An Entertainment and Movies Quiz

Pulp Facts

By Murali for Quizics Informals

Rules

40 Questions , one point each 5 Starred Questions No Negatives , feel free to guess. Please don’t cheat Quizmaster ain’t any gawd .

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1

Painting of Marth Mariam and Infant Jesus, accompanied by John The Baptist found at Mannanam.

Need the name of the painter.

Raja Ravi Varma

2

Pictured is ‘Yen Sid’ s a powerful sorcerer and teacher of Mickey Mouse, who first appeared in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a segment of the 1940 film Fantasia.

Why the name ‘Yen Sid’ ?

 "Disney" spelled backwards   According to the filmmakers, Yen Sid was

apparently modeled after Walt Disney right down to signature facial features recognizable by the animators. Yen Sid's name, which is not given in the film itself, was given to him by the animators. It is "Disney" spelled backwards which pays tribute to Walt Disney, himself.

3 They Saved ______'s Brain is a

1968 science fiction film that revolves around ______ pictured as alive and living on an island in the Caribbean with his brain removed. When a young woman and her husband go in search of her scientist-father and sister, they find a group of people who plan to resume their atrocities upon humanity by resurrecting ______’s Brain .

FITB .

4 Haider Mirza popularly known as

_______ was an Indian mobster and filmmaker. He became the first celebrity gangster of the city of Bombay, expanding his influence in the film industry by giving money to directors and studios for film production and later began to produce films himself. His alias was used in something that came out last year and consequently his alias was used over and over by people without really knowing who he was or what he was .

What was his alias / Where was his alias used?

Shaji Pappan Song ! Alias is Haji Mastan

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5 Her forename is a Sanskrit word meaning

"splendour” or “light", and is an alternate name of Parvati, the Hindu goddess of love and fertility . Her father, was a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an academic and writer , so she received a Buddhist upbringing and spent altogether around two years in the Indo-Himalayan town of Almora . A novel by her husband titled Ash Wednesday is dedicated to “Karuna” which is her middle name .

Who ?

Uma Thurman

6 < Image on Next Slide>

Pictured is The Glienicke Bridge in Berlin , Germany which was a restricted border crossing between the Eastern Bloc and the territory affiliated with the Western powers , and thus the Americans and the Soviets used it for an activity which gave it a particular title.

What activity / What title ?

Spy Exchange / Bridge of Spies

7

What is blanked out ?

The ‘Minion’ language ( Or the Banana Language )

:-D

8  _________ Chronicles: India is the second video

game in the Chronicles series, a trilogy of downloadable installments featuring protagonists from various media of the___________ franchise. The game follows Arbaaz Mir in Amritsar 1841, in the midst of a war between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company. Arbaaz must recover the famed Koh-i-Noor diamond and while doing so, he must also protect his Mentor, Hamid, and his lover, princess Pyara Kaur.

Which game franchise ? < Image slide follows>

Assassin’s Creed <facepalm>

9 Heteropoda _________ is a species

of huntsman spider of the Heteropoda genus. It was described from Cameron Highlandsin peninsular Malaysia the species name honors _______, who was apparently selected for the honour because of his contribution to arachnid world and the resemblance of the frontal view of the spider to _________’s painted face in his early career.

FITB .

David Bowie

10 Emilio Fernandez was a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter,

and actor who fled Mexico for Los Angeles in the 1920’s . While working in Hollywood, Emilio became friends with a Mexican-American actress who just so happened to be the wife of an Art Director at MGM Studios named Cedric Gibbons.

Gibbons on meeting Emilio Fernandez came up with the idea and the rest is history.

What ?

Oscar Statuette

11

Whose memorial ?

M G Ramachandran

12 Spaceballs is a 1987 film

spoofing the original Star Wars Trilogy . In the film , the character Jabba The Hutt is parodied by changing his name into something that sounds like an international franchise .

How was Jabba renamed in Spaceballs ?

Pizza the Hutt !

13 At what well

known spot in Switzerland can this be spotted or name the two people whose names are blanked out here ?

Reichenbach Falls. Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.

14 A Mexican clinic, the Sage

Neuroscience Center, is using this to get New Mexicans off narcotics. (The state has the highest rate of addiction in the US.) By sharing their stories of addiction, entrants have the chance to win one of two “________ Addiction” scholarships, which entitle them to 12 weeks of free rehabilitation treatment worth thousands of dollars.

What ?

Breaking Bad ( The scholarship being breaking addiction scholarship )

15

For what was this suit (worn by stuntsman Glenn Ennis ) used ?

The Bear Scene ( From The Revenant )

16

On what is this Pokémon called Trubbish modelled after ?

Garbage Bag !

17 In 1992 , two English journalists Andrew

Jennings and Vyv Simson wrote a controversial book about the International Olympic Committee chairman Juan Samaranch and the commercialized modern-day Olympics citing examples from the Olympic Games that took place in Barcelona in 1992.

What title borrowed from fantasy literature did they give to the book ?

18 Suikawari is a traditional Japanese game played

in the summertime and is mostly seen at beaches, but also occurs at festivals , picnics and other summer time recreations. The game involves the smashing of the watermelons with a wooden stick and the players are blindfolded during the game .

The criterion for qualifying as a Judge of the game involves a minimum of 10 watermelons .

What exactly should one do with watermelons to qualify as a Judge of the game ?

Eat Them :-p

One should have eaten at least 10 watermelons in the year in which the game takes place to appear as a judge.

19 The fruit shown is either eaten on

the half-shell or scooped out with a tool, usually chilled when served. It is sometimes served with a little cream and sugar to intensify the flavor, or with a drop of lime or lemon juice to bring in a tart and bitter tinge.

The fruit is often considered unfit for human consumption (mostly amongst the Mallus )due to something.

Either name the fruit or Why the misunderstanding ?

Ilama Fruit / The ‘Guru’ (1997 ) Reference

The Ilama fruit was used as a plot device in the 1997 Malayalam film, Guru and was depicted that the pulp of the fruit causes blindness and the seed cures the blindness.

20 _________ Effect:Changing Hollywood , America and

Me by Tom Santopietro is a 2012 critically acclaimed study of a film series ,as well as the novel on which the movies are based on and their effect on American culture.  The study demonstrates how __________was a turning point in American cultural consciousness. With its emphasis on proud ethnicity, __________changed not just the way Italian-Americans saw themselves, but how Americans of all backgrounds viewed their individual and national self-identities, their possibilities, and attendant disappointments.

FITB .

The Godfather

21

 The crest is mainly consists of Zodiac signs .Two Leo lions, a Cancer crab and two fairies to representingVirgo. The "Q" �and the crown represent the entity itself, of course, and a phoenix protects the whole thing.

What am I talking about ?

The Logo of ‘Queen’

22

The Arabic version of the book titled Ayyamul Maaiz has been banned at the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The book was translated into Arabic by an Arabic expert from Tirur, Suhail Wafy. The book was banned before the famous Riyadh Book Fair and completely swept off from the stores in Riyadh and Dubai.

Which novel ?

Aadujeevitham

23

The Arabic version of this had invaded the Arabic social media sites, with the original name of the character appearing in it changed to Bilal.

What ?

Be Like Bill

24 TVF is an Indian online

digital entertainment channel focused on younger generation who seldom watch the television to either pass the time or for entertainment .

Expand TVF.

The Viral Fever

25 The introduction of this change (after the director

trying out 1,500 versions without the change) , was apparently due to the different approach of Christopher Nolan who demanded logic and concreteness along with the application of mythology and mostly realism in the modern world .

The original looks existed for decades but the change was equally accepted and denied worldwide.

What change ?

Superman’s red briefs were removed !

26 "Om Namashivaaya" - Love in Kerala (1968) "Oronnoro Chenchorathan" - Avan Varunnu (1954) "Neelippenne" - Manasakshi (1954) "Kannuneer Nee Choriyaathe" - Sheriyo Thetto (1953) "Paadupettu Paadangalil" - Sheriyo Thetto (1953) "Thaarame Thaanuvaru" - Sheriyo Thetto (1953) "Vaarmazhaville Va" - Sheriyo Thetto (1953) "Pokaam Pokaam" - Sheriyo Thetto (1953) "Kelkuka Ha" - Alphonsa (1952) "Chinthayil Neerunna" - Visappinte Vili (1952) "Ramanan" - Visappinte Vili (1952) .

Whose singing career ?

Jose Prakash

27

“Papering the House” is phrase used to describe an activity that is used in the entertainment industry to promote their ventures . The activity is mostly seen in Musical Concerts and aimed at making the event appear to be a huge success amongst the people .

What exactly is done in the activity of “papering the house” ?

Giving free/discounted tickets .

28. Who/What apparently , has been named after Matt Groening’s family members ?

The Simpsons :-D

29

Jalam Kond Murivetaval (or) One Who Was Wounded By Water is an Award Winning Documentary that was remade into a movie the previous year by the same director of the documentary mentioned above .

Which movie ?

Ennu Ninte Moideen

30

Only 9 out of the thousands that took part could complete the task for which they acquired one million yen(which, at the time, was roughly equivalent to $8,000 US ). Some of them had paper rings in their task and the others had laser and light sensitive targets. What did those 9 people successfully complete?

Takeshi’s Castle ! ( The Final Showdown )

31. The character ____ ____

initially featured in a 1979 film and also had a critically acclaimed sequel that came out the previous year .

In Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street , Jordan Belfort ( played by DiCaprio ) refers to his father as ____ ____ a movie character due to his extreme attitude problems.

FITB.

Mad Max

32

Which 2014 film had 3 of it’s characters ( siblings apparently ) named after the first names of the Karamazov brothers from this Russian Novel ?

Iyobinte Pusthakam(Aloshy, Ivan and Dimitri)

33 _________apparently suffers

from agonistic apraxia, also known as "alien hand syndrome". It's caused by damage to the corpus callosum, the nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen who identified it named it __________ Syndrome. According to Professor Sergio Della Sala, the patients "slam their hand and shout 'My hand does things that I don't want it to do!'“ .

FITB

Dr. Strangelove Syndrome

34 He acted as The President of India in the

2014 Malayalam movie How Old Are You?  that marked the return of actress Manju Warrier back to the silver screen. He also played the role of Robin Dutt (RD) in John Abraham's critical acclaimed film Madras Cafe, released on 23 August 2013. The film was much appreciated by critics and also proved to be an average grosser at the box office. His next appearance was in Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet, which flopped at the box office.

Whose film career?

Siddhartha Basu

35

Which seafood company ?

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co ( From Forrest Gump )

36 The American Humane Association (AHA)

is an organization founded in 1877 was previously called the International Humane Association, before changing its name in 1878. In 1940, it became the sole monitoring body for something on the sets of Hollywood films and other broadcast productions and issues a particular trademarked certification for which it is known for .

Which trademark certification ?

No Animals Were Harmed

37 Which is the

character that featured in the Britannia Glucose-D ads due to the film featuring the character being a total success across the whole country and to push their product over Parle’s Glucose biscuits?

Gabbar Singh

38

Who along with his wife will be jointly penning the script for National Award-winning director Anil Radhakrishnan Menon’s new venture which will roll out in and around Kozhikode and will be a satire comedy?

Prasanth IAS ( aka Collector Bro )

39

In the 2014 Malayalam film Mosayile Kuthirameenukal , it is mentioned ( for humour ) that only 2 people have successfully performed prison breaks. The first one was Mohanlal’s character Jeevan from the 1989 film ‘Seasons’ .

Who is the second ?

Andy Duffrene ( The Shawshank Redemption )

40. What is blanked out ?

Pumpkin and Honey Bunny