VGA PDPU organized Film Quiz on 8th Feb 2012. It was a grand and successful event. Here is the presentation containing all the questions and their answers! Visit us at http://www.facebook.com/vga.pdpu

2. Films fascinate us and form most of our world,
let’s chat about them !!

3. PRELIMS

4. PRELIMS
• Contains 15 questions including 5 star-marked questions
• Star-marked questions will be used as tie-breakers
• Only 6 teams will qualify
• Use of any electronic device is banned, if found violating, the team will be
disqualified
• Please keep your mobile phones on silent/airplane mode
• Quiz Master’s discretion in any round will be final

5. What does the word ‘Gojira’ hint at, in filmi
context? And what it means in Japanese?
• HINT: Gojira is made from 2 words: Gorilla and Kujira

6. Godzilla !!!

7. What is this called ?

8. Vulcan salute

9. • The Amazing Spiderman (2012) is a X
of Spiderman (2002). Similarly, Dev D is also a
X of Devdas (1955), Devdas (2002). What is
X?

10. Reboot

11. Which 2010 short film won Oscars Award for
Best Live Action Short Film?

13. Which TV film, set in 1970s, screenwrited by
Arundhati Roy features Shah Rukh Khan in one
of his earliest roles ? It’s is a funny film
of architecture students in their final year of
college.

14. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

15. Who designed the Oscar statuette?

16. Cedric Gibbons

17. • Which artist won both awards, the Grammy
for the Best Rap Album and Oscar for the
Best Original Song in 2002?

18. Eminem

19. • Abhas Kumar Kanjilal Ganguly is also better
known as ?

20. Kishore Kumar

21. What’s his real name?

22. Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi

23. • In the soundtrack of which film was the song
‘Bandeya Ho’ used first?

24. Khuda Kay Liye (2007)

25. Name the shrimp fishing company
that Forrest Gump started ?

26. Bubba Gump Shrimp Corporation

27. Players is a remake of which movie?

28. The Italian Job

29. Who is the father of Raj Kapoor?

30. Prithviraj Kapoor

31. Which song by System of a Down
featured in Disturbia (2007)?

32. Lonely Day

33. How can you connect Fire, Earth,
Bawandar and Firaaq?

34. Nandita Das, Director

37. Star Trek (2009)

39. E.T.

41. Pulp Fiction

43. The Runaways

44. 5. Identify the film !

45. Gladiator

46. 6. Identify the film !

47. American Gangster

50. Alfred Hitchcock

51. Name the person in right.

52. Martin Scorcese

54. Zeenat Aman

56. Marlon Brando

60. Resul Pookutty
• He is a sound designer,
editor and mixer. He has
won several awards, most
famously, Academy Award
for Best sound Mixing for
Slumdog Millionaire.

62. Linda Blair

64. 1. Which was the first ever motion picture
special effect ?
A) Schufftan process
B) CGI
C) Stop trick
D) Rear projection

65. GEORGE
MELIES
C) Stop trick
It occurs when an object is filmed, then while the camera is off,
the object is moved out of sight of the camera, then the
camera is turned back on. When the film is watched it thus
seems to the viewer that the object disappears.

68. 3. Can you name the technology used for
creating these characters' actions and
expressions ?

69. Motion Capture

70. 4. When a screenwriter writes a
script/screenplay hoping to have the
script optioned (contract) and eventually
purchased by
a producer, production company, or studio,
what is such a script called?

71. Spec script

72. 5. Sometimes, it happens that during a period
a film is stuck i.e. not moving towards
production. What is this period called?
(Spiderman (2002) suffered such a period of 25
years !)

74. 6. After the advent of chroma key i.e.
bluescreen/greenscreen, some technologies
got outdated. It included Schufftan process
and ________ projection. Which projection?

78. Christian Bale

79. • Which Hindi song featured in
BBC's list of 10 Most Popular
Songs (International) on 9th
position?
• It is composed by A R Rahman.
• It's remixed versions were used in a film
starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owel.

80. Chaiyya Chaiyya

81. • He is a 16 yr old guy
studying in Bangalore.
• He is the world’s
youngest Director of a
professional feature-
length film the world,
being the Director and
Writer of C/o Footpath
when he was only 9
years old.
Name this Director !!

82. Kishan Shrikanth

84. Indian nominations for Academy Award for
Best Foreign Language Film
• Mother India in 1957
• Salaam Bombay in 1988
• Lagaan in 2001

86. Millennium Series
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
• The Girl Who Played With Fire
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
• Stieg Larsson
• David Fincher

88. Stephen King’s novels

90. Martin Scorcese

91. Done In 60 Seconds
Teams will have to choose a set of 7 questions.
Each correct answer will give +5 points.
No negative points.
Max. 7 questions per team
All 7 correct answers will lead to bonus of +15
points.
All this in 60 Seconds !

92. THANK YOU !