movies & tv quiz finals 2016, msrit

Movies & TV Quiz FinalsQM : Syed Saqline

Rounds•Minimalist Posters•Shut up and Pounce•Cloak of Invisibility•Differential Scoring•Quotes Round

Minimalist Poster Round

Rules• 7 questions (Movie/TV show/Personality)• 5 points each•+15 for full house•Maximum Theoretical Points : 50

Please Exchange Sheets

Answers1. Taxi Driver2. Baahubali: The Beginning3. The Martian4. Dirty Picture5. Pulp Fiction6. PK7. Dexter

Shut up and Pounce

Rules•Normal Bounce/Pounce rules apply, +10/0•Infinite Pounce, +15/-10•On pouncing, all the parts of answer are required•QMs decision is final and binding•Refer to the above rule to avoid potential confusion and arguments

1.• Shown in the next slide is a poster for a movie

which is loosely based on the life events of a person.

• Another movie released in 2015 was a rather largely fictionalized version of the same. Which one?

The Revenant

2. Cameos of whom?• In The Fellowship of the Ring, he is shown as a carrot eating

resident of Bree• In The Two Towers, he is one of the soldiers of Rohan. He

was part of the team throwing stones and spears.• In The Return of the King, he was the helmsman of the

pirates. He was killed by Legolas.• In An Unexpected Journey. he was one among the many

dwarves fleeing when Smaug attacked.• In The Desolation of Smaug, he reprises his role of a carrot

munching resident of Bree.• The Battle of Five Armies. In the last installment, he

appears as the portrait of Bilbo's father, Bungo Baggins.

Peter Jackson

3. Who?• Although he is mentioned quite a few times

throughout the series, he has appeared on screen in only two episodes with three appearances. • His actual name is not known, and is never

mentioned. • He was a bizarre hermit who obtained his nickname

for being morbidly obese and highly unattractive, as well as carrying out household tasks in the nude, with the curtains open.

Ugly Naked Guy

4. • One of the most disturbing moments from comic

books is the incestuous relationship between X and Y.• X, Y? (Pic on next slide)

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch

5. Connect(non exhaustive)

Akira Kurosawa’s movies made into Hollywood• Seven Samurai (1954)• Yojimbo (1961)

6. • Colin Needham is a professional computer

programmer who was working as an engineer in Bristol at HP.• He launched his website in 1990, which was

incorporated in the UK in 1996 and became a subsidiary of Amazon in 1998.• It started out as a list entitled “Those Eyes”, about

actresses with beautiful eyes. Others with similar interests soon responded with additions.• What is being talked about?

Anti-Clockwise

7.• Sqrat, a cross between a squirrel and a rat, was

created as a registered trademark of of Ivy Silberstein in 1999.• She claims to have pitched her creation to several

networks including 20th Century FOX.• In 2002, FOX released a movie in which one of the

characters bears an uncanny resemblance to her creation. What followed is a messy lawsuit and all that stuff. • Which movie and which character? (pic in next slide)

Ice Age, Scrat

8.• Metastasis is the spread of a cancer or other

disease from one organ or part of the body to another without being directly connected with it.• It is also the name of American, Spanish-language

version of the U.S. crime drama X.• A scene from the remake is shown in the next slide.• ID X

Breaking Bad

9. Which famous actor?• X is heavily critized for his role in the movie Y, which

is an adaptation of a short story by Franz Kafka. • The criticism was not because of his acting skills,

but because of his selection for the role. A particular community expressed outrage and slammed the producers for casting X instead of an actor from their community.• X, Y?

Matt Damon, The Great Wall

10. #Controversial Shakthi TV is a Puducherry based local cable

channel.Around mid-june this year, a complaint was lodged against the channel.This incident is not new, especially in Puducherry. Sources in the cable TV industry in Puducherry say that the owner of the channel, a man named Shakthi, has been arrested earlier for similar crimes. But such incidents continue unabated.What incident is being talked about here?

Udta Punjab (leaked version) shown on TV

11.• Colloquial versions of this existed in various

countries.• It is/was called De Lama's in Netherlands,

Frel Schnauze in Germany, Minus Manus in Norway, Shel Ml HaShura HaZot in Israel, Anında Görüntü Show in Turkey, Шоу ни бе ни ме нехило in Russia, and Lo Kar lo Baat in India. •What?

Whose Line is it Anyway?

12. • X is a 2010 Bollywood action-drama film written, directed and

produced by Chandan Arora.

• The film had a theatrical release in cinemas throughout India on 5 February 2010.

• It also premiered on YouTube the same day, thus becoming the first ever Indian film to premiere on YouTube internationally on the same day as its domestic theatrical release.

• The film's main protagonist's character was based on the life and times of a real-life Y whiz from the slums of Malavni named Suryakant.X? Y?

X- StrikerY- Carrom

Cloak of Invisibility

Rules• 8 pictures• +10 for each correct answer• -5 for each wrong answer• +20 for a full house

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Please Exchange Sheets

1.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark

2.

2. Reservoir Dogs

3.

3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

4.

4. The Iron Lady

5.

5. The Godfather

6.

6. Forrest Gump

7.

7. 21 Jump Street

8.

8. The Nutty Professor

Differential Scoring

Rules• 6 questions• Score = 5 * (No. Of teams that don’t get it right)• -5 for a wrong answer• Theoretical maximum points = 150

1.• ‘The Hunt for X’ is a 2009 British Fan Film directed by Chris

Bouchard.• Filming took place in North Wales, Epping Forest, and

Hampstead Heath. The film was shot in high definition video, with a budget of GBP£3,000 (USD$5,000). • The production is completely unofficial and unauthorized,

although an effort was made to ensure that the cast resembled that of the official production.• "Bringing X himself to life has been a major challenge, I really

didn’t want to cop out and knew that seeing X would be an important part of the film. We have used just about every trick in the book to portray X on screen without the full power of _________ behind us!"- Chris Bouchard.• X? Fundas on what the movie is about?

X – Gollum• The movie focuses on the hunt that Gandalf sends

Aragorn on to find Gollum after realising that Sauron now knows about the hobbits and the ring. The story is part of one of the appendices of The Return of the King.

2.• During the Indo-China war in 1962, Danny

Denzongpa was studying at FTII, Pune.• He recalls that period to be the worst time of

his life as he dreaded stepping out of the campus because people would stare, and jibes like Gurkha, Chinese, Nepalese and chinki were openly thrown at him.• Years later, when Mukul Anand wanted to

name his character in the movie Y, he suggested X.• X?

In case you don’t know who Danny is :

X – Kancha CheenaY – Agneepath

3.• Night Skies was a science fiction horror film that

was in development in the late 1970s, but was never actually made.• Steven Spielberg conceived the idea after Close

Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and wanted Night Skies to be a sequel to it.• Instead, material developed at the time was used in

X and Y.• Basically, X and Y were initially intended to be made

into one movie, Night Skies.• X,Y?

X - E.T.Y - Polterheist

4.• Social media has panned and poked fun at

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s lavender-blue lipstick stunt at Cannes this year.• One such joke reminded us of a very famous

character from a very famous TV Series, where the character is seen endorsing something similar.• Which character?

Joey Tribbiani

5.

X – James Bond

6. Inspirations for the fictional character X• Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer,

applied mathematician and autodidactic polymath. He was revered as a multitalented genius in mathematics. But more importantly, he was known for his reputation for spite and malice, apparently seeking to destroy the careers and reputations of rival scientists.• Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German polymath, who among other

things wrote a famous paper on the dynamics of an asteroid.• Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote about generalisations of the

binomial theorem, and earned a reputation as a genius by writing articles that confounded the best extant mathematicians.• Irish mathematician Des MacHale has suggested George

Boole may have been a model for X.

James Moriarty

Quotes Round

Rules•Movies/TV shows which the following quotes are from•+5 for each•+10 for full house

1.

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die

here.”

2.“

“Aaj Khush To Bahut Hoge Tum”

3.

“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

4.

“Drinking and lust: No man can match me in these things. I am the god of tits and wine”

5.

“Go ahead, make my day.”

6.

“I feel the need - the need for speed!”

Please Exchange Sheets

1.

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die

here.”

2.“

“Aaj Khush To Bahut Hoge Tum”

3.

“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

Dr. No (1962)

4.

“Drinking and lust: No man can match me in these things. I am the god of tits and wine”

Game of Thrones

5.

“Go ahead, make my day.”

6.

“I feel the need - the need for speed!”

Top Gun