1. Which comedy king and legend co-anchored, with Alec Baldwin, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards (Oscars 2009) ? 2. This year 10 movies were nominated in the best movie category. This happened last in 1943 after which the nominations were restricted to 5. Which movie won the best picture award in 1943? 3. Which actress of yesteryears created history to become the person with the highest number of Oscar nominations (16 till now) when she received the best-actress nomination? 4. Michael Giachhino received the Best original score Oscar for the movie Up. Who won the award last year? 5. Which actress won her first Oscar nomination and award for the best actress for the movie, The Blind Side ? 6. The best supporting award was given to Christoph Waltz for his role in Inglorious Bastards. Which unorthodox director wrote the script and directed the movie? 7. Jeff Bridges won the award for the bet actor for which movie? 8. Which short documentary movie by Gregg Helvey, based on the life of a kid in the slums of Dharavi, Mumbai was nominated in the best live action short category? 9. Which movie directed by Katheryn Bigelow won 6 Oscars (including best picture and best director) in all to emerge the movie with the highest number of Oscars this year leaving behind Avatar directed by her ex-husband, James Cameroon? 10. Which Oscar nominated movie is based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire? Oscar awards quiz answers: 1. Steve Martin 2. Casablanca 3. Maryll Streep 4. A.R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire 5. Sandra Bullock 6. Quantin … [Read more...]
Comic Quiz
Comics quiz by Geetanav Ojha: 1) This comic strip was first published on April 16, 1989 and the main character is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. He is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office. The character has a pet dog called Dogbert. Identify this strip. 2) He is a popular Indian comic book character, created by cartoonist Pran in 1971 for the Hindi magazine Lotpot. He has also been portrayed in a television series with Raghuvir Yadav playing the role. His household consists of his wife Bini, a faithful street dog called Rocket and a giant called Sabu. Whom am I referring to? 3) Which great American co-created Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters? 4) What unique distinction does the comic strip, The Yellow Kid created by Richard Outcault, enjoy in the history of comics? 5) Usually comic characters are televised into movie or television characters but who was the first character to enter comics from television? 6) The last unfinished story had a plot which saw the protagonist embroiled in the world of modern art, and the story ended as he is about to be killed, encased in perspex and presented as a work of art , although it is unknown whether he really dies at the end of the story, as the creator died on 3rd march 1983, living the story unfinished. Whom are we talking about? 7) This comic strip was created by Anant Pai, popularly known as Uncle Pai and published by India Book House. In 2007, the imprint and all its titles were acquired by a new venture called ACK Media which is digitizing the entire comic strip. … [Read more...]




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