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IQuiz 7
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Director of 1987 Mali film Yeelen | Souleymane Cisse |
| Director of 1998 film Ringu | Hideo Nakata |
| French-Israeli drama film that won Golden Bear in 2019, and its Israeli director | Synonyms, by Nadav Lapid |
| 2019 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, starred Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei who won Silver Bear for Best Actor and Actress | So Long, My Son |
| Abbreviation of International Federation of Film Critics, based in Belgium, often give out awards during major film festivals | FIPRESCI |
| American who was the first woman to win the Abel Prize (2019) | Karen Uhlenbeck |
| Born Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres, actress considered greatest of all time in Brazil, only one nominated for an Oscar - for Central Station (1998) | Fernanda Montenegro |
| Female singer known as the Nightingale of India | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Group of historical novels and their French author - described by George RR Martin as the "original game of thrones" | The Accursed Kings, by Maurice Druon |
| Three films in Robert Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy | El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico |
| Chinese author who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, now lives in France | Gao Xingjian |
| Two Greek winners of Nobel Prize for Literature and years | Giorgos Seferis (1963), Odysseas Elytis (1979) |
| Two Swiss winners of Nobel Prize for Literature and years | Carl Spitteler (1919), Herman Hesse (1946, but born in Germany) |
| Two Japanese winners of Nobel Prize for Literature and years | Yasunari Kawabata (1968), Kenzaburo Oe (1994) |
| Only nocturnal, flying, fruit eating bird - two names | Oilbird (aka guacharo) |
| Second largest city in Serbia | Novi Sad |
| Polish author and playwright, first novel was Ferdydurke (1937) | Witold Gombrowitz |
| Brazil's first planned modern city, and state of which it is the capital | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais |
| Condition where males have premature ejaculation or impotence, and believe they are passing semen in their urine | Dhat syndrome |
| President of Tunisia since 2014, aged 88 when sworn in | Beji Caid Essebsi |
| Finnish sniper nicknamed White Death, killed 505 people - most of any sniper | Simo Hayha |
| Person who wrote, directed and starred in the notoriously awful 2003 film The Room | Tommy Wiseau |
| Largest flying creature to have ever existed | Quetzalcoatlus |
| First Russian supermodel to appear on cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (2011), was in relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo and now with Bradley Cooper, with whom she has a child | Irina Shayk |
| US model who in 2018 became the third African-American to appear on cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue | Danielle Herrington |
| Co-creator and director of the 1954 film Godzilla | Ishiro Honda |
| 5 point scale that measures prejudice in a society - level 5 is "Extermination" | Allport's Scale |
| Name of fire in Wisconsin in 1871, deadliest in history, that was the same day as Chicago fire | Peshtigo fire |
| 7-string zither-like Chinese instrument, associated with Confucius | Guqin |
| Pioneer of motion pictures - was played by Robert Donat in 1951 film The Magic Box | William Friese-Greene |
| Lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust - aka "Monday fever" | Byssinosis |
| Chinese historian of Han dynasty, wrote Records of the Grand Historian, known as father of Chinese historiography | Sima Qian |
| CEO and co-founder of Pinterest | Ben Silbermann |
| Time period covered by Han dynasty | 206 BC - 220 AD |
| Goat-antelope found in Himalayas, aka cattle chamois or gnu goat | Takin |
| Capital of Republic of Somaliland | Hargeisa |
| Japanese form of mounted archery - an archer on a horse shoots three turnip-headed arrows at wooden targets | Yabusame |
| Frenchman who was the main proponent of the Theatre of Cruelty, wrote 1938 work The Theatre and Its Double | Antonin Artaud |
| Largest freshwater lake in Japan | Lake Biwa |
| New Zealander and Swede who have six Speedway titles each - the most | Ivan Mauger, Tony Rickardsson |
| 6th century monk from eastern Europe who invented the AD era | Dionysius Exiguus |
| Old Nordic/Celtic strategy board games played on a checkered board with two armies of uneven numbers | Tafl (or hnefatafl) |
| Almond filling in cakes named for a perfumer to Louis XIII | Frangipane |
| Erasmus Bridge connects the north and south of this city | Rotterdam |
| President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983, went to trial in 2012 for genocide, died of heart attack in 2018 | Efrain Rios Montt |
| Africa's first female billionaire and richest woman | Isabel dos Santos (daughter of former Angolan President) |
| Ukranian who holds world record for women's triple jump, won 1995 world championship and also first ever winner of Olympic gold in 1996 | Inessa Kravets |
| Cameroonian who won women's triple jump Olympic gold in 2004 and 2008, only female to win two | Francoise Mbango Etone |
| Soviet who won three men's triple jump in 1968, 1972, 1976 | Viktor Saneyev |
| American who won world championships in triple jump in 2011, 2015 and 2017, also won Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016 | Christian Taylor |
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