MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT
LITERATURE
ART
ON 8th June 2025
10:30 am onwards at
Quiz BY-
a. HARISH
b. RIKESH
Round 1: Musique
Question 1
The top 30 most viewed YouTube videos are all songs — Despacito is #2, See You Again is #6, Shape of You is #7, Gangnam Style is #9, Uptown Funk is #10.
At 15th place, with 4,651,092,172 views (as of 2PM yesterday), is the most viewed Indian YouTube video of all time: a song composed in the 16th century CE.
ID the song.
Answer 1
Hanuman Chalisa
By Tulsidas
Question 2
A certain sound was sampled and used to create the bass drone you hear in the background throughout this song. What?
Answer 2
The sound of bikes revving (as shown in the music video)
Question 3
A couple of clips from this BBC interview of a Punjabi poet were sampled by the hip-hop group Swet Shop Boys in a song that’s named for the poet.
Just name the poet / song.
Answer 3
Shiv Kumar Batalvi (1936—1973)
His most famous poem is probably Ikk Kudi Jihda Naam Mohabbat Ghum Hai, which was made into a song in Udta Punjab
Question 4
This band used to do session and soundtrack work for the BBC in the late 1960s and early 70s, before they became famous, hence the appearance of one of their songs in The Ascent of Man, a 1973 BBC documentary on the evolution of human society.
ID the band.
Answer 4
Pink Floyd
The song is called Careful With That Axe, Eugene — which is rather appropriate seeing that it talks about how humans changed themselves and the Earth forever when we learnt to make tools and specifically, weapons
Question 5
In 1979, Philip Glass composed an opera whose title is a 10-letter word that can be translated to “holding firmly to truth”.
The opera was the first in its language and was about an individual.
ID the language (5 pts) and who this opera was about (5 pts).
Answer 5
Sanskrit
Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi
The opera is called Satyagraha
Question 6
Another classical piece… Or is it?
ID the composer of this waltz.
Answer 6
A. R. Rahman
This is Waltz For A Romance in A Major featured in Lagaan
Question 7-B
This song, from the 1980 film Qurbani, won the Best Female Playback Award at the Filmfare Awards, which set two records for the singer.
The first record was the youngest ever winner in the category, at 15 years old.
The second record was that she became the first person from her country to win a Filmfare Award.
ID the singer and their country (5 pts each).
Answer 7-B
Nazia Hassan (1965—2000) R.I.P
Pakistan
Question 8
This song from a 1952 Hindi film is in a Carnatic raga that was borrowed into Hindustani classical by a 16th century composer, played by the actor-singer Surendra in the film.
It was performed often for a major historical figure as it was his favorite, and the setting of these performances gave the raga its name.
ID the 16th century composer. (5 pts)
What’s the Hindustani classical raga called? (5 pts)
Answer 8
Tansen
Raga Darbari
Because Akbar used to like listening to it in his darbar
Question 9
ID the film this is from (5 pts)
ID the character whose leitmotif this is (5 pts)
Answer 9
The Dark Knight
The Joker
The theme is called Why So Serious?
Question 10
Speaking of leitmotifs, these are the only two instances that the Fellowship theme is played with full orchestration during The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Otherwise, fragmented and incomplete variations of theme are played.
Why is the Fellowship theme never played in full except these two scenes?
Answer 10
This are the only times the Fellowship are all together
After these scenes, Gandalf falls at the Bridge of Khazad-um �and Boromir dies at Parth Galen
Oops, spoilers!
ENTERTAINMENT
3 QUESTIONS.�+10 PER PART.
IPB E1
1
The Soundtrack of the movie shown below has 2 tracks by the singer, X, doing a cameo. While it has 14 tracks sung by another male singer, Y.
The answer is
Mohit Chauhan�Diljit Dosanjh
2
St. Peter’s School and New Era High School are in Panchgani, MH.
The second half of the movie Y, released around 2 decades back, was majorly shot at the New Era High School.
In 1954, at the age of eight, X (a singer) was sent to study at St. Peter's School. In the spring of 1964, X and his family fled to England. X studied at the Isleworth Polytechnic in West London
and at Ealing
Art College,
London.
The answer is
Freddie Mercury�Taare Zameen Par
3
The answer is
School of Rock
4 QUESTIONS. 13 PARTS.�+10 PER PART.
WRITTEN
4
X, an alumni of HPS (Begumpet), made a cameo in the 2013 bollywood movie (shown earlier). He plays the role of a photographer named Vikram. The scene was shot at an Oberoi luxury hotel (Oberoi ----vilas) located besides a lake. Id the city in which it is located, Z.
X made his Bollywood debut in a 2011 movie, Y.
Y is also a Hindi song by Asha Bhosle from a 1971 Bollywood film directed by Dev Anand.
5
----- ------- (Z) is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Jodie Foster. It has an alliterative title. Connect to hydra, a fictional university and an energy drink is the second word.
It stars George Clooney as financial television host of the titular show.
Clooney’s name is a mix of the names of two CEOs : X and Y.
In this scene, Clooney jokingly says that he is X and has changed his mind on his whole retirement thing.
X retired as president, CEO, and chairman of -------- at the end of 1992. He later returned to -------- in 2008 at the age of 83.
Y has appeared as himself on Frasier, The Big Bang Theory and Silicon Valley.
Y has been portrayed on screen by actors like Anthony Micheal Hall, Steve Sires etc.
6
X and Y were being shot at nearby locations. Song Kang-ho, X’s lead actor, decided to surprise the cast/crew of Y by visiting Y’s set unannounced.�Z is a 2025 movie directed by X’s director.�Y’s director has called for Z’s lead to win both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the next Oscars.
7
Three artists (A, Santino & B) who featured in a 2000 song by Falguni Pathak are mentioned below:
Answers
WRITTEN
4
X, an alumni of HPS (Begumpet), made a cameo in the 2013 bollywood movie (shown earlier). He plays the role of a photographer named Vikram. The scene was shot at an Oberoi luxury hotel (Oberoi ----vilas) located besides a lake. Id the city in which it is located, Z.
X made his Bollywood debut in a 2011 movie, Y.
Y is also a Hindi song by Asha Bhosle from a 1971 Bollywood film directed by Dev Anand.
The answer is
X : Rana Daggubati
Y : Dum Maaro Dum
Z : Udaipur
5
----- ------- (Z) is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Jodie Foster. It has an alliterative title. Connect to hydra, a fictional university and an energy drink is the second word.
It stars George Clooney as financial television host of the titular show.
Clooney’s name is a mix of the names of two CEOs : X and Y.
In this scene, Clooney jokingly says that he is X and has changed his mind on his whole retirement thing.
X retired as president, CEO, and chairman of -------- at the end of 1992. He later returned to -------- in 2008 at the age of 83.
Y has appeared as himself on Frasier, The Big Bang Theory and Silicon Valley.
Y has been portrayed on screen by actors like Anthony Micheal Hall, Steve Sires etc.
The answer is
Z : Money Monster�X : Lee Iacocca, Y : Bill Gates
6
X and Y were being shot at nearby locations. Song Kang-ho, X’s lead actor, decided to surprise the cast/crew of Y by visiting Y’s set unannounced.�Z is a 2025 movie directed by X’s director.�Y’s director has called for Z’s lead to win both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the next Oscars.
The answer is
7
Three artists (A, Santino & B) who featured in a 2000 song by Falguni Pathak are mentioned below:
The answer is
�A : Ayesha Takia �B : Trisha Krishnan�C : Rinkie Khanna �D : Dino Morea�
3 QUESTIONS.�+10 PER PART.
IPB E2
8
Sans Soleil (meaning Sunless) is a 1983 French documentary film. Sans Soleil is composed of stock footage, clips from Japanese movies and shows, excerpts from other films as well as documentary footage shot by Chris Marker.
What is different about the credits highlighted in Red?
The answer is
All are Chris Marker
9
Joshua Colin M. Herdman is an English actor and mixed martial artist.
His first on-screen appearance was around 2.5 decades back.
His character was a part of a duo/trio. His character had an alliterative name.
Id the character.
The answer is
He played the role of Gregory Goyle in the Harry Potter series.
10
Tabu in literary adaptations. (Give work/adaption) � A : 2006 movie B : 2014 movie
The answer is
The Namesake�Haider/Hamlet
Round 3:
Literature
Question 1
In 2009, this writer went viral with a short story called The Egg, which has since been adapted into an animated video by the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.
In 2009, he also started publishing chapters of his book on his website. In 2011, based on reader demand, he turned these chapters into an e-book and started selling it on the Kindle Store.
In 2013, the book rights were bought by Crown Publishing for a six-figure sum. In 2015, a film adaptation of this book was made.
The book sold 5+ million copies and the film grossed $600+ million worldwide.
ID the book.
Answer 1
The Martian by Andy Weir
Question 2
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a 1979 book by Italo Calvino.
It features a very unique postmodernist style of writing and a framing device that uses an interesting and very rare narrative point-of-view.
Who is the protagonist of this book?
Answer 2
YOU
The book is told in the second-person narrative and is about you, the reader, trying to read a book called If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler but keep getting some other book instead
Question 3
The Tyranny of X ( 2020) by Harvard political philosopher and professor Michael Sandel shows that X — a concept often championed by technocratic elites — is a sham that’s less about fairness and more about stacking odds in favor of the already fortunate.
The book uses Sandel’s own experiences at Harvard to show how the idea of X is breeding arrogance among “winners” and engendering staggering levels of sadism, which he warns will eventually turn into wealthy people actively justifying dehumanization and cruelty as necessary or even correct.
The book calls for a new ethic grounded in humility and the common good.
What is X?
Answer 3
Merit
Question 4
This 1974 book is one of the highest-selling works of philosophy of all time, but isn’t informative about Buddhist spiritual practice or mechanical engineering.
It chronicles a cross-country U.S. road trip with the narrator's son and a haunted alter ego named Phaedrus, who went mad chasing something he called Quality, a concept that he says is equal to Truth while straddling the line that separates rationality and romanticism.
ID the book.
Answer 4
Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Question 5
Released by the Chicago Sun-Times on May 18, 2025, this list caused embarrassment and led the CEO to issue an official apology.
Many people noted this comes two months after 20% of their staff were laid off and could act as a warning for relying too much on technology.
What was wrong with this list?
Need a specific answer.
Answer 5
These aren’t real books, they were made up by ChatGPT or whatever other LLM they used instead of human writers
Question 6
Shane Warne’s autobiography is a pun on the fact that he’s presenting himself with brutal honesty and no attempt at PR, as well as what he’s famous for.
What two-word title does Warne’s autobiography have?
Answer 6
No Spin
Question 7
Connect. Give funda. Other quiz cliches.
Answer 7
All named after lines from Shakespeare
Question 8
In 2009, Reuters conducted a survey asking people to list the books they claimed to have read but haven’t actually read. What book from 1949 tops this list?
Answer 8
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
Question 9
An unauthorized sequel to this book was published 9 years after the original.
The author of the original book then wrote a sequel where the titular character, X, learns of the existence of this fake sequel and is enraged by it.
The plot of the sequel then changes. For example, X refuses to go to a jousting tournament because it’s featured in the fake sequel.
X also meets a character from the fake sequel and makes him sign an affidavit that he is the real X.
ID X.
Answer 9
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Question 10
Whose daily routine was this — which is something I emulate on a smaller level, which means turning up here at 10.30 AM on a Sunday was a Herculean effort.
ID the writer.
Answer 10
Hunter S. Thompson
ART
10 QUESTIONS.�+10 PER PART.
IPB
1
In the 1940s, Dilip Kumar Gupta set up his own publishing house called Signet Press and appointed X as a part-time book-cover designer. It was here that X began to really shine as an artist.
Early in 1946, a UN diplomat got in touch with Signet Press to check if they would be interested in a manuscript that had been completed in prison. The manuscript was published by Signet Press with illustrations by X in 1946.
Id X. And, who wrote the manuscript?
The answer is
Satyajit Ray�Jawaharlal Nehru
2
Self portrait of X & Self portrait of Y.
The answer is
Rabindranath Tagore �Pablo Picasso
3
In this scene from the 1999 movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, the protagonist (portrayed by Pierce Brosnan) is trying to escape from the cops. Reference to what from the world of art has been shown in this scene multiple times?
The answer is
Rene Magritte's The Son of Man
4
Jon Snow, Aemon Targaryen, etc.
The events shown in a 1642 painting actually take place during the day. The name by which the painting is commonly called was first applied at the end of the eighteenth century. By that time the painting had darkened considerably through the accumulation of many layers of dirt and varnish, giving the appearance that the events take place post sunset.
The answer is
Nightwatch
5
Put Funda.
An advertisement of PHILLIES CIGARS has been at a downtown street corner in USA since 1942.
The answer is
Nighthawks (Ed Hopper)
6
The answer is
Sabyasachi Mukherji
7
Connect. �Id the respective subjects.
Mandakini
Vidya Balan
The answer is
Raja Ravi Verma�Ganga, Shakuntala
8
The Pizza Underground was an American comedy rock band based in New York City. �Mainly parodying songs by an older band with pizza-themed song names and lyrics.�The group consisted of Macaulay Culkin along with Matt Colbourn, Phoebe Kreutz etc.�This poster is a reference to the debut album cover of the older band. In the album cover, was made by X, there was a berry instead of the fish.
The answer is
Andy Warhol
9
The shown mural of X is located on the MTNL building in Bandra, Mumbai. �This large-scale artwork, measuring 120 by 150 feet, was created by artist Ranjit Dahiya and others. The mural was unveiled by Amitabh Bachchan and Piyush Pandey.
The answer is
Dadasaheb Phalke
10
X was developed by someone who worked at the Department of Interior Design of the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in an European capital.
2D Representation of X
The answer is
Rubik’s Cube
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