TOPIC : Entertainment ANSWERS

TOPIC : Entertainment
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WINNER : Debkalpa (10/13)
RUNNER UP : Avirup Basu (dmon.divine@gmail.com) (9/13)
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PRIZE : "My Sacrifice" - Creed
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The Spiderman 3 Original Sound Track [Ending Credits Song]
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"Don't Wanna Stop" - Ozzy Osbourne

Mention the song you want,along with your answers.
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1.Find the unifying theme :- Sam Spade,Max Payne,Philip Marlowe
Ans : "Film Noir" - all three are detectives of this genre

2."Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man." .Identify either the speaker,or the movie.

Ans : Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver

3.This guy has been “giving you nightmares” for almost 25 years ! Identify him. [ HINT : He doesn't normally look like this

Ans : Robert Englund (who plays the character of the serial killer Freddy Krueger from "Nightmare On Elm Street")

4.Comment on this picture.Also name them. [ Scoring : 0.5 X 6]

Ans : Janis Joplin,Kurt Cobain,Jim Morrison,Jimmi Hendrix,Brian Jones. This is the "27 Club", they all died young at 27.

5. Sergio Leone remade Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" into the first of his "Spaghetti Westerns", "A Fistful of Dollars", which was released in 1964. "Yojimbo" was also remade into which 1996 film starring Bruce Willis?

Ans : Last Man Standing

6.In 1998, Roland Emmerich remade Ishiro Honda's classic, anti-nuclear film,in the process changing its setting (geographical location). What was the name of his remake?

Ans: Godzilla

7. "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do..." Apparently this speaker feels the need to discuss the benefits of designated purpose(s) !
The second speaker, much more lively by a mile, reports: "Give it up old man, you can't fight evolution, I was built for speed!".The poor director,shouting “CUT! CUT!” senses a little “continuity error” here…..A “Little” continuity error?!?? The 2 speakers are from 2 different movies entirely! OK, keeping aside this impossible situation, so ,Which two characters and films are we talking about here? (Scoring : 0.5 X 4)

Ans : HAL from 2001 : A Space Odyssey ,and Dory,from Finding Nemo

8.Identify the band.

Ans: One of my favourites, Blondie

9.Originally,Steven Spielberg was scheduled to direct “Cape Fear”,while Martin Scorsese was at that time,the leading candidate to direct “Schindler’s List”.In the end however,the two switched films.Why?

Ans: Martin Scorsese felt that "Schindler's List" needed a Jewish director

10.Identify the band,and the song (Scoring : 0.5 X 2) :-

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Ans: "Mama Mia" by ABBA