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Chettinad VidyashramPresents
Literary Quiz 2015
QM: Ashwin Senthil Kumar
Rounds
1. General Trivia 2. Picture Funda3. Audio Visual Round 4. Indian Literature5. Pictionary 6. Buzzer Round
Rules• 30 seconds for a direct question• 5 seconds for a passed question• +10 points for answering a direct question• +10 points for answering a passed question• In the Buzzer Round, +10 for a correct answer
and -10 for a wrong answer
Round I
General Trivia
1. The seven-year period between when his twin children were born and when Robert Greene called him an "upstart crow“ is known as “______ _______ ______“, because no evidence has survived to show exactly where he was or why he left ‘Stratford’ for London. Several theories have been put forth to account for his life during this time, and a number of stories are given by his earliest biographers, including that he fled Stratford after he got in trouble for poaching deer from Thomas Lucy or that he wrote a scurrilous ballad about him. Who and FITB
Answer
William Shakespeare; Shakespeare’s Lost Years
2. 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
3. This fictional character has appeared in
four books by the same author. Tom
Hanks has played this character's role in
two films. Who is this fictional character
I'm talking about?
Answer
Robert Langdon(From Dan Brown Novels)
4. One for all you Harry Potter fans.
What is being depicted here?
Perceived: ___→ Gregorovitch →Grindelwald →Dumbledore →Snape → Voldemort
Actual: ___→ Gregorovitch → Grindelwald →Dumbledore → Malfoy → Harry
Answer
Masters of the Elder Wand
5. Taking its title from 17th century haiku poet Matsuo Bashō's famous haibun, Oku no Hosomichi, best known in English as _____________________, the novel is epic in form and chronicles an Australian century, with one horrific day at its heart on the Burma Railway in August 1943. As that day builds to its climax, the novel grows to encompass the post war lives of Japanese and Korean prison guards as well as Australian Far East Prisoners of War. The novel deals both with the effects of war and the many forms of love. FITB
Answer
6. These are the last few stanzas of a
poem by Roger Mcgough, the last line
representing the final moments of
every human being:
I welcomed you
At birth
Shall bid farewell at death
I am the Kiss of Life
its ebb and flow
With your last gasp
You will call my name:
O O O O O O O OWhat is the title of this poem?
Answer
Oxygen
7. 'A tale of Two Cities' (1859) is a novel
by Charles Dickens, set before and during
the French Revolution. Which are the
two cities the novel refers to?
Answer
London & Paris
8. I started as a twelve year old boy
suffering from dyslexia and ADHD. Till
date I have appeared in a total of seven
books. I’m a demigod who can breathe
under water and can heal myself while in
contact with water. Who am I?
Answer
Audience Question
What's the name of Sherlock
Holmes's older and even more brilliant brother?
Answer
Round II
Picture Funda
1. Rhyme it!
Answer
2. This Google Doodle commemorated the 186th
Birthday of which legendary novelist
Answer
Leo Tolstoy(The scene is from Tolstoy’s epic
‘War and Peace’)
3. The man in the picture is the 'last survivor'
who returned home to tell the story. ID the story
Answer
4. ID the woman in the picture.
Answer
Jane Austen
5. Given below is the map of an Indian 'city',
which is located on the banks of River Sarayu.
Identify it.
Answer
Malgudi
6. A sitter. Who is Robert Galbraith?
Answer
J.K.Rowling
7. This is the map of the trip of which 1873
fictional character?
The itinerary
London, United Kingdom to Suez, Egyptrail and steamer across the Mediterranean
Sea7 days
Suez to Bombay, Indiasteamer across the Red Sea and the Indian
Ocean13 days
Bombay to Calcutta, India rail 3 days
Calcutta to Victoria, Hong Kong steamer across the South China Sea 13 days
Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japansteamer across the South China Sea, East
China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean6 days
Yokohama to San Francisco, United States steamer across the Pacific Ocean 22 days
San Francisco to New York City, United States
rail 7 days
New York to London steamer across the Atlantic Ocean and rail 9 days
Total 80 days
Answer
8. This is the 40ft stack of books sculpture at the
Berlin Walk of Ideas, commemorating the
invention of ________________ . FITB
Answer
Modern Day Printing/ Printing of Books
Audience Question
Identify the author.
Answer
Round III
Audio Visual Round
1.
The video shown is the trailer of a
blockbuster 1993 film directed and
co-produced by Steven Spielberg.
The film is based on a novel by
Thomas Keneally. Name the film
and the novel.
Answer
Schindler’s List;Schindler’s Ark
2.
Give me the name of the victor
of this chariot race, whose
name is also the title of the
movie and the novel from
which it was adapted!
Answer
Judah Ben Hur/ Ben Hur/ Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
3.
This is the teaser of the long awaited adaptation of Susanna Clarke‘s 2005 Hugo Award-winning fantasy novel ‘X’, which tells the story of two nineteenth-century men who rediscover a lost form of magic. The series will air on BBC America later in 2015. Identify ‘X’
Answer
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
4.
The Motorcycle Diaries,
adapted from a book bearing
the same title, is a 2004 Biopic
on which South American
Revolutionary?
Answer
Che Guevara
5.
The movie ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ is
adapted from the novel ‘Chitty-Chitty-
Bang-Bang: The Magical Car’. This novel
has the distinction of being the only
children’s novel written by its famed
author. Who is the author?
Answer
Ian Fleming
6.
This is the trailer of the
upcoming film ‘Ramanujam’,
which is adapted from a novel by
Robert Kanigel. Name the novel.
Answer
The Man Who Knew Infinity
7.
Put the Funda behind
this video
Answer
Revision of ‘The seven Commandments’ of Animal Farm by
Napoleon and the other pigs
8.
What is the literary device
employed in this song?
Answer
Onomatopoeia
Round IV
Indian Literature
1. 'One Part Woman' is the English Translation of the
controversial Tamil Book Madhorubagan. Who is the
author of this book who recently tweeted in his
twitter account that the "author in him has died"
Answer
Perumal Murugan
2. The Rath Yatra at Puri, Orissa has led to the creation of an English word, which means ‘any large, overpowering, destructive force or object’. What word, and from what exactly has it been coined?
Answer
Juggernaut from ‘Jagannath’
3. ‘The White Tiger’ is a debut novel by a famous Indian author. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. Who is the author?
Answer
4. 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 magazine by a certain Sameer Salman from Trichy. Artist Ram Wareekar illustrated the stories and continued drawing this character until 2003. Identify this character.
Answer
5. 'The Palace of Illusions' is a 2008 novel by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. It is a deeply human novel about a "woman" born into a man's world, a world of warriors, gods and the ever manipulating hands of fate. The novel is a rendition of the Hindu epic ____________. FITB and tell me why is this book different from the original epic.
Answer
Mahabharata;It is written from the perspective of
Draupadi
6. Born In Motihari , Bihar in 1903. He adopted the pseudonym X because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, "It is a good round English name.” X's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term X is descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices that has entered the language together with several of his neologisms, including Cold War, thought police, Room 101, doublethink, and thought crime.
Answer
George Orwell
7. Among the many tablets in Mesopotamia, there are some which detail out specific trade in wood, copper, tin, carnelian beads, shell and monkeys from a region which archaeologists and historians today identify as the cities of the Indus and Saraswati Valley, possibly Dholavira or Lothal, which were major trading hubs.What was the name given to this region on the tablets?
Answer
Meluha (Popularized by Amish Tripathi’s ‘The Immortals of Meluha’)
8. Which famous author wrote the following on his hand during an Anna Hazare protest?
Answer
Audience Question
Who wrote “Turning Points- A journey through challenges”?
Answer
Round V
Pictionary
Round VI
Rapid-fire Round
1. ConnectA locketA diaryA ringA diademA snakeA cupA boy
Answer
Horcruxes (Harry Potter Series)
2. What has been blanked out?
Answer
Life of Pi
3. Opening Quote of?
“Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.”
Answer
4. ‘Tous pour un, un pour tous’. Who lived by this motto?
Answer
5. This Shakespearean character’s father was murdered by his uncle by pouring ‘poison in his ears while he was sleeping’. This story is one of the most powerful and influential tragedies of all time. Name the character.
Answer
Hamlet
6. Connect
Answer
Sherlock Holmes!
7. Which Latin words were used by Caesar which translate into “I came, I saw, I conquered”?
Answer
Veni Vidi Vici
8. "No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction“. Identify the speaker of these words.
Answer
C. N. Annadurai
The End
