THE GREAT INDIAN

CIRCUS MOVIE QUIZ

University of Cincinnati Quiz Club
Q1.
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A1.
Q2. Identify the personality
• He was born to Prakash Rao Janumala and Karunamma Janumala in
Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh.
• He spent his early ages in Yakutpura a old city of Hyderabad from where
he learnt the unique style of comddey acting.
• In the 1980s, he released his mimicry/comedy album, Hansee Ke
Hungame, which became a hit in India and the world over.
• His most acclaimed performance was the character of “Babulal” in the
film, Baazigar, directed by Abbas-Mustan.
• He appeared as a judge on the stand-up reality show Comedy Circus.
• His original name is “John Prakash Rao Janumula.
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A2. Johnny Lever
Q3. Identify the Indian movie(s) inspired from
this Hollywood movie
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A3. A Wednesday (Hindi), Unnai Pol Oruvan (Tamil
– Someone Like You), Eeenadu (Telugu – Today)
Q4. How do you know this person better?
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A4. First Indian to win an Oscar! (Nope, it was
not A.R. Rahman). Costume Designer-Gandhi
Q5. This is 2005 book of fiction has 12 chapters. Each
chapter is prefixed with the following numbers:
1000
2000
5000
10000
50000
100000
200000
500000
1000000
10000000
100000000
1000000000

Name the book, or Funda?

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A5.
Q6. Identify
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A6. Shahid Kapoor and Ayesha Takia
Q7. Identify the personality
• Her name is Rama Dasgupta
• She is the first Bengali actress to be awarded in a n international film
festival (Best Actress award for Saat Paake Bandha in the 1963 Moscow
film festival)
• She received a Best Actress Award for the film Devdas (1955), which
was her first Hindi movie.
• She married Dibanath Sen, son of a wealthy Bengali industrialist,
Adinath Sen in 1947 and had one daughter, Moon Moon Sen, who is an
actress.
• Notably, she allegedly refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005,
preferring to live in seclusion out of the public eye.
• She was conferred with West Bengal government’s highest award Banga
Bibhushan
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A7. Suchitra Sen
Q8. Give Funda
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A8. Kal Aaj Aur Kal
• Kal Aaj Aur Kal is a 1971 Hindi
film produced by Raj Kapoor
and directed by his son Randhir
Kapoor. The film’s unique
selling preposition is the
appearance of three generations
of the famous Kapoor family.
• It stars Prithviraj Kapoor, his
son Raj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor’s
son Randhir Kapoor (acting
debut) and Randhir’s real-life
wife Babita.
Q9. Identify the movie
• A Polaroid 690 camera is very prominently shown throughout the movie,
• Alec Baldwin, Aaron Eckhart, Brad Pitt, and Thomas Jane were all
considered for the role before Guy Pearce got it.
• Name the movie and its Indian counterpart(s).
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A9. Memento, and Ghajini
Q10.
• Whose debut film was an English language film, “Epistle”, released in
1961?
• The film was produced by Shankar Giri, the son of former President of
India Dr V.V. Giri.
• Has been in the news since December last year
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A10. Jayalalitha
Q11.
• Benson, Flynn, Wesson, North, Yardley, Russell, Harrison, Brooks,
Willis, Burton, and Smith made up the opposing XI.
• Who captained the representative Indian side?
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A11. Bhuvan (Movie: Lagaan)
Q12.
• The man on the left suggested the name
“Inquilab” for the baby.
• This man had earlier added a childhood
nickname to his own name.
• The man on the right was visiting the man
on the left when the baby was born.
• He suggested the name that was chosen.
• His original name was Gosain Dutt, which
was later changed after his matriculation.

• What was the name chosen for the baby,

and who are these people?
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A12.
• The baby’s name was “Amitabh”
• The person on the left is Harivansh Rai “Bachchan” (who took on the
suffix Bachchan)
• The person on the right is the Hindi poet Sumitranandan Pant who
suggested the name “Amitabh” for the new born.
Q13. Identify
• It is the largest integrated ____ ____ in the world. It holds a Guinness
World Record for being the largest ____ ____ in the world.
• It is also a popular tourism and recreation center containing natural and
artificial attractions including an amusement park.
• More than 2500 films have been shot here.
• It is said that a filmmaker can walk in with a script and walk out with the
film at this location.
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A13. Ramoji Film City
Q14. Identify the personality
• He was born on 3rd July 1941 in the village of Pallickal (Medayil
Bungalow), present day Kerala.
• After securing a degree in Economics, Political Science and Public
Administration in 1961 he worked as a Government officer near
Dindigul in Tamil Nadu.
• In 1962, he left his job to study screenwriting and direction from the
Pune Film Institute.
• He had a major role in revolutionizing the Malayalam cinema and is
regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of India.
• His third feature, (Elippathayam) won him the coveted British Film
Institute Award for the ‘most original and imaginative film’ of 1982.
• He won 16 National Film Awards, and 17 Kerala State Film Awards
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A14. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Q15. Identify the Character
• He was born in Uganda, and resides in San Francisco.
• He is the owner of a bungalow worth $3.5 million, with a heated
swimming pool and maple wood flooring in the living room.
• He owns a 6496 cc Lamborghini
• His business card read – Vice President, Rockledge Corporation.
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A15. Chatur Ramalingam
Q16. Connect
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A16. All played the same role in various languages
(Chandramukhi/Apthamitra/Manichitrathazhu/ Bhool
Bulaiyaa/Rajmohol)
Q17.
• According to Sufi philosophy, there are seven stages to love.
• The Sufi traditions described the seven stages of love as:
Dilkashi (Attraction),
Uns (Attachment),
Mohabbat (Love),
Akidat (Trust/Reverence),
Ebadat (Worship),
Junoon (Madness) and
Maut (Death).
• Which Indian song was shot to depict the seven stages of love according
to Sufi tradition?
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A17. Satrangi Re/ En Uyire – Dil Se
Q18.
•  The dialogues in Sholay were so popular, producers wanted to find a
way to monetize this.
• This was in the 70s when TV was a luxury in India and VCRs and DVDs
were non existent.
• How did they find a way out and thereby created a new vertical in the
existing industry?
• The vertical/trend later died out with the onset of VCRs and DVDs
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A18.
• It was the first film in the history of Hindi cinema whose dialogues
were released in audio cassettes
• They sold like a hot cakes and had created a new vertical for the audio
cassette making industry.
Q19
• USS Diablo (SS-479) was a Tench-class diesel-electric and a fast-attack
submarine.
• The Diablo was launched on 1 December 1944 and arrived at Pearl
Harbor from New London in Connecticut, on 21 July 1945.
• In 1968, she executed a circumnavigation of Africa and southern parts
of Europe through the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic ocean due to the
closure of the Suez Canal in order to be refit and update its computers
from Gölcük in Turkey
• Why is a submarine in a movie quiz? Or what’s its movie connect?
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Q20
• X was an Indian film producer and has a place in the Guinness Book of
World Records for the most films produced by an individual, having
produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages.
• He also served as a member of parliament for the Bapatala constituency of
Guntur District in the 13th Lok Sabha from 1999 to 2004.
• In 2009, he was conferred with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest
award for films in Indian cinema.
• His children, grandchildren are all part of the Telugu film industry today.
• ID X
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A20
• D. Ramanaidu