Entertainment Quiz Pantheon 2012 Prelims (with answers)

2. RULES
• 21 questions.
• 6 Teams qualify for the Mains.
• No negative marking. Guess. Please.
• Question 3, 7, 13, 17 and 21 are * marked, they
will be used to break ties.
• Use of smart phones is actually foolish. Don’t do
it. Please.

3. No one should question the Quizmaster’s
decision.

4. Except, Rajinikanth (ofcourse).

5. And yes,
GOOD LUCK !!

7. 1.
This is Anup Jalota singing ‘X’ written
by ‘Y’.
Identify X and Y both.
<audio clue>

9. Y = TULSIDAS
X = Hanuman Chalisa

10. 2.
Minimal Poster for a movie. Name the
lead actress who debuted with it.

12. Bhagyashree

13. 3**.
The Poem in next slide, by Edgar
Allen Poe, inspired an ingenious
director to make a much talked
about movie.
Identify the movie

14. I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

17. 4.
Rembrandts : F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Then,
Barenaked Ladies : ??

19. The Big Bang Theory

21. 5.
Cryptic
description of
which popular
show ?

23. “chaddi pehan ke phool khila hai phool khila
hai …”

24. 6.
Main Cast of a movie. Identify X and Y.
1. X
2. Bernie Mac
3. Brad Pitt
4. Elliott Gould
5. Casey Affleck
6. Scott Caan
7. Eddie Jemison
8. Don Cheadle
9. Shaobo Qin
10. Carl Reiner
11. Y

26. X = GEORGE CLOONEY
Y = Matt Damon
( Ocean’s 11 )

27. 7**.
Identify this theme of a very popular
animated T.V. series.
<audio clue>

30. X-MEN

31. 8. Connect.

33. MADAGASCAR

35. 9.
Identify the movie.

37. Bunty Aur Bubli

38. 10.
Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure it
was real? What if you were unable to wake up from
that dream? How would you know the difference
between the dream world, and the real world?
You take the blue pill, the story ends. You take the red
pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how
deep the rabbit hole goes.
The X is everywhere. It is the world that has been
pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
What is X ?

40. The Matrix

41. 11.
What do we see at the end of the
following video clip ?

43. The Doordarshan Logo

44. 12. Indian science fiction television
series of late 90s extremely popular
among youth because of its concept of
time machine and the world of 2220.
Name the series.
<audio clue>

46. Captain Vyom

47. 13.** Connect the pic and the audio.

49. MORGAN FREEMAN
( narrator in both the movies )

50. 14.
Look closely and Identify the Movie.

52. BORDER
(now look at it again)

53. 15.
This movie was released in
Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. What was its
name in the Tamil version ?

55. SIVAJI, THE BOSS !
(same name in all languages)

56. 16.
Identify the Band.

58. Led Zeppelin

59. 17**.
Following is the opening credit of
‘Bharat ek Khoj’ by Shyam Benegal
based on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery
of India.
Who plays Nehru in it ?
<video in next slide>

62. Roshan Seth

63. 18.
One evening in 1980, Toru Iwatani
wanted a pizza. This inspired the design
of one of the most famous games of all
times.
Which game ?

65. PAC-MAN

66. 19.
An epic sequence. Name the movie.

68. Jaane bhi do Yaaron !

70. 20.
Identify the only person in a shirt in this
add.

72. Raj Kumar Hirani
(Director, Munnabhai M.B.B.S. )

73. 21**.
Following is a portion of a song ‘hey
beautiful’ by ‘the Solids’. A 12-second part
of it is famous for another reason. What ?

75. Theme song of How I Met Your Mother.

76. *
End of
Prelims.
Mains
up next.
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