Finals of the Movie Quiz held at Winterfest 2012

1. Movie Quiz Finals

3. +5 for every correct answer

4. +10 bonus if you get all 10

16. Teams get marks as follows(if N teams):

17. all N correct : +2

18. 7: +4, 6: +6......1 correct : 16

25. Infinite Pounce

33. (8) X was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate exploitation of actors in Hollywood who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios that did not include restrictions on work hours or minimum rest periods, and often had clauses that automatically renewed at the studios' discretion. These contracts were notorious for allowing the studios to dictate the public and private lives of the performers who signed them, and most did not have provisions to allow the performer to end the deal.

34. (9)Kubrick wanted to direct a Holocaust-themed film for which he even wrote the screenplay as far back as 1976, which was titled X. He persuaded studios to let him direct this film but this dream of his was never realized. He finally conceded that Spielberg's Schindler's List came closest to what he had in mind and decided to work on other projects, yet maintaining that “an accurate film about the Holocaust was beyond the capacity of cinema”

35. (10) The name of this studio is based on the Arabic name for the sirocco, or Mediterranean wind, which the Italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in the Second World War. The name was adopted with the idea the the studio would "blow a new wind through the Japanese anime industry". It was started by Hayao Miyazaki and is known for producing Spirited Away , the only non-English animated feature to win an academy award for Best Animated Feature.

36. (11) X started her career as a freelance fashion illustrator with various women's magazines in Bombay, including the 'Eve's Weekly' later when its editor opened a boutique, she asked X to try designing dresses, hereupon she discovered her flair for designing clothes, her success as a designer soon led to her switching career paths, where Guru Dutt asked her to work with him on C.I.D in 1956.

37. (12) Garret Brown has worked on many Hollywood films but he will be remembered for a “work-efficiently-while-walking” rig that he created and tested on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum in the 1970s. What innovation was this?

38. (13) The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. How is this story by Joseph Conrad been immortalized in the world of cinema?

39. (14)chakravyug mei gusne se pehle kaun tha mei, aur kesa tha yeh mujhe yaad hi na rahe chakravyug mei gusne ke baadh merey our chakravuy ke beech sirf jaan leva nikhatva thi is ka mujhe patha he na chaley chakravyug se bahar nikalney paar mei mukth ho javun baley hi. fir be chakravyug ke rachna mei farkh hi naa padega Marun ya maaron mara javun ya jaan se mar dhu iska fesla kaabi na ho payega soya huva admi jab needh mei se utkhar chalnaa shuru kartha hi thab saapno ka saansar usey dhubara dhekhi nahi payega us roshni mei,jo nirnay ki roshni hai saab kuch saaman hoga kya? ek paladey mei napun saktha dushrey paladey par paarush aur teek tharazhu kei kaantey paar....X

40. (15) Identify him. Most famous for his role as Vikram Mallah in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen.

41. (16) Based on Michael Ondaatje's eponymous novel, this film starring Ralph Fiennes in the title role. The film went on to be nominated for 12 oscars and won 9 of them (Fiennes didnt win the Best Actor award!!). Roger Ebert said of the film, “You watch it once for the questions, and the next time for the answers”

42. SCORES

43. SVC

44. +20,-10

45. +20,-10

46. +15,-5

47. +10,-0

48. Films by Andrei Tarkovsky

49. Stalker

50. Mirror

51. Andrei Rublev

52. Solaris