Wednesday, January 28, 2009

    Youth Quiz at Spring Fest 2009


    A Few Samplers From the Youth Quiz Prelims at Spring Fest conducted by Satyajit Chetri......

    1. Who is this and as what?

    2. What are these people collectively known as?

    3.   3. Who is missing? The list is not exhaustive.

    1999

    Columbia

    Ana Maria Orozco

    2003

    Israel

    Riki Blich

    2003

    India

    ???

    2005

    Turkey

    Ozlem Conker

    2006

    USA

    America Ferrerra

    upcoming

    Phillipines

    Bea Alonzo

    4. Surya : Aamir Khan

    Asin : Asin

    Giah Khan : ???

    5.  5. Which movie was released with this tagline? 

    The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.”

          6. Who is this character soon to be portrayed on screen by Johnny Depp?

    7. This film was recently remade as??(Hint: utterly forgettable!)

    8.   8. The pair’s last collaboration was the 1983 movie “Sadma”. They will be working together again in the upcoming film “S.R.K.”.Identify them. 

    9.   9. E=MC² is a studio album released in 2008. E stands for Emancipation; what does M and C stand for? 

    10 10. X and Y, working together after 11 years said the following comparing their new movie B to their old movie A: “If A was the ultimate romantic tragedy, then B is the ultimate anti-romantic tragedy”. Identify A, B, X, Y.

    11.11. In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after half-heartedly attempting suicide. She denies that it was a suicide attempt to a psychiatrist, who suggests she take time to regroup in McLean, a private mental hospital. Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and her stay extends 18 months. She later drew on this experience for her 1993 memoir which was made into a film of the same name in 1999. Name the memoir/film.

    12. Identify the historical character. A Bollywood film on her life has been announced and put on hold for quite some time now because of casting issues.

    13 13. His first bit roles include movies like Fire and Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam. He also co-hosted a perhaps lesser-known show "House Arrest" on Channel V and a show called "Duniya Goal Hain" on ESPN-STAR. He starred as the English teacher Vinny Sir in the television series Hip Hip Hurray. Who?

    14 14.  __________, New Moon ,Eclipse , Breaking Dawn

    Which is the first in this series of books by Stephanie Meyers?

    15 15. The original book first portrayed them as black pygmies from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before". After the book's U.S. release, complaints of racism caused the author to rewrite the characters as dwarves with "golden-brown hair" and "rosy-white" skin. In the 1971, the characters were again reinterpreted as orange-skinned and green-haired, very similarly to the Munchkins of 1939's The Wizard of Oz. In the 2005 adaptation they are small, with short dark hair and bronzed skin. What?

    16 16. This is one of a line of inexpensive automobiles manufactured in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. However it has been immortalized first as a radio show, on TV , in a book and a subsequent movie.What is it called?

    17 17. The 2 old films have the same name (1956 and 1978). The new film had the name shortened because the directors thought that audiences don’t like to watch films with long names. Name the old film and the new film.



          18. Which singers face is shown using Lego bricks?

    19 19. Which recent  movie gets its name from the names of these two people?


    20. "Sentai" is the Japanese word for "task force" or, literally, “fighting squadron" and was also a term used for Japanese squadrons in WWII.Super” refers to their use of mecha and the Super Sentai Series is the name given to the long running Japanese superhero team genre of shows produced by Toei Company Ltd., Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi. This was adapted in the US as X who is a fictional individual who "Morphs" from an unpowered form into a powerful superhero usually wearing a color-coded battle suit usually made of spandex or other skin-tight material and a helmet with an opaque visor. What is X?

    1 attempts:

    Gaurav Dutta said...

    1.Rajinikanth in Endhiran
    2.The Jackson Five
    3.Mona Singh (Ugly Betty Remakes)
    4.Nayantara
    5.The Usual Suspects
    6.Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)
    7.Jaani Dushman ??
    8.Ilayaraja & Guljar
    9.Mariah Carey
    10.A:titanic
    B:Revolutionary Road
    X:Leonardo Di Caprio
    Y:Kate Winslet
    11.Girl Interrupted
    12.BajiRao Mastani
    13.Vinay PAthak
    14.Twilight
    15.Ooompa Loompas
    16.Ford Anglia
    17.Invasion of the body snatchers; The Invasion
    18.Amy lee
    19.The assassination Of Jesse James by Robert Ford
    20.Power Rangers