This document contains details about a theatre and cinema quiz being organized jointly by a Shakespeare society, Cine club, and Quiz club. It provides 24 questions across 4 rounds with 6 questions each. The rules specify that teams get 20 seconds to answer before the question is passed on. Scoring details are also provided. The document then lists 20 multiple choice questions related to movies, plays, and personalities from theatre and cinema. It concludes by thanking the organizers and reminding participants to stay safe.

1. A Theatre and Cinema Quiz
All the World’s a Stage
Shakespeare society in collaboration with
The the Cine club and the Quiz club

2. A SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Agastya Pulapaka
Avishi Gupta
Callistine Jude Lewis
Lael John
Sagarika Chaudhary
Shania Mathew
Sharon Alex
Shayanak Kundu
Suprabath Reddy
Suyog Raghuvanshi
Sumayya Shamsudeen

3. RULES
● The set has 24 questions and it will be conducted in 4
rounds with 6 questions each.
● Each round will have one question for each team.
● A pounce window of 20 seconds will be open for all teams
before the team to whom the question has been posed can
answer.
● If the team to whom the question has been posed is unable to
answer, question will be passed to subsequent teams, if and
when answered, bounce points will be awarded.

4. SCORING
Pounce +10 /-5
Direct +10/0
Bounce +10/0

5. Question- 1
X is a movie from the late 2010s. This Hollywood blockbuster
was first of its kind to be released in the 21st century. A similar
movie was released 25 years ago before the the release of X, in
the 1990s. In one of the scenes of X, the actors play a certain game, which
was originally not the part of the piece of work X is adapted from, and was in
fact included by the movie makers to pay tribute to this 90s movie. One of
the actors who played a matriarchal role in X, also appeared in the other
movie.
Identify X and its significance, keeping in mind the recent
socio-cultural mishappenings in North America,
yet again a consequence of the coronavirus outbreak.

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7. Answer-1
X - Crazy Rich Asians;
It is the first Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast after Joy Luck
Club(1993)

8. Question - 2
Referenced in a monumental work in the field, there’s a certain
joke very particularly mentioned by the principal narrator in the work. The
joke revolves around a man who ends up going to a therapist, saying he’s
depressed, and who when told to go watch the great clown Pagliacci, replies,
“But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!” This short sad joke is echoed in real life as
well, with a famous personality who played among other things: a therapist, a
teacher and a doctor.
ID the personality, and the monumental work which was
tangentially related to a March 2021 release

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10. Answer - 2
Robin Williams and The Watchmen

11. Question - 3
A Dolly Zoom, or Zolly Shot, also known as an X shot or a Y shot, was first
conceived by Irmin Roberts, while he was working on the film X, directed by
Y. The technique itself is essentially used to represent the sensation of X, a
feeling of unreality that may cause the character to reassess everything they
know.
ID X and Y

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13. Answer - 3
X - Vertigo
Y - Hitchcock

14. Question - 4
Using a blue screen to edit them into the shot later, stand-ins during the
numerous wide shots during the films, forced perspective shots, and at one
failed point, stilts, are explanations provided by a lead actor for what visual
feat of the early 2000s?

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16. Answer - 4
Hobbits being tiny in the Lord of the Rings

17. Question - 5
The mid 2010s saw a sharp increase (almost 32%) increase in the
tourism of Y, specifically from India, due to X. Multiple travel agencies and
tour companies have designed custom made holidays and adventures
packages to entice further visitors to the country, perhaps to emulate the story
of X. The effect was so prevalent that some colleges in Y even use X as a
marketing case study.
ID X and Y

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19. Answer - 5
X - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Y - Spain

20. Question - 6
_______ was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. It
was later adapted into a TV show, premiered three years later. Although the
show has been a success, bagging multiple Emmy Awards, the play
adaptation of _______ is also performed from time to time, though as a solo
performance. The off Broadway and the West End have also been a host to
this play. A newspaper reviewed the stage production as a blend of Virginia
Woolf and Amy Schumer. The creator of _______ revealed that _______ was
their family nickname. They also said that there was a deeper meaning behind
the name because a _______ motel is something that's a bit rough
around the edges, something which is a characteristic of this
unconventional protagonist.

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22. Answer - 6
Fleabag

23. Question - 7
While the original script of this movie had a beloved character
dying of cancer, the part was deleted as a result of improvisation, a common
occurrence during the shooting of the film. The young actors were all made to
live together in real life as was in the movie which is interestingly, semi-
autobiographical. What is a lesser known fact is that it was set to turn into a
musical titled The Sultans of Strut. What movie is being talked about?

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25. Answer - 7
Dead Poets Society

26. Question - 8
After the success of their first film in the Sci-fi category , X wrote
a script for another film in the same category called Night Skies. But his new
vision was dark and threatening and reportedly was influenced by a real-life
incident.
However as the film went into pre-production, X had second thoughts about
the dark concept and decided to go in the completely opposite direction, one
that offered a more hopeful view of an ______ encounter and made the film
Y. Later X repurposed the original concept of family in distress in his script
for another successful film Z.
Identify Y and Z.

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28. Answer- 8
Y - ET
Z - Poltergeist

29. Question - 9
___________ is a 2010s movie, a critical and commercial success. It was
first adapted into a play in 1980 in the native language, then in English in
1985. In the movie, three female characters, A, B, and C, stand out because of their
poignant lives. The actress who played A was also considered for the role of B, but
she found herself too old to be B, and eventually played A, the role for which she
bagged an Academy award.
B was A's daughter. B was played by an actress who shot to fame playing a bimbo in a
cult classic. This actress is also nominated for an Academy award this year.
Speculations were made of Taylor Swift being selected for the role of C, but it was
finally played by the person who portrayed C in a theatrical adaptation of ________ in
2010. This was the actress's debut movie role.
ID the blank.

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31. Answer - 9
Les Miserables

32. Question - 10
In 1961, X gave an interview with Life magazine, where he named
Y as one of his top ten favorite novels at the time. This spurred the creators of
a certain series to begin working on adapting Y as its second instalment,
expecting it to attract large audiences in the US due to both X and its
otherwise relevant themes for the time(which had to be slightly altered in the
film to avoid further political controversy) . The creators were right, and it
was one of the most popular films of late 1963, also holding an interesting
record with respect to the life of X.
Name Y, and give the relevance it has in X's life

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34. Answer - 10
Y - From Russia with Love
Relevance - it was the last movie JFK saw before he died

35. Question - 11
X was an acclaimed author who wrote in a regional Indian language.
His works have been adapted into over 50 films. P is one of X's work which has
inspired more than 20 movies and shows, making it one of the most adapted non-epics
in India. The 1950s Hindi adaptation is considered a classic, while the early 2000s
version was premiered at Cannes. The latter was also enlisted in Times 10 great
movies of the millennium in 2012.
X's another work, Q, has also been adapted into several languages, two of them in
Hindi. The older version starred the legendary Meena Kumari, while the 2005
adaptation marked the film debut of one of the prominent actresses of our times, who
previously starred in a 90s ZeeTV sitcom.
Both P and Q are set in the same region of the country and are named after
the protagonists who face problems in their love lives.
ID P and X.

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37. Answer - 11
P - Devdas
X - SC Chattopadhyay
Q - Parineeta

38. Question - 12
A Reddit post from a few years back compares Hamilton and the rise of X,
whose theatrical works have been the phenomena that have swept the
Hollywood scene by storm to someone from the Indian subcontinent (Y), who
also engages in such musical productions, and most notably starred as a side
character in the most classic films about “love”. Y has also been the
secondary subject of an infamous grilling, one that shot a certain comedic
group to fame. In the end, when you think about it, X is just a Puerto Rican Y,
given the music, dance and general drama in their works.
ID X and Y

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40. Answer - 12
X - KJo
Y - Lin Manuel Miranda

41. Question - 13
On May 5, 2018, NASA launched a stationary lander called InSight to Mars.
Riding along with InSight were two CubeSats -- the first of this kind of
spacecraft to fly to deep space. Both MarCO-A and MarCO-B succeeded in a
flyby of Mars, relaying data to Earth from Insight as it landed on Mars.
Both the MarCOs had nicknames given by NASA, ones which highlight their
relationship as paired spacecraft.
What are the nicknames?

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43. Answer - 13
Wall - E and Eve

44. Question - 14
X is a musical comedy which saw Y, a well established actress, venture into
the world of music, albeit briefly, for despite having a great voice, Y refuses
to pursue a career in music off screen. Y also sang an alternate version of an
Academy Award nominated song from the movie X which originally features
Adam Levine and is quite integral to the plot of the film. The song later
featured on Maroon 5's 5th studio album. X is incidentally also the name of a
song off of Taylor Swift's Grammy nominated 4th studio album Red.
ID X and Y.

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46. Answer - 14
X - Begin Again
Y - Keira Knightley

47. Question - 15
The film X is a semi-autobiographical account and was released in
1988. It has the characteristics of Roman and Greek theatrical stock characters
and how their story usually turns out. The two actors playing protagonists Y
and Z come from two factions of the same industry. One of Y's most
recognisable character loves the Heathrow Airport, another help his best
friend's wife cheat on him, while yet another uses the phrase "oopsy daisy". Z,
on the other hand, is part of a TV series named after a bland food item where
she tires easily. ID the variables.

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49. Answer - 15
X - The Bengali Night
Y - Hugh Grant
Z - Supriya Pathak Kapoor

50. Question - 16
The Bengali Night was based on the novel La Nuit Bengali, in
which a European man falls for his boss's daughter when he comes to stay
with them. In response to the novel, Maitreyi Devi, upon whom the daughter's
character was based, wrote a novel Na Hanyate in Bengali, telling her version
of the story. The novel was later adapted into a late 1990s movie, although the
movie maker never gave it the credits. This movie starred X and Y in lead
roles, who were also dating in real life. One won't consider X very deerly
when talking about wildlife conservation. Y is a former pageant queen,
known for shutting up David Letterman on his show.
ID the variables and the movie.

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52. Answer - 16
X - Salman Khan
Y - Aishwarya Rai
Movie - Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

53. Question - 17
While there hasn't been an exact explanation as to why the
creative team behind this film chose X as one of the main parts of its score, a
common theory was that it was a reference to Y having an important role in
the film, since Y had starred as the singer of this song just about 3 years
before the release of this film, and the song itself is very fitting with the
general mood of the scene. The composer, however, has gone on record to say
that it was quite the opposite. The decision to use the song as a primary
element of the score was taken long before Y was brought on, and in fact the
casting of Y almost dissuaded them from using it.
ID the variables.

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55. Answer - 17
X - je ne regrette rien
Y - Marion Cotillard movie - inception

56. Question - 18
ID the movie

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58. Answer - 18
The Platform

59. Question - 19
Which 2019 film is this referring to?

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61. Answer - 19
Midsommar

62. Question - 20
The 1966 film The Silencers is a spoof espionage film
centred around Dean Martin's character, Matt Helm. In the film,
there's a scene with Helm is with a cadre of beautiful women, and a certain
caption appears on screen regarding the next time we will see Helm.
With this scene, The Silencers became the first to do something, something
which is now almost synonymous with a 21st century film franchise.
What was special about this scene?

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64. Answer - 20
First post-credits scene for a movie running in a theatre

65. Question - 21
"He welcomed me with a smile and without wasting a minute, he inquired
about the various genres of theatres in which the __________ plays were being
enacted. I knew that he had knowledge of Kathakali dance-dramas and he was more
interested in regional language plays and traditional theatre forms like Purulia Chhau
dances. The preliminaries were worked out. He used the Purulia Chhau for Ganesha in
his opening of the play."
Above is an excerpt from an article by Historian Sunil Kothari, describing his meeting
with X, when the latter traveled across India, preparing to direct __________.
The play premiered in France in 1980s and was later released as a 6
hour long TV film, four years later. The cast comprised actors from
multiple nations and of different ethnicities, surprisingly the only
Indian being the daughter of a renowned Indian scientist and an
acclaimed Bharatnatyam dancer. ID the blank and X.

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67. Answer - 21
Blank - Mahabharata
X - Peter Brooke

68. Question - 22
"I try to tell you a story using eye-protein and not eye-candy"
Most of Q's filmography lays huge emphasis on visual imagery and motifs to
rework the horror, fantasy and gothic romance genre. Given below is an
excerpt from Q's sketchbook where the seeds of his Hollywood blockbusters
are found. The sketchbook can be seen as the starting point to his creations.
Who is Q?

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70. Answer - 22
Guillermo

71. Question - 23
One of the most important characters in the show X tends to go
unnoticed. Being one of the first characters to die, they take a backseat for
most of the rest of the play, only to come to the forefront during particular
moments, such as shaking hands with the titular characters revolutionary best
friend/speculated lover moments before he embarks on a mission, flirting with
the titular character's son just before he sets off to bring a man who
dishonoured his father to justice, and perhaps most prominently, the titular
character himself towards the end of the show.
Which show is being talked about, and what does the
character signify ? (her name itself is essentially what links
all these scenes together, considering what she signifies)

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73. Answer - 23
Death in Hamilton (the 'bullet')

74. Question - 24
The following is an ad released by the Lincoln Project in
October 2020, around a particular time of difficulty for the man in this
video. The song in the ad is an obvious parody of a piece from the musical X,
and the title of the video is a play on X, with a certain (relevant to the time)
edit made. What is the name of the video?

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76. Answer - 24
Covita

77. THANK YOU!