Prelims of the TV quiz held on 31.03.2015

1. Tv Quiz Elims answers

2. Rules:
• 21 Questions. Written Round.
• One point per question. No negatives. Feel free to guess.
• Some questions are starred to help us resolve ties if any. If even these
fail to break the deadlock, we resort to sudden death.
• Maximum three members per team. Google should not be one of
them. Lonewolves allowed.
• Write down your team name, names of members and at least one
contact no. in the A4s provided.
• All the best and Happy Quizzing 

3. Off we go…..

4. 1. Fill in the blank.
• A _____ Award, or simply _____ , recognizes excellence in the television
industry.
• Because _____ Awards are given in various sectors of the American
television industry, they are presented in different annual ceremonies held
throughout the year. The two events that receive the most media coverage
are the Primetime ______ and the Daytime _____, which recognize
outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment
programming, respectively. Other notable ______ Award ceremonies are
those honouring national sports programming, national news and
documentary shows, national business and financial reporting, and
technological and engineering achievements in television.
• In addition, International ______ are awarded for excellence in TV
programming produced and initially aired outside the United States.

5. • The EMMYs

6. **2. Identify X
• X also known as an outtake, gag reel, or boner, is a short sequence of
a film. The term X was popularized in the 1950s in a series of record
albums entitled Pardon My X, in which the definition of a X is thus
given by the record series' narrator: "Unintended indiscretions before
microphone and camera.“
• ID X. A lot of regular internet shows release separate videos inclusive
of X these days.

7. • Bloopers

8. 3. Identify X & Y– the inanimate pet and it’s
master!!
• The X is a dark brown oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped
limbs, invariably ending up broken in half or in various other states of
destruction and disfiguration. Although X is inanimate, Y often
pretends it is alive. Y behaves as if X is real, buying it a Christmas
present or trying not to wake it in the mornings. X is often privy to Y’s
various schemes and doubles as a dish cloth or paint brush in an
emergency; it has been decapitated and shrunk in the wash many a
time.
• X is also Y’s “pet” and has even won a pet show.

9. • X- Teddy
• Y – Mr. Bean

10. ***4. Identify the genre
• When first shown on TV nobody took this genre of TV series seriously.
But few companies like Proctor and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and
Lever Brothers took a risk in sponsoring them.
• Later on the gamble paid off and it became a great hit. Consequently,
the genre was a given a name signifying the nature of its preliminary
sponsors.

11. • “SOAPs or SOAP Operas”

12. 5. Easy – Peasy. Just identify X.
• The term X refers to the colour of the shirts of male office workers
common through most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in
Western countries, as opposed to the colour of clothes worn by many
manual labourers.
• The coining of the term “X" is credited to Upton Sinclair, an American
writer, in relation to contemporary clerical, administrative, and
management workers during the 1930s.

13. X – White Collar

14. ***6. Still from a Simpsons episode. Identify
the guy in the middle.

15. • Leonard Nimoy

16. 7. Identify the show X…
• X (English: Fragrance) was a popular Indian cultural magazine show
hosted by Renuka Shahane and Siddharth Kak, which ran from 1993
to 2001. It was telecast on Doordarshan, the Indian state-run
television channel, and later moved to Star Plus on Sunday mornings.
X was produced by Mumbai based production house Cinema Vision
India and had Indian culture as its central theme.
• The show holds the distinction of being India's longest-running
cultural series and features in the Limca Book of Records for receiving
the largest measured audience response ever in the history of Indian
television.

17. • Surabhi / Suravi

18. 8. Simple. Connect all the pictures to get a
name.

19. • Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar
Omkarnath Shastri aka Shaktimaan

20. 9. Connect the two pictures to a person

21. • Shahrukh Khan starrers (TV shows)

22. ***10.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated
television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's
successful toy line Masters of the Universe. The show, often referred
to as simply He-Man, was one of the most popular animated
children's shows of the 1980s, and has retained a heavy cult
following to this day.
What unique privilege does it hold in the history of Indian television?

23. • The first animated series to be aired on Indian Television/
Doordarshan.

24. ***11. Connect to a TV show.

25. • Characters in the cartoon Oswald.
• Henry
• Katrina
• Daisy
• Winnie
• Oswald (type of font)

26. 12. Id the show which gets into a lot of
controversies now and then…
• The hugely controversial episode of Bloody Mary was aired on December 7,
2005, which is the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a
Catholic observance related specifically to the Virgin Mary.
• In the episode, Randy drives drunk and loses his driver's license. He is then
ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, where he becomes
convinced that his alcoholism is a potentially fatal disease. Meanwhile, a
statue of the Virgin Mary starts bleeding "out its ass" and Randy believes
that he can be "cured" if it bleeds on him. The new Pope Benedict
XVI comes to investigate, and discovers that the blood is not actually
coming from the statue's anus, but its vagina. Since "chicks bleed out their
vaginas all the time", this is no miracle. Stan then convinces Randy that if
God did not help him, he must manage to stop it himself.
• Which show am I talking about?

27. South Park

28. ***13.
• Charles "Charley" Douglass did something famous to help ‘single
camera filmmaking’ and make ‘multi camera setup’ take a back seat.
• It became even more popular as it allowed for more frequent scene
changes and the ease of retakes.
• What am I talking about?
• Hint- Think about the terms “tittering” and “sweetening”.

29. Invention of Laugh Tracks.

30. 14.
• Identify this very famous show in which the contestants have to pass
through a series of physical challenges with the aim of capturing, with
the help of water gun assaults and a laser armed pen with light
sensitive target , a castle.
• The Indian version of it contains characters called Ravan, Chhotu,
Shikari Shambu etc.

31. Takeshi’s Castle

32. 15.
• It is an Indian television series that originally aired in 2003-4. It is about an
Arab prince who is a pre-Islamic Christian from Yemen.
• In the plot, the villain named Dajjal who is aided by Najumi is to become
the supreme lord of the world if he can capture the forces of good and he
can do that by marrying the princess of Durgapur Sunena, but she has to
do it on her own will not by force. He arrives at Durgapur to ask the hand
of Sunena, but she refuses.
• The prince has to solve seven questions to defeat Dajjal. Eventually the
prince succeeds, defeats Dajjal and also defeats death.
• Identify the serial which shares its name with the prince.

33. Hatim

34. 16. Identify the TV show from the opening
track
•

35. Malgudi Days

36. ***17. What role are these ladies going to
portray in the upcoming season of GOT?

37. The “Sand Snakes of Dorne”

38. 18. Minimalist poster for which famous TV
character.

39. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory

40. 19. Minimalist poster for which TV series

41. House M.D.

42. 20. Identify X and Y
• X is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan and
Peter Gould. It is a spin-off of Y, which was also created by Gilligan.
Set in 2002, X is about small-time lawyer James "Jimmy" McGill who
appears under a different alias in Y, six years before his appearance on
Y.
• Events during and after the original series are also set to be explored.
• The debut episode set the record for the highest-rated scripted series
premiere in basic cable history, with 4.4 million viewers in the 18–49
demographic, and 6.9 million viewers overall.

43. X –Better Call Saul
Y – Breaking Bad

44. ***21. Identify the show X which has a high
probability of coming back for an 11th season.
• Some of the reviews on the series finale (aired on 6th May 2004) of
the cult sitcom X:
• “It may have been impossible for any one episode to live up to the
hype and expectations built up around the X finale, but this hour
probably came as close as fans could have reasonably hoped.
Ultimately, the two-hour package did exactly what it was supposed to
do. It wrapped up the story while reminding us why we liked the
show and will miss it.” --- USA Today
• “It was more touching than comical, more satisfying in terms of
closure than knee-slappingly funny.” ---- Forth Worth Star-Telegram

46. FIN.
Wait for the results……