Still buzzing over Backstage DJ and the Musical nights in Waves? Or trying to "hear the music" in Oppenheimer? 🎧 BITS Goa Quiz Club brings to you a peppy number to vibe on: Can you guess the music? - A Music themed Set hosted by Manan, Pranav and Agastya ! No no, We aren't making you guess songs but find yourself chilling and absorbing tantalising trivia from the world of Music - from peppy singles to different genres of music, jingles that just stuck to movie scores that stole the scenes!🎶 🗓️Date: 20th November 🕖Time: 7 PM 📍Location: DLT 8 Come vibe with us on a fun night with songs and trivia!

1. H O S T E D B Y A G A S T Y A ,
M A N A N A N D P R A N A V

2. ANSWERS

3. The lyrics and artwork of the album were influenced from the discourse around
the unfolding war on terror, and the "the general sense of ignorance and
intolerance and panic and stupidity" post the Bush election.
ID the phrase X (also the title of the album).
1. The phrase X was used by anti-Bush protesters as a wordplay on "Hail to
the Chief", the American presidential anthem.
Yorke, Radiohead’s lead vocalist, described hearing the phrase for the first
time as a "formative moment". Radiohead chose X, partly in reference to Bush,
as the title to their 2003 Album.

4. Hail to the thief

5. Connect the following bollywood songs:
Aati kya khandala
Senorita
Pani da rang
Mere angne mein
Main hoon hero tera
2.

6. The actors in the movie sung these
songs themselves

7. 3.
The 1964 song X has not only stood the test of time but has time and again
been used by Bollywood and other to accentuate an emotional note in
several films.
In 1966 the tune of this song was kept in a Tamil film Yaar Nee, a remake of
Woh Kaun Thi, this song was picturized on Jayalalitha sung by Sushila.In the
same year the Telugu movie Aame Evaru, it is rendered as "Andala ee reyi".
Even contemporary ones like Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil to the new
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 this song is used, sung by different singers, the
tune remains the same.
After the demise of the singer of X last year, the song was heard everywhere,
and Salman Khan posted a cover of the song on his instagram as well.
What’s the song X?

8. Lag jaa Gale

9. This is a snippet of a Guardian article from 2017, which blames Spotify of being
one of the reasons for why new songs do not have long intros, when compared to
relatively older music.
A specific 30 second rule is responsible for this, and many artists “have resorted
to using the intro to create a sort of potted highlights reel of the song yet to
come.”
ID the 30 second rule.
4.

10. If someone doesn’t listen past 30
seconds of your track, Spotify doesn’t
count that as an official play in its
database, so artists cannot monetize
those tracks.

11. Robert Johnson is often regarded as the greatest blues musician of all time, with
the Rock and Roll hall of fame describing him as maybe "the first ever rock star".
A very popular legend states that Johnson was instructed to take his guitar to a
“crossroad” where he met a large black man who tuned his guitar, which then led
to him becoming very popular in a short span of time.
Similar legend has also been established around Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan among
many others but Johnson being amongst the first instances of this
story/myth/legend.
ID the legend
5.

12. Sold his soul to the devil to get better
at guitar

13. The album cover for the last Lynyrd Skynyrd album with all band
members together had to be changed from the left one to the right one
because of an unfortunate incident that happened to the band 3 days
after the release of the album in 1977, because of which all their plans
went “down in flames”.
After the incident the cover became controversial and the label MCA
decided to change it to the right one:
6.

14. ID the incident

15. An airplane crash killing 3 of the band
members

16. This is one of its kind collaborative work, first recorded in 1973-74. The record is
said to have helped bridge the gap between Eastern and Western musical
traditions, with both being maestros of string based instruments.
While “Collaborations” presents only a portion of Pandit Ravi Shankar and X’s
work together, music critics have recognised it as a successful representation
of the far-reaching cultural legacy of their partnership.
X died in 2001, after suffering a long battle with cancer.
ID X.
7.

18. George Harrison (Lead guitarist of the
Beatles)

19. Known for his indie-folk/lofi-folk and indie pop music, artist X has released
10 albums till date.
X's work is known to explore themes of love, religion, outer space, and
grief. X also composed 2 songs for an academy award winning
romance/drama movie in 2017, and gained lots of critical acclaim for the
same.
The latest album by X, released last month deals with themes of sadness
and death of a dearly lived one.
ID the artist X.
8.

20. Sufjan Stevens

21. Very recently, a specific very famous artist X announced a tour in Brazil and was
welcomed by repainting of the Christ the Redeemer in a very particular way, as
seen in the picture. This was done after the fanbase raised round $37,000 for
Rio’s homeless, which made the priest agree to do so.
Unfortunately, a fan died in the stadium just before the opening night of the
concert, and there were mass cases of dehydration due to the weather, crowd
accumulation and low supply of water bottles.
ID the artist X.
9.

23. Taylor Swift

24. Artist X, at this point, is almost infamous for fighting legal battles for
plagiarism in his songs.
He settled a 20M dollar lawsuit for alleged plagiarism in the song Y.
The song is alleged to have been plagiarised from the (audio clip):
ID artist X and the song Y.
10.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gntx3K6zP3TQLxks-
jZfWGR7FcfxkFa1

25. Artist, X - Ed Sheeran
Song, Y- Photograph

26. _______ __ _____is an album by Butthole surfers, the name of which is a
spoonerism of a very popular classic rock song released in 1971.
Spoonerism: lazy mack -> mazy lack etc.
The third word in the album title is a very common individual name, all of us
have heard of.
FITB
11.

27. Hairway to Steven

28. “The Velvet Underground and Nico” is often regarded as one of the
most influential album in the history of pop and rock music.The
album art, is considered as one of the most iconic album arts of all
time.
Earlier physical copies of the album cover allowed you to do a
specific thing to the cover, making it a very unique thing to have on a
vinyl case.
What is the specific thing you could do to the cover?
12.

30. Peel the banana on the cover

31. X, often cited as one of the greatest rock bands in history, had a
disastrous reunion in 1985 at the historic Live Aid concert.
Their disastrous performance includes the lead guitarist's
ongoing drug abuse problem and, more famously, bringing in Y as
a drummer for the performance.
Y's name also features in one of Eminem's most famous tracks,
'Stan', with specific reference to arguably Y's most famous song.
ID X and Y
13.

32. X- Led Zeppelin
Y- Phil Collins (The song is In the air tonight)

33. Connect the following:
Dave Grohl
Liam Gallaghar
Steven Patrick Morrissey
Sting
Justin Timberlake
Mark Knopfler
14.

34. Dave Grohl- Nirvana
Liam Gallaghar- Oasis
Steven Patrick Morrissey- The Smiths
Sting- The Police
Justin Timberlake- NSYNC
Mark Knopfler- Dire Straits
The inital bands they were in, split up

35. A metal song X regained popularity last year after being featured in
Stranger Things. The song is the title track of the band's third studio
album.
The lyrics of the song as the lead singer explained, "deals pretty much
with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling
what you're taking and doing, it's drugs controlling you."
ID the song X.
15.

36. Master of Puppets

37. This comment has been taken from the YouTube video of a song from a
long running musical franchise. The comment section of songs from this
franchise are often populated with people from the other side of the
border praising the other's culture, for a change.
ID the franchise.
16.

38. Coke Studio

39. The following meme describes a phenomenon very common to
Bollywood Music listeners, the realisation of which hits at the end of
every year.
17.
What am I talking about?

41. Pritam appearing on everyone’s Spotify
Wrapped!

42. "Kinds of Flowers" by Robert Brown
“The Well-Tempered Clavier” & "Gavotte en rondeaux" by Bach (performed by Glenn Gould)
“String Quartet No. 13 in B flat” & “Fifth Symphony, First Movement” by Beethoven
“Queen of the Night aria” from The Magic Flute by Mozart
"Melancholy Blues" by Louis Armstrong
"Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin" by Valya Balkanska
"Flowing Streams" by Kuan P'ing-hu
"Jaat Kahan Ho" by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar
In the 1978 book “Murmurs of Earth” Linda Salzman wrote about an occasion where Carl
Sagan (project director) and his team from NASA approached EMI Records Ltd. to include
the Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun” but were declined due to copyright issues.
Some of the songs which were selected are:
The inclusion of "Johnny B. Goode" was controversial, with some claiming that rock
music was "adolescent", to which Sagan replied, "There are a lot of adolescents on the
planet."
18.
What project are we talking about?

43. Voyager Golden Records

44. 19.
This is a still from the movie Deadpool 2. Identify the easter egg in it.

45. PS: Ryan Renolds & Taylor Swift are really good friends.
The t-shirt has Taylor Swift’s cats Olivia & Meredith on it.

46. 20.
While performing at Coachella in 2017, Hans Zimmer was approached
by X to compose scores for their upcoming concept Vision M Next.
Zimmer agreed and recently his work was in the product X i4.
ID the company X and what exactly did Hans compose for them?

48. 21.
Connect

49. Mera Joota Hai Japani
Yeh Patloon Englishtani
Sar Pe Laal Topi
Roosi Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani

50. The given image shows the Dancing
Zombie from Plants Vs Zombies.
However, in the original version
released in May 2009, it (and the four
Backup Dancer Zombies it summons)
resembled X until July 2010. The in-
game description, however, stayed the
same - “Any resemblance between
Dancing Zombie and persons living or
dead is purely coincidental.”
What/who did the Dancing Zombie
originally resemble?
22.

52. 23.
In Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the title character is loosely inspired by X.
Reeves stated, "When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the
first act, I put on Y, that's when it came to me that, rather than make
Bruce Wayne the playboy version we've seen before, there's another
version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So
I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant's Last Days, and the
idea of this fictionalized version of X being in this kind of decaying
manor." An orchestral version of Y was later also used in the film
trailers. ID X.

53. Kurt Cobain

54. 24.
Identify the music legend whose coat of
arms is shown.

55. Sir Elton John

56. 25.
When he started his alternative career in 1971, he had already earned a
Bachelor’s degree in math and science at Imperial College London, and was
beginning work on his doctorate, for which he studied the mysterious properties
of interstellar dust.
In 2008, he was awarded a PhD in astrophysics. Which musical luminary are we
talking about?

57. Brian May of Queen

58. 26.
I'm yours completely
I feel so deeply
You're my first thought every day
(__________________)
My life is for you
And I adore you
I love you more everyday
(__________________)
No goodbyes
_________________________
No more lies
_______________________
That is why
I love it when I hear you say
(__________________)
These are the original, now ‘alternate’ lyrics of a song. Fill in the bracketed blanks, which will also give you the
title of the song.

60. 27.
When Donald Trump was elected President, his transition team made sure he
knew the protocol for talking with foreign leaders, and prepared a document to
let him know how they were meant to go. The first few calls were easy – the very
first was always with the prime minister of Great Britain – but two dozen calls in,
you were talking to some kleptocrat and tiptoeing around sensitive security
issues. Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of
(country) called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the
operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like ... I love (band)!
You know that song (song)?” recalled one of his advisers on the scene.
Identify the song, which references a choice made by ancient artists of that
country in order to show several angles at once.

62. 28.
“I sort of went to bed with this guy I liked and suddenly the next morning I see
these 3 in-laws standing there.”
Who, speaking about a relationship whose impact on the mentioned guy’s child
inspired a song that is frequently included on music critics’ list of the greatest
songs of all time?

63. Yoko Ono

64. 29.
The song X was released as the title track of the indi-pop album with the same
name in 1998 by an Indian singer-composer Y in collaboration with Javed
Akhtar. X is a steady stream of a song that goes on without a break, stanzas,
verse or apparently even a pause for breath.
The music video of X was directed by Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar, which was
the beginning of a long association as Y went on to score music for all of the
films directed by Farhan and Zoya Akhtar.
ID X & Y

66. 30.
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia ______ (nicknamed Nannerl) was the daughter of
Leopold and Anna Maria ______, and older sister to her more famous brother.
While she was a child, Leopold taught her to play the harpsichord and took her
and her brother on tours of cities like Veinna and Paris to showcase their talent.
Four and a half years older than her brother, she was his idol and he was
inspired to study music because of her. She appears as a fictional character in
the poem (and later play) The Other ______, in several young adult novels and
makes several appearances in the show ______ in the Jungle.
FITB.

67. Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (nicknamed Nannerl) was the daughter of
Leopold and Anna Maria Moz
art, and older sister to her more famous brother.
While she was a child, Leopold taught her to play the harpsichord and took her
and her brother on tours of cities like Veinna and Paris to showcase their talent.
Four and a half years older than her brother, she was his idol and he was
inspired to study music because of her. She appears as a fictional character in
the poem (and later play) The Other Moz
art, in several young adult novels and
makes several appearances in the show Moz
art in the Jungle.
Mozart