Movies & TV Quiz Prelims

QM : Syed Saqline

1. #decisionThese are the changes that occur during the

movie: • 11-1• 10-1• 9-3• 8-4• 6-6• 3-9• 1-11• 0-12 Identify..

2. #Reverse

Identify the movie from this minimalist poster

3. Who imitating whom?

Bryan Cranston, Drake

No points for Hotline Bling

4. #MarathaMandir

*5. Before switching careers, X was an Olympic diver for his country.

He finished third in Olympic trials on three different occasions and competed in the 1988 Games in Seoul, the Barcelona Olympiad in 1992 and the Olympics in Atlanta four years later. He also finished twelfth in the World Championships held in Barcelona in 1992.

Identify X.

Jason Statham

6. • They Both Have Tough Twin Sisters• They Both Have Evil, Manipulative Fathers• They Both Play a Role in Their Fathers’ Deaths• They Both Love Their Sister…in a Gross Way• They Both Lose Their Hand• They Both Get Prostheses• They Both Have Douche-bag Nephews

Jaime Lannister & Luke Skywalker

7. According to director, this movie actually started off

as a sequel to the movie Django Unchained, at least on paper. This was just at the stage where he was developing the story, but as much as we'd have loved to see Django again, the director’s vision, as usual, went on a different tangent, and he ended up writing a different story altogether.

Which movie?

8. The film is a 1999 drama that revolves around a man who

defies his father's wish and marries a woman, following which he struggles to make a living.

It is probably the most aired movie on Sony Max.

Initially, people thought that the channel was simply filling up its Sunday slot. But soon, conditions worsened.

It was as if Set Max was forcing you to watch it. Slowly but steadily, the channel started showing the movie on weekdays as well.

Identify.

9. #Bloody X was inspired by the author’s childhood turtles,

which were kept in a toy castle. The inexpensive turtles were usually unhealthy, and he’d fantasize about their lives and speculate on their deaths in their toy castle.The author let the producers adapt X into a TV series after the producers answered his question : Who is Y’s mother?Gimme X and Y (part points available)

X : A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF)Y : Jon Snow

*10. Filmography of who?#SpEnt

• Buck White (musical) , 1969• The Greatest , 1977• Requeim for a Heavyweight, 1962• Freedom Road, 1978• Black Rodeo, 1972

Muhammad Ali (RIP)

11. ID

Scarface

The SNASAThe Cheap TrickThe He’s not comingThe Mrs. StinsfireThe Lorenzo Von MatterhornThe Scuba DiverThe Time Traveller

Connect.

12. #WaitForIt

Barney Stinson’s Playbook

13.• He was first introduced into the comic New Mutants #98 as

a Villain. He was never meant to become the character he is today.• Raised by an abusive military father after his mother died

of cancer, he fell into the wrong crowd where eventually a friend of his disarmed his father and killed him.• He is a proud Canadian, often referencing his home

country and using terms in metric. He has been known to break the fourth wall to tease American readers.• Identify the character.

Deadpool

• The synopsis of the movie reads :

Shankar, an honest man, innocently comes in the way of a gang lord's mission, leading to them killing his father and sister. Shankar vows that he shall get his revenge by eliminating the whole gang.• It has an IMDB rating of 8.0. It is arguably the most

pathetic yet interesting movie. Although it did not have a great box office run, over the years it has become a cult classic .• Identify the movie.

14.

*15.• On top of budget overflows and the lead actress

chipping her elbow bone and nearly drowning, possibly the craziest thing to happen on the sets of X occured in August when 80 members of the crew became sick complaining of hallucinations. • After many of them were hospitalized, it was

discovered that someone spiked their lobster chowder with PCP (phenylcyclidine).

• X?

Titanic

16. • The Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak

Theatre) is a live-performance auditorium in the Hollywood and Highland Center shopping mall and entertainment complex, on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, United States.

• It is the first permanent home to host one of the most important annual events in the entertainment sector.

• What event?

Academy Awards / Oscars

17. Which show’s disclaimer?#FamousFour

18. • X was notorious for shooting multiple takes for his

scenes. During the production of Y, X demanded Shelley Duvall perform the iconic baseball bat scene with Z 127 times to get the terror and horror just right. That's merely one example of how difficult the director could be to his stars during the 13-month shoot.• Give me X, Y and Z.

X – Stanley KubrickY – The ShiningZ – Jack Nicholson

19. #Bong• Sandip _____ started his professional career in film at the

age of 22 as assistant director on the sets of his father's film Shatranj Ke Khiladi, 1977. Prior to this, he had aided his father in various capacities including still photographer on set. His own directorial debut was Phatik Chand (1983) based on Fatik Chand – the film received an award in the International Children's Film Festival in Vancouver.• Sandip is also a noted photographer. He was the director of

photography on his father’s last three films, Ganashatru (1989), Shakha Proshakha (1990) and Agantuk (1991).• Who is his more famous father?

Satyajit Ray

*20. Who is being talked about?• In high school, X was voted by his classmates as the

“Least Likely To Succeed.”• During filming for Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg

used to call X and put him on speakerphone so he could tell jokes to the crew to cheer them up.• X used to work as a street mime in the 1970s when

he was cutting his teeth as an actor.• He was a gamer. He named his daughter Zelda after

the video game The Legend of Zelda.

Robin Williams

21. #GuessThisOne• At the beginning of the series, X’s door had the number 5 on it.

The producers later realized that didn’t make sense as X lived on a higher floor. They changed her apartment number to 20. The number on Y’s apartment changed as well—from 4 to 19.

• The creators of the series considered various names but landed on the final name before the premiere.

• Famous celebrities have guest starred on the series some of which include Gary Oldman, Robin Williams and Charlie Sheen.

• Which series?

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

22. #Perfection

Sir Daniel Day Lewis

23. Which famous director?• Around age five, X said that he was sent by his father to

the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for five minutes as punishment for behaving badly. This incident implanted a lifetime fear of policemen in X, and such harsh treatment and wrongful accusations are frequent themes in his films.• X's films sometimes feature characters struggling in their

relationships with their mothers.• X’s heroines tend to be blondes.• A central theme of X's films was murder and the

psychology behind it.

24.• Balaji Motion Pictures had purchased the adaptation

rights of the novel – The Devotion of Suspect X and according to the production house, Z shares the plot with the Japanese novel.• Both Z and The Devotion of Suspect X share the same

basic story line about a cunning man who covers up the murder convincingly.• First made in Malayalam, it has been remade into

Kannada, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. All versions have been successful commercially. • Give me the name of the Hindi version.

Drishyam

*25.• How it was supposed to end: While the “what's in

the box” ending was in the original script, producers demanded it be rewritten before going to production. Somehow the director and one of the lead actors got their hands on the first draft of the script and refused to make the movie unless it adhered to the original climax. The actor even had a clause in his contract that said “the head stays in the box.”• How it ends: With his wife’s head in a box and him

shooting half a dozen bullets at the killer.

Climax of se7en

26. #underoos• On 23 June 2015, it was announced that Tom Holland

had been cast as X for Y and also for X: Homecoming, set to be released in 2017. Upon release of Y, Holland received universal praise for his role as X, hailed by many as the "best X we've ever seen”.

• Holland is also the youngest actor to portray the role of X.

• X?

Spiderman