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Management - Mouton and Blake (the people who developed the Managerial Grid principle) - were searching for a practical example in order to illustrate the concept of conflict resolution within a group. During a short break, they stepped across the road to watch a movie and decided that this movie was the best example of their concept. Identify this classic movie - based on a play by Reginald Rose, starring Henry Fonda and directed by Sydney Lumet. a. 12 Angry Men. Nominated for several Oscars (best pic, best director ...), also won the golden bear at Berlin that year. As someone pointed out to me, several B-Schools already have it as part of their syllabus ;) 2. For this story, William Faulkner wanted his character's "Stream of Consciousness" to be printed in eight colors. The printer naturally refused, saying it would cost too much. Name the book. (hint: the title is a Shakespearean quote) a. The Sound and the Fury ('life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing' - from MacBeth) 3. This character has been played the most number of times (11 times) by Bernard Lee. Who? a. M (from James Bond). To clarify - the original head of the SIS was actually a retired naval officer - Admiral Sir Mansfield Cumming (popularly known as 'C'). Ian Fleming used the other initial to name his M (Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, as it happens) 4. Foum Tatahouine is a small town in Tunisia, which also famous for being the site where a large meteorite fell on June 31, 1937 - and which is still a subject of research in the SETI project searching for extra-terrestrial life, as it is supposed to contain bacteria from outer space. It is better known to the general public for figuring in two movies. Which ones? (there are two dead giveaway hints in the question ...) a. Star Wars (at least two movies) - this is Luke Skywalker's home planet Tattooine. It also appears in the recent X-Files movie (think 'bacteria from outer space ... I *said* there was a hint <g>). As Kiran Vijaykumar cracked the quiz by mentioning X-Files as well, several people got just half points for that Q. 5. He was the Baron of Aldworth and Fallingford. He named his son after his best friend Arthur Hallam - and wrote one of his most famous poems when his friend died, aged 22. Who? (and also name the poem). a. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (the poem - In Memoriam) about his friend Arthur Hallam. 6. Snoopy keeps trying to write a novel which begins "It was a dark and stormy night". Who wrote a novel which began with these words - and was such a turkey that even today, an annual prize for the worst writing in the English language (awarded by the English department of the San Jose State University) is named after this author? Also name the novel. a. George Bulwer-Lytton, the novel 'Paul Clifford'. Bulwer Lytton is also famous for that other cliche - 'the pen is mightier than the sword' ;) 7. Movies. This word is derived from the Japanese term for a Japanese 'Period Drama' - a movie / soap opera set in the samurai days. It was

coined when the director saw a 1958 Japanese movie called 'The Hidden Fortress' and liked it so much that he modelled at least one character after people in the movie. a. 'Jedi' - from Jidai Geki (Japanese period / costume drama). Lots of scenes from Star Wars were filched from (er, um, heavily inspired by) Kurosowa's 'The Hidden Fortress'. Obi-Wan Kenobi, C3PO and R2D2 are also adapted from characters in the movie