MASALA (Prelims) - NSIT QUIZ FEST 2016

1. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB MASALA Prelims

2. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q1. • X is a 1972 Bollywood comedy film produced by C.Mohan on Balaji Kala Mandir banner, directed by Aspi Irani. The film is basically a tale of a clash of ideologies - whether might is right or right is might. • This is how the story goes in the kingdom of Sabzbag , lusty womanizer, Capt. Kishore, wants a gypsy dancer for himself, and is ready to kill anyone who tries to get in the way. But his plans are foiled when the woman kills herself, leaving behind an injured father, the head of the gypsies, and a younger sister by the name of Jugnu. Jugnu swears to avenge her sister's death, and seeks training from Robert Taylor, and becomes an expert in weapons and fist-fighting. She assumes the guise of a masked male and calls herself X, and inflicts terror in Capt. Kishore's life and army. But X's attempts to kill Kishore are foiled when she is captured, just to be saved by another masked man. • ID X. • (There is also another 2005 movie by the same name)

3. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q2. • This is a still from “Major Chandrakanth”, a 1966 Tamil film by K.Balachander. The man in the middle, the actor Sunderrajan who played the title role, is even today called ‘Major’ Sunderrajan. • The actor on the left is A.V.M.Rajan, who plays the Major’s son and a negative character. • How was his character’s name reused a few years later? • <pic in next slide>

4. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB

5. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q3. • Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates a triad, and a police officer who is secretly working for the triad. • The film had been selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. • Interestingly, when the movie was remade in 2006, it was so well received that it received multiple awards – including the Academy Award for Best Picture. • Simply identify the remake.

6. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q4. Connect

7. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q5. • X is a 2006 dystopian political thriller about an alternate future where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom. • The unique aspect of this film is an insane detail hidden in almost every frame of the film. • (Photos on next slide) • Id X and the unique element.

10. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q7. Id the chord which is used in many forms of contemporary popular music, including Jazz, funk, R&B, hip hop, rock and pop. The chord is also sometimes colloquially known, among pop and rock guitarists, as _______ , nicknamed for one of the greatest guitarists.

11. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q8. • Nights of Cabiria is a Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier and Amedeo Nazzari. Based on a story by Fellini himself, the film is about a prostitute in Rome who searches for true love in vain. • The film won an academy award for Best Foreign Language Film edging out its nearest competitor by a single vote. And to add to the drama, the director of the latter, shocked by his unexpected loss, had a heart attack. When the news came back to the director’s homeland, various theories started making rounds as to why the film had lost out. • Id film and the director

12. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q9. • Id the song which it was supposedly copied from and the artist/band. • Give the name of the Hindi version as well.

13. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q10. Connect this in-exhaustive list and fill in the blank Three days of the Condor(1975) Buffalo ’66 (1998) Out of Sight(1998) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000) King Kong(2005) Labor Day (2013) ___________ (2014)

14. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q11. Say the name of the scriptwriter.

15. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q12. • _____ __ ______ is a song by Neha Kakkar feat. Harshit Tomar. It was released in response to another song, X, that talks about the shallowness of human relationships. • The song, with around 55,000 plays on Spotify (a high number for songs in this language) and 16.8 million views on YouTube, describes a condition where relationships are driven only by monetary ambitions. • ID X.

16. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q13. • Bricksburg • Cloud Cuckoo Land • Old West • Middle Zealand • Infinite Abyss of Nothingness • The Think Tank

17. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q14. These are the first 25 seconds of which iconic music video?

18. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • According to Y, the writer of the 1945 book X, it is a book that reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then onto the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. A democratic socialist, Y was extremely critical of Stalin and believed that Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship. X features a group of animals who rebel against their owners and create a seemingly utopian world with no masters. This, however, changes by the end of the book. Its release was delayed as the WW2 had just ended and the British were not willing to risk their friendship with the Russians. It also inspired Pink Floyd’s album Animals. Q15.

19. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q16. • Jim Sarbh has featured in Death of a Salesman with Alyque Padamsee, The Living Room with Kalki Koechlin and in Rajat Kapur’s production of Tennesse William’s The Glass Menagerie. He also recently featured in a Rajasthan tourism advertisement. • Trained as a psychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, the Mumbai-born Parsi took up acting after he moved to Mumbai. • Where have we seen him recently?

20. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q17. • The piracy group behind the illegal release of ____’s latest movie X, has apologised for leaking the western on to the web for free before it hit US cinemas. • “Sorry to disappoint – but there was no hack or any such thing,” the group said. “We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. We were definitely not the only ones. Couple other movies have been on the net days before, not done from us. So we wanted to share this movie with the people who are not rich enough or not able to watch all nominated movies in the cinema. We actually think this has created a new type of media hype … because everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to see the movie that created so much noise. This will push the cinema tickets sale for sure … We really hope this helped out the producers in the long run.”

21. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q18. Gimme the Tech

22. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q19. • Fresh out of film school, X was at the Academy Awards in 1979 when his documentary short about child slum dwellers in Mumbai, India, "An Encounter With Faces," was nominated for an Oscar. • "I was too poor to rent a tuxedo," recalled X in Los Angeles. "They said I could wear national dress. All I had was kurta. I sat next to Jane Fonda in my pajamas. I was brash enough to think I'd win, that I'd made the best movie ever.“ • He didn't win, but he was hoping that the nomination and recognition would pave the way for him in Hollywood. That didn't happen. So he took a different route. • He returned to India and made a string of highly popular Bollywood movies. Two of these broke box office records in India.

23. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q20.Kip Thorne is the professor of Physics at Caltech. What is his claim to fame?

24. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • When Mike Judge, creator of Office Space and Beavis & Butt-head, set out to write this series, X. • He wanted to conceive a simple, believable widget for his characters to invent. • So he teamed with Stanford electrical engineering professor Tsachy ___________ and Ph.D. student Vinith Misra. • It is basically a metric in comparing the compression rates of applications called the Y, which did not exist before the show's run. Q21.

25. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q22.Which comic book is being referenced here?

26. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q23. • The phrase made its first pop appearance on a season 1 episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. "The Blackout" in which Joey tells Ross that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel anymore. – Joey: It's never gonna happen. Ross: What? Joey: You and Rachel. Ross: Wha... whatta... What? Why not? Joey: Because you waited too long to make your move, and now you're in the __________ _______. Ross: No, no, no. I'm not in the ____. Joey: Ross, you're mayor of the ____. • Just tell me what this much-hated term is?

27. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q24. Id the other person

28. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q25. What do you better know this place for?

30. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Answers

31. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q1. • X is a 1972 Bollywood comedy film produced by C.Mohan on Balaji Kala Mandir banner, directed by Aspi Irani. The film is basically a tale of a clash of ideologies - whether might is right or right is might. • This is how the story goes in the kingdom of Sabzbag , lusty womanizer, Capt. Kishore, wants a gypsy dancer for himself, and is ready to kill anyone who tries to get in the way. But his plans are foiled when the woman kills herself, leaving behind an injured father, the head of the gypsies, and a younger sister by the name of Jugnu. Jugnu swears to avenge her sister's death, and seeks training from Robert Taylor, and becomes an expert in weapons and fist-fighting. She assumes the guise of a masked male and calls herself X, and inflicts terror in Capt. Kishore's life and army. But X's attempts to kill Kishore are foiled when she is captured, just to be saved by another masked man. • ID X. • (There is also another 2005 movie by the same name)

32. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Garam Masala

33. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q2. • This is a still from “Major Chandrakanth”, a 1966 Tamil film by K.Balachander. The man in the middle, the actor Sunderrajan who played the title role, is even today called ‘Major’ Sunderrajan. • The actor on the left is A.V.M.Rajan, who plays the Major’s son and a negative character. • How was his character’s name reused a few years later? • <pic in next slide>

35. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • The actor Shivaji Rao was given the name “Rajinikanth” by K.Balachander from this character’s name.

36. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q3. • Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates a triad, and a police officer who is secretly working for the triad. • The film had been selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. • Interestingly, when the movie was remade in 2006, it was so well received that it received multiple awards – including the Academy Award for Best Picture. • Simply identify the remake.

37. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • The Departed

39. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Kishore Kumar’s wives • Madhubala • Leena Chandavarkar • Yogeeta Bali • Ruma Guha Thakurta

40. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q5. • X is a 2006 dystopian political thriller about an alternate future where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom. • The unique aspect of this film is an insane detail hidden in almost every frame of the film. • (Photos on next slide) • Id X and the unique element.

42. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB V for Vendetta The letter ‘V’ and the number 5 present in almost every frame.

44. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Puneet Issar

45. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q7 Id this chord which is used in many forms of contemporary popular music, including Jazz, funk, R&B, hip hop, rock and pop. The chord is also sometimes colloquially known, among pop and rock guitarists, as _______ , nicknamed for one of the greatest guitarists.

46. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Hendrix Chord (Named after Jimi Hendrix)

47. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q8. • Nights of Cabiria is a Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier and Amedeo Nazzari. Based on a story by Fellini himself, the film is about a prostitute in Rome who searches for true love in vain. • The film won an academy award for Best Foreign Language Film edging out its nearest competitor by a single vote. And to add to the drama, the director of the latter, shocked by his unexpected loss, had a heart attack. When the news came back to the director’s homeland, various theories started making rounds as to why the film had lost out. • Id film and the director

48. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Mother India by Mehboob Khan

49. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q9. • Id the song which it was supposedly copied from and the artist/band. • Give the name of the Hindi version as well.

50. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • “Under Pressure” by Queen & David Bowie • Thanda Thanda Pani

51. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q10. Connect this in-exhaustive list and fill in the blank Three days of the Condor(1975) Buffalo ’66 (1998) Out of Sight(1998) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000) King Kong(2005) Labor Day (2013) ___________ (2014)

52. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Movies based on the Stockholm Syndrome. Highway.

53. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q11. Say the name of the scriptwriter.

54. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Vince Gilligan

55. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q12. • _____ __ ______ is a song by Neha Kakkar feat. Harshit Tomar. It was released in response to another song, X, that talks about the shallowness of human relationships. • The song, with around 55,000 plays on Spotify (a high number for songs in this language) and 16.8 million views on YouTube, describes a condition where relationships are driven only by monetary ambitions. • ID X.

56. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Jaguar

57. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q13. • Bricksburg • Cloud Cuckoo Land • Old West • Middle Zealand • Infinite Abyss of Nothingness • The Think Tank

58. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • Realms of The Lego Movie

59. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q14. These are the first 25 seconds of which iconic music video?

60. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • Tunak Tunak Tun

61. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • According to Y, the writer of the 1945 book X, it is a book that reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then onto the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. A democratic socialist, Y was extremely critical of Stalin and believed that Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship. X features a group of animals who rebel against their owners and create a seemingly utopian world with no masters. This, however, changes by the end of the book. Its release was delayed as the WW2 had just ended and the British were not willing to risk their friendship with the Russians. It also inspired Pink Floyd’s album Animals. Q15.

62. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • X – Animal Farm • Y – George Orwell

63. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q16. • Jim Sarbh has featured in Death of a Salesman with Alyque Padamsee, The Living Room with Kalki Koechlin and in Rajat Kapur’s production of Tennesse William’s The Glass Menagerie. He also recently featured in a Rajasthan tourism advertisement. • Trained as a psychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, the Mumbai-born Parsi took up acting after he moved to Mumbai. • Where have we seen him recently?

64. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • Neerja (main terrorist Khalil)

65. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q17. • The piracy group behind the illegal release of ____’s latest movie X, has apologised for leaking the western on to the web for free before it hit US cinemas. • “Sorry to disappoint – but there was no hack or any such thing,” the group said. “We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. We were definitely not the only ones. Couple other movies have been on the net days before, not done from us. So we wanted to share this movie with the people who are not rich enough or not able to watch all nominated movies in the cinema. We actually think this has created a new type of media hype … because everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to see the movie that created so much noise. This will push the cinema tickets sale for sure … We really hope this helped out the producers in the long run.”

66. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • The Hateful Eight

67. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q18. Gimme the Tech

68. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • The ‘Bullet-Time’ Effect • Midnight Mover by The Accept

69. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q19. • Fresh out of film school, X was at the Academy Awards in 1979 when his documentary short about child slum dwellers in Mumbai, India, "An Encounter With Faces," was nominated for an Oscar. • "I was too poor to rent a tuxedo," recalled X in Los Angeles. "They said I could wear national dress. All I had was kurta. I sat next to Jane Fonda in my pajamas. I was brash enough to think I'd win, that I'd made the best movie ever.“ • He didn't win, but he was hoping that the nomination and recognition would pave the way for him in Hollywood. That didn't happen. So he took a different route. • He returned to India and made a string of highly popular Bollywood movies. Two of these broke box office records in India.

70. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • Vidhu Vinod Chopra

71. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q20.Kip Thorne is the professor of Physics at Caltech. What is his claim to fame?

72. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB He served as the Scientific advisor on the film, Interstellar. In fact, much of the science in the movie has been based on his work regarding wormholes.

73. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • When Mike Judge, creator of Office Space and Beavis & Butt-head, set out to write this series, X. • He wanted to conceive a simple, believable widget for his characters to invent. • So he teamed with Stanford electrical engineering professor Tsachy ___________ and Ph.D. student Vinith Misra. • It is basically a metric in comparing the compression rates of applications called the Y, which did not exist before the show's run. Q21.

74. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • X- Silicon Valley • Y- Weissman score

75. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q22.Which comic book is being referenced here?

76. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB The Killing Joke

77. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q23. • The phrase made its first pop appearance on a season 1 episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. "The Blackout" in which Joey tells Ross that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel anymore. – Joey: It's never gonna happen. Ross: What? Joey: You and Rachel. Ross: Wha... whatta... What? Why not? Joey: Because you waited too long to make your move, and now you're in the __________ _______. Ross: No, no, no. I'm not in the ____. Joey: Ross, you're mayor of the ____. • Just tell me what this much-hated term is?

78. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Friend-Zoned

79. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB *Q24. Id the other person

80. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • Peter Dinklage

81. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB Q25. What do you better know this place for?

83. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB • The bar of TVF Pitchers • Three Wise Men

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