Charlie Chaplin was born on this day in 1889. A quiz on the life of the English comic actor, filmmaker and composer
QUESTION 1
In the 2000s, declassified British archives showed that this well-known author had secretly accused Chaplin of being a communist. An adjective derived from this author’s pen name is used to describe totalitarian and authoritarian social practices. Name this author.
QUESTION 2
Name the title of Chaplin’s first war film, a comedy set in France, which starred his half-brother.
QUESTION 3
Chaplin was prosecuted in 1944 under this Act in a case stemming from a paternity suit involving the actor Joan Barry. This Act made it a federal crime to transport women across federal state lines for prostitution, debauchery, or even sex between unmarried persons. What is the name of this controversial Act?
QUESTION 4
Long after the shift to sound, Chaplin continued to make silent movies. Name one such successful film in which Chaplin’s character befriends an alcoholic millionaire.
QUESTION 5
A French journal, named after a Chaplin film, closed in 2019 after 74 years. Its founders were two existentialist French philosophers, a couple who never got married. Name the two philosophers and the Chaplin film which inspired them to name their journal.
QUESTION 6
Chaplin’s first talkie was a satire of two dictators. Name them.
This is a statue of Charlie Chaplin in the city where he was born. Which famous character of the comedian does it portray?
Questions and Answers to the previous day’s daily quiz: 1. The ports the Titanic called on before disaster struck. Ans: Cherbourg (France) and Queenstown (Cobh) in Ireland
2. Survivors were picked up by this ship. Ans: Carpathia
3. The relevance of J. Bruce Ismay with respect to the Titanic. Ans: He was the chairman of White Star Line that operated Titanic and was branded a coward for taking a lifeboat ignoring women and children
4. The novel written by Morgan Robertson. Ans: Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan
5. Lifeboats on the Titanic had a total capacity to take on these many passengers. Ans: 1,178
6. The significance of the words “Hard astarboard! Stand by the engines!”. Ans: The last words reportedly spoken by Titanic’s crew before the giant vessel started going down
7. The explorer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985. Ans: Robert Ballard
Visual: Name the organisation.
Ans: International Ice
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