The MELA Quiz which was conducted by Rishav Raj Agarwal in Galaxy 2018.

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Trashy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Desi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Misc 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Bojack 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Comic
strips/we
bcomics/
graffiti
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Band
name
origins
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Jeopardy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

3. Trashy MELA

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5. What a shitshow
The idea for X was born on Thursday, 4 September 1997 during a
brainstorm session at John de Mol Produkties(production company). The
working title was De Gouden Kooi (The Golden Cage) and the original
concept was eventually realized as a reality show on Dutch television at
the end of 2006. As of 11 November 2016, there have been 387 seasons
of X in over 54 franchise countries and regions. Gimme X.

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7. Big Brother/ Bigg Boss

8. Trashy or funny? You decide.
X uploaded a video titled “Y best rap by X rap king” way back in 2015
which suddenly came into spotlight in 2017 and had garnered millions of
views before being taken down by Youtube on copyright grounds(it’s back
again BTW). The video was widely criticized by several media houses,
most notably by Quint Neon, whose journalist Deeksha Sharma received
a barrage of death threats, rape threats and other abuses by fans of Y.
Give me X and Y.

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11. It’s lit AF 🔥
Connect(non exhaustive)
Blaze: Very sexual novels featuring couples in contemporary romantic relationships.
Cherish: Warm and emotional novels that focus on capturing the feeling of falling in love.
Desire: Sexual novels featuring couples in a contemporary setting with dramatic plots.
Historical: Romance mixed with historical fiction. (e.g. Romance in 1920s New York or 17th century England.)
Intrigue: Romance mixed with the suspense or thriller genre.
Medical Romance: Contemporary romances set against the background of the medical profession.
Nocturne: Paranormal romance imprint, mixing romance with genres such as horror, science fiction and fantasy.
Spice: Erotic fiction imprint, featuring casual sex and bondage. The most explicit imprint.
American Romance: themed around classically American heroes such as cowboys. e-book only.
Kimani: African-American romances. e-book only.
Modern: Novels focus on glamorous and 'sophisticated' passionate romance in international locations. Featuring
intense relationships, often very sexual, often reflecting shared feelings and desires.

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13. Mills & Boon imprints

14. D E S I G N A T E D
Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist and social reformer, envisioned the need for
setting up a museum of ______ in the sprawling campus of his central office at
Mahavir Enclave, on Palam-Dabri Road, New Delhi, India. The idea engaged his
mind for long, eventually leading him to make a hectic worldwide search for the
minutest details of the evolution of _______, as also of various ______ designs
used in different countries at different points of time. More than 100 Embassies
and High Commissions of different countries, based in New Delhi, were contacted.
Letters were sent out to each of them with a request to furnish information on the
subject and also to provide details/photographs of various ______ designs used in
their respective countries. More than 60 Embassies and High Commissions
responded to the request and sent valuable information.

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16. Sulabh International Museum of Toilets

17. #kolzstyle
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's C-grade film industry, X
follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in
the mid-1980s. The project started as a documentary on C-grade sex cinema in
the lower depths of Bollywood which flourished between the 1970s and the early
2000s when it was eventually made redundant by anonymous internet
pornography. During work on the documentary, the director discovered that none
of the subjects were willing to appear on camera as shooting pornography in India
constitutes a serious criminal offense. The project was later reworked into a
feature film script and set in the past so as to protect the identities of individual
subjects and their actual stories.

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20. Trigger Warning Explicit Content
The _______ is a Japanese satirical–black comedy manga series. The
main character, Keisuke Iwasaki , is a handsome and very muscular high
school teacher by day and dispenses a surreal brand of "justice" at night
as the _______ under the business "_______ Services", which is co-run
with his uncle, a former surgeon. The business's motto is: "Righting
wrongs through penetration." When engaged in his night trade, the
_______ wears a black leather ski mask shaped like the head of a penis,
but no trousers or underwear. He uses special techniques such as "M69
Screwdriver" or "Infinite Loop" to apply more pain to the victim. Despite
regretting some of the contracts he fulfills, he always completes the task.

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23. In Tongues
When Vox asked YouTube commenters to select a topic for a future
video, X fans organized on Reddit to storm the comments with requests to
do a video about “the lore of X.” YouTuber X lives up to his name — he
creates comedy that ignores taboos in order to shock (and delight) his
loyal fans. The nom de upload of musician George Miller, X is one of his
many characters that blow past the boundaries of good taste. As detailed
in carefully edited YouTube videos and scrupulously updated Wikia sites,
Miller’s videos have a mythology that spans multiple videos and
characters, and it even has its own vocabulary. ID X.

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25. Filthy Frank

26. “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”
X is a 2003 American independent drama film written, directed, produced
by and starring Tommy Wiseau, and co-starring Greg Sestero and Juliette
Danielle.
Y, Sestero's memoir of the making of X, was co-written with Tom Bissell
and published in 2013. A film of the same name based on the book,
directed by and starring James Franco, was released on December 1,
2017; both the book and film received widespread acclaim and numerous
award nominations. Gimme X and Y

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28. X: The Room
Y: The Disaster Artist

29. Desi MELA

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31. K
__________ is a 2007 Indian neo-noir psychological thriller film written
and directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj.
The film is loosely based upon the short story Quitters, Inc. by Stephen
King. According to Kashyap, the film failed because, it was considered
much ahead of its time, courtesy of its’ dark and unusual storyline
comprising with elements of surrealism, fantasy, dream, reality, horror and
dark humour which left critics and the cinema-goers baffled.

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33. No Smoking

34. What map is this (ID the blank)

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36. Kala Ghoda

37. Some ancient poetry
The X literature is the ancient Tamil literature of the period in the history of
ancient southern India spanning from 300 BCE to 300 CE. This collection
contains 2381 poems in Tamil composed by 473 poets, some 102 of
whom remain anonymous. The poems belonging to X literature were
composed by Tamil poets, both men and women, from various
professions and classes of society. X poems falls into two categories: the
"inner field", and the "outer field”. The "inner field" topics refer to personal
or human aspects, such as love and intimate relationships, and are dealt
with in a metaphorical and abstract manner. The "outer field" topics
discuss all other aspects of human experience such as heroism, courage,
ethics, benevolence, philanthropy, social life, and customs.

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39. Sangam Literature/Poetry

40. Connect (except that they’re all Bengali)

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42. Actors who played Feluda

43. The most expensive Indian painting. (Id the artist)

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45. Vasudeo S. Gaitonde

46. Name the documentary filmmaker

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49. Anand Patwardhan

50. Connect (non exhaustive)
Ibne Safi aka Asrar Ahmed
‘Janpriye Lekhak’ Om Prakash Sharma
Ved Prakash Sharma
Surendra Mohan Pathak
Amit Khan
Gulshan Nanda

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52. Hindi pulp fiction writers

53. Led Zeppelin performs in India
English rock band Led Zeppelin, one of the most influential bands in the history
of music, visited Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1972. During this trip, they also
recorded versions of their songs at EMI Recording Studios. ID any one of the
two songs about to be played.

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55. Four Hands(Four Sticks)(Bombay Orchestra)
Friends (Bombay Orchestra)

56. Misc

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58. X was a nickname for New York City that became popular in
the nineteenth century; Washington Irving had first attached it
to New York in the November 11, 1807 edition of his
Salmagundi, a periodical which lampooned New York culture
and politics. Irving took the name from the village of X,
Nottinghamshire, England, a place inhabited, according to
folklore, by fools. The village's name derives from Old English
words for “goat” and “home”, literally “homestead where
goats are kept”. What is X?

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60. Gotham

61. Tribute to whom (name at least 5)

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63. Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Parliament-Funkadelic
(as Flea was dressed like Bootsy Collins), David Bowie (as Flea was
dressed like Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona), Slade, Sex Pistols, The
Misfits' Glenn Danzig, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili
Peppers themselves

64. Who are they?

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66. Daft Punk

67. Id the inspiration for the song art

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69. Dance by Matisse

70. Id the easter egg in this scene from the show Atlanta
aired on 25 October 2016

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72. Cover art for the album ‘Awaken My Love’ by the
show’s creator Donald Glover released on 2
December 2016

73. Keanu approves
X is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in
1977. The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange
County, California, in the then-future of June 1994, and includes an
extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use (both recreational and
abusive). The novel is one of Dick's best-known works and served as the
basis for a 2006 film of the same name, directed by Richard Linklater.

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75. A Scanner Darkly

76. X was born in French Algeria to a Pied-
Noir family. His views contributed to the
rise of the philosophy known as
absurdism. He is often considered to be
a/an Y (follower of a certain philosophical
tradition). However, in a 1945 interview,
X rejected this association, “No, I am not
a/an Y. Sartre and I are always surprised
to see our names linked.” Who is X?

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78. Albert Camus

79. Created in multiples, the Brillo
Boxes were often shown in large
stacks, effectively turning whatever
gallery they were in into a high-
cultural facsimile of a warehouse.
Their shape and serial production
was perhaps a nod to—or parody
of—the then-nascent Minimalist
style. But the real point of Brillo
Box is how its close approximation
to the real thing subverts artistic
conventions, by implying that
there’s no real difference between
manufactured goods and work
from an artist’s studio. Who
created this sculpture?

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81. Andy Warhol

82. Bojack Horseman

83. In this episode, Bojack goes to an underwater city. The
painting in the background is a spoof of George
Bellows’s oil painting ‘Stag at Sharkey’s’ which depicts
two boxers fighting. What other work does the painting in
the background depict?

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85. Moby Dick

86. In this frame, “people” are getting their fingernails, horns
etc. manicured. There is a painting in the background.
What famous artwork does it reference?

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88. The Creation of Adam

89. Princess Carolyn’s dialogue references a popular
myth. Which one?

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91. Sisyphus

92. You may have heard Princess Carolyn’s hold song
somewhere. Where is this song originally from?

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94. Cats, the musical by Webber or the book
that it is based on - Eliot’s Old Possum’s
Book of Practical Cats

95. The painting hung above them is a modification of a still
life painting by a famous artist. Which artist?

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97. Paul Cezanne

98. The person interviewing Bojack is a famous TV
personality. This style of interview references his
show “The Week”. He was recently in news. Who is
he?

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100. Charlie Rose

101. Give the name of the airport. The picture should give
sufficient hint.

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103. Air Bud International Airport

104. This painting which hangs in Bojack’s study references a
painting by an iconic British artist. Name either the
original painting or the artist.

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106. David Hockney or Portrait of an Artist

107. Comic Strips/Webcomics/Graffiti

108. Effort justification is a person’s tendency to attribute a value
to an outcome based on the effort they put into it rather than
the objective value of it. An example of this is Homestuck, an
adventure that is a collection of webcomics by MS Paint
Adventures. It has over 8000 pages and over 800,000 words.
Due to its complexity and the effort required to get through it,
it has been compared to this literary work by PBS’s Idea
Channel in an episode called “Is Homestuck the ________ of
the Internet?” The book in question is famous for having been
discussed more than being read. Which book?

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110. Ulysses

111. In the following three slides is a
Bakarmax webcomic spoofing a song
composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy and
written by Mehboob. Which song?

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116. School Chale Hum

117. Which literary figure does this graffiti depict?

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119. Maya Angelou

120. What is this webcomic based on?

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122. Pokemon

123. What famous literary work does this reference?

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125. The Metamorphosis

126. What television show is being referenced in this comic
strip?

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128. Jeopardy!

129. Made from portable toilets, this is Banksy’s version of
what?

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131. Stonehenge

132. The Alexamenos graffito (also known as
graffito blasfemo) is a piece of Roman
graffiti scratched in plaster on the wall of a
room near the Palantine Hill in Rome (the
wall has now been relocated). The
inscription is in Greek and mocks
Alexamenos for something that he is doing.
It is estimated to have been made c. 200.
What is it the earliest known pictorial
representation of?

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134. Jesus or Crucifixion of Jesus

135. What’s in a name?
Band names inspired by MELA

136. We’re stardust
The band took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book X of Perception,
itself derived from a line in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If X
of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite".

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138. The Doors

139. Still got ‘em blues
Band name inspired from the following LP by Muddy waters
(play till 1:45)

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141. Rolling stones

142. Quizmaster’s pet question
The band X is named after the character “Dr. X” in
the 1968 French-Italian science fiction film
Barbarella. Played by scantily clad Jane Fonda,
Barbarella is sent on a mission to find the doctor,
causing his name to be repeated dozens of times.

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144. Duran Duran

145. Artist named after this song

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147. Flume

148. Not the bluemen
Ecstasy: Three Tales of ______ _________ is a collection of the
following three novellas by Irvine Welsh
1. Lorraine Goes To Livingston
2. Fortune's Always Hiding
3. The Undefeated
The name of the band was suggested by bass guitarist who was
working in a Barnes & Noble when he was struck by the title of the
book.
Gimme the name of the band.
The band name is three words (the last two words being the blank)

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150. My Chemical Romance

151. Nothing really matters, really
The X movement began in 1919 when Walter Gropius founded a school with a vision of
bridging the gap between art and industry by combining crafts and fine arts. Prior to the X
movement, fine arts such as architecture and design were held in higher esteem than
craftsmanship (i.e., painting, woodworking, etc.), but Gropius asserted that all crafts,
including art, architecture and geometric design, could be brought together and mass-
produced. Gropius argued that architecture and design should reflect the new period in
history (post World War I), and adapt to the era of the machine. The X is also the name of a
famous post punk Brit band.

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153. Bauhaus

154. Hairspary
Named after this popular 60s hairstyle.

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156. B 52

157. This is an ex-parrot!
X was a music collective led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record
label 4AD. The band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting
artists, many of whom were otherwise associated with 4AD, including members of
Cocteau Twins, Colourbox, and Dead Can Dance. The project became known for
its gothic, dream pop sound.
The name of this band is inspired by the following Monty Python sketch which in
turn borrows a line from Hamlet.

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160. This mortal coil

161. Jeopardy!
What is meta?

162. Music history
To mark an historic visit on May 17, an irish band played this song followed by
Ireland’s national anthem

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164. What is God save the queen

165. Rap Literature
A song by Coolio from ‘Dangerous Minds’ goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic.

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167. What is Gangsta’s paradise lost

168. Music
In 1958 this magazine debuted its “hot 100” chart with Ricky Nelson’s “Poor little
fool” as no. 1

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170. What is Billboard

171. & the oscar didn’t go to
The nomination of Nina Rota's music for this 1972 film was retracted because
some of it had been used in a 1958 Italian movie

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173. What is the reason behind Godfather’s cancelled
nomination

174. A binder full of women
Smile and say cheese for
this woman, who's usually
behind the camera,
photographing famous folks

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176. Who is Annie leibovitz?

177. Hugo Award for science fiction
To Harlan Ellison for the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must _____”

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179. What award did “I have no mouth and I must
scream” win?

180. Show your metal in pop culture (answer contains a
metal)
In the 1930s Orson Welles & John Houseman co-founded this theatre

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182. Who founded the The Mercury theatre

183. Painters
Mont Sainte-Victoire dominates not only the landscape of Aix en Provence, but
also the landscape paintings of this native son & Post-Impressionist, who devoted
more than 30 canvases to it. It also appears in the background of many of his
other works, as well

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185. Who is Cezanne