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MELA Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

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1.

This movie directed by Christopher Nolan is based on the biggest military evacuation during the WW 2. Which gave rise to Churchill's famous speech, “We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!”

a)

1917

b)

Dunkirk

c)

Into the storm

d)

Darkest hour

2.

The primary investigator in Breaking Bad dies in this episode of the series. The episode is named after a very famous poem by P.B Shelley and is widely regarded as one of the best hours in the history of world television. Name the episode.

a)

Felina

b)

Mutability

c)

Ozymandias

d)

Colossus

3.

One of the band's most iconic songs X, which was released in 1970 was banned by BBC Radio because of its policy against product placement in songs.The lead singer Ray Davies was forced to take a 6000 mile round-trip flight from New York to London, interrupting the band's American tour, to change a company's name into a generic phrase, for the single release. Hence, X's album version contains the company name - 'Y whereas X's single version contains the generic phrase - Z. Identify X.

a)

yola

b)

lola

c)

cola

d)

rola

4.

Which is the highest selling book of all time.

a)

Lord of the rings

b)

Harry potter

c)

The holy bible

d)

Jungle book

5.

Amidst the censorship of radiation effects in Japanese media, a character was created to intentionally represent the nuclear weapons. The character's skin resembled the scars that radiation causes and it's weapon was powered by nuclear energy inside the character. This character was able to bypass censorship rules. Name the character.

a)

Godzilla

b)

King kong

c)

Vegeta

d)

Dragonite

6.

This Austrian painter is not very much famous for his artwork. He applied for admission to the academy of Fine Arts Vienna but was rejected twice. Then he became a soldier during World War 1 but when the war came to an end, he became a Detective. And then he formed a very famous group of people for which he is known today. 

Identify the person.

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Salvadore Dali

c)

Picasso

d)

Adolf Hitler

7.

Born in Germany, he is often credited as the last classical composer (or the first of the Romantic era). One of his most famous works are Symphony and Sonata. But at the age of 28 he noticed some difficulties in his hearing abilities and at the age of 44 he became totally deaf.

a)

Wolfgang A. Mozart

b)

Sebastian Bach

c)

Joseph Haydn

d)

Ludwig van Beethoven

8.

After the success of this 2007 film telling story of X, kids everywhere asked thier parents "can we get one?" At least one domestic pet chain saw sales of X jump 50 percent after the movie's release. To save on time, the artists skipped one detail that none of the human characters have any toes. IDENTIFY THE MOVIE AND X.

a)

Hachiko, Dog

b)

Ratatouille, Rat

c)

101 Dalmatians, Dog

d)

Peter Rabbit, Rabbit

9.

Ed Sheeran made a cameo in a hit TV series whose cast also collaborated with this famous British band for promoting Red Nose Day?

a)

Coldplay

b)

One Direction

c)

Imagine Dragons

d)

Green Day

10.

This person, commonly referred to as simply X, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. His debut album 17 is certified double-platinum in the US and reached number two on the Billboard 200. He was assassinated in 2018 with several gunshots. What is his real name.

a)

XXXtentacion

b)

JD Ricardo Onfroy

c)

Biggie Smalls

d)

Christina grimmie

11.

The dutch postimpressionist painter Vincent van Gogh once wrote in a letter to his brother, "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily to express myself forcibly". Van gogh's The Starry Night is seen as the first painting of this type of art style.

a)

Etching

b)

Abstract

c)

Expressionism

d)

Impressionist

12.

It's a rare genetic condition that results in a child's body aging rapidly. A mutation in the LMNA gene causes progeria. Most kids with progeria don't live past age 13. The disease affects people from all sexes and reaces equally. About 1 in every 4 million babies are born with it worldwide. What is a more common name given to this syndrome.

(Hint: Brad Pitt stared in a movie about this syndrome)

a)

Benjamin Button Syndrome

b)

Fight club- Schizophrenia

c)

Momento- Anterograde amnesia

d)

Amnesiac

13.

This book written by Salman Rushdie is banned in the Muslim countries and India. This book enraged protests where 6 were killed after supression by the police in the United Kingdom, a fatwa was also released for the killing of Salman Rushdie. The value of the fatwa was raised to $600,000 in 2016. Identify this book.

a)

Quichotte

b)

Shame

c)

Midnight children

d)

Satanic Verses

14.

X International Airport, also known as Vice City International Airport (VCIA), is the airport in Vice City, Florida, featured in both Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice city stories. The airport is a reference to the real life person X. The little jets at the airport may suggest private jets used to make some of the transactions made by X. It has been theorized that X is somehow involved in certain deals that take place in Vice City.

a)

El Chapo

b)

Pablo Escobar

c)

Ricardo Diaz

d)

Che Guevara

15.

Recently, this famous Indian Writer who is also a member of royal historical society published his book on Savarkar which is currently one of the bestseller on amazon. Then the allegations of plagiarism were made on him for his book, but now HC bars those historians for defaming the writer as the allegations were baseless.

a)

Shashi Tharoor

b)

Vikram Seth

c)

Chetan bhagat

d)

Vikram Sampath