MELA 2009

Prelims

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**1. Who connects?

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** 5. Tributes to whom?

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Identify this hard-rock band. They

take their name from the slang term
for a joint of marijuana.

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The theme goes back all the way to the

Shakuntala story, but the first film to
use the idea was a 1943 film starring
Mumtaz Shanti and Ashok Kumar.
Name the film and the theme which
was later done to death using
convenient locales such as fairs and
Kumbh Melas, to name the more
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** 8.Identify this genre of music
intended to accompany an Italian folk
dance—these origins have inspired
many quiz questions.

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** 9.The 1970s saw the arrival of what
Nasreen Munni Kabir calls the multi-
genre film to Bollywood. Since it
offered a variety of flavours, the term
normally used for such a film was of
culinary provenance. What term?

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This is the Johnny Wakelin
Band. What event are they singing
about?

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Why does the village of Nagar

between Kullu and Manali attract a
steady stream of visitors from Eastern
Europe to this day?

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14. Identify the singer. The album is a
return to folk roots and bears the name
of a famous folk musician as tribute.
Name him as well.

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16.Identify the musician who arranged
and produced this 1970s hit.

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18. What is the common name for this
tune? Also identify composer.

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In 1974, when he was a 17-year-old rebel, he stabbed and
seriously injured a young policeman while trying to steal
his gun and ended up serving six years in prison for the
crime. Released after the revolution, he became a
filmmaker. In 1994, while he was looking for
nonprofessional actors to appear in his new movie, who
should audition but the policeman, now an actor?

''A Moment of Innocence,'' made in 1996, finds the film-

naker and the policeman playing themselves in a movie
which seeks to reconstruct the events of 1974 that
changed both their lives.

Who is the film-maker?

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In 1984, she attempted to

publish two novels under a
pseudonym, Jane Somers, to
demonstrate the difficulty new
authors faced in trying to break
into print
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Connect
a genetic condition that nearly eliminates pigment,
though the dark stripes are retained.

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