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A Typical Chennai Written Quiz

The RulesTeams of 2Answers to be written in the English languageNo half points unless specifically indicated

Question 1Jean 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 1Night and Fog, directed by Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 1 March 2014)

Question 2Connect 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 2Constituencies where Congress Party Primaries are being held

Question 3A 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 3The site was being used to crowdsource the search for MH370. It crashed because of an extraordinary number of people using it.

Question 4On 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 4Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Question 5This 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 5Harold Ramis (November 21, 1944 February 24, 2014)

Question 6Maria 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 6Von Trapp

Question 7In 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 8Identify this actor from the 1999 Joel Schumacher film Flawless, co-starring Robert De Niro

Answer 8Philip Seymour Hoffman

Question 9X 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 9Eisenhower Tree

Question 10This 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 10Flag of New Zealand

Question 11In 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 11The Sahara OFCD case with SEBI

Question 12Rostislav 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.

AnswerMiG 29 Fulcrum

Question 13This 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 13Shirley Temple (April 23, 1928 February 28, 2014

Question 14

Connect this set, which would be exhaustive with one addition

Answer 14Games in the Winter Paralympics 2014 (The bottom row shows pictograms for equivalent events at the Winter Olympics at Sochi)

Alpine SkiingBiathlonCross Country SkiingSledge HockeyWheelchair Curling

Question 15The 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 15The death of the Giraffe Marius

Question 16This 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 16Maximillian Schell (8 December 1930 1 February 2014)

Question 17Name this musician and Communist Party Member, shown performing before Eleanor Roosevelt at a racially integrated Valentines Day Party.

Answer 17Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 January 27, 2014)

Question 18This 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.

AnswerSunanda Pushkar

Question 19Whose 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 19Salman Khan at India Today Conclave

Question 20Glenn 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 21Who is Jeremy Clarkson talking about in this 3 March 2014 episode of Top Gear?

Answer 21

Question 22Jamie 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?

Answer 22Snake Handling