Music, Movies and Media Quiz

(appropriate euphemism for a MELA Quiz)

ID the lady.

Sushma Swaraj

What is so special about these books?

First 10 books published by Penguin

• X was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt. Brandt was to all intents and purposes a dedicated antifascist. (At the time, a number of Swedish parliamentarians had nominated then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin for the Nobel Peace Prize, a nomination which Brandt viewed with great skepticism. ) The nomination was swiftly withdrawn in a letter dated 1 February 1939.

Hitler

Id the artist. These etchings are for which book?

Henri Matisse for Ulysses

ID Poet

A B Vajpayee

• The term X Y, which came into usage around 1820, owes its origin to the notorious shrewdness of X traders who bought and sold X. As per Macmillan English Dictionary, it means difficult and sometimes dishonest discussions between people who are trying to reach an agreement.

Horse Trading

• A poem written by a 17-year-old X, in which the he manages to successfully pull off rhyming "futile" with "mute, while", and "exhausted" with "of course did", has been discovered in a cupboard at his old school.

• Archivist Stacey Harmer was digging through piles of documents at Brentwood school when she came across a series of books featuring poems written as part of the initiation to the upper-sixth's literary society, Candlesticks. Noting that the poems, written between 1950 and 1983, spanned the period during which X attended the school, she managed to track down the late author's effort.

• Written in January 1970, when X would have been 17, the poem is entitled "A Dissertation on the task of writing a poem on a candle and an account of some of the difficulties thereto pertaining", and stretches to two pages. "For nights I sat musing / And musing ... and musing / Whilst burning the midnight oil; / My scratchings seemed futile / My muse seemed quite mute, while / My work proved to be barren toil," writes the schoolboy who would go on to become one of the UK's most loved authors. "I puzzled and thought and wrestled and fought / 'Till my midnight oil was exhausted, / So I furthered my writing by dim candle lighting, / And found, to my joy, this of course did / The trick."

Douglas Adams

ID the author.

Narendra Modi

• X is a term used in Pakistan to sometimes describe the immigrants from other parts of the South Asia and their descendants, who chose to settle in Pakistan and shifted their domicile after independence of Pakistan from British rule. Some had participated in the movement for a state of Pakistan in 1947. Most migrants migrated from the Muslim minority provinces to Muslim majority provinces within the British Raj.

• X identity no longer exists in Punjab as most of the people who adopted Punjab as their home adopted the Punjabi identity and have been assimilated into local culture and are identified geographically as Punjabis like other residents. Also the migrants remained active in local politics of the Punjab. General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was of X origin and he was born in the Indian Punjab and later migrated. Similarly famous politician of PMLNKhawaja Saad Rafique is the son of Khwaja Muhammad Rafique who migrated from Indian Punjab to Pakistani Punjab after the independence of Pakistan in 1947.

Mujahir

• A victor gives X when the victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life in return for the surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender) of a vanquished opponent.

• Under the laws of war, "....it is especially forbidden....to declare that X will be given". This was established under Article 23 (d) of the 1907 Hague Convention IV - The Laws and Customs of War on Land.

• Since a judgment on the law relating to war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in October 1946, the 1907 Hague Convention, including the explicit prohibition to declare that X will be given, are considered to be part of the customary laws of war and are binding on all parties in an international armed conflict.

• The reason I am asking this is because X is also a song by English rock band Y.

No QuarterLed Zeppelin

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga• The lyrics address aspects of a bad relationship, but also reference

fashion in the line, "Walk, walk fashion baby, Work it move that bitch crazy." In an interview, Gaga pointed out that in the verse, “……………………………..", she was listing films of X; she said, "What I'm really trying to say is I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.”

• Todd Martens of theLos Angeles Times said that the video brought back his faith in performance art, and that "Gaga brings enough [drama] on her own, thank you very much." He also thought the set for the video "worthy of a feature-length film". Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone felt that the scenes from the music video were reminiscent of the work of Y. He added that in "Bad Romance" Gaga portrays her craziest ideas yet.

X- HitchcockY- Kubrick

Track Lists for Dead man walking(1996). FITB.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

ConnectThe Outrage(1964)A fistful of dollars (1964)The Hidden Fortress(1958)Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope (1977)The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Hollwood Remakes of Kurosawa movies

From 1000 albums you must listen to before you die.

• 8 albums: X• 7 albums: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Neil Young• 6 albums: Elvis Costello (and The Attractions), The Rolling

Stones• 5 albums: The Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Iggy Pop (and The

Stooges), Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, The Who.

• 4 albums: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, PJ Harvey, The Kinks, Metallica, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Radiohead, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, U2,Stevie Wonder

David Bowie

ID the lyricist.

Salman Rushdie

X about their album Y which never actually came out

• The proposed LP was to feature the band leaving their traditional instruments behind and perform only on a variety of household items and appliances — including hand mixers, wine glasses, aerosol spray cans and rubber bands. “So we’d spend days getting a pencil and a rubber band till it sounded like a bass … spend weeks and weeks doing this. [Drummer] would find old sauce pans and stuff, and then deaden them to try and make them sound exactly like a snare drum.

Household ObjectsPink Floyd

When Keshav Prasad Mishra’s novel Kohbar Ki Shart went out of print towards the end of 2012, very few people took notice. This is perhaps unsurprising, since the novel had never been a bestseller: first published in 1965, its second reprint in 2007 comprised a mere 1,100 copies, some of which remained unsold until last year. Yet, it is possible to imagine that it might have had a healthier commercial life, considering that it was the inspiration for the blockbuster film X.

Hum Aapke hain kaun

• “I remember going to see my first film of his at 15 and witnessing a whole new world presented visually before my eyes. Without a doubt, in his films the line between poetry and cinema, dissolved… His work is something that I personally cannot wait to show my own daughter, once she is old enough to understand them.”

• X is talking about Y. Watching his films, X did more than file them away for his daughter, too: when he was making Z(1976), it’s a fair bet he was referring to his notes from W.

• X- Scorcese• Y- Satyajit Ray• Z- Taxi Driver

From the notes of Abhijan ,released in 1962

• Its lead character, Narsingh, is a taxi driver. Sure, he’s not a Vietnam veteran, and he never opts for a Mohican – but he is a volatile sort. A Rajput (a warrior caste), he’s been reduced to far lower social status than he feels he deserves, and vents his frustration and disillusionment by drinking. After an unwise passing manoeuvre on some local bigwigs, he flees to the sticks, gets involved with some opium smugglers, falls in love with a prostitute, and sets about rescuing from her sleazy associates. Frankly, the influence could only be clearer if Jodie Foster played her.

• Of course, the films aren’t completely identical. Narsingh never thinks about assassinating any politicians, the mellow Ray had problems directing the film’s one fight scene, and we’re not sure how many porn cinemas there were in 1960s Bengal. Still, it’s impossible not to see the overlaps – and Scorsese’s not the only Ray fan in Hollywood, too: a well-known script by Ray is about a benevolent alien stranded on earth who befriends a group of children.

What is this?

“I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. These lyrics---which are in the original, full of subtlety of rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical invention---display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my live long. The work of a supreme culture, they yet appear as much the growth of the common soil as the grass and the rushes. A tradition, where poetry and religion are the same thing, has passed through the centuries, gathering from learned and unlearned metaphor and emotion, and carried back again to the multitude the thought of the scholar and of the noble.”

• Introduction to Gitanjali by WB Yeats.

Maurice Jarre on winning Academy Award for best original score in 1985 for A passage to India

I was lucky X was not eligible this year. I thank all the Academy, but especially my colleagues, composer, who nominated me this year of the music branch. Thank you very much. David, thank you for the fourth time. And just all my friends all over the world, from Australia to Italy, by France, England, thank you. Thank you, everybody.

X- Mozart

Amadeus released in 1984

Top 20 books by women authors according to the jury of the women’s prize for fiction

• X• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte• Harry Potter – J.K Rowling• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen• Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott• The Secret History – Donna Tartt• I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath• Beloved – Toni Morrison• Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell• We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver• The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger• Middlemarch – George Eliot• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou• The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing• The Colour Purple – Alice Walker• The Women’s Room – Marilyn French

• To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee