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Finals of the MELA quiz conducted in the Quiz Fest of Hansraj in 2011.

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1X has stated that Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress (USA release 1962) was a strong influence, particularly Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe. Y was partly inspired by the robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Douglas Trumbull's 1972 film Silent Running. The name is said to derive from when X was making one of his earlier films. Sound editor Walter Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for Y. Murch asked for something. Y, who was in the room and had dozed off while working on the script for the movie, momentarily woke when he heard the request and, after asking for clarification, stated that it was a "great name" before falling immediately back to sleep. In some Spanish-speaking countries, Y is frequently referred to as Arturito ("little Arthur").

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2• X is an Indian news satire website that publishes fake news reports containing satire on politics

and society of India. The website also publishes occasional serious articles related to television journalism in India. The website was launched on September 15, 2008. X is one of the few websites or blogs in India using the tools of sarcasm and humor to publish news satire, as is widely done in the western countries, a trend pioneered by Y of USA. According to the latest Alexa rankings, X lies second, although a distant second, to Y among all the news satire websites in English.

• Y is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 400,000 and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old. Y's articles comment on current events, both real and fictional. It parodies such traditional newspaper features as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes on a traditional newspaper layout with an AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline, "Drugs Win Drug War."

• A second part of the newspaper is a non-satirical entertainment section called The A.V. Club that features interviews and reviews of various newly released media, as well as other weekly features. The print edition also contains restaurant reviews and previews of upcoming live entertainment specific to cities where a print edition is published. The online incarnation of The A.V. Club has its own domain, includes its own regular features, A.V. Club blogs and reader forums, and presents itself as a separate entity from Y itself.

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• Charles Martinet is an American actor and voice actor who has made cameos in ER, NYPD Blue and Californians. However, he is immortalized for his ‘role’ as something else. While auditioning for this role, Martinet, at first, planned to talk with a deep, raspy voice He then thought to himself that it would be too harsh for little children to hear, so he made it more soft-hearted and friendly. Which role?

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• ADORATION OF THE MAGI, SANDRO BOTICELLI

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• Inspired by many critic’s complaints about the harsh British and cockney accents of the characters in his first feature length movie, this director decided to counter the criticisms by creating a character that not only could not be understood by the audience but also couldn’t be understood by the characters in the movie! Which movie and which character?

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6Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States, the song also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to look forward to. The song was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned the song down. Thereafter, it was offered to Y. The song was not initially a hit in the United States, where it sold fewer than 1,000 copies because the head of ABC Records did not like the song and so did not promote it, but was a major success in the United Kingdom, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S. the song hit #116 on the Bubbling Under Charts. It was also the biggest-selling single of 1968 in the UK where it was among the last pop singles issued by HMV Records before becoming an exclusive classical music label. A Willie Nelson version also was used for the "Don't Mess With Texas" anti-littering public service announcement campaign. The Y version was also used during a sequence in Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine, where it accompanies scenes of violence in a montage about United States intervention in international affairs.

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Marquis de Sade

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Nathuram Godse

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• The X line is an informal term used in baseball for the threshold of incompetent hitting. Even though X's lifetime batting average is .215, the X Line is said to occur at .200, and when a position player's batting average falls below that level, the player is said to be below the X Line. It is often thought of as the offensive threshold below which a player's presence in Major League Baseball cannot be justified despite his defensive abilities. Pitchers are not held to this standard, since their specialized work and infrequent batting requires less hitting competence. How has this graph been made popular today?

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The Mendoza Diagonal

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These are rated on something called the Hynek Scale. Going in ascending order: SightingObservation and associated physical effects_______ _______ _____ ______ _________ _______Included later-AbductionJoint bilateral contactDeath or even physical injury Hybridization or mating

Fill in the blanks to get the title of a movie

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• The X device was an unshielded, pulsed nuclear reactor originally situated at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, U.S. It was one of a number of criticality devices within Technical Area 18 (TA-18). Specifically, it was used to produce bursts of neutrons and gamma rays for irradiating test samples, and inspired development of Godiva-like reactors. It received its name from Otto Frisch, who called it X because it was 'naked and unshielded'.

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Godiva Device

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Constantin Brâncuşi

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SVC

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+20/-15

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+15/-10

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+10/-5

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ANSWER

• All real life characters played by Johnny Depp.

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F.G. Abberline- From Hell

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John Wilmot- The Libertine

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Ed Wood Jr.- Ed Wood

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George Jung- Blow

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J.M. Barrie- Finding Neverland

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Hunter S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Donnie Brasco- Donnie Brasco

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John Dillinger- Public Enemies

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2Film and television

Year Title Role Notes

1982 Fire and Sword Tristan

1986 Wahnfried Nietzsche

1995 Catherine the Great Mirovich

1996 Inspector Rex Episode "The Doll Murderer" Herr Wolf TV

1998 The Final Game Kant

1998 Love Scenes From Planet Earth Charly TV

2000 Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express Brian

2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal Peter

2000 Falling Rocks Louis TV

2003 Herr Lehmann Doctor

2007 Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast TV

2007 Die Verzauberung Dr. Helmut Bahr TV

2008 Das Geheimnis im Wald Hans Kortmann TV

2008 Todsünde Sebastian Flies TV

2008 Das jüngste Gericht Peters TV

2009

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In some of his letters to his sister, X says about the city Tomsk, "Tomsk is a very dull town. To judge from the drunkards whose acquaintance I have made, and from the intellectual people who have come to the hotel to pay their respects to me, the inhabitants are very dull, too.“ These letters from X to his sister were to become notorious.In retaliation, the inhabitants of Tomsk erected a mocking statue of X.X?

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Anton Chekhov

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Courtship In Sleepy Hollow, or Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel

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X said this about Y:“Landscape is nothing but an Z, and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a thing done in Le Havre, from my window, sun in the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in the foreground....They asked me for a title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: 'Put Z.'

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X-Claude MonetY- Impression, Sunrise

Z-Impressionism

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• The couple used a time-delay camera to take nude photographs of themselves for the album's cover. The front showed them frontally nude, while the rear showed them from behind. The cover provoked an outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a plain brown wrapper. Copies of the album were impounded as obscene in several jurisdictions (including 30,000 copies in New Jersey). X commented that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the pair were rather unattractive (and the photo unflattering; X described it later as a picture of "two slightly overweight ex-junkies").

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• Litsea reticulata is a common Australian tree, growing from near Milton, New South Wales to the Bunya Mountains, Queensland. Common names include X, Y and Brown Beech. The habitat of the Brown Beech is rainforest of most types, except the dry or littoral rainforests. A very significant entertainment connect. What?

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• BOLLYWOOD!

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8• X’s art became familiar to millions through his many television

appearances. His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman Show of Shows won him an Emmy Award. He appeared on the BBC as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol in 1973. He was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and Dinah Shore, and he also had his own one-man show entitled "Meet X". He teamed with Red Skelton in three concerts of pantomimes.X also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as First Class, in which he played 17 roles, Shanks, where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and a cameo as himself in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, in which, with purposeful irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word "No!" when Brooks asks him (subtitled) if he would participate in the film

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Marcel Marcaeu

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10• JULIET:

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call _____________________________________; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.

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“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

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12• X was known for his deft adaptation of the classical musical tradition for

movies. For some movies like Baiju Bawra, he composed all scores in classical raga modes. He could easily work with Western instruments, including the clarinet, the mandolin, and the accordion. He could incorporate Western musical idioms in his compositions, and compose for Western-style orchestras. He was one of the first to introduce sound mixing and the separate recording of voice and music tracks in playback singing. He was the first to combine the flute and the clarinet, the sitar and mandolin. He also introduced the accordion to Bollywood film music and was among the first to concentrate on background music to extend characters’ moods and dialogue through music. He set Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's verse, Unki yaad kare, to song in 2006, rendered by A. Hariharan in lead voice with 40 chorus singers, produced by Keshav Communications. The poem is dedicated to those who have lost their lives defending the country's border. X?

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• A new edition of the classic X by Y is missing something, throughout the book. 219 times in all. It has been substituted by a more ‘politically correct’ term by the Alabama based publisher New South Books. The same thing happened to another word throughout the book. Alan Gribben, a professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, approached the publisher with the idea in July last year. Here it must be stated that Y must be rolling in his grave as he was considered to be very particular about his words. Once when a printer made punctuation changes to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain wrote later that he had “given orders for the typesetter to be shot without giving him time to pray!”

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• X- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn• Y- Mark Twain

• Words: ‘nigger’’slave’

– ‘injun’’indian’

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14• He is the supreme boss of a terrorist syndicate network operating

worldwide. Originally he was a gangster called Robert Sheen. Another gangster called L Salvano tried to kill him by bombs but he survived as Doctor Schilder saved him. Another doctor Marian Cole was taking care of Sheen because he liked her. Doctor Schilder loved Marian but decided to ask her to marry Sheen so that she could prevent him from becoming a criminal. However, the first thing Sheen did after marriage was the brutal murder of Salvano. He entered the world of Crime but took great care not to let Marian know about this. When Marian came to know about this she decided to leave him. She left his house when she was pregnant. She began living with her mother. There she gave birth to a baby girl . He has extraordinary physical abilities. His body is immune to the poison of Mamba snake.

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Surendra Mohan Pathak

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LVC

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+5/-0

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