Lit Quiz by Nikhil Nayak in Cult-X 2015

1. Lit Quiz

2. Full Disclaimer
● This quiz was put together in just three days, so it will not be very
challenging. Next time will be a better quiz, I hope.
● Wikipedia has been assumed to be correct
● QM is God

3. Pounce/Written

4. 1. I was saying Boo-urns.
Id the two references

6. Infinite Monkey theorem and Tale of two cities

7. 2. Bring us the girl, wipe
away the debt.
In 2006, psychologists at the Northwestern University and
the University of Toronto conducted a series of tests on a
group of subjects. These people were asked to think about
their past unethical behavior. When offered a chance to
receive different items as prizes for their participation, most
people were seen to chose antiseptic wipes, soaps and
mouthwashes instead of objects like pencils, pens etc.What
name was given to this phenomenon?

9. Macbeth effect

10. 3. Leaves from the vine
Id the author whose story is being retold here.

12. O Henry’s Last Leaf

13. 4. For science. You monster.
In 1960, Y's son Theo developed hydrocephalus after being struck by a car. A
standard Holter shunt was installed to drain excess fluid from his brain;
however the shunt jammed too often, causing pain and blindness, risking brain
damage and requiring emergency surgery. Neurosurgeon Kenneth Till
determined that debris accumulated in the hydrocephalic ventricles could clog
the slits in the Holter valves, especially with patients, such as Theo, who had
bad bleeding in the brain.
Y knew Stanley Wade to be an expert in precision hydraulic engineering, from
their shared hobby of flying model aircraft. With Y coordinating the efforts of
Wade and Till, the team developed a new mechanism using two metal discs,
each in a restrictive housing at the end of a short silicone rubber tube.
By the time the device was perfected, Theo had healed to the point at which it
was not necessary for him; however, several thousand other children benefited
from the Wade-Y-Till valve before medicine technology progressed beyond it.
The co-inventors agreed never to accept any profit from the invention.
ID Y

15. Roald Dahl

16. 5. You say you’re under a curse? So
what, so’s the whole damn world
This book is famous for something other than being a book on BDSM. What?

18. The Velvet Underground

19. 6. A lesson without pain is
meaningless
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi scored 6 Test hundreds,
however his finest innings are considered to be the two half
centuries at the MCG in 1967-68. Coming in to bat at 25 for
5 on a green wicket, he had to use a runner because of a
pulled hamstring that had kept him out of the previous Test.
Unable to play several front-foot shots, he made up by
hooking and went to score a gritty 75. In the second
innings, with India facing an innings defeat, he scored 85.
His 75 later made it to No. 14 in Wisden Asia Cricket’s list
of the top 25 Indian Test innings.
This match is also remembered for most post-match
reports comparing Pataudi to someone. Who?

21. Long John Silver

22. 7.

24. Leaves of Grass

25. 8. I punch those numbers into my
calculator, it makes a happy face.
Richard X Hall (born September 11, 1965), known by his stage name Y, is an
American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known
for his electronic music, vegan lifestyle, and support of animal rights. Y has sold
over 20 million albums worldwide.
Y has also co-written, produced, and remixed music for Michael Jackson, David
Bowie, Daft Punk, Mylène Farmer,Brian Eno, Pet Shop Boys, Britney Spears,
New Order, Public Enemy, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Soundgarden, and
others.

27. X- Melville
Y-Moby

28. 9.Books are useless! I only ever read one book,
To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely
no insight on how to kill mockingbirds!

31. Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore

32. 10. On a scale of one to ten,
How old are you?
Graham Vickers in his book Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted
Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again argues that the two major real-world
predecessors of Humbert are X and Y. Vladimir Nabokov was fond of X and
had translated his book into Russian. He even called X the "first Humbert
Humbert". Lolita contains a few brief allusions in the text to X’s books, though
overall Nabokov avoided direct allusions to X. Joyce Milton claims that a major
inspiration for the novel was Y's relationship with his second wife, Lita Grey,
whose real name was Lillita and is often misstated as Lolita. Although Appel's
comprehensive Annotated Lolita contains no references to Y, others have
picked up several oblique references to Y's life in Nabokov's book. Bill Delaney
notes that at the end Lolita and her husband move to the Alaskan town of Grey
Star while Y's movie, set in Alaska, was originally set to star Lita Grey. Lolita's
first sexual encounter was with a boy named Y Holmes, whom Humbert
describes as "the silent...but indefatigable Y." Y had an artist paint Lita Grey in
imitation of Joshua Reynolds's painting The Age of Innocence. When Humbert
visits Lolita in a class at her school, he notes a print of the same painting in the
classroom. Id.

34. X-Lewis Carroll
Y-Charlie Chaplin

35. 11.* Good news, everyone.

38. Tom Sawyer, Moby Dick, Dune, The little prince

39. 12. I see no point in living if I
can’t be beautiful
A story involving the man whose grave has been shown below, involves his
“immortal heart” and how it was passed from one person to another. A recent
theory, however, claims that it was his water-filled liver, not his heart. ID.

41. Percy Bysshe Shelley and The tempest

42. 13. Enter the Void

44. Fight Club pt.2

45. 14. Here come the test results: You are a horrible
person. I'm serious, that's what it says: A horrible
person. We weren't even testing for that.
This is a comic referencing a famous book. There is an official tour in the
country the book is based in which culminates in a dark empty basement. Id.

47. Slaughterhouse 5

48. 15. You must learn to see
with eyes unclouded by hate
Which animated character owes its name, indirectly, to this Norwegian fairy
tale?

50. Totoro

51. 16. For in much wisdom, is much grief, and
he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth
sorrow
Alamut is a novel by Vladimir Bartol, first published in 1938 in Slovenian,
dealing with the story of Hassan-i Sabbah and named after his Alamut fortress.
Bartol first started to conceive the novel in the early 1930s, when he lived in
Paris. In the French capital, he met with the Slovene literary critic Josip Vidmar,
who introduced him to the story of Hassan-i Sabbah. A further stimulation for
the novel came from the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
perpetrated by Croatian and Bulgarian radical nationalists, on the alleged
commission of the Italian Fascist government. When it was originally published,
the novel was sarcastically dedicated to Benito Mussolini.
How would you be better acquainted with this novel or one of its maxims?

53. Assassins Creed

54. 17.This is the part where I
kill you.
Why is this movie in this quiz?

56. This is an adaption of Salinger’s book, i.e. the reason we
don’t have a Catcher in the Rye movie is because of this
movie bombing

57. 18.She's big and beautiful, but she can be
very scary! Just like my Mom
Id the tourist spot

60. Little mermaid statue

61. 19. Memento Mori
“As the early morning sun cast a pale pink glow over the streets of Victorian
London, the inhabitants of the slums of Waterloo were woken by the cries of a
man named William Hubbard.
'Murder!' he shouted. 'Murder!' Grabbing a passing policeman, Hubbard led him
to a rundown lodging house where, on that tragic May morning in 1838, the
officer discovered the body of Hubbard's girlfriend, Eliza Grimwood - her throat
slit from ear to ear and the walls of her bedroom sprayed with blood.
While there were stab wounds to her stomach and chest, little blood had issued
from them, suggesting the killer had continued attacking Eliza long after she
had died.
There were also incisions around the back of her neck, indicating that her
assailant had tried to behead her, too.
In fact, the brutal attack on this pretty young woman, who was just 25 when she
died, was so violent that it was the talk of Victorian London for decades.
Indeed, though we may not realise it, the tale is still being told today.”
This is a speculation, though a lot of evidence points to this being true, and the
author is known to have taken many real life influences for this book.
Interestingly enough, he died while acting out the said portion of his book. Id.

63. Dickens, Nancy’s death in Oliver Twist

64. 20. Yes, I’ll marry it.

66. Beowulf

67. 21.* A pig that doesn’t fly is
just a pig
These are excerpts from an author’s wikipedia page. ID him and X to B.
● The X stories, narrated by a genial pub raconteur who can take any topic
of conversation and turn it into an involved, implausible story about a
member of his family. Most of X’s stories involve one or another of his
innumerable relatives. His listeners are always identified solely by their
drinks, e.g., a "Hot Scotch and Lemon" or a "Double Whisky and Splash".
● The Y stories, about an ingenious jack-of-all-trades with a charming,
exaggeratedly refined manner. Y first appeared in the school novel Mike.
● The Z stories, about the charming but unprincipled Z, who always has a
"get rich quick" scheme. Besides the short stories, there is one novel about
him: Love Among the Chickens.
● The A stories, about the eccentric A. Whenever he can escape his wife's
chaperonage, he likes to spread what he calls "sweetness and light" and
others are likely to call chaos. His escapades, always involving
impersonations of some sort, are usually told from the viewpoint of his
nephew and reluctant companion B.

69. Wodehouse,
X-Mr. Mulliner
Y-Psmith
Z-Ukridge
A-Uncle Fred
B-Pongo Twistleton

70. Music Round

71. 1.Welcome to your life
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

72. 2.There’s no turning back
They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air
And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care
You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never there
Beware the savage jaw
of ____

73. 3.Even while we sleep
We will find you
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On they fight, for the right, yes but who's to say?
For a hill men would kill why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from this pain that they surely know

74. 4.Acting on your best
behaviour
Dying swans twisted wings, beauty not needed here
Lost my love, lost my life, in this garden of fear
I have seen many things, in a lifetime alone
Mother love is no more, bring this savage back home
Wilderness house of pain, makes no sense of it all
Close this mind dull this brain, Messiah before his fall
What you see is not real, those who know will not tell
All is lost sold your souls to this ______________

75. 5. Turn your back on Mother
Nature
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying "keep on digging"
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find?
When you're down in the pig mine
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.

76. 6.Help me to make the most
of freedom and of pleasure
So I open the door
It's the 'friend' that I'd left in the hallway
'Please sit down'
A candlelit shadow on a wall near the bed
You know I hate to ask
But are 'friends' electric?
Only mine's broke down
And now I've no-one to love

77. 7. Nothing ever lasts forever
Well the highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad

78. 8.There’s a room where the
light won’t find you
When all is said and done
We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the old folks say
But every time I see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well I guess I'd have more fun
(Guess I'd have more fun)
Oooh, the ___________________ Again
Won't let ya get away from him
(Tomorrow never comes)
It's just another day...
Like today

79. 9.Holding hand while the
walls come tumbling down
Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice
Go away - get away, get a-way
Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers

80. 10.When they do, I’ll be right
behind you.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away
with her, her, her....yeah.

82. Everybody wants to rule the
world
Q.no Song Artist Book
1. Sympathy for the Devil Rolling Stones The master and the margarita
2. 1984 David Bowie 1984
3. For whom the bell tolls Metallica For whom the bell tolls
4. Brave new world Iron Maiden Brave new world
5. Pigs (three different ones) Pink Floyd Animal farm
6. Are friends electric? Gary Numan Do androids dream of electric
sheep?
7. The ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen Grapes of wrath
8. Catcher in the rye Guns n Roses Catcher in the Rye
9. Scentless Apprentice Nirvana Perfume
10. Ramble on Led Zeppelin LOTR

83. Book covers

100. Interpreting vague answer
as YES.
Q.no Book Author
1. Lord of the flies William Golding
2. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
3. To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee
4. The wizard of Oz Frank L. Baum
5. The wind in the willows Kenneth Grahame
6. Princess and the pea Hans Christian Andersen
7. Flatland Edwin A. Abbott
8. Three men in a boat Jerome K Jerome
9. Pinocchio Carlo Collodi
10. The tin drum Gunter Grass
11. Peter Pan J.M.Barrie
12. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
13. Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare
14. Watchmen Alan Moore
15. A tale of two cities Charles Dickens

101. Connect

102. +100/-50

103. +80/-40

104. +60/-30

105. +40/-20

106. +20/0

107. Tie breakers

108. Connect: