The Eleventh Entry
On one of the thursdays, quiz master was Niraj Chaudhary...and he decided that it was long since literature has been given its due... so here he comes with LiTT
1. When I arrived in India in 1938, I was hoping to find some inspiration for a novel I planned to write incorporating Hindu philosophy. Arriving in Chennai, I met Ramana Maharshi. This meeting inspired me to write my classic “____ _______ _______". I derived this title from a passage in the Katha-Upanishad - (Kshurasya Dhara):
“Like the sharp edge of a razor, the sages say, is the path, Narrow it is, and difficult to tread."
Who am I and what’s the name of the book?
2. In my life I have published a few short stories. And, I finished only one novel (which is supposedly my magnum-opus). I did not leave any will. In my desk among a mass of papers lay a folded note written in ink and addressed to his would-be publisher and best friend Max Brod:
Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me (in my bookcase, linen-cupboard, and my desk both at home and in the office, or anywhere else where anything may have got to and meet your eyes), in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread; also all writings and sketches which you or others may possess; and ask those other for them in my name. Letters which they do not want to hand over to you, they should at least promise faithfully to burn themselves.
Yours,
_____ _______
Thank God, Max Brod didn’t obey me and published most of my stuff, because I am the guy, who inspired the like of Marquez, Gunther Grass, Rushdie etc. Who Am I?
3. This is ______ Memorial located in Ramtek, in the state of Maharashtra. It is thought to be the site where ________ wrote X, one of his most famous works, during the Hindu month of Ashadh.
This is a painting by Raja Ravi Verma.
This is a postal stamp, representing a character from X.
4. Connect the movies:
Ø Sadgati (1981) (TV) (story) ... aka Deliverance
Ø Godhuli (1977) (novel) ... aka Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane
Ø Oka Oori Katha (1977) (novel) ... aka The Marginal Ones (International: English title) ... aka The Outsiders
Ø Seva Sadan (1938) (novel Bazaar-e-Husn)
Ø Mazdoor (1934) (novel) ... aka The Mill
The person associated with all these movies was a master of his own genre. He went to Bombay in 30s and did script-writing for movies. Finally, he asserted that directory is the master of movie and went back to his native place. Who?
5. Initially I wrote in Urdu under the name of Nawabrai. In 1910, I was hauled up by the District Magistrate in Jamirpur for my anthology of short stories Soz-e-Watan (Dirge of the Nation), which was labeled seditious. The first story of the anthology was Duniya ka Sabse Anmol Ratan (The Most Precious Jewel in the World), which according to me was "the last drop of blood shed in the cause of the country's freedom". All the copies of Soz-e-Watan were confiscated and burnt. He changed his pen name to "_________" after this ban.
6. I was a deathbed convert to Catholicism, but then people say that I wasn’t fully conscious at the time of my conversion. As a tribute to my deathbed conversion, Vatican has recently released a book with name, “Provocations: Aphorisms for an Anti-conformist Christianity”. More than half of this book contains my aphorisms. Who am I?
7. April 23 is the day established by UNESCO as International Day of Book, recognizing the coincidence that Both Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, two biggest icons of Western literature died on this date. But, they didn’t die on same day. How?
8. Connect:
Ø Bharat Bhushan and Suraiya
Ø Sudhir, a Pakistani actor and Noor Jehan
Ø Naseeruddin Shah and Tanvi Azmi
9. Michael Hart in 1971, a student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. Through friendly operators, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time; its value at that time has since been variously estimated between $100,000 and $100,000,000. Hart has said he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value. What did he start in same year, the first item of which was United States’ Declaration of Independence?
10. What is the term for artistic works, created only to make money quickly or to maintain a steady income for the artist, thus implying that artistic values were subordinate to salability?
11. There was only one ______ and that was ________, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Fill in the blanks.
12. Connect the pictures:
Scene from Capote showing Harper Lee
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
Scene from Infamous showing Bullock
13. Who about what - "My creation is about private realities, the magic of imagination, and the special-ness of certain friendships. Who would believe in its innocence if they cashed in on their popularity to sell overpriced knickknacks that nobody needs? Unfortunately, the pressure to capitalize on the wild success is very high. To put the problem simply, truckloads of money were at stake - millions and millions of dollars could be made with a few signatures."
14. Peter Llewelyn-Davies (1897-1960) was one of the Llewelyn-Davies family sons befriended by X. X publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his famous play Y. After his mother died young, X adopted him along with his four brothers. He went on to participate in WWI, and while in military had an affair with Vera Willoughby, who was married and also older than him. This caused a rift between X and him, and finally X cut him out of his will. He went on to be a publisher, and had mixed feelings about having his name associated with what he called "that terrible masterpiece". Finally, he committed suicide by throwing himself under the train at age of 63.
What’s the name of "that terrible masterpiece"?
15. Non-lit q:
2000: Google MentalPlex
2002: Pigeon Rank
2004: Google Lunar Center & Gmail
2005: Google Gulp & Google Ride Finder
2006: Google Romance
16. Born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, he described his family background as ‘lower-upper middle class’. He was educated at Eton, England and later joined Indian Imperial Police in Burma, where he came to hate imperialism. In 1936, he fought along with Spanish revolutionaries against General Franco, where he didn’t have a good experience with communism leading to the presence of tone of both anti-capitalism and anti-communism in his various works.
Who was he?
17. Connect
Gary Cooper
Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
Ayn Rand
18. He wrote his first book and wasn’t able to publish it. Through a mutual friend, the manuscript was shown to Graham Greene, who like it very much and arranged for its publication. Greene remained a close friend and an admirer till very end. When Second World War broke all the contacts with his British publisher, he became his own publisher. Though he was short listed for Noble literature prize on various occasions, he never won it, leading to a joke that Nobel Committee ignored his works taking them to be self help books; such were the title of these works.
Who was he?
19. Which book was dedicated in following fashion?
To the memory of the British Empire in India,
Which conferred subjecthood upon us,
But withheld citizenship.
To which yet every one of us threw out the challenge:
"Civis Britannicus sum"
Because all that was good and living within us
Was made, shaped and quickened
By the same British rule.
20. In an interview with Swiss magazine, Das Magazin, in 2005, I said, “Thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody dares talk about it.” When this got published, a hate-campaign started in my country against me, which forced me to flee the country. But later in 2005, to defend the freedom of speech I returned. In between the government has introduced a new law, “Article 301”, under which a person can be charged, if he has said something offending about his country, its national assembly or its history. Though the international community of authors supported me fiercely, I still faced the trial and just escaped a term of imprisonment, by intervention of Justice Department.
Who am I?
21. Identify the guy in this Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon. The caption reads “I won Nobel Prize in literature. What was your crime?”
22. Which fictional character has been variously called Snotnose, Stainface, Baldy, Sniffer, Buddha and even Piece - of - the - Moon?
1. When I arrived in India in 1938, I was hoping to find some inspiration for a novel I planned to write incorporating Hindu philosophy. Arriving in Chennai, I met Ramana Maharshi. This meeting inspired me to write my classic “____ _______ _______". I derived this title from a passage in the Katha-Upanishad - (Kshurasya Dhara):
“Like the sharp edge of a razor, the sages say, is the path, Narrow it is, and difficult to tread."
Who am I and what’s the name of the book?
2. In my life I have published a few short stories. And, I finished only one novel (which is supposedly my magnum-opus). I did not leave any will. In my desk among a mass of papers lay a folded note written in ink and addressed to his would-be publisher and best friend Max Brod:
Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me (in my bookcase, linen-cupboard, and my desk both at home and in the office, or anywhere else where anything may have got to and meet your eyes), in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread; also all writings and sketches which you or others may possess; and ask those other for them in my name. Letters which they do not want to hand over to you, they should at least promise faithfully to burn themselves.
Yours,
_____ _______
Thank God, Max Brod didn’t obey me and published most of my stuff, because I am the guy, who inspired the like of Marquez, Gunther Grass, Rushdie etc. Who Am I?
3. This is ______ Memorial located in Ramtek, in the state of Maharashtra. It is thought to be the site where ________ wrote X, one of his most famous works, during the Hindu month of Ashadh.
This is a painting by Raja Ravi Verma.
This is a postal stamp, representing a character from X.
4. Connect the movies:
Ø Sadgati (1981) (TV) (story) ... aka Deliverance
Ø Godhuli (1977) (novel) ... aka Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane
Ø Oka Oori Katha (1977) (novel) ... aka The Marginal Ones (International: English title) ... aka The Outsiders
Ø Seva Sadan (1938) (novel Bazaar-e-Husn)
Ø Mazdoor (1934) (novel) ... aka The Mill
The person associated with all these movies was a master of his own genre. He went to Bombay in 30s and did script-writing for movies. Finally, he asserted that directory is the master of movie and went back to his native place. Who?
5. Initially I wrote in Urdu under the name of Nawabrai. In 1910, I was hauled up by the District Magistrate in Jamirpur for my anthology of short stories Soz-e-Watan (Dirge of the Nation), which was labeled seditious. The first story of the anthology was Duniya ka Sabse Anmol Ratan (The Most Precious Jewel in the World), which according to me was "the last drop of blood shed in the cause of the country's freedom". All the copies of Soz-e-Watan were confiscated and burnt. He changed his pen name to "_________" after this ban.
6. I was a deathbed convert to Catholicism, but then people say that I wasn’t fully conscious at the time of my conversion. As a tribute to my deathbed conversion, Vatican has recently released a book with name, “Provocations: Aphorisms for an Anti-conformist Christianity”. More than half of this book contains my aphorisms. Who am I?
7. April 23 is the day established by UNESCO as International Day of Book, recognizing the coincidence that Both Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, two biggest icons of Western literature died on this date. But, they didn’t die on same day. How?
8. Connect:
Ø Bharat Bhushan and Suraiya
Ø Sudhir, a Pakistani actor and Noor Jehan
Ø Naseeruddin Shah and Tanvi Azmi
9. Michael Hart in 1971, a student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. Through friendly operators, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time; its value at that time has since been variously estimated between $100,000 and $100,000,000. Hart has said he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value. What did he start in same year, the first item of which was United States’ Declaration of Independence?
10. What is the term for artistic works, created only to make money quickly or to maintain a steady income for the artist, thus implying that artistic values were subordinate to salability?
11. There was only one ______ and that was ________, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Fill in the blanks.
12. Connect the pictures:
Scene from Capote showing Harper Lee
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
Scene from Infamous showing Bullock
13. Who about what - "My creation is about private realities, the magic of imagination, and the special-ness of certain friendships. Who would believe in its innocence if they cashed in on their popularity to sell overpriced knickknacks that nobody needs? Unfortunately, the pressure to capitalize on the wild success is very high. To put the problem simply, truckloads of money were at stake - millions and millions of dollars could be made with a few signatures."
14. Peter Llewelyn-Davies (1897-1960) was one of the Llewelyn-Davies family sons befriended by X. X publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his famous play Y. After his mother died young, X adopted him along with his four brothers. He went on to participate in WWI, and while in military had an affair with Vera Willoughby, who was married and also older than him. This caused a rift between X and him, and finally X cut him out of his will. He went on to be a publisher, and had mixed feelings about having his name associated with what he called "that terrible masterpiece". Finally, he committed suicide by throwing himself under the train at age of 63.
What’s the name of "that terrible masterpiece"?
15. Non-lit q:
2000: Google MentalPlex
2002: Pigeon Rank
2004: Google Lunar Center & Gmail
2005: Google Gulp & Google Ride Finder
2006: Google Romance
16. Born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, he described his family background as ‘lower-upper middle class’. He was educated at Eton, England and later joined Indian Imperial Police in Burma, where he came to hate imperialism. In 1936, he fought along with Spanish revolutionaries against General Franco, where he didn’t have a good experience with communism leading to the presence of tone of both anti-capitalism and anti-communism in his various works.
Who was he?
17. Connect
Gary Cooper
Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
Ayn Rand
18. He wrote his first book and wasn’t able to publish it. Through a mutual friend, the manuscript was shown to Graham Greene, who like it very much and arranged for its publication. Greene remained a close friend and an admirer till very end. When Second World War broke all the contacts with his British publisher, he became his own publisher. Though he was short listed for Noble literature prize on various occasions, he never won it, leading to a joke that Nobel Committee ignored his works taking them to be self help books; such were the title of these works.
Who was he?
19. Which book was dedicated in following fashion?
To the memory of the British Empire in India,
Which conferred subjecthood upon us,
But withheld citizenship.
To which yet every one of us threw out the challenge:
"Civis Britannicus sum"
Because all that was good and living within us
Was made, shaped and quickened
By the same British rule.
20. In an interview with Swiss magazine, Das Magazin, in 2005, I said, “Thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody dares talk about it.” When this got published, a hate-campaign started in my country against me, which forced me to flee the country. But later in 2005, to defend the freedom of speech I returned. In between the government has introduced a new law, “Article 301”, under which a person can be charged, if he has said something offending about his country, its national assembly or its history. Though the international community of authors supported me fiercely, I still faced the trial and just escaped a term of imprisonment, by intervention of Justice Department.
Who am I?
21. Identify the guy in this Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon. The caption reads “I won Nobel Prize in literature. What was your crime?”
22. Which fictional character has been variously called Snotnose, Stainface, Baldy, Sniffer, Buddha and even Piece - of - the - Moon?
posted by Qpedia | 11:07 PM
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Question 3 and 5....coincidence probably.
The person who made these question didn't put them, because he read them on some quizzing book or site. He has put them there, because he happnes to read The Razor's Edge and Kafka.
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