mela quiz (prelims with answers) nitj

QM : Sujit J Patil

Prelims

• Felix Kjellberg is the son of former KappAhl CIO, Johanna Kjellberg, who was 2010 CIO of the Year in Sweden.

• Felix has guest starred in two episodes of the 18th season of South Park.

• He often refers to his fans as the ‘Bro Army’.

• What is his claim to fame ?

1)

• PewDiePie (his Youtube channel) is the most subscribed channel on Youtube(currently 34,427,143)

• It is a unique camera device devised by two Icelandic photographers - Einar Snorri Einarsson and EidurSnorri Eysteinsson. 1

• It has been extensively used by Darren Aronofsky(Requiem for a Dream and Pi) and Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets) in their films.

• What is it called ?

2)

1 - (A scene from Hangover was shown)

• SnorriCam

• Connect

3)

• All are left handed guitarists

• Narayan Shripad Rajhans was one of the greatest Marathi singers and stage actors. He was famous for his roles of female characters in Marathi plays, since women were not allowed to act on stage during his time. Lokmanya Tilak gave him the name "Bal ________" which means “Young _______”.

• In Hinduism, the ______ are male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsaras. Some are part animal, usually a bird or horse. They have superb musical skills. Hence it became a metaphor for highly skilled musicians.

• Fill in the blank.

4)

Image :

Narayan Shripad Rajhans Tumburu, a well known ________

• Gandharva

• Buddy Holly of the Crickets died in a plane crash along with other 2 legends – Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson on February 3, 1959, referred to as “The Day the Music Died”.

• In January 1960, Stuart Sutcliffe suggested to change his band's name, as a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

• What name does he suggest ?

5)

• Beatals (which later changed to Beatles)

• Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar was a Hindustani musician. He founded the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in 1901. On July 21, 1973, the Posts and Telegraph Department, Government of India paid homage to Pandit Paluskar by releasing a commemorative stamp. In 2000, the India Today magazine named Pandit Paluskar to be one of the 100 people who shaped India.

• He was also responsible for giving the present form to a popular bhajan whose lyrics were originally taken from hindu text "ShriNama Ramayanam" written by Lakshmanacharya.

• Identify the bhajan.

6)

• Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram

• These awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India.

• Introduced in 1954, they were initially referred to as the Clare Awards or The Clares after Clare Mendonca, the editor of The Times of India.

• Which awards ?

7)

• Filmfare awards

• This is the “Trinity of Carnatic music” – outstanding trio of composer-musicians of Carnatic music in the 18th century.

• 1st from left is MuthuswamiDikshitar

• 1st from right is Syama Sastri

• Identify the central musician.

8)

• Thyagaraja

• Connect the three songs:

– Sleep Away by Bob Acri

– La fille aux cheveux de lin by Richard Stoltzman

– Kalimba by Mr. Scruff

9)

• Here is M. S. Shinde with his Filmfare award for Best Editing. Unexpectedly this is the only Filmfare award received by the movie, X.

• His work on X of editing 3,00,000 feet of reel into 18,000 feet is considered remarkable.

• Identify the film, X.

10)

• In 1991, he won the Indian dance championship. He went on to win fourth place in the modern jazz category at the 1992 World Dance Championships in London. Back in Mumbai, he started a dance studio called Awesome, assisted director Mahesh Bhatt and choreographed shows for Bharat Dabholkar and the title song of Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993).

• He returned as choreographer for the 2014 movie Mr. Joe Bhi Carvalho. Identify him.

11)

• Arshad Warsi

• Born as Nadira Begum or Sharf-un-Nissa, she was a legendary slave girl. It is believed that she was originally from Iran and migrated to Lahore with a trader's caravan.

• She was first mentioned by an English tourist and trader William Finch in his journal, who visited India on August 24, 1608. But, her story was originally written by Indian writer Abdul Halim Sharar and on the first page of that book he had clearly mentioned it to be a work of fiction.

• Due to the lack of evidence and sources, her story is widely accepted to be false for the evidence of her grave and body. Her story is not mentioned in the Akbarnama nor in Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri.

• Identify her.

12)

• Anarkali

• Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan, is perhaps the oldest and the most prestigious music conference in the country. It was started in 1875 by Baba Harivallabh to pay homage to the memory of his guru and Dhrupad exponent Baba Tuljagiri, who had passed away a year before.

• Baba Harivallabh, was born in the later part of 18th Century in a village called Bajwara. Bajwara is a small historical village, named after Baiju Bawra, the great singer of India.

• What is the venue of this event? (Its not Bajwara)

13)

• Devi Talab Mandir, Jalandhar

• X is an American actor. He was raised in Joshua Tree in Yucca Valley, California. He graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. He next transferred to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and graduated with honors.

• After receiving a small role in Arrested Development, he was asked to audition for the role of Sadiq for The Office by the same casting director. He portrayed Sadiq in two episodes: "E-mail Surveillance" and "Fun Run." But he came into the limelight after featuring in the music video of the superhit Punjabi song "Kurti" sung by Bohemia.

• Identify X who became quite a household name after a 2009 movie.

14)

• Omi Vaidya

• X is a DC Comics supervillainand enemy of Green Arrow and Batman. He first appeared in Green Arrow #12 (March 2002). He was created by writer Kevin Smith and artist Phil Hester. IGN's Daniel Crown called him “one of the coolest new villains of the decade”.

• Identify X (The image can help).

15)

• Onomatopoeia

• This book by B. J. Novak is the current New York Times Bestseller in the Children Picture Book section.

• Here the author himself is reading the book to school children (Video1).

• Give the name of the book.

16)

1 - Edited form of this video was shown : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREyQJO9EPs

• This is Habitat 67 designed by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie for the World Fair 1967. What landmark did he designed in India ?

17)

• Virasat –E– Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib

• EGOT is an acronym for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. Till now only 12 people have received all these awards in the competitive categories.

• In what field Tony is awarded ?

• Hint : Its equivalent in UK is the Laurence Olivier Award.

18)

• Broadway theatre

• Glossopoeia is defined as the creation of constructed languages for artistic purposes.

• Who coined this word ? – The person him/herself was a creator of many languages.

19)

• J. R. R. Tolkien

• This house is currently the Dean’s residence and lies in the campus of Sir J J School of Applied Art, Mumbai.

• In 2010, there were plans to convert this into a museum because a certain individual was born here. Who ?

20)

• Rudyard Kipling