MMS Quiz

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all those sitcoms and Hollywood flicks…. This quiz would
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“Uday Chopra” – For showing geeks that Pyaar is not
Impossible after all…
And our very dear “Rajat Madan” – For not helping us
out with making this quiz :P

3. Infinite Bounce
+ 10 for direct answer as well as passes
+5 for partial answers
Direction reverses mid-way

4. 1 Cricket Mania
X, a former West Indian cricketer made his debut against
India and played county cricket for Somerset and
Glamorgan. He has been voted as one of the cricketers of
the 20th Century by Wisden.
Y is a famous Indian television and film actress who has
acted in movies like Utsav and Khalnayak and television
serials Bharat Ek Khoj and Jassi Jaisi koi Nahin.
X had a brief relationship with Y with whom he has a
daughter.
Identify X and Y.

5. Answer
Viv Richards / Neena Gupta

6. 2 Sizzling beauty
X, one of eight siblings, was born in Hong Kong, to a Muslim
father, raised in Hawaii and later moved to her mother's home
country, England. She started modelling at the age of 14, in
London.
Her modeling work led her to be discovered by filmmaker Kaizad
Gustad, who gave her a part in a movie released in 2003, in a
foreign country, Y. Since then, she's not looked back and
currently enjoys the status of a superstar in the country Y.
Who is X and what is Y?

7. Answer
Katrina Kaif / India

8. 3 My name is X and I am not a terrorist
X is a singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He is best
known for his soulful but strikingly simple ballad-style singing
and melodious voice. He's had two marriages and his first wife
appeared in a song video from his first Indipop album. He had
an uncomfortable relationship with his father, who was a
bollywood actor himself.
His wanderlust has taken him many places. He has bred
horses, worked in oil rigs, sold carpets, worked in New
Zealand and is a farmer with a strong opinion on organic
methods in farming.
One of his notable roles came in a movie that was a remake
of a famous Quentin Tarantino movie.

9. Answer
Lucky Ali

10. 4 Numerology
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
Identify the TV show from the above
number sequence

11. Answer
Lost

12. 5 An easy one
1983 – Prudential
1987 – Reliance
1992 – Benson & Hedges
1996 _________________
Fill in the blanks

13. Answer
Wills Cup

14. 6 The Nariyal Award Recipient
X was born in a Tamil Iyer family in Palakkad. She was first
noticed in the Indian sitcom Hum Paanch, where she portrayed
the role of Radhika Mathur for some time. X made her Hindi film
debut with the movie Y (2005), where she acted opposite Saif
Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt.
This performance earned her a Filmfare Best Female Debut
Award as well as her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress
nomination. She has also acted in the comedy movie Z, which
has had a strong cultural impact in India, due to the ideology
made popular by it.

15. Answer
Vidya Balan

16. 7 Indi-Pop Connection
This song X was nominated for a Grammy
Award for best pop performance by a group.
The song shares its name with a famous Indi-
Pop song in which the singer was literally “X”
while singing the song.
The Indian song X was the claim to fame of its
singer Y, who is currently part of one of the
most successful music composer singer trio in
India.
What is X and who is Y?

17. Answer
Breathless / Shankar Mahadevan

18. 8
He is of mixed Irish, Dutch, English,
and French descent on his father's side, and
of Italian ancestry on his mother's; he is almost always
cast as Italian. When X auditioned for the role that
would shoot him to fame, he only had $11 to his name.
His most notable movie roles have been in the
films Ed (1996), Lost in Space (1998), Charlie's
Angels (2000) and All the Queen's Men (2001). Who is
X?

19. Answer
Robert De Niro

20. 9
Shown here are five movie posters.
Connect and name all five movies.

24. Answer
Martin Scorsese
Shutter Island, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas,
Casino, Departed

25. 10 Aces and Deuces
On 30 April 1993, at Hamburg, a 38-year old
psychologically abnormal German Gunter Parche did
something that shook the sporting world. What did he
do?

26. Answer
Stabbed Monica Seles

27. 11

28. 12
ABC is an Indian film director, actor, writer and producer. He
has appeared on TV serials and his most famous role was in the
crime thriller CID. He‟s also done side roles in the movies Kabhi
Haan Kabhi Naa and Chamatkar, both featuring Shah Rukh Khan.
He made his directorial debut in 1993, but his first two movies
went unnoticed in Bollywood. He rose to fame with his third
movie, in 2001, which won him numerous awards.
He‟s known as the „Actor‟s Director‟ and his movies are
typically popular with the critics.

29. Answer
Ashutosh Gowarikar

30. 13
Manchester United
Preston North End
Real Madrid
Los Angeles Galaxy
________________
FITB

31. Answer
Milan
(Clubs of Beckham)

32. 14
X is a popular singer, songwriter and guitarist and is the best-
selling Canadian Male Arist of all time. X is commonly
associated with the arena rock genre and is sometimes labelled
as a pop-rock musician.
He performs rock songs, ballads and mid-tempo tracks. He is a
well-known photographer and his photos have been published
in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire etc. He‟s got a fan base
comprising people from all ages and both genders and has
toured India thrice, the most recent being in 2006.

33. Answer
Bryan Adams

34. 15
„The Theory of Everything‟ is a song by the band Barenaked
Ladies.
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unravelling the mysteries,
_______________________________________
FITB

35. Answer
Big Bang Theory

36. 16 Connect

37. HUNTER
HEARST
HELMSLEY

39. Answer
WWE (The Rock, Hulk Hogan,
Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin)

40. 17
His stint with advertising began in 1987, with Allwyn‟s
Trendy Watch campaign. He went on to compose more
than 300 ad films – Boost with Kapil Dev and Sachin
Tendulkar, MRF Tyres, Premier Pressure cooker, Asian
Paints, Hero Puch, etc.
He also owns Panchathan Record Inn, one of India‟s most
advanced studios. Who?

41. Answer
AR Rahman

42. 18 Don’t fear this question!
This is one of the most popular TV Show
themes you might have heard during
childhood.
Where?

43. Answer
Aahat Tune

44. 19
X is a popular song composed and sung by Roy Orbison,
in 1964. The song acted as an inspiration for the song Y,
which featured in a movie starring Shah Rukh Khan,
directed by Nikhil Advani.
It was one of the few instances when Bollywood film
makers complied with international copyright laws and
obtained the license to use X.

45. Answer
Pretty Woman

46. 20
X shot to fame playing the role of Doogie Howser, M.D, a child
prodigy, who becomes a doctor at the age of 16. He returned to
TV in 2005, playing the role of Y, in the sitcom Z.
The character Y is shown to be a opportunist, serial womanizer,
manipulative, and is known to get into weird challenges. He
lives by his own rules, which he has also penned down in a
book.
He has featured as himself in the two Harold and Kumar
movies.

47. 21
His paternal grandparents emigrated to the United
Kingdom from Grenada in the 1950s. His parents named
him after a US multiple-gold medal winning athlete.
He began karting at the age of eight, and quickly began
winning races and championships. At age ten, he
approached McLaren F1 team boss Ron Dennis and told
him, "I'm going to race for you one day... I'm going to race
for McLaren". He‟s also the youngest F-1 driver‟s champion.

48. Answer
Lewis Hamilton

49. 22
X made her bollywood singing debut at the age of 10,
singing for the movie Chachi 420. Her second song came in
Hey Ram, where she sang the bilingual versions of the title
theme, Rama Rama, in Hindi and in Tamil. She also made
her cinematic debut in the movie.
She's had a cameo appearance as the daughter of
Vallabhbhai Patel in the biopic of Mahatma Gandhi. Apart
from this, she's also the vocalist of an alternative rock band
The Extramentals.

50. Answer
Shruti Hassan

51. 23 What is this group of men more
popularly known as?

52. Answer
Fox River Eight (From the TV series
Prison Break)

53. 24
This sport features two major „Grips‟, the Penholder,
more popular with the Asians and the Shakehand, which
is generally preferred by the players from the West.
Which sport am I talking about?

54. Answer
Table Tennis

55. We reverse the
order now

56. THE MOVIE GRID
Characters Taglines Oscars
Bollywood
Filmfare Hollywood Movie Quotes
Comedy Drama True Stories
Sci-Fi Romantic Sports
Movie
Animation Theme Songs
Posters

58. Characters
Danny Denzogpa was offered to play the
role of this character, but he was too busy
doing Feroz Khan‟s Dharmatma that he
declined the role. Though he doesn‟t regret
doing so, but the character went on to
become one of the greatest characters of
all times in Indian Cinema. Identify the
character.

59. Answer
Gabbar

60. Taglines
"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set
you free.“
Name the movie.

61. Answer
Shawshank redemption

62. Oscars
All About Eve is an American drama film,
nominated for 14 Academy Awards - a feat
that was unparalleled for almost half a
century (47 years to be exact). Which
Hollywood blockbuster was the second
movie to garner 14 Oscar nominations?

63. Answer
Titanic

64. Filmfare awards
Selected by Time Magazine as one of the 10
best movies of the year from across the
Globe, this Sanjay Leela Bhansali Film
made an all-time record at the Filmfare
awards by winning eleven records.

65. Answer
Black

66. The Bollywood Hollywood
Connection
Two of Robin Williams greatest comedies
have been made into smashing Bollywood
hits. While one deals with the true life
story of Hunter Adams, a medical doctor
who became famous for his unconventional
approach to medicine; the other deals with
an actor disguising himself as a female
housekeeper. Name the four movies.

67. Answer
Patch Adams = Munnabhai MBBS
Mrs. Doubtfire = Chachi 420

68. Movie Quotes
A: You are Omaticaya now. You may make your bow
from the wood of Hometree. And you may choose a
woman. We have many fine women. Ninat is the best
singer.
B: I don't want Ninat.
A: Peyral is a good hunter.
B: Yes, she is a good hunter. But I've already chosen.
But this woman must also choose me.
A: (smiles) She already has.
[They kiss]
Identify A,B and the movie.

69. Answer
Nyetri = Joe Saldana
Jake Sully = Sam Worthington

70. Comedy
From these screenshots, identify the movie

77. Answer
The Devil Wears Prada

78. Drama
Nadiya Ke Paar is a 1982 Hindi film that
ran houseful for years in a movie
theatre in Allahabad. This movie was
later remade into another Hindi
superhit by the same production
company that ran houseful for years
throughout India. Name the remake and
the production company.

79. Answer
Hum Aapke Hain Kaun / Rajshree

80. True Stories
This historical drama film describes a story
that takes place in a country in the midst
of a civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi
tribes. It is the story of a hotelier Paul
Rusesabagina trying to save the lives of his
family and more than a thousand other
refugees, by granting them shelter in the
besieged Hôtel des Mille Collines.

81. Answer
Hotel Rwanda

82. Sci-Fi
X is a 2003 sci-fi movie featuring Ben
Affleck Uma Thurman and Paul Giamatti in
which he designs a machine that can
predict the future.
Y is an Indian sci-fi movie inspired by the
plot of X in which a similar machine is
developed by Z when he gets to see his son
(which is also played by Z).

83. Answer
Paycheck / Krrish / Hrithik Roshan

84. Romantic
Identify this love triangle

85. Answer
Socha Na Tha

86. Sports
Featuring Kurt Russel, this American sports
biopic is based on the 1980 Winter
Olympics Victory by Men‟s hockey team led
by coach Herb Brooks.
Unluckily Herb expired before the movie
released and the final scenes show the
actual pictures from the event as a
dedication to Herb Brooks.

87. Answer
Miracle

88. Animation
An interpunct is a small dot used for
interword separation in ancient Latin script.
One of the most successful Pixar movies used
an interpunct in its name for promotional
purposes. Name the movie.

89. Answer
Wall E

90. Movie Posters

91. Answer
The Prestige

92. Theme Songs
The song “Eye of the Tiger” was written
and performed by the rock band Survivor at
the request of the lead actor of this movie
after he was unable to obtain permission
for Queen‟s “Another One Bites The Dust”.
Identify this sports based movie.

93. Answer
Rocky

94. 40 Groupies
In sporting parlance, what does the term WAGs refer to?

95. Answer
Wives and Girlfriends

96. 41
X is an Indian singer who started his career, and rose to fame
with the band Silk Route. He released two albums, Boondein and
Pehchan with Silk Route. He had success before acting with the
song "Dooba Dooba" from the album Boondein. The album
debuted at number one on the album chart and won several
awards at the Channel V awards in 1998.
The band dissolved and in 2008, he released the solo album
Kalam, for which he composed and sung. He has also took part in
the television reality series Mission Ustaad on the entertainment
channel 9X. He regularly sings for Bollywood movies these days.

97. Answer
Mohit Chauhan

98. 42
The title graphic of which popular TV
show shows the Earth turning into a
Solar Eclipse, featuring an instance of
Baily‟s beads with the show logo and a
musical interlude written by the show
creator Tim Kring.

99. Answer
Heroes

100. 43
Dalip Singh Rana, famously known as X was born on 27
August 1972 to Jwala Ram and Tandi Devi. He was an
officer in the Punjab state police and won Mr. India in
1995 and 1996. X is named after Indian Goddess whose
name means the “The Black One”.
He married Harminder Kaur on February 27, 2002 and says
he is a vegetarian, abhorring tobacco and alcohol. He has
appeared in 2 Hollywood movies thus far.

101. Answer
Khali

102. 44
X is a "famous‟ personality in Bollywood. He started his career
with his production house, which produced television serials
for such as Andaz & Amar Prem.
The debut album and debut movie of X share the same title.
He entered into music direction through the movie 'Pyaar Kiya
To Darna Kya' in 1998. His playback singing signalled his rise to
fame, and he is also the first singer and composer to perform at
Wembley Stadium & Heineken Music Hall. He was actively
involved in mentoring and judging Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Challenge. His group was called "Rock" Gharana.
Needless to say, he has a „cult‟ following in India. Who is this
distinguised personality?

103. Answer
Himesh Reshamiya

104. 45
Archie Bunker is a fictional character in the long-running and
top-rated American television sitcom All in the Family.
He is a reactionary, bigoted, conservative blue-collar worker
and family man, played to acclaim by Carroll O'Connor. TV
Guide named Archie the greatest television character of all
time. He‟s shown to be a Xenophobic, particularly evident in
his dislike for the Brits, Germans and colored people.
He‟s been the inspiration for the character X on the show Y.
The creators of the show Y have mentioned that when they
were discussing the idea for the show, it occurred to them that
“if we could have a little Archie Bunker on their show as well,
that‟d be great.”

105. 46 MEGA CONNECT
• 4 Sets of Clues
• Each slide represents one clue
• Scoring schemes for set 1-4 : +30/-15,
+20/-10, +10/-5, +5/0

106. SET 1

108. Edward Cole: Kopi Luwak is the world's
most expensive coffee. Though for some, it
falls under the category of "too good to be
true." In the Sumatran village, where the
beans are grown, lives a breed of wild tree
cat. These cats eat the beans, digest them
and then... defecate.
Edward Cole: The villagers then collect and
process the stools. It is the combination of
the beans and the gastric juices of the tree
cat that give Kopi Luwac...
[Carter starts laughing]
Edward Cole: ...its unique flavor... and
aroma. You're shitting me!

110. SET 2

111. Stanley Kubrick's
epic nightmare of
horror
He Came As The
Caretaker, But This
Hotel Had Its Own
Guardians - Who'd
Been There A Long
Time

113. SET 3

116. SET 4

117. 1.
2. 3.

118. Answer
Jack Nicholson

119. 47 Think beyond Ludo and Carrom
Which ballgame is known as futebol totó in Brazil,
piłkarzyki in Poland(meaning small football players), and
taca –taca in Chile (to describe the sound made when
playing)?

120. Answer
Foosball

121. 48
X is an Indian television show that first aired on
Doordarshan in 1989. The show was a satire on the socio-
cultural problems faced by the common man in India at the
time. Although only 10 episodes of the show were ever
produced, the show has had a long and powerful legacy.
The show was shot completely in Chandigarh. The cast
remained the same in every episode, although they played
different characters as each episode essayed a different
story.

122. Answer
Flop Show

123. 49
Indian cricket owes a lot to Madhav
Mantri for having spotted a birth mark
on his nephew, otherwise we would
have missed a great cricketing talent as
an unknown fisherman.
Who is his nephew?

124. Answer
Sunil Gavaskar

125. 50
ABC is a style of piano-based blues that became very popular in
the late 1930s and early 1940s. Whilst the blues traditionally
depicts a variety of emotions, ABC is mainly associated with
dancing.
ABC is also the name of a very popular show on Indian
Television. It‟s been one of the longest running shows, starting
in 1998 and continuing till date. A few celebrities have also
taken part in the show, including Juhi Chawla, Esha Deol, Dia
Mirza, Govinda, Vivek Oberoi and Ritesh Deshmukh. It was one
of the earliest shows in its genre and now has triggered launch
of numerous other shows based on the theme.

126. Answer
Boogie Woogie

127. 51
Which town was founded by the
grandfather of ex-IPL commissioner in
Ghaziabad district in UP?

128. Answer
Modinagar

129. STAR PARIVAR
• 7 answers – all connected
• Relative scoring:
For every answer, Number of points = 5 * Number of
teams that didn‟t give the answer
• Write all answers on your paper

130. A
B D
C F E
G

131.  A is one of the most prominent scriptwriter and lyricist in India
 B is the wife of A and herself a prominent scriptwriter
 C made his acting debut in a film written by B and also starred
as an Indian superhero in a film, again written by B
 D is the wife of A and has won a record 5 time national award
for best actress
 E is the niece of D and a talented Bollywood actress who now
does films mostly in parallel cinema
 F if the niece of B and one of the most prominent Indian
choreographers
 G is the brother of F

132. Answer
Javed Akhtar
Honey Irani
Hrithik Roshan
Shabana Azmi
Tabu
Farah Khan
Sazid Khan