1. OASIS,Bits Pilani,
MOVIE
QUIZ
Finals
QM Trishanu

2. • Rules for Pounce: I guess all the quizzers are
familiar with the rules of a normal pounce
round.
• 15 points for getting it right in the pounce,10
in the normal bounce.
• No partial marking in Pounce round , get the
entire question right or no points.
• Teams pouncing wont be able to answer in the
Bounce . There is partial marking in Bounce.

3. Round 1
Pounce
Q1

4. • No part points for pounce , Partial marking in
Bounce as the QM deems fit.

5. • Ans

6. • A =George
• B= Star Wars
• C=Jaws
• D=Steven

7. Q2
• Milla Falconetti(1928)
• Ingrid Bergman(1948)
• Milla Jovovich(1999)
• Leelee Sobieski(1999)
• Connect.(X)
• The French claim that it was Y who designed
the 4-suited packs of cards that we are all so familiar
with today.
• Y is best known as a comrade of X, though in France
he, till date is the “JACK OF HEARTS” in the deck .
• ID X .Extra points for Y.

8. • Ans

9. • X= Joan of Arc
• Y=La Hire ,a famous French military
commander during the hundred years’ war.

10. Q3
The dialog snippet below features the title of
the movie in it, which we've removed. Identify
the movie.
"Was I trying to say 'Raymond' and it came
out ‘____________'?"
"Yeah. Funny ____________.“
"You? You're the ____________?"

11. • Ans

12. • Rain Man

13. Q4
• Some critics have suggested that X may encourage
sadism and misogyny by identifying audiences with its
villain. Other critics have suggested the film is a social
critique of the immorality of youth and teenagers in
1970s America, with many of Myers's victims being
sexually promiscuous substance abusers, while the
lone heroine is depicted as innocent and pure hence
her survival (however, the lone survivor is seen
smoking marijuana in one scene).
• "X" was originally going to be titled "The Babysitter
Murders"
Identify the movie X.

14. • Ans

15. Halloween(1978)

16. Q5
In this Oscar award winning Hollywood movie
for the best supporting actor, roughly only
30% of the film is in spoken English. The
language which dominates the film is either
French or German with a little Italian. This is
highly unusual for a Hollywood production.
Identify the movie.

17. • Ans

18. Answer
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

19. Q6
Which mockumenatry comedy’s
disclaimer goes like this?

20. • Ans

21. • Borat :Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

22. Q7
• Shot in three weeks by the director Sidney
Lumet ,he used longer and longer focal
lengths to create a feeling of claustrophobia
by the climax..Which movie?

23. • Ans

24. • 12 Angry Men

25. Q8
The names of the protagonists in the movie are
“Bagger Vance” and “Ralph Junah”. What’s the
funda behind the names?

26. • Ans

27. Answer
The names are allusions to Bhagawan and
Arjuna (R. Junah) respectively.
In fact, the whole movie is an allusion to the
Bhagavad Gita with the 18 holes of the golf
course signifying the 18 chapters of the Gita.

28. Q9
• "If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
Don't even mention them to me.“ So said one
of literature's most famous protagonists. The
author was a man who held all his works
under a firm anti-hollywood lock and key,save
for "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" which was
made into a 1949 movie entitled __ _______
_____, that reportedly caused great
consternation and unhappiness with the
author.

29. • ID the movie,author and the protagonist,who
finds reference in movies like The Collector, Six
Degrees of Separation, The Good Girl,The
Shinning etc.
• No part points.

30. • Ans

31. • Movie=My Foolish Heart
• Author=Jerome David Salinger
• Protagonist= Holden Caulfield(Catcher in the
Rye)

32. Q 10
• Film by Francis Ford Coppola, notorious for the number of
production problems it had.
• Casting was an issue, and Coppola was so fed up at one point
because so many actors had turned down his offer to star in
the film that he threw his five Oscars out of his window.
• After finally hiring a lead, Harvey Keitel, Coppola changed his
mind, fired him, and had to start the search all over.
• Martin Sheen eventually landed the part, but he had a heart
attack, postponing filming even longer.
• Nature wasn't on the movie's side, either, as a typhoon ripped
apart the first set, a fire destroyed important props, and a
tiger stalked the production.

33. • After facing bankruptcy and the possibility of
never finishing the film, Coppola finally saw
his work come to fruition and he found a place
in movie-making history.ID the film.

34. • Ans

35. • Apocalypse Now(1979)

36. Q11
Hal Mohr , a famed American
Cinematographer, won two academy awards
for best cinematography. The Phantom
Opera(1943) earned him his first nomination
and his second award. For which work did he
win his first Oscar(1936) and what is so special
about it.
• Part points as the quizmaster deems fit.

37. • Ans

38. • Mohr is the only person to have won a
competitive Academy Award without being
nominated for it.
• In 1936, a write-in campaign won him the Best
Cinematography Oscar for his work on
Midsummer Night’s Dream(1935)

39. Q12

40. • The photographer who clicked this is
remembered for his pioneering work in
photographic studies of motion and in motion-
picture projection
• Early in his career he worked as an U.S army
commissioned photographer.
• He was a sinister character. In 1874 he shot and
killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, and
was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of
justifiable homicide.

41. • He came to the forefront again this year when
Google dedicated a doddle to him on his birth
day in April.
• Who is he ,to whom the movie industry would
be forever grateful for being the first person to
experiment with moving photos which later
gave birth to video?

42. • Ans

43. • Eadweard Muybridge

44. Q13
• A man who has redefined contemporary horror in
the last 30 years , been the source(novel/novella)
of the story of dozens of movies over the years
including The Secret Window , The Shinning etc.
Tried his luck in acting though success eluded him
, last seen in a few episodes of Sons of Anarchy.ID
the person and name the short story behind the
most famous movie(lost out to Forrest Gump in
the 1994 oscars , though critics still question the
judgement) which was adapted from his works.

45. • Ans

46. • Stephen King
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

47. Q14
• Barry Fitzgerald, won the Best Supporting
Actor Award sometime in the 1940s; an avid
golfer, he later broke the head off his Oscar
statue while practising his golf swing.
• How did an oscar statue break so easily?
• Part points if the ans. pleases the QM.

48. • Ans

49. • During the WWII ,due to acute metal
shortage, the oscar statuettes were made of
plaster and hence were called Plaster Oscars.
• Only 3 people got these Plaster Oscars , which
they could exchange for the metal ones once
the war was over.

50. Q15
This is an exhaustive list of what?
• Richard Rodgers (1962) • Marvin Hamlish (1995)
• Helen Hayes (1976) • Jonathan Tunick (1997)
• Rita Moreno (1977) • Mike Nichols (2001)
• John Gielgud (1991) • Mel Brooks (2001)
• Audrey Hepburn (1994) • Whoopi Goldberg
(2002)
• Scott Rudin (2012)

51. • Ans

52. Answer
List of people who have completed EGOT -
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards & the
year they completed it in, respectively.