Movie Quiz Series March

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RulesOne question every day, starting FebruaryWhen there is a break it will be announced beforehandAnswers will be accepted till 11.30 pm same dayGoogling is highly discouraged, but it’s upto ourconscienceAll questions are answerable by movie loversMostly Hollywood based; Bollywood will be covered asand when new material comes upIMDB and Wikipedia are the main sources



Question 24Clue 1 (Dialogue): ”Geology is the study of pressureand time. That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time.That, and a big god-damned poster”.

Clue 2: Although a very modest hit in theaters, thismovie became one of the highest grossing videorentals of all time.

Clue 3: The director of this movie watched “Goodfellas” every Sunday while shooting this movie

and drew inspiration from it on using voice-overnarration and showing the passage of time.

Identify this simple movie.



Answer 24

As you all guessed, it is “TheShawshank Redemption”.

Correct answers by STANLEY, Raji,Chandru and Francis.



Question 25Clue 1: This movie has been known for long as one of theinfamous “Five Lost Hitchcocks” amongst film buffs, and was re-released in theatres around 1984, along with the remaining 4movies.

Clue 2 (Dialogue): “Oh Scottie. I’m not mad. I’m not mad. Idon’t want to die. There’s someone within me and she says I mustdie. Oh Scottie, don’t let me go” - Madeline.

Clue 3: Uncredited second-unit cameraman Irmin Robertsinvented the famous “zoom out and track in” shot (nowsometimes called “contra-zoom” or “trombone shot”) to conveythe sense of a specific type of dizziness to the audience. The “viewdown the mission stairwell scene” cost $19,000 for just a couple of seconds of screen time.

Identify this classic.





Question 26Clue 1 (Tagline): A friendship that became a rivalry. Arivalry that turned deadly.

Clue 2: Sam Mendes had shown interest in adapting thisChristopher Priest’s novel for the big-screen, but Priestinsisted that Christopher Nolan direct the film, based on hislove for both Following (1998) and Memento (2000).

Clue 3 (Last lines): “Now you’re looking for the secret.But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not reallylooking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to befooled.”

Identify this top-notch movie, with a very reputed star-cast.



Answer 26

The answer is “The Prestige” as yousaid it!

Correct answers by FRANCIS VIJAY,Pankaj Parashar (Please answer inthe comments in this page itself),Debratna Nag and Shashi Kumar.



Question 27The clues may be vague, but you can still crack it withoutGoogling for sure!

Clue 1 (Tagline): “Let he who is without sin try to survive”

Clue 2: The word “f**k” and its derivatives are said adiscernible 74 times throughout the movie, mostly by BradPitt.

Clue 3 (Dialogue): “ Nothing wrong with a man takingpleasure in his work. I won’t deny my own personal desireto turn each sin against the sinner” - John Doe.

Identify this thriller.



Answer 27We had some newbies answering today!The Correct answer is “Se7en” - I guessJohn Doe and Brad Pitt gave it away!

Correct answers by FRANCIS (He answeredin Gtalk), KN, Abdul Mujeeb (Welcome tothe Quiz!). Good tries by GZR and PrakashBhaskaran (I assume you answered thisquestion)



Question 28Clue 1 (Dialogue): “Well, good morning, everybody, andwelcome to day 255,642 aboard the Axiom. As always, theweather is a balmy 72 degrees and sunny, and, uh… Oh, Isee the ship’s log is showing that today is the 700thanniversary of our five year cruise. Well, I’m sure ourforefathers would be proud to know that 700 years laterwe’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”

Clue 2: The film contains numerous references to Applecomputers

Clue 3 (Tagline): ”In Space, No One Can Hear You Clean”

Identify this fun-filled movie.



Answer 28The answer, as given by most of youvery enthusiastically, is “Wall-E”. Iguess most of you liked the movie,seeing the number of responses I gotfor it.

Correct answers by ABDUL MUJEEB,Ajay Parasuram, Raji, KN, Andy andGZR.



Question 29I hope it is crackable. It is a must-see movie in my view.

Clue 1: Before Ron Howard was selected to direct this film,there was strong competition from other filmmakers,including Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, George Clooney,

Sam Mendes’, and Bennett Miller.

Clue 2 (Tagline): 400 million people were waiting for thetruth.

Clue 3 (Dialogue): “ You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishesgreat, complex ideas, trenches of time; whole careersbecome reduced to a single snapshot.”

Identify this fantastic movie.



Answer 29

Not many responses to this one - Theanswer is the latest movie

“Frost/Nixon”.

Correct answers by RAGHUVANSH,Francis and Tania. Well tried by KN.



Question 30Time to move to some Bollywood!

Clue 1: The first (and till now only) film in India to be givena UA certificate on account of violence and not sexualcontent.

Clue 2: The mobile phone number imprinted on the hero’sbody shown in the movie turned out to be a real phonenumber used by a woman in Bangalore. After the moviewas released she got lots of calls and texts.

Clue 3: 2000:2005:2008

Identify based on these easy clues.



Answer 30As given by all of you, the answer is Ghajini(The hindi-remake). 2000 was the year thebaap of them all - Memento - was released.

2005 was the year of release of the Tamilversion and 2008 was the Hindi-remakereleased.

Correct answers by SANDEEP (Welcome!),Somnath, Mujeeb, Abhinav (Welcome tothe Quiz!) and Raji.



Question 31This one is something even I didn’t know without googling.

Clue 1 (Dialogue): “My Dearest Allie. I couldn’t sleep last night because I knowthat it’s over between us. I’m not bitter anymore, because I know that what wehad was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in ournew lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summerbeneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love isthe kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire inour hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’swhat I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I’ll be seeing you. Noah.”

Clue 2: Rachel McAdams auditioned for the role during another movie’s premiere.She was given the script just a day in advance. She beat nine other actresses forthe role. The scenes used during her audition included the one of Allie’s and Noah’sargument at the end after Allie and her mother returns from the morning drive.

Clue 3 (Tagline): Behind every great love is a great story.

Identify this cult classic love story.



Answer 31Well, it’s the famous love-story-movie fromwhich the Bollywood movie “U me aurHum” was inspired i.e. The Notebook. I

happened to see the Bollywood version inthe USA and that memory still haunts me(it’s one sick movie)

Correct answers by MUJEEB and Jhurani(Welcome!)



Question 32Time for more Bollywood crap!

Clue 1: The movie was released on 25th anniversaryof Yash Raj Films.

Clue 2: The title name for this movie was suggestedby Kiron Kher, wife of the famous actor Anupam Kher.

Clue 3: Saif Ali Khan turned down the main role,which went to King Khan.

Too easy I think, guess which movie?



Answer 32

Yes, it is DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniyan LeJayenge).

Correct answers by TANIA, KN, Rajiand Somnath. Well tried by Shashiand GZR.



Question 33Since I have recently seen a lot of bond movies, I though of looking at some JamesBond Trivia too! Lots of clues in it and you can answer it even if you know just the titlesof the various early Bond movies. You can see the list for reference at this link and thenanswer this question.

Clue 1: This movie was originally going to be the first James Bond movie, but legalwrangles with its co-author led to Dr. No (1962) being chosen instead. If released first,It would have been titled “James Bond, Secret Agent”

Clue 2 (Tagline): Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!

Clue 3: This film and the other James Bond movie “From Russia with Love” (1963) arethe only Bond movies to use the wipe editing technique in scene transitions.

Clue 4: The dictionary definition of the title word is that it was a military term used byUS soldiers to describe the mushroom cloud seen during the testing of atomic bombs.Hence its use as a title because this would be result of SPECTRE detonating the stolenatomic bombs.

Identify this James Bond flick.

http://www.klast.net/bond/filmlist.html

http://www.klast.net/bond/filmlist.html



Answer 33

”Thunderball” - I guess this one waseasy to answer!

Correct answers by RAJI, PraveenJoseph, Andy and Febin (Welcome tothe quiz!).



Question 34Clue 1: This film was directly inspired by the spaghettiwesterns of Sergio Leone, by Akira Kurosawa’s Shichinin nosamurai (1954), Bandidos (1967) among others. Somecritics at the time even began calling it a curry western.

Clue 2: The film was shot extensively in Ramnagaram nearBangalore, India.

Clue 3 (Dialogue): “When I dead… police coming. Policecoming… ‘budiya’ going jail. In jail, ‘budiya’ chakki peesingand peesing and peesing and peesing and peesing.”

Identify this fun-filled movie.



Answer 34

The correct answer is Sholay. It wasnice that different people interpreteddifferent clues for the answer.

Correct answers by RAJI,Shashikumar, Andy, Praveen Joseph,GZR and Sameer (Welcome to theQuiz!)



Question 35Deviating from the usual routine,today’s question is about an actress,but I don’t want her name.

At age 13, she was on holiday inMoscow with her mother MarinaAlyabusheva when she was spotted bya model scout getting off a metro

train. Because of her age, she had towait until she was 14 to model. In thepicture below, she plays the piano inan old advertsing photo. Later in life,she did a lot of lingerie modeling workthat gained her notoriety throughoutEurope.

Asking her name would be tough, butcan you tell me in which Hollywoodmovie did we see her most recently?

At age 14, in a piano advertisement



Answer 35As all of you guessed, we saw her mostrecently in “Quantum of Solace”, where sheplays Camille. She is Olga Kurylenko.

Correct answers by SHASHI KUMAR(Excellent answer dude! Yes, her eyes areamazing, and perhaps those eyes were thebasis of her selection for the role!),Debratna, Tania, Sameer, Anup andMujeeb. Raji, I agree it was a tough one,but I did so to spice up the quiz a bit.



Question 36Back to some more Bond! Clues are movie-based so you can get it if you have seen it.

Clue 1: This novel was the last Ian Fleming James Bond novel published during hislifetime. Released on 16 March 1964, it was the twelfth novel in the series. For the firsttime in the James Bond film series, the screen story bore little resemblance to thesource novel.

Clue 2: James Bond does not drive a car in this film. This is the only EON ProductionsJames Bond film to date in which James Bond does not drive a vehicle. He travels in acar though, but doesn’t drive it.

Clue 3: The face of Ernst Stavro Blofeld is revealed for the first time in this movie.

Clue 4: “I must say I am disappointed with the ease with which I could pull you in. Theone thing my honourable mother taught me long ago was never to get into a car with astrange girl. But you, I’m afraid, will get into anything. With any girl.”

Clue 5: First film to show James Bond in his Royal Navy uniform and to clearly indicatethat he holds the rank of Commander.

Identify this Bond movie.



Answer 36

Yes, it is “You only live Twice”, thefamous one among the Bond movies.

Correct answers by RAJI, Debratnaand Febin.



Question 37Today is the birthday of one of my close friends, and hehappens to share it with a great personality. So thisquestion is for both of them.

Clue 1 (Tagline): With Einstein as Cupid what could

possibly go wrong?

Clue 2 (Dialogue): Albert Einstein: “Are you thinking whatI am thinking?” Ed Walters: “Well what would be the oddsof that happening?”

Clue 3: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan and a whole lot of fun!

Identify the movie.



Answer 37

The movie is I.Q.

Correct answers by SUNDEEPCHANDRU (Welcome back!) andDebratna. Special thanks to Raji forthe reminder.



Question 38Another Bond movie in question. The clues get progressively easier as you go down. Iguess clue 3 will provide the time frame and hence make it easier to guess.

Clue 1: First completely original James Bond film, without reference to any Ian Flemingnovel or short story.

Clue 2: The name of this movie is the nickname of Bond creator Ian Fleming’sbeachfront house in Jamaica where (between 1952 and 1964) he wrote the Bond novelsand short stories.

Clue 3: Several changes had to be made to the script during production because theplot was virtually identical to “True Lies” which was being released at the time.

Clue 4: First James Bond movie in the official series to be directed by a non-Englishdirector, Martin Campbell, who would go on to direct Casino Royale (2006).

Clue 5: The satellite dish used in the end of the film is the same one used in the film “Contact”. It is the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

Identify the movie.



Answer 38

The correct answer is “Goldeneye” asyou all got it!

Correct answers by CHANDRU (Onceagain!), Raji, Shashikumar, Febin,Debratna and Tania.



Question 39One of my admired movies in Bollywood.

Clue 1 (Tagline): How far would you go to save the oneyou love?

Clue 2: While filming, the director of the movie bonded sowell with one of the two lead actresses that he requestedher to be his sister. Since she did not have a brother in reallife, she got quite emotional with this brotherly proposal,eventually solemnized in the form of a rakhi symbolically.

Clue 3: 2004: Perumazhakkalam; 2006: ???

Identify this critically acclaimed movie.



Answer 39

The correct answer is “Dor”, theactress in question is Ayesha Takiaand the director is Nagesh Kukunoorof course!

Correct answers by RAJI, Andy, Taniaand Samatha.



Question 40I did not have much time, I thought of this one movie that Iadmired a lot. Shia La Beouf stars in this one. One of themost famous dialogues from this movie is as follows:

Harry Vardon: [ to Lord Northcliff ] Let me tell you

something. I came here to win a trophy. And on the face of it Ted Ray or I should carry it off. Not for you, not forEngland, but for sheer bloody pride at being the best,*that’s* why we do this. And if Mr. Ouimet wins tomorrow,it’s because he’s the best, because of who he is. Not whohis father was, not how much money he’s got, because of who he bloody is! And I’ll thank you to remember that. And

I’ll thank you to show the respect a gentleman gives as amatter of course.

Just name the movie.



Answer 40

The correct answer, as pointed byANDY, was “The Greatest Game everPlayed”.

Also right answers by Raji andSundeep.



Question 41Clue 1: A filmgoer who saw the movie in 1974 during its original releasefainted and broke his jaw on the seat in front of him. He then sued WarnerBrothers and the filmmakers, claiming that the use of subliminal imagery inthe film had caused him to pass out. The studio settled out of court for anundisclosed sum.

Clue 2: If adjusted for inflation, this would be the top grossing R-rated filmof all time.

Clue 3 (Tagline): Somewhere between science and superstition, there isanother world. The world of darkness.

Clue 4 (Dialogue): “Father Dyer? I thought you’d like to keep this.”

Clue 5: Christian evangelist Billy Graham claimed an actual demon wasliving in the celluloid reels of this movie.

Identify this famous movie.



Answer 41

The answer is the very famous movie “The Exorcist”.

Correct answers by RAJI, MK andFrancis (Thanks for coming back!)



Question 42I happened to see this movie just yesterday night, and was compelled tomake a question from it. Here goes.

Clue 1: The lead actress was offered the script to this movie as a 30thBirthday present from the director. The director has to delay the start of theproduction because the lead actress was pregnant.

Clue 2: It took six years to write the entire script before being split into twoparts. The original draft was about 220 pages long.

Clue 3 (Dialogue): “For those regarded as warriors, when engaged incombat the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern.Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thyway, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself. This truth lies at theheart of the art of combat.”

Clue 4: Total Body Count in this movie = 95.

Identify this fantastic movie, released in 2003.



Answer 42The answer is “Kill Bill: Vol 1″.

Correct answers by FRANCIS, Mujeeb andMK. I tried to make the clues moreinteresting and not-too-obvious as theearlier clues. Good going by Francis, histhought process is worth noting. This ishow I would like to tackle any clues that Iam offered. Good job!



Question 43Well, another one of my favorites, I missed the ending of this movie due tosome damaged download. Anyways, here goes!

Clue 1 (Tagline): Somewhere in the Universe, there must be somethingbetter than man!

Clue 2 (Last lines): “Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, itwas… We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!God damn you all to hell!”

Clue 3: This film marks only the second time that a make-up artist receivedan Academy Award. William Tuttle achieved the same feat in 1964 for “7Faces of Dr. Lao”. A make-up category was introduced by the Academy in1981.

Clue 4: Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison are the only actors to appear inboth this film and its remake in 2001.

Identify this classic movie.



Answer 43

It’s the Planet of the Apes.

Correct answers by TANIA, Chandruand Francis. Well answered by oneand all.



Question 44I hope it is easy and tough at the same time. Here goes!

Clue 1: Brad Pitt was signed to this movie for a relatively small salary, when he was still an “up and coming” actor. By the time of the movie’s release, however, Interview with theVampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Legends of the Fall (1994), and Se7en (1995) hadbeen released, making Pitt a top-salary actor.

Clue 2: Bruce Willis took a lower salary than his star-status would normally entitle, partlybecause of budget restrictions, but mostly because he wanted to work with Terry Gilliam.Actually Bruce did the movie for free. It was only after the movie was released that he waspaid.

Clue 3: “When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively by the guys of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined thoroughly. Then, they tookeverything about me and put it into a computer where they created this model of my mind.Yes! Using that model they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in thenext, say, 10 years. Which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind to - todetermine everything I was gonna do in that period. So you see, she knew I was gonna leadthe Army of the ______ _______ into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me.She knows everything I’m ever gonna do before I know it myself. How’s that?”

Identify this movie, that launched the career of Brad Pitt, earning him a Golden Globe and alsogiving him his only other Oscar nomination (the latest one in 2009 being only his2nd nomination).



Answer 44The correct answer is “TwelveMonkeys”.

Correct answer by ANDY, Tania,Francis and Sundeep Chundru. Partialanswer by Raji (although the TerryGilliam info and his relation to MontyPython series was a eye opener forme!)

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