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An Entertainment Quiz

by

Mario D’Cunha

Infosys, Chennai

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Question 1

• Academy Awards: 16 nominations; 2 wins

• Golden Globe Awards: 25 nominations; 7 wins

• Record for highest Academy nominations by any actor till date

• Record for highest Golden Globe nominations and wins by any actor till date

Id the person.

Question 1

Meryl Streep

Question 2

• Mark William Calaway is an American professional wrestler.

• He joined WCW as "Mean" Mark Callous in 1989. When his contract wasn’t renewed he joined the WWE as X and has remained with the company since 20 years till date.

• He is responsible for bringing in the Hell in a Cell match, being the first contestant and victim of it, apart from his special Y match.

Id X.

Question 2

The Undertaker

Question 3

• Barbra Millicent Roberts also known as X is from Willows, Wisconsin and attended the Manhattan International High School in New York City.

• She has an on-off romantic relationship with her boyfriend Y.

• X has had over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra.

• X has also worked in Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 and has also mimicked Katrina Kaif too.

Id X.

Question 3

The Barbie Doll

Question 4

• Father and son duo, creators of X, Dick Brown & Chris Brown

• Set in an unnamed coastal village of Norway

• X has a pet duck Kwack and loyal and clever dog Snert

• X’s annual bath is a time of national joy and celebration

Id X.

Question 4

Hagar the Horrible

Question 5 Connect

Question 5

The Avengers

Question 6

Sacha Baron Cohen voiced the animated character in a well known animated movie.

Name the character.

Question 6

King Julien

Question 7

• David Crane and Marta Kauffman, began developing X under the title Insomnia Café in November 1993.

• Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California in front of a live audience.

• The finale, first aired on May 6, 2004, was watched by 52.5 million American viewers, making it the fourth most-watched series finale in television history.

• The series won many awards and was nominated for 63 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Id X.

Question 7

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Question 8

• Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

• Duck Amuck

• For Scent-imental Reasons

• Pigs in a Polka

• Walky Talky Hawky

• Beep Prepared

What are these and what’s special bout them?

Question 8

Looney Tunes nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Films

Question 9

• Producer and cinematographer Nariman Irani was in deep debt when his film Zindagi Zindagi (1972) starring Sunil Dutt flopped.

• The cast and crew of X recommended that he produce another film and that they will participate in the film.

• They all approached Salim-Javed, who gave them an untitled script that had already been rejected by the entire industry.

• The film took 3.5 years to complete, before which, producer Irani had an accident on the set of another film and died.

• The film was released without any promotion on 12 May 1978 and was declared a flop the 1st week. But by the 2nd week, the film was declared a big hit. The profits were given to Irani's widow to settle her husband's debts.

Id the film.

Question 9

Don

Question 10

• He is an American actor known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters

• Collaborated with director and close friend Tim Burton.

• He joked that his surname translates to "idiot" in German, though it is actually a minor insult meaning "fool"

• He has 13 tattoos.

• He’s unable to watch his new film in 3D because he’s part of a small population who cannot process 3D images.

Who is he?

Question 10

Johnny Depp

Question 11

X won the Oscar for Best Actor and Y won it for the Best Supporting Actor, for the same character. They are the only two actors to win it in this way.

Id both actors and the character.

Question 11

Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Vito Corleone

Question 12

• X was born in 1924, Mysore, India, nestled in the jungles of Karapur.

• The son of an elephant driver (mahout) in service for the Maharajah of his town. Elephant Boy was his first film.

• First Indian actor to make it big in Hollywood. In the late 1940-50s, he was among the richest stars in Hollywood.

• He was a friend to James Stewart, Ronald Reagan, among others.

• He’s got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Id X.

Question 12

Sabu Dastagir

Question 13

• This great director X never received an Academy Award but was honored with a U. S. Postage stamp in 1998.

• X was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1980. Sir X died the same year.

• The advertisement for his movie Y was very startling when he said no one would be allowed in once the movie started!

• “Actors are cattle.”

• “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

Id X.

Question 13

Alfred Hitchcock

Question 14

• X loves his Aunty Maya, Uncle Bhim and girlfriend Meera Jain.

• Nalin Oberoi, a local crime lord, uses an amulet to perform an ancient ritual, where he gets possessed by a demon committed to opening the gate for other demons to get back to Earth.

• While being chased by other kids, I encountered an ancient yogi who gives me the power of Y to fight evil.

• While discovering my powers, I refused to help a woman being attacked by several men. I left the place, but came back when I heard a cry and I learnt the biggest lesson of my life “Z”.

Id X, Y, Z

Question 14

Pavithr Prabhakar, Spider, With Great Power comes great responsibility

Question 15 But this year I'll go further,

Listen closely to my song:

Though condemned I am to split you

Still I worry that it's wrong…

Where have you heard these lines?

Question 15 The Sorting Hat Song, Harry Potter and the

Order of the Phoenix

Question 16

• X was born in Mumbai to a Bollywood film producer. • For a period of time, X followed numerology, creating

film titles in which the first word began with a specific English Alphabet

• After watching the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munnabhai, X decided to stop this practice.

• In 2007, X was chosen as one of 250 Global Young Leaders by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum 2006.

• In 2006, X became the first Indian filmmaker to be a jury member in the Miss World competition, in Warsaw, Poland.

Id X.

Question 16

Karan Johar

Question 17

• He was a boy genius.

• Enters MIT at the age of 15 to study Electrical Engineering.

• He was imprisoned with a Nobel Prize Winner Yinsen.

• He has a friend by the name of James Rhodes.

Who am I taking about?

Question 17

Tony Stark, Iron Man

Question 18

• X was born in the family of Seth Chhaju Ram, a leading Jat philanthropist, in Rohtak, Haryana.

• X adopted the screen name of “Y", meaning “Empress", to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema.

• Before entering films, X appeared in television commercials with Amitabh Bachchan for BPL and Shahrukh Khan for Santro.

Id X.

Question 18

Mallika Sherawat

Question 19

• X is the household butler summoned by means of a bell-pull in the form of a hangman's noose

• Rings the massive bell located in the mansion's bell tower; That gong shakes the entire house

• When X appears he responds with a baritone "You rang?”

• He is superhumanly strong and often plays the harpsichord .

Id X.

Question 19

Lurch, The Addam’s Family

Question 20

• X’s mother announces its time for his arranged marriage to Manjula, not seen in years.

• X was hesitant, but the two actually fall in love.

• Manjula receives overdose of fertility drugs from X & Y.

• Octuplets: Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Priya, Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet.

• When the town changed its name to Libertyville to be patriotic: Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi, Manifest Destiny, Apple Pie, and Superman.

Id X and Y.

Question 20

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Hank Azaria, Operator of the Kwik-E-Mart

Question 21

• In the "Three" storyline, concluding in X #587 (cover date March 2011, published January 26, 2011), Y dies fighting a horde of aliens from the other dimensional Negative Zone.

• The series is scheduled to end with the following issue, #588, and re-launch in March 2011.

• Spider-Man will take the Y's place on the team, as requested in the Y's will.

Id X and Y.

Question 21

Fantastic Four, The Human Torch

Question 22

“No blood. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood; no blood at all. Why hadn't I thought of that? No blood. What a beautiful idea!”

Who said this…?

Question 22

Dexter, Michael C. Hall

Question 23

Which movie won the first ever Academy Award For Best Animated Feature?

Question 23

Shrek

Question 24

What did Captain Haddock say when he found Red Rackham’s Treasure?

“Blistering _ _ _ _ _ _ _, it’s Red Rackham’s

_ _ _ _ _ _ _!!!”

Question 24

“Blistering treasures, it’s Red Rackham’s barnacles!!!”

Question 25

I formed ‘The Knights of Walpurgis’. My name translates to ‘flight from death’.

Who am I?

Question 25

Lord Voldemort

Question 26

Connect

Question 26

Items in Super Mario Video game

Question 27

X grew up on a farm with his parents, brother and 25 cats.

X’s childhood on a farm parallels the life of Y’s owner, Z, who was also raised on a farm, with his parents and a brother.

Both X and Z are cartoonists and share the same birthday on July 28.

Id X, Y, Z

Question 27

Jim Davis, Garfield, Jon Arbuckle

Question 28

• X is a 2010 Indian anthology film with 4 short films: Abhimanyu, Omar, Megha and Afia based on child abuse, gay rights, Kashmiri pandits and sperm donation respectively.

• X is the 1st mainstream Hindi film that is crowd-sourced through Twitter and Facebook and director Y offered backers co-production credit in the film and a share in the profits.

• X has won the Best Film Award while Z bagged the Best Actress award for her performance in the film at the 13th London Asian Film Festival for her character of Megha. Released in India on April 22, 2011.

• Id X, Y, Z

Question 28

I am, Onir, Juhi Chawla

Question 29

X, Y, Abhijeet, Fredricks, Vivek, Tasha, Dr. Taarika and Dr. Salunkhe form the Z Team.

Id X, Y, Z.

Question 29

ACP Pradyuman, Daya, CID

Question 30

• The scene from X’s show aired on May 23rd 2005 on CBS is still heavily parodied in MADtv, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, etc.

• But May 25th 2011 is a much more remarkable date in American TV than the above.

• X is planning to telecast new episodes of the show on X’s own television channel called OWN.

• Id X.

Question 30

Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show

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The only animated films till date to be nominated for Best Feature Film at the Oscars.

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Pirates of the Caribbean

and the winner is…

Special Thanks

Aanchal Anup Sharma Infosys, Pune

Praahas Amin MIT, Manipal

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