The Quiz: Test your skills against Maclean’s Genius!
This week, we tested Peter Dyakowski on everything from Westerns to Anne Hathaway films. He scored 73 per cent.
FILE – In this Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, Anne Hathaway arrives at the AFI Awards at The Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Hathaway was not supposed to star in “Song One,” an indie musical about a disconnected twenty something in a crisis who finds herself in folk music. One year after its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the actress laughed about the awkwardness of having to ask her director to be in the film, which is now playing in select theaters and on video-on-demand. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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Welcome back to the Maclean’s Quiz, a diversion designed by Terrance Balazo to test your trivia skills. Good luck, and remember: no Internet assistance allowed.
We’ve also invited the Maclean’s Genius, Peter Dyakowski, to take the quiz. Dyakowski is a lineman with the CFL’s Hamilton Ticats who also bested the competition in CBC’s Canada’s Smartest Person contest in 2012. And we don’t call him our genius for nothing—he solved the viral Singapore brain teaser that had been stumping the Internet. (And during his workout, no less!)
This week, we tested Dyakowski on everything from city slogans to literary awards, from Westerns to Anne Hathaway movies. He completed the quiz from his Calgary hotel—where he and the Tiger-Cats travelled to play the Stampeders—and chalked up his score to the jet lag. “Also, apparently I know where Vladimir Remek is from,” he said. “So the endless hours spent on Wikipedia have paid off.” He scored 73 per cent.
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