Films fascinate us and form most of our world, let’s chat about them !!

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• Contains 15 questions including 5 star-marked questions

• Star-marked questions will be used as tie-breakers

• Only 6 teams will qualify

• Use of any electronic device is banned, if found violating, the team will be disqualified

• Please keep your mobile phones on silent/airplane mode

• Quiz Master’s discretion in any round will be final

What does the word ‘Gojira’ hint at, in filmi context? And what it means in Japanese?

• HINT: Gojira is made from 2 words: Gorilla and Kujira

Godzilla !!!

What is this called ?

Vulcan salute

• The Amazing Spiderman (2012) is a X of Spiderman (2002). Similarly, Dev D is also a

X of Devdas (1955), Devdas (2002). What is

X?

Reboot

Which 2010 short film won Oscars Award for Best Live Action Short Film?

Which TV film, set in 1970s, screenwrited by Arundhati Roy features Shah Rukh Khan in one

of his earliest roles ? It’s is a funny film of architecture students in their final year of

college.

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

Who designed the Oscar statuette?

Cedric Gibbons

• Which artist won both awards, the Grammy for the Best Rap Album and Oscar for the Best Original Song in 2002?

Eminem

• Abhas Kumar Kanjilal Ganguly is also better known as ?

Kishore Kumar

What’s his real name?

Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi

• In the soundtrack of which film was the song ‘Bandeya Ho’ used first?

Khuda Kay Liye (2007)

Name the shrimp fishing company that Forrest Gump started ?

Bubba Gump Shrimp Corporation

Players is a remake of which movie?

The Italian Job

Who is the father of Raj Kapoor?

Prithviraj Kapoor

Which song by System of a Down featured in Disturbia (2007)?

Lonely Day

How can you connect Fire, Earth, Bawandar and Firaaq?

Nandita Das, Director

Star Trek (2009)

E.T.

Pulp Fiction

The Runaways

5. Identify the film !

Gladiator

6. Identify the film !

American Gangster

Alfred Hitchcock

Name the person in right.

Martin Scorcese

Zeenat Aman

Marlon Brando

Resul Pookutty

• He is a sound designer, editor and mixer. He has won several awards, most famously, Academy Award for Best sound Mixing for Slumdog Millionaire.

Linda Blair

1. Which was the first ever motion picture special effect ?

A) Schufftan process B) CGI C) Stop trick D) Rear projection

C) Stop trick

It occurs when an object is filmed, then while the camera is off,

the object is moved out of sight of the camera, then the

camera is turned back on. When the film is watched it thus

seems to the viewer that the object disappears.

GEORGE MELIES

3. Can you name the technology used for creating these characters' actions and

expressions ?

Motion Capture

4. When a screenwriter writes a script/screenplay hoping to have the script optioned (contract) and eventually purchased by a producer, production company, or studio, what is such a script called?

Spec script

5. Sometimes, it happens that during a period a film is stuck i.e. not moving towards production. What is this period called?

(Spiderman (2002) suffered such a period of 25 years !)

6. After the advent of chroma key i.e. bluescreen/greenscreen, some technologies got outdated. It included Schufftan process and ________ projection. Which projection?

Christian Bale

• Which Hindi song featured in BBC's list of 10 Most Popular Songs (International) on 9th position?

• It is composed by A R Rahman.

• It's remixed versions were used in a film starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owel.

Chaiyya Chaiyya

• He is a 16 yr old guy studying in Bangalore. • He is the world’s youngest Director of a professional feature-length film the world, being the Director and Writer of C/o Footpath when he was only 9 years old. Name this Director !!

Kishan Shrikanth

Indian nominations for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• Mother India in 1957

• Salaam Bombay in 1988

• Lagaan in 2001

Millennium Series

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

• The Girl Who Played With Fire

• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest

• Stieg Larsson

• David Fincher

Stephen King’s novels

Martin Scorcese

Done In 60 Seconds

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Each correct answer will give +5 points.

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Max. 7 questions per team

All 7 correct answers will lead to bonus of +15 points.

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