QUIZ - 12

A day after the Announcement of the Academy Awards, this quiz has to be all about the Oscars

1) Titanic (1997), Ben-Hur (1959) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) share the honours for the film to have won the most number of Oscars. How many Oscars did they each win?

2) What is the Oscar connection between Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola?





























3) In terms of Oscars, what is common to the films - "Morning Glory" (1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968), and "On Golden Pond" (1981).

4) If Titanic, Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King share the honour for the film winning the most number of Oscars, which two films share the honour for the most nominations at 14 each?

5) In the history of Oscars, what unique distinction is held by Harold Russell ?

6) What is unique about the film Midnight Cowboy that won the Oscar for the Best Picture in 1969?

7) Who has won the most number of Oscars (4) for the Best Director?

8) Name the only silent film to have won the Best Picture Oscar

9) Name the man who is credited with designing the Oscar statuette and which he also himself won 11 times for Best Art Direction.

10) Which country has the distinction of winning the most number of Best Foreign Language Film?

Answers to Quiz - 11

1) Which is the only country whose postal system provides a unique postal code to handle letters written to Santa Claus?

Canada and the postal code is HOH OHO

2) The Schengen states are 15 countries in Europe who have signed a treaty to allow free movement between them. The treaty was signed by 7 countries originally in June 1985 in the town of Schengen. In which country is this town located?

Luxembourg

3) First theorized by a British Physicist in 1964, name the hypothetical elementary particle, which plays a key role in explaining the mass of other elementary particles.

Higgs Boson

4) Curran is the name of a hi-tech material created recently by two scientists, David Hepworth and Eric Whale, from a vegetable fibre. Which vegetable is Curran based on?

Carrots

5) Which ancient South Indian script is used to write the languages of Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Thailand and Khmer (Cambodia)

Brahmi

6) Which style of architecture that derives its name from a 16th Century Italian Architect became very popular in England and in many North European countries in the 18th Century and later in USA, most notably in buildings designed by Thomas Jefferson.

Palladian Architecture after Andrea Palladio

7) Which breed of dog became the symbol of Holland’s House of Orange after it warned the household of Prince Williams against the invading Spaniards? Much later this breed of dog was adopted as the mascot of the Orange brand of mobile phone.

Pug

8) Which word coined by Peter Merholz in 1999 is a widely used noun and verb these days?

Blog

9) Which crime was made punishable by hanging under the Black Act passed in Britain in 1723?

Hunting or stealing deer under disguise by getting the face blackened

10) Which country’s best known traditional dance is Punta?

Honduras

QUIZ - 11

1) Which is the only country whose postal system provides a unique postal code to handle letters written to Santa Claus?

2) The Schengen states are 15 countries in Europe who have signed a treaty to allow free movement between them. The treaty was signed by 7 countries originally in June 1985 in the town of Schengen. In which country is this town located?

3) First theorized by a British Physicist in 1964, name the hypothetical elementary particle, which plays a key role in explaining the mass of other elementary particles.

4) Curran is the name of a hi-tech material created recently by two scientists, David Hepworth and Eric Whale, from a vegetable fibre. Which vegetable is Curran based on?

5) Which ancient South Indian script is used to write the languages of Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Thailand and Khmer (Cambodia)

6) Which style of architecture that derives its name from a 16th Century Italian Architect became very popular in England and in many North European countries in the 18th Century and later in USA, most notably in buildings designed by Thomas Jefferson.

7) Which breed of dog became the symbol of Holland’s House of Orange after it warned the household of Prince Williams against the invading Spaniards? Much later this breed of dog was adopted as the mascot of the Orange brand of mobile phone.

8) Which word coined by Peter Merholz in 1999 is a widely used noun and verb these days?

9) Which crime was made punishable by hanging under the Black Act passed in Britain in 1723?

10)Which country’s best known traditional dance is Punta?