Monday, January 19, 2009

The Movie Quiz

After a long hiatus we are back...But the Surprise QM that we had promised did not show up...So we have to Put up with the old QM...

Send in your answers to deepakdondas@gmail.com ..Please make sure u send your answers on or before 27th of January...And do check the blog before friday because i would be adding a few more questions ....



Question 1 : In India we float a new set of stamps to commemorate any significant event in our history..What significant event did this stamp commemorate??



Answer : Stamp to commemorate 75 years of release for 1st Indian Movie..Raja harishchandra..

Question 2: Identify the not so popular poster of a rather famous movie..



Answer : Saalam Bombay..

Question 3 : This movie is the reason many a super-dynamic Directors chose to do movies and this is still a huge inspiration for all Movie makers ..old or new..Identify the Movie..


Answer : Ladri di biciclette(The Bicycle Thief or Bicycle Thieves in English)


Question 4: If you follow Bollywood, by this time you must have known that we have a liking to remake (read Copy) hollywood movies ..But this was not the same....The Source for these two movies were surprisingly not Movies but something thats shown here..Identify the two movies..



Answer : Maqbool and Omkara from the Shakespeare Plays "macbeth" and "othello".


Question 5:Identify the place ..An Odd Place it is...


Answer : Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium.

Question 6:Identify the Classic..Look Closely and you wont miss it..


Answer : Schindler's List

Question 7 :Identify and Connect ..This one is a dolly...

Answer : Devdas....SRK, Dillip Kumar ,Abhay Deol(will) have all potrayed the character.

Question 8 :Connect..


Answer : Michael Moore's Movies ..

Question 9 : Again Connect ...


Answer : Quentine Tarantino and his upcoming flick Inglorious Bastards (Pulpy orange was great Hint..for Pulp Fiction..Kiddin..)

Question 10 : What is the significance of this Movie ??

Answer : 1st color indian movie Kisan Kanya
Question 11 :This All-time great actor forced this All-time great director to kick his cocaine addiction.The Director fearing that would be last movie poured all his energy into this movie what many consider his all-time best movie.The movie is widely considered a Master-Piece with some calling it the kamikaze method of film making...

Identify the movie or the director..

Answer : Martin Scorcese and the Movie Raging Bull

Question 12 : This is my favourite..There are 3 different routes that are shown in 3 different colours..Just tell me what am i talking about...And its a movie quiz ..as if you didnot know till now...


Answer : Path traced by Jason Bourne in the Bourne series.

Question 13 : Identify the right most person in the Pic..But If you can connect the 3 persons you get the points too...

Answer :  Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson played Joker in the Batman Movies and Caeser Romeo potrayed the same in the TV series. Connect is JOKER

Question 14 : Identify the legendary Indian .Again a Movie quiz this and i hope you do know that...
Answer : DadaSaheb Phalke

Question 15: Identify and Connect .


Answer : Movies that Inspired Video Games..

Question 16 :Which famous Movie was an inspired by this Movie ..No Googling on this..




Answer : Bheja Fry (Brain was the hint...)

Question 17: Identify the Movie.


Answer : Ek Chotti Si Love Story 

Scores : 

Debashis : 10
Preetam :9.5
Subrajit : 9
Ritwik kallandy :2.5
Manas : 4

Until Next Time ...Keep Googling...

9 comments:

Debasish said...
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Don Z said...

Please Donot Post your answers here....

Don Z said...

Republic Day Weekend was long and a nice time to take timeoff from the hectic quizzing...So we intend to keep the quiz for one more week and hence few questions added...Answers should be sent before Friday 1800 Hrs IST

Preetam Jena said...

Hints plzzz for 4,8,11,12 n 13

Don Z said...

4-Think British,..
8-Movies connecting the person and companies and iraq...
11-He is as brilliant as you get...Top Notch drector ..not many are as good as him..
12-3 Routes are shown...Someone treaded those paths that was made into a movie...Very Famous...
13-Recent news ..

Preetam Jena said...

I have done 11 I need 15.

Don Z said...

if you have seen ghajini in the theatre you should get it...

Don Z said...

15 . Van Helsing , LOTR ,ScarFace,Ghajini,Golden Eye ..

♫♥♥MANAS♥♥♫ said...

grr i never posted anythin or chkd anythin ovr here...missed the hints :'( was too late 4 d deadline .. any ways still a nice compilation dd