that. As such, it can't be used as a weakness for ________.”

Goku vs Superman

11. X ??

Apart from the archaeological and historical importance, there is some other reason that made ‘X' an attractive and adventurous place in Delhi.

The well inside the ‘X’ has dried out but that now. Many mysterious stories involved here. While going deeper the sounds totally vanish only what remains that is echo of our own footsteps. As this sounds becomes more louder in a complete vacuum silence, the atmosphere turns more uncanny feelings. A strong eerie presence felt by visitors in there. Some people even assert that the ‘X’ is a residence of devils. This ‘X’ has turned into the house for thousands of bats and pigeons. Before the place lost its shine, the ‘X’ was filled with black water which would call out to people strangely and ask them to scarify their lives. This might be the vernacular behind the strangeness felt inside the vicinity of this ‘X’. Someone jump to his death, this is what he had to say he was fine and then we saw him standing there. The water is believed to have had mesmerized people and drove them to death.

Agrasen Ki Baoli

12. What’s the phrase ??

__ ___ __ ___ is a political slogan widely used and coined by the Occupy movement. It was the name of a Tumblr blog page launched in late August 2011 and is a variation on another phrase from an August 2011 flyer for the NYC General Assembly. The phrase directly refers to the income and wealth inequality in the United States with a concentration of wealth among the top earning 1%. It reflects an opinion that the “___" are paying the price for the mistakes of a tiny minority within the upper class. As of 2009, all households with incomes less than $343,927 belonged to the lower ___ of the United States' income distribution, according to IRS reports. The concept has been criticized as being a century old, and wealth concentration been defended as correlating with the health of the stock market.

A connection between them might help.

We are the 99%

Nena has got 99 balloons

Jay Z has 99 problems

13. X and Y ??

In an interview with the Rolling Stone, ‘X’ said about his alter ego ‘Y’,

“The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. ‘Y’ is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. ‘Y’ was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There's no electricity to play it. ‘Y’'s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, 'cause there is no news. So ‘Y’ does this and there is terrible news. 'All the young dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite. […]”

She is Kate Moss. She posed as ‘X’`s ‘Y’ for a Vogue cover.

X – David Bowie

Y – Ziggy Stardust

14. What am I talking about(X) ??

Prior to ‘X’, Jonas Drüppel, Roland Grenke and Daniel Taschik, the creators, created Starlize, which aimed to allow users to create music videos. Finding out that this app was too complex for users, the creators decided to move on to shorter length videos with an emphasis on ease of use, creating ‘X’.

Dubsmash

15. FITB!!

____ is a stock character assistant to many types of Gothic villains, such as Count Dracula or Dr. Victor Frankenstein, familiar from many horror movies and horror movie parodies. Although Dr. Frankenstein had a hunchback assistant in the 1931 film Frankenstein, his name was Fritz. However, in the original Mary Shelley novel, Dr. Frankenstein has no lab assistant, nor does a character named Igor appear.

Daniel Radcliff is playing this role in this upcoming film.

Igor

16. FITB!

____ is a New York-based fashion house specializing in fashion goods for men and women (ready-to-wear for men, women and children, accessories) founded in 1984 by ‘X’.

After 15 years at Anne Klein, ten of which as head designer, in 1984 ‘X’ and her late husband Stephan Weiss were offered the opportunity to start their own business by Takihyo LLC, owner of Anne Klein. The company became a publicly traded venture in 1996, and in 2001 it was purchased by French corporation Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy.

X in the next slide

DKNY

Donna Karan New York

17. Painter and the subject ??

Painter - Pierre-Auguste Renoir`s

Subject - Claude Monet

18. X and Y ??

These are some screenshots of a twitter debate between ‘X’ (a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com and ESPN Scouts, Inc.) and ‘Y’ ( a former American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher, former video game developer and current ESPN baseball color analyst. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993 and won World Series championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox), which turned into one of the greatest controversy of 2014. News was there that ESPN suspended ‘X’ from using twitter, which was later disapproved by ESPN. The entire debut was on ‘Evolution’ where ‘X’ was defending Chares Darwin.

X – Keith Law Y – Curt Schilling

19. FITB. And then figure out XY.

_____ ______ is a fictional language and one of the languages of Arda. It was forbidden to speak the language for the other sections, whilst the ‘villain’ along with his followers used the language. The villain wanted to, as all villains do, rule the world and then make people use that language.

The most famous example of this language is the ‘X Y’, the sentence that we can frequently see.

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

Black Speech (the official language of Mordor, though Orcs could never say the language, dumbos -_- )

X Y – The Ring Verse

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

20. X ??

‘X’ was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. ‘X’ joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while became one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. During his stay in Pondicherry, ‘X’ developed a method of spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. The central theme of his vision was the evolution of human life into a life divine. He believed in a spiritual realisation that not only liberated man but transformed his nature, enabling a divine life on earth. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa ("The Mother"), he founded the ‘X’ Ashram.

Sri Aurobindo

21. Which song ??

In the original album version, the song segues from one of their songs as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where this song is beginning. The radio was recorded from ‘X’'s car radio. He performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through a car AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though the guitarist were sitting in a car, listening to the radio; it also contains a whine that slowly changes pitch—emulating the electro-magnetic interference from the engine of a car as it accelerates and decelerates. The master tape of the original recording includes an entire performance of pedal steel guitar, played by ‘X’, that was not used in the final mix.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

22. Which king is it based on ??

Amrapali is a 1996 Bollywood film starring Sunil Dutt, Vyajayanthimala, Prem Nath among others. This film is based on ‘X’, who, unsatisfied of his hunger of conquest, hastily attacks the Vaishali army. ‘X’`s side faces defeat, and ‘X’ dressed as a Vaishali soldier, runs off to the city, where he meets Amrapali and falls in love with her, and the fight for love begins (duh -_- ).

Ajaatshatru

23. What is the more common term associated with it ??

A place cell is a type of pyramidal neuron within the hippocampus that becomes active when an animal enters a particular place in its environment; this place is known as the place field. A given place cell will have only one, or a few, place fields in a typical small laboratory environment, but more in a larger region. There is no apparent topography to the pattern of place fields, unlike other brain areas such as visual cortex - neighboring place cells are as likely to have nearby fields as distant ones. In a different environment, typically about half the place cells will still have place fields, but these will be in new places unrelated to their former locations.

Brain`s GPS

24. FITB !!

During this time the late year, the Russian government passed an anti – homosexuality law, that caused great dissatisfaction among most of the people all over the world (duh -_- ). It really displeased the people in NYC, and it led to boycotting _____. The boycott followed another event where _____ were poured onto the streets of the city, as part of a protest by the President of United Restaurant and Tavern Owners Association, Paul Hurley.

Well, people were not having _____, while an Indian ‘rapper’ was having 4.

Vodka or Russian Vodka

And he was drinking 4 bottles -_-

25. X ??

The experimental use of pendulum devices, to demonstrate the law of impacts between bodies, was first described by Mariotte in the 17th century.

There is much confusion over the origins of the modern ‘X’. Marius J. Morin has been credited as being the first to name and make this popular executive toy. However, in early 1967, an English actor, Simon Prebble, coined the name “X" (now used generically) for the wooden version manufactured by his company, Scientific Demonstrations Ltd. After some initial resistance from retailers, they were first sold by Harrods of London, thus creating the start of an enduring market for executive toys. Later a very successful chrome design for the Carnaby Street store Gear was created by the sculptor and future film director Richard Loncraine.

Newton`s Cradle

26. What does the band of stars indicate ??

This is a picture(in the next slide) of the logo of the ISL team Mumbai City F.C., co-owned by Ranbir Kapoor. The logo was launched in an event organized at the city`s Palladium Hotel. We can see a fortress at the top(unrelenting, determined spirit of the city), a band of stars, and a train at the bottom(which symbolizes the daily life of the people).

The number of islands that make up Mumbai

27. Who is the model for this painting ??

Girl arranging her Hair is a impressionism painting by Mary Cassatt. She chose a subject that _____ _____ had often depicted: an ordinary, working–class girl at her toilette. The beauty of the picture comes from the rigor of the composition and its harmonized contrast of pinks and blues—in the sitter's nightdress, in the background, and even in her skin.

Cassatt was the student of painter Edgar Degas and later married him. She started her career as a copyist at the Louvre. It was Degas who invited her to impressionism exhibition back then.

Edgar Degas himself

28. X ??

In 1998 ‘X’, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a titanic feat of physical and mental endurance that no rider has repeated since. He was a hero to millions, the saviour of cycling following the doping scandals which threatened to destroy the sport. However, less than six years later, aged just 34, he died alone, in a cheap hotel room, from acute cocaine poisoning. He had been an addict for five years.

This is a trailer of the documentary made on him -

[trailer]

Marco Pantani

29. FITB!

British foreign secretary Jack Straw has been disparaging his government's prewar report on Iraqi WMDs, referring to the error-plagued document as “a complete ________” which means “a total mess”. ________ was first started in 1873 by James and William _______, English brothers who had emigrated to Chicago. They hoped their invention would become the baby food of the future, but it proved more popular among adults—especially adults in England, where the product was eventually marketed as a sleep aid.

“________" did not come to mean "mess" until the early 1980s. Urban legend holds that the company itself is responsible for the slang usage: It once aired a series of TV commercials that portrayed a stressed-out woman enduring a series of mundane catastrophes. She ends the terrible day by relaxing with a hot nip of ________.

Horlicks

30. X and Y. i.e. Name the movies.

‘X’ ___ ______ is an upcoming American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt and Chad St. John. It is a sequel to ‘Y’ ___ ______ (2013). The film stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. The story picks up in London, where the British Prime Minister has died under mysterious circumstances and his funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the Western world. What starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future.

‘X’ is an European city and ‘Y’ is a mountain in America.

X – London, London Has Fallen Y – Olympus, Olympus Has Fallen

31. X ??

Mary Magdalene or Mary of Magdala and sometimes The Magdalene, is a figure in Christianity. Mary Magdalene travelled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles. During the Middle Ages she developed a reputation in Western Christianity as being a repentant prostitute or loose woman. However, these claims are not supported by the canonical gospels.

In the Middle Ages there was a secretive organisation called the Knights Templar. They were disbanded with many killed on the orders of the Pope because they knew the secret, lets say ‘X’. Despite the killing of the order's members, societies carry on its legacy of hidden knowledge today.

That Jesus had had a child with Mary Magdalene.

32. FITB!

The Complete _____ Comics was an award-winning series of collections from Fantagraphics Books which was intended to reproduce the entire body of American cartoonist and comic book artist/writer ______ _____'s comics work in chronological order, beginning with his fanzine work from as early as 1958.

Often called the Bob Dylan of the comics underground, he is famous for sexual and racial politics of cartoons such as ‘Fritz the Cat’, etc.

Robert Crumb

33. Name or describe the event.

This graph (picture in the next slide) was a forecast by IMF, which can be directly connected to a recent political-economic ‘event’.

Grexit

or

Greece withdrawal from the Eurozone

34. Name both the elements.

________ was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus. He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink. He was the father of Pelops, ‘X’ and Broteas, and was a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto.

The elements 73 and 41 are named after the blanked word and ‘X’ respectively. The former (73) element was named for its general non-reactivity because of its inertness (it sits among reagents and is unaffected by them).

Tantalum, after Tantalus

Niobium, after Niobe

35. X ??

X wrote a social drama, based on all the experiences he gathered as an actor. It tells how X gave up his life just to entertain other people, but got nothing in return from the society. Once he was acting, and at the middle of the show, he received the tragic news of his son`s death. This better experience led him to write the drama. It was a portrayal of X on the stage and it represented his commitment and dedication to drama. X believed that an artiste had a great role to play in nation building. But he was shocked to see the ruthless exploitation of the poor by the affluent section of the society.

Natasurya Phani Sharma

The drama is ‘Kiya’

36. FITB!

Pimoa _______ is a species of the spider family Pimoidae. It is one of twenty-one described species in the genus Pimoa.

Pimoa is derived from the language of the Gosiute people in Utah and means "big legs". Gustavo Hormiga, who named the species, derived the specific name from a famous fictional deity _______, which Hormiga writes is "akin to the powers of Chaos".

The creator of the character depicts it as a gigantic entity worshiped by cultists. It's anatomy is described as part octopus, part man, and part dragon.

HP Lovecraft`s Cthulhu

37. FITB! Two parts, no part points!

This is a review by ‘Vern, the outlaw film critic’ on Mission Impossible 4 : Ghost Protocol.

“…….Instead of the familiar plot of Cruise getting framed and disavowed it’s the whole IMF organization. Some asshole (Michael Nyqvist, male lead of the Swedish GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO trilogy) blew up the _______ and stole a nuclear warhead while our IMF friends were sneaking around in there too. Not cool. He’s gotta understand that when he does something like that he makes all _______-infiltrators look bad, they all get lumped in together.One thing you learn in this movie is that if you happen to be there when somebody is blowing up the _______ it would be best not to be found unconscious wearing a reversible Russian army jacket. Good travel tip there……….”.

“…….. The rest of the team are so used to Hunt’s awesomeness that they think nothing of asking him to climb up the side of the ____ _______ to break into a server just so they can slow down some elevators. His high tech spiderman type suction gloves stop working, so all he has is those rock climbing skills he showed in the opening of part 2. You know it’s a Brad Bird movie when the glove he tosses blows back to the building and has its own little character moment………”

“…….Instead of the familiar plot of Cruise getting framed and disavowed it’s the whole IMF organization. Some asshole (Michael Nyqvist, male lead of the Swedish GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO trilogy) blew up the _______ and stole a nuclear warhead while our IMF friends were sneaking around in there too. Not cool. He’s gotta understand that when he does something like that he makes all _______-infiltrators look bad, they all get lumped in together.One thing you learn in this movie is that if you happen to be there when somebody is blowing up the _______ it would be best not to be found unconscious wearing a reversible Russian army jacket. Good travel tip there……….”.

“…….. The rest of the team are so used to Hunt’s awesomeness that they think nothing of asking him to climb up the side of the ____ _______ to break into a server just so they can slow down some elevators. His high tech spiderman type suction gloves stop working, so all he has is those rock climbing skills he showed in the opening of part 2. You know it’s a Brad Bird movie when the glove he tosses blows back to the building and has its own little character moment………”

Kremlin and Burj Khalifa

38. FITB and solve for X !!

___ ____ _____ series is a series of books written by X, having multiple genres, including adventure, fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Often considered the author`s magnum opus, the series inarguably takes its name from Robert Browning’s poem ‘Childe Roland to ___ _____ _____ Came’.

If at his counsel I should turn asideInto that ominous tract which, all agree,Hides ___ ____ _____ Yet acquiescinglyI did turn as he pointed: neither prideNor hope rekindling at the end descried,So much as gladness that some end might be.

According to the author, he was inspired by LOTR, Arthurian Legend and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He was inspired to create the protagonist on Clint Eastwood’s “Man With No Name” character.

The Dark Tower series

X – Stephen King

39. X ??

‘X’, as a poet, wrote her first poem in 1943 in Jagaran, the handwritten magazine of Tezpur Girl`s High School. The poem was titled ‘Prabhati’. Many of her poems have been translated into different languages including, Oriya, Gujrati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, etc apart from Hindi and English. Her various anthologies are ‘Pran Ganga’, ‘Bhaskar Lagna’, ‘Priya Prithibir babe’, ‘Desh Bideshor kabita’, ‘Nirbachita bharatiya kabita’.

Though an elite poet, X is more of a singer.

Dr. Lakshyaheera Das

40. Which novel ??

Predatory dinoflagellates are predatory heterotrophic or mixotrophic alveolate protists that derive some or most of the nutients from digesting other organisms. About one half of dinoflagellates lack photosynthetic pigments and specialize in consuming other eukaryotic cells, and even photosynthetic forms are often predatory.

A 2001 novel shows the protagonist encountering an island full of these protists, that was used by the author in a spiritual way.

Yann Martel`s ‘Life of Pi’.

Talking about the Carnivorous Island.

Thanks !