the valentine one i got 1,2,9,11,12
the letters one i got
1,2,7,11,13,19,21,22,24
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the valentine one i got 1,2,9,11,12
the letters one i got
1,2,7,11,13,19,21,22,24
Darn, I was doing so good, but I screwed up toward the end. I got 19 correct. I got these wrong:
6. F-stop
9. Ideograms
11. Kells
22. Vis For Vendetta
24. The X -Files
25. You Know Me, Al
26. Z
I may dispute number 6. Focus control might also work. I should have gotten gotten Kells. Ideograms I had no idea, and as you can see I know very little of pop culture.
bombed on 5 (even though I knew it was rooted in epistle), 9, 10, 11, 22 (couldn't think of what V was for), 23, and 25.
Ooh, this looks like fun. I only got 14 right on the last quiz (don't have much knowledge of the Bible). Can't wait for next week's!
Gee, Auntie. I wish I was a little quicker on the draw. By the time I got to number 24, it hit me that these answers were in some sort of alphabetically-consecutive-sequential arrangement, but by then it was too late to go back and change any of my earlier responses.
I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, and 25 correct, for a grand total of 20.
You are giving Jack Keefe a lot of extra credit in question 25 when you describe him as semi-literate. You Know Me, Al is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. In fact, I think I’ll pick it up again this evening – thanks to your reminder.
I think I know the answer to the bonus question, which makes me look forward even more eagerly to next week's quiz.
The answer to last week’s bonus question is:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
This week’s quiz topic is movies, including award winners and some which didn't win, but should have. And wouldn't you know it, another year has gone by, and yours truly didn't get a single nomination! I'm shocked. Shocked! But as a perennial host of the Oscar telecast once said, “Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as we call it at my house, ‘Passover.’ “ It saddens me that the younger generation never saw Bob Hope on “live” TV, though kids owe it to themselves to rent some of the old Bing Crosby and Bob Hope “Road” pictures from Paramount, which I loved when I saw them on the Late Late Show – -on school nights when I was supposed to be asleep! So while I kiss my horse and head into the sunset (or the other way around) here’s the quiz which, unlike "Webster’s dictionary," isn't "Morocco-bound."
Quiz Show
1. Name the satirical singer-songwriter who had sixteen Oscar nominations before he finally won. In his acceptance speech he thanked the Academy for having humiliated him so many times.
2. A searing portrayal of social injustice earned the 1947 movie Crossfire five nominations, but it brought its director, Edward Dmytryk, tragic attention from the House Un-American Activities Committee. What was the name of the notorious HUAC dossier that ruined the lives of many creative people?
3. Speaking of HUAC, which some have termed a “witch hunt,” who was the American playwright who in 1952 told the committee, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion”?
4. Speaking of fashion, name the costume designer who over the years was nominated 40 times and took home 8 Academy Awards.
5. Who is the early 20th century American poet who wrote “Chaplinesque,” a verse which captures the essence the Little Tramp?
6. Who was the real-life gangster apparently shot by FBI agent Melvin Purvis in front of Chicago’s Biograph Theatre in 1934?
7. In the late 1920s, movies made the quantum leap into the realm of “Talkies.” A 1952 musical comedy that spoofs this part of our cultural history appears on nearly every film critic’s list of the best movies ever made, although it won 0 Oscars. What was the title of this cinematic gem starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor?
8. Who is the only woman to win an Oscar for acting and another one for adapted screenplay?
9. TRICK QUESTION ALERT! So far there has been only ONE person who has won both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize. TRUE or FALSE?
10. Although this mid-twentieth century American poet is called the “Greenhouse Poet,” his “Double Feature” is an emotional and evocative lyric about leaving a movie theatre. So who is he?
11. Johnny Depp masterfully plays the title role in a 1994 feature about the less-than-optimal techniques of a real-life film-maker. (Of course, in this we're using the term “film-maker” very, very loosely.) Name this movie, which brought an Oscar to Martin Landau for his outstanding supporting role.
12. And finally, about eight years after winning an Academy Award for a hilarious 1968 screenplay, this writer-director created Silent Movie in which not one syllable of spoken dialogue was used until the end, in which there was a single word, uttered by. . .a mime! Name this comedy veteran, though still considerably less than 2,000 years old.
Answers
1. Randy Newman
2. The Black List
3. Lillian Hellman
4. Edith Head
5. Hart Crane
6. John Dillinger
7. Singin’ in the Rain
8. Emma Thompson
9. Absolutely true, except it may not be the person you think. Al Gore is indeed a Nobel Prize winner. Although he rightfully came up on the stage when the Oscar for outstanding documentary feature went toAn Inconvenient Truth, the former Vice President was not the official recipient of the award. The only person in the entire world to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award was George Bernard Shaw. Legend has it that when GBS was informed that his 1937 screenplay of Pygmalion had won, someone had to explain to him exactly what an Oscar was.
10. Theodore Roethke
11. Ed Wood
12. Mel Brooks
BONUS QUESTION (containing the next quiz topic.) Finish the title of this classic movie:
A Letter to Three _____(what?)
And that’s a wrap!
I got 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, and 12.
I only got numbers 4, 6, 7, and 12. While I said TRUE for number 9, I didn’t have the right guy, so I don’t get any credit there. And I don’t know the bonus question for next week, either.
I would say I have to get out to the movies more often, but they’re all so lousy these days. Maybe I’ll just watch Turner Classic Movies more.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DickZ
I never get a chance to get out of the house, so I don't know a cineplex from plexiglass. But TCM is the source of most of the movies I ever see.
If you said "true" on the trick question, then you got it right.
And to you and Pablo, thanks for taking the quiz.
Only 2 and 6 :flare:
Thank you so much, Pen, for doing these little quizzzzzes o mine. If you have cable tv, and if you get the Turner Classical Channel ("TCM") please try to catch "Singin' in the Rain" the next time they run it. You will love it.
The answer to last week’s bonus question is: Wives.
“Woman was God’s second mistake.” Do you agree with Nietzsche on that one? Fact of the matter is that for millennia womankind has been oppressed, repressed, and pressed into service when some guy wants his pants pressed.
For too many centuries women have been the butts of too many jokes. I read somewhere that the old chestnut “That was no lady, that was my wife” dates back to ancient Rome. I wish I could type the original version, but my Latin is rusty.
Speaking of which, years ago I was about to begin subbing for an advanced class in English as a Second Language when I heard two young Asian men yukking it up in the back of the room. Fortunately, their English was more advanced than my Chinese (which was non-existent). When I asked them politely what they were laughing about, they replied that they were telling mother-in-law jokes. I guess humor is the universal language.
But we women are more than mere fodder for jokes. We are grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, wives, girlfriends, yet – to cop a phrase from late night infomercials – “Wait! There’s more!” Hence, this week’s quiz:
Extraordinary Women
1. Who was Chaucer’s lusty teller of tales who provided an alternative to the medieval anti- female mind-set? She describes herself this way: “Hosbandes at chirche dore I have had fyve.”
2. Who wrote the novel Little Women?
3. For Book III of his masterpiece Edmund Spenser created a female knight. Her name is Britomart; her motto: “Be bold, be bold, be not too bold.” What is the title of the entire poem, written between 1590-1596?
4. Who was the 20th century American lyricist (1905-1974) who was the only female songwriter to appear on a U.S. postage stamp. You’ll also find her “on the sunny side of the street.”
5. Name the George Bernard Shaw’s title character who is an officer in the Salvation Army.
6. Which early American First Lady urged her husband to “remember the ladies?”
7. Cole Porter’s smash hit, Kiss Me Kate, was loosely based on which Shakespearean comedy?
8. Identify the reclusive but extremely significant 19th century American poet who said she wrote “a letter to the world that never wrote to me.”
9. Who was the very first female to receive the Nobel Prize? (In physics, yet! So take that, Larry Summers!)
10. Who was the first Black American ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize? She won it for her 1950 volume of poetry, Annie Allen.
11. Who was the mild-mannered yet courageous publisher of The Washington Postduring the Watergate scandal?
12. She was the novelist who gave the world Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and [I]The Mill on the [/I]Floss, but she didn’t use her real name, Mary Ann Evans. Instead her books were published under which masculine pseudonym?
13. Born in 1917, she truly was a pioneer, as she broke into the male-dominated realm of stand-up comedy with her endearing self-deprecating humor. Who said, “I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was punched in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.”
14. Considered by many to be the best novelist of her era, in 1813 this writer opened one of her books this way: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that asingle man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Who is she?
15. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest person and the first Black American ever to receive the Best Play award from the New York Critics Circle. The title of her work is derived from a line by Langston Hughes. Can you name it?
16. Name the Greek goddess of war and wisdom.
17. Born in 1941, this songwriter was a mere teenager when she worked in the Brill Building and cranked out such hits as “One Fine Day” and “Up on the Roof,” as well as Aretha Franklin’s famous “Natural Woman.” It wasn’t until 1971 before she had a best-selling album of her own. Who is she?
18. Who was the Shoshone woman who was indispensable as a translator and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition?
19. Christina Rossetti was more into writing poetry than shopping but her most famous work depicts two sisters tempted into buying forbidden fruit from grotesque vendors. What is the title of this 1862 allegorical poem?
20. And finally, who was the widely-quoted Algonquin Wit who wrote pithy poems, sardonic short stories, and sarcastic drama reviews in which she quipped “[I]The House [/I]Beautiful is the play lousy?”
Answers
1. The Wife of Bath
2. Louisa May Alcott
3. The Faerie Queene
4. Dorothy Fields
5. Major Barbara
6. Abigail Adams
7. The Taming of the Shrew
8. Emily Dickinson
9. Marie Curie
10. Gwendolyn Brooks
11. Katherine Graham
12. George Eliot
13. Phyllis Diller
14. Jane Austen
15. A Raisin in the Sun
16. Athena
17. Carole King
18. Sacajawea
19. "The Goblin Market"
20. Dorothy Parker
Sure and you’ll be knowin’ the topic for next week’s quiz if ye guess the missing word in this title:
“Did Your Mother Come from _______?” (What?)
Thanks for another great quiz, Auntie. I hope you are aware of how much some of us appreciate the clever little zingers you put into you work – like the one leading up to the guy who wants his pants pressed. Things like this, and the ways in which you word your questions, yield a great deal of delight.
I got numbers 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 (but I have to admit 14 was a guess), 16, and 18. I thought I knew a few Dorothy Parker quotes, and I knew she used to sit at some Algonquin Round Table somewhere, but I didn’t know that particular quote. I would ask you to zero in on Dorothy Parker quotes that I’m more familiar with, but you might claim that you don’t know which ones those are.
And since I’m a big fan of Frank Patterson and Anthony Kearns, I not only got the bonus question, but I’m also very ready for next week’s quiz. And all this despite the fact that my own mother came from somewhere else.
thank you, Dick Z. I'm assuming that Frank and Anthony are the songwriters who came up with the title of the bonus question. (I just knew the song, not the composers.
Shame on me.)
Re: Question #3. We had to read "The Faerie Queene" back in school, when considerably closer to its original publication date of 1596. Spenser had planned to write
12 books, but he had only finished 6. So when asked "How many books of The Faerie Queene have you read, they'd get themselves into trouble by replying "12." The safer answer would be Gov. Palin's famous answer, "All of 'em."
By the by --"Britomart" Sounds like a discount store in
London, right?
Got only 2, 5,7, 9 and 17.
Lots of American culture in it, so I guess that I can excuse myself with that.