A quiz on interesting facts from the field of entertainment conducted at the monthly informals at i quiz calicut

1. CHARLIE
A quiz on entertainment

2. All the 3 movies Sanjay
Leela Bhansali made with
Ranveer Singh and
Deepika attracted
controversies, the latest
being Padmavati.
Amidst the furore, a song
from Ram Leela called
“Nagada sang” got world
wide attention.
How?

5. The Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlour at the
Dorchester and East 53rd Street intersection in
Chicago have a plaque commemorating
something .
This has been picturised in a film written and
directed by Richard Tanne, called Southside with
you.
What is this plaque about?

7. First date of Michele and Barrack Obama

8. In Taiwan in the 1960s, a 24-year-old girl surnamed
Wang from the impoverished region suffered from
Blackfoot disease.
Both of her legs had to be amputated, leading to the
cancellation of her wedding.
She remained unmarried and spent the rest of her life
at a church.
The Taiwanese authorities in 2016 made a church in
honour of her in the shape of a very popular fictional
artefact.
What is it?

11. X’ is a talk show host who
uploaded a montage of him
apologizing to actor Matt Damon
for not having him on the show
because he is “running out of
time” over the years .
The satirical feud between X and
Matt Damon has been picturised
later in many episodes of X’s talk
show later.
Identify X who is popular in
Kerala this year for a different
reason.

14. Twenty-one years ago, Ann Moliver Ruben designed a T-
shirt with a simple empowering message:
A Walmart store in Florida quickly pulled it from its shelves,
saying the shirt was "offensive" to some shoppers and
apparently went against the chain's "family values.“
It featured curly-haired Margaret from "Dennis the
Menace" with arms stretched wide, chirpily making the
declaration.
It resurfaced during the last American President election.
What was the message?

17. A bakery in Massachusetts has been told to
remove X from its list of granola ingredients
by the US Food and Drug Administration.
While the Nashoba Brook Bakery might add a
dash of X to their culinary creations, an
extensive letter from federal officials has
asked them to lose the offending element
from their ingredients lists.
According to the FDA: “’X’ is not a common or
usual name of an ingredient, and is
considered to be intervening material.”
What is X?

20. Netflix Inc , the popular internet entertainment
service, is going to have its first Netflix kids original
series from India X.
The series name will be an English translation of X.
Name X.

23. Rapper B o B put up the following request
in GoFundMe campaign.
“Help support B.o.B purchase and launch
multiple weather balloons and satellites
into space, for experimental exploration.
He's donated 1k to the cause to get it
going, and will be keeping you updated
with step-by-step documentation of the
process!
Help B.o.B find the curve!”
What exactly B o B want to find out?

26. Suyash Dixit , India and Jeremiah Heaton, USA made
news recently for similar reasons.
What made them famous?

28. Both declared ownership on Bir Tawil, an unclaimed
territory on Egypt-Sudan border in Africa

29. Geoffrey Kendal was an English actor-
manager who delivered performances
throughout India in the 1940s and
1950s.
His shows were based on dramas of X .
His troupe name, His autobiography
and a film on him by Merchant Ivory
production are connected to X.
Identify X.

32. Sylvester Stallone recently wrote in
Instagram :
“I actually get excited in my heart
whenever young artists get a rare
opportunity to reach for the stars!
Eye of the Tiger!
I am sure he will put his heart and
soul into it…”.
To whom was the message
addressed to ?

34. Tiger Shroff who is going to play Rambo
in the Indian Version

35. X is a Punjabi-language romantic
comedy block buster directed by
Anurag Singh .
The film also spawned a sequel titled X
2 which also broke records at the box
office, and ended up becoming the
highest-grossing Punjabi film ever.
Name the movie X (two words) which
used the title of a very famous romantic
fictional work but altered it a little.

38. As one of the most ubiquitous and useful pieces of equipment on a film
set, X are used for anything that needs to be propped up or supported
temporarily. They can be used to prop up furniture and light stands, for
levelling camera dolly track, or to provide temporary seats, workbenches,
or stepladders.
Often the need arises to make an actor appear taller, either because of
their height, or to fit with the composition of a particular shot. In this use
X are jokingly referred to as "man makers".
Rajnikanth’s daughter Aiswarya have used this word in the title of her
recent book.
What is X?

41. The January 2017 witnessed Women's
Marches as a worldwide protest
mainly aimed at Donald Trump,
immediately following his
inauguration as President of the
United States.
Among the symbols used to show
women power, there was an image
from India in some T shirts.
What image?

44. A Belgian hotel has attracted attention for offering to rent lonely guests X
for €3.50 a night.
The Hotel Charleroi Airport in Gosselies, near Brussels South Cherleroi
Airport, is a four-star property with rooms starting at £69.
The x friend programme caught the imagination of the internet after radio
producer Michelle Cook tweeted a picture of X with The caption : “My
friend is staying in a hotel in Belgium. They've offered her the option of
renting X for the night, in case she's lonely.”
Identify X?

47. ____, How a superhero and
my son defeated cancer, is a
book co written by actor
Emraan Hashmi on his sons
cancer survival.
The first part of the book has
a connection with the
onscreen image of Emraan
Hashmi and it sound similar
to a campaign.
Name it .

50. Puran Das Baul is the most popular Baul
singer alive who travelled across the world
and is a friend of many world famous
musicians.
While felicitating him X told that X himself
would like to be 'the Baul of America’.
Identify the musician X who got into news
in the recent past for being the first one to
achieve something.

53. X called for boycotting IFFI
2017 because of threats
on the crew of the movie
Padmavati.
X used IFFI way back in
1989 to protest the killing
of Safdar Hashmi who was
shot dead while staging
the play Halla Bol.
Name X

56. What is special about the Autorickshaw
48 CD 1 A which runs in New Delhi?

59. Asola-Fatehpur Beri are the twin villages in the southern
outskirts of Delhi which have risen to fame in the past few
years.
The wrestling tradition of the village enabled many
youngsters to get job in Delhi as X.
What is X?

62. Apart from Neeru Deshpande from
Nagpur , few names like Sudha
Murthy of Infosys were said to be
the kid who featured on the cover
of X.
But the Illustration of this girl was
made way back in 1960 by Everest
Creatives.”
Identify X.

65. Malgudi Subha ,the aunt of the
South Indian actress Priyamani is
a playback singer in all South
Indian languages and her latest
Malayalam song is Akale from
Charlie.
However she first got into fame in
1990s through a Magnasound
Album called Set Me Free which
is considered as the first private
album of X.
Name X.

68. The American actor Kate Jackson was cast as Joanna Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
(1979) with Dustin Hoffman but the producers of a tele series she was acting at that
time refused to reorganize the shooting schedule to allow Jackson time off to shoot
the film.
The part of Joanna ultimately went to Meryl Streep, who won an Academy Award for
her performance.
Upset by this situation, Jackson decided to leave the series.
What is the name of this tele series which later became Movies?

71. X is a childlike, bumbling but generally good-hearted character who is most
famously portrayed as a vagrant who endeavours to behave with the
manners and dignity of a gentleman despite his actual social status.
Numerous works cite X as an icon of the Great Depression.
X is always associated with movies of silent era.
In the 1980s, the character was portrayed in advertising for the IBM PC
personal computer.
The cartoon character "Baggy Pants" presents an imitation of X .
Identify X.

74. Who Do You Think You Are? is a genealogy documentary series of BBC .
In each episode, a different celebrity goes on a journey to trace parts of his
or her family tree.
This series got fame in India recently as a person of Indian origin born in
Kenya and raised in Britain went for a journey to find her routes in India
and Kenya.
Identify this person who is a film director of international fame.

77. Lilly Singh is a Canadian
YouTube personality,
vlogger, comedian, author,
and actress who recently
became a UNICEF goodwill
Ambassador.
By what name she is
popularly known?

80. A Twitter user in Japan called @nemuismywife
has been banned from using the social
networking site due to a death threat he issued.
This decision of Twitter was highly ridiculed .
He set up a new Twitter account,
@DaydreamMatcha, to criticise Twitter's
decision.
US business magazine Fortune reported that
Twitter launched an algorithm to detect abusive
behaviour by looking and picking up key
offensive words and that’s why this happened.
Whom was he threatening?

82. Where do you get off biting me
all over while I'm just trying to
relax and watch TV? Die!
(Actually you're already dead)."

83. Noemi Lakmaier is a Wheel chair bound
psychotherapist with a fear of flying.
But to overcome her fear and
cherish her artistic talents, she came
up with a temporary living
installation called Cherophobia
inside the Sydney Opera House in
which she will spend nine hours
being floated aloft .
From which Movie she got this
idea?

86. When Reita Faria won Miss World in 1965,within a
year there were people demanding that her
citizenship be cancelled and there were debates in the
Parliament over the same. What for?

88. As part of her responsibilities, she had to visit and
cheer American troupes at Vietnam which was against
Indian Government’s stand of supporting the
Communists.

89. The Crown theatre of Kozhikode has
always been partial to English Movies and
earlier there used to be Malayalam
Translations of the Movie titles on the
display board.
As per local legend, a literal translation of
a Jules Verne classic’s Movie adaptation
made members of a particular political
party curious and they turned up in huge
number to see what is going on.
Identify the movie and explain the reason

91. The title has been
translated as
“Irupathinayiram
Leaguekar Vellathil”
(20,000 workers of
(Muslim)League under
water)