During the 1970s, as a cough relief brand was being released in India, the client wanted a quirky and humorous advertisement inspired by Western pop culture.

Which creature, having been played by 11 different ‘kings’ between 1924-2021 before being replaced by CGI, finds their thundering voice back in the ad?

In a short story set in Maine, a young boy is resigned to look after a cantankerous old woman living in his house when his mother has to take his injured elder brother to the hospital.

Over the next few hours, in a homicidal frenzy of hallucinations, he realises the woman is a witch and manages to put her to rest.

Which Marathi story, later adapted onto the big screen, was inspired by this earlier work?

In partnership with the Embassy of France in India, a popular Indian festival offers a chance for South Asian visual artists to get funding and have their work exhibited in a small town, that was immortalised by someone’s stay there near the end of the 19th century.

Which coastal French town is this?

Which iconic 1978 work is the inspiration behind this graphic novel?

Identify the show from the below scenes in its title sequence.

It is based in a south Asian country during the 1980s and is composed in the second person perspective. The primary character is a deceased photographer who embarks on a quest to unravel the enigma surrounding his own death. Given one week, he can travel between the afterlife and the real world. During this limited time, he seeks to recover a collection of photographs hidden beneath a bed and convince his acquaintances to circulate them widely to expose the atrocities of the Civil War.

Which award-winning novel is described here?

If one of the characters in this play is Da Vinci, which contemporary artist is the other?

The video for the song Blue Song by Mint Royale follows a hipster motorist as he enjoys music all alone while his passengers go about robbing a bank.

What was born when this idea was fleshed out by a British director a few years later?

In this comic book series turned Netflix TV show, one of the students who grew up in the shadow of the titular institution is sent back in time to a public crossing in Dallas six decades back from now to accomplish a task for an evil group - thus fulfilling a popular conspiracy theory about the same day’s events.

Which institution/show is this?

A 2010s Sony TV series is the tale of two men, brought up in their own separate worlds. While one’s fortunes are blessed by God, the other struggles and wanders, as their lives intertwine at various stages - until only one is left.

Which 1970s book, based on a mythical fratricide, is the inspiration behind this series?

Which country’s Grand Prix is this a poster of?

A well-oiled moustache, a fox terrier, a quiff, a sailor cap, and a pendulum, amongst other things, could also have been added here.

Which group’s powerful return to tour recently was celebrated by Amul with this topical?

The ghostbusting trio from which 2022 venture collaborated with a popular Indian sleuth as shown?

A meme page did a series describing novels using B99 screengrabs.

Which notoriously difficult-to-finish novel is described thus?

Which profession can you find in the name of this sports team?

Which Indian rapper’s Instagram handle is derived from the name of a post-Sangam era literary masterpiece, but with a slight change so that it means “street couplets” instead of “sacred couplets”?

He found global fame few years back with an alliterative work dedicated to his grandmother.

Over the last year, multiple students of a school in a European capital have escaped to safer havens amidst political uncertainty. Its flexible curriculum has made it the training ground of multiple teenage Olympic medallists for its nation (and another nation, before the 90s). 

However, the main role of the school remains supplying troupes for what businesses?

A new trend in literary criticism hates on best-selling self-help books that are written to be accessible yet vaguely highbrow, presenting the mundane as revelatory - designed in a way that they can be condensed to entertain techbro audiences in a single short lecture.

The name given to this genre is ---core.

Which non-profit organisation’s name fills the blank?

What primary material is appropriately used here by an artist to color the lives of their slave ancestors in a plantation in Southern USA?