Literature Quiz | The Quiz Weekend '17

LITERATURE QUIZ

The Quiz Weekend ‘17

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Instructions

This will be a written quiz, consisting of total 40 questions.No negative marking.No part points.Total 50 points up for grabs.Questions 1 to 30 are for 1 point.Questions 31 to 40 are for 2 points.In case of a tie, the team which has scored highest points in two part questions wins.If teams are tied after that, then the team to first get a question wrong in order is eliminated.Use of any form of electronic media will be considered as an attempt to cheat and your team will be disqualified.Quizmaster’s decision will be final and binding and cannot be challenged.

• The name of this twitter handle is a play on the title of a famous fan fiction work.

• This work was developed from a fan fiction series originally titled "Master of the Universe" and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueen's Icedragon".

• So what is this twitter handle aptly named as?• Images on next slides.

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50 Nerds of Grey

• This is a book by Gabriele Marcotti and Gianluca Vialli, whose title seems to have inspired from a 2003 heist film.

• The book comments on the footballing culture in two nations, one of which is England.

• So what is the name of the book? • The name of the other country appears in the title of the book. • Image on next slide.

2

The Italian Job

• This 2016 Iranian film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at 89th Academy Awards.

• The story of this movie is about a married couple who perform a famous play by Arthur Miller on stage during which the wife is assaulted.

• The husband then attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while the wife struggles to cope with post-trauma stress.

• Which is this multiple award winning play, also a recipient of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Prize and is considered to be one of the greatest plays of 20th century.

3

Death of a Salesman

• Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic.

• He is categorized as one of the "Third Generation" writers, a group of Japanese writers who appeared after World War II.

• However, which famous 1966 work of Endō, adapted into a film in 1971 by Masahiro Shinoda, came back into spotlight in the late 2016.

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Silence

• The original title of this novel is "Det som inte dödar oss", literally meaning "That which does not kill us".

• This novel is written by David Lagercrantz (who is also the coauthor of "I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic") and is the first novel in the series not authored by the series' original creator and author of the first three books.

• A film adaptation of the novel is scheduled to release in 2018. • Which novel?

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The Girl in the Spider's Web

• Which famous person from the field of science, along with his daughter Lucy, has written these five books, intended for readers aged 9 and up.

• George's Secret Key to the Universe, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt, George and the Big Bang, George and the Unbreakable Code and George and the Blue Moon.

6

Stephen Hawking

• "Tony and Susan" is a novel by Austin Wright first published in 1993. • The book has a "story inside a story" in which the first part follows a

woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, asking for her opinion.

• The second part follows the actual manuscript, called "_________ _______" which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly.

• It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.

• FITB or tell me what would have propelled the sudden interest in book, which even lead to republishing of book by changing the title to the novel which Susan receives from her ex husband in the book.

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Nocturnal Animals

• Literally meaning "embezzlement", this is a classic Hindi novel by MunshiPremchand.

• Through this novel, he tries to show the falling moral values among lower middle class Indian youth in the era of British India, and to what heights a person can get to, to reach the world of elite class and maintain the false image as a rich person.

• It tells the story of Ramanath, a handsome, pleasure seeking, boastful, but a morally weak person, who tries to make his wife Jalpa happy by gifting her jewelry which he can't really afford to buy with his meager salary, and then gets engulfed in a web of debts, which ultimately forces him to commit embezzlement.

• Which novel?

8

Gaban

• "Sanam Teri Kasam" was a trashy Hindi film released in 2016, starring Harshvardhan Rane and Marwa Hocane.

• Skipping all the irrelevant parts from the film, there is a scene where the hero asks the heroine, a librarian, to give him a book that a man who has served an eight-year jail term should read on which she gives him this classic English book.

• This controversial novel, first published in 1951, was originally published for adults and has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.

• Between 1961 and 1982, it was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the US. The book was banned in the Issaquah, Washington, high schools' in 1978 as being part of an "overall communist plot".

• Which book?

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The Catcher in the Rye

• Many older editions of his books have a swastika printed on their covers associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower, reflecting the influence of Indian culture.

• His use of the swastika was based on the Indian sun symbol conferring good luck and the Sanskrit word meaning "fortunate" or "well-being".

• He used the swastika symbol in both right and left facing orientations, and it was in general use by others at the time.

• Once the Nazis came to power and usurped the swastika, he ordered that it should no longer adorn his books.

• Who is this author we are all acquainted with?• Images on next slide.

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Rudyard Kipling

• Invisible Cities is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. • The book explores the imagination of cities through its descriptions by

Marco Polo. • The book is framed as a conversation between the aging and busy

emperor Kublai Khan, who constantly has merchants coming to describe the state of his expanding and vast empire, and Polo.

• The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo to prove the expanse of Khan's empire, but which are all actually just descriptions of one city.

• Which city, which is also the place where Polo was born and is a subject of a popular play by Shakespeare.

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Venice

• Mohalla ____ is a banned Indian Bollywood satirical film starring Sunny Deol and Sakshi Tanwar, directed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi.

• The film is loosely based on a popular Hindi novel written by Dr. Kashinath Singh which is a satire on the commercialization of the pilgrimage city and fake gurus who lure the foreign tourists.

• The novel's name comes from a ghat in Varanasi on the banks of Ganges River.

• Which novel?

12

Kashi ka Assi

• How would you connect the three Indian movies mentioned below to a very famous 1970 work by this individual or a song by Taylor Swift?

• The movies are Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se, Madanolsavam and SanamTeri Kasam.

• Image on next slide.

13

Love Story

• Put funda and FITB, which is a famous 1962 work.

14

A Clockwork Orange

• When Ketan, who has written the book "Complete/Convenient" was asked how different is his style of writing from that of his brother in an interview by newspaper DNA, Ketan said that, "Our styles are very different, while X writes in the first person I write in the third. My stories begin where X’s end. X has a knack of connecting with the youth with his books and writes about the struggles that the youth are facing, career choices they have to make and relationship issues that they have to deal with - things that shape your destiny. So, it’s not just the style but the topics that we write about too. I am not as talented as X so I can’t write from a youth’s perspective. I have focused on different phases in my life, something every reader will identify with."

• Id X, who is definitely more famous than his brother Ketan.

15

Chetan Bhagat

• Collectively these three works are known as Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

• If "The Dark Forest" is the second work and "Death's End" is the third work, which is the first work in this trilogy?

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The Three-Body Problem

• This poem, which probably originally was a riddle and whose earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's Juvenile Amusements in 1797 has often been used by teachers to demonstrate the Second law of Thermodynamics.

• The law describes a process known as entropy, which is a measure of the number of specific ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of "disorder". The higher the entropy, the higher the disorder.

• In the poem, the character takes a fall and shatters. After his fall and subsequent shattering, the inability to put the character together again is representative of this law, as it would be highly unlikely (though not impossible) to return him to his earlier state of lower entropy, as the entropy of an isolated system never decreases.

• Which poem?

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Humpty Dumpty

• A X is someone with an introverted personality type who will attend parties and social gatherings, but will usually distance himself from the crowd and actively avoid being in the limelight.

• The word X derives from an eponymous plant's unusual growth pattern; against a wall as a stake or in cracks and gaps in stone walls.

• A X might literally stand against a wall and simply observe others at a social gathering, rather than mingle.

• Id X, a word which came into literary spotlight due to a 1999 work by Stephen Chbosky.

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Wallflower

• 'Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror fiction novel by Stephen King which was originally titled Second Coming, but was later changed to X’s Lot, and finally shortened to 'Salem's Lot to avoid sounding “too religious”.

• What could be X?

19

Jerusalem

• Jay Asher is an American writer of contemporary novels for teens.• "The Future of Us" and "What Light" are some of his lesser known

published works. • However, which is his most famous work till date, also his debut novel,

which was published in 2007 and came in spotlight in late March 2017.

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13 Reasons Why

Various sources have suggested that the following people were the inspiration behind this literary character.Adam Worth, also known as “the Napoleon of the criminal world”Simon Newcomb, an astronomerJohn O'Connor Power, a politicianRev. Thomas Kay, Society of Jesus, Prefect of Discipline Jonathan Wild, a London underworld figure known to operate on both sides of the law Also, it is said that George Boole, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Carl Friedrich Gauss were also an inspiration behind this character, although this couldn't be confirmed from any valid source. Which villainous character?

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Professor James Moriarty

• Journalist Wolfe Kaufman claimed that he had coined this word in around 1935 while working for Variety magazine.

• However, an editor of the magazine, Abel Green, attributed it to his predecessor, Sime Silverman.

• The earliest appearance of this word in Variety occurs in the edition of August 28, 1934, in reference to a film adaptation of the play Recipe for Murder, as featured in the headline, "U's ________: Universal is shooting 'Recipe for Murder,' Arnold Ridley's play".

• FITB with a eight OR nine lettered word, which is an abbreviated form of a sentence.

22

Whodunit/ Whodunnit

• The protagonist of this play thinks that he has the system by the tail and he can disregard the culture & societal values as long as he is truthful.

• He seeks out vulnerable women who have been driven out of homes and promises to give them two meals and two sarees in lieu of domestic help and sexual favors.

• Plot of which famous but controversial Marathi play, written by Vijay Tendulkar?

23

Sakharam Binder

• Anand Neelakantan is an author generally known for his fictional books based on the Ramayana and Mahabharata.

• He has been commissioned to write a trilogy based on a famous series of films.

• The trilogy is named as "________: Before the Beginning". • The first part of the trilogy, which was released recently, is named as

"The Rise of X" and the fantasy novel intends to "fill the blanks" in the film series.

• Id X, a famous matriarchal figure in the film series.

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Sivagami

• This is a political cartoon by Bill Mauldin which won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1959.

• In the caption below X says to his fellow prisoner, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?".

• Id X OR tell me whose plight is this cartoon attempting to highlight?• Image on next slide.

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Boris Pasternak

• Which author's Nobel prize acceptance speech was titled "The Solitude of Latin America"?

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Gabriel García Márquez

• Jan Nepomuk X was a Czech writer and poet. • However, his biggest claim to fame is that a certain poet, diplomat and

politician named Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto derived his pen name from his name.

• Id X OR Id this famous politician, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

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Neruda

• Arundhathi Subramaniam, known for her book "Sadhguru, More Than a Life" says this about a famous Marathi poet.

• "X is a quintessentially Mumbai poet. Raw, raging, associative, almost carnal in its tactility, his poetry emerges from the underbelly of the city -its menacing, unplumbed netherworld. This is the world of pimps and smugglers, of crooks and petty politicians, of opium dens, brothels and beleaguered urban tenements."

• About which famous Marathi poet is she talking, known for founding Dalit Panther and also known for his acclaimed work of poetry Golpitha.

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Namdeo Dhasal

• Connect these four places to a famous cartoonist: Shenzhen, Pyongyang, Jerusalem and Burma.

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Guy Delisle, some of his famous

works are about his travels to this places

• Put funda and FITB, which is a famous allegorical 1945 work.

30

Animal Farm

• "X and Y, A History of Food in India" is a book written by Colleen Taylor Sen.

• According to Vir Sanghvi, it is "A fascinating book about the subcontinent’s culinary and gastronomic heritage from the Indus Valley Civilization to the modern day. It overturns many of our most commonly held beliefs about Indian food and, indeed, Indian history."

• While X and Y sound phonetically similar, they literally are the extremes of human consumption.

• Id X & Y. • Image on next slide.

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X - Feasts & Y - Fasts

• This Fortune 500 company originated in 1886 with a bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company, located in the New York City.

• In 1886, Gilbert Y, was hired to work there as a clerk. In 1894, Gilbert was made a partner, and the name of the shop was changed to Hinds & Y.

• In 1917, Y bought out Hinds and entered into a partnership with William X, thus changing the name to X & Y, a name which hasn't been changed till date.

• Id X & Y, whose stores are a bookworms paradise.

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X - Barnes & Y - Noble

• X is a fictional American detective character in a mystery fiction series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, which first appeared in 1930.

• Since a female author would relate to the audience more, the books featuring X were ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Y.

• Id X and Y.

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X - Nancy Drew & Y - Carolyne Keene

• "X Se Y" is a 1943 collection of 20 historical fiction short-stories by scholar and travel writer Rahul Sankrityayan.

• The stories collectively trace the migration of Aryans from the steppes of the Eurasia to regions around the river X; then their movements across the Hindukush and the Himalayas and the sub-Himalayan regions; and their spread to the North Indian River plains.

• The book begins in 6000 BC and ends in 1942 AD. • X and Y are possibly the most well known rivers in Russia and India,

respectively. • Id X and Y.

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X - Volga & Y - Ganga

• "The Real X: "The Cricketer Who Gave His Life for His Country and His Name to a Legend" is a book by Brian Halford.

• The book tells the story of Percy X, an all rounder who played first class cricket for Warwickshire from 1912-1914.

• It is said that Y was having a short holiday in Wensleydale, and happened to come across a cricket match at Hawes where Percy was playing and thought the name would be ideal for one of his characters.

• Id X and Y.

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X - Jeeves & Y - PG Wodehouse

• While writing this novel at his home, 16250 Greenwood Lane, in what is now Monte Sereno, California, X had unusual difficulty in coming up with a title.

• The title suggested by his wife Carol, was deemed more suitable than anything and it ultimately went on to become the title of novel.

• The title is a reference to lyrics from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", by Julia Ward Howe: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where ___ ______ __ _____ are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on."

• Which is this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression.

• The novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home.

• Also Id X.

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The Grapes of Wrath & X - John Steinbeck

• The Royal Society of Chemistry had issued a news release on October 14, 2002 to announce a fellowship.

• However, this was interesting, as the person on whom this award was being bestowed was a famous literary character.

• According to RSC, he was "the first __________ to exploit chemical science as a means of detection".

• Also, amongst the attendees during the ceremony, there was a Mastiff cross-breed hound.

• Who was this literary character and why was he honored specifically in the year 2002?

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Sherlock Holmes & Centenary year of release of “The Hound of Baskervilles”

• When released, some groups had taken offence to this book and alleged that the author portrayed the Kailasanathar temple in Tiruchengode and its women devotees in bad light. They had demanded that the book be banned and had sought the author's arrest.

• However, according to historian Romila Thapar, this book is the story of a childless couple with a strong desire of having a child, "depicted with admirable sensitivity, anguish and gentleness" and hence, has nothing objectionable.

• Which novel, originally written in Tamil under the name Madhorubaganand further which went on to win Sahitya Akademi Translation Award (2016) for Aniruddhan Vasudevan.

• Also, who is the author of this book?

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One Part Woman & Perumal Murugan

• The writer himself was a polyglot who loved language in all its forms and was aware that linguistic slangs were of a constantly changing nature.

• He knew that if he used modes of speech that were contemporarily in use, his novel would very quickly become outdated.

• Hence, his use of this language was essentially pragmatic, as he needed his narrator to have a unique voice that would remain ageless while reinforcing the protagonist's indifference to the society's norms, and to suggest that youth subculture existed independently of the rest of society.

• Which language? • Which author?

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Nadsat & Anthony Burgess

• "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright" is a collection of scientific essays by Isaac Asimov.

• The title is derived from the first line of which famous 1794 poem? • Also, who is the poet?

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The Tyger by William Blake

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