The Movie Quiz which was conducted by Vinamra Rai and Shreyansh Rai on 17 October 2017.

1. Run-Up to Antaragni
Movie Quiz
Vinamra and Shreyansh

2. Rules
1. 23 questions in total, all infinite bounce and pounce.
2. +20/-10 on pounce and +10/0 on bounce.
3. Let’s Begin.

3. Ques 1.
Despite its initial poor performance at the box office, the film eventually earned its
production costs twice over. Controversy during the production of the film
contributed to the film's notoriety, including the accidental deaths of several pilots,
an inflated budget, a lawsuit against a competitor (The Dawn Patrol), and repeated
postponements of the release date. The film is now hailed as one of the screen's
first sound action films. Name the film, which shares its name with an entity started
by the Bishop family, and Ottio Fredili World War II veterans in Fontana, California in
1948.

4. Safety Slide

5. Ans- Hell’s Angels

6. Ques 2.
Argentina - And where is the pilot?
Brazil - Tighten up your seatbelt, the pilot is gone!
Spain - It's Land as you can
Norway - Help! We're Flying
France - There is a Pilot on this Plane?
Germany - The Incredible trip on a crazy Airplane
Give funda.

7. Safety Slide

8. Ans- Different movie titles for Airplanes! in different
countries.

9. Ques 3.
In the movie Return of the Living Dead, Freddy wears a jacket which says "Fuck
you" at the back. What was it changed to in the TV Version?

10. Safety Slide

11. Ans- TV Version

12. Ques 4.
Connect. (Non-Exhaustive)
● 1988 - Bill Cosby
● 2004 - Ben Affleck
● 2005 - Halle Berry
● 2010 - Sandra Bullock

13. Safety Slide

14. Ans- They have accepted the Razzies.

15. Ques 5.
Javed Akhtar, in love with actress Honey Irani, requested his partner Salim Khan to
meet her mother Perin Irani on his behalf. The conversation that took place
between Salim and Perin was incorporated into which film’s script?

16. Safety Slide

17. Ans - Sholay

18. Ques 6.
She has been the subject of a 30-minute Merchant-Ivory documentary titled _____,
Queen of the Nautch Girls and a biography titled Life and Times of an H-Bomb. One
of her most famous scenes featured an outsized typewriter. Who?

19. Safety Slide

20. Ans- Helen.

21. Ques 7.
A famous director began his review of this 1959 film with the words 'the director
enters both modern cinema and the classrooms of our childhood.' The review ends
with the sentence " This is a film signed Frankness. Rapidity. Art. Novelty.
Cinematograph. Originality. Impertinence. Seriousness. Tragedy. Renovation. Ubu-
Roi. Fantasy. Ferocity. Affection. Universality. Tenderness." Which major film was he
reviewing?

22. Safety Slide

23. Ans- 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut

24. Ques 8.
His first film role had him playing the infamous real-life person - also a character in a
famous book - from whom his mother claimed descent. He formed a star pair in the
1930s with Olivia Havilland, acting in as many as 8 films opposite her. His last film, a
1959 effort titled Cuban Rebel Girls, was intended as a gesture of support to Fidel
Castro who had seized power that year. Which Hollywood icon?

25. Safety Slide

26. Ans- Errol Flynn

27. Ques 9.
Find the odd one out.
● LOTR - Fellowship of the Ring
● Equilibrium
● Black Death
● Troy
● Golden Eye
● The Hitcher
● The Island

28. Safety Slide

29. Ans- Troy, the only movie in the list where Sean Bean
lives.

30. Ques 10.
This 1952 movie was based on the story The Tin Star by John W. Cunningham. The
movie takes place in 'real' time, beginning at 10.40 am & ending at five past midday.
The screenplay writer Carl Foreman claimed that it was an allegory of the need for
individual opposition to the McCarthyists who were rooting out suspected
communists in Hollywood. Which movie?

31. Safety Slide

32. Ans- High Noon

33. Ques 11.
Chalam Bennurkar made a documentary about child labour in 1990 titled Kutti
Japanin Kuzhandhaigal - meaning 'The Children of Little Japan'. The term 'Kutti
Japan' is a reference to which small town in South India?

34. Safety Slide

35. Ans- Sivakasi

36. Ques 12.
Atuk is the name of an unfilmed American film screenplay, intended to be a film
adaptation based upon the 1963 novel The Incomparable Atuk by Canadian author
Mordecai Richler. It is essentially a fish out of water comedy of a proud, mighty Inuit
hunter trying to adapt to life in the big city with satirical elements on racism,
materialism, and popular culture.
Give the famous urban legend which has led to this film still being “unfilmed”.

37. Safety Slide

38. Ans- All the actors who have shown an interest in the
lead role had died. These include John Belushi, Sam
Kinison, John Candy, Phil Hartman and Chris Farley.

39. Ques 13.
In the movie Home Alone! For the role of Buzz’s (Macaulay Culkin) girlfriend, a
young boy was casted and he was made to look unattractive instead.
What according to movie’s Producers was the reason for this very weird casting?

40. Safety Slide

41. Ans- Home Alone's producers thought it'd be cruel to
cast an actual young girl as Buzz's girlfriend

42. Ques 14.
Although denied by Quentin Tarantino, according to X, the role of Lance, the drug
dealer in Pulp Fiction, was initially offered to Y, her husband. If he had taken it, X
would have played the role of his wife. Give me X and Y.

43. Safety Slide

44. Ans- X: Courtney Love; Y: Kurt Cobain

45. Ques 15.
In an interview back in 2016, X revealed that he grew up with (and to some extent
still suffers from) a stutter. "I stuttered really, really, really bad for a long time...to the
point that I stopped speaking for, like, almost a year in school," X shared.
The cure? The word "motherf****r." Actually. Why? "I have no idea," he says. "But it
just does. It clicks a switch that stops the d-d-d-d, b-b-b-b." Identify X.

46. Safety Slide

47. Ans- Samuel L. Jackson

48. Ques 16.
When X was first created he was gray, but the publishers had trouble getting that
gray color to print, so Y simply decided to make him a more print-friendly color:
green,

49. Safety Slide

50. Ans- X: Hulk; Y:Stan Lee

51. Ques 17.
In the early 40’s working in the movie industry was considered low, and the famous
music director X was introduced as a tailor to the future bride. Ironically his songs
from the movie Rattan were played by the baraat. Identify this legendary musician.

52. Safety Slide

53. Ans- Naushad

54. Ques 18.
Notorious (1946) marked Hitchcock's first film as a producer as well as director.
Starring Hitchcock regulars Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant and featuring a plot
about Nazis, _________, and South America, Notorious was a huge box office
success and has remained one of Hitchcock's most acclaimed films. Its inventive
use of suspense and props briefly led to Hitchcock's being under surveillance by
the CIA due to his use of _________ as a plot device. FITB. (Both the blanks are
same)

55. Safety Slide

56. Ans- Uranium

57. Ques 19.
#kolstylz
The X is a stock sound effect of a man screaming that has been used in more than
360 movies and countless television series, beginning in 1951 for the film Distant
Drums. The scream is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height,
or is thrown from an explosion, and is most commonly used in films and television.
Give X.

58. Safety Slide

59. Ans- Wilhelm Scream

60. Ques 20.
Connect.

61. Safety Slide

62. Ans. Same phone numbers in Fight Club and
Memento respectively.

63. Ques 21.
Sir Patrick Stewart is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage,
television, and film. He is a multiple time Olivier, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen
Actors Guild and Saturn Award nominee. Sir Ian Mckellen is the recipient of six
Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors
Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two
Critics' Choice Awards.Both are best known for their roles in X-Men. However both
had never ___________ in their lives until the movie X-Men required them to do
so.

64. Safety Slide

65. Ans- Played a game of chess

66. Ques 22.
Schwarzenegger began weight training at the age of 15. He won the Mr. Universe
title at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times, remaining a
prominent presence in bodybuilding and writing many books and articles on the
sport. He is widely considered to be among the greatest bodybuilders of all time as
well as bodybuilding's biggest icon. However his first movie Hercules in New York
was in the news for wrong reasons. Later he himself regretted his choice of being
a part of that movie.Tell me the peculiar achievement of this movie.

67. Safety Slide

68. Ans- Rights to the movie were auctioned on eBay for
$550,000.

69. Ques 23.
X had a lifelong fear: watching his own films. "I’m frightened of my own movies. I
never go to see them. I don’t know how people can bear to watch my movies," he
was quoted as saying during an interview in 1963.
X was set to shoot a scene in Disneyland once, but Disney rejected him. Why?
Because he made "that disgusting movie" or pioneering slasher masterpiece Y, as
it’s otherwise known.
Id X&Y

70. Safety Slide

71. Ans- X: Alfred Hitchcock; Y: Psycho