Entertainment Quiz conducted at Pulse '19

2. THE
ENTERTAINMENT
QUIZ
Quitzkrieg ‘19

3. PRELIMS
20 Questions in total , 25 points to be scored
Qns 3, 5, 9, 14 & 18 are 2 pointers
Qns 2, 3, 5, 7 & 11 are star marked and will be used to
resolve ties.
Peeps found using unfair means will be Hindustan Bhau-
ed.

4. Q1
David Dobkin is an American filmmaker known for his
2005 comedy film Wedding Crashers.
In 2015 he directed a video which was a 5 minute
montage of a group of people crashing weddings around
Los Angeles. ID this highly viewed video.

5. SUGAR, MAROON 5

6. *Q2
To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, former
RAF pilot Colin McGregor and his brother X , took to the
skies in some of the world’s most iconic planes such as
the Typhoon.
What was Colin’s 2-worded call sign while he was
serving as a RAF pilot? (just consider him as the second
brother to work this out)

7. OBI TWO

8. *Q3 (2-POINTER)
This young sensation was born in the more affluent region of
Catalonia and critics have cited her use of Gitano (Spain’s
marginalised Gypsy community in Andalusia) vocabulary and
phrasing as problematic.
According to a recent interview given to Guardian , the musician
explains why she was drawn to a certain music genre in the first
place. As a teenager, she and sister Pili (now her stylist) would
hang out near parks with older friends who’d blare the music from
car stereos. She was captivated instantly by the rawness and to the
roots nature of the genre.
And apparently , the wise-beyond-her-years sadness that
permeates her songs emanate from Carl Jung. “He talks about a
collective unconsciousness, and I love this concept. I’m a spiritual
person, and I really think that we don’t just die.”
She credits Britney, Bey, Spice Girls, Janis Joplin, Lola Flores and Lil
Kim as her influences. Despite the feminist undertones of her
output, the Association of Feminist Gitanas for Diversity (AFGD) last
year dismissed her as a “poseur”.
Id the singer and for which traditional music genre's modern
interpretations is she known for?

9. ROSALIA , FLAMENCO

10. Q4
This is a panel from a popular manga , the specialty
being these figures are designed after few key characters
in another fantasy series which began airing 2 years after
the onset of the manga. Identify the Manga and the
fantasy series (Brownie points for identifying the
characters)

12. SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN
(ATTACK ON TITAN)
GAME OF THRONES

13. *Q5(2-POINTER)
X and Y are two out of the only three actors to be
nominated for an Academy Award for both Best Actor
and Best Supporting Actor in the same year. (Barry
Fitzgerald did it first in 1945) -X in 1993 and Y in 2005 .
Both men won the Best Actor award, and they both
played blind men in their roles.
Id X & Y

14. X-AL PACINO
Y-JAMIE FOXX

15. Q6
Cocoon is a 1985 American science-fiction fantasy comedy-
drama film directed by Ron Howard about a group of elderly
people rejuvenated by aliens.
Another guy (X) was originally hired as director, but after
spending a year working on it in development, he was fired
before production began as 20th Century Fox felt he was box
office poison, due to his films I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used
Cars both being critically acclaimed, but commercial failures,
and the studio felt his then-current romantic adventure with Fox
starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner , would also be a
flop after the studio previewed it, so Ron Howard was then hired
as director.
But the film turned out to be a huge commercial success and
gave X the clout to make an even bigger blockbuster which he
had already scripted and had been previously turned down by
every major studio.

16. ROBERT ZEMECKIS ,
BACK TO THE FUTURE

17. *Q7
Saul Goodman / James McGill played masterfully by Bob
Odenkirk was a recurring character in the prestige TV
series Breaking Bad and got his own equally amazing
spinoff Better Call Saul , which is ongoing. He plans &
executes a multitude of amusing pranks in BCS to earn
quick cash - one such prank has him convincing women
through his friend that they could have dinner/sex with a
yesteryear movie star , only to later realise that it was Jim
masquerading as the star since they resemble each other
to some degree.
Identify the actor who received 2 academy awards for his
1990 blockbuster western.

19. KEVIN COSTNER

20. Q8
After the release of one of his movies in 2004, X had
been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel's
novel Life of Pi with 20th Century Fox, but later backed
out so that he could make his next film . "I love that
book. I mean, it's basically [the story of] a kid born in the
same city as me [Pondicherry, India] — it almost felt
predestined", he said. "But I was hesitant because the
book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned
that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would
have a different experience. Whereas if someone else did
it, it would be much more satisfying, I think.
Expectations, you've got to be aware of them. I'm
wishing them all great luck. I hope they make a beautiful
movie".
Who was this?

21. M NIGHT SHYAMALAN

22. Q9 (2-POINTER)
Throughout the events of A, X displays anger-control
issues, a proclivity for violent fantasies, and voyeuristic
tendencies, combined with a fetish for recorded video.
The similarities between X’s intricate, almost
pathologically complicated home-defense mechanisms
and Y’s carefully designed murder-traps has lead people
to believe that A is actually the origin story for Y.
Give us A/X and Y

23. A-HOME ALONE
X- KEVIN MCCALLISTER
Y- JIGSAW

24. Q10

25. MOTHRA

26. *Q11
Taken from an interview at New York Comic Con 2018 -
Toshihiro Kawamoto , an animator cum character
designer said : When I was doing the design work, I had
not acquired the corgi as a pet. I just knew that the
characteristics were long bodies and short legs. I started
studying and looking up reference materials for dogs
with long torsos and bodies and think of how they would
move. Ultimately I figured that it would be easier if I had
a corgi as a pet. She helped me when I was thinking of
how the character would move and how they would
express themselves.
Which pup character from an acclaimed 9os show did
this corgi help flesh out?

27. EIN – COWBOY BEBOP

28. Q12
A judge awarded Marcus Gray (stage name Flame) and
his co-writers $2.78 million in damages after a court
battle where Flame argued that a hit song from 2013 ,
copied some elements , especially the beat of his song
Joyful Noise. Although the claim appears contentious to
expert Music Analyst-cum-Youtubers , lead singer of the
2013 hit will have to pay $550,000 herself with Capitol
records footing the rest of the bill.
Listen to Joyful Noise and give us the 2013 song.

29. DARK HORSE – KATY
PERRY FT. JUICY J

30. Q13
“We talked about how Martian-like X was, how he was
looking at the world like somebody from another planet,
watching what people did and trying to work out the
right way to behave. And then one day he called me and
he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman,
and he just had this very intense friendliness with
nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with
this energy.”Y based his character X on Tom Cruise
according to director Mary Harron.
ID X and Y.

31. X-PATRICK BATEMAN
Y-CHRISTIAN BALE

32. Q14 (2-POINTER)
Moby is an American musician, songwriter, singer,
producer, and animal rights activist. He is considered to
be "among the most important dance music figures of
the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream
audience both in the UK and the US".
He is a distant descendant of a 19th century author ,
thus explaining the logic behind his stage name. Id this
author.
He was in news recently because of the scandalous
reveals in his second memoir "Then it Fell Apart" whose
title is taken from the lyrics one of his most famous
songs , Extreme Ways. The aforementioned song is
featured in the end of all 5 movies in a film series which
changed its genre for better or worse - original version
in the first 2 and altered versions in the last 3.
Listen to the song & Identify the film series.

33. HERMAN MELVILLE

34. BOURNE SERIES

35. Q15
This particular hit came out when the singer was passing
through a drought of major hits. According to the co-
songwriter Will Jennings - "__ and I were engaged to
write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song
called 'Help Me Up' for the end of the movie... then he
saw another place in the movie for a song and he said to
me, 'I want to write a song about my boy.'
The boy mentioned was his four-year-old son Conor,
who died on March 20, 1991 when he fell out of a 53rd
floor window in the apartment where his mother was
staying in New York City.
The song became his best selling single in the United
States , reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100
and won 3 Grammy awards. So , would you know the
name of this song by the only three-time inductee into

37. TEARS IN HEAVEN

38. Q16
Speaking about how he got his debut role, this actor spoke to
Hindustan Times and said, "My father was planning to launch me in
an Abbas Mustan film. But I always wanted to become an actor on
my own, so I told him that I would like to go through my struggle.
So I went to ___ sir's office, and told him to give me an audition for
the role of the lead . I hid my parentage and told him my name was
_____ Anand. He told me I look too good for the role, and he
wanted to cast someone who looked like a gangster from the
slums.“
Then, he apparently asked for fifteen days from the director. He
began staying in slums, sleeping on floors with mice roaming
about, using public toilets and so on. Slowly, he began to look the
part...
"On the day, I was supposed to meet him, I took out some mud
from a plant at his office and applied it on my face. I walked into
his room, with a beedi in my mouth - I sat on the chair and kept
my legs on his desk, and said, ' Ey yeh thobda kya dekh raha hai'.
That convinced him," He said.
Identify the actor and the 2002 flick in which he co-starred with a
South Indian superstar (they came together for the second time in a
blockbuster released in March this year)

39. VIVEK OBEROI
COMPANY

40. Q17
The director noted, in an interview with Peter
Bogdanovich in 1963, "It's a fantasy. The whole film is
epitomized in the title—there is no such thing as
<redacted> on the compass."
Screenwriter stated that he used a similar working title
for the film , because the film's action was to begin in
New York and climax in Alaska. Then the head of the
story department at MGM suggested the present title ,
but this was still to be a working title. Other titles were
considered, including "The Man on Lincoln's Nose", but
<redacted> was kept because, according to Lehman, "We
never did find a [better] title"

41. NORTH
BY
NORTHW
EST

42. Q18
"Fishsticks" is the fifth episode of the thirteenth
season of the American animated television series South
Park , originally broadcast on Comedy Central in the
United States on April 8, 2009. In the
episode, Jimmy writes a joke that becomes a national
sensation, and Cartman tries to steal the credit while an
individual from the music industry is the only person in
the country who fails to get the joke, but cannot admit
that he does not get it because he believes himself to be
a genius.
It got a good response from the audience during its
original run - but to capitalise on something which
happened in September that year , Comedy Central
replayed the episode four times back-to-back.
What immensely famous instance from pop culture did

43. KANYE WEST-TAYLOR
SWIFT VMA 2009 FIASCO

44. Q19 (2-POINTER)
In Before Midnight (2013) , Jesse & Celine's daughters are
named Ella & Nina. According to fan/cinephile theories ,
this could be a reference to two legends , taking to
account Celine's love for music and what transpires in
the final moments of the previous film from the trilogy ,
Before Sunset (2004).
Identify the 2 singers speculated to be the inspiration
behind this nomenclature.

45. ELLA FITZGERALD
NINA SIMONE

46. Q20
Last year, the Jordan Brand
celebrated X with this special
edition Air Jordan 1 Retro High
OG 'Origin Story'.
ID X

47. INTO THE SPIDERVERSE

48. ANSWERS
1) Sugar
2) Obi two
3) Rosalia , Flamenco
4) Shingeki no Kyojin
(Attack on Titan)
Game of Thrones
5) X-Al Pacino
Y-Jamie Foxx
6) Robert Zemeckis , Back to
the Future
7) Kevin Costner
8) 8)M Night Shyamalan
9) A-Home Alone
X- Kevin McCallister
Y- Jigsaw
10) Mothra
11) Ein – Cowboy Bebop
12) Dark Horse – Katy Perry ft.
Juicy J
13) X-Patrick Bateman
Y-Christian Bale
14) Herman Melville, Bourne
Series
15) Tears in Heaven
16) Vivek Oberoi, Company
17) North by Northwest
18) Kanye West-Taylor Swift VMA
2009 fiasco
19) Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
20) INTO THE SPIDERVERSE