the literature and comics quizLIT-COM QUIZ-

• The first set of questions gives you the opening lines of novels and poems. Just identify the fictional work. Identify all to get a point extra.

Q1

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Q2

• Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Q3

•Of Mans First Disobedience, and the FruitOf that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tastBrought Death into the World, and all our woe.

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Q4

• He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway

Q5

• "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

GENERAL QUIZZING

Q6

• After much contemplation, X could not decide on a name for the attack, so he asked his wife. His wife came up with the name and the stances used during the attack. She also told X that it would be easy to remember the name of the attack if he used the name of the famous Hawaiian King named Y. X agreed, and the _______ attack was born.

The pic below shows the Hawaiian King mentioned above.

Kamehameha

Q7

X claims to be India’s sole collector of original comic-book art.A comic-book art is a comic book’s original sketchwork..something like a blueprint for a comic-book. A comic book’s original sketch work, after it’s been scanned for reproduction, is returned to its artist; companies such as Marvel and DC Comics only own the rights of reproduction, not the originals themselves. Hergé sketch for the cover ofTintin in America sold for $1.22 million. A month later, one dealer said to The New York Observer: “People who bought this stuff in the 1970s got a better return than anything else on the market, with the exception of something like Microsoft.”X is surely putting his money in the bank!!!!

Satyajit Chetri

Q8

• In this issue of Batman he encountered X, an iconic personality .

Adolf Hitler

Q9

• In Tintin Comics…there was a famous trip named Operation Ulysses…What was it all about?

Tintin’s trip to Moon

Q10

• X was founded by Detroit, Michigan-born comics fan Y. When he moved to San Diego, California in 1970, he organized a one-day convention on March 21, 1970 "as a kind of 'dry run' for the larger convention he hoped to stage." Y went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, for many years until becoming estranged from the organization. Identify X.

Comic Con

Q11

• This comic book character made his debut in January 1983. Unlike other characters in the magazine, this character was not originally conceptualized by the creators of the magazine. He grew out of three stories sent to the magazzine by a certain Sameer Salman.Artist Ram Wareekar illustrated the stories and continued drawing this character until 2003.Identify.

Suppandi

Q12)4 painters during the Italian RenaissanceTheir 1st names led to the naming of the protagonists of

the strip/movie.

Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtle

Q13• X is the largest land-

dwelling species of the family Mustelidae (weasels).It is referred by many names such as glutton(Gulo Gulo), carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch. The state of Michigan is, by tradition, known as "The X State", and the University of Michigan takes the X as its mascot. Why in a comics quiz ?

Wolverine

Q14)Name it..

TURBOKAT

Q15

• In “Asterix and the Magic Carpet” , a fakir brings Asterix to India. What’s his name?

Whatiznehm

Q16

• The X comic series was started by Y in an attempt to teach Indian children about their cultural heritage. He was shocked that Indian students could answer questions on Greek and Roman mythology, but were ignorant of their own history, mythology and folklore. It so happened that a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?"

Amar Chitra Katha

Q17)Give me X..• I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm strong to the finich Cause I eats me X. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.

I'm one tough Gazookus Which hates all Palookas Wot ain't on the up and square. I biffs 'em and buffs 'em And always out roughs 'em But none of 'em gets nowhere.

If anyone dares to risk my "Fisk", It's "Boff" an' it's "Wham" un'erstan'? So keep "Good Be-hav-or" That's your one life saver With Popeye the Sailor Man.

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm strong to the finich Cause I eats me X. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.

Spinach

Q18• The site has become a face of freedom and a face of India's liberals. The site is

censored by the Indian government. Initially the creator of the site have chosen to remain anonymous, going under the assumed collective name _____________. However in July 2009, Puneet Agarwal , the creator of the site revealed his identity.

It was criticized for portraying a charcter very similar to that of Amitabh Bachchan in one of its issues. On 3 June 2009 the government of India banned the site. Blogger's across the country criticized the move of the Indian government. There were efforts on the internet to reverse the ban.

The site continues to be popular in India. According to Alexa, it's currently among the 100 most popular sites in India, and over 80% of the traffic to the site comes from there. It is printed in 10 different Indian languages, not counting English. Pluggd.in, a startup blog from India even did a case study on their growth and strategy.

What is being talked about here?

Q19)Some believe he picked it after the

name of a character in a set of Persian poems. Others think that it is a

reference to this monkey, a description of which appears in his story "The Remoulding

of Groby Lington" 

Which famous pseudonym?

Saki (H.H Munro)

Q20

Jingle Bells

• Written by James Lord Pierpont, it was actually written and sung for Thanksgiving. Jingle Bell is is commonly taken to mean a certain kind of bell

•Q21)This is the “first” Amar Chitra Katha that came out. However there is something strange about its numbering.• What and why?

• #1 – 10 were reproductions of popular Western fairy tales in Indian languages.

Q22

On March 1, 1928, a freckled, snub-nosed 15-year-old boy scout Palle Huld left Copenhagen and circled the globe. Winner of a competition run by a Danish newspaper Politiken, Huld was re-enacting the Phileas Fogg adventure.

What newspaper appearance the following year suggests that Huld was a wholesome influence?

Q23

• Born in Jorhat, X studied sociology at the Dibrugarh University, and journalism at the Birla Institute of Liberal Arts and Management Sciences, Kolkata. She gained popularity with her column in Letters from Kolkata in Asom Bani weekly and fame with her novel HRIDAY EK BIGYAPAN. X?

Anuradha Sharma Pujari

• The final set of questions will give you the closing lines of a few poems and novels. Identify them. Identify all to get a point extra.

Q24

• He was soon borne away by the waves and lost on darkness and distance.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Q25

‘Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih’

The Waste Land by T.S Elliot

Q26

• I am thinking of the aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immorality you and I may share, my _________.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Q27

• “Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Q28

• The scar had not pained ______ for nineteen years. All was well.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling