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Here are the answers:
1. Who wrote 1000 Years of Non-Linear History?
Manuel De Landa
2. What artist made a work titled Soft Screw?
Claes Oldenburg
3. Who designed such contemporary furniture classics as Power Play, Cross Check, and High Sticking?
Frank Gehry
4. Who wrote A City is not a Tree? and A Pattern Language?
Christopher Alexander is the principal author. Some submissions also listed Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein. Still others listed secondary authors Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
5. What is the difference between nigiri and sashimi?
Nigiri is raw fish on a bed of rice; sashimi is simply raw fish.
6. Who wrote Concrete Island and Highrise?
J.G. Ballard
7. Who wrote the book A Year from Monday?
John Cage
8. Who designed the Asahi Beer Hall in Tokyo?
Philippe Starck
9. Who designed Kitchener City Hall?
Bruce Kuwabara of KPMB (Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg)
10. Who designed the new Toronto City Hall?
Viljo Revell
11. What animal did typographer Eric Gill have a certain fondness for?
The animal we were looking for was dog, as Gill had sex with dogs. Other answers, equally valid, included golden cockerel (one of Gill's more famous fonts), and the Hampton Hog.
12. In 1993 how many nights did Rem Koolhaas spend in hotel rooms?
305
13. What text by Guy Debord was central to the events of May 1968?
Society of the Spectacle
14. Who wrote Asymmetric Typography and what Toronto typesetting company published it in English?
Jan Tschichold. Cooper & Beatty.
15. What style of hat was a runaway success at the Nagano Winter Olympics?
The red Roots po'boy cap.
16. Who wrote Utopia or Oblivion?
Buckminster Fuller. Many people answered "Thomas More", only seeing the first part of the title.
17. Who designed the CN logo?
Alan Fleming.
18. Who designed The Medium is the Massage?
Quentin Fiore.
19. Who designed the film titles for North by Northwest?
Saul Bass.
20. Who created "plunderphonics"?
John Oswald.
21. Who wrote the book Cover to Cover?
We were looking for Michael Snow. It was a cheeky question because there are no words in Cover to Cover. Turns out, however, that there was a book on book-making that came out last year by Shereen Laplantz. We had more Shereen Laplantz answers than Michael Snow. There is at least one other book with that title.
22. Who made the film Powers of Ten?
Charles & Ray Eames
23. Who designed Miss Blanche and what does she have in her arms?
Shiro Kuromata. Artificial roses. But many people discovered an earlier collage work by Kurt Schwitters with the same title.
24. What do wink, wiggle, zigzag, butterfly, ant, and coconut have in common?
They're all 20th century chair designers.
25. What artist started the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas?
Donald Judd
26. Who won the 1998 Hugo Boss Prize?
Douglas Gordon
27. Who directed the television series "Son et image"?
Jean-Luc Godard. Some people more properly identified Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville.
28. Who invented Gregor Samsa?
Franz Kafka.
29. Who was the image guru for Benetton who created the controversial AIDS patient ad?
Oliverio Toscani. Some people answered Tibor Kalman. We thought his work for Benetton came later but some argued that he was there at the same time as Toscani and was the art director.
30. Who designed the Lockheed Lounge in the lobby of the Paramount, N.Y.?
Marc Newson. Philippe Starck designed the hotel, but Newson did this particular piece of furniture.
31. Who made a film consisting of nothing but the colour blue?
Derek Jarman. Yes, Kieslowski made a film called Blue, but it doesn't consist of "nothing but the colour blue". Others answered Oskar Fischinger, who made a film called Komposition im Blau in the 1920s. Unlike Fischinger, whose film consists of blue-coloured shapes, Jarman's film is edge-to-edge solid blue and nothing else (visually).
32. Who created the exhibition 100 objects that describe the world?
Mea culpa. The exhibition is called 100 objects to represent the world and the artist is Peter Greenaway.
33. Who created the installations Broken Kilometer and Earth Room?
Walter de Maria
34. Who made famous the phrase "in any way, shape or form"?
Well, some people answered Bill Clinton, which is arguably true ("I never had sex with that woman in any way, shape or form"). We were looking for the Amazing Kreskin.35. Who designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.?
Maya Lin
36. Who created the artwork "I like sex, but I prefer it with someone who's read a book."
It's actually not the name of the artwork, though it is the text that forms the basis of the work. It's by Micah Lexier.
37. Who designed the cover of the Beatles' White Album?
Richard Hamilton. The album credits additional people for art direction, but it was Hamilton who came up with the cover concept.
38. Pierre Chareau's client for his Maison du Verre was a doctor: what was his specialty?
Gynecology, though many people claimed dentistry.
39. At what school did Buckminster Fuller and John Cage collaborate? And who was the choreographer in charge?
Black Mountain College. Merce Cunningham