Prasanth John Abraham Varun Sridharan

Arindam Mohanta

MOVIES QUIZ PRELIMS Let’s Begin..

1. Why was this ad made?

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• Ad by the Kazakhstan tourism department after Borat

2. Which famous Bollywood actor/actress couple got married in 1966 even when the actor being mentioned here was double the age of the actress?

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Saira Banu (22) and Dilip Kumar (44)

3. Opening credits of which movie?

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Blue Velvet

4. This is a song from the Kannada movie “Ulidavaru Kandante”. What is the director making a tribute to, through this song?

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Kill Bill- Bang Bang

5. Who’s singing “Baby”?

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James Earl Jones (Darth Vader)

6. Which was the first Hindi movie to have not one but two intervals ?

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Mera Naam Joker

7. XY is at times a misnomer because it lasts longer than a Y. Also, X refers to the volume of the ________ and not its rate of flow. Typically, XY is from 0600-1000 and 1600-2000. What is XY?

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Rush Hour

8. Identify the location in the background

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Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur

9. Identify.

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Martin Scorsese

10. Ad for?

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Expedia.com

11. Why did Nicole Kidman say this in 2001?

'At least I can wear high heels now.'

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After divorcing Tom Cruise

12. “Neenga Nalla Irukkanam” was a state sponsored movie which focused on Prohibition. Whose final appearance did this movie mark? The person in question debuted in the 1961 English movie “Epistle”.

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Jayalalithaa

13. “Our way of looking at Y has either been cosmetic — only for shooting songs — or rhetoric, where we show a man in a phiran, holding a Kalashnikov. X is the first film where we see Y from the inside. I don’t think we have made a mainstream film about the issue.” Z talking about X and Y. Identify X, Y and Z.

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Kashmir, Haider; Vishal Bharadwaj

14. Both are inspired by the title sequence of which movie?

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Catch Me If You Can

15. Train named after?

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Yash Chopra

16. This is the movie with the most uses of the word "fuck" and its derivatives (237) to win the Best Picture Oscar.

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The Departed

17. Inspired by which movie

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Pulp Fiction

18. Rather than use split-screen, X shot most of the Y’s scenes with two actors--Armie Hammer and Josh Pence--and digitally grafted the former's face onto the latter in post-production. The two actors went to twin boot camp to match up their body language, while Pence's face got a cameo during a party scene.

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X – David Fincher, Y – The Winklevoss twins

19. Identify

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Aamir Khan

20. The producers of the film claim that X dropped from about 173 pounds in weight down to about 110 pounds to make this film. They also claim that he actually wanted to drop down to 100 pounds, but that they would not let him go below 120 out of fear that his health could be in too much danger if he did. His diet consisted of one can of tuna and an apple per day. His 63-pound weight loss is said to be a record for any actor for a movie role. He regained the weight in time for his role in Y (2005). ID X and Y and the film

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X – Christian Bale, Y – Batman Begins, The

Machinist

21. Who was officially bestowed with the title The First Superstar of Indian cinema at Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards in 2013?

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Rajesh Khanna

22. Connect (list not exhaustive)

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We saw their boobs (read Seth MacFarlane)

23. Which Bollywood movie made in 2011 for only Rs 20 crore earned Rs 140 crore?

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Singham

24. Connect

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Moneyball

25. Identify.

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Sonam Kapoor