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EXTRA! EXTRA! A Typical Chennai Written Quiz
The Rules Teams of 2 Answers to be written in the English
language No half points unless specifically indicated
Question 1 Jean Cayrol, the scriptwriter for a 1955 documentary
film, found the subject matter of the film so upsetting that he
only watched the first cut of the film once. He wrote the script
for the film based on his memory of the first cut, and passed the
script on to the Directors assistant Chris Marker. Marker then
reordered the script to match the sequence of the shots and
returned the script to Cayrol, who then rewrote the final version.
Name the critically acclaimed film, which has a 100% Certified
Fresh rating on the film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes.
Answer 1 Night and Fog, directed by Alain Resnais (3 June 1922
1 March 2014)
Question 2 Connect the following list of constituencies
(Exclusive connect) Gauhati, New Delhi, North East Delhi,
Bhavnagar, Vadodra, Bangalore North, Dakshina Kannada, Indore,
Mandsour, Latur, Wardha, Bikaner, Jhunjhunu, Sant Kabir Nagar,
Ambedkar Nagar, Kolkata Uttar
Answer 2 Constituencies where Congress Party Primaries are
being held
Question 3 A website named Tomnod was set up by a digital
mapping company called Digital Globe which is based in Colorado in
the US. The site is named after the Mongolian word for Big Eye.
Tomnod crashed on 11 March 2014, a day after new content was posted
on the site. Its a good reason to have our site crash, a
spokesperson for DigitalGlobe told FoxNews.com. We did get an
overwhelming amount of people responding. It has been going well.
What was the reason for the site crashing?
Answer 3 The site was being used to crowdsource the search for
MH370. It crashed because of an extraordinary number of people
using it.
Question 4 On 14 March 2014, the US National Telecommunications
and Information Administration announced that it would not be let
its contract with a body end in September 2015. Although both the
US government and the body have announced that the lapse of the
contract is driven by longtime understanding that the partnership
would be temporary. However, some observers have speculated that
the announcement is a reaction to revelations by Edward Snowden.
Which body is this?
Answer 4 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)
Question 5 This comedian started out in his entertainment
industry career in Chicagos Second City improv comedy troupe. After
stints at Playboy magazine (as joke editor) and the sketch show
SCTV, this person co- wrote National Lampoons Animal House, which
was a phenomenally successful comedy for its time. He next wrote
the comedy Meatballs, starting a series of six movies in which he
collaborated with Bill Murray, culminating in Groundhog Day, two of
which he acted in along with Murray. Name this writer, actor and
director.
Answer 5 Harold Ramis (November 21, 1944 February 24,
2014)
Question 6 Maria Franziska _______ (28 September 1914 18
February 2014), the second of seven full siblings, was born in Zell
am See, Salzburg. Her family fled to the United States after the
Anschluss of Germany and Austria, and Maria Franziska became a
naturalised US citizen in 1938. She performed with her family until
1955, when she and her stepmother became missionaries in New
Guinea. What was her last name?
Answer 6 Von Trapp
Question 7 In 2009, Jed McCaleb started a website for online
buying and selling of trading cards of the game Magic: The
Gathering. The original name of this site was Magic: The Gathering
Online eXchange. The site developed into another kind of
e-commerce, and as this new activity began to take off, McCaleb
sold the site to Mark Karpeles. Under Karpeles control, the site
grew to handle 70% of the worlds trade in its new business line,
until mounting legal issues and an alleged hacking attack forced a
catastrophic shutdown and filing for bankruptcy protection in
February 2014. What is this site now known as?
Answer 7
Question 8 Identify this actor from the 1999 Joel Schumacher
film Flawless, co- starring Robert De Niro
Answer 8 Philip Seymour Hoffman
Question 9 X was a member of the Augusta National Golf Club
from 1948 and played there sporadically due to his public
commitments and extensive travel, particularly from 1953 onwards.
In 1956, X, irritated at an impediment to his golf game, proposed
at a club meeting that the impediment be removed. The club
president adjourned the meeting rather than explicitly refuse such
a powerful man. The impediment stayed until March 2014. Name this
impediment, that played a prominent role in the Augusta Masters
tournament, causing the Lost Ball incident with Tommy Aaron, and
contributing to an injury to Tiger Woods knee and Achilles tendon
in 2011.
Answer 9 Eisenhower Tree
Question 10 This national flag was designed in 1869 by Albert
Hastings Markham, and replaced the flag pictured here, which was
known as the United Tribes Flag. The flag is very similar to the
flag of a much larger country, though it was the first flag to
feature the common design. Although a poll in February 2014 found
that 72% of the people of the country wanted to retain the current
flag, on 11 March 2013, a referendum on whether or not to adopt a
new flag was announced by the government.
Answer 10 Flag of New Zealand
Question 11 In January 2010, a certain Roshan Lal, a chartered
accountant from Indore, wrote a letter to the National Housing Bank
complaining about certain malpractices by two real-estate
companies. The National Housing Bank determined that it was not the
appropriate regulatory agency for the complaint and forwarded it to
the appropriate regulator. What did this complaint by Mr. Roshan
Lal lead to?
Answer 11 The Sahara OFCD case with SEBI
Question 12 Rostislav Belyakov (died 28 February 2014), the
former chief designer of the Soviet MiG design bureau, was
responsible for designing several key Soviet fighter aircraft. One
of these aircraft developed during Belyakovs tenure was considered
one of the best Soviet fighters of the 1980s. The fighter received
a NATO reporting name like all Soviet military aircraft, but
unusually, Soviet pilots found the name a flattering description of
the aircrafts intended role, and it is one of the only Soviet
fighters known by its NATO reporting name within the Soviet Air
Force. Name this fighter, of which the IAF was the first export
customer, and which has recently been ordered by the Indian
Navy.
Answer MiG 29 Fulcrum
Question 13 This actress achieved fame as a child artiste and
received the first Juvenile Academy Award in 1935. As an adult, she
entered politics, and was appointed US Ambassador to Ghana and
Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United
States. She was a breast cancer survivor, and in 1973 became one of
the first prominent women to speak openly about breast cancer and
having a mastectomy. Name this person, among whose other claims to
fame is having a mocktail named after her (which she hated).
Answer 13 Shirley Temple (April 23, 1928 February 28, 2014
Question 14 Connect this set, which would be exhaustive with
one addition
Answer 14 Games in the Winter Paralympics 2014 (The bottom row
shows pictograms for equivalent events at the Winter Olympics at
Sochi) Alpine Skiing Biathlon Cross Country Skiing Sledge Hockey
Wheelchair Curling
Question 15 The Copenhagen Zoo is a member of the European
Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA), and participates in its
European Endangered Species Program (EEP). As a result, the zoo is
required to preserve the genetic viability of the endangered
species it houses. Further, as a member of EAZA, the zoo is
forbidden from transferring animals to zoos or other locations
outside the EEP. These two limitations have been cited by zoo
officials for what recent event?
Answer 15 The death of the Giraffe Marius
Question 16 This Swiss actor was one of the few German-speaking
actors in Hollywood during his career, and starred in several
Nazi-era themed films, winning the first Academy Award for a
German-speaking actor in WWII in one of these. He also played
characters of other nationalities to avoid being typecast,
including as Lenin in the TV movie Stalin, as Simon Bolivar in a
1969 biopic and as Tea Leonis father in Deep Impact. He was a
concert level pianist, and at one point dated the ex-wife of the
Shah of Iran. Name this Austrian-born Swiss actor, the brother of
Swiss actress Maria
Answer 16 Maximillian Schell (8 December 1930 1 February
2014)
Question 17 Name this musician and Communist Party Member,
shown performing before Eleanor Roosevelt at a racially integrated
Valentines Day Party.
Answer 17 Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 January 27, 2014)
Question 18 This lady began her business career through an
event management business in Dubai, in which she collaborated with
her second husband. After the second husband's death, she began to
get threatening calls from his creditors, prompting her to leave
her son with her parents. After her son developed a communications
disorder following this turmoil, she moved with him to Canada
because of its generous healthcare system. In Canada, she worked
for an IT firm where she was given an equity stake for her effort
and was successful for a while before the Dotcom Bust. She later
moved back to Dubai, working at Noble House and TECOM Investments.
Name this recently deceased lady.
Answer Sunanda Pushkar
Question 19 Whose quotes, from an event on 8 March 2014, are
these: "No child would have given them as may problems. I was a
naughty kid. They had to hear slanderous things about their son
from others -- the jail episodes, the cases that have come. If
these things would not have come, my father and mother would have
looked as young as I look now. I tried making films with messages.
Now Id rather send a text!. I love kids but with the kid comes the
mother. I dont want the mother.
Answer 19 Salman Khan at India Today Conclave
Question 20 Glenn McDuffie (May 31, 1927 March 14, 2014) made a
certain claim in 2007, a claim that was also made by Donald
Bonsack, John Edmonson, Wallace C. Fowler, Clarence "Bud" Harding,
Walker Irving, James Kearney, Marvin Kingsburg, Arthur Leask,
George Mendona, Jack Russell, and Bill Swicegood. McDuffie was
supported in his claim by a forensic artist, who said that
measurements of his facial features supported his claim, and
McDuffie himself claims to have passed five polygraph tests
confirming his story, even though the details he recounted do not
match Alfred Eisenstaedts recollections. What claim did he make,
which is an iconic element of post-war American pop-culture?
Answer 20
Question 21 Who is Jeremy Clarkson talking about in this 3
March 2014 episode of Top Gear?
Answer 21
Question 22 Jamie Coots (November 17, 1971 February 15, 2014)
was a Pentecostal Pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus
Name in Kentucky. He practised a controversial religious ritual
which some rural Appalachian Pentecostals believe dates from
ancient times and is prescribed by the Bible. Coots was featured on
a National Geographic reality show that documented the lives of
people practising the ritual. in February 2014, Coots died from a
performance of the ritual at his church, and reportedly denied
medical treatment as it was incompatible with his religion. What
was the ritual?