All questions from Filmy Nerd held as part of the LAMP fest by Rangmanch in Nirma University on 11th April, 2012

1. Filmy Nerd
Prelims

2. Quizmasters of the Day
Anmol Garg
Rohan Desai

3. Rules
• 20 questions in the prelims
• Questions 15-20 are starred and would be
used in case of a tie
• 6 teams would qualify for the finals
• Quizmaster’s discretion would be final.
• Use of mobile phones and internet (Googling
etc.) during the prelims is strictly prohibited
and will lead to disqualification.
• Participants are expected to quiz in the spirit
of quizzing
• Audience is requested not to litter the venue
• ALL THE BEST TO EVERYONE!
• Happy Quizzing!

4. Answers

5. 1. He was the South Asia head of the
media division of Reuters before
quitting in 1999 and his directorial
venture was a tribute to Panchamda. Id
this personality who has been in news.

6. Sujoy Ghosh

7. 2.
Identify the movie

9. 3. "is especially impressive in
hindsight. The trio's selection was
arguably one of the best show-
business decisions over the past
decade... they have shown
admirable grace and steadiness in
the face of teen superstardom.“
The above is a comment by LA
Times writer Geoff Bucher about
the casting of which famous trio

11. 4.
Iconic scene of which movie is
being parodied?

13. 5. “Najdiki fayda dekhne
se pehle door ka nuksaan
sochna chahiye”
Famous dialogue from
which movie.

15. 6.
Identify

16. Hrishikesh Mukherjee

17. 7. Which actor got the
Filmfare award for Best actor
along with the Golden Kela
award for Worst actor for the
same role?

18. Shahrukh Khan for his role in My
Name is Khan

19. 8. It was formely held at
the flagship Odeon Cinema
at Leicester Square and
since 2008 have been held
at the Royal Opera House
in London. What?

21. 9.Who is playing the role of
Dr Ratha in the upcoming
reboot The Amazing
Spiderman?

23. 10.

25. 11. Which blockbuster Indian
movie set in the post
independence era revolves
around a race between a tonga
and a bus service and was re
released in colour in 2007?

27. 12. Created by Jordan
Mechner, this video game
franchisee was originally
developed for the Apple II
Computer.
This has now been spawned
to an action film which was
released in 2010.

29. 13. The U.S. and India are accepted as
having the world’s two largest film
industries, referred to as Hollywood
and Bollywood respectively. The third
largest film industry is termed
Nollywood. Which country does it
belong to?

30. Nigeria

31. 14. X formerly worked as a software
engineer for Oracle Version Six and
earned his first National Award for
his song in Kandukondain
Kandukondain. He had a successful
run with the band SILK and in 2010
he started the X Academy to offer
training in Hindustani and Carnatic
Music, Indian folk music and
religious chanting. Id X

33. 15. Identify this Oscar winner.

34. Obaid Chinoy

35. 16. Id the person on the
left

36. Sivaji Ganesan

37. 17.
Identify

39. 18. Named after an Akiro
Kurosawa movie, this method
of story telling relies on
different observers producing
substantially different but
equally plausible accounts of
an event. Which style/effect?

40. Rashomon Effect

41. 19.Which Marathi movie
was selected as India’s
official entry to the
Academy Awards in the
category of Best Foreign
Film in 2009?

43. 20.

46. Filmy Nerd Finals

47. ROUND 1

48. RULES
• 6 questions based on minimalist posters.
• Teams have to write down the answer on
the sheet of paper that they are provided
with.
• Teams will exchange answer sheets at the
end of the round
• +5 for every correct answer. No negative
marking.
• Audience is requested to be patient
enough to wait for their turn
• Quizmaster’s decision is final

49. 1.

50. 2.

51. 3.

52. 4.

53. 5.

54. 6.

55. ANSWERS

62. ONE FOR THE AUDIENCE

63. Round 2

64. Rules
• 12 questions on infinite bounce
• +10 for every right answer
• No negative marking
• Part points on Quizmaster’s
discretion
• Audience is requested to be patient
enough to wait for their turn.
• Quizmaster’s discretion is final

65. 1. Which movie’s title
sequence depicts the inside
of the narrators’ brain at a
microscopic level and the
movie itself is seen as a critic
of the consumerist culture?

68. 2. This novel written by a
Washington Post Columnist
David Ignatius was originally
titled Penetration and was
renamed as _______ after
Warner Bros bought its rights.

71. 3. Probably one of the most expensive songs
ever made, the lyrics of this song were
rewritten 105 times by the lyricist Shakeel
Badayuni until they were approved by
Naushad. Shot in a part of the Lahore Fort,
this song was recorded in a studio bathroom
to get the desired reverberation. Which
legendary song is being discussed?

74. 4. The screenplay of this movie was
written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford
Coppolla. Its name is a question by
Adolf Hitler to his chief of staff and the
movie is based on a bestselling book by
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. Id
the movie.

77. 5.Listed by the Times Magazine as one of the
greatest Indian movies of all time, this movie
has been immensely popular in Turkey,
Afghanistan, Romania, China etc. Said to be
one of the favourite movies of Chairman Mao
due to the socialist theme in it, it was
referenced in the Chinese movie The
Platform and was remade as Avare in Turkey
in 1964. Identify the movie.

80. 6

83. 7. Which movie was based on the
1961 Hungarian film drama Két
félidő a pokolban ("Two half-times in
Hell") and was supposedly inspired
by the true story of a Death Match
involving the players of Dynamo
Kiev?

86. 8. Each week, Pierre and his friends
organise what is called as ‘un diner de
cons’ . He brings a ‘special guest’ Francois
Pignon for their humor, but everything
instead goes haywire. This particular 1998
movie was remade into which bollywood
movie in 2007?

89. 9. Who are they and why are
they dressed like this?

91. Peter Jackson and Steven
Spielberg, Producer and
Director of The Adventures of
Tintin, dressed as Thomson
and Thompson!

92. 10. This movie was originally supposed to be an Indo
American co-production to be simultaneously shot in
both Hindi and English and was envisaged after the
American director Tad Danielewski and Pearl S buck
approached Dev Anand. Due to differences in
opinion Dev Anand postponed the Hindi version
which eventually went on to become one of the
masterpieces of Bollywood. Identify this movie.

95. 11. The title of the movie in English is
‘Song of the Little Road’ and the movie
never had a complete script, instead
relying on the drawings and notes of
the director. The movie was partly
financed by the West Bengal
Government and the loan was given on
record for road improvement. About
which movie are we talking about?

98. 12. He is associated with creating the
masala genre in Bollywood. His
directional venture was the movie
Chhalia in 1960 and his father was the
owner of Paramount Studios later
known as Filmalaya. Identify this very
famous Indian director.

101. Audience Question

102. CONNECT
Round 3

103. 1.

105. Movies based on novels by
John Grisham

106. 2.

109. 3.

112. 4.

114. Roles played by Andy Serkis
using Motion Capture
Technology

115. 5.

117. Movies which won the Oscar
for Best Foreign Language
Film when Hindi
language/Indian movies
were nominated

118. 6.

120. Real life roles played by
Leonardo DiCaprio

121. Audience Question
Orbis non
sufficit

124. Round 4

125. 1. X is a nickname given to broad sub genre
of Western films which emerged in 1960s. It
was a unique style of Sergio Leone and very
much copied film making style bringing huge
commercial success. The nickname was
given by American critics because most of
the movies were produced and directed by
Italians. Id X

127. Sphagetti Western

128. 2. As a movie student, George Lucas was choosen by
Columbia pictures to shoot short behind the scene
documentaries on the making of this Western in
1967. Lucas was actually on location in Utah for the
shooting of this movie. He released a documentary
version called 6-18-67, which was the day the
shooting of this movie finished. This movie would
later be an influence on another famous epic
adventure. Name the movie

131. 3.

134. 4. X was initially named Jadoo, which was
taken from a line in a poem by his father,
"Lamba, lamba kisi jadoo ka fasana hoga”. He
was given his present name because it was the
closest to the word Jadoo. Identify X who
received the Awadh Ratan from the UP
Government in 2001 and won the Padma
Bhushan in 2007.

137. 5. Video

139. James Bond!!
American ornithologist, whose
name was supposedly the
inspiration for Ian Flemings’
fictional British spy

140. 6. The title of this movie is taken from a
Katherine Mayo book and its script was
reviewed by the Indian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Indian Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting on suspicions of causing harm to
the national interest. The film is actually a
remake of a 1940 movie by the same director
and has been remade in Telugu and Tamil. Id
this movie

143. 7. He won the Golden Globe for Best
Actor for Camelot in 1968. He also has
a Grammy to his name for his
album Jonathan Livingston Seagull .
Mickie Rourke dedicated his BAFTA
best actor award to him. What was his
last contribution to the world of
entertainment?

146. 8. During the 1950s his tunes were
banned by AIR as they found it too
trendy and hence Radio Ceylon was the
only source of his songs leading to a rise
in popularity of the radio channel. He
was infamous for never working with
Lata Mangeshkar and some of his
famous compositions include Yeh Desh
Hai Veer Jawano Ka and Kajra
Mohabbatwala. Id this great

149. 9. Several things made this multi-
Oscar nominated film's production
different from its peers. One such
aspect was that instead of shooting at
the now traditional rate of 24 frames
per second, the film was shot at a
slightly slower rate, at 22 frames
second. This deliberate choice was
made to evoke the period the film is
set in. Which film are we talking
about?

152. 10. ‘No man's life can be
encompassed in one telling. There is
no way to give each year its allotted
weight, to include each event, each
person who helped to shape a
lifetime. What can be done is to be
faithful in spirit to the record and to
try to find one's way to the heart of
the man…’
Which movie begins with this
statement from the filmmakers?

155. 11. Born
in Bijnaur, UP, he made his debut as a
director in 1968 with the Shashi Kapoor
movie Haseena Maan Jaayegi. After a
series of movies like Aakhri Daku and Mela,
he is remembered for his landmark 70‘s
movie, that launched a new trend in Indian
movies, and was based on the Hollywood
movie Death Rides a Horse. Name either the
director or the movie in question.

158. 12. Video

160. Vyajayanthimala from the movie
Amrapali

161. Audience Question

164. Visual Connect

165. Rules
• Last round of the quiz!!!!
• 6 visuals having a common
theme between them .
• Points for the connect/theme
will be indicated on the slide of
the respective visual.
• No points for the individual
images
• Quizmaster’s discretion is final

166. +40/-20

167. +30/-15

168. +25/-15

169. +20/-10

170. +10/-5

171. +5

172. Answer

179. Connect is James Cameron

181. Criticism/Appreciation for content
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