These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2017-01-16,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of 5 Easy Pieces and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2016-11-26 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 1, Round 4 - Science - Science of Filmmaking
1. Name the famous scientist who experimentally confirmed the
trichromatic theory (that retinal cones are only responsive
to three colors), produced the first color photograph (in the
mid-1800s), and paved the way for color film. He later became
the founder of the study of electromagnetism.
2. Kinemacolor, the first process to capture color on film, was an
additive process. In the camera, one frame would be captured
with a red filter and the next with green. When played back
through a red-green flywheel, the result was a surprisingly
good color image. Aside from the appearance of fringing around
fast-moving objects, what was its major shortfall?
Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions *one at a time*,
proceeding to each question only after you have answered the ones before.
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Vg hfrq n ornz fcyvggre gb pncgher vzntrf ba gjb frcnengr
svyz fgbpxf -- bar qlrq erq-benatr, gur bgure oyhr-terra.
Gur gjb svyzf jrer przragrq gbtrgure naq pbhyq or cynlrq ba n
fgnaqneq cebwrpgbe. Vg jnf yngre ersvarq vagb n uhtryl cbchyne
guerr-fgevc flfgrz va 1932. Anzr gur cebprff.
4. Gur arkg pbybe svyz vaabingvba jnf Rnfgznapbybe svyz fgbpx
va 1950. Vg jnf purncre guna Grpuavpbybe, qvqa'g erdhver
fcrpvnyvmrq yvtug be yno cebprffrf, naq orpnzr gur fgnaqneq sbe
svyz hagvy gur 1980f. Jung jnf vgf znwbe qenjonpx, cebzcgvat
Znegva Fpbefrfr gb yrnq n pnzcnvta hetvat gur pbzcnal gb
punatr vg?
5. Ted Turner's controversial "Colorization" of black-and-white
films led to selective color manipulation to create unique
film tones. What was the first movie to be entirely digitally
manipulated to achieve a golden, dusty, desaturated look,
in 2000?
6. Name the *company* that created CinemaScope in 1953. The process
was a refinement of the French Anamorphoscope. The anamorphic
camera lens employs an optical trick to produce an image twice
as wide as a conventional lens and continues to be used today.
7. This film format has its roots in a multi-projector, multi-screen
work created for Expo 67. Technical difficulties led to
the formation of the company Multiscreen to explore a simpler
approach. It later settled on a single-screen, single-projector,
single-camera system that increases film resolution by using
a larger film frame. The format is still in use today; name it.
8. Film soundtracks didn't change much until the early 1970s when
this firm proposed replacing the standard frequency response
(as set by the Academy of Motion Pictures in 1938) with a
noise-reduction track. Theatres were reluctant to upgrade,
however, until the firm developed, together with Kodak, a
Quadraphonic system in 1976. Name the firm.
9. What is the name for the technique that combines a background
image with that of an actor against a blue or green screen?
The name reflects the fact that the images are combined or
layered together based on color hues.
10. This branch of social science (closely related to linguistics)
uses the concepts of cultural signs, codes, and conventions to
explain why bad guys wear black hats -- and why Terrence Malick
has a career. Name the science.
* Game 1, Round 6 - Sports - Track and Field at the Olympics
1. This high jumper won a silver medal for Canada at the 1976
Olympics in Montreal. His performance was also featured for
many years on TV stations as they signed off for the night.
2. He set a world record in the decathlon in 1976, and might
be even better-known now, but with a different first name.
Give this person's last name.
3. The 1988 Summer Olympics are notorious for the positive drug
test of Ben Johnson, resulting in his disqualification and the
gold medal being awarded to Carl Lewis. To this day there are
suspicions that everyone else in the final was also cheating.
Name any one of the other six sprinters in that 100 m final.
4. The 1996 games in Atlanta were redemption for Canada's sprinters.
Donovan Bailey won gold in the 100 m. And Canada won gold
in the 4×100 m relay. Name any of the other three men on the
Canadian relay team in the final.
5. This British middle-distance runner won Olympic gold in the
1,500 m in 1980 and 1984. He also held the 800 m world record
for 16 years, went on to be an MP, and was named a life peer.
Now the president of the global body for track and field,
who is he?
6. In the women's 3,000 m race at the 1984 Olympics, US runner
Mary Decker lost her chance for gold in a collision with another
runner, who used to run barefoot. Name the other runner in
this infamous collision.
7. At the 2012 games in London, David Rudisha of Kenya won the
800 m in a world-record time. In minutes and seconds, within
plus or minus 1.1 seconds, what was that time? Hint: it is
less than 2 minutes.
8. At the 2012 games there was only one individual track event
in which the same country won gold, silver, and bronze. Name
the country *and* the event. Hint: it was one a men's event.
9. Andre De Grasse won three medals at the Rio games last year.
He now has a street named after him in his hometown in Southern
Ontario. What's the name of this municipality?
10. This British distance runner won gold in the men's 5,000 m and
10,000 m in 2012 and again in 2016. He's a huge fan of the
Arsenal soccer team and is considered one of the best distance
runners ever. Who is he?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto,
m...@vex.net
Irving Thalberg's advice on GONE WITH THE WIND:
"Forget it, Louis. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel."
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