Sunday, March 8, 2009

Maximus Indicus Quiz- Movie Quiz

Comming back with a movie Quiz after a very long time. Something i always loved posting. So hoping all movie maniacs love this Quiz.

1) "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty ________." Complete the quote.

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

2) Identify this person in the picture along with Al Pacino.

LEE STRASBERG


3) As a movie student, George Lucas was choosen by Columbia pictures to shoot short behind the scene documentaries on the making of this Western in 1967. Lucas was actually on location in Utah for the shooting of this movie. He released a documentary version called 6-18-67, which was the day the shooting of this movie finished. This movie would later be an influence on another famous epic adventure. Name the movie.

MACKENNAS GOLD

4) Under the name of Rus le Roq, he recorded a tune called "I want to be Like Marlon Brando". He and his friend formed a band called Roman Antix, which later became an Aussie pub rock brand called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, in 1992. He also collaborated with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea in 2005. He changed the name of his band to The Ordinary Fear of God, though the acronym TOFOG remains the same. Which actor am i referring to?

RUSSEL CROWE

5)




What is the claim to fame of this building?

THIS IS THE HOTEL FEATURED IN HOTEL RWANDA

6)

Real name Joseph Pistone. Special Agent FBI . How do we know him better?

DONNIE BRASCO

7) X appeared for the first time in a 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was first made into a 1960 French movie Plein Soel( Purple Noon in English), starring Alain Delon as X. In 1999, Antony Minghella made another movie adaptation, Z, of the same novel starring Y as X . Identify X, Y and Z. ( 3 points).

X- MR.RIPLEY, Z- THE TALENTED MR.RIPLEY, Y-MATT DAMON

8) She is the only person to learn The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, a method by which an assailant can be killed by quickly striking the 5 pressure points around the heart. She faked her own death ,lived in rural Texas under name of Arlene Machiavelli and was engaged to Tommy Plympton. Name the character and movie( 2 points).

BEATRTIX KIDDO AKA THE BRIDE, KILL BILL


9)



Born in Minnesota, he was class president, senior prom king and voted "Most Likely to Succeed". He started his career as an animator for Help! magazine. His first two movies as a director were animated shorts Storytime and The Miracle of Flight. A member of the Monty Python group, his first movie as a solo director was a comedy which took its title from a nonsense poem by Lewis Caroll. Name the director.

TERRY GILLIAM

10) During the early 1900's, Dr. Duncan MacDougall, sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body on death. He weighed dying patients to prove that the soul could be measured and had a tangible mass. Though his experiments were rejected scientifically, the figure of ____ became synonmous with the mass of a soul.

21 GRAMS

Scores

Ajay Parasuraman-5

Shubendu-9

Prasad-8

Santosh-10

Saikumar-7

Kamal-8

Vijaynath-7

Arun Thulasi-5

Ashwin-4

Animesh-9

Bharath-2