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John May Lives – The

Entertainment Quiz

IQL Anniversary Quiz 4

Rules of the game • 10 questions, total of 25 points.

• All questions related to Movies / TV Shows / Music

• Answer all questions as comments to the post where the quiz was uploaded

• Answers and scores will be declared on the same post and the Anniversary Quiz page after 11:59 pm, 24/10/11 .

• Googling is discouraged, although we cannot stop you from doing so if you want to.

• All the best

Question 1 (2 points)

Identify this TV show from its star cast? The cast was invited to sing at the White House at the behest of Michelle Obama in April 2010 for the annual Easter Egg Roll.

And the answer is…

Question 2 (3 points)

This word refers to a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history & speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. It involves a setting (usually Victorian era Britain) where steam power is still widely used. Suck works often feature anachronistic technology based on a Victorian perspective. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

Latest movie in this sub-genre: “The Three Musketeers”

Identify the word / sub-genre.

And the answer is…

Steampunk

Question 3 (4 points)

The women shown on the next slide have played / set to play a common character in movies and TV shows. Which character?

And the answer is…

They have all played Irene Adler, the most famous in (and possibly the only woman to have intrigued) Sherlock Holmes

Question 4 (2 points)

Download & listen to this audio clip taken from the trailers of this show that has been making waves in the recent days. A screenshot from one of the trailers is also shown here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JQWGTTDG

And the answer is…

Question 5 (3 points)

Identify the personality making his cameo appearance in this scene. It was his one and only appearance in a commercial movie before his untimely death in 2008.

Click link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthexPE7X3k

And the answer is…

Randy Pausch, the author of the famous book “The Last Lecture” and self-confessed Star Trek fan. JJ Abrams wanted to give him a more substantial role in the movie, but Randy declined, instead opting for the small role of the Captain’s assistant.

His line: “Captain, we have a visual”

It was his one and only appearance in a commercial movie before his untimely death in 2008.

Question 6 (1 point)

Has a dog named Paco who, as of July 26, 2006, is the new mascot for Old Navy.

Eloped with her husband, who is an Italian prince, when she was 18. They married in his family's castle in Vignanello, Italy.

Adopted her professional name “_____" after she developed a profound respect and admiration for Irish poet and writer X.

Which actress?

And the answer is…

Olivia Wilde

Question 7 (3 points)

Which is the first American cartoon that showed 2 people of the opposite sex sleeping together in the same bed?

And the answer is…

Question 8 (3 points)

This is a clip from South Park that parodies one of the starting scenes of a famous 1932 Hollywood counterculture cult movie. Identify the movie.

Click link for video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hrQLnPmTU

And the answer is…

Freaks (1932). The original scene is as follows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

Question 9: Connect (2 points)

And the answer is…

"Oh, Pretty Woman" is a song, released in August 1964, which was a worldwide success for Roy Orbison. Recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee, it was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

KHNH took permission to use the song in an Indianized version in the movie

In Goa, this song is used as a backdrop in visualizing a scene where the lead actor meets lead actress for the first time.

Question 10 (2 points)

The soundtrack of which Adam Sandler movie contains (near the end of the movie) the music from the song "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja" from the Bollywood movie Disco Dancer (1982) starring Mithun Chakraborty?

Very arbit clue:

And the answer is…

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

And the scores are as follows…

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Total Score

Points per question 2 3 4 2 3 1 3 3 2 2 25

SKG 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 19

Navdeep Shukla 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 16

Chanchal Pati 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 12

GZ Ramharish 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8

End of Quiz