Prelims - Movie Quiz - Chalchitra - IIT Guwahati

Prelims
● 20 Questions
● 5 Tie-Breaker Question
● If Tie persists, Sudden death.
● Top 6 qualify for finals.
● Scores * 10 - Will be carried forward into finals.

Question 1
Universal Pictures gave the film what was then an exceptionally wide release for a
major studio picture, over 450 screens,starting the culture of big blockbuster
summer movies.
The film ended being the highest grossing movie of all time till Star Wars came
and also causing a decrease in beach attendance in the US.

Question 2
Identify the lady and the child ?

Question 3
This actor acted in LOTR,Star wars and the new planet of the
apes series but in all of these movies we never actually see his
face

Question 4
X is 1981 album which gained a lot of traction in those times topping charts in
over 14 countries.
This pakistani pop album is composed by a brother-sister duo.
Many of us heard it for the first time, when it’s revamped version was used in a
2012 film.it incorporates Nazia Hassan's vocals, along with the vocals of Sunidhi
Chauhan and Benny Dayal

Question 5
In 1935 film Dhoop Chaun, for the first time in Indian cinema, R C Boral has
performed this for a group of girls in this film.
What are we talking about ?

Question 6
X has been recovered from space in four different movies costing the government a
total of 1 trilllion dollars.
X was also in an ensemble heist movie about simultaneously robbing three casinos
which is getting an all female spin-off released this year

Question 7
Maurice ( Picture in the right ) was Franco - Swiss
Structural Engineer whose biggest contribution was
his involvement in Eiffel Tower construction .
What’s his relevance to today’s bollywood ?

Question 8
What are these bird-like creatures, from Star Wars called?

Question 9
Along with Mera Naam Joker, which is the only other bollywood film to have two
interval breaks?

Question 10
X - She started off her career as a child artist in 1966 Telugu film “ Rangula
Ratnam “.
Her father hailed from Tamil Nadu while her mother hailed from Andhra Pradesh.
Leading telugu actress - Savitri - later became her X’s step mother.
And X has claimed her fame with close to 180 films across languages of Hindi,
telugu & tamil.

Question 11
X started of as a photographer funded his first short film his chess tournament
victories.
This meticulous director made only 13 feature length movies in a career spanning
five decades .
His last movie still holds the record for the longest continuous film shoot at 400
days .Week after its completion in 1999 he died

Question 12
The 2016 film, La La Land, racked up an impressive 14 Academy Awards
nominations putting it on par with Titanic and __________ as the films with most
number of academy award nominations

Question 13
American publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house
in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards.
In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson
invited friends to give random award presentations in his living room.
Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Can't
Stop the Music and Xanadu.
Wilson stood at a podium made of cardboard in a tacky tuxedo, with a foam ball
attached to a broomstick as a fake microphone, and announced Can't Stop the
Music as the first __________

Question 14
Around 1944, It was Devika Rani, the owner of Bombay Talkies, who advised
this young man that this name would not be suitable for him as a film actor.
So she advised this Pathan from Peshawar to change his name, and gave him
a choice between Jahangir, Vasudev and X. Mohammad Yusuf Khan Sarwar
Khan opted for X.
How do we better know him ?
( Find X )

Question 15
People know me in a dance pose, with arms uprise and fingers touching. I was
instructed to do so by N.G. Pansare and Walter Langhammer of Times of India.
In special events, people saw me in different shades of gold and silver.
But I am fondly known as ?

Question 16
What was Jason Bourne’s real name before he finished training with the CIA, for
Operation Treadstone?

Question 17
This piece has featured in several albums including Chakra Seven Centers
( Credited as Ajna Chakra ), Anokha, Cafe del Mar Vol 5, Paradisiac 2. This
has been re-used in Deepa Mehta’s film “Fire”.
It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine
Zidane in 2000.

Question 18
Identify this hollywood film ?

Question 19

Question 20
Which bollywood film is being
described in this poster ?

Jayalalitha ( Lady ) & Sridevi ( Child )

Question 3
This actor acted in LOTR, Star wars and the new planet of the
apes series but in all of these movies we never actually see his
face

Question 4
X is 1981 album which gained a lot of traction in those times topping charts in
over 14 countries.
This pakistani pop album is composed by a brother-sister duo.
Many of us heard it for the first time, when it’s revamped version was used in a
2012 film. It incorporates Nazia Hassan's vocals, along with the vocals of Sunidhi
Chauhan and Benny Dayal

Question 6
X has been recovered from space in four different movies costing the government a
total of 1 trillion dollars.
X was also in an ensemble heist movie about simultaneously robbing three casinos
which is getting an all female spin-off released this year

Question 9
What are these bird-like creatures, from Star Wars called?

Question 11
X started of as a photographer funded his first short film from his chess
tournament victories.
This meticulous director made only 13 feature length movies in a career spanning
five decades .
His last movie still holds the record for the longest continuous film shoot at 400
days . A week after its completion in 1999 he died

Question
The 2016 film, La La Land, racked up an impressive 14 Academy Awards
nominations putting it on par with Titanic and __________ as the films with most
number of academy award nominations

Question
American publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house
in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards.
In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson
invited friends to give random award presentations in his living room.
Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Can't
Stop the Music and Xanadu.
Wilson stood at a podium made of cardboard in a tacky tuxedo, with a foam ball
attached to a broomstick as a fake microphone, and announced Can't Stop the
Music as the first __________

Question
Around 1944, It was Devika Rani, the owner of Bombay Talkies, who advised
this young man that this name would not be suitable for him as a film actor.
So she advised this Pathan from Peshawar to change his name, and gave him
a choice between Jahangir, Vasudev and X. Mohammad Yusuf Khan Sarwar
Khan opted for X.
How do we better know him ?
( Find X )

Question
People know me in a dance pose, with arms uprise and fingers touching. I was
instructed to do so by N.G. Pansare and Walter Langhammer of Times of India.
In special events, people saw me in different shades of gold and silver.
But I am fondly known as ?

Question
What was Jason Bourne’s real name before he finished training with the CIA, for
Operation Treadstone?

Question
This piece has featured in several albums including Chakra Seven Centers
( Credited as Ajna Chakra ), Anokha, Cafe del Mar Vol 5, Paradisiac 2. This
has been re-used in Deepa Mehta’s film “Fire”.
It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine
Zidane in 2000.
It’s original version was composed by A.R. Rahman
Identify the film it was originally part of ?

Question

Question
Which bollywood film is being
described in this poster ?

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