E: 09/01 FT quiz of the year/champagne

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The prize for the FT New Year’s quiz is 18 bottles of Laurent! Perrier Cuv!e Ros!, The prize will be awarded to the first correct entry drawn at random from all entries received by the closing date of 5pm GMT on Wednesday January 9 2013. If no completely correct answers are received the champagne will be given to the entrant with the most correct answers. We will notify the winner on or before Saturday January 12 2013.

To enter the competition, please email your answers, along with full contact details, including name, email address, telephone number and postcode to [EMAIL="christmasquiz@ft.com"]christmasquiz@ft.com[/EMAIL]

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Some answers below, but in a rush so can't complete

1 (i) In January, Professor David Phillips, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, complained that James Bond films helped to create a “remorselessly grim” reputation for which energy sector?


nuclear power


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16509668



(ii) In the latest Bond instalment, Skyfall, product placement caused the spy to swap his usual martini for which beverage?


Heineken

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/james-bond-drinking-heinken-in-skyfall-whatever-next-8226917.html


2 What links the Sun and Mars, The Avengers (2012), and the US in 1971?

??



3 (i) What links the three actors (3a, 3b and 3c)?


They all went to Eton college



(ii) Name the character who is the odd one out?


Major Winters - he is an American, the others are upper-class Brits?


4 In October the publication of Susan Orlean’s Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend, a biography of the canine Hollywood star, gave credence to one of the darkest scandals in Oscar history: that Rin Tin Tin won the most votes at the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929, only to be overlooked in favour of the German actor Emil Jannings. Which porcine star called for the Oscars to reverse their no-animals rule in advance of her appearance at this year’s ceremony?


Miss Piggy


5 Barack Obama said he might do it in private with his wife Michelle. Boris Johnson claimed to have done it with David Cameron. What?


Dance to Gangnam Style


6 “I have to take advantage now, because memories fade.” Which famously prolix former leader said this upon the publication of their 1,000-page memoir, published in February, called Guerrilla of Time?


Fidel Castro


7 Euro banknotes depict the architectural styles of seven periods in Europe’s cultural history. But in an interview with La Stampa in January, philosopher Umberto Eco said the banknotes should foster a sense of shared purpose by depicting “men of culture” such as Shakespeare and Balzac. Which Italian writer did he also suggest?

Dante - http://www.lastampa.it/2012/01/31/es...YJ/pagina.html


8 The Queen’s appearance on screen with James Bond star Daniel Craig was one of the highlights of Danny Boyle’s Olympics opening ceremony. But which actress did the ceremony’s organisers consider casting as the monarch if the Queen refused to take part?

Dame Helen Mirren http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/25/olympics-2012-helen-mirren-queen
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9 Olympic archer Khatuna Lorig helped the star of which $685m-grossing 2012 film learn bow-and-arrow skills? (“The whole thing is like TV’s Big Brother projected into the future by a demented Classics student,” the FT wrote in its one-star review of the same film.)

The Hunger Games

10 Olympic swordsman Bob Anderson, whose death aged 89 was announced in January, was the stunt double for which screen villain’s fight scenes in a 1970s blockbuster and its sequel?

Darth Vader


11 It was announced that the two maestros (11a and 11b) of their respective fields were doing what this year?

Retire - Uggie/ Philip Roth

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/26/uggie-dog-the-artist-retires

12 Sir Paul McCartney criticised the “bloody jobsworth” who had the last word on his duet with Bruce Springsteen at a concert in Hyde Park in July.

(i) What happened?

The “bloody jobsworth” cut the power and turned their microphones off


(ii) And why?
Because they had gone past the strict 10.30pm noise curfew



13 An Edinburgh fringe hit in August before wowing audiences off Broadway, Mies Julie transposes Strindberg’s 19th-century drama Miss Julie from Sweden to where?

Cape Karoo, South Africa


http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/a-south-african-miss-julie-captivates-edinburgh-festival/


14 “I had them done in my youth. It was a big mistake and I wish I’d never done it,” said Evgeny Nikitin, a Russian opera singer with a heavy metal past. He was scheduled to sing in a new production of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman at the Bayreuth festival in July, but had to withdraw from the festival after a German television news segment revealed that one of his many tattoos featured what?

Swastika

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-848510.html



15 In June, the gossip website TMZ showed video footage of actor Benicio del Toro (Traffic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). While asking the Hollywood star imbecilic questions (“Do you think Cuba should be a state?”) the TMZ cameraman inadvertently filmed a famous recluse. Who?

Terrence Malick

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/...ick-filmed-tmz

16 In September, an iconic rock band lost a copyright claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation. Name the band.

Velvet Underground
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19555588

17 (i) What variety of creature is shown in the film stills 17a and 17b? (ii) Name the actresses and the films they star in.

i) Elf and Vampire
ii ) Cate Blanchett Lord of the Rings
and Kristen Stewart, Breaking Dawn Part 2


18 In January a group called the Catholic-Christian Secular Forum objected to a film featuring “Hosanna”, a song by the Slumdog Millionaire composer AR Rahman. Which country does the group come from?


India

http://www.thecsf.org/home.html


19 Until this year it was believed that the oldest art in the world were the paintings at France’s Chauvet caves, dated to 35,000 years ago. In June, however, another set of cave paintings, was dated to 40,800 years ago. In which country were they discovered?


Spain

20 Shirley MacLaine claims that in previous reincarnations she was an orphan called Asana raised by wild elephants and a Moorish peasant girl who seduced the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. Of which Downton Abbey co-star did she say in July: “We were lovers in another life”?

Dame Maggie Smith

21 The Lion King became the highest grossing play in Broadway’s history in April when its cumulative gross reached $853,856,062. It reached the figure in half the time of its predecessor, a musical composed by a Briton. What is the name of the overtaken production?

The Phantom of the OPera

22 The British broadcaster and writer Joan Bakewell claimed in August that the BBC rejected a proposal to erect a statue of a former employee in its new Broadcasting House on the grounds that it would be “too left-wing”. Name the former employee.


22 - George Orwell (here)

23 Last year physics professor Lawrence M Krauss published Quantum Man, a biography of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Krauss’s friend Cormac McCarthy, the US novelist, offered to copy edit the book for the paperback edition, published in March. He proceeded to take out all the exclamation marks and another piece of punctuation, which he told Krauss has “no place in literature”. Name the other offending punctuation mark.

semicolon
from here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ok-editor.html#

24 The picture shows a star of one of the US’s most-watched TV shows.

(i) Name the star.
LLCool J (From NCIS Los Angeles)

(ii) And decipher what his name stands for.

(ii) Ladies Love Cool James http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_Cool_J





25 In May the photograph taken by Iain Macmillan was sold at Bloomsbury Auctions in London for £16,000. What two features are most notable about it?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/23/beatles-abbey-road

They are walking back across the road from right to left AND Paul McCartney has footwear on. (here)


26 Artist Samantha Lo, aka the “Sticker Lady”, was arrested in June for placing stickers reading “Press to time travel” and “Press to stop time” on traffic signal buttons. Name the country in which she was arrested.


Singapore


27 Chicago experimental troupe the Wooster Group teamed up with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a Shakespeare production this summer featuring soldiers in camouflage fatigues fighting Native Americans, a sexually ambivalent military hero wearing a white sarong, and “the epitome of female beauty” – as the FT put it – “played by a man in a frizzy auburn wig.” Which Shakespeare play was thus performed?

Troilus and Cressida

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/aug/09/troilus-and-cressida-review




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28 In September Amherst College, Massachusetts, released a photograph dating from 1860 which is believed to be only the second-known of a certain writer. Name the writer.

Emily Dickinson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/05/emily-dickinson-new-photograph



29 A lost hymn was discovered by an English academic this year in a sketchbook lodged in the Berlin State Library. It was written in 1820 and demonstrates the composer’s first use of his slow chorale style, as refined in the 1825 work String Quartet No 15, Op 132. Who was the composer?


Beethoven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_..._15_(Beethoven)

30 (i) There was no shortage of band reunions this year. Give the names of the three bands (30a, 30b and 30c).

30(i) a Garbage (here) not the same picture but can tell its the same peeps..
b - Black Sabbath (recognise Ozzy!) see link below.
c - Stone Roses (here)


(ii) The FT’s unimpressed review of which of the bands led to a flood of angry online comments, in which the reviewer was derided as a “muppet” and “baffoon” [sic] who would meet with a sorry fate if he ever set foot in Manchester?


could the answer to 30ii be Stone Roses - I found this
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/43232f80-c...#axzz2GrMZ9pPP

31 The award of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature to the novelist Mo Yan, a Chinese Communist party member and former solder in the People’s Liberation Army, was described by fellow laureate Herta Müller as a “catastrophe” and “a slap in the face for all those working for democracy”. From what country did Müller flee in 1987, having been labelled a political dissident by the secret police?



Romania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_M%C3%BCller)

32 Two buildings, one an architectural landmark (32a) and the other a building (32b) intended to become Europe’s highest skyscraper when it is finished in 2013, both suffered fires this year. Who built the architectural landmark and in which city is the skyscraper?


Le Corbusier http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/10/marseille-cite-radieuse-fire-damge

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Moscow

http://rt.com/news/moscow-tower-catches-fire-068/

33 “It was glorious! Shriekingly funny”: a letter surfaced this year detailing a famous hoax from 1910 when a female novelist plus pals donned beards, pretended to be Abyssinian princes and persuaded a Royal Navy admiral to give them the red-carpet treatment on HMS Dreadnought. Who was she?

Virginia Woolf

34 There was controversy this month at La Scala when the Milan opera house opened its new season with a production kowtowing to Berlin by celebrating the bicentenary of the German composer Wagner’s birth instead of the bicentenary of which Italian composer?

Verdi (here)





35 A 120ft manuscript was on display at the British Library until December 27 this year. Of which 20th-century classic was it an early draft?

35: On The Road (here)

36 A film by Alfred Hitchcock ended Citizen Kane’s 50 year reign at the top of the British Film Institute’s annual poll of cinema’s greatest films in August. What is its name?

36: Vertigo (here)

37 “It is absolute pandemonium in this place. Everyone is delirious to the point where we are chanting random things. One guy from Australia has streaked stark naked through the entire plane. Everyone is up with their cameras rolling, waiting for a glimpse ...”

Of whom?

37: Rihanna (here)

38 Can you match the following writers – Kurt Vonnegut, Charlotte Brontë, James Joyce – to the opening lines of the following pieces of writing, all posthumously discovered or published for the first time this year?

(i) “In many ways, Haley, this is the nicest room in the house, even though it is little and has only one window,” said Annie Cooley, a woman in her middle twenties.

38 (i) Kurt Vonnegut (here)


(ii) Alas! I cannot send you a Copenhagen cat because there are no cats in Copenhagen.


38 (ii) James Joyce (here)


(iii) A rat, weary of the life of cities, and of courts (for he had played his part in the palaces of kings and in the salons of great lords), a rat whom experience had made wise, in short, a rat who from a courtier had become a philosopher, had withdrawn to his country house (a hole in the trunk of a large young elm), where he lived as a hermit devoting all his time and care to the education of his only son.

8 (iii) Charlotte Bronte (here)

39 !!!!! Riot were arrested in March after performing a Putin-baiting “punk prayer” in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. To which holy person was the feminist-punks’ “prayer” directed?

39: Virgin Mary (here)


40 What links the hit HBO television series Girls, about four young women in New York City, with the new Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross, about four real estate salesmen in Chicago?

Zosia Mamet who plays Shoshanna Shapiro in "Girls" is the daughter of David Mamet the playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross

HOW TO ENTER

The prize for the FT New Year’s quiz is 18 bottles of Laurent! Perrier Cuv!e Ros!, a delicious, elegant fizz to liven up any celebration.

The prize will be awarded to the first correct entry drawn at random from all entries received by the closing date of 5pm GMT on Wednesday January 9 2013. If no completely correct answers are received the champagne will be given to the entrant with the most correct answers. We will notify the winner on or before Saturday January 12 2013.

To enter the competition, please email your answers, along with full contact details, including name, email address, telephone number and postcode to [EMAIL="christmasquiz@ft.com"]christmasquiz@ft.com[/EMAIL]

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cestlavie

15 -
Terrence Malick

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/14/terrence-malick-filmed-tmz

weeowens

12 Sir Paul McCartney criticised the “bloody jobsworth” who had the last word on his duet with Bruce Springsteen at a concert in Hyde Park in July.

(i) What happened?

(ii) And why?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/paul-mccartney-jobsworth-pulled-the-plug-on-hyde-park-duet-with-bruce-springsteen-8367988.html

Sir Paul McCartney has criticised the “bloody jobsworth” who cut the power on his duet with Bruce Springsteen at a concert in Hyde Park.

The former Beatle appeared on stage as a guest at the end of Springsteen’s show in July but the pair had their microphones turned off because they had gone past the strict 10.30pm noise curfew.

MaineBlue

12 Sir Paul McCartney criticised the “bloody jobsworth” who had the last word on his duet with Bruce Springsteen at a concert in Hyde Park in July.

(i) What happened?
The “bloody jobsworth” cut the power and turned their microphones off
(ii) And why?
Because they had gone past the strict 10.30pm noise curfew

MaineBlue

26 Artist Samantha Lo, aka the “Sticker Lady”, was arrested in June for placing stickers reading “Press to time travel” and “Press to stop time” on traffic signal buttons. Name the country in which she was arrested.
Singapore

MaineBlue

5 Barack Obama said he might do it in private with his wife Michelle. Boris Johnson claimed to have done it with David Cameron. What?

Dance to Gangnam Style

MaineBlue

6 “I have to take advantage now, because memories fade.” Which famously prolix former leader said this upon the publication of their 1,000-page memoir, published in February, called Guerrilla of Time?
Fidel Castro

thingamaBob

9. The Hunger Games
http://www.acrossthearts.co.uk/review/cinema/1406-hunger-games-the-12a/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatuna_Lorig

echofalls

8- Dame Helen Mirren

MaineBlue

7 Euro banknotes depict the architectural styles of seven periods in Europe’s cultural history. But in an interview with La Stampa in January, philosopher Umberto Eco said the banknotes should foster a sense of shared purpose by depicting “men of culture” such as Shakespeare and Balzac. Which Italian writer did he also suggest?
Durante degli Alighieri

MaineBlue

10 Olympic swordsman Bob Anderson, whose death aged 89 was announced in January, was the stunt double for which screen villain’s fight scenes in a 1970s blockbuster and its sequel?

Answer: Darth Vader

Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back & Star Wars VI: Return of The Jedi. He was also 'uncredited' for Star Wars IV: A New Hope. So, really there's three answers here even though they say two.

Do your research FT - GRRRR