This document contains 25 multiple choice questions from a prelims exam covering topics like movies, music, TV shows and video games. It tests knowledge about actors, characters, directors, songs and more. For example, it asks about the actor and character portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Fifth Estate" (Julian Assange), it asks about the song made famous by a viral video in 2013 ("Harlem Shake") and it asks about the TV show where the player takes on the role of an ACME detective chasing Carmen Sandiego.

1. Prelims Answers

2. Q 1
Clip from a movie named “The Fifth Estate”.
Identify the actor and the character being
portrayed. (Guy on the left)

3. • Julian Assange
• Benedict Cumberbatch

4. Q 2
It is a song recorded by American DJ and
producer Baauer. It was released as a free digital
download by Mad Decent imprint label Jeffree's
on May 22, 2012.
The single did not begin to sell until February
2013, when a YouTube video set to its music
developed into an Internet meme of the same
name.
Name the song.

5. • Harlem Shake

6. Q 3

7. Capt. James T Kirk

8. Q 4
• X was born as Mary Evans to a Greek Mother
and a Scottish father. She was a blonde and
her role often involved beating up Indian men
and lot of stunts. She was famous for her role
in the movie Hunterwali directed by Y
• X was also known by a screen name “___ ___”
• Also , identify the director of Hunterwali,
whose surname rhymes with the screen name
of Mary Evans

9. • Fearless Nadia
• Homi Wadia

10. Q 5
• X wrote a pleading letter to Nehru during the period of
severe foreign exchange shortage,
“Our picture, (by “our” I mean picture belongs to our great
country) has been selected as one of the five best pictures.
You know U am pure a swadeshi producer without any
English education, and I badly need the help and support of
our nations representatives in America. Like other
international producers, I should be able to show that our
government is also backing me. Otherwise, I will look small
and lonely.”
• The movie in question , Y was defeated by Federico Fellini’s,
Nights of Cabiria, by just one vote.
• Identify X and Y

11. • X: Mehboob Khan
• Y Mother India

12. Q 6
• The main premise follows the user or
protagonist who become agents of the ACME
Detective Agency and attempt to thwart and
capture V.I.L.E. ringleader and former ACME
agent X. X is always depicted in a red fedora. It
was initially created to encourage kids to
develop interest in geography.
• What are we talking about ?

13. Carmen Sandiego

14. Q 7
• In a fictional story titled Star Light, Star Bright......
published on November 7, 2012, real life astrophysicist
and frequent Colbert Report guest Neil DeGrasse Tyson
made a special appearance, where he was tasked with
identifying where the fictional celestial body X would
be in our universe. Tyson identified a red dwarf star
LHS 2520 in the Corvus constellation (approximately
27.1 light years from Earth) and noted that if X was
real, it would most likely revolve around LHS 2520 in
our universe.
• What is X?

15. Krypton, Superman’s home planet

16. Q 8
Connect the following eight items from a non-exhaustive list:
a) Patriot Games (1992): Attempts to avenge his brother’s
death; attempt fails after Harrison Ford impales him on a boat
anchor and then blows up the Boat.
b) GoldenEye (1995): Dropped from massive height by James
Bond, somehow survives, but moments later is crushed by a
giant burning scaffold collapsing on top of him.
c) Equilibrium (2002): While minding his own business and
reading the poetry of Yeats, gets shot in the face by Christian
Bale
d) The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Tries to
fight off the Uruk-hai horde, is rewarded by three fatal arrows
to the chest

17. e) The Island (2005): Ewan MacGregor shoots him
through the neck with a grappling hook; and then leaves
him to hang after a cable wraps around his neck
f) Ca$h (2010): That guy who played Thor shoots him, and
then shoves his body into a trash compactor
g) Death Race 2 (2010): Shot in the chest; falls artistically
back into a swimming pool
h) ------------------ (2011): Confesses to treason (even
though he’s innocent) to spare his daughter’s life, is
rewarded by a swift beheading for his parenting decisions
What is this list going on about? The last entry has been
intentionally blanked out.

18. Various deaths of Sean Bean

19. Q 9
Poster for which BBC show?

20. House of Cards

21. Q 10
• Who is the next one to join this list (non –
exhaustive)

23. Adele

24. *Q 11

25. The pic is a panel from “Dream of a Lifetime” a
2004 Duck Tales comic. It came up on the
internet a few years ago claiming to be the
inspiration for what?

26. Inception

27. *Q 12
22 June 1897 is a 1979 Marathi movie written by X and
Nachiket Patwardhan and was directed by Nachiket
Patwardhan and his wife. It is based on true life events
leading up to the assasination of Charles Rand who was the
Assistant Collector of Pune by the Chapekar brothers during
the plague outbreak in 1897.
It won the Silver Lotus as well as National Award for
National Integration and Art Direction. It is one of the
Indian movies to be included in the US Library of Congress.
X then became famous later on in his life and has gained a
following over the last few years. X?

28. Shankar Nag

29. *Q 13
This immensely popular Indian actor’s biography
is so named because, in most of the movies that
he acted in , his was the last name in the cast
portion of the credits, with the words “…and
_____” and sometimes “… above all _____”
were displayed.
Who?

30. Pran Sahab

31. *Q 14

32. Bohemian Rhapsody

33. *Q 15

34. 27 Club

35. Q 16

36. Michael Jackson Shoe Patent

37. Q 17

39. Hugo Weaving

40. Q 18

42. Christopher Nolan

43. Q 19 Who is the man with 10?

44. Stan Lee

45. Q 20 Put Funda

46. 42 or Deep Thought

47. Q 21
• 1189–1192 ______
• 1425-1475 Ezio Auditore da Firenze
• 1775–1783 Haytham Kenway and
Connor Kenway
• not announced Edward Kenway
• What?

48. Assassins Creed

49. Q 22 Id the guy on piano / significance
of the video

50. Hans Zimmer
• First video on MTV

51. Q 23
• Cheese. It’s milk that you chew
• A grape- Because who can get a water melon in
your mouth?
• The phone. Bringing you closer to people… who
have phones.
• Crackers. Because your cheese needs a buddy.
• Bagels and donuts. Round food for every mood
• Pants. Like shorts, but Longer.
• Pehchan Kaun?

52. Chandler Bing

53. Q 24 Id the Director pair

54. Wachowski Brothers

55. Q 25
 Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-
the-decade "best-of" list, noting it for
"Providing a safe home for piano-playing cats,
celeb goof-ups, and overzealous lip-synchers
since 2005."
 What?

56. Youtube

57. Thank you
and
see you in the finals