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Subject: [quiznet] eivoMmmmMovie Quiz Part Deux - Scores and Answers
10:
Anand Lakshmiratan
9:
Avin G Yerramilli ~[5]
G. S. Ramasubramanian ~[9]
Anindya S Ray ~[2]
8:
Arunvijay Giridhar ~[9,10]
Rajiv Rai ~[2,9]
Mitesh Agarwal ~[2,8]
7:
Rajeev C ~[2,7,9]
Balding Beagle ~[1,2,7]
6:
Victor Bhattacharjee [1,2,3,4,6,10]
Madhav Nair [2,4,5,6,7,10]
R Abhinandan [1,2,3,4,6,7]
Rathindra Basu [4,5,6,7,9,10]
Sutanu Mukherjee [1,3,4,5,6,10]
Gaurav Pant [3,4,5,6,7,8]
5:
Sujeet Pillai [1,3,4,5,8]
Satyanarayana Simha [2,4,5,6,10]
Seema Ramnarayan [1,3,4,5,6]
4:
Hritik Sampat [4,5,6,7]
Mohit Puthuraya [4,5,6,7]
3:
Praskam [4,6,7]
Vivek Iyer [4,5,6]
S.V.Sriram [4,5,6]
1:
B Narayanan [6]
Vinod Rajamani [4]
Shardul Deo [6]
Gaurav Sabnis [7]
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1) From Roger Ebert's review of the movie:
"The movie breakthrough has finally come," Pauline Kael wrote, in the most
famous movie review ever published. "DDDD and AAAA have altered the face
of an art form." The date of the premiere, she said, would become a
landmark in movie history comparable to the night in 1913 when
Stravinsky's "Ritesof Spring" was first performed, and ushered in modern
music. Name either the director DDDD or the actor AAAAA or the
movie. Clue: Francis Bacon's paintings are displayed during the opening
credits
## Bernardo Bertolucci's "Orange film" - Last Tango in Paris, *ing Marlon
Brando and Maria Schneider.
Interesting site comparing scenes from the movie with Francis Bacon's
paintings. http://www.ibiblio.org/stabley/lt1.html
2) The film not only became a runaway success, it also turned many
American college campuses upside-down. Ohio State designed a
"deathmobile" while the Univ. of Colorado Boulder featured a wet toga
contest and a John Belushi look-alike competition. At the Univ. of
Wisconsin, 10,000 toga-wearing students jammed a parking lot to dance,
drink beer and belt out "Louie, Louie." During the all-night bash, the
reveling students also attempted to create the world's largest mixed drink
- and achieve Guinness Book of World Records immortality. Name this movie
which became a star-making vehicle for popular SNL funnyman John Belushi.
## National Lampoon's Animal House, which marked 27 year old director John
Landis' entry into the major studios. *ing John Belushi (and a young Kevin
Bacon in a tiny tole). The other popular guess was John Landis' The Blues
Brothers.
3) Which movie opens with the following: "It is the stated position of the
U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurence of such
events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that
none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any
real persons living or dead." Clue: "Hi There!"; "Dear John"
## Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4) During the filming of Taxi Driver, the Board of Education stepped in
beacuse the actress was a minor and the production agreed to make changes
to the script and get a stand-in for the provocative scenes. The actress'
elder sister, Connie stepped in to play the stand-in during some of the
behind-the-shoulder scenes. Who is the actress in question?
## 12 year old Jodie Foster
5) Upon returning from Vietnam, he wrote his first screenplay "Break",
which eventually served as the basis for one of his future films. The
screenplay was a surreal fantasy set in Vietnam, depicting imagery created
by Jim Morrision in his songs. In trying to make the film, he sent the
screenplay to Jim Morrison in hope that he would play the role.
Unfortunately, that never materialized. Who?
## Oliver Stone
6) "I was having breakfast at my uncle's house and trying to develop
Elijah's character and asked my uncle if he remembered a rare condition
that always intrigued me that had something to do with brittle bones.
Without hesitation he said 'osteogenesis imperfecta' and not only knew
everything there was to know about it, but had tons of research materials
and medical journals about the condition. Immediately, Elijah's character
formed in my mind, and before the end of breakfast I knew exactly where
the story was going." Who?
## M. Night Shyamalan
http://studio.go.com/movies/unbreakable/welcome.html
7) Julia Robert's 4 minute long acceptance speech at this year's Oscars:
"Thank you, thank you ever so much. I'm so happy. I have a television, so
I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. You're so quick
with that stick, so why don't you sit. <---snip--->"
What was the context of "I have a television" part of the speech?
## From http://entertainment.msn.com/news/eonline/032801_oscartv.asp
"Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit, who not only won the Oscar Sunday
for Best Animated Short Film, but also has scored a high-definition TV set
for giving the shortest acceptance speech. De Wit, who won the statuette
for Father and Daughter, clocked in at a brisk 18 seconds, the Academy
announced Tuesday. The official word marks an end to one of the more
bizarre competitions from this year's Academy Awards race, stemming from
producer Gil Cates' rabid attempts to pare down the marathon telecast and
force Oscar winners keep speeches under 45 seconds. Cates, who announced
at the pre-Oscar lunch that "brevity is next to godliness," eventually
resorted to bribery: offering a TV to the winner with the shortest
acceptance.
8) Cloze Test: The sign was originally constructed in 1923 to promote a
subdivision at the top of Beachwood Canyon called _____________. Until
1939 the sign was maintained by a caretaker who lived in a cabin behind
the first "L". In 1944, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce took over the
sign and its surrounding acreage and in 1949 contracted with the city's
Department of Recreation and Parks to repair the sign.
(Or) In other words what did the HOLLYWOOD sign look like before 1949?
## HOLLYWOODLAND
There's a small pic of the sign at http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro2.html
and the interesting history of the sign at
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/550121.asp
9)Connect the book "Conversations With Wilder" and www.annandnancy.com
## The book is written by Cameron Crowe who is married to Nancy Wilson of
the rock band Heart. Ann is Nancy's sister who is also part of Heart.
The songs of the fictitious group Stillwater in the movie Almost Famous
were written by Crowe and Nancy.
10) Drummer Necrology:
John "Stumpy" Pepys (1943-1969) Gardening accident
Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs (1945-1974) Choken on vomit
Peter "James" Bond (1949-1977) Spontaneous combustion
Mick Shrimpton (1948-1982) Onstage Explosion
Joe ("Mama") Besser (19??-1983) Missing, presumed dead
Richard ("Ric") Shrimptom (1948-) "No one knows what happened to Ric. None
of the band members thought to ask each other. We've also heard that he
sold his dialysis machine for drugs, and we assumed he died."
Identify the band?
## Spinal Tap in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap.
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