3. 1.
• "I read it and thought it was pretty good. That afternoon I wrote the
song and went in the next week and did it... It was a job of work for
me in a way because writing a song around a title like that's not the
easiest thing going.“ –X
• The song was for the soundtrack of the film adaptation of Ian
Fleming’s novel of the same name.
• X and the book/song/movie.
7. 3.
• X’s top 5 favorite novels • X’s top 5 favorite movies
• The Big Sleep by Raymond • The Godfather
Chandler • The Godfather Part II
• Red Dragon by Thomas Harris • Taxi Driver
• Sweet Soul Music by Peter • Goodfellas
Guralnick
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• something by William Gibson or
Kurt Vonnegut
9. 4.
• In 1928 X was charged by Cecil B. DeMille with writing a script for
what would become the film Skyscraper. The original story, by Dudley
Murphy, was about two construction workers involved in building a
New York skyscraper who are rivals for a woman's love. X rewrote the
story, transforming the rivals into architects. One of them, Howard
Kane, was an idealist dedicated to his mission and erecting the
skyscraper despite enormous obstacles. The film would have ended
with Kane throwing back his head in victory, standing atop the
completed skyscraper. In the end DeMille rejected X's script, and the
actual film followed Murphy's original idea, but X's version contained
elements that she would later use in Y.
• Give me Y.
11. 5.
Mine's a tale that can't be told,
My freedom I hold dear;
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air,
'Twas in the darkest depths of W
I met a girl so fair.
But X, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.
The song and X.
15. 7.
The painter Francis Bacon listed a very
famous movie scene as the inspiration for
this painting.
He has painted a lot of other paintings
based on iconic images from the same
film.
Give me the movie which is listed as one
of the greatest propaganda films of all
time.
17. 8.
• “A" is an urban legend suggesting that X of Y died in 1966 and was
secretly replaced by a look-alike.
• In September 1969, American college students published articles
claiming that clues to X's death could be found among the lyrics and
artwork of the Y recordings. Clue-hunting proved infectious and
within a few weeks had become an international phenomenon.
Rumours declined after a contemporary interview with X was
published in Life magazine in November 1969. Popular culture
continues to make occasional reference to the legend.
• Give me A.
19. 9.
• “You just have to draw a hat. If you can draw a hat, then you've
drawn ________, you just draw kind of a shape for his face and put
some black blobs on it and you're done.“-X
• Name the character being talked about.
21. 10.
• “The chaos unfolding seems to happen in closed quarters provoking
an intense feeling of oppression. There is no way out of the
nightmarish cityscape. The absence of color makes the violent scene
developing right before your eyes even more horrifying. The blacks,
whites, and grays startle you--especially because you are used to see
war images broadcasted live and in high-definition right to your living
room.”- a reviewer.
• “...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to
certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea
to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I
obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for
the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.” -X
23. 11.
• The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer
who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and
turned to farming. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier
aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West.
• X wanted to break the myth about the old west, about the outlaws,
about the time.
• X delayed the project, partly because he wanted to wait until he was
old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his
western films.
• It was viewed as a fitting eulogy to the western genre.
25. 12.
• A preview screening of the film did not go well, as Tony Curtis fans were
expecting him to play one of his typical nice guy roles and instead were presented
with Sidney Falco. Mackendrick remembered seeing audience members "curling
up, crossing their arms and legs, recoiling from the screen in disgust". Burt
Lancaster's fans were not thrilled with their idol either, "finding the film too static
and talky". The film was a box office failure, and Hecht blamed his producing
partner Hill. "The night of the preview, Harold said to me, 'You know you've
wrecked our company? We're going to lose over a million dollars on this picture,'"
Hill recalled. However, Lancaster blamed Lehman, who remembers a
confrontation they had: "Burt threatened me at a party after the preview. He
said, 'You didn't have to leave – you could have made this a much better picture. I
ought to beat you up.' I said, 'Go ahead – I could use the money.'“
• Today, this movie holds a 100 percent rating on rotten tomatoes and a metascore
of 100. Times change.
28. Rules
• Select a partner team.
• You will be shown a range of topics
• Out of the topic you choose, your ‘Nancy’ team will be asked the
question, if she answers -5 for ‘Sid’. If she doesn’t +5 for ‘Sid’.
• Whichever team answers the question will get +10 points as always.
29. • Western • AlbumArt
• Soundtrack • Hitchcock
• Sci-Fi • Hitchhiker’s
• Led Zeppelin • LOTR
• Jazz • SH
• Post impressionism • Quizmaster’s Special
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30. Western
• "There's some merit to the charge that the Indian hasn't been
portrayed accurately or fairly in the Western, but again, this charge
has been a broad generalization and often unfair. The Indian didn't
welcome the white man... and he wasn't diplomatic... If he has been
treated unfairly by whites in films, that, unfortunately, was often the
case in real life. There was much racial prejudice in the West.”
• The director filmed a movie on the sentiment in which the
protagonist sets out to find his niece who had been taken away by the
Indians. Over the years, his motivation becomes increasingly
questionable until he finally decides to kill her, since she had also
become an Indian now.
32. Sci-Fi
This character from Fritz Lang’s legendary
Sci-fi film ‘Metropolis’ was the inspiration
for a certain other famous character in the
sci-fi universe. Just tell me the character.
The inspired character, that is.
33. Led Zeppelin
• It has been suggested that the title of the song was originally supposed to be
known as "Wheelchair Song" as an acknowledgment of Plant's broken ankle
which caused him to fear he would never walk again. Lyrically, the song was
inspired by Plant's experiences in Morocco.
• Plant specifically refers to Morocco's Atlas Mountains in the line: "The mighty
arms of Atlas hold the heavens from the Earth". This is a double-meaning to imply
the Atlas mountains in a physical sense seeming to hold up the sky, as well as the
reference to the Titan Atlas and his task to hold up the sky on his shoulders and
thus separate it from the Earth. Plant's lyrics were also inspired by some of the
poetry he was reading at the time, which includes William Blake. "Albion
remains/sleeping now to rise again" is a reference to Blake's engraving The Dance
Of Albion. The following is an excerpt from the poem that goes with the song:
• “Albion rose from where he labour'd at the Mill with Slaves.
Giving himself for the Nations he danc'd the dance of Eternal Death.”
36. Album Art
• Marlene Dietrich, Carl Jung, W.C. Fields, Diana Dors, James Dean, Bob
Dylan, Issy Bonn, Marilyn Monroe, Aldous Huxley, Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Sigmund Freud, Aleister Crowley, T. E. Lawrence, Lewis
Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Marx, Sir Robert Peel, Oscar Wilde, H. G.
Wells, Marlon Brando, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and Lenny Bruce
• Which Album’s Artwork features all these people?
37. Hitchcock
• Alfred Hitchcock had agreed to do a film for MGM, and they had
chosen an adaptation of the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare by
Hammond Innes. Composer Bernard Herrmann had recommended
that Hitchcock work with his friend Ernest Lehman. After a couple of
weeks, Lehman offered to quit saying he didn't know what to do with
the story. Hitchcock told him they got along great together and they
would just write something else. Lehman said that he wanted to
make the ultimate Hitchcock film. Hitchcock thought for a moment
then said he had always wanted to do a chase across Mount
Rushmore.
38. HitcHHiker’s
• The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was
now grumbled over moredistant hills, like a man saying “X" twenty
minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
39. LOTR
• He calls himself the "Eldest" and the "Master". He claims to
remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn", and "knew the dark
under the stars when it was fearless — before the Dark Lord came
from Outside." He does not neatly fit into the categories of beings
Tolkien created. Speculative ideas about his true nature range from
one of the Ainur, angelic beings (who came after the Dark Lord and
shaped the earth), to God, who is called Eru Ilúvatar and "the One" in
Tolkien's legendarium although Tolkien rejected the notion that X is
God. This is however reinforced when Frodo asks Goldberry just who
X is, and she responds by simply saying "He is"(which Tolkien was
careful to distinguish from the Biblical "I Am that I Am".)
40. SH
• In the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Doctor Watson
compares Holmes to X, to which Holmes replies: "No doubt you think you
are complimenting me ... In my opinion, X was a very inferior fellow... He
had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a
phenomenon as Y appears to imagine". Alluding to an episode in "The
Murders in the Rue Morgue", where X deduces what his friend is thinking
despite their having walked together in silence for a quarter of an hour,
Holmes remarks: "That trick of his breaking in on his friend's thoughts with
an apropos remark... is really very showy and superficial“.
• X is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction. The character
served as the prototype for many that were created later, including
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha
Christie.
41. QM’s special
• Jeanne Moreau incarnates the style of the Nouvelle Vague actress. The
critic Ginette Vincindeau has defined this as, "beautiful, but in a kind of
natural way; sexy, but intellectual at the same time, a kind of cerebral
sexuality, — this was the hallmark of the nouvelle vague woman." Though
she isn't in the film's title Catherine is "the structuring absence. She
reconciles two completely opposed ideas of femininity“.
• According to ShortList, "The pacy energy of [Goodfellas] was influenced by
Scorsese’s love of French New Wave cinema, especially François Truffaut’s
doomed love triangle classic X. He wanted a similar voiceover to open,
along with extensive narration, quick cuts and freeze frame shots. He called
it a “punk attitude” towards film convention, mirroring the attitude of the
gangsters in the film."
44. • In addition, words with negative meanings are removed as redundant,
so "bad" becomes "ungood". Words with comparative and superlative
meanings are also simplified, so "better" becomes "gooder", and
"best" becomes "goodest". Intensifiers can be added, so "great"
became "plusgood", and "excellent" and "splendid" become
"doubleplusgood". Adjectives are formed by adding the suffix "-ful" to
a root word (e.g., "goodthinkful", orthodox in thought), and adverbs
by adding "-wise" ("goodthinkwise", in an orthodox manner).
• It is the only language of the world whose vocabulary reduces every
year.
45. • One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a ________ egg will
bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and
every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every
embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow
where only one grew before. Progress.
• The record number of twins from a single ovary at the London
Hatchery is 16,012 in 189 batches. Centers in tropical climates can get
better numbers: Singapore created over 16,500, and Mombasa has
touched 17,000
47. • An astronaut who travels to a distant place at near the speed of light.
Because of the time dilation that takes place at these speeds, he and
his crew return home a hundred years later. He has aged only a year
but sadly finds that his wife has long passed on, and that he is about
the same age as his grandchildren.
48. • Cochran :...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury,
I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies
and gentlemen, this is X. X is a Wookiee from the
planet Kashyyyk. But X lives on the planet Endor. Now
think about it; that does not make sense!
• Gerald Broflovski :Damn it! ... He's using the Y!
• Cochran :Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall
Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-
foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more
important, you have to ask yourself: What does this
have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and
gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does
not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a
major record company, and I'm talkin' about X! Does
that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not
making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so
you have to remember, when you're in that jury room
deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation
Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and
gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make
sense! If X lives on Endor, you must acquit! The
defense rests.
