Movies quiz 2016

This quiz has the craziest rules yet.
Any team from the audience can replace
teams in the middle of the quiz!
More on this later.

× 8 q – prelim
× 7 q – infinite bounce clockwise
× 6 q – written round on 2016 movies
× 8 q – infinite bounce anticlockwise
× 7 q – written round on Marvel movies
× 6 q – infinite bounce skip-by-1 clockwise
× Total number of questions = 42

Rules
• 8 questions
• Each has multiple parts; sometimes
connected, sometimes not
• Don’t mix up the numbering

Question 2
• Poster mashup
• Example:
• Snakes on a plane +
• Airplane
• = Snakes on an
Airplane

Q2 a
• Mashup of
which two
movies?

Q2 b
• Mashup of
which two
movies?

Q2 c
• Mashup of
which 2 movies?

Question 3
• Honest Trailer cast

Q3a
• The Honest Trailer for what trilogy says that the movies
feature
• Grumpy old men
• Tommy Lee Joans
• Gun control
• Tactical Monacle-ing
• Old-ass computer monitors
• Looking worried while walking through a train station
• People saying “asset”
• Like, a million turtlenecks

Q3b
• The Honest Trailer for which movie says that it stars
• Dr Octotris
• Four, of these movies? Really?
• Titanic waste of talent
• Naomi Watt are you doing in this movie?
• Mr Fantasdick
• Has the best agent in Hollywood
• Needles
• Ansel Elgoort’s goofy run

Question 4
• These are three books
from our library that
have been made into
movies. What is the
movie in each case?
• Example:
• Answer: Life of Pi

Q4a
• It says “winner of
two Oscars”
• And “a film by Clint
Eastwood”

Q4b
• The movie was about
the first two books of
the series

Q4c
• On the back is this:
• “The ending isn’t my
favourite. It’s
definitely a
depressing story.” –
Logman, TAB Weekly

Question 5
• The question sentence has two parts – one is an
anagram of the movie name and the other is a
clue.
• Example:
• Nice point about dreams (9)
• Answer = Inception

Q5
• 5a – amazing female in loner gig (4,4)
• 5b – Intimate the amigo about cracker (3,9,4)

Question 6
• 3 Minimalist posters
• Name the film in each case

Question 7
• Write what you see (kinda like a rebus)

Q7a
• Read these images to get the tagline of a 1999
movie.
• (read left to right, from top row to bottom)

Q7b
• Solve each and read aloud to get the tagline of
a 1984 movie.

Question 8
• Here are three questions about three movies
that have an underlying theme.
* Write your guess for the theme. Which other
English movie is missing from this list?
(answers to this will be used to resolve ties)

Q8a
• Which movie does the latter part of this
parody make a reference to?

Q8b
• This is part of a parody trailer of which movie?
Which company made this?

Q8c
• What are these?
#4e5054, #272727, #282828, #292929, #2b2b2b, #2c2c2c, #2e2e2e,
#313131, #323232, #343434, #353535, #373737, #393939, #3a3a3a,
#3c3c3c, #3f3f3f, #404040, #424242, #444444, #454545, #474747,
#484848, #4a4a4a, #4b4b4b, #4d4d4d, #4e4e4e, #505050, #515151,
#535353, #565656, #575757, #585858, #595959, #5b5b5b, #5c5c5c,
#5e5e5e, #616161, #626262, #646464, #656565, #676767, #6a6a6a,
#6b6b6b, #6c6c6c, #6d6d6d, #6f6f6f, #727272, #737373, #757575,
#767676, #777777, #7b7b7b, #7c7c7c, #7d7d7d, #7e7e7e, #808080,
#818181, #838383, #868686, #878787, #888888, #898989, #8b8b8b,
#8c8c8c, #8e8e8e, #919191, #929292, #949494, #959595, #979797,
#9a9a9a, #9b9b9b, #9c9c9c, #9d9d9d, #9f9f9f, #a0a0a0, #a2a2a2, #a5a5a5,
#a6a6a6, #a8a8a8, #a9a9a9, #ababab, #aeaeae, #afafaf, #b0b0b0.

Make sure the numbering is right
• The answers follow

Answers
• Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
• Hugh Glass (The Revenant)
• Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street)
• Howard Hughes (the Aviator)
• Di Caprio plays these characters

Answer
• 2a – Troy + Toy Story = Troy Story
• 2b – Shaun of the Dead + Dead Poets Society =
Shaun of the dead poet’s society
• 2c – iRobot + Robots (2005) = iRobots

Answer
• 3a – the Bourne series
• 3b – Insurgent (the Divergent series)

Q4
• These are three books
from our library that
have been made into
movies. What is the
movie in each case?
• Example:
• Answer: Life of Pi

Answer
• 4a – Mystic River (2003)
• 4b - Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of
Ga'Hoole (2010)
• 4c - The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

Q5
• The question sentence has two parts – one is an
anagram of the movie name and the other is a
clue.
• Example:
• Nice point about dreams (9)
• Answer = Inception

Answer
• 5a – Gone Girl
• 5b – The Imitation Game

Q6
• 3 Minimalist posters
• Name the film in each case

Answer
• 6a – Django Unchained
• 6b – The Notebook
• 6c – The Great Gatsby

Answers
• Reality is a thing of the past – The Matrix
• Rhea, Li, TI, IS, a, Thing, off, the past
• Who ya gonna call – Ghostbusters
• WHO, ewe, GO, NA, Kaul

Q8
• Here are three questions about three different
movies that have an underlying theme.
• Write your guess for the theme. We’ll decide
ties based on the guess.

Q8a
• Which movie does the latter part of this
parody make a reference to?
• <Bart Simpson>

Q8b
• This is part of a parody trailer of which movie?
Which company made this?
• <Conspiracy theory>

Q8c
• What are these?
•
#4e5054, #272727, #282828, #292929, #2b2b2b, #2c2c2c, #2e2e2e,
#313131, #323232, #343434, #353535, #373737, #393939, #3a3a3a,
#3c3c3c, #3f3f3f, #404040, #424242, #444444, #454545, #474747,
#484848, #4a4a4a, #4b4b4b, #4d4d4d, #4e4e4e, #505050, #515151,
#535353, #565656, #575757, #585858, #595959, #5b5b5b, #5c5c5c,
#5e5e5e, #616161, #626262, #646464, #656565, #676767, #6a6a6a,
#6b6b6b, #6c6c6c, #6d6d6d, #6f6f6f, #727272, #737373, #757575,
#767676, #777777, #7b7b7b, #7c7c7c, #7d7d7d, #7e7e7e, #808080,
#818181, #838383, #868686, #878787, #888888, #898989, #8b8b8b,
#8c8c8c, #8e8e8e, #919191, #929292, #949494, #959595, #979797,
#9a9a9a, #9b9b9b, #9c9c9c, #9d9d9d, #9f9f9f, #a0a0a0, #a2a2a2, #a5a5a5,
#a6a6a6, #a8a8a8, #a9a9a9, #ababab, #aeaeae, #afafaf, #b0b0b0.

Answers
• 8a – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• 8b - Da Vinci Code; Microsoft (to promote Small
Business Services)
• 8c – 50 shades of grey
• Connect: These movies faced a ban in India
(the other movie which did: The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo)

The Finals
Do stay back. If no team on stage
get a question right but you as
someone in the audience do, then
your team replaces the team with
the least score.

The Battle of Gaugamela, fought in 331 BC, was an
important battle that marked the end of the
Achaemenid Empire and victory for Alexander. This
battle is the first recorded use of what in the
Western world? This was loved by Alexander and it
soon became a military fad among many Western
empires at that time. A depiction of its use in a
battle fought 150 years before this battle, is most
probably wrong. Which movie has this depiction?

This statue shows “men, women, and
children, all with rather stupid, ugly faces,
twisted and pressed together to support
the weight of the more handsomely robed”
people above them. Who are these people,
depicted “in their rightful place”? Where
would you find this statue?

Muggles in the
Magic is Might
statue
In the Atrium of the
Ministry of Magic

Though the 2014 movie got 91% on Rotten
Tomatoes, it didn’t do that well in the box office.
So, it was released with a slightly different name
when it came out on Blu-Ray. Movie and humour
blogger Carolyn Burke felt that the renaming was
unwise, as people might have bought the original
title, after thinking that it was some new Bond
movie. Which movie? Behind-the-scenes footage
shows that the actors had a dangerous time.

Edge of Tomorrow
was released in Blu-
Ray as
Live Die Repeat:
Edge Of Tomorrow

The movie incorporates brilliant symbolism
with this Thomas Buttersworth painting of HMS
“Victory” heavily engaged at the Battle of
Trafalgar, appearing in the background in one
of the final scenes. Right behind the warship is
the HMS Temeraire, rejuvenated, reborn and
back in the thick of the action. Which movie?
Explain the symbolism.

Skyfall
Bond was compared to The
Fighting Temeraire being
towed to the scrapyard. In
the final scene, he is the
rejuvenated Temeraire,
literally right behind British
Victory.

A Homeomorphically irreducible tree is a
tree in which no vertex has degree greater
than 2. In which movie would you see these

On November 4th,2011 Hans Zimmer posted
on the internet asking people to record an
audio clip of them chanting “Deh-Shay Deh-Shay Bah-
Sah-Rah!” which is a phrase in Arabic .Why did he
ask people to do this?

For the chants in the well scene of The
Dark Knight Rises, Hans Zimmer and
Christopher Nolan wanted thousands of
people chanting. So they crowdsourced the
music.

This is a prototype technology developed
by the National Institute of Informatics
Japan. What does the image illustrate and
what is the technology behind it?

Infrared. Since Infrared is invisible to the
naked eye,the images are irradiated with
infrared. However,cameras will capture it
and piracy can be prevented this way

Marvel Cinematic
Universe
Written round

This is a more haunting version of a song that was
very popular in the 1950s. Which children’s tale
character sang the original?
This features in the soundtrack of an MCU movie. A
character even says the first few words of the
song in the trailer. Which movie?

What role does Heidi Moneymaker play in
the MCU?

According to a popular fan theory, each letter of
a character’s name stands for where each of the
infinity stone lies (for example, the O in the name
stands for the Orb which has the power stone).
Which character is this?

This is from over 50 years ago, when something
was much rarer. Whose name is blacked out?

What is blanked out in this epitaph?

What has its origin in this decree passed after the
French revolution?
Les Représentans du peuple se rendront à leur
destination, investis de la plus haute confiance et
de pouvoirs illimités. Ils vont déployer un grand
caractère. Ils doivent envisager qu’une grande
responsabilité est la suite inséparable d’un grand
pouvoir.

Lines like “have you tried not being a mutant?" ,
"you didn't ask, so I didn't tell" and "mutation is
not a disease" were directly inspired from
experiences of those actively involved in certain
campaigns. Specifically the first two were
variants of what Ian McKellen (who acts as
Magneto) had faced. Bryan Singer confirmed the
choice of these lines as intentional in an
interview. What were the campaigns for?

This is a more haunting version of a song that was
very popular in the 1950s. Which children’s tale
character sang the original?
This features in the soundtrack of an MCU movie. A
character even says the first few words of the
song in the trailer. Which movie?
[2:24 - 3:00]

Pinocchio
Ultron says this in his first confrontation with the
Avengers in Age of Ultron

Connect Heidi Moneymaker to the MCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Exm8
-wRDU&feature=youtu.be

Stunt double for Black Widow and Mystique

Stan Lee making a rare cameo in the comics
Stan Lee wasn’t allowed into the Sue and Reed’s
wedding in the movie too

Ils doivent envisager qu’une grande responsabilité
est la suite inséparable d’un grand pouvoir.
With great power, comes great responsibility

Ezekiel 25:17
Reference to
Pulp Fiction

Lines like “have you tried not being a mutant?" ,
"you didn't ask, so I didn't tell" and "mutation is
not a disease" were directly inspired from
experiences of those actively involved in certain
campaigns. Specifically, the first two were
variants of what Ian McKellen (who acts as
Magneto) had faced. Bryan Singer confirmed the
choice of these lines as intentional in an
interview. What were the campaigns for?

Mutants were an analogy to gay people

With reference to
what they were
called earlier, what
would this pair be
called today,
following a 2016
announcement?

The Wachowski Sisters
They were formerly
known as the
Wachowski brothers
They were the directors
behind the Matrix series
and V for Vendetta

The opening credits of Watchmen is widely
acclaimed for Bob Dylan’s music and the numerous
references in it.
× In the first scene, Nite Owl is seen punching a
mugger. There are posters referencing
Fledermaus on the billboard in the back. Who is
the armed robber?
× Later in the sequence, Ozymandias is shown
shaking hands with whom (indicated by white
arrows)?

Joe Chill, the guy who
killed Batman’s parents
(they are visible in the
frame; also seen are
posters about Gotham)
Fledermaus is German for
bat.
Mick Jagger and David
Bowie

What is missing from this list?
× Either the cathedral of Salisbury or the
cathedral of Lincoln or the British Library
× Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Italy
× Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya
× Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican
There probably are more than five in the list, but
the movie gives no further details.

A museum in Paris
These are the locations
from where artifacts were
stolen by The Tornado in
Pink Panther 2.
The missing item is the
Pink Panther diamond.

Apart from all being inspired by books, what
connects these movies?

Characters were supposed to die in the books,
but didn’t die in the movies.
× Private James T. “Joker” Davis in Full Metal
Jacket
× Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park
× Rambo is killed in the book First Blood

This is a variant of a real-life 1966 game between
grandmaster Bent Larsen and the former world
champion Tigran Petrosian. Widely discussed and
praised by the chess community, where would
you have come across this brilliant sequence of
moves by both players?
As you see, the player with white sacrifices his
queen, but eventually wins this blitz chess
encounter.

1. Qxg6! fxg6
2. Bxe6+ Kh7
3. Rh3+ Bh6
4. Bxh6 Rf5
5. Rxf5 gxf5
6. Bf7 Qb6+
7. Kh1 Qxb2
8. Bf8++

Between Holmes
and Moriarty in
Sherlock Holmes: A
Game of Shadows

Some time earlier this year, the Lit Club of IIIT-H
discussed a poetic verse form called a villanelle. A
villanelle has five stanzas of three lines followed by a
single stanza of four lines (for a total of nineteen
lines). Also, the first line of the first stanza serves as
the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and
the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line
of the third and fifth stanzas.
Which Dylan Thomas poem was taken as an example
in the meet?

Do not go gentle into
that good night,
Old age should burn
and rave at close of
day;
Rage, rage against the
dying of the light.
Featured in Interstellar

This is Amy Purdy, who is among other things,
a model, an actor and runner up from season
18 of Dancing with the Stars. What character
was she initially signed up to play, but had to
withdraw because of something else that was
happening at that time of 2014?
She was seen dancing on the evening of 7th
September this year in Rio de Janeiro. For
what?

Gazelle in Kingsman: The
Secret Service
She is a double amputee
who won bronze in the 2014
Sochi Winter Paralympics.
She danced for the
Summer Paralympics
opening ceremony on 7th
September.

Put these three entities together to get a punny
character name from a 2016 movie of a series.
1 - a South American camelid
2 - a title that means high priest in Tibetan. The
most important such person has a title that
literally means ocean chief priest
3 - a mythical place set in the Kunlun
mountains and connected by a pass. Many
Indian apartments and resorts use this name.

Some popular movies of 2016 have been
inspired by books. Identify the 2 movies that
were inspired by these books

These are images of Daniel Atlas in Now
You See Me and Now You See Me 2
respectively. Why does he have short hair in
Now You See Me 2?

During the shooting of Kung Fu Panda 3,
they needed voice actors for the young
pandas. Somebody involved with the voices
suggested the services of her children
Shiloh, Knox, Pax and Zahara. Who is the
actress?

In the movie Deadpool, Wade has nightmares
about kidnapping someone’s daughter, which
is an obvious reference to the movie _____.
What makes this interesting is that the person
in question played a supporting role in The
Deadpool (1988)* . Who am I talking about?
* Not a MCU movie

In the music video by Skrillex, there is an
appearance by an actor playing his character (not
shown for obvious reasons). He probably got more
screen time here than in a recent movie.
The actor did not study an acclaimed 2008
performance of the same role, but gave a perusal
to the source material.
Who is the actor and what role did he play in a
movie relased in August 2016?

Shangri Llama from
Ice Age: Collision
Course
From llama,
(Dalai) Lama and
Shangri La

Jesse Eisenberg had shaved his hair for his
role as Lex Luther in Batman v Superman

Jared Leto as Joker in Suicide Squad

The original theme song for Mission
Impossible used a 5/4 time. However, due to
a lot of complaints about something, they
changed it to a 4/4 time (which is standard
for pop songs). After this, there have been a
lot of videos on this on youtube. What issue
did they address in the new song?

To make the song more dance-friendly

The same actor
was LEGO-fied in
these three
figures. Which
movie is each
character from?

Chris Pratt is the actor.
The movies are
× Guardians of the Galaxy
× Jurassic World
× The LEGO movie

Chris Columbus realized that this scene was going to
be extremely dangerous to shoot; especially since
Macaulay Culkin couldn’t be replaced by a stuntman.
What novel solution did he come up with, which made
the shooting of this scene much less dangerous?

They filmed it backwards!
The van reversed as Kevin screamed

Fill in the blanks (all of them different) from this
2014 article after the Oscars.
______ ________ may not have won the Best
Original Song academy award, but he's still
_____. "Well, trust me," he said. "When they read
the results, my face was … ______. But then I
thought about it and I just decided just to … ___
__ __."

Pharrel Williams may not have won the Best
Original Song Oscar, but he's still Happy. "Well,
trust me," he said. "When they read the results, my
face was … frozen. But then I thought about it and I
just decided just to … let it go."

× The character was inspired by Jack Ward, a 17th
century figure steeped in legends of notoriety.
Nicknamed “birdy”, he later converted to Islam
and operated under the name Yusuf Reis.
× In the movie, the character is shown wearing a
crescent and star. According to a Reddit theory,
the character’s headgear resembles the Islamic
style of wearing turbans and the mascara looks
like it was from North Africa. Which character?

Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean

Explain the meaning in the subtle change in the attire of
the character in i) most of the movie ii) after the climax

Luke wears black throughout Return of the Jedi
to symbolise the strong possibility of him
joining the dark side.
But after he faces the Emperor and ultimately
rejects the dark side, the jacket falls open to
reveal that it was always white underneath.

Charles Mintz assumed control over Universal
Pictures, who in 1928 stole an animator’s
production rights to his highly-successful Oswald
the Lucky Rabbit cartoon series. He bought all
those working with the animator and even tried
suing him when he still dabbled with Oswald. Which
movie’s antagonist is named after this cheat?
× What did the animator create after he lost the
rights to Oswald?

Charles Muntz in Up is
named after Charles Mintz.
Walt Disney, the animator
in question, created Mickey
Mouse, whose popularity
quickly eclipsed that of
Oswald the rabbit

Molon Labe is the motto of a few Greek
regiments, including the Greek Army's 1st Corps.
Greek historian Herodotus says that this was a
popular quote even 2000 years ago. What does
it mean?
For what cause does an organization
commonly known as NRA, use this line in
advertisements, t-shirts and merchandise?

“Come and take them”
Used by the National Rifle Association to
advocate gun rights
video ahead

Last question ahead
Quiz by Shyam Gopal
and Harish Krishna

To achieve this feat in 1954, they used a tar
resin coated leather glove and rubbed it
along the string of a double bass.
In 2014, they used dry ice sublimating on a
metal vent and dragged a large wooden
crate along a polished floor. What feat were
they trying to achieve?

The iconic roar of Godzilla for the different
Godzilla movies

Regarding cinematography, what do the
following movies have in common (Non-
exhaustive list)

All of these were had sequences shot with
an IMAX camera

In an interview,the actor admitted that when he
initially took on the role as ___, he studied the
species Canis Lupus to develop his character,
since he thought that ___ must refer to them.
He later found out that ___ is actually the
largest badger species and is found in Canada,
Northern Europe and some parts of America.
Which actor and what role?

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