MASALA Prelims

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ1.Xis a1972Bollywoodcomedy filmproduced by C.Mohan on Balaji Kala Mandir banner, directed by Aspi Irani. The film is basically a tale of a clash of ideologies - whether might is right or right is might. This is how the story goes in the kingdom of Sabzbag , lusty womanizer, Capt. Kishore, wants a gypsy dancer for himself, and is ready to kill anyone who tries to get in the way. But his plans are foiled when the woman kills herself, leaving behind an injured father, the head of the gypsies, and a younger sister by the name of Jugnu. Jugnu swears to avenge her sister's death, and seeks training from Robert Taylor, and becomes an expert in weapons and fist-fighting. She assumes the guise of a masked male and calls herself X, and inflicts terror in Capt. Kishore's life and army. But X's attempts to kill Kishore are foiled when she is captured, just to be saved by another masked man.ID X.(There is also another 2005 movie by the same name)

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ2.This is a still from Major Chandrakanth, a 1966 Tamil film by K.Balachander. The man in the middle, the actor Sunderrajan who played the title role, is even today called Major Sunderrajan.The actor on the left is A.V.M.Rajan, who plays the Majors son and a negative character. How was his characters name reused a few years later?

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ3.Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates a triad, and a police officer who is secretly working for the triad.The film had been selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.Interestingly, when the movie was remade in 2006, it was so well received that it received multiple awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture.Simply identify the remake.

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Q5.X is a 2006 dystopian political thriller about an alternate future where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom.The unique aspect of this film is an insane detail hidden in almost every frame of the film.(Photos on next slide) Id X and the unique element.

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Q7.Id the chord which is used in many forms of contemporary popular music, including Jazz, funk, R&B, hip hop, rock and pop. The chord is also sometimes colloquially known, among pop and rock guitarists, as _______ , nicknamed for one of the greatest guitarists.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBRock & Roll Hall of fame describes him as agruably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.10

*Q8.Nights of Cabiria is a Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier and Amedeo Nazzari. Based on a story by Fellini himself, the film is about a prostitute in Rome who searches for true love in vain.The film won an academy award for Best Foreign Language Film edging out its nearest competitor by a single vote. And to add to the drama, the director of the latter, shocked by his unexpected loss, had a heart attack. When the news came back to the directors homeland, various theories started making rounds as to why the film had lost out.Id film and the director

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ9. Id the song which it was supposedly copied from and the artist/band.Give the name of the Hindi version as well.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ10.Connect this in-exhaustive list and fill in the blank

Three days of the Condor(1975)Buffalo 66 (1998)Out of Sight(1998)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000)King Kong(2005)Labor Day (2013)___________ (2014)

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ11. Say the name of the scriptwriter.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ12._____ __ ______ is a song by Neha Kakkar feat. Harshit Tomar. It was released in response to another song, X, that talks about the shallowness of human relationships.The song, with around 55,000 plays on Spotify (a high number for songs in this language) and 16.8 million views on YouTube, describes a condition where relationships are driven only by monetary ambitions.ID X.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q13.BricksburgCloud Cuckoo LandOld WestMiddle ZealandInfinite Abyss of NothingnessThe Think Tank

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ14. These are the first 25 seconds of which iconic music video?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBAccording to Y, the writer of the 1945 book X, it is a book that reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then onto the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. A democratic socialist, Y was extremely critical of Stalin and believed that Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship. X features a group of animals who rebel against their owners and create a seemingly utopian world with no masters. This, however, changes by the end of the book. Its release was delayed as the WW2 had just ended and the British were not willing to risk their friendship with the Russians. It also inspired Pink Floyds album Animals.Q15.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q16.Jim Sarbh has featured in Death of a Salesman with Alyque Padamsee, The Living Room with Kalki Koechlin and in Rajat Kapurs production of Tennesse Williams The Glass Menagerie. He also recently featured in a Rajasthan tourism advertisement.Trained as a psychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, the Mumbai-born Parsi took up acting after he moved to Mumbai.Where have we seen him recently?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ17.The piracy group behind the illegal release of ____s latest movie X,has apologised for leaking the western on to the web for free before it hit US cinemas.Sorry to disappoint but there was no hack or any such thing, the group said. We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. We were definitely not the only ones. Couple other movies have been on the net days before, not done from us. So we wanted to share this movie with the people who are not rich enough or not able to watch all nominated movies in the cinema. We actually think this has created a new type of media hype because everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to see the movie that created so much noise. This will push the cinema tickets sale for sure We really hope this helped out the producers in the long run.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ18. Gimme the Tech

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ19.Fresh out of film school, X was at the Academy Awards in 1979 when his documentary short about child slum dwellers in Mumbai, India, "An Encounter With Faces," was nominated for an Oscar."I was too poor to rent a tuxedo," recalled X in Los Angeles. "They said I could wear national dress. All I had was kurta. I sat next to Jane Fonda in my pajamas. I was brash enough to think I'd win, that I'd made the best movie ever.He didn't win, but he was hoping that the nomination and recognition would pave the way for him in Hollywood. That didn't happen. So he took a different route.He returned to India and made a string of highly popular Bollywood movies. Two of these broke box office records in India.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q20.Kip Thorne is the professor of Physics at Caltech. What is his claim to fame?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBWhen Mike Judge, creator ofOffice SpaceandBeavis & Butt-head, set out to write this series,X.He wanted to conceive a simple, believable widget for his characters to invent.So he teamed with Stanford electrical engineering professor Tsachy ___________ and Ph.D. student Vinith Misra.It is basically a metric in comparing the compression rates of applications called theY, which did not exist before the show's run.

Q21.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ22.Which comic book is being referenced here?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ23.The phrase made its first pop appearance on a season 1 episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. "The Blackout" in which Joey tells Ross that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel anymore. Joey:It's never gonna happen.Ross:What?Joey:You and Rachel.Ross:Wha... whatta... What? Why not?Joey:Because you waited too long to make your move, and now you're inthe __________ _______.Ross:No, no, no. I'm not in the ____.Joey:Ross, you're mayor of the ____.Just tell me what this much-hated term is?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q24. Id the other person

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ25. What do you better know this place for?

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ1.Xis a1972Bollywoodcomedy filmproduced by C.Mohan on Balaji Kala Mandir banner, directed by Aspi Irani. The film is basically a tale of a clash of ideologies - whether might is right or right is might. This is how the story goes in the kingdom of Sabzbag , lusty womanizer, Capt. Kishore, wants a gypsy dancer for himself, and is ready to kill anyone who tries to get in the way. But his plans are foiled when the woman kills herself, leaving behind an injured father, the head of the gypsies, and a younger sister by the name of Jugnu. Jugnu swears to avenge her sister's death, and seeks training from Robert Taylor, and becomes an expert in weapons and fist-fighting. She assumes the guise of a masked male and calls herself X, and inflicts terror in Capt. Kishore's life and army. But X's attempts to kill Kishore are foiled when she is captured, just to be saved by another masked man.ID X.(There is also another 2005 movie by the same name)

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBGaram Masala

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ2.This is a still from Major Chandrakanth, a 1966 Tamil film by K.Balachander. The man in the middle, the actor Sunderrajan who played the title role, is even today called Major Sunderrajan.The actor on the left is A.V.M.Rajan, who plays the Majors son and a negative character. How was his characters name reused a few years later?

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The actor Shivaji Rao was given the name Rajinikanth by K.Balachander from this characters name.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ3.Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates a triad, and a police officer who is secretly working for the triad.The film had been selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.Interestingly, when the movie was remade in 2006, it was so well received that it received multiple awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture.Simply identify the remake.

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The Departed

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ4. Connect

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBKishore Kumars wives

Madhubala Leena Chandavarkar Yogeeta Bali Ruma Guha Thakurta

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ5.X is a 2006 dystopian political thriller about an alternate future where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom.The unique aspect of this film is an insane detail hidden in almost every frame of the film.(Photos on next slide) Id X and the unique element.

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V for Vendetta

The letter V and the number 5 present in almost every frame.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ6. Connect

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBPuneet Issar

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ7Id this chord which is used in many forms of contemporary popular music, including Jazz, funk, R&B, hip hop, rock and pop. The chord is also sometimes colloquially known, among pop and rock guitarists, as _______ , nicknamed for one of the greatest guitarists.

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Hendrix Chord (Named after Jimi Hendrix)

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q8.Nights of Cabiria is a Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier and Amedeo Nazzari. Based on a story by Fellini himself, the film is about a prostitute in Rome who searches for true love in vain.The film won an academy award for Best Foreign Language Film edging out its nearest competitor by a single vote. And to add to the drama, the director of the latter, shocked by his unexpected loss, had a heart attack. When the news came back to the directors homeland, various theories started making rounds as to why the film had lost out.Id film and the director

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBMother India by Mehboob Khan

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ9. Id the song which it was supposedly copied from and the artist/band.Give the name of the Hindi version as well.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBUnder Pressure by Queen & David BowieThanda Thanda Pani

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ10.Connect this in-exhaustive list and fill in the blank

Three days of the Condor(1975)Buffalo 66 (1998)Out of Sight(1998)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000)King Kong(2005)Labor Day (2013)___________ (2014)

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Movies based on the Stockholm Syndrome.Highway.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ11. Say the name of the scriptwriter.

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Vince Gilligan

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ12._____ __ ______ is a song by Neha Kakkar feat. Harshit Tomar. It was released in response to another song, X, that talks about the shallowness of human relationships.The song, with around 55,000 plays on Spotify (a high number for songs in this language) and 16.8 million views on YouTube, describes a condition where relationships are driven only by monetary ambitions.ID X.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBJaguar

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q13.BricksburgCloud Cuckoo LandOld WestMiddle ZealandInfinite Abyss of NothingnessThe Think Tank

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Realms of The Lego Movie

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ14. These are the first 25 seconds of which iconic music video?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBTunak Tunak Tun

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBAccording to Y, the writer of the 1945 book X, it is a book that reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then onto the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. A democratic socialist, Y was extremely critical of Stalin and believed that Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship. X features a group of animals who rebel against their owners and create a seemingly utopian world with no masters. This, however, changes by the end of the book. Its release was delayed as the WW2 had just ended and the British were not willing to risk their friendship with the Russians. It also inspired Pink Floyds album Animals.Q15.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBX Animal FarmY George Orwell

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q16.Jim Sarbh has featured in Death of a Salesman with Alyque Padamsee, The Living Room with Kalki Koechlin and in Rajat Kapurs production of Tennesse Williams The Glass Menagerie. He also recently featured in a Rajasthan tourism advertisement.Trained as a psychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, the Mumbai-born Parsi took up acting after he moved to Mumbai.Where have we seen him recently?

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Neerja (main terrorist Khalil)

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ17.The piracy group behind the illegal release of ____s latest movie X,has apologised for leaking the western on to the web for free before it hit US cinemas.Sorry to disappoint but there was no hack or any such thing, the group said. We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. We were definitely not the only ones. Couple other movies have been on the net days before, not done from us. So we wanted to share this movie with the people who are not rich enough or not able to watch all nominated movies in the cinema. We actually think this has created a new type of media hype because everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to see the movie that created so much noise. This will push the cinema tickets sale for sure We really hope this helped out the producers in the long run.

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The Hateful Eight

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ18. Gimme the Tech

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB The Bullet-Time EffectMidnight Mover by The Accept

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ19.Fresh out of film school, X was at the Academy Awards in 1979 when his documentary short about child slum dwellers in Mumbai, India, "An Encounter With Faces," was nominated for an Oscar."I was too poor to rent a tuxedo," recalled X in Los Angeles. "They said I could wear national dress. All I had was kurta. I sat next to Jane Fonda in my pajamas. I was brash enough to think I'd win, that I'd made the best movie ever.He didn't win, but he was hoping that the nomination and recognition would pave the way for him in Hollywood. That didn't happen. So he took a different route.He returned to India and made a string of highly popular Bollywood movies. Two of these broke box office records in India.

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Vidhu Vinod Chopra

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q20.Kip Thorne is the professor of Physics at Caltech. What is his claim to fame?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBHe served as the Scientific advisor on the film, Interstellar. In fact, much of the science in the movie has been based on his work regarding wormholes.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBWhen Mike Judge, creator ofOffice SpaceandBeavis & Butt-head, set out to write this series,X.He wanted to conceive a simple, believable widget for his characters to invent.So he teamed with Stanford electrical engineering professor Tsachy ___________ and Ph.D. student Vinith Misra.It is basically a metric in comparing the compression rates of applications called theY, which did not exist before the show's run.

Q21.

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X- Silicon ValleyY- Weissman score

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ22.Which comic book is being referenced here?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBThe Killing Joke

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ23.The phrase made its first pop appearance on a season 1 episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. "The Blackout" in which Joey tells Ross that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel anymore. Joey:It's never gonna happen.Ross:What?Joey:You and Rachel.Ross:Wha... whatta... What? Why not?Joey:Because you waited too long to make your move, and now you're inthe __________ _______.Ross:No, no, no. I'm not in the ____.Joey:Ross, you're mayor of the ____.Just tell me what this much-hated term is?

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Friend-Zoned

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB*Q24. Id the other person

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Peter Dinklage

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ25. What do you better know this place for?

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The bar of TVF PitchersThree Wise Men

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