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Kalaghoda Arts Festival - Literature Quiz - Prelims
The document provides a summary of the prelims section of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival Literature Quiz 2012. It includes 25 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of authors, literary works and characters. The questions cover topics ranging from Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time to Wislawa Szymborska's poem "Photograph from September 11".
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- 1. The Kala GhodaArts Festival Literature Quiz 2012 The Bombay Quiz Club Anannya Deb Sumant Srivathsan Vibhendu Tewari
- 2. WARM UP Where inBombay can you see this black horse statue?
- 3. WARM UP WHERE INBOMBAY CAN YOU SEE THIS BLACK HORSE STATUE?
- 4. WARM UP At theByculla Zoo
- 5. Kala Ghoda ArtsFestival Literature Quiz 2012 THE PRELIMS
- 6. The Basics • 25questions • Please be legible. If we can‟t read your answer, it‟s wrong. • Last names are good, unless specified. For titles of works, exact answers are required. • There is no negative scoring. Leave no question unanswered. • Starred questions will be used to break ties. Failing which, we will provide swords. • Mobile phones are detrimental to healthy quizzing. Turn them off. • There are lots of audios and videos. Silence is appreciated. All the best.
- 7. Prelims 1 What isthe opening line of Madeleine L‟Engle‟s A Wrinkle in Time, a winner of the Newbery Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and a runner-up for the Hans Christian Anderson Award?
- 8. Prelims 1 -Answer It was a dark and stormy night.
- 9. Prelims 2 The lackof English translations did not stop Agatha Christie from issuing this imprimatur - “I don't know Urdu but have knowledge of detective novels of the Sub-continent. There is only one original writer - ____ ____”. Who was Christie referring to?
- 10. Prelims 2 -Answer Ibne Safi, meaning “the son of the pure”, the pseudonym used by Asrar Ahmed
- 11. Prelims 3 Which all-timeclassic of American literature inspires the recent Audi Quattro commercial? (Video Removed)
- 12. Prelims 3 -Answer Moby Dick. This Audi Quattro ad titled „Ahab‟ from Jan 2012 reimagines Herman Melville‟s struggle between an obsessive captain and an elusive white whale as a story of a tow-truck driver haunted by an Audi.
- 13. Prelims 4 For hiscourage in capturing the Volscian city in 493 BC, Cominius, the Roman general leading the campaign, announced to all that Caius Marcius “Wears the war‟s garland” and as he was the conqueror of the Volscian city, asked everyone to “call him, with all the applause and clamour of the host, CAIUS MARCIUS __________”. Fill in the blanks.
- 14. Prelims 4 -Answer Coriolanus, the conqueror of Corioli.
- 15. Prelims 5 Identify thewriter in the visual.
- 16. Prelims 5 Identify thislady writer in the visual.
- 17. Prelims 5 -Answer Harper Lee, in the gallery of the Monroeville, AB courthouse she made famous.
- 18. Prelims 6 Fill inthe blanks.
- 19. Prelims 6 -Answer Ravan and Eddie
- 20. Prelims 7 In war,when a city‟s defenders choose to abandon any further military action, the opposing forces would be expected to march in, and not attack forces or destroy property. The goal is to prevent damage to historical monuments and loss of human life. Some famous examples from World War II include: • Brussels and Paris in 1940 • Belgrade in 1941 • Manila in 1942 • Rome in 1943 What is the term applied to towns placed under these circumstances?
- 21. Prelims 7 -Answer Open city
- 22. Prelims 8 According tothe British tabloid press, Pippa Middleton is currently in a relationship with George Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland. He is known by a nickname, derived from his residence, Alnwick Castle, shown below. What is this nickname?
- 23. Prelims 8 According tothe British tabloid press, Pippa Middleton is currently in a relationship with George Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland. He is known by a nickname, derived from his residence, Alnwick Castle, shown below. What is this nickname?
- 24. Prelims 8 -Answer The Earl of Hogwarts, because Alnwick Castle was used to represent the school in the Harry Potter movies.
- 25. Prelims 9 Penguin Inkis a series of limited edition reprints of popular novels with new covers, launched in 2010 to commemorate 75 years of Penguin. What is special about the series?
- 26. Prelims 9 Penguin Inkis a series of limited edition reprints of popular novels with new covers, launched in 2010 to commemorate 75 years of Penguin. What is special about the series?
- 27. Prelims 9 -Answer The covers have all been designed by leading tattoo artists.
- 28. Prelims 10 Name thisfamous amateur lepidopterist.
- 29. Prelims 10 Name thisfamous amateur entomologist.
- 30. Prelims 10 -Answer Vladimir Nabokov
- 31. Prelims 11 In theDastangoi universe of sub-continental folklore and also in Arabic fantasy literature, Koh-e-Kaf is the land of djinns (genies) and paris (fairies). Historians put the location of Koh e-Kaf to a narrow strip of 1,000 km by 600 km somewhere around the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, fitting into the Caucasus range spread over Russia, Romania and Armenia/Turkey. The literal translation of Koh-e-Kaf is very similar to what a 20th Century author decided to call a geographical feature in his fictional universe. What does Koh-e-Kaf translate to?
- 32. Prelims 11 -Answer Koh-e-Kaf translates to Mountain of Mist. In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, the Misty Mountains run between Eriador and the valley of the Anduin, and from Mount Gundabad to Methedras.
- 33. Prelims 12 Queen Olympiatells the Oracle of Dodona of a dream that she had, of a snake entering her and leaving its seed inside her. The Oracle interprets this by saying that her child would be the offspring of Zeus. Thus begins which trilogy, the first volume of which was published in 1998?
- 34. Prelims 12 -Answer The Alexander trilogy by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- 35. Prelims 13 Ukiyo-e, thepredominant artistic genre in Japan, is a form of woodblock printing and painting that gained prominence in the 17th Century. In his Ukiyo Monogatari, Asai Ryōi defines ukiyo as: … Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; … refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call the ________ _____… The titular narrator of a novel set in post-WWII Japan is a practitioner struggling to come to terms with changes to his society, with decadence and pleasure becoming a thing of the past. Name the novel.
- 36. Prelims 13 -Answer An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 37. Prelims 14 The authorsays “On a walk through Mochudi, north of Gaborone, I met a woman who gave a chicken to the people with whom I was staying. I remember thinking at the time: This is a remarkable woman – I wonder what her life story is. I never found out, but this meeting made me think that one day I would like to write about such a woman – resourceful, amusing, and intelligent. Then, out of my subconscious, knocking on the door so to speak, came ________ ________. I wrote a short story about her, and then discovered that I liked her and wanted to continue to record her life.” Which author, and the character? (No Part Points)
- 38. Prelims 14 -Answer Alexander McCall Smith and Mma Ramotswe from his No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
- 39. Prelims 15 Identify theauthor.
- 40. Prelims 15 Identify theauthor.
- 41. Prelims 15 -Answer Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
- 42. Prelims 16 The followingquotes are by two writers who have explored the same myth, one in a 1959 Marathi novel, and the other in a 1961 Kannada play. Name the title and the two authors.
- 43. Prelims 16 Thefollowing quotes are by two writers who have explored the same myth, one in a 1959 Marathi novel, and the other in a 1961 Kannada play. ______‟s tale is a subsidiary part of the As I said, my first play ______ was about Mahabharata. It is not the central theme. A Name the title and the two authors.myths. And the first play I wrote on my way writer of fiction would be guilty of to England, ______ is very much like transgression if he made any basic change Antigone, although at that time it seemed in the character of Rama and Sita or to me that I picked up the theme from Krishna and Draupadi. But the same rule nowhere. Now I find it had a certain does not hold in respect of secondary relevance. The relevance was that it is characters…It is for this reason that the about adults, the elder generation Shakuntala of Kalidas is a little different demanding of younger generation that the from that of Vyas. The Rambhadra of younger generation should sacrifice itself, Bhavabhuti is not the Rama of the first should give its use. ______ is a king who poet. Thus it is that ______ the novel is in the prime of his life is cursed to old age different from ______ the character in and goes around asking people, “Will you Mahabharata. take my old age?”
- 44. Prelims 16 -Answer Yayati. V. S. Khandekar‟s 1959 Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel and Girish Karnad‟s 1961 debut play
- 45. Prelims 17 Ismat Chughtai‟snovel Ajeeb Aadmi (A Very Strange Man) is about a suicidal actor-director Dharam Dev, his doomed passion for his discovery Zarina Jamaal, a dancer from Madras whom he grooms into a great actress, and Dev‟s playback-singer wife Mangala. What three-word phrase best describes such a novel?
- 46. Prelims 17 -Answer Roman à clef, French for "novel with a key", is form of literature about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction, popularised by Madeleine de Scudery in the 17th Century through her thinly veiled stories featuring political and public figures. Chughtai‟s novel is about Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman & Geeta Dutt.
- 47. Prelims 18 On 11March 1963, Col. Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry became the last person in France to be executed by firing squad. The crime of which he was convicted forms the prologue of a work of fiction. The rest of the novel is a fictional account of events that aimed to achieve what he had failed to do. Name the novel.
- 48. Prelims 18 -Answer He attempted and failed to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. What follows is the plot of Frederick Forsyth‟s The Day of the Jackal.
- 49. Prelims 19 This isa file photo of a bureaucrat, shot in a setting which, several years later, became the milieu of his debut novel. Identify him.
- 50. Prelims 19 This isa file photo of an acclaimed debut novelist shot in a setting which became the milieu of his book. Identify him.
- 51. Prelims 19 -Answer Jamil Ahmad, author of The Wandering Falcon
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- 54. Prelims 20 -Answer Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, brothers and writers.
- 55. Prelims 21 A Benchby the Road is a 2006 project established in honour of a litterateur's 75th birthday. The project‟s name is inspired from the novelist‟s remarks in an 1989 interview: "There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves … There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath, or wall, or park, or skyscraper lobby. There's no 300-foot tower, there's no small bench by the road. There is not even a tree scored, an initial that I can visit or you can visit in Charleston or Savannah or New York or Providence or better still on the banks of the Mississippi. And because such a place doesn't exist … the book had to.“ Name the novelist, and the book.
- 56. Prelims 21 A Benchby the Road is a 2006 project consisting of roadside benches in honour of a litterateur's 75th birthday. The project‟s name is inspired from the novelist‟s remarks in an 1989 interview: "There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves … There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath, or wall, or park, or skyscraper lobby. There's no 300-foot tower, there's no small bench by the road. There is not even a tree scored, an initial that I can visit or you can visit in Charleston or Savannah or New York or Providence or better still on the banks of the Mississippi. And because such a place doesn't exist … the book had to.“ Name the novelist, and the book.
- 57. Prelims 21 -Answer Toni Morrison, Beloved
- 58. Prelims 22 David Peterson,a language expert, explains his process for creating a new language based on a small sample of words present in a series of books for a warrior tribe whose world revolves around their horses. What language was he building for use in the television adaptation of the same series of books? (Question Modified / Audio Removed)
- 59. Prelims 22 -Answer Dothraki, for HBO‟s adaptation of George R. R. Martin‟s The Game of Thrones, the first book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
- 60. Prelims 23 Identify thewriter of the poem heard in this classic Levi‟s “Your Life…” commercial. (Question Modified / Video Removed)
- 61. Prelims 23 -Answer Charles Bukowski. The poem is The Laughing Heart.
- 62. Prelims 24 Name thecharacter and the poem from this still (Question Modified / Video Removed)
- 63. Prelims 24 Name thecharacter and the poem.
- 64. Prelims 24 -Answer Allen Ginsberg, played by James Franco, reciting Howl in the film of the same name.
- 65. Prelims 25 Name theNobel Prize winner who wrote these lines based on the photograph? The reader is reading from a translation of the original poem. (Question Modified / Audio Removed)
- 66. Prelims 25 Name theNobel Prize winner who wrote these lines? The reader is reading from a translation of the original poem.
- 67. Prelims 25 -Answer Wislawa Szymborska – Photograph from September 11, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislav Baranczak.