Friday, December 26, 2008

"Hollywood and TV Shows" theme!

Hi friends

It's been such a long long time since I actually made a quiz I almost forgot that I was a part of quizzing at all!

Please find some questions that I made for a quiz in my college. The theme is Hollywood and TV Shows. Please send the replies in a week i.e. before 3rd January, 2009 EOD to the email vrs_nitk@yahoo.com with the subject as "Re: "Hollywood and TV Shows" theme!" Answers and scores will be posted in the comments section and also sent to the quiz groups (Quiznet and Quizkrieg) on January 5th.

Each question carries 1 point each. No partial marks will be given.

Please do not leave it as comments to this post.

Questions:

1) Cast of which classic TV Show.


2) One of the good movies starring Tom Cruise in a very unconventional role. Name the movie.


3) Identify this movie. (Hint: It was made into a Bollywood movie too, which flopped)


4) Before Mel Gibson walked in and told him/her what the movie was actually about, X thought that the movie was a laid back, surfing film. X was accidentally whipped twice during the filming of that movie and this has left a 14-inch scar on his/her back. X has also admitted to being struck by lightning while filming a scene and during the “death scene”, he/she is said to have experienced hypothermia during the dead of winter in Italy. Who is X?

5) Identify the two characters shown below.


6) "X" played three different roles in the same movie. Identify X and the movie. (He is shown below in the 3 different roles that he played in that movie)


7) At the time during which the movie "The Matrix" was being conceptualized, X was quickly becoming one of America's favorite movie stars and was offered the lead role. X declined, instead doing another sci-fi flick Y in the same year (1999), which perhaps became one of the biggest disappointments in Hollywood. You can call it fate, but X’s wife had a good role in the two Matrix sequels. Who is X and which movie was Y?

8) Easy as it goes - Identify the actor on the right.


9) This scene is from one of the final clips from the last episode of which cult-classic TV Series?


10) Ending with an easy one. This TV show was perhaps one of the most popular shows that had a female actor as its lead role. It is listed in TIME 100 best TV shows of all time. Which show?


Regards

Varun Reddy Sevva
PGDM, 2nd Year
IIM Lucknow.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Conglomerate of quizzers...

Hi Friends

This website, namely http://www.quizblogs.com/ is a one-shot quiz blog. It has links to all famous quiz blogs (including mine!). Do visit it for the ultimate quizzing experience.

And do visit my personal blog - http://varunslife.blogspot.com when you are free.

Varun Reddy.

Friday, April 18, 2008

General Quiz 2...

Hi

Another instalment of the quiz series... Hope you like it... Again based on current affairs and a bit of Trivia...

1) Identify this person very much in the news recently.



2) "As long as I am still on this earth, as long as I am still breathing, the country shall never be a colony again", X said, responding to comments that the country was in danger of being recolonized by Britain. Who is X? He is pictured below...


3) "We're going to handle this the best we can, one client at a time", said Barbara Walther, the district judge of this state, on the legal fate of the 416 children swept up in a raid on a polygamous sect in the western area of this US State. In which state this this raid take place?

4) "As Tony Blair said, we stand shoulder to shoulder with the American people and with President Bush", says X on the fight against terrorism. Who is X (pictured below with Mr. Bush)



5) So I asked my wife recently if it bothered her that people call me Darth Vadar. She said, 'No, it humanizes you.' says DC, joking at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington D.C. Who is DC? (pictured below)

6) "The country C is just a graveyard for airplanes", says Jim Durbin, of the Washington-based Flight Safety Foundation, on the large number of aging aircraft in Africa. A 31-year-old DC-9 jetliner crashed in that nation earlier last week. Which country?

7) "It takes seasoned maturity to ensure this nation is never second-rated in the international arena and Mr. K is not there yet," Brown said. "We are not the 51st state of the US and Mr Ks salute carried a subservient connotation many of our countrymen won't like." Who is K and which country is in the news here? (Picture shown below)


8) "You don't have to psychoanalyze or patronize people to conclude that we have problems" says Ms. Y on Mr. Xs description of working-class people being "bitter" and "clinging to guns and religion". If you know onw name, can guess the other easily. Name X and Y.

9) This has been the ultimate rollercoaster ride, and I hate rollercoasters", says a 28-year old Trevor Immelman recently. In December 2007, doctors discovered a lesion approximately the size of a golf ball on his diaphragm. It was diagnosed as a calcified fibrosis tumor. After more tests they discovered that it was benign. In an interview the following week, Immelman remarked at how ironic it was that the lesion was the size of a golf ball!! Why is he in the news recently?

10) This is perhaps the best news this week. When this European country announced its list of 17 ministers recently, 9 of them were women, making the PM live upto his lasting commitment towards gender equality. Carme Chacon was sworn in Monday as this nations first woman defense minister. Chacon is 37 and is presently 7-months pregnant. She had served as housing minister in this PMs first government, and was described by him as "one of the major new stars of the Socialist Party." Which country am I talking about? (Her picture is given below, while inspecting the troops at the swearing-in ceremony)

Answers in a week in the comments section...

Varun Reddy

IIM Lucknow.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Movie+TV Quiz...

Hi Friends

Here is a quiz taken from a website on the Internet. I have reproduced some of the questions below. Enjoy!

1) Name the first Indian sponsored programme in the National Network.

Hum Log

2) What was the name of the most popular rural programme on DD?

Krishi Jagat

3) What was the name of the first colour film telecast by DD, made by Satyajit Ray?

Shatranj Ke Khiladi

4) Name the first Indian Soap Opera which consisted of 156 episodes and was telecast twice a week.

Hum Log

5) Name the prolific Soap Opera writer who wrote 104 episodes of Buniyaad.

Manohar Shyam Joshi

6) Name the serial which commanded maximum viewership and was telecast on Sunday mornings when life virtually came to a standstill?

Mahabharata

7) Which was the biggest advertiser of DD in the 1990s?

HLL

8) What is the name of the video news magazine launched by TV Today?

Eyewitness

9) Multichannel produced the first Hindi Video film magazine. Name it.

Lehren

10) Who was the director of Anand?

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

11) Which film was based on the sensational Nanavati murder case?

Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke

Cheers!!!

Monday, March 31, 2008

General Quiz...

Hi friends

This quiz I compiled out of the news I managed to read in the last few weeks. It may actually be boring, so please bear with me.

1) "This is the end game of the end game. Checkmate already happened on the 29th of March" says Tendai Biti. What is he talking about?

2) The name of this country comes from the Taino word for the entire island of Hispaniola, Ayiti, which reportedly means "Mountainous Land." The French staked their claim on the entire island based on the settlement of Tortuga and Gonave Islands by French pirates in the 15th and 16th centuries. During the French colonial period, the colony earned the name “La Perle des Antilles” ("The Pearl of the Antilles") due to its economic importance. It is one of the most impoverished nations on earth and the least-developed in the Americas, largely due to political instability and repeated episodes of violence. It now ranks 146th of 177 countries in the United Nations Human Development Index (2006). It is the only country in the Americas on the United Nations list of Least Developed Countries. Which country am I talking about?


3) This term is more commonly used as a political metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents or campaign contributors. This usage originated in American English with reference to gifts of salted ____ in a ____ by slave-owners to their slaves. Which term?


4) "This is a really big deal. A Peabody is like an Oscar wrapped in an Emmy inside a Pulitzer. It's the Turducken of awards", said the famous comedian X on winning the international Peabody Award for excellence in radio and television broadcasting . Who is X?


5) "I was worried I wasn't going to make it... I was pinned down by sniper fire at the Burbank airport", was how Y put her visit to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Who is Y and what was she jokingly referring to in that statement?

6) "Enough is enough", said Z, father of C, stating that he will not pursue further legal action following the jury's ruling in the inquest into the death of his son and a very famous English lady. Who are Z and C?


7) "P's great career therefore ended with a virtual performance, something sad but inevitable", says Leone Magiera, P's longtime pianist and conductor, revealing that P lip-synched his final public performance at the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Who is P?


8) October 10, 2006 was declared "___ ______ Day" in Japan; the Japan Memorial Day Association said that he was awarded with a special day because he has made more trips to Japan than any other Hollywood star. The actor has paid more visits to the country than any other major Hollywood star and spends hours on end with fans in the country. His public relations tour of Japan last spring to promote one of his action flicks included a trip on the bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo, during which he had his photo taken with more than 100 fans. During that trip, he told the press he wanted to shoot the next installment in the action series in Japan. The Association noted that he is the first Hollywood star to receive this honor. Who is this jumpy star?


9) During the 2008 Democratic Presidential primary election, a prominent member of the Democratic party labeled Hillary Clinton's tactic of using negative politics against rival Barack Obama as the "Tonya Harding" option. I gave out the name as I felt it would make things easy. The question is - Who is Tonya Harding and what is her claim to fame/infamy?


10) This movie is a 2008 short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. The film explores Qur'anic motivation for terrorism, Islamic universalism, and Islam in the Netherlands. The film's title comes from the Arabic word which is used to describe "disagreement and division among people", or a "test of faith in times of trial". Which movie is this?


11) A particular 10 seconds of the French folksong "Au Clair De La Lune" recorded on April 9, 1860, was in the news recently. This was declared to the oldest recording of a noise/voice ever made. This recording predated the 19 recordings that Edison made in 1878 (These were the olsest ones so far). Edison and his associates created the recordings to study a particular noise, and the Edison National Historic Site in New Jersey has stored themso far. What did Edison record?


12) This logo had its first public outing 50 years ago on a chilly Good Friday as thousands of British campaigners set off from London's Trafalgar Square on a 50-mile march to the weapons factory at Aldermaston. The creator of the logo, Gerald Holtom, says about it "I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad". He persuaded the campaigners that their aims would have greater impact if they were conveyed in a visual image. And this baby was born! Question: How do we know this symbol better? (It is shown below)



13) Gun fu is the style of sophisticated close-quarters gunplay seen in Hong Kong action cinema and in Western films influenced by it. It often resembles a martial arts battle played out with firearms instead of traditional weapons. It may also be described by other terms such as bullet ballet or gymnastic gunplay. Question: This director originated this style in the Hong Kong film "A Better Tomorrow" in 1986? He continued to make several classic heroic bloodshed films, all featuring gun fu, and all starring the same leading man. That hero, wielding a gun in each hand became an iconic cinema image around the world. Who is the director and the famous hero?


14) “Russia will take steps aimed at ensuring its interests along its borders”, said Sergei Lavrov, the present Russian Foreign Minister. Why was he threatening this way?


15) “I really feel very sad the government demonizes me. I am just a human, I am not a demon”, said X about the way the Chinese government has been treating him for the last 50 years. Who is he?


16) This 79-year-old British physicist posited the existence of a subatomic particle nicknamed "the God particle" 40 years ago. He now says its discovery will come within two years and says in jest, “I'll just have to ask my general practitioner to keep me alive a bit longer”. Who is this?


Hope you enjoy the quiz. Answers will be posted in the comments section in a few days. Please do not reply to it in my mail or anything. I will inform when the answers are put up.


Varun.