The "Fat" Challenge ... With a Prize and Everything

Yesterday Dr. Darlene McLaughlin was in Toronto doing a lecture for the Vita Master's Series. One of my jobs is to create a 'pre lecture' show that plays as people are arriving and during lunch. This is the fourth time that I've done a 'quiz' as part of that show. The quizzes are always about disability and media. Here are the most recent ten questions. But, a difference, the first person to get all ten right, will be able to choose a book, authored by me alone (I can't give away someone else's work) which will be signed and sent off to you where ever you are in the world. So, good luck ... these are, I should warn you, the hardest questions I've come up with. Go ahead and browse for prizes at http://www.diverse-city.com/ Those who were there at the conference where the answers were posted are, of course, exempted from the contest.

Disability Goes to the Movies

Question 1

In what year did the first movie with a character with an intellectual disability get made?

1939

1946

1953

1961

Question 2

The life of Derek Bartly, a man with an intellectual disability, was dramatized in the 1991 movie ‘Let Him Have It.’ Bartly's life led to a significant social change in England with repercussions in Canada and throughout the British Empire … that change was:

The founding of the Special Olympics World Games

The establishment of the principle of full work for full pay for people with disabilities

The abolition of the death penalty

The abolition of marriage laws forbidding the marriage of people with disabilities

Question 3

Charlie Chaplin is remembered as a comedian but he wrote most of his own films. In one of his most famous film his character ‘the tramp’ befriends a blind flower girl and attempts to restore her sight. What was the name of this film?

City Lights

At The Races

The Flower Girl

Daisies

Question 4

The film ‘Johnny Belinda’ featured a young girl, known as the town ‘dummy’ who is deaf. The film was set in what Canadian province?

Ontario

British Columbia

Nova Scotia

Alberta

Question 5

Chris Burke, an actor with Down Syndrome, is well known for the series “Life Goes On” but he also was a featured player in what other television programme?

The Young and the Restless

CSI:NY

Dexter

Touched by An Angel

Question 6

Moulin Rouge features the real life character of Toulouse-Lautrec, he is portrayed by an actor who is on his knees in close ups and by a dwarf in long shots. In reality, what was the source of his short stature.

He was a dwarf.

Both his parents were short.

A botched operation affected his growth pattern

His height is a historical myth, he was simply shorter than most.

Question 7

Love! Valour! Compassion was one of the first movies that featured almost entirely gay characters. One of the film’s characters had a disability … what was that disability?

Deafness

Blindness

Paraplegia

Quadraplegia

Question 8

The Canadian animated series ‘Quads’ was based on the life of what famous person with a disability?

John Callahan

Christopher Reeve

Jason Jackman

Christy Brown

Question 9

Peter Sellers plays a man with an intellectual disability in the film ‘Being There’ … in that film what was the occupation of the character.

Shelf stocker

Gardener

Grocery boy

Bike courier

Question 10

In “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” the main character has a stroke to the brain stem, what was his occupation before the stroke left him with near total paralysis.

Editor

Jockey

Director

Photographer