freshers' movie quiz 2012
TRANSCRIPT
Rules
Three or less people per team.
Do give innovative team names.
Written prelims and eight teams in the
finals.
Quiz-master is GOD.
Q2)
The script was sent to Julia Roberts with a $20 bill attached. Included was a note from George Clooney that said "I hear you're getting 20 a picture now". This of course is a joke referencing Julia Roberts becoming the highest paid actress at $20 million per picture.
Id the movie.
Q3)
• Y said: “I remember going with a great sense of anticipation to each new X film and thinking, Can he pull it off and amaze me again? And he always did. The lesson I learned from X was, never do the same thing twice.”
• Y forfeited his $8 million director's salary and his percentage of the gross when the studio became concerned at how much over budget the movie was running.
Whats Next?
Give the name of the movies which are literally sequels of these fictional movie titles.
Example:- Tomorrow
Ans:- The Day after Tomorrow
Q6)
Which blockbuster Indian movie set in the post Independence era revolves around a race between a tonga and a bus service and was re released in colur in 2007?
Q7)
In an interview by USA Today, X has stated that this will be his final disaster film: “I said to myself that I'll do one more disaster movie, but it has to end all disaster movies. So I packed everything in.”
Id the movie and person.
Q8)
The dice game that X plays with Y is called Liar's Dice, a gambling game where each player has to make consecutively higher bids based upon how many of each die they claim are on the table (two threes, four fives, etc.), until a player is called a liar, in which case all the dice are shown and it's seen if the bid is correct. Normally a player only loses a die when caught in a lie and is not out of the game until he has lost all his dice.
Id the movie.
Q11)
• It's one of the most peaceful places I've been to. As you enter the place there's a certain serenity that surrounds you. I really enjoyed being there. The first shot we took was of our feet entering the water just as you pass the doorway of the temple. The water was cold but it was great!
• X about visit to golden temple during shooting of Y• Y received the National Film Award for Best Popular Film
Providing Wholesome Entertainment• Nominated for the Best Film not in English language at the
2007 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards• While it was originally suggested that two language
versions of the film would be made concurrently, in English (as Z) and Hindi, the plans for an English version were dropped during development.
Q12)
X was the first Indian film to be actually shot inside the NASA research center at the Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida.
Q13)
A Common Man is an upcoming
psychological thriller film starring
Oscar Award winner Ben Kingsley
and Ben Cross and directed by
Sri Lankan film maker
Chandran Rutnam.The story is adapted from a concept that has been done before (in the movie X!), but Rutnamhas taken that concept and turned it around into a highly suspenseful thriller.
Ben Kingsly has the same role as Naseeruddin Shah had in the Indian equivalent of this movie that was X.
Id X.