Rotating Quiz #258

[Mark Brader]

This is Rotating Quiz #258. I'd like to thank Dan Blum for
running RQ 257 and for choosing questions that enabled me to win.
The winner of this contest, in turn, will be the first choice to
set RQ 259.

As usual, please answer only from your own knowledge and post all
your answers to the newsgroup in a single posting, quoting the
questions you are answering and placing your answers below each one.

Entries must be posted by 2:22:22 PM Toronto time (zone -4) on
Tuesday, 2017-06-06. That gives you 5 days and about 12 hours
from the time of posting.


For this contest I'll go back to the scoring that I used in RQ 251,
meaning that the hardest questions people can answer will probably
be the ones that decide the contest.

That is, each question is worth the same number of points --
whatever is the smallest number that allows scoring in integers --
but those points will be *divided equally* between all entrants who
get it right. For example, say there are 4 entrants. Then each
question will be worth 12 points, and if you are the only one to
answer it correctly, you get all 12. In this case if 2 people
answer correctly, they each get 6 points; if 3 do, they each get 4;
and if all 4 get it, that's 3 points each.

In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be the entrant who
answered the *fewest* questions correctly to reach the tie score,
and the second tiebreaker will be who posted first.



There are 22 questions in this quiz, but I hope a lot of them
will be easy. They are listed in random order within each of two
groups, but I won't tell you how what question number starts the
second group.

Note that some questions will provide details, but not necessarily
the most relevant ones; others will just be hints. In either case,
you must name whoever, or whatever, it is that I'm describing or
hinting at.

A hint to the theme that all answers must fit is available if you
can guess where to look for it.


1. This American New Wave writer won multiple Hugos, including
one for "Lord of Light".

2. This executive was the other title character of Michael Moore's
first documentary.

3. This 91-year-old has hundreds of movies (or TV-movies or
direct-to-video movies) credited to him as a producer or
director, including "Death Race 2000" in 1975, and 4 sequels or
remakes up to this year's "Death Race 2050". While his career
has been described as "Six Decades of Schlock", people who have
worked with him have included Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson,
Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and
Ron Howard.

4. In the original novel he was censored, but in the movie he
was framed.

5. "For you are beautiful, and I have loved you dearly, more dearly
than the spoken word can tell."

6. Dallas player, MVP of the VIth event.

7. 61*.

8. He was the first to tile the plane aperiodically with only
two different tiles, using a pattern with fivefold symmetry
about its center.

9. When he wasn't chosen to succeed Walter Cronkite as anchorman
for the main CBS newscast, this man moved to NBC. For about a
year their newscast was co-anchored by Tom Brokaw in New York
and him in Washington.

10. This 13th-century Englishman was a Renaissance man before there
was a Renaissance. He advocated that science should be based
on experiment; he worked in philosophy, astronomy, alchemy,
and math; he conceived machines that would not be practical
for centuries; but his work in optics was particularly important.

11. If you were married to Brigitte Bardot, wouldn't you make at
least a couple of movies starring her?

12. Some say GOAT.

13. Until recently he was the only person to have run Fox "News".

14. He was a regular on "The Mothers-in-Law" until he was fired
for demanding the studio pay him the amount specified in his
contract; but fans of the original "Star Trek" may best remember
him as Harry Mudd.

15. Who he?

16. Dead, now dead.

17. The fat one, who worked for the Sun-Times.

18. He held a world record for 46 days in 1954.

19. This British writer, now living in Colorado, specializes the
subject of in bicycle racing. Several of his books are about
Lance Armstrong; another is "World of Cycling".

20. This "alternative rock" band was formed in 1994 by former
members of Uncle Tupelo. Singer John Tweedy has been with them
ever since. Albums include "Blue Sky Blue" and "Star Wars".

21. At the end of "The Lord of the Rings", Sam marries Rose Cotton.
In the appendices you may learn that her brother known as Jolly,
and her uncle known as Will, actually both had the same name.
What was it?

22. An Iron Maiden he.

--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Jargon leakage is getting to be a real problem;
m...@vex.net | sb should do sth about it." --R.H. Draney

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