Quiz on movies and comics made for in-house Quiz Club session at IIT Kharagpur

1. Movies and Comics
Quiz
By Hemansh Kashyap

2. 15 questions
Infinite Bounce
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+10/-5 on pounce
Complete answers required on pounce

3. 1. No one had to think about it twice but you
The movie X, starring Annu Kapoor and Pankaj Kapoor,
among others, is a Hindi language, 1986 scene-by-
scene remake of the 1957 American movie Y.
Screengrabs from X follow.
Give me X and Y

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6. X - Ek Ruka Hua Faisla Y – 12 Angry Men

7. 2. Would you Dare?
In an alternate Marvel timeline, Captain America was shot in the head
and sent back in time to 16th century. Uncertain of who he was, he
wandered till he was taken in by a native American tribe, taking the
name Rojhaz.
He moved with the tribe, eventually coming across, and saving, some
starving colonists in Roanoke.
There Rojhaz met X, who was still a baby at the time. He recognized
who the baby was, and what the baby represented, so he became her
personal guardian.
ID X, who was named after the region she was born in.

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10. X is Virginia Dare, the first English child born
in a New World English overseas possession

11. 3. ID X,Y,Z,W
X started the film production
company Z in 1948. Its first
venture Aag, 1948, was a
commercial failure.
However, Z found success with the
movie W in 1949.
There after, X used the poster of
W (shown alongside), featuring X
and Y, as the inspiration for the
logo of Z.

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13. X – Raj Kapoor Y – Nargis
Z – RK Films W – Barsaat

14. 4. That’s a little to close to Mr. Shit
In the movie Swingers (1996), its director, in a scene, pays tribute to director
Y’s movie X (1992). Given below is the script of that scene. ID X and Y.
The CAMERA REVOLVES around the table in a repeating X style over the
shoulder 360 DEGREE PAN
TRENT: No baby. I got a better one. You gotta admit the steady cam shot in
Goodfellas was the money
ROB: ….through the basement of that restaurant…
MIKE: ….the Copa, in New York…
TRENT: ….It looked money..

15. SUE: Not as money as the shot from X…
ROB: ….Which one?
SUE: ….In the beginning. When they’re walking in slow motion…
MIKE: How can you compare them? Y bites everything from Scorsese..
SUE: ..He’s.. derivative..
TRENT: …You gotta admit, it looked money…
CHARLES: ….I heard they made the whole movie for 10 grand.
ROB: What’s the big deal? Everyone steals from everyone.
MIKE: Well, let’s hit the party.
The five swingers walk down the boulevard in a SLO-MO SHOT which is
extremely “derivative” of the X sequence.

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17. A tribute to Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs

18. 5. Why are some of the books behind Woody
so interesting?

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21. 4 of these refer to previously released Pixar
shorts,
Knick Knack
Red’s Dream
Tin Toy
The Adventures of Andre and Wally B

22. 6. In an episode aptly titled ___ _____ _____, this
show paid tribute to the 1949 Orson Welles movie
___ _____ ___. Give me the movie and the
episode.

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24. The Third Man, and the episode is The Third
Mouse

25. 7. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter
your realm each night without fear.
In the early 80s, X pursued journalism.
While waiting for a train at Victoria’s station in 1984, he came across a
seminal work by another influential comic book writer. This was when
he had decided to indulge into comics.
In ‘84, he wrote his first book, a biography of a certain band.
By 1987, he had started writing comics, and was hired by DC to rewrite
an old character Y as he see fit. It is for his refreshing take on Y that X
became so famous in the world of comics.
ID X and Y

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27. X - Neil Gaiman
Y - Sandman/Dream/Morpheus

28. 8. Survivors
____ is a Pulitzer prize winning graphic novel about the author
interviewing his father about his experiences as a ______ ___ and
_________ survivor.
The author uses animals to represent definitive character traits.
____ are represented as mice, playing to the anti-_______ stereotype
of ____ as vermin. The title also plays off a pun on the derogatory verb
mauscheln, which roughly means, “to swindle like a ___”. The _______
are predatory cats that feed on the mice. And the _________ are dogs
who save the mice from the cats.

29. What event is the book about?
What is the title of the book?
Who do the mice, cats and dogs
represent?

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31. The novel is titled “Maus”.
The subject matter of the graphic
novel is the Holocaust.
The mice are Jews, cats are
Germans and the dogs are
American.

32. 9. Where else have you seen this? Also ID the
director of the movie THIS clip is from.

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34. The scene influenced the dance step in Pulp
Fiction. The movie shown is 8½ by Federico Fellini

35. 10. Art of the Gag
A filmmaker so influential, no matter
where you look, you see traces of
him.
You can see his framing in the works
of Wes Anderson, his acrobatics and
stunts in Jackie Chan and his
deadpan posture in Bill Murray.
Alongside Charlie Chaplin and Harold
Lloyd, he’s one of the most well
known silent era comedians.
ID him.

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37. Buster Keaton

38. 11.
In this scene from Guillermo del
Toro’s movie ____ _________, the
pale man devours a fairy.
Give me the name of the movie
and the painting this scene
references.

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40. Movie – Pan’s Labyrinthe
Painting – Saturn devouring his son

41. 12. ID the man in the white shirt, talking to
Robert De Niro.

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43. Martin Scorsese, making an appearance in
Taxi Driver

44. 13. Of Biblical proportions
It isn’t uncommon for comic books to have Biblical references.
One such reference is the Marvel villain __________.
His four henchmen are aptly called ________ of __________.
ID the villain, and what are his henchmen called?

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46. Apocalypse and Horsemen of Apocalypse

47. 14. I have a feeling we’re not in Sepia tone
anymore.
The scene where Dorothy transitions
from sepia to technicolor is now
iconic.
These days, to fit two color tones in a
frame is very easy.
However, due to the initial
limitations of Technicolor, the studio
had innovate to film this scene.
How was this scene filmed?
(Looking for two details)

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49. The set within the house was painted in sepia
so that the same Technicolor process could
be applied to outside the door and inside.
The woman who opens the door isn’t Judy
Garland. She’s a body double wearing sepia
clothes. We see Judy Garland next only when
she walks out the door in full colour.

50. 15. Animators had a few tricks up their… err..
In A Goofy Movie, a character ponders, “Do you know why we’re
always, like… _______ ______?”
This practice while drawing cartoon characters dates back to early
Disney.
The numerous reasons for this practice coming into existence include
their easy-to-draw structure of circles and ovals, the fact that they
provided the necessary contrast against the color of the character’s
body and to give the animal characters a more human appearance.
What practice?
(Mickey Mouse on the next slide)

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53. Drawing cartoon characters with white gloves

54. 16. Hot fudge sundae with a cherry on top
As far-fetched as it sounds, Captain America co-creator Joe Simon revealed
in his autobiography My Life in Comics a cold confectionery treat was his off-
the-wall inspiration for the ___-faced mad man:
I was always thinking about heroes and villains, with all sorts of ideas
swimming around in my head…I had a hot fudge sundae sitting in front of
me, with the vanilla ice cream, and the hot fudge is running down the side. It
was intriguing. The hot fudge looked like limbs—legs, feet, and hands—and
I’m thinking to myself. Gee, this’d make an interesting villain, I mused. We’ll
call him Hot Fudge … Just put a face on him, and have him ooze all over the
place. But I looked again at the sundae, and I saw the big cherry on top. The
cherry looked like a _____. “Wow,” I said to myself. “___ _____ … that
sounds good.”
Which villain was thus created?

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56. Red Skull

57. 17. Which Bollywood song have you heard this
tune in? Who are the singers?

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59. Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni mein Hum
Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey

60. 18. ID X and Y
Back in 2016, Shirish Kunder released the short film X, starring Manoj
Bajpayee and Radhika Apte.
It sparked quite a controversy when viewers, and the director of Y,
noted obvious similarities in the plot, dialogue and picturization of X
and the Nepali short film Y. Since both the films had been released
around the same time, the controversy was never really resolved.
Both the films are about a schizophrenic man, his girlfriend and his
psychiatrist.

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62. X – Kriti Y – BOB

63. 19. Extraordinary Indeed
X specifically requested that his name be removed from the production after
Joel Silver (the film's producer) lied about X's enthusiasm for the shooting
script of the movie Y (2006). This, and the rather poor quality of previous
adaptations of ____ ____ and ___ ______ __ _____________ _________,
prompted his (in retrospect, possibly hasty) decision to have his name
removed from any and all adaptations of works he has no ownership of, and
his pseudo-royalties distributed amongst the relevant artists.
This implied that he received no money from the filmmakers of Y, despite
the film being well received by critics and audiences.
X has always criticized all adaptations of his works, with the only exceptions
being the Justice League Unlimited adaptation of “For the Man who has
Everything” and Sunday Morning ________.
ID X and Y.

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65. X – Alan Moore Y – V for Vendetta

66. 20. That’s not how I remember it!
The ________ effect occurs when the same event is given
contradictory interpretations by different individuals involved. The
effect is named after _____ ________’s 1950 film ________, in which a
murder is described in four mutually contradictory ways by its four
witnesses.
The film is referenced in the Simpson’s episode Thirty minutes over
Tokyo, where Marge and Homer have differing accounts of whether or
not Homer liked the movie ________ when visiting Japan is being
discussed.
Give me the film and the director.

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68. The Rashomon Effect, Akira Kurosawa