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Entertainment Quiz  29 Questions Because 30 Was Too Mainstream Entertainment Quiz 29 Questions because 30 was too mainstream. 1 point for each question In case of tie, Star marked questions will be used If the tie still persists, sudden death will be used. 1. The first two guidelines have been hidden ID Guidelines: ______________ ______________ Get Involved. If you're funny, you get Likes. Play Nice. Respect originality and creativity. Moderate your content. No repost. Report Abuse. The first two guidelines are the same. Give them 2. Which comic 3. Aamir Khan stopped attending award ceremonies after he didn’t receive the Best Actor award for his performance losing out to Anil Kapoor in Beta(1992). Which film was he nominated for? 4. This is an old picture of the Kelani river in Kitulgala, Sri Lanka. This was the site location of a very popular Hollywood movie. Which one? 5. This is an exhaustive list of novels to achieve a 1985/1984 Novel: Neuromancer by William certain distinction. What? Gibson 1966/1965 Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert 1986/1985 Novel: Ender's Game by Orson Scott 1970/1969 Novel: The Left Hand of Card Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 1987/1986 Novel: Speaker for the Dead by Orson 1971/1970 Novel: Ringworld by Larry Niven Scott Card 1973/1972 Novel: The Gods Themselves by Isaac 1993/1992 Novel: Doomsday Book by Connie Asimov Willis 1974/1973 Novel: Rendezvous with 1998 Novel: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 2002 Novel: American Gods by Neil Gaiman 1975/1974 Novel: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. 2004 Novel: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Le Guin Bujold 1976/1975 Novel: The Forever War by Joe 2008/2007 Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Haldeman Union by Michael Chabon 1978/1977 Novel: Gateway by Frederik Pohl 2010/2009 Novel: The Windup Girl by Paolo 1979/1978 Novel: Dreamsnake by Vonda Bacigalupi McIntyre 2011/2010 Novel: Blackout/All Clear by Connie 1980/1979 Novel: The Fountains of Willis Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke 1984/1983 Novel: Startide Rising by David Brin 6. ID Feast of Fiction is a youtube channel the butter, salt, vinegar and 1/4 cup which provides recipe for fictional foods heavy cream. Set aside to cool to room and drinks. temperature. Once the mixture has This is their recipe from episode 2. ID cooled, stir in the rum extract. Start to finish: 1 hour (10 minutes In a medium bowl, combine 2 active) tablespoons of the brown sugar mixture and the remaining 1/2 cup of heavy Servings: 4 cream. Use an electric mixer to beat •1 cup light or dark brown sugar until just thickened, but not completely •2 tablespoons water whipped, about 2 to 3 minutes. •6 tablespoon butter To serve, divide the brown sugar •1/2 teaspoon salt mixture between 4 tall glasses (about •1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar 1/4 cup for each glass). Add 1/4 cup of •3/4 cup heavy cream, divided cream soda to each glass, then stir to •1/2 teaspoon rum extract combine. Fill each glass nearly to the •Four 12-ounce bottles cream soda top with additional cream soda, then In a small saucepan over medium heat, spoon the whipped topping over each. combine the brown sugar and water. Bring to a gentle boil and cook. Stir in 7. Inspiration for what? Back in the mid 1500s, there was a beautiful girl named Margarete von Waldeck who lived in a mining town called Waldeck, a small community in northwestern Germany. Children were known to work in the mines there. Margarete moved out of Waldeck when she was about 17 years old, headed for Brussels. When she got there, her beauty attracted the attention of Philip II of Spain. However before they could get married, she fell gravely ill. Most people thought she was poisoned, and her handwriting in her last will and testament was shaky enough to make most people think she had developed tremors. She died from the mysterious illness when she was just 21. 8*. According to U.S. law toys manufactured in other countries are subject to tax. However the taxes are much lower if the toys depict non-human characters. This has led to what? 9*. This image shows homer meeting God in Season 16 from the Simpsons. God is the only character in the Simpsons drawn with this characteristic. (Not omniscience, omnipotence etc.) Something very basic. What? 10*. ID the band 11. Andy Serkis is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer- generated characters: King Kong, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. He becoming the first motion captured actor to win a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his most popular role. Which one? 12. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, a science communicator, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011 that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage TV series. How do we know him better? 13. From the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: ""Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for X they've worked out."" ID X and what it is a reference to. 14. Simple ID 15. Google doodle for the 100th anniversary of which person? 16. X is a brand of blended scotch whisky. The company joined Distillers Company in 1925. Distillers was acquired by Guinness in 1986, and Guinness merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo in 1997. Diageo sold X to Bacardi in 1998. The products include X white label, X signature and X 12. ID X and its connection to entertainment. 17. ID the blank 18*. The protagonist of this classic novel was very famous for throwing parties. Shown (next slide) are the fictional visiting cards of the list of attendees who attended these parties. ID the novel. 19. ID the painter (from the Bollywood industry) 20 OWN is an American specialty channel launched by Discovery Communications and X, a production company.. The owner of X is also the Chairman, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer of OWN, and also who the channel has been named after. ID X and the owner. 21 The adjoining poster is for a TV show based on the life of young Stephen Hawking. ID the lead actor or (for 0.5 points) his more famous role. 22.OSTs for which movie? Give Her My Budapest (1:57) The Express Elevator (2:31)* Light The Fuse (2:01)* Moreau Trouble Than She's Knife To A Gun Fight (3:42) Worth (6:44) In Russia, Phone Dials You Out For A Run (3:54) (1:40)*+ Eye Of The Wistrom (1:05) Kremlin With Anticipation Mood India (4:28)* (4:12)*+ Mumbai's The Word (7:14) From Russia With Shove (3:37)* Launch Is On Hendricks (2:22) Y(4:58)* World's Worst Parking Valet Railcar Rundown (1:11)* (5:03)* Hendricks' Manifesto (3:17)* X(Out With A Bang Version) A Man, A Plan, A Code, Dubai (:53)* (2:44)* Love The Glove (3:44)* 23. ID the musician Award for the Best Regional Film (Chameli Memsaab;) in the 23rd National Film Awards (1975) Padma Shri -(1977) Gold medal from the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh for "outstanding contribution towards tribal welfare, and uplift of tribal culture through cinema and music." (1979) All India Critic Association Award for best performing folk artist (1979) Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987) Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992) First Indian to win Best Music for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in Japan (1993) Padma Bhushan -(2001) Honorary Degree from Tezpur University (2001) 10th Kalakar Award for Lifetime Achievement in the year 2002, Kolkata. Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008) 24. ID the person 25. Give funda Jackie (1928-1956) Telly and Coffee (1927-1934) Tanner (1934–1956) George (1956–1958) Leo (1957-present) 26. #182 Back when I was writing and producing Dharma and Greg, the only way to read my cards was to record each episode on a VCR and hit the "pause" button. This was not an easy task. The image wobbled like crazy making the tiny words of my weekly tomes very hard to see. Then it hit me. What about building a device that records video images digitally? Wouldn't this allow for a much more precise "pause" function?.... I will never forget his reaction. With hamburger-flecked spittle flying from his blubbery lips, he laughed, called me some very unkind names and demanded that I leave his mother's basement immediately. My hopes dashed, I went back to work on Dharma and forgot about my silly idea. Well, I'm sure you can figure out what happened next. The fact that you're reading this card right now should tell you. ... This is the first of many. Where would you see this? 27. ID X In 2005, Air deccan announced that X, an existing cartoon character would be their mascot. At the press conference, Capt. Gopinath said, “ X and Air Deccan share a commonality...they are both for the people and by the people, that's where stemmed the idea of approaching Mr.
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