1. A movie has its characters change over time from 11 people to 0 people. 2. A minimalist movie poster must be identified. 3. Robin Williams was known for telling jokes to cheer up the crew during the difficult filming of a movie.

1. Movies & TV Quiz Prelims
QM : Syed Saqline

2. 1. #decision
These are the changes that occur during the movie:
• 11-1
• 10-1
• 9-3
• 8-4
• 6-6
• 3-9
• 1-11
• 0-12
Identify..

4. 2. #Reverse
Identify the movie from this minimalist
poster

6. 3. Who imitating whom?

7. Bryan Cranston, Drake
No points for Hotline Bling

8. 4. #MarathaMandir

10. *5.
Before switching careers, X was an Olympic diver
for his country.
He finished third in Olympic trials on three different
occasions and competed in the 1988 Games in
Seoul, the Barcelona Olympiad in 1992 and the
Olympics in Atlanta four years later. He also finished
twelfth in the World Championships held in
Barcelona in 1992.
Identify X.

11. Jason Statham

12. 6.
• They Both Have Tough Twin Sisters
• They Both Have Evil, Manipulative Fathers
• They Both Play a Role in Their Fathers’ Deaths
• They Both Love Their Sister…in a Gross Way
• They Both Lose Their Hand
• They Both Get Prostheses
• They Both Have Douche-bag Nephews

13. Jaime Lannister & Luke Skywalker

14. 7.
According to director, this movie actually started off
as a sequel to the movie Django Unchained, at least
on paper. This was just at the stage where he was
developing the story, but as much as we'd have
loved to see Django again, the director’s vision, as
usual, went on a different tangent, and he ended
up writing a different story altogether.
Which movie?

16. 8.
The film is a 1999 drama that revolves around a man who
defies his father's wish and marries a woman, following
which he struggles to make a living.
It is probably the most aired movie on Sony Max.
Initially, people thought that the channel was simply
filling up its Sunday slot. But soon, conditions worsened.
It was as if Set Max was forcing you to watch it. Slowly but
steadily, the channel started showing the movie on
weekdays as well.
Identify.

18. 9. #Bloody
X was inspired by the author’s childhood turtles,
which were kept in a toy castle. The inexpensive
turtles were usually unhealthy, and he’d fantasize
about their lives and speculate on their deaths in
their toy castle.
The author let the producers adapt X into a TV
series after the producers answered his question :
Who is Y’s mother?
Gimme X and Y (part points available)

19. X : A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF)
Y : Jon Snow

20. *10. Filmography of who?
#SpEnt
• Buck White (musical) , 1969
• The Greatest , 1977
• Requeim for a Heavyweight, 1962
• Freedom Road, 1978
• Black Rodeo, 1972

21. Muhammad Ali (RIP)

22. 11. ID

23. Scarface

24. The SNASA
The Cheap Trick
The He’s not coming
The Mrs. Stinsfire
The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
The Scuba Diver
The Time Traveller
Connect.
12. #WaitForIt

25. Barney Stinson’s Playbook

26. 13.
• He was first introduced into the comic New
Mutants #98 as a Villain. He was never meant to
become the character he is today.
• Raised by an abusive military father after his
mother died of cancer, he fell into the wrong crowd
where eventually a friend of his disarmed his father
and killed him.
• He is a proud Canadian, often referencing his home
country and using terms in metric. He has been
known to break the fourth wall to tease American
readers.
• Identify the character.
•

27. Deadpool

28. • The synopsis of the movie reads :
Shankar, an honest man, innocently comes in the
way of a gang lord's mission, leading to them killing
his father and sister. Shankar vows that he shall get
his revenge by eliminating the whole gang.
• It has an IMDB rating of 8.0. It is arguably the most
pathetic yet interesting movie. Although it did not
have a great box office run, over the years it has
become a cult classic .
• Identify the movie.
14.

30. *15.
• On top of budget overflows and the lead actress
chipping her elbow bone and nearly drowning,
possibly the craziest thing to happen on the sets of
X occured in August when 80 members of the crew
became sick complaining of hallucinations.
• After many of them were hospitalized, it was
discovered that someone spiked their lobster
chowder with PCP (phenylcyclidine).
• X?

31. Titanic

32. 16.
• The Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak
Theatre) is a live-performance auditorium in the
Hollywood and Highland Center shopping mall and
entertainment complex, on Hollywood Boulevard
and Highland Avenue, in the Hollywood district of
Los Angeles, United States.
• It is the first permanent home to host one of the
most important annual events in the entertainment
sector.
• What event?

33. Academy Awards / Oscars

34. 17. Which show’s disclaimer?
#FamousFour

36. 18.
• X was notorious for shooting multiple takes for his
scenes. During the production of Y, X demanded
Shelley Duvall perform the iconic baseball bat
scene with Z 127 times to get the terror and horror
just right. That's merely one example of how
difficult the director could be to his stars during the
13-month shoot.
• Give me X, Y and Z.

37. X – Stanley Kubrick
Y – The Shining
Z – Jack Nicholson

38. 19. #Bong
• Sandip _____ started his professional career in film at
the age of 22 as assistant director on the sets of his
father's film Shatranj Ke Khiladi, 1977. Prior to this, he
had aided his father in various capacities including still
photographer on set. His own directorial debut was
Phatik Chand (1983) based on Fatik Chand – the film
received an award in the International Children's Film
Festival in Vancouver.
• Sandip is also a noted photographer. He was the
director of photography on his father’s last three films,
Ganashatru (1989), Shakha Proshakha (1990) and
Agantuk (1991).
• Who is his more famous father?

39. Satyajit Ray

40. *20. Who is being talked about?
• In high school, X was voted by his classmates as the
“Least Likely To Succeed.”
• During filming for Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg
used to call X and put him on speakerphone so he
could tell jokes to the crew to cheer them up.
• X used to work as a street mime in the 1970s when
he was cutting his teeth as an actor.
• He was a gamer. He named his daughter Zelda after
the video game The Legend of Zelda.

41. Robin Williams

42. 21. #GuessThisOne
• At the beginning of the series, X’s door had the number 5 on
it. The producers later realized that didn’t make sense as X
lived on a higher floor. They changed her apartment number
to 20. The number on Y’s apartment changed as well—from
4 to 19.
• The creators of the series considered various names but
landed on the final name before the premiere.
• Famous celebrities have guest starred on the series some of
which include Gary Oldman, Robin Williams and Charlie
Sheen.
• Which series?

43. F.R.I.E.N.D.S

44. 22. #Perfection

45. Sir Daniel Day Lewis

46. 23. Which famous director?
• Around age five, X said that he was sent by his father to
the local police station with a note asking the officer to
lock him away for five minutes as punishment for
behaving badly. This incident implanted a lifetime fear
of policemen in X, and such harsh treatment and
wrongful accusations are frequent themes in his films.
• X's films sometimes feature characters struggling in
their relationships with their mothers.
• X’s heroines tend to be blondes.
• A central theme of X's films was murder and the
psychology behind it.

48. 24.
• Balaji Motion Pictures had purchased the
adaptation rights of the novel – The Devotion of
Suspect X and according to the production house, Z
shares the plot with the Japanese novel.
• Both Z and The Devotion of Suspect X share the
same basic story line about a cunning man who
covers up the murder convincingly.
• First made in Malayalam, it has been remade into
Kannada, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. All versions have
been successful commercially.
• Give me the name of the Hindi version.

49. Drishyam

50. *25.
• How it was supposed to end: While the “what's in
the box” ending was in the original script,
producers demanded it be rewritten before going
to production. Somehow the director and one of
the lead actors got their hands on the first draft of
the script and refused to make the movie unless it
adhered to the original climax. The actor even had
a clause in his contract that said “the head stays in
the box.”
• How it ends: With his wife’s head in a box and him
shooting half a dozen bullets at the killer.

51. Climax of se7en

52. 26. #underoos
• On 23 June 2015, it was announced that Tom Holland
had been cast as X for Y and also for X: Homecoming,
set to be released in 2017. Upon release of Y, Holland
received universal praise for his role as X, hailed by
many as the "best X we've ever seen”.
• Holland is also the youngest actor to portray the role of
X.
• X?

53. Spiderman