Christ College National Quiz Championship November,2013 - Prelims

CHRIST COLLEGE NATIONAL QUIZ CHAMPIONSHIP

SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT QUIZPRELIMS

RULES• The prelims will have 25 questions, each question

carrying one point.• Questions may have multiple parts(maximum of two

parts), so each part will carry half point.• Questions 5,10,15,20,25 are * marked. In case, there is

a tie between on scores , the team which has scored the greater number of * marked questions will qualify.

• In case the tie persists, ‘sudden death’ will be employed.• The Top 6 teams will make it to the finals.• Please turn off your electronic devices. ALL THE BEST!

1.

Shown here is the Kandivali Ground in Mumbai. It was recently renamed by the MCA. What is the new name?

2.

a)Identify this 2013 movie from this trailerb)Which person, known widely in the quizzing

circles, appears as the director of RAW?

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3.In response to a movie being made about him, the person wrote a letter to the lead actor which went as follows,

“..I know the film intends to depict me and my work in a negative light......You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it. To present me as someone morally compromised and to place me in a falsified history. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth....Consider the consequences of your cooperation with a project that vilifies and marginalises a living political refugee to the benefit of an entrenched, corrupt and dangerous state....“

a) Who wrote the letter?b) To whom?

4.

Which movie features voice cameos from famous car racers such as Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Michael Schumacher, Mario Andretti, Bob Costas and Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear?

5.

Shown here is the insignia of a minor league baseball team from a town in Georgia, USA where a very popular tournament in a completely different sport takes place. So what is the team's name?

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6.

Smarte trekk. ______ _______: Verdens beste sjakkspiller by Hallgeir Opedal is 2011 biography about a sporting superstar. Opedal does not understand the sport and the subject wanted the book to be written from a layman’s point of view and not from that of a sjakkspiller.

Fill in the blanks or identify the subject.

7.

Dadasaheb Phalke made the first Indian film, 'Raja Harischandra' in 1913. Around one year before, another director known as Dadasaheb Torne had recorded on film a stage drama called Shree Pundalik, in 1912. However Shree Pundalik is not considered the first Indian film in spite of being made a year earlier. What reason is given for not considering Dadasaheb Torne's work the first?

8.

This term originated from the French phrase "Allez hop!" which was made by circus acrobats before making a leap. It was first used by the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League(NFL) to describe a high arcing pass. The use of the term has decreased in NFL but has become more prominent in basketball. What term?

9.Identify the movie from the Lego minimalist

poster.

10.

After winning the 2013 Indian GP, Sebastian Vettel performed the following maneuver to celebrate his victory. What is the maneuver called because of the pattern of skid marks it makes?

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11.

Identify these pioneers in cinema featured on this French stamp.

12.

About which classic 1979 movie did the director say "My movie is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."?

13.

Astronauts of the Soyuz capsule are shown holding something in these pictures. What are they holding?

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14.

______ is a system of slow motion cameras developed by FastCAM Replay LLC and DEL Imaging Systems LLC used during Tennis matches to replay close or controversial line calls. After which former World No.1, infamous for contesting umpire calls, is this system named? Incidentally, this person was one of the first tennis analysts when this system was introduced by CBS.

15.

Which famous character from literature was the inspiration for this video?

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16.

Ian Wright was chasing Cliff Bastin's record of 178 goals for Arsenal, and in a Premiership game against Bolton, Wright scored and took off his shirt to reveal a vest underneath with the slogan "____ ____ __" which referring to beating the record, and Wright's sponsor.

Fill In the blanks.

17.

Intolerance, a 1916 movie directed by D.W.Griffith tells four parallel stories set in four separate time periods: 6th century B.C. Babylon, Judea in the time of Jesus, 16th century Reformation France and Modern Day America.

What plot device/technique was first used in this classic movie?

18.

A. Maria Irudayam from Chennai is a two-time World Champion and nine-time national champion of India in a particular indoor sport. As of 2013, he is the only person to receive the Arjuna Award for his sport. He was the winner of several tournaments such as the ICF Cup in 1989 and 1997, US Open Tournament, French Open Tournament in 1998.

In which sport was he a champion?

19.

Who is Anna Gunn imitating in this scene from Breaking Bad?

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20.

Which language uses the following words ?,1)Lewdies – people2)Veck – person3)Babushka – old woman4)Pony – to understand5)Droog – friend6)Guff – laughter …etc.

21.

Identifya) The piece b) The composer’s style in which it is being

played.

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22.

Which 1975 event’s name is from this ‘poem’ composed by one of its participants?

“ Killa and a _______ and a Chilla, when I get that gorilla __ ______".

23.

‘The Orchid Thief’ is a non-fiction book by Susan Orleans based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids. It was later made into a film by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kauffman. The film is a satire on the process of converting the book into a movie, in which Orlean's book is turned into a formulaic Hollywood thriller.

What was the adapted film called?

24.

The symbol originated from an ancient Buddhist gesture and could mean zero, or three or the Om symbol or Vitarka Mudra.

What did the media call it in 2010 which became popular especially in this state?

25.

In individual events in the Olympics, the record for winning Gold in the same event in 4 different editions is held by two people. One of them is Al Oerter for Discus throw.

Who is the other and for which event?