Lit Quiz

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

Infinite Monkey theorem and Tale of two cities

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?

Macbeth effect

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

O Henry’s Last Leaf

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

Roald Dahl

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

The Velvet Underground

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?

Long John Silver

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Leaves of Grass

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.

X- MelvilleY-Moby

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!

Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore

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.

X-Lewis CarrollY-Charlie Chaplin

11.* Good news, everyone.

Tom Sawyer, Moby Dick, Dune, The little prince

12. I see no point in living if I can’t be beautifulA 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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley and The tempest

13. Enter the Void

Fight Club pt.2

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.

Slaughterhouse 5

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

Totoro

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?

Assassins Creed

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

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

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

Id the tourist spot

Little mermaid statue

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.

Dickens, Nancy’s death in Oliver Twist

20. Yes, I’ll marry it.

Beowulf

21.* A pig that doesn’t fly is just a pigThese 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.

Wodehouse,X-Mr. MullinerY-PsmithZ-UkridgeA-Uncle FredB-Pongo Twistleton

Music Round

1.Welcome to your lifeStuck around St. PetersburgWhen I saw it was time for a changeKilled the Czar and his ministersAnastasia screamed in vain

2.There’s no turning backThey'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of airAnd tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't careYou'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never thereBeware the savage jaw of ____

3.Even while we sleep We will find youMake his fight on the hill in the early dayConstant chill deep insideShouting gun, on they run through the endless greyOn they fight, for the right, yes but who's to say?For a hill men would kill why? They do not knowStiffened wounds test their prideMen of five, still alive through the raging glowGone insane from this pain that they surely know

4.Acting on your best behaviourDying swans twisted wings, beauty not needed hereLost my love, lost my life, in this garden of fearI have seen many things, in a lifetime aloneMother love is no more, bring this savage back home

Wilderness house of pain, makes no sense of it allClose this mind dull this brain, Messiah before his fallWhat you see is not real, those who know will not tellAll is lost sold your souls to this ______________

5. Turn your back on Mother NatureWith your head down in the pig binSaying "keep on digging"Pig stain on your fat chinWhat do you hope to find?When you're down in the pig mineYou're nearly a laughYou're nearly a laughBut you're really a cry.

6.Help me to make the most of freedom and of pleasureSo I open the doorIt'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 askBut are 'friends' electric?Only mine's broke downAnd now I've no-one to love

7. Nothing ever lasts foreverWell the highway is alive tonightWhere it's headed everybody knowsI'm sitting down here in the campfire lightWaiting on the ghost of Tom Joad

8.There’s a room where the light won’t find youWhen all is said and doneWe're not the only onesWho look at life this wayThat's what the old folks sayBut every time I see themMakes me wish I had a gunIf I thought that I was crazyWell I guess I'd have more fun(Guess I'd have more fun)

Oooh, the ___________________ AgainWon't let ya get away from him(Tomorrow never comes)It's just another day... Like today

9.Holding hand while the walls come tumbling downLike most babies smell like butterHis smell smelled like no otherHe was born scentless and senselessHe was born a scentless apprentice

Go away - get away, get a-way

Every wet nurse refused to feed himElectrolytes smell like semenI promise not to sell your perfumed secretsThere are countless formulas for pressing flowers

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.

Everybody wants to rule the worldQ.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

Book covers

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

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