If God was 2nd, who was 1st on this list?
Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Oct 22, 2017
Q.2579
In 2017, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was revealed as having harassing and abusing several women over the years. In an attempt at a measure of his power in the film industry, Quartz magazine wrote that he was #3 on the list of most entities thanked by Oscar winners in the last 50 years.
Oct 19, 2017
Oct 11, 2017
Q.2568
"The ____" is a TV series co-created by David Simon (best known for 'The Wire') that premiered in 2017. Set in the '70s, the backdrop for the show is in the adult industry, with the show's title coming from the 42nd Street area of New York. What is this nickname, also a word in tennis.
Oct 9, 2017
Q.2566
In the 2017 film, 'Blade Runner 2049', Harrison Ford's character tells Ryan Gosling's characters when he first meets him: "You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you?". This is actually a line from which famous work of literature spoken by a character called Ben Gunn?
Oct 3, 2017
Q.2560
The Indian actor and writer Tom Alter passed away in Sept 2017. Known for his command over Urdu, in which film did Alter play Captain Weston and recite Urdu poetry on screen?
Oct 1, 2017
Q.2558
The first time India was represented here was in the 30th edition by a mother - the result was an agonizing loss by one vote. Since then other representatives include a a tourism professional, an underworld don, a female gangster, a couple of amateur board game players, an Indian, a son of Adam, an ex-magician's production place, and a Mumbai judicial hearing.
What is this list, and who/what is the entry for 2017 in this list?
Jun 11, 2017
Q.2446
The song "You Know My Name" was recorded for a 2006 film. For the first time, an American man was chosen to sing such a song (in fact, he also co-wrote the song). Unusually, the song also didn't match the film's title. Who was this musician, who passed away in May 2017, and what kind of song was it?
Jun 9, 2017
Q.2444
In May 2017, the film "Shuai Jiao Baba" became the highest earning non-Hollywood foreign film in China, going past a Japanese film called 'Your Name'. If 'Shuai Jiao' refers to a type of sport, how do we better know this film in India?
Jun 8, 2017
Q.2443
Yamamotoyama Ryūta is a Japanese sumo wrestler who was forced to retire from the sport after getting mixed up with match-fixing. Since his retirement, he has taken to exhibition matches and the world of entertainment: in 2012, he even appeared in the Indian TV show 'Big Boss'.
In January 2017, he appeared in a music video for what song? The song was originally written as something that would suit Rihanna.
Jun 2, 2017
Q.2437
Complete the title of this book released in March 2017, touted as the first in a trilogy. The blanked name is that of a character of a warrior princess.
Feb 20, 2017
Q.2335
"Rangoon" is a 2017 film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and set during World War II. Which well-known author, who has written a novel set in Burma and partly covering events during the War, was a consultant to this production?
Oct 25, 2016
Q.2217
In Oct 2016, this 75-year old was named a honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls by the United Nations. Some UN staffers did not like the choices for reasons ranging from the lady's image, clothing, and inability to have an opinion, to be able to travel and be interviewed.
Who was this controversial choice?
Oct 23, 2016
Q.2215
In 2014, a Punjab animated film called "Char Sahibzade" featured the story of the sons of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. A 2016 sequel is about another disciple of the Guru, a legendary Sikh warrior originally called Lachman Das. Which leader?
Oct 21, 2016
Q.2213
Sara Danius is a Swedish professor of Aesthetics and Literature. In Oct 2016, while interacting with the media after making an important announcement on behalf of a group of 18, she was asked whether the decision changed the way they looked at literature, she replied "The times they are a-changing, perhaps".
What was this decision?
Oct 14, 2016
Q.2206
Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske. Her Jewish parents had emigrated from Eastern Europe. Via her father's side, she was related to a man named Szymon Perski (whose family also emigrated from the same region but not to the USA).
Perski died in 2016 after a life of accomplishments. How do we better know him?
Oct 13, 2016
Q.2205
"Days of our Lives", the American TV drama, has been on air since 1965, and has thus seen a large cast over the years. One of its characters is called Nicole Walker, a waitress with a troubled life. Why did this character and the soap burst into international prominence in Oct 2016 in a very different but fairly entertaining domain?
Oct 12, 2016
Q.2204
The 1954 original: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba
The 1960 version: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Horst Buchholz
What, and what's the 2016 connection?
Oct 11, 2016
Q.2203
Before 2016, the last time he did this was in 1999 for a movie titled after an Indian game. In 2016, he returned with a Punjabi folk-tale. Who and what are we talking about?
Oct 2, 2016
Q.2194
In 2006, M. Chandrakumar a.k.a 'Auto Chandran' (he is an auto rickshaw driver) wrote 'Lock Up' about his experiences being jailed in the 80s. What honour did an 'interrogative' work derived from this novel receive in 2016?
Sep 1, 2016
Q.2163
In 1979, this Head of Government appeared in a Marvel comic in a storyline involving 'Alpha Flight', the top superhero squad from his country in the Marvel universe. In Sept 2016, his son, now occupying the same post, appeared in another Marvel comic, an Iron Man story, also along with Alpha Flight. Not just that, he was also on a variant cover created for this story.
Which son and father?
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