Movie Quiz Answers - 30-12-2012

MOVIE QUIZ

1.Id the MovieThe film "San Ge Sha Gua" has been one of

the big hits in China in 2011, especially with young audiences, with whom it seems to have struck a natural chord. Name the movie

2.Id the MovieA1981 Oscar winner for Best Picture is

being re-released in Britain this year in July.

3.Id the MovieA Polaroid 690 is very prominently shown

throughout the movie.Alec Baldwin, Aaron Eckhart, Brad

Pitt and Thomas Jane were all considered for the role before Guy Pearce got it.

This movie was remade in Hindi and Tamil.

4.Id the MovieNominated in 2 categories of Best Director,

Best Picture, and Best Writing of Adapted Screenplay. It lost out in all its categories to ”The Bridge on the River Kwai”

A high school football coach, a bank teller, a person who owns messenger service, a stock broker, a painter, a salesman, an architect (Mr. Davis), a garage owner, a watch Maker, an advertising executive and two others whose professions are not known

Name the movie

5.Id the Movie

6 .Id the Character/MovieIdentify the gentlemen to the left of Dilip Kumar. There

have been at least two movies loosely based on his life.

Haji Mastaan

7.Connect

8.Id the MovieListed by the Times Magazine as one of the

greatest Indian movies of all time.This movie has been immensely popular in

Turkey , Afghanistan, Romania, China etc. Said to be one of the favourite movies of

Chairman Mao due to the socialist theme in it, it was referenced in the Chinese movie The Platform movie and was remade in Turkey in 1964. Identify the movie

9.

10.Id the CountryThe U.S. and India are accepted as having

the world’s two largest film industries, referred to as Hollywood and Bollywood respectively.

The third largest film industry is termed Nollywood. Which country does it belong to?

Nigeria

11.Id the CharacterBirth Name: Vito AndoliniSpouse: CarmelaChildren: Sonny, Fredo, Michael, Connie,

Tom Hagen (adopted), Johnny Fontane (godson)

Competitors: The TattagliasArea of operation: Manhattan (New

York)Death: Heart attack while playing with his grandson Anthony in his garden

How do we better know him?

Don Vito Corleone

12.Id the CharacterHe was born in Uganda, and his current

residence is in San Francisco. He is owner of a bungalow worth $ 3.5

million, with a heated swimming pool and maple wood flooring in the living room.

He owns a 6496 cc Lamborghini. His business card reads- Vice President,

Rockledge Corporation.

Chatur Ramalingam

13.Whose Autobiography ?

14.Id the MoviePre-Production : Sam Mendes had shown

interest in adapting this Christopher Priest’s novel for the big-screen, but Priest insisted that Christopher Nolan direct the film, based on his love for both Following (1998) and Memento (2000).

Tagline : A friendship that became a rivalry. A rivalry that turned deadly.

15.Id the MovieThis movie was produced on a shoestring

budget, but money had run out leaving most of the post-production work incomplete.

 Fund from the West Bengal Public Works Department is released to complete the movie.

The film was based on road development

Pather Panchali

16.Id the Movie

17.Id the CharacterHe was a leading American ornithologist,

an expert on the birds of the Caribbean. How is he related to the field of movies.

James Bond

18.Id the MovieIn an interview by USA Today, Director of

this movie has stated that this will be his final disaster film: "I said to myself that I'll do one more disaster movie, but it has to end all disaster movies. So I packed everything in."

19.Id the MovieIndia Today called the film a "dead ember"

and added, "Thematically, it's a gravely flawed attempt."

Filmfare said that the film was an unsuccessful mincing of Western style with Indian milieu, making it a "imitation western—neither here nor there.“

Declared as the "Film of the Millennium" by BBC India in 1999

20.Id the MoviesTwo of Robin Williams greatest comedies

have been made into smashing Bollywood hits.

While one deals with the true lifestory of Hunter Adams, a medical doctor who became famous for his unconventional approach to medicine; the other deals with an actor disguising himself as a female housekeeper.

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