Prelims of Montage, a Film Quiz conducted by Conquiztadors.

1. Montage: Prelims
CQD x Effulgence Films

2. RULES ● 20 Questions
● 1 points for each correct
answer, part points wherever
applicable
● No negative points
● Questions 1, 4, 8, 11 and 20 are
star-marked questions
● Star-marked questions will be
considered to break ties

3. Q1*. FITB
This is a scene from an Indian biopic which depicts vendors in
Bombay selling moving toys i.e. mechanical toys circa 1913.
While selling these toys, the vendors were referring to these toys
as ______(s) (6).

4. A1.

5. A1. Phalkes

6. Q2. What was this tribute? What/where was the logo
unveiled?
Born in a family with deep ties to Bollywood, X has been in the
industry for over 15 years and started their career on the sets of
the 2004 SRK-starrer Swades. Therefore they decided to reference
and pay a fitting tribute to Swades in their most recent project.
The logo of this much anticipated project was aptly unveiled in
2019 on an auspicious occasion.

7. A2. SRK’s character being named the same in
Bramhastra as in Swades, 2019 ArdhKumbh

8. Q3. What rule, which apparently has been broken
some days back, is this?
During the 2020 Golden Globe Award ceremony, host Ricky
Gervais talked about how long the duration of some of the movies
nominated that year was. One such movie that he talks about was
Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He goes on to
remark that the movie was so long that by the time its premiere
ended, one of the movie’s star’s companion would have fallen
prey to an infamous “rule”.

9. A3. Leonardo di Caprio’s 25 years Rule

10. While this has happened several times over almost 100 movies
and shows, one of the most famous actors to have done it are
Helen Mirren, Juliette Charles, Claire Foy, Sarah Gadon and Olivia
Colman. Bollywood fans would, however, most famously
remember Hrithik Roshan for the same from something in 2006.
Q4*. What do all these actors have in common?

11. A4. Played Queen Elizabeth II ON SCREEN

12. This scene shown here is from a famous movie fantasy series.
The choice for the book being read by the character is apt given a
certain concept that forms an important part of the movie.
Q5. ID the movie and the concept.

14. A5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Time
Travel

15. Actor A signed a contract with X in 1995 which stipulated that he
“wouldn’t be allowed to wear a tuxedo in any other film other than
X”. Rather than cut or alter a scene in 1999’s The Thomas Crown
Affair that places A at a black tie ball, he sports a suit and wears it
improperly, which would not breach his contract with X.
Q6. Identify A and X

16. A6. A - Pierce Brosnan, X - James Bond

17. The Bollywood film A had a noticeable impact on the Indian
society. In the Indian media, frequent referencing of the film was
evident, with many brands using pictorials from the movie. The
media also uses the term "_ _ _ (abbreviated title of the movie)
effect" while referring to instances of public activism on matters
of public interest.
Q7. Identify the movie/FITB.

18. A7. Rang De Basanti; RDB

19. Q8*. Identify the short film and the show.
Cinematic history was created when Kodak agreed to
reopen part of its factory to makes this film again for a
very famous show.
Ektachrome is known for its super fine grain and rich
saturated color that mimics the worn-out youth that the
story of the show follows.
A cinematographer from the said show also went on to
work on a very popular 10 minute film late last year, and
used the same film. The popstar behind this film and the
show both have been credited of reviving this film for
shooting.

20. A8. Euphoria and the music video for All Too Well
(Taylor’s version) both were shot on Kodak Ektachrome
35mm film.

21. "It is unimaginable for me to think of her as the head of the
cultural department. So I had quit on the first day after I was
told that X is in charge.There is no question of me working
with her". These were the words of a celebrated director in
2013, who is known for several critically-acclaimed movies,
including his magnum opus Meghe Dhaka Taara.
Q9. Identify X. What did the speaker quit?

22. A9.
X- Mamata Banerjee
Speaker- Mrinal Sen
Context- on his removal from the permanent
membership of the Calcutta Film Festival in
2013.

23. Q10. Identify the film and the song.
This 1957 film based on humanistic psychology, is regarded as
one of the classics of Hindi cinema. The inspiration for the movie
was taken by a pre-independence social experiment called the
‘Open Prison Experiment’ which was held by a polyglot from
Poland, who had refused to be credited for it. This movie is also
famous for its widely popular song sung by Lata Mangeshkar and
written by Bharat Vyas.

24. A10. Do Aankhen Barah Haath; Ae malik tere bande
hum

25. Q11*. What is the person’s surname?
'Abominable' is a 2019 animated movie which
follows the journey of three kids embarking on a
journey to help a yeti return home. One of the
kids was voiced by the person seen in this
picture. What is the person's surname, which
makes him an apt choice for the part?

27. A11. Tenzing Norgay

28. Q12. What was the paper titled?
X is a research paper about outsourcing where organisations
delegate their work to other organisations for some money. This
paper talks about pros and cons of the phenomenon and is
named after a 1960s movie starring a trio justifying this 3-part
title.

29. A12. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

30. Q13. FITB and who was instrumental behind its
background score?
_ ______ ____ is a 1957 short film depicting
an actor and and one principal prop. A 12
minutes long film, it was nominated for the
Oscars and the BAFTA, winning the latter.
The title of this film is a wordplay on a kind
of story we all have read growing up. The
implication of the film is open to diverse
interpretations but its most appealing
feature was its background score designed
by one of India’s best musicians.

32. A13. X- A Chairy Tale; Musician- Pt. Ravi Shankar

33. In 1916, X was released as a silent black and white film in the US.
Almost a hundred years later, a movie of the same title was
released in Norway and was selected as its official nomination
that year. What was significant was its ensemble cast mainly
comprising Asian actors and actresses.
Q14. Id X.

34. A14.What will People Say?

35. Q15. Id X and Y.
A collaboration between two of the most popular entities in their
respective fields, X & Y, led to fans waiting to get their hands on
the suitcases shown in the image. This still from X's relatively less
popular film about the spiritual journey of 3 brothers in India
which shows them in a train with a myriad of bags of different
sizes. The very particular use of pastel-hues that is characteristic
to X's movies was incorporated in the luggage as well, custom
designed by Y for this particular movie.

37. A15. X: Wes Anderson; Y: Louis Vuitton for the
movie “The Darjeeling Limited”

38. Q16. What was the reason?
A small yet captivating scene inculcating an important element X
often linked with the celebration of Durga Puja from Ray's
masterpiece Pather Panchali took a whole year for completion,
but for an unusual reason.

39. A16. The element is Kash phool, which only grows
in the Sharat season.
They shot half of the scene, but when they came back, that year's
harvest was eaten by stray livestock, Hence he waited for a whole
year to complete.

40. Q17. What was Bhatt’s remarks about?
In the controversial AIB roast of Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh,
Tanmay Bhatt had said, 'Arjun, I'm not saying you're doing badly,
but the last time I saw a Kapoor struggling so hard, was when
______________________________________________________________.'

41. A17. ‘Anil was trying to speak English at the
Oscars’

42. Q18. What was the documentary called? Which
sketch?
This documentary, which won an award at the TIFF recently, is
named after an introductory line of a prime-time journalist. Taking
a dig at India's media situation, it is a life sketch of the person.
Taking the spirit of satire forward, this famous YouTube channel's
show was also a sketch of the same personality and a dig at
current political situation.

43. A18. Namaskar! Main Ravish Kumar, Rabish ki
Report

44. Q19. What issue?
Based on the 1908 novel, The Blue Lagoon follows two Victorian children
who are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and live there
alone, as they grow up together. Eventually Emmeline faces an issue that is
generally considered embarrassing and panics. When a curious and equally
panicked Richard tries to examine it, she yells at him to go away. This drives
a wedge between the two characters, as Richard accuses Emmeline of
keeping secrets from him.
The Blue lagoon, a survival movie, portrays this specific issue which is
usually left untouched by most of the movies of this genre.

45. A19. Menstruation

46. Q20*. What technique? Which popular scene?
Pioneered by Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s, this technique was
codified by Sergei Eisenstein in his work “A Dialectic Approach to
Film Form” and was later adopted by filmmakers around the
world. Literally meaning “edit” or “assemble”, there are several
conventions and cliches which have come about as a result of the
application of this technique. One of the most common output is
the sports training sequence, popularized by a sequence from the
1970s which ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Arts.

47. A20. Montage; Rocky stairs scene