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An Entertainment Quiz

by
Mario D’Cunha
Infosys, Chennai

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Question 1
• Academy Awards: 16 nominations; 2 wins
• Golden Globe Awards: 25 nominations; 7 wins
• Record for highest Academy nominations by
any actor till date
• Record for highest Golden Globe nominations
and wins by any actor till date

Id the person.

Question 2
• Mark William Calaway is an American
professional wrestler.
• He joined WCW as "Mean" Mark Callous in 1989.
When his contract wasn’t renewed he joined the
WWE as X and has remained with the company
since 20 years till date.
• He is responsible for bringing in the Hell in a Cell
match, being the first contestant and victim of it,
apart from his special Y match.

Id X.

Question 3
• Barbra Millicent Roberts also known as X is from
Willows, Wisconsin and attended the Manhattan
International High School in New York City.
• She has an on-off romantic relationship with her
boyfriend Y.
• X has had over 40 pets including cats and dogs,
horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra.
• X has also worked in Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 and
has also mimicked Katrina Kaif too.

Id X.

Question 4
• Father and son duo, creators of X, Dick Brown
& Chris Brown
• Set in an unnamed coastal village of Norway
• X has a pet duck Kwack and loyal and clever
dog Snert
• X’s annual bath is a time of national joy and
celebration

Id X.

Question 6
Sacha Baron Cohen voiced the animated
character in a well known animated movie.
Name the character.

Question 7
• David Crane and Marta Kauffman, began developing X
under the title Insomnia Café in November 1993.
• Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank,
California in front of a live audience.
• The finale, first aired on May 6, 2004, was watched by
52.5 million American viewers, making it the fourth
most-watched series finale in television history.
• The series won many awards and was nominated for 63
Primetime Emmy Awards.

Id X.

Question 8
• Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
• Duck Amuck
• For Scent-imental Reasons
• Pigs in a Polka
• Walky Talky Hawky
• Beep Prepared

What are these and what’s special bout them?

Question 8
Looney Tunes nominated for the Academy
Awards for Best Animated Short Films

Question 9
• Producer and cinematographer Nariman Irani was in deep debt when
his film Zindagi Zindagi (1972) starring Sunil Dutt flopped.
• The cast and crew of X recommended that he produce another film
and that they will participate in the film.
• They all approached Salim-Javed, who gave them an untitled script that
had already been rejected by the entire industry.
• The film took 3.5 years to complete, before which, producer Irani had
an accident on the set of another film and died.
• The film was released without any promotion on 12 May 1978 and was
declared a flop the 1st week. But by the 2nd week, the film was declared
a big hit. The profits were given to Irani's widow to settle her
husband's debts.

Id the film.

Question 10
• He is an American actor known for his portrayals of
offbeat, eccentric characters
• Collaborated with director and close friend Tim Burton.
• He joked that his surname translates to "idiot" in
German, though it is actually a minor insult meaning
"fool"
• He has 13 tattoos.
• He’s unable to watch his new film in 3D because he’s
part of a small population who cannot process 3D
images.

Who is he?

Question 11
X won the Oscar for Best Actor and Y won it
for the Best Supporting Actor, for the same
character. They are the only two actors to win
it in this way.

Id both actors and the character.

Question 11
Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Vito Corleone

Question 12
• X was born in 1924, Mysore, India, nestled in the
jungles of Karapur.
• The son of an elephant driver (mahout) in service for
the Maharajah of his town. Elephant Boy was his first
film.
• First Indian actor to make it big in Hollywood. In the
late 1940-50s, he was among the richest stars in
Hollywood.
• He was a friend to James Stewart, Ronald Reagan,
among others.
• He’s got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Id X.

Question 13
• This great director X never received an Academy Award but
was honored with a U. S. Postage stamp in 1998.
• X was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1980. Sir X died the
same year.
• The advertisement for his movie Y was very startling when
he said no one would be allowed in once the movie started!
• “Actors are cattle.”
• “The length of a film should be directly related to the
endurance of the human bladder.”

Id X.

Question 14
• X loves his Aunty Maya, Uncle Bhim and girlfriend Meera
Jain.
• Nalin Oberoi, a local crime lord, uses an amulet to perform
an ancient ritual, where he gets possessed by a demon
committed to opening the gate for other demons to get
back to Earth.
• While being chased by other kids, I encountered an ancient
yogi who gives me the power of Y to fight evil.
• While discovering my powers, I refused to help a woman
being attacked by several men. I left the place, but came
back when I heard a cry and I learnt the biggest lesson of
my life “Z”.

Id X, Y, Z

Question 14
Pavithr Prabhakar, Spider, With Great Power
comes great responsibility

Question 15
But this year I'll go further,
Listen closely to my song:
Though condemned I am to split you
Still I worry that it's wrong…

Where have you heard these lines?

Question 15
The Sorting Hat Song, Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix

Question 16
• X was born in Mumbai to a Bollywood film producer.
• For a period of time, X followed numerology, creating
film titles in which the first word began with a specific
English Alphabet
• After watching the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munnabhai, X
decided to stop this practice.
• In 2007, X was chosen as one of 250 Global Young
Leaders by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum
2006.
• In 2006, X became the first Indian filmmaker to be a
jury member in the Miss World competition, in
Warsaw, Poland.
Id X.

Question 17
• He was a boy genius.
• Enters MIT at the age of 15 to study Electrical
Engineering.
• He was imprisoned with a Nobel Prize Winner
Yinsen.
• He has a friend by the name of James Rhodes.

Who am I taking about?

Question 17
Tony Stark, Iron Man

Question 18
• X was born in the family of Seth Chhaju Ram, a
leading Jat philanthropist, in Rohtak, Haryana.
• X adopted the screen name of “Y", meaning
“Empress", to avoid confusion with other
actresses named Reema.
• Before entering films, X appeared in television
commercials with Amitabh Bachchan for BPL and
Shahrukh Khan for Santro.

Id X.

Question 19
• X is the household butler summoned by means of
a bell-pull in the form of a hangman's noose
• Rings the massive bell located in the mansion's
bell tower; That gong shakes the entire house
• When X appears he responds with a baritone
"You rang?”
• He is superhumanly strong and often plays the
harpsichord .

Id X.

Question 19
Lurch, The Addam’s Family

Question 20
• X’s mother announces its time for his arranged
marriage to Manjula, not seen in years.
• X was hesitant, but the two actually fall in love.
• Manjula receives overdose of fertility drugs from X & Y.
• Octuplets: Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Priya,
Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet.
• When the town changed its name to Libertyville to be
patriotic: Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi,
Manifest Destiny, Apple Pie, and Superman.

Id X and Y.

Question 20
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Hank Azaria,
Operator of the Kwik-E-Mart

Question 21
• In the "Three" storyline, concluding in X #587
(cover date March 2011, published January 26,
2011), Y dies fighting a horde of aliens from the
other dimensional Negative Zone.
• The series is scheduled to end with the following
issue, #588, and re-launch in March 2011.
• Spider-Man will take the Y's place on the team, as
requested in the Y's will.

Id X and Y.

Question 21
Fantastic Four, The Human Torch

Question 22
“No blood. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood;
no blood at all. Why hadn't I thought of that?
No blood. What a beautiful idea!”

Who said this…?

Question 22
Dexter, Michael C. Hall

Question 23
Which movie won the first ever Academy
Award For Best Animated Feature?

Question 24
What did Captain Haddock say when he found
Red Rackham’s Treasure?

“Blistering _ _ _ _ _ _ _, it’s Red Rackham’s
_ _ _ _ _ _ _!!!”

Question 24
“Blistering treasures, it’s Red Rackham’s
barnacles!!!”

Question 25
I formed ‘The Knights of Walpurgis’. My name
translates to ‘flight from death’.

Who am I?

Question 26
Items in Super Mario Video game

Question 27
X grew up on a farm with his parents, brother
and 25 cats.
X’s childhood on a farm parallels the life of Y’s
owner, Z, who was also raised on a farm, with
his parents and a brother.
Both X and Z are cartoonists and share the
same birthday on July 28.

Id X, Y, Z

Question 27
Jim Davis, Garfield, Jon Arbuckle

Question 28
• X is a 2010 Indian anthology film with 4 short films:
Abhimanyu, Omar, Megha and Afia based on child
abuse, gay rights, Kashmiri pandits and sperm donation
respectively.
• X is the 1st mainstream Hindi film that is crowd-sourced
through Twitter and Facebook and director Y offered
backers co-production credit in the film and a share in
the profits.
• X has won the Best Film Award while Z bagged the Best
Actress award for her performance in the film at the
13th London Asian Film Festival for her character of
Megha. Released in India on April 22, 2011.

• Id X, Y, Z

Question 28
I am, Onir, Juhi Chawla

Question 29
X, Y, Abhijeet, Fredricks, Vivek, Tasha, Dr.
Taarika and Dr. Salunkhe form the Z Team.

Id X, Y, Z.

Question 29
ACP Pradyuman, Daya, CID

Question 30
• The scene from X’s show aired on May 23rd
2005 on CBS is still heavily parodied in MADtv,
The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, etc.
• But May 25th 2011 is a much more remarkable
date in American TV than the above.
• X is planning to telecast new episodes of the
show on X’s own television channel called
OWN.

• Id X.

Question 30
Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Connect 5

The only animated films till date to be
nominated for Best Feature Film at the
Oscars.

Special Thanks

Aanchal Anup Sharma
Infosys, Pune

Praahas Amin
MIT, Manipal

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