Movies and TV Show Quiz conducted by Anjan S(Young India Fellowship,2015-16) and Mayukh Nair(UG 2018).

1. Movies and TV Quiz
Answers
The Quizzing Society, Ashoka University

2. 1
Which cinema-related institution of utmost importance-controversial in recent
times-is located at Bharat Bhawan on Walkeshwar Road in Mumbai?

3. 1: This is what the institution issues

4. 2

6. 3
A depiction of a knight gripping a crusader’s sword made librarian Margaret
Herrick casually comment that it reminded her of her uncle X. What was named
after her uncle eventually?

7. 3: The Oscar™ Statuette

8. *4
• Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade & Li Ning
have released this shoe a while back,
the third in its series - the Way of
Wade.
• What is it themed on?

9. • Dwayne Wade’s fellow Miami resident Dexter

10. *5
Google doodle commemorating which legendary director?

11. 5: Satyajit Ray

12. 6
• While Ellen DeGeneres is now a pro host with her
own TV show and the Oscars under her hosting
honors, she wasn't always this good at it.
• She had to undergo a lot of training to appear
more graceful and likeable so as to be able to co-
host the 46th
Emmy Awards in 1994.
• This story, as per her own account inspired
what?

13. • Miss Congeniality

14. 7
Put funda.

15. 7

16. 8
Which film was screened at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir for a record breaking
1009 weeks until February 20, 2015 but brought back owing to a massive uproar
among its fans who flooded the theatre with complaints?

18. 9
You will now see the opening credits of the TV show The Sopranos. However,
from season 4 onwards, the opening credits screened was heavily edited. Why?

19. Twin Towers

20. 10

21. 10

22. 11
Symbol of which institution?

23. IRON BANK OF BRAAVOS

24. *12
November 10, 2006 was an iconic day for Indian cinema as the United Nations
witnessed its first ever Hindi film screening. Which film was screened and so
highly applauded by the United Nations that it formally adopted an “International
Day of Non-Violence”?

26. 13

28. *14
Why is this 1964 film included in the
Guinness Book of World Records?

29. This movie has entered in the
Guinness Book of World Records in
the category Fewest actors in a
narrative film.

30. 15

31. 15

32. 16

33. 16

34. 17
The name of which TV network literally translates to ‘The
Peninsula’? Also, what is the peninsula in question here?

35. • Al Jazeera
• The Arabian Peninsula/Qatar Peninsula

36. 18
The first version of this was made with flame-resistant Nomex and DuPont Kevlar,
and its successor used hardened Kevlar plates with fiber dipped in titanium.
What?

37. 18: The (Nolan) Batsuit

38. *19

40. 20. How do we know the village of
Ramanagere in Karnataka ?

41. Sholay rocks , where the fight scene b/w Gabbar and Jai-
Veeru was shot.

42. Brace yourselves , Finals are coming.