Entertainment Quiz hosted by Arkadev Ghoshal at LNM IIT Jaipur during our Annual National Level Fest,Vivacity

1. LNMIIT
Entertainment Quiz
On-stage
Conducted by: Arkadev Ghoshal

2. Round 1: Dry

3. 1. In July 2002, Amol Palekar stepped
down from the National Awards jury
because of his role in which Amitabh
Bachchan film that was in contention?

4. 2. Which is the only R-rated film so far to
have won an Oscar for Best Picture?

5. 3. In what way is Salim Khan’s proposal to
Honey Irani’s mother for Honey’s hand in
marriage to Javed Akhtar immortalised in
Hindi film lore?

6. 4. What term, describing a major twist in the
tale that makes a person rethink the events of
a whole film, was first used to describe Fight
Club, but is derived from The Usual Suspects?

7. 5. Which footballer’s autobiography takes
its name from a real life incident where he
had sex during the half time of a match?

8. 6. A kind of multipurpose film theatre
famous in the early 1900s in the US, this
was named after what a coin of a certain
denomination was called. It is also now the
name of a TV channel for children. What?

9. 7. The 1981 film Escape to Victory, or just
Victory, had such illustrious names as
Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in its
cast. The story, based on a real-life
incident in World War II, was about a
group of prisoners of war trying to escape
from enemy clutches in the guise of a
chaotic football match. Who played the
soldier from Trinidad in the film?

10. 8. In the cult film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron,
one of the characters that did not make it
to the final draft of the script was called
Disco Killer, a gun-for-hire with a severe
squint. Who was supposed to have played
this character?

11. 9. What modern-day journalism term
comes from the character of a very nosy
photographer in Federico Fellini’s La
Dolce Vita?

12. 10. What minor modification was done to
the beginning of Mother India when it
was screened for the Oscars in the US,
and why?

13. 11. The name of the biography of which
scientist is the remark of the host of a
party when she asked him whether he
would like lemon or cream with his tea,
and he answered “Both”?

14. 12. Connect the 12-minute chase scene in
Black Friday, a song rejected by Subhash
Ghai for the film Yuvvraaj, and the Hole In
The Wall experiment by IIT Bombay
professor Sugata Mitra.

15. Round 2: Audio

16. 1. The poem being recited is the English
translation of a Sanskrit poem. Who
translated it into English?

17. 2. Identify the male voice.

18. 3. Once again, identify the male voice.

19. 4. Identify the composer and lyricist. Both
are the same person.

20. 5.

21. 6. Identify the male voice.

22. 7. Identify the male voice.

23. 8. Identify the composer.

24. 9. Identify the classical raag.

25. 10. Identify the lyricist.

26. 11. Identify the voice.

27. 12. Identify the lyricist.

28. Round 3: Television series

29. 1. Which espionage-based American
television series features at least one
person or the other eating or holding a
cup of yogurt, because that is the lead
character’s favourite dessert?

30. 2. Femina Miss India Neha Kapur
contested the Miss Universe title in 2006.
But many would recognise her as the wife
of which actor who appears in a weekly
sitcom on CBS, and later on Zee Studio?

31. 3. This character is modelled to quite an
extent on Sherlock Holmes. In fact, even his
house, as seen in the on the Fox channel
series, is numbered 221B. The actor who
plays the character was asked to do so while
walking with a stick, but couldn’t, so he
walked with a long umbrella instead. He got
the part. Which character?

32. 4. Which mockumentary-style award-winning
comedy about an extended family was
supposed to be seen through the eyes of an
underprivileged foreign student brought up
by the elders of the family?

33. 5. One of the principal characters in
the hit television series Numb3rs is
named after a famous mathematician.
Who’s the mathematician?

34. 6. On the TV series FRIENDS, one of the
earliest suggestions for names for the
coffee shop Central Perk was recycled in
the episode where Monica finds her
grandmothers belongings, and her photos
among them. Behind one of these photos
is written the line: “Me and the gang at
_______ _____.” Fill in the blanks.

35. 7. Which USA Network show, later telecast
on Star World, set the record for the most
watched scripted drama episode in cable
television history, with 9.4 million viewers
for its series finale on December 4, 2009?

36. 8. Two of the male leads of this television
series are based on the creators of the series.
The wife of one of these characters is
modelled after the wife one of the creators.
Even the opening credits are played to a
portion of a song from the band The Solids, of
which the creators are a part. Which series?

37. 9. Which PhD-holding sitcom actor’s
great-great-grandfather’s uncle was
the national poet of Israel?

38. 10. The lead character on which
revamped show, whose ninth season is
being telecast in the USA, is currently
dating a character played by the British
royal The Lady Frederick Windsor?

39. 11. On the basis of what sole skill
did James Tyler, who plays Gunther in
the TV series FRIENDS, get the role
of the manager of Central Perk?

40. 12. Which animated character, who has a
PhD in computer science, graduated from
CalTech, or the Calcutta Technical
Institute, and has the surname
Nahasapeemapetilon?

41. Round 4: Visuals

42. 1. Identify the author of this book.

43. 2. Identify the film.

44. 3. Identify the bearded gentleman.

45. 4. This is the first instance of what
in the world of painting?

46. 5. Which band takes its name
from what is shown here?

47. 6. Identify the lyricist.

48. 7. Scientist and innovator Auguste Piccard. For
which fictional character was he the inspiration?

49. 8. Simple connect.

50. 9.

51. 10. Identify the rock song inspired by the short
story of which the following is the first paragraph.

52. 11. What does the writing mean?

53. 12. What cult song did this inspire?

54. Round 5: Details

55. Rules
• For a direct question, a team wishing must choose
another team from which 10 will be deducted and
given to them if they answer correctly.
• However, if they answer wrong, 10 will be deducted
from them and given to the other team.
• If a team chooses not to answer, 5 will automatically
be deducted from their score.
• The numbers are halved for passed-on questions.

56. 1. The European legend of Sleepy John tells the
story of a queen who used to wear out a 12
pairs of sandals every night. The king, out of
curiosity, declared in his kingdom that anyone
who could figure out the mystery would be
given a reward. Out came Sleepy John, who,
with his magical powers, followed the queen at
night. He saw that the queen went to hell, and
danced all night with the devil, thereby wearing
out her shoes. Which recent Hindi film features
a song based on this folk tale?

57. 2.

58. 3. This screenshot from the HD version of a
film solved what long-standing controversy?

59. 4.

60. 5. Identify the singer.

61. 6. Through what subtle change in the
game of chess did Satyajit Ray show
portray in Shatranj Ke Khilari the fact
that India was falling into the hands
of a foreign power?

62. 7.

63. 8.

64. 9. Identify

65. 10.

66. 11.

67. 12.

68. Thank You!