Tv Quiz Elims answers

Rules:

• 21 Questions. Written Round.

• One point per question. No negatives. Feel free to guess.

• Some questions are starred to help us resolve ties if any. If even these fail to break the deadlock, we resort to sudden death.

• Maximum three members per team. Google should not be one of them. Lonewolves allowed.

• Write down your team name, names of members and at least one contact no. in the A4s provided.

• All the best and Happy Quizzing

Off we go…..

1. Fill in the blank.

• A _____ Award, or simply _____ , recognizes excellence in the television industry.

• Because _____ Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, they are presented in different annual ceremonies held throughout the year. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime ______ and the Daytime _____, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable ______ Award ceremonies are those honouring national sports programming, national news and documentary shows, national business and financial reporting, and technological and engineering achievements in television.

• In addition, International ______ are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced and initially aired outside the United States.

• The EMMYs

**2. Identify X

• X also known as an outtake, gag reel, or boner, is a short sequence of a film. The term X was popularized in the 1950s in a series of record albums entitled Pardon My X, in which the definition of a X is thus given by the record series' narrator: "Unintended indiscretions before microphone and camera.“

• ID X. A lot of regular internet shows release separate videos inclusive of X these days.

• Bloopers

3. Identify X & Y– the inanimate pet and it’s master!!• The X is a dark brown oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped

limbs, invariably ending up broken in half or in various other states of destruction and disfiguration. Although X is inanimate, Y often pretends it is alive. Y behaves as if X is real, buying it a Christmas present or trying not to wake it in the mornings. X is often privy to Y’s various schemes and doubles as a dish cloth or paint brush in an emergency; it has been decapitated and shrunk in the wash many a time.

• X is also Y’s “pet” and has even won a pet show.

• X- Teddy

• Y – Mr. Bean

***4. Identify the genre

• When first shown on TV nobody took this genre of TV series seriously. But few companies like Proctor and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers took a risk in sponsoring them.

• Later on the gamble paid off and it became a great hit. Consequently, the genre was a given a name signifying the nature of its preliminary sponsors.

• “SOAPs or SOAP Operas”

5. Easy – Peasy. Just identify X.

• The term X refers to the colour of the shirts of male office workers common through most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western countries, as opposed to the colour of clothes worn by many manual labourers.

• The coining of the term “X" is credited to Upton Sinclair, an American writer, in relation to contemporary clerical, administrative, and management workers during the 1930s.

X – White Collar

***6. Still from a Simpsons episode. Identify the guy in the middle.

• Leonard Nimoy

7. Identify the show X…

• X (English: Fragrance) was a popular Indian cultural magazine show hosted by Renuka Shahane and Siddharth Kak, which ran from 1993 to 2001. It was telecast on Doordarshan, the Indian state-run television channel, and later moved to Star Plus on Sunday mornings. X was produced by Mumbai based production house Cinema Vision India and had Indian culture as its central theme.

• The show holds the distinction of being India's longest-running cultural series and features in the Limca Book of Records for receiving the largest measured audience response ever in the history of Indian television.

• Surabhi / Suravi

8. Simple. Connect all the pictures to get a name.

• Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar MayadharOmkarnath Shastri aka Shaktimaan

9. Connect the two pictures to a person

• Shahrukh Khan starrers (TV shows)

***10.

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's successful toy line Masters of the Universe. The show, often referred to as simply He-Man, was one of the most popular animated children's shows of the 1980s, and has retained a heavy cult following to this day.

What unique privilege does it hold in the history of Indian television?

• The first animated series to be aired on Indian Television/ Doordarshan.

***11. Connect to a TV show.

• Characters in the cartoon Oswald.

• Henry

• Katrina

• Daisy

• Winnie

• Oswald (type of font)

12. Id the show which gets into a lot of controversies now and then…• The hugely controversial episode of Bloody Mary was aired on December 7,

2005, which is the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Catholic observance related specifically to the Virgin Mary.

• In the episode, Randy drives drunk and loses his driver's license. He is then ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, where he becomes convinced that his alcoholism is a potentially fatal disease. Meanwhile, a statue of the Virgin Mary starts bleeding "out its ass" and Randy believes that he can be "cured" if it bleeds on him. The new Pope Benedict XVI comes to investigate, and discovers that the blood is not actually coming from the statue's anus, but its vagina. Since "chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time", this is no miracle. Stan then convinces Randy that if God did not help him, he must manage to stop it himself.

• Which show am I talking about?

South Park

***13.

• Charles "Charley" Douglass did something famous to help ‘single camera filmmaking’ and make ‘multi camera setup’ take a back seat.

• It became even more popular as it allowed for more frequent scene changes and the ease of retakes.

• What am I talking about?

• Hint- Think about the terms “tittering” and “sweetening”.

Invention of Laugh Tracks.

14.

• Identify this very famous show in which the contestants have to pass through a series of physical challenges with the aim of capturing, with the help of water gun assaults and a laser armed pen with light sensitive target , a castle.

• The Indian version of it contains characters called Ravan, Chhotu, Shikari Shambu etc.

Takeshi’s Castle

15.

• It is an Indian television series that originally aired in 2003-4. It is about an Arab prince who is a pre-Islamic Christian from Yemen.

• In the plot, the villain named Dajjal who is aided by Najumi is to become the supreme lord of the world if he can capture the forces of good and he can do that by marrying the princess of Durgapur Sunena, but she has to do it on her own will not by force. He arrives at Durgapur to ask the hand of Sunena, but she refuses.

• The prince has to solve seven questions to defeat Dajjal. Eventually the prince succeeds, defeats Dajjal and also defeats death.

• Identify the serial which shares its name with the prince.

Hatim

16. Identify the TV show from the opening track •

Malgudi Days

***17. What role are these ladies going to portray in the upcoming season of GOT?

The “Sand Snakes of Dorne”

18. Minimalist poster for which famous TV character.

Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory

19. Minimalist poster for which TV series

House M.D.

20. Identify X and Y

• X is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It is a spin-off of Y, which was also created by Gilligan. Set in 2002, X is about small-time lawyer James "Jimmy" McGill who appears under a different alias in Y, six years before his appearance on Y.

• Events during and after the original series are also set to be explored.

• The debut episode set the record for the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history, with 4.4 million viewers in the 18–49 demographic, and 6.9 million viewers overall.

X –Better Call SaulY – Breaking Bad

***21. Identify the show X which has a high probability of coming back for an 11th season. • Some of the reviews on the series finale (aired on 6th May 2004) of

the cult sitcom X:

• “It may have been impossible for any one episode to live up to the hype and expectations built up around the X finale, but this hour probably came as close as fans could have reasonably hoped. Ultimately, the two-hour package did exactly what it was supposed to do. It wrapped up the story while reminding us why we liked the show and will miss it.” --- USA Today

• “It was more touching than comical, more satisfying in terms of closure than knee-slappingly funny.” ---- Forth Worth Star-Telegram

FIN.

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