Spectrum Movie Quiz

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“A Farewell to ArmsBy John Carlin

For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the digital winds are blowing an icy chill through the triumphant glow of the post-Cold War.People in Washington play lots of games, but none for higher stakes than The Day After. They played a version of it in the depths of the Cold War, hoping the exercise would shake loose some bright ideas for a US response to nuclear attack. They're playing it again today, but the scenario has changed - now they're preparing for information war.The Day After starts in a Defense Department briefing room. The teams are presented with a series of hypothetical incidents, said to have occurred during the preceding 24 hours. Georgia's telecom system has gone down. The signals on Amtrak's New York to Washington line have failed, precipitating a head-on collision. Air traffic control at LAX has collapsed. A bomb has exploded at an army base in Texas. And so forth.”

These are the opening paragraphs of the article ‘A farewell to arms’ published in May 1997. Which movie was inspired from this article?

Connect and explain.

A- You are serious, you don't know! Every body knows, you don't go full retard. B- What do you mean?A- Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rainman, looked retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks, cheat at cards. Autistic sure, not retarded. Then you got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow yes, retarded, maybe, braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a Ping-Pong competition. That ain’t retarded. And he was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war heroes?

You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask _____X_____, _Y_, ____Z_____. Remember? Went full retard. Went home empty handed.These dialogues appear in the movie ‘Tropic Thunder’. Z is another movie starring X which came in the year Y. Give X and Z.

The 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, hinted that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin. Princess Natasha's character was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina sued MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed.Princess Irina and her husband Felix Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded $127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM. What originated as a result of this to avoid future court cases?

• The character X of a Philip K. Dick adapted movie had resemblance to Jordi Pujol, a Spanish politician (pictured on left) which led to the source of a whole word-of-mouth phenomenon in Spain. Id X.

• Former Miss India famous for going bald in which movie?

• 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.

• In the 1980s, while the west towers were under construction, Washington National Cathedral held a decorative sculpture competition for children. Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, of Kearney, Nebraska who submitted a drawing of this futuristic representation of evil. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett, and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral. The Cathedral boasts what is probably the world's only sculpture of X on a religious building.

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