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ROFL Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When Steven Spielberg was filming Schindler’s List, X would call and tell him jokes to try and lift his spirits because, apparently, the Holocaust was depressing.

X named his daughter as Zelda after the video game character in The Legend of Zelda.

‘Absolutely Anything’ was the last film X would appear in (In a voice role). It featured all of the surviving members of the legendary comedy group Monty Python.

Who is X?

a)

Robin Williams

b)

Will Smith

c)

Martin Lawrence

d)

Jim Carrey

2.

Identify this organisation through its old logo.

a)

Nickelodeon

b)

HBO

c)

Comedy Central

d)

Disney

3.

This film was written by a Los Angeles based Indian writer, who wrote this screenplay as a part of his screenwriting studies at his University under the title ‘Say Cheese’.

Subsequently around 2005 after he lost his job as a copywriter in US, he revived the script and visited Mumbai to pitch the film to various film producers eventually submitting a draft to (X) Productions.

The script was thrown into a pile of scripts in X’s office, where the producer’s wife randomly picked it, read it and began to laugh.

He was contacted by the production house and had to compile 15 drafts before the movie went on floors which took around 3 years to finish writing.

The writer was initially hesitant that it might ruin a certain tag of the production house. Which 2011 comedy movie is being referred here?

a)

Pyar ka Punchnama

b)

Chillar Party

c)

Mere Brother ki Dulhan

d)

Delhi Belly

4.

When Rupa approached this person he had laid down 5 conditions before he started his work on the book.

First – Regardless of spellings I use my right hand.

Second – Although I asked for crores of rupees as remuneration, they agreed to pay me in handshakes. And if Ebola dies down, occasionally in hugs.

Third – Won’t miss my deadline by more than a year.

Fourth – I will write 231⁄2 Ways To Make a Girl Fall for You. Even though I personally have used only 16 ways myself. Mostly to no effect.

Fifth – If the Mahila Mandal office, situated directly opposite the Rupa office insists (by frequently and rightfully pelting stones at the Rupa office), then I must keep another version of the same book handy for publication, tentatively titled.

Identify the Author of this book in question.

a)

Ayushmann Khuranna

b)

Cyrus Broacha

c)

Javed Jaffery

d)

Baba Sehgal

5.

X was born as John Rao Prakash Rao Janumala in Andhra Pradesh. He was a dropout from school after the 7th grade due to financial problems. He used to sell pens on streets in his struggling days. Started as his stage name, of how we know him now was given by his father’s co-workers . He is also a president of a Mimicry Artist Association.

Identify this entertainer

a)

Brahmanandam

b)

Johny Lever

c)

Javed Jaffery

d)

Vivekh

6.

X a village simpleton who made his debut in January, 1983 turned 37 this year. Unlike other characters, X was not originally conceptualized by the creators but was born out of the 3 narrative stories by P. Varadarajan from Trichy.

He is always put down, but he comes back. He changes jobs, but he is loyal, he dabbles in romantic relationships, ponders over Valentine’s Day gifts — all with a laudable intent.

X’s popularity grew steadily outside India in the late 2010s as an internet meme on 4chan (an anonymous English-language imageboard website). Id X.

a)

Shikari Shambu

b)

Chamataka

c)

Suppandi

d)

Doob Doob

7.

Nagesh's style of comedy was largely inspired by Hollywood actor Jerry Lewis and earned him the sobriquet "Jerry Lewis of India".

Apparently, Nagesh is said to have played a role in this film posthumously. The role was performed by someone with similar appearance. Actors sounded like him were hired to lend the voice to this character of the protagonist’s maternal uncle in the movie.

Identify the movie.

a)

Dasavatharam

b)

Kochadaiyan

c)

Imsai Arasan 23aam Pulikesi

d)

Vasool Raja MBBS

8.

Just for Laughs, the Canadian silent comedy/hidden camera reality television shows were filmed in Quebec City, Vancouver and Mexico. British and Asian versions have been produced in the UK and Singapore, respectively. In 2011 the show spawned a spinoff titled ___________ for younger audience. What was the name of this spin-off?

a)

Just for Kids

b)

Just for Giggles

c)

Just for fun

d)

Just Kidding

9.

In 2007, he accepted the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award. He began a distinguished career as a journalist with the All India Radio in 1951 and then moved to the Department of Mass Communications of UNESCO at Paris in 1956. Between 1980-1986 he served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. In July 2000, he was conferred the "Honest Man of the Year Award" by the Sulabh International Social Service Organization for his courage and honesty for his brilliant incisive writing. Besides his core professions he was best known for his humour and sarcasm.

Who is in question here?

a)

Manmohan Singh

b)

Kushwant Singh

c)

Asrani

d)

Crazy Mohan

10.

How do we better know Dieter Hallervorden in entertainment world?

a)

Mr. Bean from Mr. Bean

b)

Didi from Non Stop Nonsense

c)

Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable from The Cosby Show

d)

Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce from M*A*S*H

11.

Whose biography was titled ‘Tempest in a flat hat’ ?

a)

Buster Keaton

b)

Charlie Chaplin

c)

Jerry Lewis

d)

Laurel & Hardy

12.

X played nine different roles in the film Y in which X is fond of chewing paan. X had to eat over 10000 paans during the filming. In real life chewing paan was not X’s habit. X said “I have it once in a while but for this film I had to eat nearly 100 paans a day. We also had a paanwala on the sets.”

Apparently, for every take, X had to eat a fresh paan to fill X’s mouth. Also before beginning the shoot X would eat at least 10-15 paans to get the right color inside the mouth and on X’s lips.

Identify X and Y(movie).

a)

Kamal Hasan in Dasavatharam

b)

Aamir Khan in PK

c)

Priyanka Chopra in What's your Rashee?

d)

Sivaji Ganesan in Navarathri

13.

How do we better know God's Window, a site located at the edge of the escarpment between the Highveld and Lowveld, in the province of Mpumalanga, South Africa? This spot is iconic as this where a cult classic movie ends.

a)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

b)

Gods must be crazy

c)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

d)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

14.

At age 18, X appeared in the soap opera, “Isidingo: The Need,” marking the beginning of X’s career. X revealed in his memoir, to have been arrested as a teenager and ended up behind bars for a week suspected of stealing a car. X took a junk car from his stepfather’s workshop and set off, but was quickly run over. “Police officers give you no reason when they stop you,” he wrote. “Police officers pull you forward because they are police officers and they have the power to convince you; it’s that simple.” When the police started checking the car’s registration, they found that it didn’t match the car’s license plates, so they arrested him, thinking he was driving a stolen vehicle. X imprisoned for a week was released on bail. Upon returning home, he pretended that nothing happened and told his mother that he stayed with a friend. Little did X know that it was she who had hired a lawyer to bail. ID X

a)

Russell Peters

b)

Jerry Seinfeld

c)

Trevor Noah

d)

Eddie Murphy

15.

The maker of this movie said that the title came from a quote by Leon Trotsky. Leon Trotsky was a Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist and politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin's assassins, he saw his wife’s imagery in the garden and wrote a note which carried the title of this famous film.

Pope John Paul II received a private screening with the maker who placed it in his top five favourite films.

The Washington Post, called it "sad, funny and haunting". ID the film.

a)

Singin' in the rain

b)

Sound of Music

c)

Up in Smoke

d)

Life is Beautiful