Cinema Quiz

June 21, 2014 04:49 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 12:09 pm IST

1. How are Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private collectively known?

2. Ghinua Soren was the character played by which respected actor in his debut film, a role which won him the National Best Actor award?

3. Which John Travolta film gets its name from the password for a speakeasy in the Marx Brothers’Horse Feathers?

4. Which film featured the evergreen patriotic number ‘Aao Bachhon Tumhen Dikhaayen Jhanki Hindustan Ki’ sung by Pradeep under Hemant Kumar’s music direction?

5. Which Marvel super-hero is Paul Rudd playing in upcoming Disney-distributed film set to release in July 2015?

6.Blood Diamondis set against the backdrop of the civil war in which African nation?

7. Which Yash Chopra offering ostensibly drew inspiration from the British TV movieThe Mayor of Casterbridge?

8. If Judy Garland was Dorothy, then who was Wicked Witch of the West?

9. Which Nobel Laureate wroteYentl,

which was adapted into a movie helmed by and starring Oscar-winner Barbara Streisand?

10. For what ‘literary’ cause did producer K. Ravindran Nair donate the proceeds of the successful Prem Nazir-starrerAchani(1973)?

ANSWERS

1. ‘Penguins of

Madagascar’

2. Mithun Chakraborthy in Mrigayaa .

3. Swordfish .

4. Jagriti.

5. Ant-Man .

6. Sierra Leone.

7. Daag .

8. Margaret Hamilton.

9. Isaac Bashevis Singer.

10. Building the public library at Kollam.

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