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Prelims
QM – Siddharth Mishra
Prelims Round 1
• Simple identification round.
• 10 questions.
• Points division = 10 points per correctly identified person per question.
Q. ID both.
Q. ID both of them.
Q. ID both
of them.
Q. ID the man with Marlon Brando and Al
Pacino
Q. ID both of them
Q. ID the guy in the middle.
Q. Identify the
player with
Pele.
Q. Whose dead body is this?
Q. Identify both
Q. Identify the guy with Jimi Hendrix.
Exchange sheets!
Q. ID both of them.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Q. ID both of them.
Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger
Q. ID bothof them.
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire
Q. ID the man with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
Francis Ford Coppola
Q. ID both of them
Coco Chanel and Salvador Dali
Q. ID the guy in the middle.
David Bowie
Q. Identify theplayer withPele.
Bobby Moore
Q. Whose dead body is this?
Che Guevara
Q. Identify both
H G Wells and Orson Welles
Q. Identify the guy with Jimi Hendrix.
Eric Clapton
Prelims Round 2
• Following questions are basically paintings based on movies.
• ID the movies.
• +10 for each correct answer.
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Answers
1.
2001 : A Space Odyssey
2.
Aliens
3.
Black Swan
4.
Machete
5
No Country for Old Men
6.
The Assassination of Jesse James by
the Coward Robert Ford
7.
The Straight Story
8.
Toy Story III
9.
Usual Suspects
-end of prelims-
Finals
QM – Siddharth Mishra
#random
Q.
The creator of this immensely popular show had written down a set of rules for making sure he didn’t stray from the plot, ever.
Image on next slide.
Identify the creator for 10 points. Fill in all the blanks, 5 points each.
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Chuck Jones
The Road Runner Show
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Gibson guitars are one of the latest companies to cash in on the latest GoT craze. At a recent music fest the company created the Guitar Throne, a play on The Iron Throne, for promotion.
When they shared the image on Facbook, they did so with a pun on GoT’s most famous dialogues.
What be the pun?
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A Lannister always plays his frets
Q.
A snapshot of a news article from the Guardian FB page. What was the caption with which they shared the link, a pop culture play on how newspapers usually deliver latest news?
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Q.
What is happening here?
Put funda.
Image on next slide.
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Filming the opening credits of Star
Wars
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Whose face has been blanked out here?
Image on next slide.
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Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin
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An excerpt from a Morgan Freeman interview from the Charlie Rose show.
Who are they talking about?
What is the name of the poem Freeman is reciting?
Who is the poet?
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Answer
They are talking about Nelson Mandela.
The name of the poem is ‘Invictus’.
The author is William Ernest Henley.
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Who is claiming to be Batman here?
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Adam West
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Name the instrument that Paul McCartney is talking about/playing here?
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Mellotron
Q
What popular term is said to derive its origins from this scene?
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D’oh!
Ze Social Media Overdose
• Written round.
• Snapshots likening Social Media websites to drugs. Nine of ‘em.
• FITB with the appropriate drug/substance.
• +10 for each correct.
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Exchange sheets!
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Will also accept Ecstasy as an answer.
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Answer
#albumartstylz
• 5 questions
• In each, a popular album cover has been parodied.
• Identify the artist and album.
• +10 for getting either right.
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2015 : A Soundtrack Odyssey
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Answer
Composer - Richard Strauss
Title - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Q
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Answer
Composer : Rossini
Title : William Tell Overture - Final
Q
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Answer
Composer – Johann Strauss
Title – The Blue Danube Waltz
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Answer
Composer – Mozart
Title - Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Q.
There is a tradition among English football clubs, to play music when teams walk out onto the pitch as to pump up the players and supporters.
Here, we can see the Tottenham Hotspurs team walking out on to the pitch. Identify the composer and soundtrack.
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Answer
Composer – John Williams
Title – Duel of the Fates
Q
This is one of the soundtracks created by DimitriTiomkin for the movie The Alamo.
What did it inspire, at a much later date?
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Movies
Q
A behind the scenes snap from which movie?
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The Matrix
Q
Just FITB, any order.
Image on next slide.
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Q
This scene is a tribute to a particular event in a movie.
Identify the event and the movie.
For bonus points, what is the direct connect between the movie and this scene?
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Goodfellas.
When Tommy shoots Spider in the foot.
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This company, to promote a prominent brand of cars, tied up with this movie franchise and made a special version of the car for advertisements.
Identify the car company and the movie franchise.
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Chrysler
The Dark Knight Rises
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This is a screenshot of the cast of the original Taking of Pelham 123. What did this inspire?
Image on next slide.
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Answer
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What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City is a 1901 American short film.
What, in the world of entertainment, is it said to have inspired?
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-the end-
THANK YOU!
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