Movie Quiz Series (March)

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Movie Quiz Series (March)

• Varun Reddy Sevva (For IQL)
• http//iquiz.wordpress.com/movie-quiz/march-2009/

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Rules

• One question every day, starting February
• When there is a break it will be announced before
  hand
• Answers will be accepted till 11.30 pm same day
• Googling is highly discouraged, but its upto our
  conscience
• All questions are answerable by movie lovers
• Mostly Hollywood based Bollywood will be covered
  as and when new material comes up
• IMDB and Wikipedia are the main sources

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Question 24

• Clue 1 (Dialogue) Geology is the study of
  pressure and time. Thats all it takes really,
  pressure, and time. That, and a big god-damned
  poster.
• Clue 2 Although a very modest hit in theaters,
  this movie became one of the highest grossing
  video rentals of all time.
• Clue 3 The director of this movie watched
  Goodfellas every Sunday while shooting this
  movie and drew inspiration from it on using
  voice-over narration and showing the passage of
  time.
• Identify this simple movie.

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Answer 24

• As you all guessed, it is The Shawshank
  Redemption.
• Correct answers by STANLEY, Raji, Chandru and
  Francis.

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Question 25

• Clue 1  This movie has been known for long as
  one of the infamous Five Lost Hitchcocks
  amongst film buffs, and was re-released in
  theatres around 1984, along with the remaining 4
  movies.
• Clue 2 (Dialogue) Oh Scottie. Im not mad. Im
  not mad. I dont want to die. Theres someone
  within me and she says I must die. Oh Scottie,
  dont let me go - Madeline.
• Clue 3 Uncredited second-unit cameraman Irmin
  Roberts invented the famous zoom out and track
  in shot (now sometimes called contra-zoom or
  trombone shot) to convey the sense of a
  specific type of dizziness to the audience. The
  view down the mission stairwell scene cost
  19,000 for just a couple of seconds of screen
  time.
• Identify this classic.

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Answer 25

• As you guessed it, it is the classic Vertigo.
• Correct answers by RAJI and Praveen Joseph.

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Question 26

• Clue 1 (Tagline) A friendship that became a
  rivalry. A rivalry that turned deadly.
• Clue 2 Sam Mendes had shown interest in
  adapting this Christopher Priests novel for the
  big-screen, but Priest insisted that Christopher
  Nolan direct the film, based on his love for both
  Following (1998) and Memento (2000).
• Clue 3 (Last lines) Now youre looking for the
  secret. But you wont find it because of course,
  youre not really looking. You dont really want
  to work it out. You want to be fooled.
• Identify this top-notch movie, with a very
  reputed star-cast. 

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Answer 26

• The answer is The Prestige as you said it!
• Correct answers by FRANCIS VIJAY, Pankaj Parashar
  (Please answer in the comments in this page
  itself), Debratna Nag and Shashi Kumar.

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Question 27

• The clues may be vague, but you can still crack
  it without Googling for sure!
• Clue 1 (Tagline) Let he who is without sin try
  to survive
• Clue 2 The word fk and its derivatives are
  said a discernible 74 times throughout the movie,
  mostly by Brad Pitt.
• Clue 3 (Dialogue) Nothing wrong with a man
  taking pleasure in his work. I wont deny my own
  personal desire to turn each sin against the
  sinner - John Doe.
• Identify this thriller.

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Answer 27

• We had some newbies answering today! The Correct
  answer is Se7en - I guess John Doe and Brad
  Pitt gave it away!
• Correct answers by FRANCIS (He answered in
  Gtalk), KN, Abdul Mujeeb (Welcome to the Quiz!).
  Good tries by GZR and Prakash Bhaskaran (I assume
  you answered this question)

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Question 28

• Clue 1 (Dialogue) Well, good morning,
  everybody, and welcome to day 255,642 aboard the
  Axiom. As always, the weather is a balmy 72
  degrees and sunny, and, uh Oh, I see the ships
  log is showing that today is the 700th
  anniversary of our five year cruise. Well, Im
  sure our forefathers would be proud to know that
  700 years later wed be doing the exact same
  thing they were doing. So, be sure next mealtime
  to ask for your free sep-tua-centennial cupcake
  in a cup. Wow, look at that           
• Clue 2 The film contains numerous references to
  Apple computers
• Clue 3 (Tagline) In Space, No One Can Hear You
  Clean
• Identify this fun-filled movie.

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Answer 28

• The answer, as given by most of you very
  enthusiastically, is Wall-E. I guess most of
  you liked the movie, seeing the number of
  responses I got for it.
• Correct answers by ABDUL MUJEEB, Ajay Parasuram,
  Raji, KN, Andy and GZR.

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Question 29

• I hope it is crackable. It is a must-see movie in
  my view.
• Clue 1 Before Ron Howard was selected to direct
  this film, there was strong competition from
  other filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese, Mike
  Nichols, George Clooney, Sam Mendes, and Bennett
  Miller.
• Clue 2 (Tagline) 400 million people were waiting
  for the truth.
• Clue 3 (Dialogue) You know the first and
  greatest sin of the deception of television is
  that it simplifies it diminishes great, complex
  ideas, trenches of time whole careers become
  reduced to a single snapshot.
• Identify this fantastic movie.

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Answer 29

• Not many responses to this one - The answer is
  the latest movie Frost/Nixon.
• Correct answers by RAGHUVANSH, Francis and Tania.
  Well tried by KN.

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Question 30

• Time to move to some Bollywood!
• Clue 1 The first (and till now only) film
  in India to be given a UA certificate on account
  of violence and not sexual content.
• Clue 2 The mobile phone number imprinted on the
  heros body shown in the movie turned out to be a
  real phone number used by a woman in Bangalore.
  After the movie was released she got lots of
  calls and texts.
• Clue 3 200020052008
• Identify based on these easy clues.

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Answer 30

• As given by all of you, the answer is Ghajini
  (The hindi-remake). 2000 was the year the baap of
  them all - Memento - was released. 2005 was the
  year of release of the Tamil version and 2008 was
  the Hindi-remake released.
• Correct answers by SANDEEP (Welcome!), Somnath,
  Mujeeb, Abhinav (Welcome to the Quiz!) and Raji.

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Question 31

• This one is something even I didnt know without
  googling.
• Clue 1 (Dialogue) My Dearest Allie. I couldnt
  sleep last night because I know that its over
  between us. Im not bitter anymore, because I
  know that what we had was real. And if in some
  distant place in the future we see each other in
  our new lives, Ill smile at you with joy and
  remember how we spent the summer beneath the
  trees, learning from each other and growing in
  love. The best love is the kind that awakens the
  soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a
  fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds,
  and thats what youve given me. Thats what I
  hope to give to you forever. I love you. Ill be
  seeing you. Noah.
• Clue 2 Rachel McAdams auditioned for the role
  during another movies premiere. She was given
  the script just a day in advance. She beat nine
  other actresses for the role. The scenes used
  during her audition included the one of Allies
  and Noahs argument at the end after Allie and
  her mother returns from the morning drive.
• Clue 3 (Tagline) Behind every great love is a
  great story.
• Identify this cult classic love story.

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Answer 31

• Well, its the famous love-story-movie from which
  the Bollywood movie U me aur Hum was inspired
  i.e. The Notebook. I happened to see the
  Bollywood version in the USA and that memory
  still haunts me (its one sick movie)
• Correct answers by MUJEEB and Jhurani (Welcome!)

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Question 32

• Time for more Bollywood crap!
• Clue 1 The movie was released on 25th
  anniversary of Yash Raj Films.
• Clue 2 The title name for this movie was
  suggested by Kiron Kher, wife of the famous actor
  Anupam Kher.
• Clue 3 Saif Ali Khan turned down the main role,
  which went to King Khan.
• Too easy I think, guess which movie?

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Answer 32

• Yes, it is DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniyan Le Jayenge).
• Correct answers by TANIA, KN, Raji and Somnath.
  Well tried by Shashi and GZR.

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Question 33

• Since I have recently seen a lot of bond movies,
  I though of looking at some James Bond Trivia
  too! Lots of clues in it and you can answer it
  even if you know just the titles of the various
  early Bond movies. You can see the list for
  reference at this link and then answer this
  question.
• Clue 1 This movie was originally going to be the
  first James Bond movie, but legal wrangles with
  its co-author led to Dr. No (1962) being chosen
  instead. If released first, It would have been
  titled James Bond, Secret Agent
• Clue 2 (Tagline) Look Out! Here Comes The
  Biggest Bond Of All!
• Clue 3 This film and the other James Bond movie
  From Russia with Love (1963) are the only Bond
  movies to use the wipe editing technique in scene
  transitions.
• Clue 4 The dictionary definition of the title
  word is that it was a military term used by US
  soldiers to describe the mushroom cloud seen
  during the testing of atomic bombs. Hence its use
  as a title because this would be result of
  SPECTRE detonating the stolen atomic bombs.
• Identify this James Bond flick.

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Answer 33

• Thunderball - I guess this one was easy to
  answer!
• Correct answers by RAJI, Praveen Joseph, Andy and
  Febin (Welcome to the quiz!).

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Question 34

• Clue 1 This film was directly inspired by the
  spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, by Akira
  Kurosawas Shichinin no samurai (1954), Bandidos
  (1967) among others. Some critics at the time
  even began calling it a curry western.
• Clue 2 The film was shot extensively in
  Ramnagaram near Bangalore, India. 
• Clue 3 (Dialogue) When I dead police coming.
  Police coming budiya going jail. In jail,
  budiya chakki peesing and peesing and peesing
  and peesing and peesing.
• Identify this fun-filled movie.

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Answer 34

• The correct answer is Sholay. It was nice that
  different people interpreted different clues for
  the answer.
• Correct answers by RAJI, Shashikumar, Andy,
  Praveen Joseph, GZR and Sameer (Welcome to the
  Quiz!)

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Question 35

• Deviating from the usual routine, todays
  question is about an actress, but I dont want
  her name.
• At age 13, she was on holiday in Moscow with her
  mother Marina Alyabusheva when she was spotted by
  a model scout getting off a metro train. Because
  of her age, she had to wait until she was 14 to
  model. In the picture below, she plays the piano
  in an old advertsing photo. Later in life, she
  did a lot of lingerie modeling work that gained
  her notoriety throughout Europe.
• Asking her name would be tough, but can you tell
  me in which Hollywood movie did we see her most
  recently?

At age 14, in a piano advertisement
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Answer 35

• As all of you guessed, we saw her most recently
  in Quantum of Solace, where she plays Camille.
  She is Olga Kurylenko.
• Correct answers by SHASHI KUMAR (Excellent answer
  dude! Yes, her eyes are amazing, and perhaps
  those eyes were the basis of her selection for
  the role!), Debratna, Tania, Sameer, Anup and
  Mujeeb. Raji, I agree it was a tough one, but I
  did so to spice up the quiz a bit.

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Question 36

• Back to some more Bond! Clues are movie-based so
  you can get it if you have seen it.
• Clue 1 This novel was the last Ian Fleming James
  Bond novel published during his lifetime.
  Released on 16 March 1964, it was the twelfth
  novel in the series. For the first time in the
  James Bond film series, the screen story bore
  little resemblance to the source novel.
• Clue 2 James Bond does not drive a car in this
  film. This is the only EON Productions James Bond
  film to date in which James Bond does not drive a
  vehicle. He travels in a car though, but doesnt
  drive it.
• Clue 3 The face of Ernst Stavro Blofeld is
  revealed for the first time in this movie.
• Clue 4 I must say I am disappointed with the
  ease with which I could pull you in. The one
  thing my honourable mother taught me long ago was
  never to get into a car with a strange girl. But
  you, Im afraid, will get into anything. With any
  girl.
• Clue 5 First film to show James Bond in his
  Royal Navy uniform and to clearly indicate that
  he holds the rank of Commander.
• Identify this Bond movie.

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Answer 36

• Yes, it is You only live Twice, the famous one
  among the Bond movies.
• Correct answers by RAJI, Debratna and Febin.

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Question 37

• Today is the birthday of one of my close friends,
  and he happens to share it with a great
  personality. So this question is for both of
  them.
• Clue 1 (Tagline) With Einstein as Cupid what
  could possibly go wrong?
• Clue 2 (Dialogue) Albert Einstein Are you
  thinking what I am thinking? Ed Walters Well
  what would be the odds of that happening?
• Clue 3 Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan and a whole lot of
  fun!
• Identify the movie.

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Answer 37

• The movie is I.Q.
• Correct answers by SUNDEEP CHANDRU (Welcome
  back!) and Debratna. Special thanks to Raji for
  the reminder.

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Question 38

• Another Bond movie in question. The clues get
  progressively easier as you go down. I guess clue
  3 will provide the time frame and hence make it
  easier to guess.
• Clue 1 First completely original James Bond
  film, without reference to any Ian Fleming novel
  or short story.
• Clue 2 The name of this movie is the nickname of
  Bond creator Ian Flemings beachfront house in
  Jamaica where (between 1952 and 1964) he wrote
  the Bond novels and short stories.
• Clue 3 Several changes had to be made to the
  script during production because the plot was
  virtually identical to True Lies which was
  being released at the time.
• Clue 4 First James Bond movie in the official
  series to be directed by a non-English director,
  Martin Campbell, who would go on to direct Casino
  Royale (2006).
• Clue 5 The satellite dish used in the end of the
  film is the same one used in the film Contact.
  It is the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
• Identify the movie.

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Answer 38

• The correct answer is Goldeneye as you all got
  it!
• Correct answers by CHANDRU (Once again!), Raji,
  Shashikumar, Febin, Debratna and Tania.

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Question 39

• One of my admired movies in Bollywood.
• Clue 1 (Tagline) How far would you go to save
  the one you love?
• Clue 2 While filming, the director of the movie
  bonded so well with one of the two lead actresses
  that he requested her to be his sister. Since she
  did not have a brother in real life, she got
  quite emotional with this brotherly proposal,
  eventually solemnized in the form of a rakhi
  symbolically.
• Clue 3 2004 Perumazhakkalam 2006 ???
• Identify this critically acclaimed movie.

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Answer 39

• The correct answer is Dor, the actress in
  question is Ayesha Takia and the director is
  Nagesh Kukunoor of course!
• Correct answers by RAJI, Andy, Tania and Samatha.

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Question 40

• I did not have much time, I thought of this one
  movie that I admired a lot. Shia La Beouf stars
  in this one. One of the most famous dialogues
  from this movie is as follows
• Harry Vardon to Lord Northcliff Let me tell
  you something. I came here to win a trophy. And
  on the face of it Ted Ray or I should carry it
  off. Not for you, not for England, but for sheer
  bloody pride at being the best, thats why we
  do this. And if Mr. Ouimet wins tomorrow, its
  because hes the best, because of who he is. Not
  who his father was, not how much money hes got,
  because of who he bloody is! And Ill thank you
  to remember that. And Ill thank you to show the
  respect a gentleman gives as a matter of course.
• Just name the movie.

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Answer 40

• The correct answer, as pointed by ANDY, was The
  Greatest Game ever Played.
• Also right answers by Raji and Sundeep.

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Question 41

• Clue 1 A filmgoer who saw the movie in 1974
  during its original release fainted and broke his
  jaw on the seat in front of him. He then sued
  Warner Brothers and the filmmakers, claiming that
  the use of subliminal imagery in the film had
  caused him to pass out. The studio settled out of
  court for an undisclosed sum.
• Clue 2 If adjusted for inflation, this would be
  the top grossing R-rated film of all time.
• Clue 3 (Tagline) Somewhere between science and
  superstition, there is another world. The world
  of darkness.
• Clue 4 (Dialogue) Father Dyer? I thought youd
  like to keep this.
• Clue 5 Christian evangelist Billy Graham claimed
  an actual demon was living in the celluloid reels
  of this movie.
• Identify this famous movie.

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Answer 41

• The answer is the very famous movie The
  Exorcist.
• Correct answers by RAJI, MK and Francis (Thanks
  for coming back!)

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Question 42

• I happened to see this movie just yesterday
  night, and was compelled to make a question from
  it. Here goes.
• Clue 1 The lead actress was offered the script
  to this movie as a 30th Birthday present from the
  director. The director has to delay the start of
  the production because the lead actress was
  pregnant.
• Clue 2 It took six years to write the entire
  script before being split into two parts. The
  original draft was about 220 pages long.
• Clue 3 (Dialogue) For those regarded as
  warriors, when engaged in combat the vanquishing
  of thine enemy can be the warriors only concern.
  Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill
  whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord
  God, or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the
  heart of the art of combat.
• Clue 4 Total Body Count in this movie 95. 
• Identify this fantastic movie, released in 2003.

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Answer 42

• The answer is Kill Bill Vol 1?.
• Correct answers by FRANCIS, Mujeeb and MK. I
  tried to make the clues more interesting and
  not-too-obvious as the earlier clues. Good going
  by Francis, his thought process is worth noting.
  This is how I would like to tackle any clues that
  I am offered. Good job!

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Question 43

• Well, another one of my favorites, I missed the
  ending of this movie due to some damaged
  download. Anyways, here goes!
• Clue 1 (Tagline) Somewhere in the Universe,
  there must be something better than man!
• Clue 2 (Last lines) Oh my God. Im back. Im
  home. All the time, it was We finally really did
  it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!
  God damn you all to hell!
• Clue 3 This film marks only the second time that
  a make-up artist received an Academy Award.
  William Tuttle achieved the same feat in 1964 for
  7 Faces of Dr. Lao. A make-up category was
  introduced by the Academy in 1981.
• Clue 4 Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison are
  the only actors to appear in both this film and
  its remake in 2001.
• Identify this classic movie.

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Answer 43

• Its the Planet of the Apes.
• Correct answers by TANIA, Chandru and Francis.
  Well answered by one and all.

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Question 44

• I hope it is easy and tough at the same time.
  Here goes!
• Clue 1 Brad Pitt was signed to this movie for a
  relatively small salary, when he was still an up
  and coming actor. By the time of the movies
  release, however, Interview with the Vampire The
  Vampire Chronicles (1994), Legends of the Fall
  (1994), and Se7en (1995) had been released,
  making Pitt a top-salary actor.
• Clue 2 Bruce Willis took a lower salary than his
  star-status would normally entitle, partly
  because of budget restrictions, but mostly
  because he wanted to work with Terry Gilliam.
  Actually Bruce did the movie for free. It was
  only after the movie was released that he was
  paid.
• Clue 3 When I was institutionalized, my brain
  was studied exhaustively by the guys of mental
  health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was
  examined thoroughly. Then, they took everything
  about me and put it into a computer where they
  created this model of my mind. Yes! Using that
  model they managed to generate every thought I
  could possibly have in the next, say, 10 years.
  Which they then filtered through a probability
  matrix of some kind to - to determine everything
  I was gonna do in that period. So you see, she
  knew I was gonna lead the Army of the ______
  _______ into the pages of history before it ever
  even occurred to me. She knows everything Im
  ever gonna do before I know it myself. Hows
  that?
• Identify this movie, that launched the career of
  Brad Pitt, earning him a Golden Globe and also
  giving him his only other Oscar nomination (the
  latest one in 2009 being only his 2nd nomination).

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Answer 44

• The correct answer is Twelve Monkeys.
• Correct answer by ANDY, Tania, Francis and
  Sundeep Chundru. Partial answer by Raji (although
  the Terry Gilliam info and his relation to Monty
  Python series was a eye opener for me!)