BCQC June Open MELAS Prelims answers

THE JUNE OPEN
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Q.
Connect this song by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros which means
‘hopping into puddles’ with a newly opened “bar and bonhomie”
in Pune.
1

HOPPIPOLA

Q.
An author describing his own work at the beginning of the book.
“This is a book about how it happened – in particular how we went
from there being nothing at all to there being something, and how a
little of that something turned into us, and also some of what
happened in between. That’s rather a lot to cover of course, which is
why the book is called _ _____ _______ __ ______ __________, even
though it isn’t really. It couldn’t be. But with luck by the time we finish
it may feel like it is.”
ID book and author.
2

Q.
In 2009, featuring the Griffin family, Family Guy was
nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy
series. This was the first time an animated series had
been nominated for 48 years. The previous series to be
nominated also had a famous family as the lead
characters. Which was the previous animated series to be
nominated in this category?
3

THE FLINTSTONES

Q.
The Ring is a boxing magazine which names an ‘Event of
the Year’ since 1993. So far, there has been only one
event which has been nominated because of its failure to
come about, in 2010. More specifically, a bout that failed
to come about despite loads of tries and media
attention. Which bout?
4

MAYWEATHER VS PACQUIAO

Q.
The invention of the cocktail "Earthquake" or Tremblement de
Terre (a potent mixture containing half absinthe and half cognac;
in a wine goblet, 3 parts Absinthe and 3 parts Cognac, sometimes
served with ice cubes or shaken in a cocktail shaker filled with
ice) is attributed to a post-impressionist painter who was an
alcoholic which resulted in his death.
Name the painter whose painting might serve as a hint.
(next slide)
5

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

Q.
This is a poster
from
Entourage
where Vincent
Chase (Adrian
Grenier) is
portraying
someone in a
movie called
‘Medellin’.
Who is he
playing?
6

PABLO ESCOBAR

Q.
In the 1996 World Snooker Championship, there was a
controversy after Alain Robidoux lodged a complaint against
Ronnie O’Sullivan for disrespecting him and bringing the game
into disrepute. What O’Sullivan did, though not against the rules,
was frowned upon by many at that time. To prove that he did it
because he possessed a high level of skill and was necessary and
not to mock his opponent, O’Sullivan played 3 frames against Rex
Williams and won all three which resulted in any charges against
him being dropped. What did O’Sullivan do?
7

HE PLAYED LEFT-HANDED THOUGH HE
PRIMARILY USES HIS RIGHT HAND

Q.
Paul Schrader, the director of American Gigolo, Light Sleeper
and The Walker has said that these three films are part of a series
of films which are referred to as “Night Worker” or “Man in a
Room” as the protagonist does most of his work during the night
and/or inside closed doors. Schrader was the writer of the film
which he considers the first of this series where the leading man
is also seen in the above mentioned conditions. He says the
protagonist is the same man, figuratively, who has aged along
with the films. Which is the first film of this series which has won
the Palme D’Or at Cannes?
8

TAXI DRIVER

Q.
The headstone of this comedian’s grave was removed to
add the details of his wife Shelagh’s death. Since its
removal for Shelagh's interment, his grave remains
unmarked. The epitaph read Duirt mé leat go raibh mé
breoite, which means “I told you I was ill” which was
voted his country’s favourite epitaph.
Who is this comedian?
9

SPIKE MILLIGAN

Q.
The German film ‘Das Leben Der Anderen’ (The Lives
of Others) is about an East German stasi officer who is
doing audio surveillance on a playwright’s house to find
evidence of treason. It shows the censorship and media
control in East Germany along with the government’s
oppression. Question is, which year does the major part
of the movie take place in?
10

Q.
Identify the mustachioed doyen of Marathi literature in
this clip from Lakhachi Goshta.
11

GA. DI. MADGULKAR

Q.
This is followed by the line ‘My tears for _____ are as much as
they are for all the people he killed’.
Which 1998 masterpiece?
12

Q.
M.F. Husain is not the only painter to have dabbled in
filmmaking.
Koodal is a 3 minute Tamil short film which won the
Filmfare Critics award in 1970. This film was shot in a
slaughterhouse in Bandra by this non-Tamil Bombay
resident.
Who is the director of this film?
13

TYEB MEHTA

Q.
What first did 18 year old Mario Götze and 20 year old
André Schürrle mark for Germany when they came on
as substitutes simultaneously in a match against Sweden
in November 2010?
14

FIRST PLAYERS BORN IN THE REUNIFIED
GERMANY TO REPRESENT GERMANY

Q.
Here are a few examples of Australian rhyming slang.
Money – Bugs Bunny
Telephone – Al Capone
A Check – Gregory Peck
So tell me, what is the slang for the word ‘look’?
15

CAPTAIN COOK

Q.
In Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, there is a
character called Peter Fallow who is a heavy drinking
journalist who writes controversial articles in a fictional
tabloid but eventually goes on to attain success and
fame. X was thought to be the inspiration behind this
character but it has not been confirmed. Many others
including X himself think it is Anthony Haden-Guest.
Who is X, who later on became famous for one
particular view he held rather firmly?
16

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Q.
Herodotus’s Histories is divided into certain number of
parts. Members of what group of entities are the
individual parts named after? Plato named Sappho of
Lesbos as an honorary member to round up the group.
17

Q.
Most of us are aware that ‘Enter Sandman’ is a hit by
Metallica.
And now for something completely different. On 26th
September 2013, when the curtain fell on a great
sporting career, what was the pun used by the media to
describe it? I want the sportsman too.
18

EXIT SANDMAN
MARIANO RIVERA

Q.
Kevin Spacey is featured in which highly anticipated instalment of an
extremely popular FPS game franchise?
19

CALL OF DUTY : ADVANCED
WARFARE

Q.
Twixt is a 2009 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Identify the narrator
with the gravelly voice.
20

TOM WAITS

Q.
Religious terms such as
Vatican=vatika “hermitage”,
Christianity=Krishna-netti or Chrisn-nity “ethics of Krishna or the
way of Krishna”
Islam=ishalayam “temple of God”,
Abraham as a corrupted form of Brahma, and George as an
aberration of Garg
are a few examples of his dubious etymological claims.
Which is (arguably) the most famous one? Who has proposed
these roots?
21*

TEJO MAHALAYA
P.N.OAK

Q.
Anyone familiar with William Burroughs’s works would
know his books are full of homosexual encounters and
drugs. They mostly come from his own life experiences. His
one tumultuous experience of having his first serious
boyfriend in New York, in 1940 triggered what he laconically
called a “___ ____ kick” which prompted him to do
something like what ___ ____ did after a meeting with Paul
Gauguin. Fill in the blanks and tell me what Burroughs did
akin to ___ ____.
22*

VAN GOGH KICK
BURROUGHS CUT OFF HIS FINGER

Q.
23*
X had been in London for just a week when he put in a request to
jam with Y. This was a particularly audacious request because Y
was a part of _____. Jack Bruce remembers “When I first saw Y
play I knew he was a master guitarist but X was just a force of
nature. He plugged into my bass amp and did a version of
‘Killing Floor’, a song which Y loved but thought too difficult but
X just raged through it.”
ID X and Y

X - JIMI HENDRIX
Y - ERIC CLAPTON

Q.
The following is an exhaustive list of 4 people with their
nationality and the year they joined the list.
Sir Bob Charles (New Zealand) 1963
Mike Weir (Canada) 2003
Phil Mickelson (USA) 2004
_____ _______ (USA) 2012.
Fill in the fourth name and tell me what list this is.
24*

BUBBA WATSON
ONLY LEFT HANDED MAJOR WINNERS

Q.
This series and the 1990 movie, both falling in the exact same genre, have 27
actors in common. Most of them appear for an episode or two of the series
but the following have sizeable roles in both.
Lorraine Bracco – Jennifer Melfi (series) & Karen Hill (film)
Michael Imperioli – Chris Moltisanti (series) & Spider (film)
Tony Darrow – Larry Barese (series) & Sonny Buns (film)
Frank Vincent – Phil Leotardo (series) & Billy Batts (film)
Identify the film (whose director made a cameo appearance in the series) and
the series.
25*

SERIES – THE SOPRANOS
MOVIE - GOODFELLAS

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