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MOVIE AND TV QUIZ
Quiz Master:
Shivendra Singh

Rules
 26 Questions in total
 +1/0 for each question (except in certain cases the marking will be +1/-1)
 Hints and clues will be given on request .
 Question 10-20 are starred questions and will be used as tie brakers after
which sudden death will be used.
 Quizmaster’s decision will be FINAL !!

Question 1.
Kate Mara was told from the beginning that her
character was going to die eventually . So during
the shooting of a particular season in which her
character dies she had to keep the new a secret
before the season premier . Mara couldn't tell
anyone that she wasn't part of the show anymore,
so when someone asked her how was the
shooting going , she would lie .
Give the TV show .

Question 2.
A _______, also known as an outtake or boner is a short sequence of a
film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake
made by a member of the cast or crew.
It also refers to an error made during a live radio or TV broadcast or
news report, usually in terms of misspoken words or technical errors.
The term was popularized in the 1950s in a series of record albums
entitled Pardon My _______, in which the definition is given thusly by
the record series narrator: "Unintended indiscretions before
microphone and camera.“
Fill in the blanks

Question 3.
Identify the painter .

Question 4.
When talking about The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for the British
Book Awards, _____ stated that he chose _____ for his show’s title ,
because it features prominently in the book. The inspiration for the
series was an evening when he took a girlfriend to meet his parents
who asked her awkward questions, leading to much embarrassment .
The show won an International Emmy in 2002 and 2003, and won
a Peabody Award in 2004.It ran for seven seasons totaling 53
episodes. A remake of the show has been made as Comedy Nights
with Kapil with similar elements and concept.
Just ID the Show.

Question 5.
The first episode of FRIENDS (1994-2004), was
named, “The First One”, in typical FRIENDS
style. However, there are two other names for
it. If one of them is “The One Where It All
Began” , what is the other one.

The One Where Monica Gets a New Roommate

Question 6.
"You are beautifully and perfectly balanced. In you sanity is personified. Do
you realize what that means to me? When the criminal sets out to do a crime,
his first effort is to deceive. Whom does he seek to deceive? The image in his
mind is that of the normal man. There is probably no such thing actually - it is a
mathematical abstraction. But you come as near to realizing it as is
possible...how does this profit me? Simply in this way. As in a mirror I see
reflected in your mind exactly what the criminal wishes me to believe. That is
terrifically helpful and suggestive.“
This is famous detective from literary fiction , X talking to his sidekick Y about
the sidekick’s involvement in his cases .It is one of the rare instances where X
praises Y for his help in his cases as he is often sees as “detestable, bombastic,
tiresome, ego-centric little creep". Z is the famous author who created X .
Z’sX (example – F.W. Dixon’s Hardy Boys ) is a British television drama that aired
on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013 featuring both X and Y.
ID X and Y .

X= Hercule Poirot ,Y=Arthur Hastings
(Z= Agatha Christie)

Question 7.
This Map Shows Famous Movies & TV
Shows Set In Each U.S. State
Just identify states 1 &2
(0.5 marks for each state)

Question 8.
X is the only person to feature in the
cast of both Ramanand Sagar's
"Ramayana" (1986-1988) and B. R.
Chopra's 'Mahabharata" (1988-1990).
Who is X and what roles did he play in
Ramayana and Mahabharata ?

Question 9.
When first shown on TV nobody took this genre of
TV series seriously. But few companies like Proctor
and Gamble, Colgate-palmolive, and Lever brothers
took a risk in sponsoring them. Later it became a
great hit and the genre got its name from its
sponsors, which is used even today. Identify the
name?

*Question 10.
X is a class of dice games for two or more players requiring the ability
to deceive and detect an opponent's deception. The genre has its
roots in South America, with games there being known as Dudo,
Cachito, Perudo or Dadinho.
In "common hand" X games, each player has a set of dice, all players
roll once, and the bids relate to the dice each player can see (their
hand) plus all the concealed dice (the other players' hands). In
"individual hand" games, there is one set of dice which is passed from
player to player. The bids relate to the dice as they are in front of the
bidder after selected dice have been re-rolled.
X is shown being played in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest with the stakes being years of undead service aboard
the Flying Dutchman under Davy Jones .
Give X .
(pic on next slide)

*Question 11.
Some of the facts related to the TV series X :
 The show’s theme song "The Ballad of _____" was used by NASA as
the wake-up song for astronaut Robert L. Behnken and the other
crewmembers of STS-130 on February 12, 2010.
 X consists of a two-hour pilot and thirteen one-hour episodes (with
commercials).
 The series originally premiered in the United States on Fox in
September 2002.The episodes were aired out of the intended order.
ID X and fill in the blank.

*Question 12.
A 54-year-old man fainted at a train station, falling off the platform and onto the
tracks below. To make matters worse, moments later a freight train rounded the
corner and began bearing down on him. Thankfully, a 14-year-old boy came to the
man's rescue, bravely jumping down and pulling the man underneath the station
platform. But all wasn't fine just yet. As the train went by, the vacuum created by the
passing train began to pull the man up towards certain death.
But the 14-year-old was ready for this, having learned of this effect from an episode
of X . He braced himself and held the man back until the train had completely
passed and danger was averted. The 54-year-old thanked the boy, and was admitted
to a hospital for treatment of his injuries. The 14-year-old wrote a song about it for
his punk-rock band.
ID X . (Image on the next page)

*Question 13.
X is a Hollywood blockbuster which has probably a no. of greatest Practical
Movie Effects of all time .However , the original ending of the movie included
a much different plotline as the end . It showed that the main protagonist did
not go on to do as was expected . In fact any of the events foretold did not
happen at all . Instead the main protagonist became a US senator and had a
daughter. Even the narrator of the movie survives and is seen sitting on a
bench in the future.
However to keep the possibilities of sequel open , the produces changed the
endings and removed these scenes altogether . As expected , the movie was
a big hit and spawned a couple of sequels.
ID the movie .

*Question 14.
The author of the original story was in a script-read-through session
with the movie’s scriptwriters. The script had a line which had one of
the main characters tell another, “I knew a girl once, whose hair…”.
The author laughed, wrote a little note in the margin of the script and
slid it back to the scriptwriter. This led to a Revelation.
These actions resulted in a controversy. After the contents of the note
were made public , the author received many angry fan letters
showing their disapproval over the matter .
What was written in the note ? ( give funda )

Dumbledore’s Gay !!
This was the first instance of Rowling publically admitting
that he was gay.

*Question 15.
X wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyd's of London to protect himself
against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence were discovered
before the movie was released. Lloyd's refused. Carl Sagan commented, “
There is no search being performed for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the
chances of accidentally stumbling on extraterrestrial intelligence in a few
years' period was extremely small. Lloyd's of London missed a good bet.“
ID the movie.

*Question 16.
In 2007, 46-year-old Jacqui Gray was one of many contestants in the fourth
season of X. Like most talent show contestants, she had little in the way of
actual talent. After smirking throughout her entire performance, Cowell(one of
the judges) asked Gray the patronizing question, "You have a very weird
sounding voice, are you aware of that?" Both he and fellow judge Sharon
Osborne suggested that she see a throat specialist, saying that it sounded like
"somebody else is in there".
Displaying what has to be the world's least attuned sarcasm detector, Gray
decided to take the advice of the judges and see a throat specialist. It was
then that the doctor diagnosed her with bronchiectasis -- a potentially fatal
lung disease
Gray now takes medication for her condition and thanks Simon Cowell for
saving her life.
ID the talent show X.

*Question 17.
Here’s the list of the top 10 pirated films of 2014 (TIME Magazine) ,
along with the number of times they’ve been downloaded:
1. X , 30.035 million
2. Frozen, 29.919 million
3. RoboCop, 29.879 million (including 2014 and 1987 version)
4. Gravity, 29.357 million
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 27.627 million
6. Thor: The Dark World, 25.749 million
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 25.628 million
8. The Legend of Hercules, 25.137 million
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past, 24.380 million
10. 12 Years a Slave, 23.653 million
Give X .

*Question 18.
“One of my jobs as a young actor starting out was voiceover. I also did
dubbing. A lot of dubbing and a lot of voiceover. So foreign films would come
in and I’d go in. One of the places that did a lot of that was Saban
Entertainment. And they would take movies and then cartoons from all over
the world and we’d go and do the English dub. And the Power Rangers came
in and I did some voices for that. I had already been there for a number of
years, just as a freelance guy coming in and coming out. And it paid like
$50.00 an hour, which was fantastic. And you’d work two, three hours at least
a day. So I had been there for awhile already and then the Power Rangers
came in. They actually named one of the Power Rangers [Blue Ranger] after
me.”
ID the speaker .

*Question 19.
X is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by
writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik . The character first
appeared in Adventure into Fear#19 (Dec. 1973) and several
subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-
tempered "funny animal" trapped on human-dominated Earth. X's
adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies
of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium.
In a film Y (which was one of the highest grossing movies of the year )
, X appears for a brief time ,where he is voiced by Seth Green.
ID X and Y.

*Question 20.
 Give me the third to
complete the exhaustive list.

Leslee Udwin : She produced the documentary India's
Daughter and the films West is West and East is East(1999)

Question 21.
"Teardrop" is a song by Massive Attack, which was released
as a single on 27 April 1998. It is the second single off their
third album, Mezzanine. The song became another UK hit
for the group, peaking at number 10 on the UK Singles
Chart. The song features vocals by Elizabeth Fraser of
the Cocteau Twins.
However this song has a very popular Television connect .
Give funda .

Question 22.
Shown in the next slide is the opening
sequence of a currently running, popular
“historical” TV series . ID the show.

Question 23.
X by Wojciech Kilar is one of the most iconic theme music of all times
.It shares its name with the title of the movie (1990’s) .It is one of the
most reused themes as well because the theme has been used in
dozens of trailers, including 12 Monkeys, Pirates of the Caribbean,
Demolition Man, Underworld and What Lies Beneath. Ironically,
the Stargate trailer uses this theme, although the soundtrack
for Stargate itself is reused dozens of times in other trailers .
The movie is about somebody who , as of 2009, has featured in an
estimated 217 films a major role.
ID the movie or the theme.

Question 24.
X is a 2009 short film depicting the battles of World War II. The
film was shown in 4-D, and includes archive footage and special
effects. The short, produced and narrated by Tom Hanks and
directed by David Briggs, was released 9 November 2009 and
was shown solely in The National World War II Museum, New
Orleans. It was designed purely for the Solomon Victory Theater
within the museum, and was only shown in this one location.
The movie shares its name from the 2013 documentary .The
documentary is about three ordinary Indians seek their
salvation/escape from a difficult life through their passion for
cricket as India hosts the 2011 World Cup of Cricket.
ID the Documentary / Short film.
(clip from documentary on next slide )

Question 25.
X is the original name of a piece of incidental music that was
composed by Charlie Clouser for the first installment in the ___ film
series. The piece's appearance in the first film was timed to bring a
dramatic tone to the end of the film, in which the primary antagonist,
named ___ , is revealed to actually be a victim of the real antagonist
. As the series continued, the piece was reused in all the films, often
being renamed and remixed to accommodate the changing situations
and characters in each film. The song, which is written in the key of D
minor, is now the theme of the entire series.
Give X .

Question 26.
Identify these movies , parodied by LEGO
+0.5 for each correct answer
(extra +1.5 if you get all correct)

The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

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