Lit Quiz 2017 (Prelims and Mains) - 100+ Q Quiz

Mostly Harmless Questions
QM: Satwik Pasani

Aka
Prelims
Part Points
unless
otherwise
specified

1. ID the blanked out portions
X Y

2. FITB (Not indicative of length) *
______ ______ _____ is based on an old tale,
first made famous by its retelling by W Somerset
Maugham. This inspired the title of another book
by an American writer, _______, who put this as an
epigraph at the start of the book. Some consider
this book to be an American social critique as you
could find in the first half of the twentieth
century—up there with Sister Carrie,
Babbitt and similar. But ______ ______ _____ ‘s
shot to fame was very recent, greatly popularized
by a pop-culture element (the origins of this pop-
culture element are also from a book!).

3. Who? ID X
Inspired by the author Theodore Sturgeon, X is a notably
unsuccessful science fiction writer. X has written over 117 novels and
over 2000 short stories, the former including Barring-gaffner of
Bagnialto or This Year's Masterpiece, The Big Board, The Gospel from
Outer Space, The Gutless Wonder, How You Doin'?,Maniacs in the
Fourth Dimension etc. While his timeline is unsettled, his epitaph reads
“Life is no way to treat an animal”. X has part of his right ring finger
bitten off by someone, when X attends an arts festival in the Midwest.
X also has an encounter with Y. Y tells him that he is setting him free,
in much the same way that Leo Tolstoy freed his serfs, and that the
rest of his life will be much happier: his work will be republished by
reputable publishers, and his ideas will become very influential,
leading to him winning the Nobel Prize for medicine. He at least has
two fans, Eliot and Billy.

4. ID the author
• The English Roses is a 2003
children's picture book, about the
lives of four girls — Charlotte,
Amy, Grace and Nicole — who
become jealous of a girl called
Binah. They believe that her life is
perfect, and are jealous of her for
it, but Binah is lonely. Binah's
mother died when she was young
and she lives with her father in a
small house where she cooks and
cleans for a living. Binah has no
friends but the English Roses think
she must be popular, rich and
spoiled but she really isn't like
that.

5. Blanks relate to a literary work. ID
Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they're hard core.
(bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)
……..
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(let's face it, I love slime.)
All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
…….
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading _________
But now they're trying to take it all
Away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
We fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,
sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the _______ ___
And the Beatles' first LP.
Up to then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the ______ ___
Smut
By
Tom Lehrer
Annus Mirabilis
By
Philip Larkin

7. FITB
• The Dark Triad is a concept in
psychology that focuses on three
personality states: Psychopathy,
Narcissism, and ________. People
scoring high on these traits are more
likely to commit crimes, cause social
distress and create severe problems
for an organization, especially if they
are in leadership positions.
• Although psychopathy is the most
malevolent of the dark triad, it is
______ which leads to most cynical
manipulations. A scale named the
______ scale is used in personality
analysis, using which the following
paper shows how this trait makes
people behave differently in
bargaining/cooperative situations
than expected. Hint?

8. ID X and Y (No Part points)
X, a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher introduced the
techniques of yellow journalism to the newspapers he acquired in the
1880s. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party
and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big
business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New
York. X offered Columbia .The X Art Museum in Saint Louis was
founded by his family's philanthropy and is named in their honor. He
was later inducted to St Louis Hall of Fame, and featured in the Disney
Film Newsies played by Robert Duvall. But his greatest legacy is missing
here.
Y, a luxembourghish-american inventor, writer, editor and
magazine publisher of ______. The inaugural April issue comprised a
one-page editorial and reissues of six stories, three less than ten years
old and three by Poe, Verne, and Wells. Y wrote fiction, including the
novel _______ in 1911; the title is a pun on the phrase "one to foresee
for many“. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so
significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he
is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction"

9. Part of an exhaustive list. ID the
newest of the missing elements.

10. What work is this video a parody
of?
• Stephen Colbert Parody Video for
Replacement of Obamacare

11. ID X and Y (Part Points) *
X by Y is an award winning comic novel
published. The book won the Best First Book Award
in the year 2009 in the Commonwealth Book Prize.
It was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book
Award. The book is the basis of an up-coming film
starring Irrfan Khan. The central theme of the book
is a fictitious story behind the real life plane crash
which killed General Zia, president of Pakistan from
1977 to 1988, about which there are many
conspiracy theories. Y, a british-pakistani writer,
also regularly writes an opinion piece in the New
York Times.

13. ID the book
• Thug Notes summary Video with portions
blanked out or muted

14. ID (part points) *
Where/On What/In What would you find the following list? Looking for a tangible work,
existing from April to September 2006. For what was it created?
• Günter Grass
• Hannah Arendt
• Heinrich Heine
• Martin Luther
• Immanuel Kant
• Anna Seghers
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• The Brothers Grimm
• Karl Marx
• Heinrich Böll
• Friedrich Schiller
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Hermann Hesse
• Theodor Fontane
• Thomas and Heinrich Mann
• Bertolt Brecht
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hint?

16.!
• Salman Rushdie coined
the term X first in his book
Midnight’s Children.
Hint?

17. ID X and the work
X is possibly situated close to Y’s home town although
the work is set in France. The Oxford edition rationalises this
geographical discrepancy by assuming that “X" is an
anglicisation of the Z region of France and alters the spelling
to Z. It can be argued that the pastoral mode depicts a
fantastical world in which geographical details are irrelevant.
The X supporters makes the suggestion that the name “X"
comes from a combination of the classical region of _______
and the biblical garden, as there is a strong interplay of
classical and Christian belief systems and philosophies within
the work. X was also the maiden name of Y’s mother and her
family home is located within the X. What is the famous work
of Y set in X?
Hint?

18. ID the author and the work
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and produced by Cameron
Mackintosh. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the
night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will
ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. It won numerous awards,
including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. As of
2016, Cats is the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history, and was
the longest running Broadway show in history from 1987 to 2006 when it was
surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera.
It is based on a work by a famous writer X, published by Faber and Faber, who wrote a
collection of poems to his/her godchildren, under a pseudonym which later made to
the title of the publication.
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20. ID the inspiration of the mural *
• The following mural in the Library of Congress
by Ezra Winter depicts what literary work?

21. ID the author and the book
Hint?

22. ID the blanked out portion.
Hint?

23. Part points *
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a
biennial award for literature sponsored by the University
of Oklahoma and its international literary publication,
World Literature Today. It is considered one of the more
prestigious international literary prizes, often compared
with the Nobel Prize in Literature and referred to as the
"American Nobel" because of its record of 30 laureates,
candidates or jurors who in 42 years have been awarded
Nobel Prizes following their involvement with the
Neustadt Prize. Like the Nobel, it is awarded not for any
one work, but for an entire body of work. Who are the
two only Indian/Indian-born writers to have won the
prize?

24. Doctors on the round! *
This is a 1973 movie X, serving
as Y's first theatrical feature (written
and directed by Y). It was also the
first feature film to use digital image
processing, to pixellate photography
to simulate a robotic point of view.
A new series by HBO based on X
recently hit the screens. Y, a famous
author, also later directed a movie
titled Z, written by W. Z’s cover is
shown!
Hint

25. Funda?
• In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Abbott
• The Enormous Room by e.e cummings
• Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
• Don Quixote by Cervantes
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
• Short Stories by O Henry
De profundis by Oscar Wilde
Travels of Marco Polo by Rustichello da Pisa
Hint?

26. ID the genres.
X is a literary genre written by and for a particular few. This
was a time of social unrest, civil rights, Viet Nam, Nixon, and great
music. ______ were colored by those times. Their approaches to life
are different from the rest. X reflects that difference. It deals with
current issues and concerns offering new perspectives and treatments.
X embraces any genre that features mature characters, in
contemporary settings, addressing any aspect of today's world. If you
have a difficult time imagining what X is, think of it as a corollary to
young adult literature. It is similar to YA lit in its structure and aims. YA
lit was started in the 1970s, sustained by the wave of readers in their
teens, interested in characters with whom they could identify. The rest
is history: YA lit became an enormous success and remains one of the
strongest and fastest growing categories today.
Just as YA lit focuses on the first transition to adulthood, X is about the
next big transition.

27. ID the Genre and the reason for
the spike (No part points) Wikipedia page
hits. The Bumps
are thought to
have been the
result of some
famous event by
X.

Round
3 points each
ID the author

3. Who?
Inspired by the author Theodore Sturgeon, X is a notably
unsuccessful science fiction writer. X has written over 117 novels and
over 2000 short stories, the former including Barring-gaffner of
Bagnialto or This Year's Masterpiece, The Big Board, The Gospel from
Outer Space, The Gutless Wonder, How You Doin'?,Maniacs in the
Fourth Dimension etc. While his timeline is unsettled, his epitaph reads
“Life is no way to treat an animal”. X has part of his right ring finger
bitten off by someone, when X attends an arts festival in the Midwest.
X also has an encounter with Y. Y tells him that he is setting him free,
in much the same way that Leo Tolstoy freed his serfs, and that the
rest of his life will be much happier: his work will be republished by
reputable publishers, and his ideas will become very influential,
leading to him winning the Nobel Prize for medicine. He at least has
two fans, Eliot and Billy.

5. Blanks relate to a literary work. ID
Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they're hard core.
(bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)
……..
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(let's face it, I love slime.)
All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
…….
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading _________
But now they're trying to take it all
Away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
We fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,
sexual intercourse began
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the _______ ban
Up to then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the ______ ban
Smut
By
Tom Lehrer
Annus Mirabilis
By
Philip Larkin

Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D H Lawrence

X= Joseph Pulitzer, Y= Hugo Gernsback

10. What work is this video a parody
of?
• Stephen Colbert

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

A case for exploding mangoes,
Mohammed Hanif

13. ID the book
• Thug Notes

14. ID *
Where/On What/In What would you find the following list? Looking for a tangible work,
existing from April to September 2006. For what was it created?
• Günter Grass
• Hannah Arendt
• Heinrich Heine
• Martin Luther
• Immanuel Kant
• Anna Seghers
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• The Brothers Grimm
• Karl Marx
• Heinrich Böll
• Friedrich Schiller
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Hermann Hesse
• Theodor Fontane
• Thomas and Heinrich Mann
• Bertolt Brecht
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hint?

Douglas Adams
• “Somewhere in the cosmos, he said,
along with all the planets inhabited by
humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids,
walking treeoids and superintelligent
shades of the color blue, there was
also a planet entirely given over to
ballpoint life forms. And it was to this
planet that unattended ballpoints
would make their way, slipping away
quietly through wormholes in space
to a world where they knew they
could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid
lifestyle, responding to highly
ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and
generally leading the ballpoint
equivalent of the good life.”

As you like it, X = Forest of Arden

18. ID the author and the work
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and produced by Cameron
Mackintosh. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the
night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will
ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. It won numerous awards,
including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. As of
2016, Cats is the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history, and was
the longest running Broadway show in history from 1987 to 2006 when it was
surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera.
It is based on a work by a famous writer X, published by Faber and Faber, who wrote a
collection of poems to his/her godchildren, under a pseudonym which later made to
the title of the publication.
65

Old Possum’s book of Practical cats,
T.S. Eliot
66

The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor
It is a satirical novel, a fictional
work that takes the story of
the Mahabharata, the epic of
Hindu mythology, and recasts and
resets it in the context of the Indian
Independence Movement and the first
three decades post-independence.
Figures from Indian history are
transformed into characters from
mythology, and the mythical story of
India is retold as a history of Indian
independence and subsequent history,
up through the 1980s.
72

X=Westworld, Y=Michael Crichton,
Z=Coma, W=Robin Cook

Works partly or wholly written while in
prison

27. ID the Genre and the reason for
the spike Wikipedia page
hits. The Bumps
are thought to
have been the
result of some
famous event by
X.

Dystopian Novels, When Trump
became the President

Aise hi Rounds
While the prelims are checked.

Audience Q
X was started in 1993 by two motivational speakers (Jack & Mark). In
2008, William (Bill) Rouhana, Amy Newmark and Robert Jacobs bought
X from them.
X provides a huge list of Pet foods, and has over 45 different products
catering to all kinds of pet food needs. They also variably dabble in
creating podcasts and several educational ventures,
Alcon acquired film and TV rights to the X property in 2013, tapping
Brandon Camp (Love Happens) to write the screenplay. Warner
Bros has plotted the release date for the movie X, as December 16,
2016.
But X began as, and is famous for something else.
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Audience Q
What are these? Give the Funda.
1.One has flapping fits and the other fitting flaps
2.Poe wrote on both
3.Slopes with a flap
4.[official] It can produce a few notes, though
very flat, and it is never put with the wrong
end in front.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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SSR
1. ____ _____ is a book about unsure
geography.

Lit Quiz 2017 (Prelims and Mains) - 100+ Q Quiz

SSR Answers
• Atlas Shrugged, Hardy Boys, Fifty Shades of
Gray, To kill a Mockingbird, 100 Years of
Solitude

Dry 1
+10/0 for direct, +10/-10 for pounce
Infinite bounce and pounce

1. Funda?
“…..J M Coetzee’s global reputation rests
on his literary output, for which he received a Nobel
Prize in 20013. Before he embarked on a career as a
scholar and writer, he was a ____________ in the
early years of the industry. This experience, while
short, was vital for the development of Coetzee’s
writerly project. While visiting the Ransom Center
on a research fellowship, I examined Coetzee’s
papers, which offer tantalizing clues about his
neglected “other career.””
His former carrier involved him at the
frontiers of its development, wherein he created a
specific kind of poetry. Coetzee never published
these results, but edited and included phrases from
them in poetry that he did publish.
What’s the specific kind of poetry?
Sad spade join the entropy,
Raddled deference order the song,
Daily hell pluck the fauce
Assured paraclete sweeten the
taste
Inchdate shard imagine the
dubliette,
Tetchy watch loosen the detritus,
Looser perigree mirror the hell
Farouche catechumen want the
megrim
Hint?

Computer Poetry
In the mid 1960s Coetzee was working
on one of the most advanced
programming projects in Britain.
During the day he helped to design the
Atlas 2 supercomputer destined for the
United Kingdom’s Atomic Energy
Research Establishment at
Aldermaston. At night he used this
hugely powerful machine of the Cold
War to write simple “computer
poetry,” that is, he wrote programs for
a computer that used an algorithm to
select words from a set vocabulary and
create repetitive lines.

2. ID X (Bonus: Y)
X, an English Physician, published his most famous work Y, an
expurgated edition of Shakespeare's work. The work, edited by his/her sister,
was intended to provide a version of Shakespeare that was more appropriate
for 19th century women and children than the original.
Some examples of alterations made by X’s edition:
• In Hamlet, the death of Ophelia was referred to as an accidental drowning,
omitting the suggestions that she may have intended suicide.
• In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's famous cry "Out, damned spot!" was changed
to "Out, crimson spot!"
• "God!" as an exclamation is replaced with "Heavens!"
• In Henry IV, Part 2, the prostitute Doll Tearsheet is omitted entirely; the
slightly more reputable Mistress Quickly is retained.
The eponymous verb based on X has associated his name with the
censorship of elements deemed inappropriate for children, not only of
literature but also of motion pictures and television programmes.

Thomas Bowdler (Bowdlerised); Family
Shakespeare

3. ID X,Y (Part points)
The 1854 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade by
Tennyson sung the account of English soldiers at the
Crimean War. A not-so-famous sequel to the poem titled
X was written by Y. Y uses his poem to expose the terrible
hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War.
It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the
charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to
reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the
way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some
sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but
other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as
allegorical, with the visit invented by Y to draw attention
to the poverty in which the real survivors were living.

The Last of the Light Brigade, Rudyard
Kipling

5. ID Y, Z
In the dedication preceding X, a work by Y, Y criticizes several
contemporaries, and now hailed Literary giants, most notably Z. For Z, Y writes:
• You, Bob! are rather insolent, you know,
At being disappointed in your wish
To supersede all warblers here below,
And be the only Blackbird in the dish;
And then you overstrain yourself, or so,
And tumble downward like the flying fish
Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob,
And fall, for lack of moisture quite a-dry, Bob!
In the first publication, Y cautions the publisher thus, "As the Poem is to be
published anonymously, omit the Dedication. I won't attack the dog in the dark. Such
things are for scoundrels and renegadoes like himself“, but it was later published in
subsequent editions.
Z retaliated later by saying the new edition of Y’s works is ... one of the very
worst symptoms of these bad times.

X=Don Juan, Y=Byron, Z=Southey
• The dedication also takes issue with the Lake Poets generally:
• You—Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion / From better company,
have kept your own ... There is a narrowness in such a notion, /
Which makes me wish you'd change your lakes for Oceanand
specifically:
• And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, / But like a hawk
encumbered with his hood,- / – Explaining Metaphysics to the
nation — / I wish he would explain his Explanation;
• Wordsworth:
'Tis poetry-at least by his assertion
• and Southey's predecessor as Laureate, Henry James Pye in the use
of and pun on the old song Sing a Song of Sixpence
• four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye.

6. A List of what? Funda?
• William Shakespeare
• Edward de vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
• Sir Francis Bacon
• William Stanley
• Roger Manners, the 5th earl of rutland
• Christopher marlowe
• A group under Sir Walter Raleigh
• Mary Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke
Hint?

Shakespeare Authorship Candidates

Clue Round
+25,-10 : +15,-15 : +10,-25
No Negatives on Direct/Bounce
Taking the next clue is discretionary for
the direct team

Audience Question
This book chronicles the story of X. Since the days when X was
practically unknown in society, the book traces X’s journey as people
finally discovered X and then went on to progressively demoting X and
ultimately depriving X of its status. Controversy emerged as X was
ousted from among X’s brethren. It focuses on the fact that many
Americans rallied their support for X, and the division of opinion
regarding X’s status. Supporters of X have made their resentment
against X’s demotion clear by doing everything including hate mails to
the author.
In words of Jon Stewart, “You gotta read this. It is the most exciting
book about X you will ever read in your life.”
Hint?
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Hint.
The author of X, a very famous face among
scientists especially those of his own discipline,
has been at the forefront of delivering science to
the masses, by means of several books of an
allied genre.
The title of this book is “The “X” files: The rise
and fall of America’s _______________”
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Pluto, Neil deGrasse Tyson
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CQ1-1
Z is a book by X and co-authored by Y. A part
memoir, Z primarily belongs to the genre of self-
help books. It offers a 11-point formula for success,
based on Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of
Positive Thinking. The book’s publication is mired in
controversy, with both X and Y claiming that the
other did not contribute anything to the book,
while the publisher Random House supported Y’s
case. Although it once stood at fifth bestselling
position in its genre, the first outsold it by 15 times.

CQ1-2
A 2016 film was based on the
book and X. Somewhat based
on Z, the film is presented as
an autobiographical film by X
made in 1988 as an
adaptation of his/her book,
and stars Johnny Depp as X.
Exclusively for the film, Kenny
Logans composed a theme
song titled Z, the adjacent.
Some guys write poems and beautiful words
Some guys write songs about flowers and birds
But that ain't who I am, that kinda crap ain't me
No no
Some guys paint sculptures in plastic and steel
Some losers paint paintings abstract and surreal
But I don't get it, that kinda crap ain't me
Can't you see
Oh, the only art I've ever been able to feel
Is the only art that matters
___________
There's nothing better or quite as sublime
As signing your name on the dotted line
That's all the beauty I need in my life

CQ1-3
• The royalty-deal between X and Y was also
tainted with allegations of false claims by X,
and Y ultimately came out to say that he/she
regretted writing the book, and shall continue
to offer all the royalty he/she received to help
people, as X ultimately ended up screwing
them! Y went as far as saying that had the
book been published today, it would have
been called The Sociopath, an apt description
for X perhaps .

The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
and Tony Schwartz

CQ2-1 (Z,X : Bonus Y)
Z by X is a 19th century satirical novella. It
has inspired several pop-culture references and
other literary works, most notably, Y by Dionys
Burger, a Dutch secondary-school teacher. A
movie titled Z was released in 2007, followed by
its sequel, Y in 2012. Even Sheldon once
commented that the setting of Z was one of his
favorite want-to-visit places. Futurama has an
episode referencing Z, where Farnsworth’s
racing takes him to it.

CQ2-2
Although written as a satire of Victorian culture and social hierarchy, it did not attract
much attention and the main interest later was of the Scientific community. The movie
mentioned earlier was actually an educational initiative. Dionys was a Physics teacher.
Science popularizers Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking have both commented on and
postulated about Z. Sagan talks about Z in his television series Cosmos, whereas Dr.
Hawking notes the impossibility of life in Z, as any inhabitants would necessarily be
unable to digest their own food.
The book was revived on publishing of the theory of relativity. A letter to the editor in
Nature, Feb 12,1920 titled “Euclid, Newton and Einstein”, where X was regarded as a
prophet reads thus:
Some thirty or more years ago a little jeu d'esprit was written by X entitled Z. At the
time of its publication it did not attract as much attention as it deserved... If there is
motion of our three-dimensional space relative to the fourth dimension, all the
changes we experience and assign to the flow of time will be due simply to this
movement, the whole of the future as well as the past always existing in the fourth
dimension.
— from a "Letter to the Editor" by William Garnett. in Nature on February 12, 1920.

CQ3-1
X by Y is a science fiction short story and
subsequently, a novel. The short story won the
Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel
was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that
year's Nebula Award for Best Novel. Characters in
the book were based on people in Y’s life. One of
the main characters was inspired by a university
dissection class, and the name was inspired by the
poet Z. Two other characters, were based on
professors Y met while studying psychoanalysis in
graduate school.

CQ3-2
• _____ is a 1968 American
science fiction drama film,
directed and produced by
Ralph Nelson, and written
by Stirling Silliphant.
• The film stars Cliff
Robertson as ______;
additional roles are co-
played by Claire Bloom,
Lilia Skala, Leon Janney
and Dick Van Patten.

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keys

CQ4-1
The Spaniards Inn is a historic pub on Spaniards Road between
Hampstead and Highgate in London, England. It lies on the edge of
Hampstead Heath near Kenwood House, dating back to the 17th century.
The pub has been mentioned in Bram Stoker's Dracula, but it can count
among its previous frequenters the artist Joshua Reynolds and the poets
Byron and Keats. According to the pub, Keats wrote his Ode to a
Nightingale in the gardens, and Stoker borrowed one of their resident
ghost stories to furnish the plot of Dracula. It is also famously mentioned
in the work X by Y.

CQ4-2
The Moosepath League Saga is a series of historical novels by
Van Reid.
The series follows the adventures and misadventures of five
men, the founding members of the Moosepath League:
• Mr. Joseph Thump — who first suggests the idea
• Mr. Christopher Eagleton;
• Mr. Matthew Ephram;
• Mister Tobias Walton — the league’s chairman (the word “Mister”
is always spelled out when referring to Tobias Walton);
• Mr. Sundry Moss — “gentleman’s gentleman” and assistant to
Mister Walton, valet but functions as general assistant and "fixer."
Ephram, Eagleton and Thump are a trio of bumbling but
thoroughly well-intentioned gentleman bachelors who inject comic
farce into the proceedings. The characters are an homage to X. In
chapter four of Cordelia Underwood, Cordelia finds a copy of X in her
uncle's trunk.

CQ4-3
• Written for publication as a serial, X is a sequence of loosely related
adventures. The action is given as occurring 1827–8. The novel's
main character, ______, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old
gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the ______Club.
To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of
life, he suggests that he and three other “______ians" should make
journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings
to the other members of the club. Further humour is provided
when the comic cockney ___2___makes his advent in chapter 10 of
the novel. First seen working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough,
____2____is taken on by Mr ______as a personal servant and
companion on his travels and provides his own oblique ongoing
narrative on the proceedings. The relationship between the
idealistic and unworldly _______and the astute cockney
___2____has been likened to that between Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza.

Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

CQ5-1
X by Y is a novel which includes several themes
including those of conflict, utilitarianism, and is mired in
symbolism and philosophy. One of the supposed ways of
bringing out symbolism is via the names of the characters
derived from a word, the meaning of which resonates
with the character’s personality. Speaking of X, the
supposed meaning behind some of the names of the
characters go thus:
• 1- rationality
• 2- to notice
• 3- to cringe
• 4- to split

CQ5-2
• X has been adapted into
manga at least twice, once
by Naoyuki Ochiai featuring
a hikikomori named Miroku
Tachi who kills the leader of
a student prostitution ring
for money, and more
famously by Osamu Tezuka
featuring Monsieur Ampere,
Duke Rd, Buku Bukk, Sonya
etc. The latter is at display in
the Y museum constructed
at the setting of the novel X.

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor
Dostoevsky

CQ6-1
• First aired on CBS on april 28
1979, this is a television film
based on the book X by Y. The
film is written by Y and
directed by Fielder Cook.

CQ6-2
• The title of X comes from the poem by Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, “Sympathy”. Y has often cited
him as an inspiration for his/her writing career.
• ________________________, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,
When he beats his bars and would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep
core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –
____________________________

CQ6-3
Y became, on Bill Clinton’s inauguration, the
first poet to have recited at a president’s
inauguration since Robert Frost did for Kennedy. A
three-Grammy winner and the winner of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Y, in the
course of his/her civil-rights fight has worked with
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Y’s books
center on themes such as racism, identity, family
and travel, and X chronicles the life story of Y till the
age of 17. The fans of Emma Watson ought to have
heard of Y.

I know why the caged bird sings, Maya
Angelou

CQ7-2 (Only Pounce)
• The author of this work, often derives the title of
his/her novels from famous literary works:
• For example from Shakespeare, from a song in Twelfth
Night, from act4-scene 1 Macbeth, from Brutus’s
speech, Sonnet 98…
• For example from Bible, Ecclesiastus, Revelation of St.
John…
• For example from nursery rhymes, Sing a Song of
Sixpence, There was a crooked man, The Little piggy…
• For example from elsewhere, Tennyson’s Lady of
Shallot, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, T S Eliot’s four
Quartets, William Blake's Auguries of Innocence….

CQ7-3 (Only Pounce)
10
8
9
7 6 5
4
2
3
1
None
Cyanide
Chloral
hydrate
Head
Blow Chopping wood
Drowned
KCN
Smashed by a clock
Gunshot
Suicide
Gunshot

And then there were none, Agatha
Christie

7. Funda? Bonus for perfect
explanation

Movies Inspired from Jane Austen’s
works
• From Prada to nada – Sense and Sensibility
• Bridget Jones’ Diary – Pride and Prejudice
• Metropolitan – Mansfield park
• Aisha - Emma

8. Part Points. ID X and Z
X make fun of established clichés and proverbs by showing that they
are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, X that
include proverbs are a type of anti-proverb. Typically a/an X consists of three
parts: a proverb or saying, a speaker, and an often humorously literal
explanation. The name is based on a character from the book Y. A type of X
called a Z incorporates a speaker attribution that puns on the quoted
statement. The name comes from the Z series of books (1910–present),
similar in many ways to the better-known Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series,
and, like them, produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. In this series, the
young scientist hero underwent adventures involving rocket ships, ray-guns
and other things he had invented.
Examples of the general X:
• "We'll have to rehearse that," said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of
the car.
• "So I see," said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Examples of Z:
• "I'd like to stop by the mausoleum," Tom said cryptically.
• "Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily.

9. ID why the interviewee is currently
in the news
• An interview excerpt with some words muted

Origin, Dan Brown’s new novel
(Interview of Dan Brown by Ashwin
Sanghi)

10. Connect (part points for connect,
rest for explanation)
Hint?

11. ID the work
Monty Norman has been credited with writing the
"James Bond Theme", and has received royalties since
1962. For Dr. No, the tune was arranged by John Barry,
who would later go on to compose the soundtracks for
eleven James Bond films. Courts have ruled twice that the
theme was written by Monty Norman, despite claims and
testimony by Barry that he had actually written the
theme. Norman describes the distinctive rhythm of the
guitar in the first few bars of the "James Bond Theme" as
"Dum di-di dum dum". He claims that it was inspired by
the song “__________" as sung in X, a musical he
composed based on a novel of the same name by Y.

• The song. Available on Youtube. Called “A
good sign, a bad sign”

A House for Mr. Biswas, VS Naipaul

12. Funda? (Bonus for explaining all)
• Moby Dick, The Stranger, Love in the time of
the cholera

Opening lines
• Moby Dick – Call Me Ishmael
• The Stranger – Mother Died Today
• Love in the Time of Cholera – It was inevitable:
the smell of bitter almonds always reminded
him of the fate of unrequitted love
• Peter Pan – All children, except one, grow up

Audience Q
• Half-a-dozen scraped
potatoes
• Cabbage and half a pack
of peas
• Half a pork pie
• Bit of coiled boiled
bacon
• Tin of potted salmon
• Couple of cracked eggs
• Water-rat (offered by
M____, but declined)
“If you never try a new thing, how can
you tell what it’s like? It’s men such as
you that hamper the world’s progress.
Think of the man who first tried German
sausage!”
It was a great success, that Irish stew. I
don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more.
There was something so fresh and
piquant about it. One’s palate gets so
tired of the old hackneyed things: here
was a dish with a new flavour, with a
taste like nothing else on earth.
And it was nourishing, too. As George
said, there was good stuff in it. The peas
and potatoes might have been a bit
softer, but we all had good teeth, so that
did not matter much: and as for the
gravy, it was a poem – a little too rich,
perhaps, for a weak stomach, but
nutritious.

Irish Stew Round
Plus: 5,8,13,21,34….
Minus: 3,5,8,13,21….

IS-1
X is a work by Y. The premier of Y, though a great success, also led to
Y’s downfall. On the premiere, a very grand and revered audience including
cabinet members, privy councilors and great writers arrived. U, the father of
V (who was on holiday), had planned to disrupt the premiere by throwing a
bouquet of rotten vegetables at Y. Y came to know of this, and cancelled U’s
ticket and barred U from the show. U’s harassment continued and he kept an
obscene card at Y’s club. Y later went on to, against popular advice, launch a
prosecution against U for criminal libel. The only escape being to prove his
accusations right, U and his lawyer went on to fight the case leading to Y’s
incarceration, and an abrupt cessation of X.
Interestingly, U’s other contributions include the famous U – rules, a
code of conduct generally accepted in Z; U popularized them, but did not
draft them. U-Rules superseded the Revised London ____ _____rules and are
intended for use in both professional and amateur Z matches, thus separating
it from the less popular American Fair Play Rules, which were strictly intended
for amateur matches. In popular culture the term is sometimes used to refer
to a sense of sportsmanship and fair play.

IS-2
The farther adventures of X is a lesser
known sequel to the most famous work by the
author Y. Originally titled The Farther Adventures
of X; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life,
And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his
Travels Round three Parts of the Globe, it was
followed by yet another novel called the Serious
Reflections of X. X was inspired from the real life
story of U, a scottish ____, referenced very often
in literature by several authors including Charles
Dickens, William Cowper and also has a chapter
dedicated to his story in Woodes’ Rogers book
chronicling his own expeditions.
V is one of the characters in
X, inspiration for the phrase “___ __V___” used
to describe a male personal assistant or servant,
especially one who is particularly competent or
loyal.
W is the connect with the picture.

IS-3
W, more popularly known as X, is a writer of
thriller novels. His book series featuring Y, was recently
made popular on the big screen. The movie also titled Y is
based on his book titled Z.
The names X and Y have interesting back-stories.
X/ comes from a family joke about a heard
mispronunciation of the name of Renault 5. Calling
anything that became a family gag, his daughter, Ruth,
was called X. When W was grocery shopping with his
wife, he handed out things on the top shelf owing to his
tall stature, prompting his wife to say, “Hey, if this writing
thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a /Y in a
supermarket.”

IS-4
X and Y are two books written by the Nobel Prize
winning writer Z.
X is an experimental prose poetry collection employing
a stream of consciousness writing style, one section of the
book parodying the African American work song “Black Betty”.
Z later equated the book to the nonsense book “In His own
Write” written by W. In 2003 Spin magazine did an article
called the "Top Five Unintelligible Sentences from Books
Written by _____ _____." First place was this line from X:
"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and
jump on the garbage clowns.“
Y is a memoir published by Simon and Schuster,
allegedly the first part of a 3-volume work, mainly covering
three points in Z’s life.

IS-1 Answers
• X = The Importance
of Being Earnest
• Y = Oscar Wilde
• U = Marquess of
Queensbury
• V = Alfred Douglas
• Z = Boxing

IS-2 Answers
• X = Robinson Crusoe
• Y = Daniel Defoe
• U = Alexander Selkirk
• V = Friday (Man Friday)
• W = In this story by Rousseau,
Robinson Crusoe is the only
book that the child is allowed
to read while growing up; and
identifying with him is a part of
the educational model

IS-3 Answers
• W = James Grant
• X = Lee Child
• Y = Jack Reacher
• Z = One Shot

IS-4 Answers
• X = Tarantula
• Y = Chronicles Volume one
• Z = Bob Dylan
• W = John Lennon

13. Funda?
A Farewell to Arms – “That is all there is to the story. Catherine died
and you will die and I will die and that is all I can promise you.”
Great Expectations - “I am greatly changed, I know, but I thought you
would like to shake hands with Estella too, Pip. Lift up that pretty child
and let me kiss it!” (She supposed the child, I think, to be my child. I
was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and
in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that
suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham’s teaching, and had
given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.”
A Handmaid’s Tale - “Give us a year or two and I hope you'll be
pleasantly surprised. I hope to be able to present the results of our
further Gileadian investigations to you at some future date.”

14. What work?
• Canadian mathematician Benjamin K. Tippett published(?) a paper
on arxiv.org on 29-10-2012 detailing a mathematical model to try
and understand the events as described in the book X by Y. The
paper titled “Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the south
pacific”, explores gravitational lensing and general space-time
parameters to explain the described phenomenon, but ultimately
concludes that while all the effects can be explained by the
aforementioned phenomenon the kind of matter required to
produce such a bubble is foreign and unknown to science, and of
the same cadre as the theoretical wormhole-producing matter.
Moreover, the model requires that time passes exponentially more
quickly on the outside of the bubble than on the inside. Such a
bubble of strange geometry could be used to endure vast aeons of
time while the universe outside it grows brittle with age. All this
makes the happenings in X possible!
Hint?

Hint D14
• The most wonderful thing in the world, in our
opinion, is the ability of the human mind to
correlate many seemingly unrelated pieces of
information into a jubilant whole.

HP Lovecraft, The Call of the Cthulhu

17. Funda? (Need the blanks too)

Poe and Verne, The Balloon Hoax, 5
weeks in a Balloon and Around the
world in 80 days

18. ID X
X connects these three. Think of 1950-1980.
(The Genre Science fiction is not the answer.)

Hint D18
• In 1958, Keyes was approached by X to write a
story, at which point the elements of Flowers
for Algernon fell into place. When the story
was submitted to X, however, editors of X
suggested changing the ending so that Charlie
retained his intelligence, married Alice
Kinnian, and lived happily ever after. Keyes
refused to make the change and sold the story
to a competitor.

Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine

Differential Languages
4N; N = Number of teams that
couldn’t answer

Lang name for 1-4 (Accents and
umlauts removed)
• Items one comma five comma seven approved
fullwise stop suggestion contained item six
doubleplus ridiculous verging _______ cancel
stop unproceed constructionwise antegetting
• Eca, a mitta lambetya cendelesse orcova; Melin
tirie hendutya sílale ya lalat
• Appy-polly loggies; Why is the bezoomy
baboochka creeching chepooka?; we chellovecks
use complex slovos to confuse the other vecks
from whom we crast some cutter
• Like jowling meated liverslime, Groop, I implore
thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And
hooptiously drangle me, With crinkly
bindlewurdles, mashurbitries.

5-8 (Only the works/books)
• ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves; Did gyre and gimble in
the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome
raths outgrabe.
• I put hem behind the oasthouse, sagd ______, tuning
wound on the teller, appeased to the cue, that double
dyode dealered, and he’s wallowing awash swill of the Tarra
water. And it marinned down his gargantast trombsathletic
like the marousers of the gulpstroom. The kersse of Wolafs
on him, shitateyar, he sagd in the fornicular, and, at weare
or not at weare, I’m sigen no stretcher,
• Hekinah degul, borach mivolah, Tolgo phonac, langro dehul
san
• Ph'nglui mglw'nafh _______ ______wgah'nagl fhtagn

Newspeak
• Items one comma
five comma seven
approved fullwise
stop suggestion
contained item six
doubleplus
ridiculous verging
crimethink cancel
stop unproceed
constructionwise
antegetting

Elven (Quenya, to be specific)
• Eca, a mitta lambetya
cendelessë orcova;
Melin tirië hendutya
sílalë yá lalat
• Translation: Go french
kiss an orc; I love to see
your eyes shine when
you laugh

Nadsat
• Appy-polly loggies;
Why is the bezoomy
baboochka creeching
chepooka?; we
chellovecks use
complex slovos to
confuse the other
vecks from whom we
crast some cutter

Vogon Poetry (HHGTG)
• Like jowling meated
liverslime, Groop, I
implore thee, my foonting
turlingdromes, And
hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly
bindlewurdles,
mashurbitries. Or else I
shall rend thee in the
gobberwarts with my
blurglecruncheon,

Jaberwocky; Lewis Caroll
• ’Twas brillig, and the
slithy toves; Did gyre
and gimble in the
wabe; All mimsy were
the borogoves, And
the mome raths
outgrabe.

Finnegan’s Wake
• I put hem behind the oasthouse, sagd
Pukkelsen, tuning wound on the teller,
appeased to the cue, that double dyode
dealered, and he’s wallowing awash
swill of the Tarra water. And it marinned
down his gargantast trombsathletic like
the marousers of the gulpstroom. The
kersse of Wolafs on him, shitateyar, he
sagd in the fornicular, and, at weare or
not at weare, I’m sigen no stretcher,
• A polyglot-language or idioglossia solely
for the purpose of this work. This
language is composed of composite
words from some sixty to seventy world
languages, combined to form puns, or
portmanteau words and phrases
intended to convey several layers of
meaning at once.

Gulliver’s travels; Lilliputian
• Hekinah degul,
borach mivolah,
Tolgo phonac,
langro dehul san

The call of the Cthulhu
• ph'nglui mglw'nafh
cthulhu R'lyeh
wgah'nagl fhtagn
• In his house
at R'lyeh, dead
Cthulhu waits
dreaming

19. ID the missing entry of the
exhaustive list

20. ID X
The End of the Trail is a
sculpture located in Waupun,
Wisconsin, United States.
The statue was sculpted by
James Earle Fraser. It is a
supposed inspiration for X by
E. Michael Mitchell. X is
supposed to depict a scene
from this particular book and
also stands for the
symbolism of horses
throughout the book.
Hint?

• The symbolism goes as thus.
• A school advertisement features a fancy guy on a
horse jumping over the fence, perhaps
metaphorical for the school turning boys into
men, helping them ‘jump the fence’ into
adulthood.
• ‘Horsing around’ repeatedly appears in the text.
• The implied connotations of impalement in the
original sculpture also stand for the death of
childhood.

Cover art for The catcher in the Rye

21. ID the genre
Y was a movement within horror fiction in the 1980s,
distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence
and "hyperintensive horror with no limits”. The term was
coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy
Convention in Providence, Rhode Island. Y is regarded as a
revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror
story”, defined as a "literary genre characterised by
graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature."
Michael Shea's short fiction "The Autopsy" (1980) has been
described as a "proto-Y" story.
The slapstick genre, when clubbed with gory violence, forms
something called a _____, which is a slight modification of
“Slapstick”. This dash is also related to Y.

22. ID the reference
• The Abominable snow rabbit clip of looney
tunes

24. ID X
This literary figure had an
interesting array of job before
his/her fame as a writer. He/She
worked as an editor for Adventure, a
pulp magazine, writing filler
paragraphs (brief facts or amusing
anecdotes designed to fill small gaps
in page layout), advertising copy
and a few stories.
He/she also sold 14 short story plots
to Jack London, while a student, one
of which became the plot of
London’s novelwis

25. ID
• His dad found the National Review magazine in 1955. He wrote for
this conservative magazine for a while, but this came to an end in
2008 when he endorsed Barack Obama, his endorsement titled
“Sorry Dad, I’m voting for Obama”, published in the Daily Beast. He
eventually resigned from The National Review. Primarily an
American Political satirist, he is known for writing a series of
satirical novels. Having worked as a speech writer for George Bush,
his experience led to his novel, a satire on white house office
politics and political memoirs. (as suggested by the title) He has
also written non-fiction books, is an editor of the Forbes magazine
and has prolifically written for several newspapers including the
New york times, the wall street journal etc. He was awarded the
Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving
Medal for Literary Excellence.
Hint?

26. ID X and Y
• Originating in late 19th century, and formerly named after Arthur
Hind, the founder. Gilbert, a Harvard graduate, was hired as a clerk.
Later, he rose to become a partner, changing the name of the shop.
It was only in 1917 that Gilbert that entered in a partnership with
William, the father of who had just opened a book-printing
business in illinois that X became known by the name we now know
it by.
• Y was originally started by Harvard Students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn,
Chris koyne and Eli Bolotin for a certain set of subjects but was later
expanded to include several more. Wanting to merge the “produce”
of Y with that of “X”, X bought Y, which seemed ironical since a lot
of people would anyway prefer the produce of Y over that of X.
• Most of us would have come across Y in the course of our school
years!

27. Funda?
• In response to the book X by Y,
this is a satirical print which
makes a play of words on /X.
Other portraits of X markedly
fail to display his curved spine
(caused by a tubercular
infection received at the age of
10). The satirist uses only the
initials of X to create a play on
the word ___; the use of initials
also being a reference to Y.

Iron Maiden
round!
ID the book. +10 Each

Song 1
• I've looked into the ________
Where the blood red journey ends
When you've faced the _________
Even your soul begins to bend
For a week I have been waiting
Still I am only in Saigon
The walls moves in a little closer
I feel the jungle call me on
Every minute I get weaker
While in the jungle they grow strong
What I wanted was a mission
And for my sins they gave me one
They brought it up just like room service
'Cause everyone gets what they want
And when that mission was all over
I'd never want another one
• I know, captain, that you've done this work before
We've got a problem you can help us I'm sure
The Colonel's gone rogue, and his methods are
unsound
You'll take a PBR up river; Track Him Down!
There's a conflict in every human heart
And the temptation is to take it all too far
In this war things get so confused
But there are some things which cannot be excused
He's acting [?] like a god - an insane lunatic
Your mission - exterminate with extreme prejudice
The route is dangerous and your progress may be
slow
Here is the file and it's all you need to know
Here I am the knife in my hand
And now I understand why the genius must die

Song 2
I remember it as plain as day
Although it happened in the dark of the night.
I was strolling through the streets of Paris
And it was cold it was starting to rain.
And then I heard a piercing scream
And I rushed to the scene of the crime
But all I found was the butchered remains
Of two girls lay side by side.
______________________
Someone call the Gendarmes
______________________
Run before the killers go free
There's some people coming down the street
At last there's someone heard my call
I can't understand why they're pointing at me
I never done nothing at all.
But I must have got some blood on my hands
Because everyone's shouting at me
I can't speak French so I couldn't explain
And like a fool I started running away.
______________________
______________________
And now I've gotta get away from the arms of the law.
All France is looking for me.
I've gotta find my way across the border for sure
Down the south to Italy.
Hint?

Song 3
• He is the King of all the land
In the Kingdom of the sands
Of a time tomorrow.
He rules the ______and the ____
In the land amongst the stars
Of an age tomorrow.
He is destined to be a King
He rules over everything
On the land called ______.
Bodywater is your life
And without in you would die
On the desert the _____.
• Without a stillsuit you would fry
On the sands so hot and dry
In a world called _____.
It is a land that's rich in spice
The ______and the 'mice'
That they call the _______'.
He is the ________.
He is born of _______
And will take the ________.
He has the power to foresee
Or to look into the past
He is the ruler of the stars.
Hint?

Song 4
And by the light of the moon
He prays for their beauty not doom
With heart he blesses them
God's creatures all of them too.
………
Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
See them stir and they start to rise
Bodies lifted by good spirits
None of them speak and they're lifeless in their
eyes
And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.

Song 5
• It's snowing outside the rumbling sound
of engines roar in the night,
The mission is near the confident men
are waiting to drop from the sky.
The Blizzard goes on but still they must fly
No one should go ____________.
Bavarian alps that lay all around
they seem to stare from below,
The enemy lines a long time passed
are lying deep in the snow.
Into the night they fall through the sky
No one should fly ___________.
• They're closing in the fortress is near
it's standing high in the sky,
The cable car's the only way in
it's really impossible to climb.
They make their way but maybe too late
They've got to try to save the day.
The panicking cries the roaring of guns
are echoing all round the valley,
The mission complete they make to escape
away from the _____Nest.
They dared to go where no one would try
they chose to fly _____________.
Hint?

Song 1
• I've looked into the heart of darkness
Where the blood red journey ends
When you've faced the heart of Darkness
Even your soul begins to bend
For a week I have been waiting
Still I am only in Saigon
The walls moves in a little closer
I feel the jungle call me on
Every minute I get weaker
While in the jungle they grow strong
What I wanted was a mission
And for my sins they gave me one
They brought it up just like room service
'Cause everyone gets what they want
And when that mission was all over
I'd never want another one
• I know, captain, that you've done this work before
We've got a problem you can help us I'm sure
The Colonel's gone rogue, and his methods are
unsound
You'll take a PBR up river; Track Him Down!
There's a conflict in every human heart
And the temptation is to take it all too far
In this war things get so confused
But there are some things which cannot be excused
He's acting [?] like a god - an insane lunatic
Your mission - exterminate with extreme prejudice
The route is dangerous and your progress may be
slow
Here is the file and it's all you need to know
Here I am the knife in my hand
And now I understand why the genius must die

Song 2
I remember it as plain as day
Although it happened in the dark of the night.
I was strolling through the streets of Paris
And it was cold it was starting to rain.
And then I heard a piercing scream
And I rushed to the scene of the crime
But all I found was the butchered remains
Of two girls lay side by side.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
There's some people coming down the street
At last there's someone heard my call
I can't understand why they're pointing at me
I never done nothing at all.
But I must have got some blood on my hands
Because everyone's shouting at me
I can't speak French so I couldn't explain
And like a fool I started running away.
Murders in the Rue morgue
And now I've gotta get away from the arms of the law.
All France is looking for me.
I've gotta find my way across the border for sure
Down the south to Italy.
Hint?

Song 3
•
He is the King of all the land
Of a time tomorrow.
He rules the sand worms and the Fremen
Of an age tomorrow.
On the land called planet Dune.
On the desert the planet Dune.
Without a stillsuit you would fry
In a world called Arrakis.
The sandriders and the 'mice'
That they call the 'Muad' Dib'.
• He is the Kwizatz Haderach.
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar.
The time will come for him
to lay claim his crown,
And then the foe yes
they'll be cut down,
You'll see he'll be the
best that there's been,
Messiah supreme
true leader of men,
And when the time
for judgement's at hand,
Don't fret he's strong
and he'll make a stand,
Against evil the fire
that spreads through the land,
He has the power
to make it all end.
•
Hint?

Minimalists, Doodles and Comics
+5 each

Answers Continued…
Anne of green
Gables,
L M
Montgomery
Jane Eyre,
Charlotte Bronte

Answers still continued…
• The Gift of the Magi

Hint P7
• From Henry VI Part III,
• I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous _______to school.

Hint P14
• This is a part of a 6-part work, built during the
2006 FIFA World Cup by Scholz & Friends.

Hint P16
• _______ is an Indian dish, which is a side dish and
tangy, adding flavour to the main course of any
meal. _____ is a noun form and is understood as
such in English. By adding “-fication”, Rushdie
changes an Indian word into an English one to
stand for transformation. Therefore “X” in the
novel means transformation of English having an
additional connotation of making the language
used in the novel tangy and more flavoursome
and exciting.

Hint P21
Kanika
Drona
Dhritarashtra
Pandu
266

Hint Song 3
• He is the King of all the land
Of a time tomorrow.
He rules the Sandworms and the
Fremen
Of an age tomorrow.
On the land called ______.
On the desert the _____.
• Without a stillsuit you would fry
In a world called _____.
The sandriders and the 'mice'
That they call the ‘Muad’Dib
He is the Kwizatz Haderach
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar

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