OASIS,Bits Pilani, MOVIE

QUIZ

Finals QM Trishanu

• Rules for Pounce: I guess all the quizzers are familiar with the rules of a normal pounce round.

• 15 points for getting it right in the pounce,10 in the normal bounce.

• No partial marking in Pounce round , get the entire question right or no points.

• Teams pouncing wont be able to answer in the Bounce . There is partial marking in Bounce.

Round 1Pounce

Q1

• No part points for pounce , Partial marking in Bounce as the QM deems fit.

• Ans

• A =George• B= Star Wars• C=Jaws• D=Steven

Q2• Milla Falconetti(1928)• Ingrid Bergman(1948)• Milla Jovovich(1999) • Leelee Sobieski(1999)• Connect.(X)

• The French claim that it was Y who designed the 4-suited packs of cards that we are all so familiar with today.

• Y is best known as a comrade of X, though in France he, till date is the “JACK OF HEARTS” in the deck .

• ID X .Extra points for Y.

• Ans

• X= Joan of Arc• Y=La Hire ,a famous French military

commander during the hundred years’ war.

Q3

The dialog snippet below features the title of the movie in it, which we've removed. Identify the movie.

"Was I trying to say 'Raymond' and it came out ‘____________'?"

"Yeah. Funny ____________.“ "You? You're the ____________?"

• Ans

• Rain Man

Q4• Some critics have suggested that X may encourage

sadism and misogyny by identifying audiences with its villain. Other critics have suggested the film is a social critique of the immorality of youth and teenagers in 1970s America, with many of Myers's victims being sexually promiscuous substance abusers, while the lone heroine is depicted as innocent and pure hence her survival (however, the lone survivor is seen smoking marijuana in one scene).

• "X" was originally going to be titled "The Babysitter Murders"

Identify the movie X.

• Ans

Halloween(1978)

Q5

In this Oscar award winning Hollywood movie for the best supporting actor, roughly only 30% of the film is in spoken English. The language which dominates the film is either French or German with a little Italian. This is highly unusual for a Hollywood production. Identify the movie.

• Ans

Answer

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Q6

Which mockumenatry comedy’s disclaimer goes like this?

• Ans

• Borat :Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Q7

• Shot in three weeks by the director Sidney Lumet ,he used longer and longer focal lengths to create a feeling of claustrophobia by the climax..Which movie?

• Ans

• 12 Angry Men

Q8 The names of the protagonists in the movie are

“Bagger Vance” and “Ralph Junah”. What’s the funda behind the names?

• Ans

Answer

The names are allusions to Bhagawan and Arjuna (R. Junah) respectively.

In fact, the whole movie is an allusion to the Bhagavad Gita with the 18 holes of the golf course signifying the 18 chapters of the Gita.

Q9

• "If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.“ So said one of literature's most famous protagonists. The author was a man who held all his works under a firm anti-hollywood lock and key,save for "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" which was made into a 1949 movie entitled __ _______ _____, that reportedly caused great consternation and unhappiness with the author.

• ID the movie,author and the protagonist,who finds reference in movies like The Collector, Six Degrees of Separation, The Good Girl,The Shinning etc.

• No part points.

• Ans

• Movie=My Foolish Heart• Author=Jerome David Salinger• Protagonist= Holden Caulfield(Catcher in the

Rye)

Q 10• Film by Francis Ford Coppola, notorious for the number of

production problems it had.• Casting was an issue, and Coppola was so fed up at one point

because so many actors had turned down his offer to star in the film that he threw his five Oscars out of his window.

• After finally hiring a lead, Harvey Keitel, Coppola changed his mind, fired him, and had to start the search all over.

• Martin Sheen eventually landed the part, but he had a heart attack, postponing filming even longer.

• Nature wasn't on the movie's side, either, as a typhoon ripped apart the first set, a fire destroyed important props, and a tiger stalked the production.

• After facing bankruptcy and the possibility of never finishing the film, Coppola finally saw his work come to fruition and he found a place in movie-making history.ID the film.

• Ans

• Apocalypse Now(1979)

Q11

Hal Mohr , a famed American Cinematographer, won two academy awards for best cinematography. The Phantom Opera(1943) earned him his first nomination and his second award. For which work did he win his first Oscar(1936) and what is so special about it.

• Part points as the quizmaster deems fit.

• Ans

• Mohr is the only person to have won a competitive Academy Award without being nominated for it.

• In 1936, a write-in campaign won him the Best Cinematography Oscar for his work on Midsummer Night’s Dream(1935)

Q12

• The photographer who clicked this is remembered for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection

• Early in his career he worked as an U.S army commissioned photographer.

• He was a sinister character. In 1874 he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, and was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide.

• He came to the forefront again this year when Google dedicated a doddle to him on his birth day in April.

• Who is he ,to whom the movie industry would be forever grateful for being the first person to experiment with moving photos which later gave birth to video?

• Ans

• Eadweard Muybridge

Q13

• A man who has redefined contemporary horror in the last 30 years , been the source(novel/novella) of the story of dozens of movies over the years including The Secret Window , The Shinning etc. Tried his luck in acting though success eluded him , last seen in a few episodes of Sons of Anarchy.ID the person and name the short story behind the most famous movie(lost out to Forrest Gump in the 1994 oscars , though critics still question the judgement) which was adapted from his works.

• Ans

• Stephen King

• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Q14

• Barry Fitzgerald, won the Best Supporting Actor Award sometime in the 1940s; an avid golfer, he later broke the head off his Oscar statue while practising his golf swing.

• How did an oscar statue break so easily?

• Part points if the ans. pleases the QM.

• Ans

• During the WWII ,due to acute metal shortage, the oscar statuettes were made of plaster and hence were called Plaster Oscars.

• Only 3 people got these Plaster Oscars , which they could exchange for the metal ones once the war was over.

Q15 This is an exhaustive list of what?

• Richard Rodgers (1962)• Helen Hayes (1976)• Rita Moreno (1977)• John Gielgud (1991)• Audrey Hepburn (1994)

• Marvin Hamlish (1995)• Jonathan Tunick (1997)• Mike Nichols (2001)• Mel Brooks (2001)• Whoopi Goldberg

(2002)• Scott Rudin (2012)

• Ans

Answer

List of people who have completed EGOT - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards & the year they completed it in, respectively.