A music quiz with answers from anywhere but music, set by alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur for the Quizzing Fraternity of XLRI. Ritwik Ghosh (2018-20) and Sahil Gupta (2017-19)

1. Not a
Music Quiz
Quizzing Fraternity of XLRI
Ritwik Ghosh & Sahil Gupta
May 2020

2. • 30 Questions (25 on bounce/pounce, 5 in a written round)
• Reverse direction for Bounce after the written round
• Look out for hints which are highlighted in red
• The answers required are underlined
A music quiz with answers from everywhere but music (for the
most part)

3. 0
The critically acclaimed soundtrack of this 2005 movie has 12 tracks, each
named rather curiously.
05. Artibeus
06. Tadarida
07. Macrotus
08. Antrozous
01. Vespertilio
02. Eptescius
03. Myotis
04. Barbastella
09. Nycteris
10. Molossus
11. Corynorhinus
12. Lasiurus
Why this unusual choice for names? Further, why this particular sequencing
(from the perspective of the track titles)?

4. Answer follows

5. Each is a species of bats; the first letters of
tracks 4 to 9 spell out Batman

6. Infinite Bounce - I
• 13 questions
• +10 on the direct
• +10/-5 on pounce

7. 1
The 1979 rock opera was not a reference to a physical structure as such, but in turn a
testimonial to a jaded rockstar’s self-imposed isolation from society – neatly symbolised as
the name (and theme) of the album.
1990 saw a live performance for charity of the said album on the site of the remains of a
politically relevant structure, an ode to the literal imagery that most of the fans thought the
album to be.
What was the 1990 venue?
In 2017, being one of the harshest vocal critics of an icon(oclast) of the times, the primary
songwriter of the band also revealed plans to rehash the 1990 concert on the location of yet
another proposed political landmark, however that plan never saw the light of day.
What was the proposed 21st century venue?

8. Answer follows

9. The Berlin Wall; The proposed Mexico-USA Wall

10. 2
Some bands which may be described using this phrase include A-ha, The Knack, Deep
Blue Something, and The Buggles.
The story of one such fictional band told in a 1990s movie involves a successful talent
show performance after the original drummer is replaced because of injury, a record
next, a deal with a record label, a tour, and a premature falling out - before the group can
(start to) live out its potential.
The name of the band is a nice touch, fitting in well with the story and the phrase (it's a
reduction of it, really). A mispronunciation leads to a spelling change. Give
1) the band's original or later name
2) the phrase in question

11. Answer follows

12. The Oneders/ Wonders; One hit wonders

13. 3
The bird pictured first appeared in print in 1966, however was
given an official name by the creator only in 1970 – inspired
from an event that began with an invocation by a spiritual
leader of the times.
Name either the series, one that helped cement the four panel
gag strip as the standard in the United States, or the creator of
the series.
The spiritual leader in question found a following in many
people in America during his visits, including several musicians.
An indelible mark was left when a certain Alice, named her
album after him.
Identify the guru.

14. Answer follows

15. Woodstock (from Peanuts) by Charles Schulz; A Journey in
Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane

16. 4
Most Indians who remember this Italian American's music videos and concerts in
the 1990s would remember being curious about a familiar adornment that she
regularly donned. Songs that would give you a clue to the story could be.... a voice
tells me don’t speak, it’s cool.
The story goes, she dated a fellow band member in the 1990s and was in awe of
his mother who would dress up beautifully complete with this final touch. And
what’s more, she was generous enough to give her many, many of those. And so,
she ran with it.
What are we talking about? For no points, also identify the musician.

17. Answer follows

18. Gwen Stefani's Bindis

19. 5
Julio once served as the goalkeeper at a Segunda Division Spanish side. However, a
horrific 1963 accident and successive rehabilitation period, helped him change track.
His son picked up on these genes and furthered the family name in music later on.
However the sport connect with the family did not stop there – the son went on to
meet his future wife, a legendary sportsperson who retired prematurely on the sets of
a music video (Images Follow) and the couple are on the verge of completing two
decades together.
Who is Julio’s daughter in law?
Julio’s rendition of the immortal French standard “La Mer” (Audio follows) was set to
the ending montage of which critically acclaimed Cold War era film?

20. Julio’s son and daughter-in-law Julio and his (more) famous son

21. Answer follows

22. Anna Kournikova; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

23. 6
One imagines sensitivity around gender and stereotypes was
not a serious issue in India in the 1990s or not taken
seriously enough anyway.
That would explain one of the main characters (and his
name) in a 1990s Hindi sitcom - an effeminate, stay-at-home
husband who fancies his neighbor's wife. His name has
Persian origins and is used commonly in Hindi.
What is this name, which is shared by an instrument that a
warrior-saint introduced so it could be carried on
horseback?

24. Answer follows

25. Dilruba
• The sitcom is Shreeman Shrimati
• The instrument was a lighter version of Taus, introduced by Guru
Gobind Singh

26. 7
Rossini’s famous overture has been a darling of popular culture – used to bizarre
and dramatic effect in a 1971 dystopian crime thriller, as well as one of the cleanest
21st century heists – where the Crown Jewels falls into the hands of the OG
Professor of Crime. The piece, featuring a titular aves, was the focal point of the
21st edition of a set of 24 volumes, published originally between 1929 and 1986.
Identify the edition, featuring in its title an animated crooner who has her own way
with words.
Another song, a go to song of the aforementioned crooner first featured in a 5 act
opera by Goethe, where the soprano plays a young maiden, who is the love interest
of the titular character. She receives a decorated box containing among other
valuable items, and a hand mirror, and at this moment rejoices with the said song.
What is the one word title of the play?

27. Answer follows

28. (The Thieving Magpie in) Castafiore Emerald; “Jewel Song” from
Faust

29. 8
Art connoisseurs would've expected to see different imagery on the cover of this
album by a British band.
As it turns out, the expectation wouldn't have been unreasonable and the band
was actually inspired by this artist, who their lead singer thought "went through a
lot of shit... and then... she started a big painting... that said ____ __ ____."
What trumped a generous serving of fruit was directions from a bare-breasted
woman. Points for naming the expected imagery/ the final choice for the album
cover.

30. Answer follows

31. Viva La Vida (Frida Kahlo)/ Liberty Leading the People
(Eugene Delacroix)

32. 9
• The song that you will be hearing is based on a certain kind of
rhythmic poetry practiced in Kerala.
• When classically performed the tempo is maintained in a song,
but practically it is changed based on requirement. Many
musicians like Agam pay tribute to this by increasing the tempo
through out the song ending in an flourish.
• What practical use do such songs have?

33. Answer follows

34. The Vanchipattu or the Boat Song helps the rowers
keep rhythm during the famous Boat Races of
Kerala

35. 10
Cockney accents can be funny. Cockney jokes – I'll let you decide. Here's one
Man 1: My wife is leaving me.
Man 2: Jamaica?
Man 1: No, she is going on her own accord?
Don't be ashamed if you didn't get it – the highlighted response is actually
intended to sound like a different question with more words, that spoken really
quickly sounds like Jamaica.
What are these words, that also find allusion in the title of a song with reggae
beats which are quite uncharacteristic of the band?

36. Answer follows

37. Did you make her? / D'yer Mak'er

38. 11
This genre of music first emerged onto the scene in the African American
community in the late 1920s with inspirations in ragtime and blues, also featuring
in a famous children’s rhyme, though it gained traction closer home later on.
Which 90s reality show was named after this genre, which made a comeback to
the small screen with a kids edition in 2013/2014?
When a certain Dutch neo-plasticism artiste landed on the shores of Manhattan –
he described the layout of the city as a complex lattice of red, blue, and yellow
lines – thus naming one of his most celebrated works so.
Which artist or what creation was named thus?

39. Answer follows

40. Boogie Woogie; Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie

41. 12
When the artist, prolific with album covers, got signed for this 1997 album he just had a
word – its title to run with. The word, which has Biblical origins, has a derogatory usage
now.
The artist wanted to show middle-aged corporate-looking men with their faces masked
with album name to take away their identity.
Though the two gentlemen he eventually chose are not easily identifiable, the choice is
rather unfortunate - their noble contributions to humanity having been anything but
average. An iconic image of one miracle their work achieved on a winter morning in
Toronto in the 1920s is on the next slide, along with the album cover.
Which two gentlemen? What was their contribution?

43. Answer follows

44. Sir Fredrick Banting, Charles Best; Insulin
• Banting won the Nobel Prize along with John Macleod
• However, he shared the honours and money with his colleague, Best
• The album is Nimrod by Green Day
• As for the morning at the Toronto hospital
"The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with the new purified
extract - insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected
began to awaken. One by one, all of the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room
of death and gloom, became a place of joy and hope."

45. 13
It was originally created for a 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical titled “Carousel”.
The more famous version came about in 1963, when the band’s frontman Gerry Marsden
handed over a copy to a famous Scotsman plying his trade on the Western coast of
England.
Name this piece, which is back in vogue due to the message of solidarity that it brings.
On similar lines, if the interior of the entity, pristine with all its curves and bends, record
collections and memorabilia, looks like the images on the next slide, where would you be
at?

47. You’ll never Walk Alone by Gerry and the
Pacemakers; Yellow Submarine Hotel

48. Written Round
• 5 Questions on Idioms/Colloquialisms that have a direct musical
connect or derive their origins from music
• +5 for each correct answer
• 3 minutes to figure them out

49. Answer follows
Q. No. Clue Idiom
1.
If you're going to spare no effort in making your
neighbours go deaf, do this to a pipe organ
2.
Our understanding of a subject couldn't differ, if we
have the same source for our pious song
3.
Get over your breakup already, the only musical
instrument of this kind you need is the one on the
Guinness logo
4.
These are trying times, I hope you're healthy like this
stringed instrument
5.
What's his name? Oh I remember now, Pavlov, that
meddling old man who troubles our Bruno by doing
this every afternoon

50. Answer follows

51. Answer follows
Q. No. Clue Idiom
1.
If you're going to spare no effort in making your
neighbours go deaf, do this to a pipe organ
Pull out all the
stops
2.
Our understanding of a subject couldn't differ, if we
have the same source for our pious song
(to) sing from
the same
hymn sheet
3.
Get over your breakup already, the only musical
instrument of this kind you need is the one on the
Guinness logo
(don't) harp
on it
4.
These are trying times, I hope you're healthy like this
stringed instrument
Fit as a fiddle
5.
What's his name? Oh I remember now, Pavlov, that
meddling old man who troubles our Bruno by doing
this every afternoon
(Does that)
ring a bell?

52. Infinite Bounce - II
• 12 questions
• +10 on the direct
• +10/-5 on pounce
• Anticlockwise

53. 14
An Oscar-nominated coming-of-age movie is about a boy who experiences his
first love, patriotism, tragedy, and heartbreak accompanied by an imaginary
friend.
It starts off with a montage of images of a former artist, cartoonist and runner,
and his many followers. The recurring image of their support plays against a
song, which was recorded in a studio in Paris to achieve additional record sales
for an English band away from their homeland.
What was this image? Looking for a proper noun in the answer.

54. Answer follows

55. The Nazi Salute (Komm, gib mir deine Hand/ I
want to hold your hand)

56. 15
• The piece was composed in 1949, three years before words were added to
add flesh to the bones. According to the composer, a Trinity College of
Music graduate, twenty-one musical instruments and thirty-eight different
tones are required to pull off a perfect rendition of this piece, notable in its
usage of just one Urdu word – “ka”.
• What piece was this, which is more than music to the ears of 200 million
odd people of the world?
• An entity recently got together a motley crew of around 40 artists to
collaborate on this piece in order to celebrate a platinum jubilee.
• What entity, the brainchild of marketing genius Nadeem Zaman, that
started in 2008, and had further editions in the subcontinent? (Need 3
words, including two proper nouns in the answer)

58. Qaumi Taranah (The Pakistan national anthem); Coke Studio Pakistan

59. 16
The second in a trilogy, it is preceded by an opera about a violinist who rocked the no-sock rule
and followed by one on a famous ruler who took his nation away from polytheistic religion to
the worship of the sun god.
Interestingly, the opera doesn't have any dialogues apart from libretto – only passages from the
Bhagavad Gita. The first two acts are named for thinkers who the subject revered as influences
and the final one is named after an African-American activist who he inspired.
Who is the subject of this opera?
What compound word coined by his relative for a newspaper competition is the title?

60. Answer follows

61. Mahatma Gandhi, Satyagraha (Philip Glass)
• Satyagraha is second in the Portraits
trilogy, preceded by Einstein on the Beach
and followed by Akhnaten
• The three acts are titled Leo Tolstoy,
Rabindranath Tagore, MLK Jr. who appear
in the background throughout
representing the past, present, and future
of Satyagraha
• The word Satyagraha was coined by the
Mahatma's relative Maganlal Gandhi after
a competition in the newssheet which the
former had started in South Africa, called
the Indian Opinion

62. 17
Blur’s 6th album opened with the track you’ll listen to – the first few lines directly taken
from the fourth and final novel of a literary giant – whose greatest work just preceded this
1934 novel. The 1934 work, though not autobiographical has several parallels to the lives
of the author and his wife (also an author in her own right) – where both lead characters
are pulled out of and put back into mental care, with the male lead descending into
alcoholism.
The name of the novel, which also features in the lyric, is in turn taken from the longest of
6 compositions penned in 1819. The titular being in the composition in question was
purportedly a resident of the plum tree located inside the Wentworth place grounds,
wherein the composer spent his days, and which now serves as his museum.
Identify the author of the 1934 novel.
Name the 1819 composition.

63. Answer follows

64. F Scott Fitzgerald; Ode to a Nightingale

65. 18
While this disorder has been observed to be highly heritable, societal expectations and the
effect of media have been attributed as reasons for its rise since the middle of the last century.
Many suggest sexual abuse suffered during childhood can cause low self-esteem, depression
and eventually lead to this disorder.
Though it has a two-word name, it is commonly known by the first of these. The premature
death of a musician in the 1980s and its media coverage ensured greater awareness.
What are we talking about? The following slide has images from a music video that was featured
in an awareness campaign for this.

67. Answer follows

68. Anorexia / Anorexia nervosa (Karen Carpenter is the musician
whose death led to greater awareness around it)

69. 19
• The aesthetic imagery of this Kolkata based electropop duo’s works
were likened to which famous director from the West, who also
graced the initial uproar with his validation through an email.
• Which multiple Oscar nominated director? (Images follow)
• They signed up with a London based record label to produce two full
length studio albums – the second of which is named after an
establishment from the city they hail – the largest of its kind in the
subcontinent, and managed by the National Council of Science
Museums.
• What was the two word name of their second album?

71. Answer follows

72. Wes Anderson; Science City

73. 20
A. Who is this inventor who
revolutionized agriculture,
by perfecting an equine
setup used in sowing
seasons?
B. Identify this French company
which prides itself as the first to
"cut the cord" and pioneer SCUBA
diving. For the two word answer,
think of the Latin for where such
products would be used and their
purpose.
C. What is the basis of ranking
these stars as seen above?
A missing element from the
list would outrank all of these,
thus ensuring a three word
comparative phrase can only be
an exaggeration on Planet Earth

74. (Bigger Images)

75. Answer follows

76. Jethro Tull, Aqua Lung, Brightness/ Brighter
Than Sunshine
Aqualung is a song by British
band Jethro Tull.
Further, Brighter Than Sunshine
is a song by musician Matt Hales
whose stage name is Aqualung.

77. 21
• Folk historians have noted parallels to this contemporary release with Phil
Ochs’ 1966 song “Crucifixion”, with portrayals of the same person in both
songs as a “sacrificial lamb of sorts”.
• Who was the common subject?
• The Guardian says that the 17 minute ballad which lacks a standard
structure, could also be taken to be a song filled with personal remorse, as
the songwriter’s initial apathy 57 years ago, was widely noted and criticised,
something that has clearly been bugging the songwriter since. This had also
come up almost a decade ago in a 2012 exhibition of the songwriter’s
paintings – which featured a certain man (Image Follows), who shot to fame
in a moment of madness, claiming that his great grief over a certain murder
had caused him to suffer a “psychomotor epilepsy”

79. Answer follows

80. Dylan’s 2020 release – “Murder Most Foul” on the
assassination of John F. Kennedy; Jack Ruby, featured in the
image was Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer

81. 22
A certain Mr. Dworkin retired after successful stints with the New Jersey and Vermont
Symphonies among several other feathers in his cap. While audiences experience serenity, they
often fail to see the sweat men and women like Dworkin break producing such performances.
Even after retirement, Mr. Dworkin couldn't keep away from his art and decided to combine it
with a fitness routine. He believes he gives his students a unique experience bringing together a
workout, a musical performance, and a lesson in the history of music. The sessions expectedly
focus on the upper body.
What portmanteau is the name of this fitness program?
Alternatively, what profession specifically did Mr. Dworkin retire from?

82. Answer follows

83. Conductorcise = Conductor + Exercise
71
70
70
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Conductors
Cellists
Violinists
Rock musicians
A study found conductors live the longest
among musicians

84. 23
• The band’s songs are often centred around themes that concern protest
and movements – with frontman being a spirited social activist.
• ID the inspiration behind this song, a folk tune which also paid homage to
the frontman’s direct contribution to an activist project of national
importance.
• The band’s second album, also the first live album by any band was
recorded and mixed purely by coincidence during a SAHAMAT concert –
an annual gig at Mandi House in New Delhi that serves as an open
platform for politically and socially conscious artists.
• Whose life does SAHAMAT commemorate?

85. Answer follows

86. River Narmada, also known as Rewa (Rahul Ram, an
environmental toxicologist by qualification, was actively
involved in the NBA concurrently with his joining Indian
Ocean); Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT)

87. 24
If reports of Unification Media Group, which claims to have surveyed 200 people who undertook
this dangerous activity (failure would've led to certain death), are to be believed – over 70%
concur that accessing this has becoming more dangerous since a 2011 ascension.
One of the interviewees suggested that the alternative for her growing up was drab, lacking any
emotions in contrast to the lively and passionate Girl's Generation and T-Ara. Of course, not
complying would have meant being tracked down by a certain Group 109. However, she needn't
fear that since she's no longer at the side of a 250 km stretch as she once was.
What brave yet illegal act did she commit?
What among other reasons has prompted this – something first referenced in a 1999 edition of
Billboard Magazine?

88. Answer follows

89. Defecting from N. Korea to S. Korea; K-pop

90. 25
This colloquialism, often used as a proverb, dates back to a Wagner opera
about the end of the world (or at least the world of the Norse gods).
Towards the end, the Valkyrie Brunnhilde (Image follows) plays a pivotal role
with her final scene lasting more than 20 minutes.
What phrase – most commonly used in association with organized
competitions, particularly sports, in a way signifying the virtue of patience?
Also seen on the next slide is an 1894 depiction of the climax of the opera by
Max Bruckner, one of the original set designers, titled “-------- in flames”.
FITB with a Norse location.

92. Answer follows

93. “It ain’t over until the fat lady sings”; Valhalla

94. FIN.