Movies & TV Quiz Finals 2016, MSRIT

Movies & TV Quiz Finals
QM : Syed Saqline

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

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

Answers
1. Taxi Driver
2. Baahubali: The Beginning
3. The Martian
4. Dirty Picture
5. Pulp Fiction
6. PK
7. Dexter

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?

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.

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.

4.
• One of the most disturbing moments from comic
books is the incestuous relationship between X and
Y.
• X, Y? (Pic on next slide)

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?

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)

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

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?

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?

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?

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

3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron
Burgundy

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 Cheena
Y – 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?

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?

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.

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!”

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