The preliminary round. Audio video questions are removed because they make no sense in this context.

1.  
An IIM Calcutta presentation
Satyajit Chetri

2.  Released on 24th December, 2010. Name the film.

4.  All these Bond movie titles have a common attribute.
o What attribute?
o Which is the first Indian movie with the same attribute?

5.  A. Named after villains.
 B.

6.  Identify the person on the right, a musician who has visited
India before.

8.  Who is next in this list?

9.  Chetan Bhagat.
 Vishal Bharadwaj is making the movie 2 States next, based
on Bhagat’s novel.
 The person in the middle is named Cajetan Boy, who wrote
the screenplay that was adapted as Kaminey.

10.  Which TV series?

11.  Iron Chef

12.  For X,
 Thank you for bringing
your amazing music to
my story – if only I’d
had your soundtrack in
the canyon, I could
have lasted another Y.
 Best Wishes,
 X

13.  A.R
 127 Hours

14.  Which office’s address is Dunder Mifflin Paper Company,
Scranton, Pennysylvania in the USA and Wernham Hogg
Paper Company, Slough, Berkshire in the UK?

16.  According to the Official Chart Company, Great Britain, they
are anything less than 25 minutes of length or four tracks,
not counting alternative versions of featured songs, if
present. The first recordings released by many punk rock
bands were released in this format because minor record
labels did not have the funds to release a full length album
for newly formed bands, and record stores would not sell
demo tapes. What format?

17.  EPs

18.  The name of this Swiss town comes from the Latin for
"Lion's Flesh". The historic significance of this town, whose
language is primarily Italian, is the fact that the main castle
may have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Since 1946,
an annual event in August has brought it to the world's
notice. Which town?

19.  Locarno

20.  The sequel (both comic-book and film) to which recent
comic-book adaptation will be called ____ 2: Balls to the
Wall?

22.  Which story does this painting represent?

23.  Androcles and the Lion

24.  What starts with this quote?
 P.S: John Roy Hill does not exist.

25.  The Dabanng Trailer.
 No points for saying ‘Dabanng’ and not mentioning the word
‘trailer’.

26.  In June 2010, a post on 4chan urged users to all search for
the term "___ _____ Syphilis" pushing it to the top of Google
Trend's Hot Searches list. A poll asking which country he
should visit next yielded half a million votes to send him to
North Korea. There was also a rumor that his mother was
offered $50,000 to pose topless in Playboy.
 Who?

28.  The original song was composed as the finale for X. This is a
cover version by band Y, in their latest album Z. The name Z
is a direct reference to their last album, which had the
subtitle ‘Energy Never Dies’. Obviously, identify X, Y, Z.

29.  X - Dirty Dancing
 Y – Black-Eyed Peas
 Z – The Beginning.
 Their previous album was called The E.N.D.

30.  The band’s lead singer Y was inspired to come up with this
record X after listening to The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, which
had no covers or fillers. Paul McCartney later called this
album one of his favorite albums of all time, and Beatles
producer George Martin said ‘Sgt Pepper’s is just an
attempt to equal X’
 ID band/lead singer and the album.

31.  Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys
 Pet Sounds

32.  'What to do with such low-class people? No manners,
no sense, nothing. And you know who is responsible
for this attitude — that bastard Shiv Sena leader.....
He and his "Maharashtra for Maharashtrians"
nonsense. They won’t stop till they have complete
Maratha Raj.‘
 Wait till the Marathas take over, then we will have real
Gandoo Raj...‘
 Where will you read these lines?

33.  Such a Long Journey, by Rohinton Mistry.

34.  This TV show from the 80s, directed by Amol Palekar, was a
remake of a novel written in 1868-69, which had 3 sequels.
Which novel?

35.  Little Women

36.  This extinct animal was the largest member of the order
___, which take their name from the Greek characters,
because they were mistaken for mermaids. Also make their
appearance in 20000 Leagues Under The Sea and
Kipling’s White Seal.

37.  Sirenia

38.  Robert Indiana: I knew him very well. The reason he
painted ____ is that he liked ___.
 Marcel Duchamp: If you take a _____and repeat it fifty
times, you are not interested in the retinal image. What
interests you is the concept that wants to put fifty ____ on a
canvas.
 All gaps are the same. Fill up.

39.  Campbell Soup Cans

40.  Founded by Steven Hirsch and Bill Asher, this company
changed public perception by releasing Ginger, in 1984,
with the cover designed to look like a glamorous magazine
and with high production values. It was among the first to
have contractual employees, an educational series, and a
superhero line. It has also won more AVN awards than any
others in its line. Which company?