This was the Movie Quiz I conducted for Acumen '13 at Thapar University, Patiala! Please give in your reviews!

1. Movie Quiz
RULES
The Quizmaster is GOD!
25 Questions!
Top scorer from each Hostel(s) qualifies onstage.
Instant disqualification if you abuse the Quizmaster or throw objects at
him!
And YES! Bribing the quizmaster is bound to reap benefits!
Good Luck!

2. This film was directly inspired by the spaghetti westerns of
Sergio Leone, by Akira Kurosawa’s Shichinin no samurai
(1954), Bandidos (1967) among others. Some critics at the
time even began calling it a curry western.
The film was shot extensively in Ramnagaram near
Bangalore, India.
(Dialogue): “When I dead... police coming. Police coming...
‘budiya’ going jail. In jail, ‘budiya’ chakki peesing and
peesing and peesing and peesing and peesing.”
ID the cult movie?

3. Sholay

4. X won the Oscar for Best Actor and Y won it
for the Best Supporting Actor, for the same
character. They are the only two actors to win
it in this way.
Id both actors and the character?

5. Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro Vito
Corleone

6. X was born in the family of Seth Chhaju Ram, a
leading Jat philanthropist, in Rohtak, Haryana.
X adopted the screen name of “Y", meaning
“Empress", to avoid confusion with other actresses
named Reema.
Before entering films, X appeared in television
commercials with Amitabh Bachchan for BPL and
Shahrukh Khan for Santro.
Id X.

7. Mallika Sherawat

8. ID the movie!

9. Dead Poets Society

10. “I just realized I made a $200 million chick flick
where everyone dies. What the hell was I
thinking?”
Who on which movie?

11. Titanic

12. While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus conductor, Badruddin
used to entertain passengers aboard with some antics. These
antics caught the attention of actor and script-writer Balraj Sahni
in 1950 while he was once traveling in a B.E.S.T. bus on which
Badruddin, then 27, was working as a conductor. Sahni was
penning at that time the script for the movie, Baazi (1951), and
introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as a candidate for a role.
Badruddin's screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he
did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, X.

13. Johnny Walker

14. According to Motion Picture Association of America,
these highly condensed series of movie shots cannot
exceed 2.5 minutes, usually start with a green or a red
band and include rating cards.
The name comes from the fact that they were originally
shown at the end of a feature film screening.
What term are we talking about?

15. Trailer

16. Sana Saeed will be playing playing the role of the
protagonist’s younger sister in Sony Entertainment
television’s new serial “Babul Ka Aangann Chootey
Na” . Since her debut, she has also acted in Fox Kids,
Kachche Papad Pakke Papad, and the Bobby Deol
Rani Mukherji starrer Badaal.
Name her debut film.

17. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (She is the
young girl who played Anjali)

18. Audio ID?

19. The Godfather

20. This famous movie character resides on an island
modeled after the island of Dr. No which is a self
contained colony, having advanced communications,
weapons, and laboratories to build various high-tech
devices.
All his subordinates salute him in a manner typical of a
“Heil Hitler” style gesture.
One of this character’s lines which he recites when he is
pleased has become synonymous with the actor who
played the role.
Name the character.

21. Mogambo

22. The French Connection.
Maurice X was the chief structural engineer of the
Eiffel Tower, for which Gustave Eiffel is often
erroneously given credit. One of his descendants
later found fame in India. Give me the name of the
descendant!

23. Kalki Koechlin

24. One of the ways this term is used among children is as a divination game, often played by young
girls to foretell their futures; it runs as follows:
When shall I marry?
This year, next year, sometime, never.
What will my husband be?
_____, _____, ___, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.
What will I be?
Lady, baby, gypsy, queen.
What shall I wear?
Silk, satin, velvet, lace
How shall I get it?
Given, borrowed, bought, stolen.

25. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier
John Le Carre’s novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,
Spy is derived from this nursery rhyme.

26. Believe it or not, this movie’s byline was “Action & Great
Reaction”. Considering the unique creative appetite
Tamil Directors have for naming their ventures, this one
sticks to the theme in the byline. This 2009 Tamil film
was initially thought of a science education film by
schools, only to turn out as the usual Ghajini-ish tale of
vendetta - a lover’s retribution for the murder of his
fiancee!!!

27. Newtonin Moondram Vidhi (Newton's
Third Law)

28. X while providing the voice of Smaug. "If Martin had been there, I
would have wanted to play off him, but there are size issues.
Smaug is bigger than the hobbit - I think I can say that! This isn't
the riddles scene. It's slightly different, it's intricate. Smaug doesn't
engage with the Hobbit the same way as Smeagol does. Smeagol
gets drawn in, whereas Smaug is on much more of an ego trip. He
likes to feel dominant at all times, and because of what he's
capable of, he is.
" The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is set to be released on
December 13th, 2013.

29. X-Benedict Cumberbatch

30. The dialog snippet below features the title of the movie
in it, which we've removed. Identify the movie.
"Was I trying to say 'Raymond' and it came out
‘____________'?"
"Yeah. Funny ____________.“
"You? You're the ____________?"

31. Rain man

32. In this Oscar award winning Hollywood movie for the
best supporting actor, roughly only 30% of the film is
in spoken English. The language which dominates
the film is either French or German with a little
Italian. This is highly unusual for a Hollywood
production. Identify the movie.

33. Inglorious Basterds

34. Film by Francis Ford Coppola, notorious for the number of production
problems it had.
Casting was an issue, and Coppola was so fed up at one point because so
many actors had turned down his offer to star in the film that he threw his
five Oscars out of his window.
After finally hiring a lead, Harvey Keitel, Coppola changed his mind, fired
him, and had to start the search all over.
Martin Sheen eventually landed the part, but he had a heart attack,
postponing filming even longer.
Nature wasn't on the movie's side, either, as a typhoon ripped apart the first
set, a fire destroyed important props, and a tiger stalked the production.
After facing bankruptcy and the possibility of never finishing the film,
Coppola finally saw his work come to fruition and he found a place in movie-
making history. ID the film.

35. Apocalypse now(1979)

36. (Dialogue): ”Geology is the study of pressure and time.
That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time. That, and a
big god-damned poster”.
Although a very modest hit in theaters, this movie
became one of the highest grossing video rentals of all
time.
The director of this movie watched “Goodfellas” every
Sunday while shooting this movie and drew inspiration
from it on using voice-over narration and showing the
passage of time.
Identify this simple movie.

37. The Shawshank Redemption

38. (Dialogue): “Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to
day 255,642 aboard the Axiom. As always, the weather is a
balmy 72 degrees and sunny, and, uh... Oh, I see the ship’s log
is showing that today is the 700th anniversary of our five year
cruise. Well, I’m sure our forefathers would be proud to know
that 700 years later we’d be... doing the exact same thing they
were doing. So, be sure next mealtime to ask for your free sep-
tua- centennial cupcake in a cup. Wow, look at that”
The film contains numerous references to Apple computers
(Tagline): ”In Space, No One Can Hear You Clean”
ID the movie!

39. Wall-E

40. This actor has been nominated eight times for the Academy Award
for Best Actor in a Leading Role, making him the most-nominated
actor never to win the award! Marlon Brando beat him to it in 1972,
Robert De Niro in 1980 and most recently, he lost to Forest
Whitaker in 2006.
In 2003, the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary
Award, but he didn’t want to take it, saying that he was “still in the
game” and would like more time to “win the lovely bugger outright.”
The Academy informed him that they would bestow the award
whether he wanted it or not. He finally agreed to appear at the
ceremony and receive his Honorary Oscar. And guess who
presented him with this Honorary Oscar? None other than Meryl
Streep!
ID?

41. Peter O’ Toole, of “Lawrence of Arabia”
fame!

42. As a producer, X tried to give the directing duties for this film to numerous colleagues,
because he was afraid he couldn’t do the story justice it deserves. He was turned down
by Martin (who was interested but ultimately felt it was a subject that better by a director
of a particular ethicity), Roman (who didn’t feel he was yet ready to tackle the subject
after surviving his childhood in it), and Billy (who turned it down because was in
retirement). Billy convinced “X” to direct the movie himself.
About 40% of the film was shot using a handheld camera. Filming was completed in 72
days, four days ahead of schedule.
Harrison Ford was offered the title role but declined, saying that some people would not
be able to look past him as a star to see the importance of the film.
When “X” returned to Cal State Long Beach 34 years after dropping out to earn his BA,
his film professor accepted this movie in place of the short student film normally required
to pass the class.
ID the movie?

43. Schindler’s List

44. The word ‘X’ in ‘Y’ is used 161 times in the movie. The F-word or
the variation of the F-word is used 292 times. The protagonist of
the movie says “man” 147 times in the movie-that’s nearly 1.5
times a minute!
Unusual for an American movie, the bad guy in the movie wields
a cricket bat rather than a baseball bat.
In an early draft of the script, The protagonist's source of income
was revealed. He was an heir to the inventor of the Rubik's
Cube. It was the director’s idea to drop this and never say.
Identify this cult classic!

45. X- The Dude
Y- The Big Lebowski
• Y- The Big Lebowski

46. Speculation abounds as to the nature of the mysterious glowing
contents of X:
Could it be Elvis's gold suit, seen worn by Val Kilmer (as Elvis) in True
Romance?
The most persistent theory (most usually attributed to a friend of a
friend who saw it posted on a message board by someone whose
brother had read a report of a radio interview with Y himself) is that it
is Z's soul. The story goes that when the Devil takes a person's soul, it
is removed through the back of the head (this isn't part of any known
religion, but this is what the message board posters say). When we
see the back of Z's head he has a Band-Aid covering the precise spot
indicated by tradition for soul removal. Perhaps Z sold his soul to the
devil which would also explain why the combination to open X is 666.

47. X- The Briefcase
Y-Quentin Tarantino
Z- Marsellus Wallace

49. All adapted from Stephen King’s
novels!

50. QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.