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"I wanted either an Italian-American or an actor who's so great that he can portray an Italian-American. So, they said, 'Who do you suggest?' I said, 'Lookit, I don't know, but who are the two greatest actors in the world? X and Y. Well, X is English. His face is great.' I said, 'I could see X playing the guy, and putting it on.' [And] Y is my hero of heroes. I'd do anything to just meet him. But he's 47, he's a young, good-looking guy. So, we first inquired about X and they said, ‘X is not taking any jobs. He's very sick. He's gonna die soon and he's not interested.' So, I said, 'Why don't we reach out for Y?'“ The rest, as they say, is history. Identify X and Y.one
This film (Y) was initially distributed with X  because it was the only way that _______ could have been able to make X. The reason being that the original film pitch for that film was rejected, so they pitched a double feature with Y,  and the project was eventually backed financially by the original writer of the book on which Y is based. It often was overlooked as a film because whenever X was screened first, people were left happy and did not wish to be saddened by Y afterward. X and Y please.two
When the nominees for the 53rd Annual Academy Awards were announced, many in the industry were appalled that this movie was not going to be honoured for its make-up effects. At the time there was not regular category and winners for make-up were cited with a special award. Feeling that the make-up technicians deserved to be rewarded for the film, a letter of protest was sent to the Academy's Board of Governors to ask them to change their minds and give the film a special award. The Academy refused, but in response to the outcry, they decided a year later to reward make-up artists with their own annual category, and thus the best make-up award was born. Which movie am I talking about?three
X was written by lifelong bachelor Herman Hupfeld and debuted in the Broadway show "Everybody's Welcome“. It had been a personal favourite of playwright and high school teacher Murray Burnett. After visiting a cafe in south France where a black pianist had entertained a mixed crowd of Nazis, French and refugees, Burnett was inspired to write the melodrama Y, which was optioned for production by Martin Gabel and Carly Wharton, and later, Warners. After the film's release, X stayed on radio's "Hit Parade" for 21 weeks. Max Steiner, in an interview, admitted that X "must have had something to attract so much attention".four
Connect.five
Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere,From yon blue heavens above us bentThe gardener Adam and his wifeSmile at the claims of long descent.Howe’er it be, it seems to me,’Tis only noble to be good.______ are more than ___________,And simple faith than Norman blood.six
There have been over 40 recorded instances of people suffering from the X Delusion in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. Joel Gold, a psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at New York University, and his brother Ian, who holds a research chair in Philosophy and Psychiatry at Montreal's McGill University,are the foremost researchers on the subject. They have met since 2002 with over a dozen individuals, primarily white men between 25 and 34, suffering from the delusion. They have reported that one patient travelled to New York City after 9/11 to make sure that the 2001 terrorist attacks were not a plot twist, while another travelled to a downtown Manhattan Federal building to seek asylum. One of Gold's patients was an upper-middle class Army veteran who wanted to climb the Statue of Liberty in the belief that doing so would release him. seven
X has described in the interview how he came up with the idea while driving from _______ to ________, stopping in ________ where he had been born and raised, and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was actually the idea behind the movie.” Which film?eight
The movie was banned in the Soviet Union (USSR) after being shown in Poland because of the unrealistic depiction that even the poorest Americans could afford a car.nine
X first came up with the idea for his novel Y in 1962, when researching 'The Man in the High Castle' which deals with the Nazis conquering the planet in the 1940s. X had been granted access to archived World War II Gestapo documents in the University of California at Berkley, and had come across diaries written by S.S. men stationed in Poland, which he found almost unreadable in their casual cruelty and lack of human empathy. One sentence in particular troubled him: "We are kept awake at night by the cries of starving children." X was so horrified by this sentence that he reasoned there was obviously something wrong with the man who wrote it. This led him to hypothesize that Nazism in general was a defective group mind, a mind so emotionally flawed that the word human could not be applied to them; their lack of empathy was so pronounced that X reasoned they couldn't be referred to as human beings, even though their outward appearance seemed to indicate that they were human.ten
three movie connections8 questions | 10 points for each correct answer Bonus of +20 if a team gets all correct, +10 if they get 7Each movie is related to the movie in the previous question
Connect these characters to a movie.one
This scene from “Officer and a Gentleman” is directly referred to in the movie X. Name the movie.two
This is a clip from “Wayne’s World”. An actor from the movie X is seen reprising his role of Y in this scene. Name the character or the film.three
     Paul R. Frommer is an American communications professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a linguistics consultant. He is the former Vice President, Special Projects Coordinator, Strategic Planner, and Writer-Researcher at Bentley Industries in Los Angeles, California. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Director of the Centre for Management Communication at the USC Marshall School of Business.     Frommer was born in New York City. Interested in astronomy from an early age, he changed his college major from astrophysics to math, graduating from the University of Rochester with a bachelor of arts in mathematics in 1965. He soon taught English and math in Malaysia in the Malay language with the Peace Corps. He had studied languages earlier, but this experience switched his focus to linguistics. He began a doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Southern California (USC). During the program, he taught English in Iran for a year in the mid-1970s and studied Persian.He earned his masters degree and doctorate in linguistics at USC in 1981 under Bernard Comrie; his doctorate was on aspects of Persian syntax and entitled "Post-verbal Phenomena in Colloquial Persian Syntax".     How is he related to this quiz?four
X was invited by Y to appear as an extra in this film (he is the officer who says "Captain, we have visual"). X wrote about the experience, "I got a custom-made ____________ uniform and my own station on the bridge, where I had lots of buttons and controls. I even got a LINE!!!!" After his death, his pay check of $217.06 from working on the film was donated to charity. Identify X and the film.five
  “The big prize here, however, is the addition of X's Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet. This Geoffrey-Rush-narrated tale of the titular Tourrette syndrome sufferer is a wonderful introduction both to X's sensibilities and to Y's specific tone.” Which film (Y)?six
All along the film there are references to the Bible's Book of Exodus 8:2 "And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with {a} _____", some of the props around the characters are shaped to resemble these numbers and also clocks, weather services and other items refer to these numbers, most notably at the beginning of the contest a man is holding a sign with Exodus 8:2 which is taken away by one of the hosts and also some lines of dialogue include these numbers. Which movie am I talking about?seven
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+15 to each if two.
+10 to each if three.
+7.5 if four.
+6 if five.
+5 if six.
+4 if seven.five modified infinite bounce-II10 questions | 10 points flat| anti-clockwise
The band was named by sticking a pin in  London listings magazine, Time Out. It landed randomly on an advertisement of the film X.one
Alien hand syndrome (also known as anarchic hand or X syndrome) is a neurological disorder in which one of the hands of people who have it appears to take on a mind of its own. Alien hand syndrome is best documented in cases where a person has had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated, a procedure sometimes used to relieve the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy. It also occurs in some cases after other brain surgery, strokes, or infections. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen who identified it named it X Syndrome. According to Professor Sergio Della Sala, the patients "slam their hand and shout 'My hand does things that I don't want it to do!'" two

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    imdbDanish | Manan|Pranjal | Siddhartha top 250 quiz
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    simpsons movie references| modified infinite bounce -Iroundsmovie connections | movie references| modified infinite bounce - II
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    one simpsons moviereferences 6 video clips | differential scoring
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    +10 to eachif three.
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    +4 if seven.twomodified infinite bounce-I10 questions | 10 points flat| clockwise
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    "I wanted eitheran Italian-American or an actor who's so great that he can portray an Italian-American. So, they said, 'Who do you suggest?' I said, 'Lookit, I don't know, but who are the two greatest actors in the world? X and Y. Well, X is English. His face is great.' I said, 'I could see X playing the guy, and putting it on.' [And] Y is my hero of heroes. I'd do anything to just meet him. But he's 47, he's a young, good-looking guy. So, we first inquired about X and they said, ‘X is not taking any jobs. He's very sick. He's gonna die soon and he's not interested.' So, I said, 'Why don't we reach out for Y?'“ The rest, as they say, is history. Identify X and Y.one
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    This film (Y)was initially distributed with X because it was the only way that _______ could have been able to make X. The reason being that the original film pitch for that film was rejected, so they pitched a double feature with Y, and the project was eventually backed financially by the original writer of the book on which Y is based. It often was overlooked as a film because whenever X was screened first, people were left happy and did not wish to be saddened by Y afterward. X and Y please.two
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    When the nomineesfor the 53rd Annual Academy Awards were announced, many in the industry were appalled that this movie was not going to be honoured for its make-up effects. At the time there was not regular category and winners for make-up were cited with a special award. Feeling that the make-up technicians deserved to be rewarded for the film, a letter of protest was sent to the Academy's Board of Governors to ask them to change their minds and give the film a special award. The Academy refused, but in response to the outcry, they decided a year later to reward make-up artists with their own annual category, and thus the best make-up award was born. Which movie am I talking about?three
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    X was writtenby lifelong bachelor Herman Hupfeld and debuted in the Broadway show "Everybody's Welcome“. It had been a personal favourite of playwright and high school teacher Murray Burnett. After visiting a cafe in south France where a black pianist had entertained a mixed crowd of Nazis, French and refugees, Burnett was inspired to write the melodrama Y, which was optioned for production by Martin Gabel and Carly Wharton, and later, Warners. After the film's release, X stayed on radio's "Hit Parade" for 21 weeks. Max Steiner, in an interview, admitted that X "must have had something to attract so much attention".four
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    Trust me, ClaraVere de Vere,From yon blue heavens above us bentThe gardener Adam and his wifeSmile at the claims of long descent.Howe’er it be, it seems to me,’Tis only noble to be good.______ are more than ___________,And simple faith than Norman blood.six
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    There have beenover 40 recorded instances of people suffering from the X Delusion in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. Joel Gold, a psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at New York University, and his brother Ian, who holds a research chair in Philosophy and Psychiatry at Montreal's McGill University,are the foremost researchers on the subject. They have met since 2002 with over a dozen individuals, primarily white men between 25 and 34, suffering from the delusion. They have reported that one patient travelled to New York City after 9/11 to make sure that the 2001 terrorist attacks were not a plot twist, while another travelled to a downtown Manhattan Federal building to seek asylum. One of Gold's patients was an upper-middle class Army veteran who wanted to climb the Statue of Liberty in the belief that doing so would release him. seven
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    X has described inthe interview how he came up with the idea while driving from _______ to ________, stopping in ________ where he had been born and raised, and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was actually the idea behind the movie.” Which film?eight
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    The movie wasbanned in the Soviet Union (USSR) after being shown in Poland because of the unrealistic depiction that even the poorest Americans could afford a car.nine
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    X first came upwith the idea for his novel Y in 1962, when researching 'The Man in the High Castle' which deals with the Nazis conquering the planet in the 1940s. X had been granted access to archived World War II Gestapo documents in the University of California at Berkley, and had come across diaries written by S.S. men stationed in Poland, which he found almost unreadable in their casual cruelty and lack of human empathy. One sentence in particular troubled him: "We are kept awake at night by the cries of starving children." X was so horrified by this sentence that he reasoned there was obviously something wrong with the man who wrote it. This led him to hypothesize that Nazism in general was a defective group mind, a mind so emotionally flawed that the word human could not be applied to them; their lack of empathy was so pronounced that X reasoned they couldn't be referred to as human beings, even though their outward appearance seemed to indicate that they were human.ten
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    three movie connections8questions | 10 points for each correct answer Bonus of +20 if a team gets all correct, +10 if they get 7Each movie is related to the movie in the previous question
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    This scene from“Officer and a Gentleman” is directly referred to in the movie X. Name the movie.two
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    This is aclip from “Wayne’s World”. An actor from the movie X is seen reprising his role of Y in this scene. Name the character or the film.three
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    Paul R. Frommer is an American communications professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a linguistics consultant. He is the former Vice President, Special Projects Coordinator, Strategic Planner, and Writer-Researcher at Bentley Industries in Los Angeles, California. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Director of the Centre for Management Communication at the USC Marshall School of Business. Frommer was born in New York City. Interested in astronomy from an early age, he changed his college major from astrophysics to math, graduating from the University of Rochester with a bachelor of arts in mathematics in 1965. He soon taught English and math in Malaysia in the Malay language with the Peace Corps. He had studied languages earlier, but this experience switched his focus to linguistics. He began a doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Southern California (USC). During the program, he taught English in Iran for a year in the mid-1970s and studied Persian.He earned his masters degree and doctorate in linguistics at USC in 1981 under Bernard Comrie; his doctorate was on aspects of Persian syntax and entitled "Post-verbal Phenomena in Colloquial Persian Syntax". How is he related to this quiz?four
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    X was invitedby Y to appear as an extra in this film (he is the officer who says "Captain, we have visual"). X wrote about the experience, "I got a custom-made ____________ uniform and my own station on the bridge, where I had lots of buttons and controls. I even got a LINE!!!!" After his death, his pay check of $217.06 from working on the film was donated to charity. Identify X and the film.five
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      “The bigprize here, however, is the addition of X's Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet. This Geoffrey-Rush-narrated tale of the titular Tourrette syndrome sufferer is a wonderful introduction both to X's sensibilities and to Y's specific tone.” Which film (Y)?six
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    All along thefilm there are references to the Bible's Book of Exodus 8:2 "And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with {a} _____", some of the props around the characters are shaped to resemble these numbers and also clocks, weather services and other items refer to these numbers, most notably at the beginning of the contest a man is holding a sign with Exodus 8:2 which is taken away by one of the hosts and also some lines of dialogue include these numbers. Which movie am I talking about?seven
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    The band wasnamed by sticking a pin in  London listings magazine, Time Out. It landed randomly on an advertisement of the film X.one
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    Alien hand syndrome (alsoknown as anarchic hand or X syndrome) is a neurological disorder in which one of the hands of people who have it appears to take on a mind of its own. Alien hand syndrome is best documented in cases where a person has had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated, a procedure sometimes used to relieve the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy. It also occurs in some cases after other brain surgery, strokes, or infections. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen who identified it named it X Syndrome. According to Professor Sergio Della Sala, the patients "slam their hand and shout 'My hand does things that I don't want it to do!'" two