The Typical Chennai Quiz, a written quiz conducted as part of the BCQC Open Quizzes March 2014

1. EXTRA! EXTRA!
A Typical Chennai Written Quiz

2. The Rules
• Teams of 2
• Answers to be written in the English language
• No half points unless specifically indicated

3. 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 Director’s 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.

4. Answer 1
Night and Fog, directed by Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March
2014)

5. 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

6. Answer 2
Constituencies where Congress Party Primaries are being held

7. 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. “It’s
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?

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

9. 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?

10. Answer 4
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

11. Question 5
This comedian started out in his entertainment industry career in
Chicago’s Second City improv comedy troupe. After stints at Playboy
magazine (as joke editor) and the sketch show SCTV, this person co-
wrote National Lampoon’s 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.

12. Answer 5
Harold Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014)

13. 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?

14. Answer 6
Von Trapp

15. 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
world’s 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?

16. Answer 7

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

18. Answer 8
Philip Seymour Hoffman

19. 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.

20. Answer 9
Eisenhower Tree

21. 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.

23. Answer 10
Flag of New Zealand

24. 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?

25. Answer 11
The Sahara OFCD case with SEBI

26. 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 Belyakov’s 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 aircraft’s 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.

27. Answer
MiG 29 Fulcrum

28. 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).

29. Answer 13
Shirley Temple (April 23, 1928 – February 28, 2014

30. Question 14
Connect this set, which would be exhaustive with one addition

31. 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

32. 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?

33. Answer 15
The death of the Giraffe Marius

34. 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 Leoni’s
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

35. Answer 16
Maximillian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014)

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

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

38. 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.

39. Answer
Sunanda Pushkar

40. 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 I’d rather send a text!”.
“I love kids… but with the kid comes the mother. I don’t want the mother”.

41. Answer 19
Salman Khan at India Today Conclave

42. 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
Mendonça, 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 Eisenstaedt’s recollections.
What claim did he make, which is an iconic element of post-war American pop-culture?

43. Answer 20

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

45. Answer 21

46. 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?

47. Answer 22
Snake Handling