Prasanth John Abraham Varun Sridharan

Arindam Mohanta

MOVIES QUIZ FINALS!

1. This movie’s title is taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope, the story of a tragic love affair, where forgetfulness became the heroine's only comfort:

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. _________________________________

Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. ‘Rockstar’ was shot in reverse, with the climax being shot first. What was the reason ?

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The film makers did not want to mess Ranbir

Kapoor’s hairstyle

3. The alternative used had lead which clogged

the electrical points inside and was also

hazardous to human health. So, Paul C. Fisher decided to develop ____ which could be used instead. He developed a pressurized cartridge with a refill which had thixotropic ___ which remained semisolid until the shearing action of the rolling ball inside liquefied it. The cartridge was pressurized with nitrogen so that it didn’t rely on gravity. It was dependable in the cold and the heat.

All this was made fun of in a movie. Explain.

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3 Idiots- the pen used by astronauts

4. Which is the only movie in which Shashi Kapoor played an elder brother to Amitabh Bachchan ?

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Silsila

5. A makeshift singing squad which included Peter Osgood, David Webb and Peter Bonetti among others released a song in 1972 which reached No. 8 in the UK charts. Add a superlative adjective to the title of the song and you get a Palme D’or and BAFTA winning movie’s title. Which song? Which movie?

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Blue is the colour; Blue is the warmest colour

6. ‘To The Wonder’ was a 2012 Terrence Malick movie starring Ben Affleck. The movie also garnered popularity because it featured in the last work of someone. Who?

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Roger Ebert

7. In 2013, “Barfi!” was chosen as India’s official entry for Oscars dismissing the recommendation made by the jury of the 58th National Film Awards in 2011. What was the recommendation and which movie should have been the official entry as per the recommendation?

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Films winning Best Film at the annual National Film Awards should be the official

entry; Deool (2012)

8. The Chief engineer for the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and also the iconic Statue of Liberty was the grandfather of a Bollywood actress, identify both.

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Kalki Koechlin's great-grandfather Maurice Koechlin

9. In the movie “Leon: The Professional”, Leon and Mathilda checks into the hotel under the name MacGuffin. This is a tribute to a director who had this technique of having a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. Which director?

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Alfred Hitchcock

10. With the success of his fourth consecutive release, X, film director, is being compared to Y who ruled the box office in the Seventies and the Eighties with his typical masala potboilers. Identify X and Y.

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X - Rohit Shetty; Y - Manmohan Desai

11. Identify

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The actors who played the von Trapp children in The Sound of

Music

12. This 1965 movie had the alternative title (707), (707).

Which movie?

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Boeing Boeing

13. Who is Dharmendra kissing?

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Ram Jethmalani

14. These are some of the relatively lesser known elements in a list. What?

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Based on Stephen King stories

15. Which two movie characters?

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Dirty Harry, Rainman

16. Which Bollywood Actor?

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17.Tribute to 2 movies. Which?

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Field of Dreams; Bullitt

18. What is this, which inspired a movie?

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The King’s Speech

19. This Bugs Bunny short is based on?

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Casablanca

20. Minimalist poster for?

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21. What is Matthew McConaughey paying tribute to?

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Dazed and Confused

22. Minimalist poster for?

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Good Will Hunting

23. Which movie are they talking about?

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Gone Girl

24. Put Funda

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List of Sean Bean’s deaths

25. What happens next?

• http://www.tubechop.com/watch/4372351

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http://www.tubechop.com/watch/4372311