Movie Trivia Week

Hey Quizzartists,

Well, we got some good feedback and we will probably alternate between providing the 'Quiz drop' a day during most weeks and providing a theme based quiz per week in between.. And therefore here we have a movie based quiz!!

So, Put on your 3-D glasses and join us for a ride across movieland ...

1. Whose most famous lines were "Oh, wow. This is the best drink of water after the longest drought of my life." When and what was the occassion ?

2. 200,000 were volunteers and about 90,000 were paid for this movie scene. This scene was shot on the exact day of the 33rd anniversary of the subject of the scene/movie. About 20,000 feet of reel was shot and it was lated edited to within 2 minutes on screen.Stalwarts like Anthony Hopkins, Alec Guinness were considered for the role but was finally done by a then unknown actor , who was seen in a play by thedirector's son.


What role and what scene are we talking about?

3. Which was the first movie to win an Oscar for the best film for itself and its sequel?

4. There is a condition that when any artist / actor tries to sell 'X' , he or she should first attempt to sell it to 'Y' the place which is responsible for producing 'X' for $1. If the artist does not agree to the condition , the artist cannot obtain X.


However it has been found that X's obtained before 1960s have sold for 1.5 million dollars in the black market. What is X & Y / what are we talking about?



5. After his first professional performance in Scotland , he acted as Charlie Chaplin's understudy for a brief time in 1910. He came to America in 1916 and starred in the movie "Lucky Dog" which would be the start of a wonderful career because of his meeting with another noted cast member.

Identify this gentleman who won a Lifetime Achievement Academy award in 1961 and who ordered the following to be written in his epitaph.

"If anybody has a long face in my funeral, I shall never speak to him again" [ One of my all time favorites!!! ]

6. What's common to

Awful, Biggy, Blabby, Dirty, Gabby, Gaspy, Gloomy, Hoppy, Hotsy, Jaunty, Jumpy, Nifty, and Shifty?

Pretty easy to guess if I tell you that the set of names that completes the list were chosen by a poll conducted in the United states to choose the most suitable/favorable names.

7. Whats common to the following movies as of 2008 :?

...And thats all folks! have fun with the movie quiz-tracks we have dished out for you !

-Viv & P3

[Answers] 7 on words

The questions are posted here.

1. Alcohol (from Al-Kuhl) – Well cracked all round. Alkali was a terrific guess.

2. Budget

The bag was called ‘bougette’ (French for little bag). ‘Opening the bougette’ over time turned into ‘Opening the budget’. Surprisingly, this was the least cracked one. Exchequer (finance) was a hint. Couple of folks wrote in with ‘Debrief’ which I thought was a great guess as well.

3. Tantalize

The sinner was Tantalus. There are various accounts of his sin. The most popular one being – He stole food (ambrosia) from the Gods and gave them to Mortals hence revealing the secrets of the Gods.

4. Yankee

John Kaas -> Jan Kaas , John Cheese -> Jan Kees -> Yan Kees
NY/Connecticut was a hint. This one was decently cracked as well.

5. Moron

Idiot was the most popular answer. I’m not sure if ‘Idiot’ made it to the classification, my hunch is, it might have.

6. Tough one. Cobalt from Kobolds.

Not many got this. Someone mashed magnetism and gob-lins to arrive at cob-alt which was slick.

7. Easy one, I guess. Most of you got this.

S.O.S does not really stand for anything. It was selected cause of its easy representation in Morse code (…---…) and it wasn’t too easy to be sent accidentally.

Trivia revealed [Apr 14 - Apr 19]

Apr 14th Answer -

The fabled continent of Atlantis. Atlantis, according to Plato, existed around 9500 BC and after a failed attempt to invade Athens, sank into the ocean in a single day & night.

Apr 15th Answer -

Timbuktu :) The lady's name was Buktu. And 'Tin Buktu' literally meant the house where Buktu lived. Tin-Buktu fused into 1 word and through ages, was transformed into 'Timbuktu'

Apr 16th Answer -

Foo. Yup, just that, "Foo". We were tempted to throw in a 'meta-syntactic variable in computer science' hint but then, that would've made it really easy :)

Apr 17th Answer -

Albert Pinto ko Gussa kyon aata hain :) Albert Pinto was the owner.

Apr 18th Answer -

Apr 19th Answer -

Byomkesh Bakshi. Now, you remember? :) The world war 2 connection threw off a few people but this was well cracked, overall.

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 19th]

X meets his lifelong friend, Ajit in Satyanveshi, where he introduces himself as a “truth seeker”. Later, X and Ajit share a flat on Harrison Street. Ajit’s ambition from the start is to become a writer and he becomes moderately successful by narrating their exploits. X buys a car in the later years of World War 2 and marries Satyaboti. X?

[Answer(s) on Apr 20th, Sunday]

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 18th]

When Polaroid was first introduced in Russia , the cameras were an instant hit in spite of the high cost of these cameras and their method of development. The Russians were NOT particularly rich and did NOT enjoy as high a standard of living then. Upon research and a lot of interviews, reason [X] was determined to be the reason.

What was X (The Reason)?

[Answer(s) on Apr 20th, Sunday]

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 17th]

It’s not often, that you see the name of the main protagonist in the title of the movie. This movie was another one of those bollywood oddities where-in most of the interior shots were done at the residence of a certain gentleman and being unable to pay him, the producers bartered by using his name for the main protagonist and a subsequent place in the title.

Which movie?

[Answer(s) on Apr 20th, Sunday]

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 16th]

RFC269 was the first to use this word. The word owes its origins to comic strips and cartoons of the 30’s. A very early version of Daffy duck holds up a sign saying "Silence is X".

Perhaps the earliest documented use was in a cartoon strip about a nutty fireman. This appeared in various american comics between the 30’s and 50’s and frequented the license plate of cars and nonsensical phrases.

What word?

[Answer(s) on Apr 20th, Sunday]

Quiz drop for the day [April 15th]

This place was established by nomadic Tuareg tribes in the 10th century. It owes its name to an old Malian woman who lived in the region and was known for her honesty.

Tuareg and other travelers would entrust this woman with any belongings for which they had no use on their return trip to the north. So, when a tuareg returned and was asked where he had left his belongings, he would reply "At …" meaning the place where the woman lived.

The name has carried over for over a millennium now, which place?

[Answer(s) on April 20th, Sunday]

Quiz drop for the day [April 14th]

The Story : When Zeus divided the world into 3 parts he gave Haedus the underworld , took the heaven for himself and gave Poseidon the seas and also one small portion on earth.

The Question: : Identify this 1 portion of the earth which is indicated in the below pic by a circle

Quick note before we reveal the answer to yesterday's question. Starting tomorrow, we will publish our answers on Sunday to all questions asked during the week. So, we'll ask a question each day from Monday to Saturday and publish the answers to those questions on Sunday.

Clear enough? Let's move on to the answer for yesterday's Q -

Trivia revealed [Apr 13th]:

The Answer : "Shit Happens"

Forrest Gump intro: The phrase was featured in the movie Forrest Gump during gump'srun across the United States. While being asked questions by an excited fan, Forrest runs over a pile of dog feces. The fan tells Forrest he had just stepped in a big pile of shit, to which Gump replies, "It happens." to which the fan replies, "What, shit?" In the film, this incident inspires that fan to create the "shit happens" slogan, shown in the form of a bumper sticker on a pickup truck that enters an intersection and gets T-boned. In the TV version, the audio is blanked out to say "it happens" and the "SH" is blurred out on the bumper sticker [To avoid lawsuits, i guess :) ]

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 13th]

Etymology researchers are yet to determine when this phrase first appeared. The first popular occurrence was in a 1991 case concerning a car bumper sticker – The supreme court of Georgia ruled that using lewd or profane stickers on vehicles was unconstitutional.

It then made it to television on an episode of Chicago hope running past the censors who deemed it a harmless. It has now found its place in popular culture occurring in movies (Forest Gump, Predator), music (Every time I die), games (Duke Nukem 3D) and even WWF for that matter.

What phrase?

Trivia revealed [Apr 12th]:

Men who took to the air were the first to popularize the humble ball point pen. Fighter pilots, especially, navigators in planes, used fountain pens at high altitude and pens leaked consistently at the altitude. They switched to Biro invented ball point pens to solve the problem.

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 12th]

The first Ball-point pens were invented by the hungarian journalist 'Lazelo Biro' and introduced in the Budapest International fair in 1931. They did not sell well at the fair, because they were considered unnecessary at that time. However the popularity of these pens went up after World-War II , as this group of people could make great use of it. Off-course , since then there has been looking back for the Ball-point pen :) ..

Who were this group of people and why were they in such a need of it?

Trivia revealed [Apr 11th]:
X = "Chinaman"

Quite guessable , wasnt it? Yeah, he said "done by a Chinaman" and the word just stuck. In another version, Charlie 'Buck' Llewellyn, a South African all-rounder is supposed to have invented this at around 1900s while playing against the English.

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 11th]

EE Achong was a left arm spin bowler who played for the West Indies in the early 30’s. He played 6 tests, took 8 wickets and faded away. But, we still hold him in collective memory due to an incident that occurred in the 1933 Manchester test against England.

Achong had Walter Robbins stumped and was celebrating. As Robbins walked back to the pavilion, he said to Joe Hardstaff Snr., the umpire – "Fancy being done by a bloody X". X is now a commonly used cricketing term - X?

Trivia revealed [Apr 10th]:

X = The Red Cross.

Henry Dunant was awarded the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize for founding the international red cross. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book 'A memory of solferino', which served as an inspiration for the founding of the Red Cross in 1863.

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 10th]

The Knights Hospitaller (a Christian organization formed in Jerusalem ) were the first to bring the concept of 'X' and practice it. In 1877 , St. John's ________ [Disclosing this word would be a give away :)] were the first to teach this practice officially by forming rooms and teaching centres in railways and mining areas. 'X' was started by a Swiss man, who helped a group of villagers help soldiers in the Battle of Solferino.

The Swiss man was awarded the 1st Nobel Prize in 1901 for forming X.

What is X ?


Trivia revealed [Apr 9th]:
X – RK Laxman, Y – Bal Thackeray (RK was reminded of William Makepeace ‘Thackeray’) . Offcourse, one of them became famous for the "Common Man" and the other was quite an "uncommon" person !!

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 9th]

X studied at Maharaja’s college, Mysore majoring in Politics, Economics and Philosophy. After graduation, he arrived at Delhi to find a job. The Hindustan Times told him he was too young and that he should start with provincial papers. The Free Press Journal in Bombay gave him a break. On his first day at the job, he was seated next to Y who was furiously sketching a bird in a cage. After introduction, X thought “Is Y an Indian name?”

X didn’t last long at the Free Press Journal. One day, the proprietor banned him from making fun of the communists. He left, caught a train and walked into the Times of India Office. The rest, as they say, is history.

Identify X, Y.

Trivia revealed [Apr 8th]:

South Africa’s historic re-entry into cricket in 1991 in front of a packed crowd at Eden Gardens, Calcutta. The picture features South African skipper ‘Clive Rice’ (clasped hands).

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 8th]

Momentous occasion in its own right. What was it?

Trivia revealed [Apr 7th]:

X = Pierre Omidyar, Y = eBay
Omidyar realized that there is a market for almost anything. The rest, as we know, is glorious history :)

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 7th]

In 1998 over a holiday X created his personal site and dedicated it to providing more information on the ebola virus. As the site evolved, one day he wanted to give away his broken laser printer and put up that in his site. When a customer bought it for $14.83, X called up the customer and asked him if realized that it was a broken printer? The customer replied that he was a collector of "broken laser printers" and this gave X an idea to change his site into Y.

As always, Identify X & Y :)

Trivia revealed [Apr 6th]:

This ‘piece of paper’ is widely regarded by numismatists to be the first paper currency in circulation. Labelled ‘Jiaozi’, this was introduced by the Northern Song Dynasty at the end of the first millennium A.D

Quiz drop for the day [Apr 6th]

What is the claim to fame of this rather decrepit looking piece of paper?