3. “A Farewell to Arms
By John Carlin
For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the digital winds are
blowing an icy chill through the triumphant glow of the post-Cold War.
People in Washington play lots of games, but none for higher stakes than The Day
After. They played a version of it in the depths of the Cold War, hoping the exercise
would shake loose some bright ideas for a US response to nuclear attack. They're
playing it again today, but the scenario has changed - now they're preparing for
information war.
The Day After starts in a Defense Department briefing room. The teams are presented
with a series of hypothetical incidents, said to have occurred during the preceding 24
hours. Georgia's telecom system has gone down. The signals on Amtrak's New York to
Washington line have failed, precipitating a head-on collision. Air traffic control at LAX
has collapsed. A bomb has exploded at an army base in Texas. And so forth.”
These are the opening paragraphs of the article ‘A farewell to arms’ published in May
1997. Which movie was inspired from this article?
5. A- You are serious, you don't know! Every body knows, you don't go full retard.
B- What do you mean?
A- Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rainman, looked retarded, act retarded, not
retarded. Count toothpicks, cheat at cards. Autistic sure, not retarded. Then
you got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow yes, retarded, maybe, braces on his
legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a Ping-Pong
competition. That ain’t retarded. And he was a goddamn war hero. You know
any retarded war heroes?
You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy
that? Ask _____X_____, _Y_, ____Z_____. Remember? Went
full retard. Went home empty handed.
These dialogues appear in the movie ‘Tropic Thunder’. Z is another movie
starring X
which came in the year Y. Give X and Z.
6. The 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, hinted
that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by
Rasputin. Princess Natasha's character was supposedly
intended to represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the
real Princess Irina sued MGM for libel. After seeing the
film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been
defamed.Princess Irina and her husband Felix
Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded $127,373 in
damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1
million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM. What
originated as a result of this to avoid future court cases?
7.
8. • The character X of a
Philip K. Dick adapted
movie had resemblance
to Jordi Pujol, a Spanish
politician (pictured on
left) which led to the
source of a whole word-
of-mouth phenomenon
in Spain. Id X.
9.
10. • Former Miss India
famous for going bald in
which movie?
11.
12. • While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus
conductor, Badruddin used to entertain
passengers aboard with some antics. These antics
caught the attention of actor and script-writer
Balraj Sahni in 1950 while he was once traveling
in a B.E.S.T. bus on which Badruddin, then 27, was
working as a conductor. Sahni was penning at
that time the script for the movie, Baazi
(1951), and introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as
a candidate for a role. Badruddin's screen test
consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so
well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, X.
13. • In the 1980s, while the west towers were under
construction, Washington National Cathedral held a
decorative sculpture competition for children. Word of
the competition was spread nationwide through
National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place
winner was Christopher Rader, of Kearney, Nebraska
who submitted a drawing of this futuristic
representation of evil. The fierce head was sculpted by
Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett, and
placed high upon the northwest tower of the
Cathedral. The Cathedral boasts what is probably the
world's only sculpture of X on a religious building.