Saturday, April 11, 2015

Quiz #31: Birth And Death

Below are 45 questions related to birth and death. Some photographers in the quiz are more famous than others but all names will be generally recognizable to photo nerds. 

Score one point for each correct identification. 45 points possible. The first person to email me the answer with the highest point total before 9 AM Pacific, Monday, April 20th, 2015, wins a mint copy of Trent Parke's Minutes to Midnight plus handmade bonus gift. Good luck!

1. What two photographers were born August 17, 1896?

2. What two photographers died a day apart, June 23 and June 24, 1976?

3. What photographer died on his birthday?

4. What photographer died the day before his birthday?

5. What photographer died during a Super Bowl?

6. What photographer was born on Thanksgiving?

7. What photographer had a birthday once every four years?

What are the birth names of:

8. Abbas
9. Brassai
10. Chim
11. Disfarmer
12. Helios
13. Hiro
14. Izis
15. Kertesz
16. Man Ray
17. Nadar
18. Weegee

19. What two war photographers died on May 25th, each more than 4000 miles from their birthplace. 

20. Name two photographers born on that date.

Palindromic birthdays (multiple answers possible). Name a photographer born on:

21. 1/1 (January 1st)
22 2/2
23. 3/3
24. 4/4
25. 5/5
26. 7/7
27. 9/9
28. 10/10
29. 11/11
30. 12/12

Identify the photographer:

31. October 16th, 1890, New York — March 31st, 1976, Orgeval, France

32. July 20th, 1895, Bacsborsod, Hungary — November 24th 1946, Chicago

33. June 17th, 1898, Springfield, OH — December 9th, 1991, Monson, ME

34. March 23rd, 1899, Frankfurt, Germany — March 10th, 1998, New York

35. December 6th, 1899, Zolochiv, Ukraine — December 26th, 1968, New York

36. November 3rd, 1902 St. Louis — April 10th, 1975, New Haven, CT

37. May 2nd, 1906, Rigo, Latvia — June 25th 1979, New York

38. December 23rd, 1908 Mardin, Turkey — June 13th, 2002, Boston

39. November 20th, 1911, Warsaw, Poland — December 10th, 1956, Suez, Egypt

40. June 24th, 1916, Zurich — May 16th 1954, Peruvian Andes

41. December 30th, 1918, Wichita, KS — October 15th, 1978, Tucson, AZ

42. October 31st, 1920, Berlin — January 23rd, 2004, Los Angeles

43. March 2nd, 1921, Vienna — September 15th, 1986, New York

44. June 7, 1941, Wells, Somerset — March 13, 1972, London

45. February 15th, 1956, Boras, Sweden — April 11th, 2015, Stockholm

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