QOTM - February

IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club
Quiz of The Month - February
Yogarshi Vyas

Reverse the Polarity of the
Movie Flow

• Written Round, 6 questions
• A description of how a movie would make sense if it seen from back
to front
• +5 for each correct, +10 bonus.

1. It is about a really good-looking, nice man who repairs a
bridge and visits Earth, then slowly turns into a douchebag
2. It is about a zombie who steals a car, gets more and more
racist and almost has his car stolen by an Asian.
3. It is about a woman whose rich, asshole boyfriend forces
her into prostitution.
4. It is about a bunch of zombies who like to give away
jewellery and then talk about it while drinking coffee.
5. It’s about a man who gives up cocaine and crime to follow
his dream of becoming a dishwasher to earn enough
money so that he can visit Cuba.
6. It makes complete sense 

Answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Thor
Gran Torino
Pretty Woman
Reservoir Dogs
Scarface
Memento

To Infinity …
Regular Infinite Pounce
+10/-10

a 14-page script for
of
1 • Jeffery Reddick wrote180”. This script was an episode the“The
X-Files” titled “Flight
ignored by
show’s creator Chris Carter and his team of writers and no
episode was made from this script. However it caught the
eye of two writers on the team – James Wong and Glen
Morgan
• What happened to “Flight 180”?

It got made into the Final Destination series

examples
2 • SomePatterson”,of this “phenomenon” are “Watching Ellie”,
“Bob
“Listen Up!” and “The Michael Richards
Show”.
• However, “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and more
recently “Veep” have proven to be strong counterexamples
to this claim.

• What “phenomenon”?

the Simpsons paying
3 • This isWhat is the reason? tribute to somebody in January,
2014.

Hayao Miyazaki and his decision to retire from
films after ‘The Wind Rises’

‘A Fistful of Dynamite’,
4 • Titled ‘Duck, You Sucker’ or trilogy, the other two this film is
the second installment in a
installments of which are frequent mentions in lists of
greatest movies of all time.
• It is the last film of its kind directed by the director. The only
other movie that he is credited as director of after this was
the third part of the trilogy.
• Name the trilogy/the other two movies in the trilogy.

Once Upon A Time trilogy by Sergio Leone

5

• In the year 1975, author Roderick Thorp saw the film “The
Towering Inferno”, which is about a skyscraper that catches
fire. After seeing the film, Thorp fell asleep and had a dream
of seeing a man being chased through a skyscraper by men
with guns.
• He woke up and later took that idea and turned it into the
sequel of a previous novel that he had written and called it
“Nothing Lasts Forever”.
• This book was planned to be made into a movie that was the
sequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger starrer “Commando” but it
was ultimately made into something else.
• What?

6 • The Eisner Awards, awarded for excellence in the comic book
industry, were initiated in 1988. From 1988 to 1997 (except
for 1991 when it was not awarded), which two writers were
awarded the Best Writer Award ( 5 and 4 times each)?

7

FUQ (W)
• Alan Moore won the award 5 times for 3 works.
• Neil Gaiman has won it 4 times for 3 works.
• Name all 6.

Alan Moore – Watchmen, Batman: The Killing
Joke, From Hell
Neil Gaiman – Sandman, The Book of Magic,
Miracleman/Marvelman

its lead
8 • Based on the premise of the film (or rather,innovative idea to
character), Sony Pictures came up with an
market the DVDs of this film by designing their disc to
resemble a consumer grade burned DVD-R. Naturally this led
to a lot of confusion (and piracy) among the buyers of this
DVD.
• For which movie did this
happen ?

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

book, one of
9 • In a recently launched outrageously the members of this
band claimed that the
flamboyant and glitzy
costumes worn by this band were not adorned solely for the
purpose of making them stand out, but also for the sake of
tax efficiency.
• The laws of the country stated that they could get a tax
deduction on their costumes – so long as the costumes were
so outrageous that they couldn’t be worn on the street.
• Which band?

10

• “When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private
detective _______ ______. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her
husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done
before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as ______ investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to
Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has
just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of
almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it
would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who
might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally
murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against
time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer
unlike any _____ has encountered before ...“
• A recently revealed premise of a novel called “The Silkworm” to
be released on June 19, 2014. This is the sequel to what?

runs three other
11 • Apart from its original brand, this groupthe population.
brands targeted at various segments of
These are ‘Director’s Cut’, ‘Premiere’ and ‘Talkies’.
• Which company?

12 • Identify the two voices singing.

• [Clue available for one voice on request]

Zeb and Alia Bhatt – The song is from
Highway

would you find Angmar Montes, Dolmed Montes,
13 • WhereMons, Echoriat Montes, Erebor Mons, Gram Montes,
Doom
Irensaga Montes, Merlock Montes, Mindolluin Montes,
Misty Montes, Mithrim Montes, Rerir Montes, Taniquetil
Montes? (complete list)

On Titan
• The mountains are names after mountains from J. R. R. Tolkien’s
Legendarium.
• The hills are named after characters
• The low plains and impact craters are named after the planets from
Frank Herbert’s Dune saga

14 • 3 Parts
• A) Identify the singer
• B) This song, called ‘Once Upon A Time’, is a cover of a song
that was first used in a 1959 film. Name the 1959 film.
• C) This cover version, is being used in a 2014 film, that is a
prequel/re-imagining to the 1959 film. Name the 2014 film.

A – Lana del Rey
B – Sleeping Beauty
C - Maleficent

15

• “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” by Edgar Allen Poe
– X is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship
capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors draw lots upon X's
suggestion to kill one of them to sustain the others. X then gets
cannibalized.
• In 1846, the Francis Spaight foundered at sea. Apprentice X was among
the twenty-one drowning victims of that incident, though there were no
cases of cannibalism.
• In 1884, the yacht Mignonette sank. Four people survived and drifted in
a life boat before one of them, the cabin boy X, was killed by the others
for food. This led to the R vs Dudley and Stephens criminal case.
• Y claimed that his inspiration for X was primararily from the EAP novel,
but he also thought that "So many victimized X had to mean something.”

• X and Y please.

X – Richard Parker
Y – Yann Martel

is a
of TV show
16 • The video shownshowtrailerwasabroadcastthat is a sequel of a
very popular TV
that
in the 1980s.
• What is the show? Who is the host/narrator of the sequel?

name is,
17 • This performer’s stage/professional initials. Itcontrary to
popular belief, not derived from his
is actually
derived from an approximate English pronunciation of his
original Hungarian surname, Székely.

• Who?

Gable movie “It
18 • The next video is a scene from the Clark an oft-repeated
Happened One Night”. This has inspired
phenomenon in popular culture.
• When this was first suggested, this movie was very popular
and hence it was thought that people would immediately get
the reference.
• However, as time passed the original reference was forgotten
and now this has evolved into a phenomenon of its own.
• What am I talking about ?

• Written Round, 6 questions
• All questions related to things which were inspired by poems for their
titles.
• +5 for each correct, +10 bonus.

2.
“The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mix't
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
___ ____ _____ to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage...“

This is from Milton’s Paradise Lost and the
blanks lend a very famous series its title.

• Not only that, but the title of the first
installment (which was also the working title
of the series), comes from the same source
“Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand
He took the ____ ______, prepared
In God's eternal store, to circumscribe
This universe, and all created things: “

• In fact, this whole series is said to be a
retelling or an inversion of the whole of
Paradise Lost.
• Name the series.

3.
“Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere,
From yon blue heavens above us bent
The gardener Adam and his wife
Smile 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.”

• Which movie’s title (roughly) fills
up the blanks of this verse from
Tennyson’s 1842 poem “Lady
Clara Vere de Vere”?

4.
In memory yet green, in joy still felt,
The scenes of life rise sharply into view.
We triumph; Life's disasters are undealt,
And while all else is old, the world is new.

• This is how the story of a famous
author’s (X) 2-part autobiography got
named. The publisher, Doubleday,
disliked the original title, so they
asked X to provide another, suggesting
he find a good quote from an obscure
poem. X suggested this poem.
• Doubleday agreed to X's new title, but
couldn't find the source of the verse
he had given them. When Doubleday
inquired, X confessed: "I wrote it
myself“. In the end, the poem was
attributed to "Anon."

5.
“Child Rowland to the ____ _____ came,
His word was still 'Fie, foh, and fum
I smell the blood of a British man.”
— King Lear, Act 3, scene 4

• The first line was used as the title
of a Robert Browning poem titled
“Childe Roland to the ____ _____
Came”.
• The poem might not be that well
known, but it served as the
inspiration for an epic series of
work. Not only the title, but also
the lead character and the plot
surface have been taken from the
poem.
• Which work?

List it - 1
• 6 Satyajit Ray movies have won the National Film Award for Best
Feature Film. This is the maximum for any director.
• List all 6
• +5 for each correct answer.
• +5 for 4 correct answers. +10 for all 6.

• 1955 – Pather Panchali
• 1959 – Apur Sansar
• 1964 – Charulata
• 1968 – Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
• 1971 – Seemabaddha
• 1991 - Agantuk

Yellow” is a book of short
19 • “The King infirst published in 1895. Thestoriesisby Robert W. a
Chambers,
book named after
fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif
through some of the stories. It is considered to be a classic of
the supernatural genre.
• In February 2014, what caused it to reach the Amazon top 10
bestsellers list?

the Tor a
20 • In ASOI&F series of books, HouseisJordayne ofthe coastisof the
Dornish noble house. Their seat placed on
Dornish Sea and during the books, their lord is Lord Trebor
Jordayne.

• This is GRRM’s tribute to whom? Explain.

Robert Jordan, Author of Wheel of Time
series

21 • X is an old narrative device that is often seen in Punjabi folk
music/poetry.
• Literally meaning ‘Female Firefly’, it is chiefly used to denote
the poet/writer who uses the pretext of X to make incisive
comments about the situation being described in the
song/poem.
• This device has also been widely used by mainstream
Bollywood music in the last few years.
• X?

Christian hymn
was written by Ada
22 • This is a popular music by CharlesthatGabriel way back in R.
Habershon with
H.
1907. Since then it has lapsed into the public domain, giving
rise to cover versions
• The song is generally played to be uplifting to the
congregation, and is a frequent standard in gospel revivals
• Two of the more popular versions were used on the
soundtrack of the game BioShock Infinite in 2013.
• However, why would you have heard about it in context with
recent movies?

Heroes & Villains list, only one
23 • In the AFI’s 100 Years...100 the Heroes list (#48) and the
character appears on both
Villians list (#22) . Which character?

24 • A commercial for the Ipad Air. What is the source of the
narration?

published three books
26 • Identify this American author who hasher most famous work
– “Sharp Objects”, “Dark Places”, and
X.
• Movies based on “Dark Places” and X are slated for 2014
releases with.

Gillian Flynn, author of Gone GIrl

Dog”
27 • What begins when military commandosaBill “Madto the Rizer
and Lance “Scorpion” Bean are sent on mission
Galuga Archipelago in 2633, to neutralize the Red Falcon, a
terrorist organization that is planning to take over the Earth?

• Shady Hint – Thinking of Nicaraguan rebel groups in
opposition to the Sandinista government from 1979 to 1990
might help.

28

• This method was first introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
treatises such as the Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De
Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria.
• Cicero says that this was first seen at a banquet in Thessaly which
the Greek poet and sophos Simonides attended in order to
present a lyric poem written in praise of the host. Simonides was
called outside shortly after his performance, and during his
absence the roof of the banqueting hall collapsed, crushing the
other diners, and mangling many of their corpses beyond
recognition. Simonides then did something to help identify the
corpses.
• Hannibal Lecter (in the Hannibal series of books by Thomas
Harris) and Thomas Cromwell, from Wolf Hall are other
practitioners of this technique.
• What ?

the image from a
29 • This isis the inspiration? Kickstarter project for a boardgame.
What

30

• “I will miss Mr. Crere, the faith of Compa and Sir DennisC, the wisdom of
Voronwe, the joy of Grammaboodawg, the support of Kangi Ska and so
many, many others… I’ve developed films for years and I have shot many a
movie on location… but rarely do you relocate for such massive amount of
time... My commitment to the project demanded enormous sacrifices
both in personal and professional terms. The consequences of which will
ripple for years. I relocated my entire life and family… and first came on
board in 2008… The cited delays were of sufficient complexity and
severity to lead to the current situation... As stated before- a wealth of
designs, animatics, boards and sculptures is left behind representing
accurately my ideas…and everyone (FW, PJ, PB and myself) has the same
goal in mind: to try and ensure the best possible transition of the movie
to a new director. I believe these films will happen. Preproduction
continues as we speak. The writing team of PJ,FW,PB and myself will keep
moving the screenplays forward…….

30

• …..Perhaps even sooner than we may anticipate we will all look at the
finished film and then- I will tear up whenever I recognize a set or a
creature or a quirk created under my supervision. Everyone on these
boards will get two movies. Me? I will be watching filmic family albums.
Photos of my children from far away. I hope you will understand how
delicate the subject is for me. I will drop by now and then, I will read the
boards with interest and do hope to see some of you around at SDCC and
many other places... Beyond that- I am simply no longer an official voice
for these projects. “
• Who wrote this letter and why?

Guillermo Del Toro when he resigned as
director of ‘The Hobbit’

31

• This lady (first name, Rhianna) is a
video game scriptwriter and
journalist, who has been the lead
writer on Eidos’ Tomb Raider
reboot, along with an assistant
writer on other titles like Prince of
Persia.
• Her father, who suffers from
Alzhiemer’s, has said that he would
be happy if she continues
something that was begun by him in
1983, even after his death.
• What is her last name ?

32 • A) Name the movie.

• B) What happens next and how is it a landmark?

A – Wings
B – First same sex kiss in cinema

is
33 • Breakout in an arcade game developed and published by
Atari, Inc 1976.
• The prototype to design the game was first given to X who
was promised a $750 bonus for every chip fewer than 50.
• X himself had little knowledge of circuit board design but his
friend Y, who worked at HP, had developed a version of Pong
(the older Atari classic) that took only 30 chips. They worked
together and got the game ready using 42 TTL chips.
• X and Y?

song
“Bob”.
34 • This is aDylan’sby Weird Al Yankovic calledBlues”. It is a parody
of Bob
“Subterranean Homesick
• What’s the big deal about this song?

Every single line is a palindrome

35

• A documentary about this group released nationwide in India on
21st February, 2014. What is more surprising is that a Hindi movie
about the same group is set to release next week.
• When the maker of the documentary was asked about the
“other” film she said,“I don’t think a commercial movie can
capture the color, nuance, immediacy, and the raw and edgy
quality of the ‘real’ which you’ll see in my film.“
• The producer of the “other” movie maintains that his movie has
no allusions with the source on which the documentary is based.
• Name either the documentary or the film or tell me what this is
about.

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