Cine lit: Cinema and Literature Quiz

1
Minimalist Poster for which film?

2
Chosen in 2006, as Time magazine's Person of the Year,
the choice was criticized for being a short-sighted stunt.
Some weeks before the announcement, Time asked the
users in a poll "Who Should Be Person of the Year?"
The poll winner by a wide margin was Hugo Chávez, with
35% of the votes. The president of Iran, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad came in second.
Yet Time decided to ignore those results and go with its
decision.
Who was the Time person of the year 2006?

3
One of the first films that X acted in are Desh
Deepak and Noor-e-Yaman. X became a symbol
of women empowerment and went on to act in
several blockbusters. In her films she maintained
the below naming convention
• Pet horse - Punjab Ka Beta
• Pet dog – Gunboat
• Car - Rolls-Royce Ki Beti.
ID X.

What am I talking about?
4*
Stage 1--Jocose
Stage 2--verbose
Stage 3--bellicose
Stage 4--Lachrymose
Stage 5--Comatose

• Different stages of drunkenness

5
Give X and Y
• Arthur Canon Doyle- Sherlock Holmes
• Agatha Christie- Hercule Poirot
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay-X
• Satyajit Ray-Y

6
“What every man thinks
about apart from sex” is
a book written by
Sheridin Simove and is a
best-seller. It even
outsold one of the Harry
potter titles and ‘The Da
Vinci code’ at Amazon.
This book is special in a
very unique way.
What?

It is full of just blank pages

7*
• The film ‘Tamasha’ by Imtiaz Ali starts in Corsica,
France (thanks to ‘Asterix in Corsica’)
• Ranbeer meets Deepika, they fall in love, but a
stupid condition keeps them from knowing their
real identity. The fate had something else in plan
and they meet again in a café called ‘Social’ in
Delhi.
• This was made possible because of a book that
had the stamp of the café in it. Which satirical
novel published in 1961 reunited them?

8*
This noted urdu poet,X, once remarked,
"Only two and a half men know English in India.
First comes X, the other is Dr S Radhakrishnan
(the second President of India) and (Jawaharlal)
Nehru being the half.“
ID X

9
When asked about his debut novel and how is it
different from those of his brother’s he said
“He writes in the first person while I write in the
third. My stories begin where his end”.
He has two novels in his bag:
Complete/Convenient and Child/God
ID this author

10
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, headquartered in
London, is one of the Big Four auditors and it has
been ranked by ‘Vault’ as the most prestigious
accounting firms for seven consecutive years.
• They have been overlooking a particular job for
the past 83 years and did an immaculate job, if
we overlook a mistake in 1964, until this year.
• What am I talking about?

11
Often touted as the writer of Partition and
Prostitutes, X was one of the greatest Urdu short
story writers. He wrote his own epitaph which
reads:
Yahaan X Dafan Hai.
Uskay Seenay Mein Fan-E-Afsana Nigari Ke Saare
Israar-O-Ramooz Dafan Hain.
Woh Ab Bhi Manon Mitti Ke Neeche Soch Raha Hai
Ke Woh Bada Afsaana Nigaar Hai Ya Khuda!
ID X

12
One of the stalwarts in Indian cinema is Satyajit
Ray and in Indian literature is Prem Chand. The
former made films out of the works of latter
exactly two times, one was ‘Sadgati’ and other
was X which won filmfare awards for best film,
best director and best supporting actor and is
known as one of the finest works of Ray.
Which film?

13*
Amitabh Bachchan took on HN Bahuguna from
Allahabad in 1984 parliamentary elections. The
latter used the phrase “mere angne mein tumhaara
kya kaam hai” but that wasn’t enough to subdue
the star power and Amitabh won the elections. But
not all superstars’ charisma enough to defeat
political stalwarts. Rajesh Khanna contested in the
1991 LS elections from Delhi Constituency and lost
to X by mere 1589 votes.
ID X.

14
“Knock” is a science fiction horror story based on
eradication of human race from earth with just one
man left.
This story was included in the The Best Science
Fiction Stories of 1949.
There had been three radio adaptation of this story.
What other distinct feature does this story holds?

15
This is the cover of a music album named ‘Angels
and Demons’. The name of a famous novel by
Dan Brown is directly taken from here.
Name the singer.

16
X is an American actor, film director, producer, and
screenwriter who co-founded the companies Live
Planet and Pearl street films. He won Academy
Award for best original screenplay in 1997.
As a director his debut work was a 16-minute
comedy called “I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung
Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-
Picture Deal at Disney” in 1993 but things changed
for better and now he has a few films as a director
to boast about including ”.
Give me X

17
The Niyamgiri mountains of Odisha are
considered holy by the local Dongria tribe. They
pay their tribute to the holy spirit of Niyamgiri by
celebrating a festival every year in February. In
2010, Vedanta planned to open a Bauxite mine in
those hills and despite several agitations the
government didn’t scrap the project. They
decided to appeal to X, a film director, because
they felt that his latest film had all the similarities
with their own plight. The message they sent was
“______ is fantasy...and real”.
ID X

18
Characters of which book?
• Hori
• Dhania
• Gobar
• Dattadin
• Matadin
• Bhola
• Rai Sahab
• Miss Malati
• Mr Mehta
• Mr. Khanna
• Govindi

19*
Shown below are extracts from a magazine called Tactile Minds (costs around
$230), which is designed by Canadian Lisa Murphy and was made for a particular
section of the society. What is it and which section I am talking about?

20*
Mauritius has a population of 1.2m out of which
60% are of Indian origin. The majority of those
are from Bihar and are known as Bihari
Mauritians. An extensively researched book
talks about this migration of bonded labourers
from India to Mauritius on a fictional ship called
X. The trilogy of which the book is a part of is
know as X trilogy.
Give X

1
The Philippine–American War broke out in 1899 following
the Philippine struggle for independence that began in
1896. Just before the time when the war broke out, X,
wrote a poem “_____ ___ burden” which mentioned the
native people of Philippines as
“sullen peoples, half-devil and half child”.
He was widely considered as racist and fascist who was
obsessed with white supremacy. George Orwell has this to
say about him, "during five literary generations every
enlightened person has despised him" as "morally
insensitive and aesthetically disgusting“.
ID X

2
ID the book
• It was about to be called The Last Man in
Europe.
• While writing the book the author was under
tight surveillance by the government
• The author died 7 months after the book was
published
• IBM was once very popularly likened by
another tech giant to a figure in the book

3
• “X, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my
soul. _______: the tip of the tongue taking a
trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at
three, on the teeth.
• Opening lines of which book

4
X wanted to get a Bachelor of Arts degree and so
after 34 years of dropping out of college, he
enrolled in his previous film school ‘Cal State Long
Beach’ and took out time for independent
studying. The course required him to submit a film
as a part of his final project. He turned in his
critically acclaimed film Y as his submission.
One fact about his film Y is that X never took
money for directing it because he felt that any
money accepted would be Blood money.
Give X and Y
(Part points)

• Steven Spielberg
• Schindler’s List

6
In 1991, a different kind of ego clash was seen.
Two films got released in that year, one had
Bappi Lahiri and other had Laxmikant-Pyarelal as
music composers. Both the films shared a very
similar tune in one of their songs and it was
never clear who had copied whom. In actuality,
both the songs were copied from a song by
Mory Kante, an African singer.
Give the song(s)

• Tamma tamma
• Jumma Chumma de de

1
There is a belief that this person had only three
words in the film but he had one more line
which he says while playing cards with his pals.
The line goes “Chal be janga, chidi ki rani hai!”
Which character/actor am I talking about?

2
To promote this film, the actor repeated the plot of the film in
real life by going missing and invited the press to find him
through the clues he left. The first clue was read out by Sachin
Tendulkar in Mumbai. His itinerary had seven Indian cities:
• Varanasi (His Mother’s hometown)
• Kolkata
• Chanderi, MP
• Palanpur, GJ
• Faridkot
• Chennai
• Jaipur
Which film?

• Metamorphosis
• Franz Kafka

4
Richard Dawkins was a big fan of X, the only
person to whom he ever sent a fan letter. To
Dawkins’s surprise, he also got one back from X.
Dawkins dedicated his book ‘The God Delusion’
to X saying “science has lost a friend, literature
has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the
black rhino have lost a gallant defender.”
ID X

5
We have seen filmmakers give tribute to their
idols through their movies by either naming
their characters after them or a film sequence
replication.
Karan Johar wasn’t behind and in his film ‘Kabhi
Khushi Kabhie Gham’, he paid tribute to his guru
by an unusual way.
How?

• Spelling of ‘Kabhi’ is varied the second time in
the title of the film as ‘Kabhie’. This was done
because in Yash Raj’s film ‘Kabhie Kabhie’ the
spelling was such.

Producers and Publishers and
People
(wtf)
Round 3

ID the film production companies

ID the book publishing companies

ID X
• X’s first work was ‘Jhansir Rani’
• Filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak was X’s uncle
• During Frankfurt Book Fair 2006, X gave an
inaugural speech, “This is truly the age where
the Joota is Japani, Patloon is Englistani, the
Topi is Roosi, But the Dil... Dil is always
Hindustani ……..My country, Torn, Tattered,
Proud, Beautiful, Hot, Humid, Cold, Sandy,
Shining India. My country”

The book was published in 2003 and warner bros.
bought the rights to make film out of it. A part of
the reason for this deal was Johny Depp’s love for
the book. In 2006, director Peter Wier was hired to
work on the script. In 2007, Mira Nair replaced Wier
and Amitabh Bachhan was roped in to star opposite
Depp.
Several hurdles came up, Big B pulled out of it and
project was allegedly wrapped up. But the
speculations now are that the film is still in works.
Which book?

‘The Sellout’ is a satirical novel that won The Man Booker
prize 2016. The author admitted that he hates writing and
the only motivation of the author to write the book was
that ‘he was broke’.
The chief character of the book is the narrator referred to
as ‘Me’, who tries to reintroduce slavery in his
neighbourhood.
The judges have compared the satire and wit to that of
Twain and Swift.
The author became the first person of his nationality to
win the Booker prize.
Give his nationality

This character, a
journalist, (see the
last three panels)
is from the latest
book ‘Asterix and
the magic scroll”.
He is inspired
from a real life
person.
Who?

ID X and Y
X: “ You write so much about exiles, outsiders, travellers, translators, although
I know you get terribly travel sick, in Baumgartner's Bombay, Fire on the
Mountain, Journey to Ithaca, Zigzag, Fasting Feasting, Artist of
Disappearance. Was it inevitable that you left first to live in the Himalayas and
then that you left India? Does one live the lives one has written as much as
one writes about lives one has known?”
Y: “It was never my intention. I took one step, then another, thinking I would
retrace my steps and return, but was drawn further on instead. So often one's
writing is prophetic. When you write, you are in touch with another force, not
the everyday force you employ, you retreat so deep into yourself, you don't
suspect those feelings had been there.”

Harry Lloyd is an English actor who is known for his roles
in ‘Doctor Who’ and BBC drama ‘Robin Hood’. He also
worked in the film ‘The Theory of everything’ alongside
Eddie Redmayne.
We know him better as Viserys Targaryen in GOT. This
question is not about him but his great-great-great-
grandfather who was one of the literary world’s giants.
His surname was used as a curse, possibly invented by
William Shakespeare in his work ‘The Merry Wives of
Windsor’. So instead of using ‘What the devil’, people said
‘What the _____’.
ID the G-G-G-G/author.

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