MELA quiz conducted in august 2014 at Mind Palace by Adity Pore and Srikant Nair. The cutoff for the prelims was 9.5 with one star marked.

1. MIND PALACE SEASON I EPISODE
II
MELA QUIZ
BY
ADITY “STORMBORN” PORE
&
SRIKANT “HEISENBERG” NAIR

3. RULES
• 20 Questions
• No negatives, feel free to guess!
• 16-20 are (*)star marked which will be used to
resolve ties.
• Use of any electronic device is prohibited
• The decision of the QMs will be final and
binding.
• Most importantly, sit back and enjoy the quiz!!

4. Our Knowledge Partners:

5. Let’s begin by Remembering Karan
Johar:P Haha!!!

6. 1. ID the theme/movie.

8. 1. Ishaan’s theme, Taare Zameen Par

9. 2.Gimme X
• The best known works of this actress are
• X-2001
• The L-word (2004-2009)
• The children (2008)
• The Lighthouse (1999)

11. X-Lagaan
• The actress is Rachel Shelley who plays the
role of Elizabeth.

12. 3.
• The toys include a 'launcher' – a device for
bringing the spinning top up to speed in a
plastic arena known as a Y, with a slightly
dished base, where they subsequently strike
each other. The last top still spinning wins. X is
largely a game of power and angle, although
many players believe a particular launch style
can influence the outcome of a game.

14. 3. X-Beyblade
Y- Beystadium

15. 4. Painting? Painter?

17. 4. Bharat Mata
M.F. Hussain

18. 5.

20. 5.

21. 6. What am I talking about?
• Chennai - "Idhu semmma hot machchi!"
• Gwalior - "Gwalior Jhoome"
• Hyderabad- "Idi chaala hot guru!"
• Pune - "Tikhat Aahe!"
• Mangalore - "Sakkath hot marrey!“
• Thiruvananthapuram- "Sangathi HOT aanu!"

23. 6. Radio Mirchi, It’s HOT!

24. 7. ID the instrument

26. 7. Bagpipe

27. 8.
• X was named Hema at her birth. She is eldest
child of her parents. At the age of 5,she
started working as an actress in her father's
musical plays. Her career spanned over 7
decades and has worked in over 36 different
Indian regional languages.
• Identify this legend.

29. 8.Lata Mangeshkar

30. 9.What are they used for?

32. 9. Sitars

33. 10. What am I talking about?
This is an Indian dance form nicknamed as “The
Sword Dance”; the so called sword is 18’’
long!

35. 10.Dandiya Raas

36. 11.
• Excerpt from The Krishna Key:
The present English word, X is derived from a
Greek root which itself was derived from a
Sanskrit word- Jyamiti. In Sanskrit, Jya means
an arc or curve and Miti means the correct
perception or measurement.
WTGW?

38. 11. Geometry

39. 12.First rough impression of what?

41. 12.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s parachute design

42. 13.

44. 13.

45. 14. What am i talking about?
• Violent blowout/Without restraint of fart is
intoxicating though it comes in small amount;
Though fart creates only a small sound
disturbance, god think.... it kills the life around
The primary fart is like..the sound of motor
vehicle...
The secondary fart stutters like..sound of the
train
Tertiary one...is like the siren of an ambulance....
But, the quaternary one is a silent killer...

47. 14.
Uttamam Dhad Dhadatt
Padam..Madhyam Padam Thuchuk
Thuchuk--Silencer rocks

48. 15.
• The X is a large glass and metal pyramid
surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the
main courtyard. The large pyramid serves as
the main entrance to the X. Completed in
1989, it has become a landmark in it’s city.It
has been claimed by some that the glass
panes in the X number exactly 666,”the
number of the beast”, often associated with
Satan. The entire structure is based on
number 6.

50. 15. Louvre Pyramid

51. 16. Self portrait of?

52. 16. Continued

54. 16. Adolf Hitler

55. 17. Current Affairs
• Ramachandra Guha on X " When an English
writer like me dies, India International Center
might have a memorial meeting. Full stop. But
when X dies, his death will mourned in every
district of Karnataka. X is probably the last
representative of writers who are public
intellectual and the moral conscience of the
society."

57. 17. U. R. Ananthamurthy
• Rest in Peace.

58. 18.
• This Indian TV series is given a rating of 8.4 on
IMDB. The main characters include a male and
a female. The female lead has been portrayed
by 3 different actresses. Namely Sushmita
Mukherjee, Archana Puran Singh and
Shucheta Khanna.
• Which series am I talking about??

60. 18. Karamchand
• The actresses played the role of Kitty,
Karamchand's Secretary.

61. 19.
• Rahul Gandhi’s article on corruption published in the
fortnightly X magazine, popular among children (2011)
• Sources tell Faking News that Rahul Gandhi had written the
article last week after Anna Hazare started his fast against
corruption and it was due to be published in the party
newsletter, but somehow it got leaked to the publishers of
X.
• The article deals with the hot topic of corruption
in public life & it shows how a young lion named “Leo
Baby” removed corruption from jungle for good.
• “The article also talks of two jungles, aam
jaanwar (common animals), and a deer called Hiranavati.”

63. 19. Champak

64. 20.
• X was revealed to be made up of the recipe which
includes sugar, flour, dog kibble for texture, and other
ingredients.
— Vanilla wafers, similar to Nilla Wafers were packaged
and sold as X in Suncoast home video stores.
—
During the rave scene of the early 1990s, the term ‘X'
was one of the first street names for the empathogenic
drug methyldioxymethamphetamine ( ecstasy); others
were 'disco biscuit' and 'H-bomb'.
—
Id X.

66. 20. Scooby Snacks

67. FINALS COMING UP
AUDIENCE PRIZES TO BE WON

68. R1: The “Karan Johar” Round
• List it.
• 1 point for every correct entity
• No negatives
• 4 minutes of time

69. List the Guests who appeared on
Koffee with Karan Season 4

71. • Salman Khan & Salim Khan
• Kareena Kapoor Khan & Ranbir Kapoor
• Aamir Khan & Kiran Rao
• Ranveer Singh & Arjun Kapoor
• Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan & Alia Bhatt
• Priyanka Chopra & Deepika Padukone
• Farhan Akhtar & Vidya Balan
• Akshay Kumar
• Emraan Hashmi & Mahesh Bhatt
• Sonakshi Sinha & Shahid Kapoor
• Anushka Sharma & Anurag Kashyap
• Abhishek Bachchan & Farah Khan
• Juhi Chawla & Madhuri Dixit
• Freida Pinto & Nargis Fakhri
• Aditya Roy Kapur & Shraddha Kapoor
• Kajol & Ayan Mukerji
• Rohit Shetty & Zoya Akhtar
• Anil Kapoor & Sonam Kapoor
• Parineeti Chopra & Alia Bhatt

72. R2: INFINITE POUNCE
+10/0 on the bounce
+15/-10 on the pounce
8 questions clockwise

73. 1. What is it called?

77. 1. Batmanning

78. 2.
• To mark the 3rd death anniversary of this
artist, X's fans kept empty bottles of Jack
Daniels, Smirnoff Vodka and packs of
Cigarettes in front of D's London home. X's
mother, who runs an anti-alcohol foundation
was okay with the drugs and alcohol related
left outside X's home.
• X please.

80. 2. Amy Winehouse

81. 3. ID the legend
• Recorded about 50,000 songs in 17 languages. A 5-
decade career.
• National award for Best Male Playback singer-7 times
• State award for Best Male Playback singer - 30 times
• Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan winner
• Known as "Gana Gandharvan".

83. 3. K. J. Yesudas

84. 4.
• Photographer Otto Bettmann snapped her
blowing candles on a cake in the back of a car.
The occasion was her thirtieth birthday. The
Cannes Film Festival 2012, held in May,
repurposed this image on their official poster.
This year also marks her fiftieth death
anniversary.Who is on the poster?

86. 4. Marilyn Monroe

87. 5. ID the person in the image

90. 5.Chris Gardner himself
• The role portrayed by Will Smith is that of
Chris Gardner in the movie Pursuit of
Happyness.

91. 6.
• The question:
• In this year's Wimbledon, Eugene Bouchard of
Canada reached the finals and eventually lost
to Petra Kvitova. What interests the MELA
lovers is the presence of an unlikely person in
the players box of Bouchard. He was there for
all the matches in which she played and he is a
self-confessed Bouchard fan.
• Who? (image on next slide)

94. 6. Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper)

95. 7.
• Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is a
1964 novel by the Czechoslovak
writer Bohumil Hrabal.
• Excerpt from the book: (in the next slide)

96. • “,… and when she asked me what I wanted for it I said I
wanted her to go for a walk with me, and she laughed and
asked why, and I told her my hygiene manual said that a
person suffering from heat prostration – she suffered from
heat prostration – should rub lukewarm water directly on the
exposed chest, and she said, Oh you men and your one track
minds! The world is a beautiful place don’t you think? Not
because it is but because I see it that way, the way Pushkin
saw it in that movie , poor Pushkin, to die in a duel, and so
young, his last poems gushing from a bullet hole in his head, I
could tell from the picture that he admired the European
Renaissance too, he had fantastic muttonchops, you know the
whiskers our own Franz Joseph wore, and Strauss the
composer,…”

98. 7. Whole book is written in a
single sentence.

99. 8.Identity this dancer
• Though she belonged to the Indian upper-caste she
espoused the cause of Bharata Natyam, which was
considered a low and vulgar art in the early 1920s.
Recognizing the beauty and the spiritual value of this
art form, she not only learned the dance, but also
presented it on stage despite strong public protests.
She features in India Today's list of '100 People Who
Shaped India'.She was awarded the Padma Bhushan
in 1956, and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in
1967.

101. 8.
Rukmini Devi
Arundale

102. R3. INFINITE POUNCE
+10/0 on the bounce
+15/-10 on the pounce
8 questions anti-clockwise

103. 1.
• She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award,
and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best
Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba
Gandhi in Gandhi (1982).An alumna of the National School of
Drama of New Delhi, she had worked mainly in theatre when
she made her movie debut with Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb
Dastaan in 1978. Some of her noted cinematic roles were in
such art films as Arth (1982), Party and Saaransh (1984). She
was mostly offered character roles in mainstream Hindi
cinema after her portrayal in Gandhi, often typecast in
mother roles much ahead of her years.

105. 1.
Rohini
Hattangadi

106. 2.
• Born to doctors, X is of Bengali heritage from his
father's side and Dogra heritage from his mother's. He
was born in Lucknow, brought up in Delhi, and used to
stay in Connaught Place's Railway Colony and Srinagar.
• He did his schooling from St. Columba's School, Delhi
where he met and became friends with Indian
superstar Shah Rukh Khan. X was active in theatre and
singing right from his school days and that's where he
realised his singing capabilities. Thereafter he studied
medicine at the University College of Medical Sciences
(UCMS), New Delhi, and received an M.B.B.S. degree.

108. 2. Dr.Palash Sen
(Lead singer of Euphoria)

109. 3.
• Priyanka chopra has won 4 Filmfare awards till
now and Kajol has won 6. However, both of
them have won award in a particular category,
which makes them the only female winners in
this category.
Which category am I talking about?

111. 3. Filmfare for best actresses in
negative role
Priyanka won for Aitraaz(2005)
Kajol won for Gupt(1997)

112. 4.
• The __s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll" is
a book written by Eric Segalstad and
illustrated by Josh Hunter. This is a visual guide
through the lives of a certain select group of
musicians with something in common. Recent
events may probably mean that an update to
the book is inevitable.

115. 4.
• 27. The "Forever 27" Club includes rock
musicians who died at the age of 27.

116. 5.Gimme X
• According to the Oxford English Dictionary the
term “X" referred to a drink of brandy boiled
with ale in the seventeenth century. The riddle
probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that
“X“ was also 18th century reduplicative slang for a
short and clumsy person. Similar riddles have
been recorded by folklorists in other languages,
such as "Boule Boule" in French, "Lille Trille"
in Swedish and Norwegian and "Runtzelken-
Puntzelken" or "Humpelken-Pumpelken" in
different parts of Germany.

118. 5. Humpty Dumpty

119. 6. ID X & Y.
• X was the first husband of Angelina Jolie. X
and Jolie had adopted an African kid, Maddox
and then they split up. Currently, Brad Pitt is
the legal father to the child.
• X has received rave reviews for his
performance in the TV series Y; there is also a
movie that goes by the same name Y.

121. X: Billy Bob Thornton
Y: Fargo

122. 7.
• X has a number of magical properties, and was
fairly expensive to buy bottled. It has at least
twelve uses, the discoveries of which are typically
all credited to the famous Y. X seems to have a
notable taste, as Y was able to distinguish it from
human blood by placing a small amount in his
mouth in 1996. X has appeared to be green and
scarlet.
• Two of the listed uses are as an oven cleaner and
spot remover.

123. 7.
X- Dragon Blood
Y- Albus Dumbledore

124. 8. Minimalist poster of what?

126. STANLEY KA DABBA

127. R4: The Climax
• 6 slides
• Connected by a common theme, points for
the theme are indicated on the slide.
• 10 points for cracking the individual slides.
• 1 attempt at theme per slide

128. 1. +60/-30
• One of the characters of this TV series is
oneof the 12 actors to win the Triple
Crown of Acting (Oscar, Emmy, Tony). She
is also more fondly remembered Prof.
McGonagall of Harry Potter Series.
• Identify this series which is set in the
backdrop of World War I.

129. 2. +50/-25
• Christian Bale and Jessica Chastain were
pursued for lead roles in the second season of
the show but both passed on the project due
to the significant time commitment the show
would've required.

130. 3. +40/-20
• He will be the voice of Po’s father in Kung
Fu Panda 3 to be released in 2015. He
also gave the voice of Ram in Ramayana,
a 1992 Hollywood animation movie.
Because of this tendency to do comic
roles initially in his career, Sony and AMC
were initially hesitant to cast X as the main
protagonist in the series Y. Ultimately, in
2008, X was chosen and series became a
runaway hit.

131. 4. +30/-15
• X who plays the role of Y,after airing of the
show, received a letter from author Z stating
that "Congratulations, everyone hates you!!".
• Name of the series.
• P.S: Hints on demand

132. 5. +20/-10

133. 6. +10/0
• Along with the fourth season of Arrested
Development (2003) and Hemlock Grove
(2013), X became the first original Netflix
production to be nominated for an Emmy. X,
however, went to win the Emmy as well and
hence became the first Netflix Original
Production to win the Emmy.
• (Hints on demand)

135. 1. +60/-30
• One of the characters of this TV series is
oneof the 12 actors to win the Triple
Crown of Acting (Oscar, Emmy, Tony). She
is also more fondly remembered Prof.
McGonagall of Harry Potter Series.
• Identify this series which is set in the
backdrop of World War I.

137. Downton Abbey

138. 2. +50/-25
• Christian Bale and Jessica Chastain were
pursued for lead roles in the second season of
the show but both passed on the project due
to the significant time commitment the show
would've required.

140. True Detective

141. 3. +40/-20
• He will be the voice of Po’s father in Kung
Fu Panda 3 to be released in 2015. He
also gave the voice of Ram in Ramayana,
a 1992 Hollywood animation movie.
Because of this tendency to do comic
roles initially in his career, Sony and AMC
were initially hesitant to cast X as the main
protagonist in the series Y. Ultimately, in
2008, X was chosen and series became a
runaway hit.

143. Breaking Bad

144. 4. +30/-15
• X who plays the role of Y,after airing of the
show, received a letter from author Z stating
that "Congratulations, everyone hates you!!".
• Name of the series.
• P.S: Hints on demand

146. Game of Thrones
• Y- Joffrey Baratheon
• Z- George RR Martin

147. 5. +20/-10
• Along with the fourth season of Arrested
Development (2003) and Hemlock Grove
(2013), X became the first original Netflix
production to be nominated for an Emmy. X,
however, went to win the Emmy as well and
hence became the first Netflix Original
Production to win the Emmy.
• (Hints on demand)

149. House of Cards

150. 6. +10/0

152. Mad Men

153. The connect is:
• They have been nominated for Outstanding
Drama Series in Emmy 2014.

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