This one’s not open for scoring as these questions are from an already concluded event where a few of our visitors had been contributors. These questions were our contribution for the same (with a couple of new ones thrown in). This will serve as a substitute for the weekly that we’ve not put up for this week.

Just enjoy working it out.

1. X is central to one of the most infamous show business legends. In 1953 he was cast in a movie Y. He was abruptly replaced by Z before filming began. Z went on to win an Oscar for the performance and revived his career. That story inspired a similar incident depicted in the classic 1972 film A. X says he turned down the role to appear in a Tennessee Williams play: “Whenever Z saw me, he’d say, ‘Hello, you crazy actor!’”
X,Y,Z,A?

Answer: X- Eli Wallach, Z – Frank Sinatra, A – The Godfather
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2. David Niven wrote in his autobiography Bring On the Empty Horses that his friend _________, in 1937 at the age of 31, had predicted he would commit suicide when he was 65. On 23 April, 1972 he checked into a hotel in Castelldefels, a coastal town near Barcelona. He was found dead two days later, having taken five bottles of Nembutal. ________ was 65 years old. He left behind a suicide note which read:

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Who?

Answer: George Sanders
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3. This actor was well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Today’s generation would probably recognise him as the evil scientist living on top of a hill in a Tim Burton flick. He’ll also be remembered for his evil laugh the most famous example of which was in the 1982 magnum opus of another artist.
The actor, the artist and the artist’s work?

Answer: Vincent Price, Michael Jackson and Thriller
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4. X was a German-American actor known for his comic portrayals of pompous villains.
After the advent of talkies, X became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in three of their movies. His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers. His most famous role was that of a two-faced POW camp guard in a 1953 movie which also starred another character actor Y who like X used to be picked mainly to play a German Officer
X? Y?

Answer: Sig Ruman and Otto Preminger
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5. _________ was a favorite of director Otto Preminger, who was instrumental in restoring his career after he was blacklisted from films in the late 1950s by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Preminger cast him in five of his movies between 1962 and 1971. He was nominated for Academy Award twice, once in 1975 for The Day Of The Locust and another in 1976 for a role which was first offered to Lee Strasburg. The production chose _________ as they couldn’t afford Strasburg. Who?

Answer: Burgess Meredith and the 1976 movie is Rocky
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6. His mother, María Mantilla, is generally believed to have been the daughter of Cuban poet and Revolutionary leader José Marti. He was usually cast in supporting roles as a Latino Lover, Italian gangster or East Indian prince for quite a long time before playing Hernan Cortez in Captain from Castile(1947) which launched his career. He discussed his homosexuality in a series of interviews with author Boze Hadleigh, with the understanding that they would not be published during his lifetime. Who?

Answer: Cesar Romero
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7. Connect 1 to 6

Answer: All portrayed Batman villains in the original tv series
Vincent Price – Egg Head
Burgess Meredith – Penguin
Cesar Romero – Joker
Eli Wallach, George Sanders, Otto Prreminger – Mr Freeze
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8. This actor suffered from Marfan syndrome which explains his distinctive angular appearance with long limbs and fingers. The appearance provided him with a steady stream of supporting roles, often in Miloš Forman films, namely One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont, and the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon. His role as a subway spirit in the 1990 romantic fantasy Ghost won him much critical acclaim. Who is tis actor who’s often described a the “man with the sad eyes”.

Answer: Vincent Schiavelli

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9.

Which famous actor based one of his roles in a movie on a character you just saw in the video? Very workoutable.

Answer: The character shown here is Mumbles from Dick Tracy. The name should’ve served as a clue. Well, anyway the actor who was inspired is Benicio Del Toro for the role of Fenster from The Usual Suspects

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10.

Actor? Character?

Answer: Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski played by John Turturro

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11.

Same question – Who? What role?

Answer: Gary Oldman as Drexl Spivey in True Romance

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12. He’s perhaps the most recognisable character actor in the Kannada Film Industry. And in the true sense of the word, he’s only ever portrayed two characters– a town drunk and a beggar.
A regular in Upendra movies, his 200th movie appearance, Mata, in which he had substantial screen presence, was overshadowed by the fact that it was also Jaggesh’s 100th movie.
Who?

Answer: V Biradar

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13. Connect and complete:
M.P.Shankar, Vajramuni, Toogudeepa Srinivas, Balkrishna, Narasimha Raju, X

Answer: All regulars on Rajkumar movies – missing person is Shanimahadevappa
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14. This actress, who started her career as a child artist in 1926, was well known for playing step-mom/chachi roles usually accompanied by a pampered daughter and a hapless husband.
Her last on screen appearances included Mahesh Bhatt’s Junoon and Deepa Mehta’s Water.
Such was her impoverished state towards the end of her that after receiving her payment for Junoon she’s supposed to have told Bhatt that she “can now have bath”.
Name this veteran of nearly 150 movies who died in February 2008

Answer: Manorama

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15. Identify

Both are of the same person.

Answer: Lalita Pawar

On second thought, send in your answers, we’ll put up the scores for this particular quiz separately and not include it in the main tally.

PS: All but three or four text questions are directly lifted from the source (as we are too lazy to phrase them). So don’t shamelessly google them out right away.

Rithwik was the only one who sent in his answers. Well done kido..

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1. A fictional band was named after a single released by a real life band X. The single itself was named A. B and C played members of the fictional band. A?B?C?X?

Answer: Autobahn, Flea, Aimee Mann and Kraftework

Autobahn, the fictional band from The Big Lebowski was named after a single by Kraftework of the same name.

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2. Lots of trivia associated with the video. Just name the band and what specific event is this video a parody of

Answer: The Love Below(Fictional band made for this video) parodying The Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show

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3. Which is the only fictional band whose song topped Billboard magazine’s list of ‘Hot 100 songs of the year’.
Clue: It’s not The Wonders

Answer: Archies for sugar sugar

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4. Who as who as who?

Answer: Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky as Robin Sparkles from How I Met Your Mother

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5.
1961

1983

1985

1997

1998

1978 -> ?

Answer: The Blues Brothers. Sales of RayBan sunglasses were supposedly affected by these movies. After the release of Blues Brothers, the sales actually plummeted.

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6. Funda

More than one of these

Answewr: The Monkees, The Chipmunks and The Gorillaz

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7 to 9 Simply Identify

7.

Answer: Seenu-Subbu from down south – Kannada Films. Good crack by Ashwini

8.

Answer: Crucial Taunt from Wayne’s World

9.

Extremely colorful lyrics. listen to it at your own risk

Answer: CB4

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10. the US, Japan, China, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, __________ .
Fill in the blanks. The list is in a particular order.

Answer: Dethklok. Funda – Dethklok has grown so big in it’s fictional world that it’s become the seventh largest economy in the world.

Scores:
Nitish – 7
Thejaswi Udupa – 6.5
Ashwini – 5
Appu – 5.5
Mayura – 3
Vinayak 2.5

First part of the fictional Bands quiz

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