Spot the Truth

What the heck Washington DC does some weird things. So number 1 please.

Nope. Your odds have gone up another 8%!

Something about your odds seems suspicious...

None of them

Hungary?

Haha, maybe I've done the math incorrectly, but No and No.

I believe that leaves two left.
One of them is the correct answer.

Well, I flip a coin. 2 it is.

2 it is is right!

I) Washington D.C., United States of America (Most likely my favorite city in the World, but I had to pay to go there.)
II) Taipei, Taiwan (Yes! I won a contest in high school that granted me a semester at National Taiwan University.)
III) Sydney, Australia (Sydney is not the capital of Australia, Canberra is.)
IV) Budapest, Hungary (Another great capital! But I did not study here, instead, I taught.)
V) Lima, Peru (Traveled here for work and pleasure. A fairly dirty city in a beautiful country.)

Thanks for playing! Pendragon's up.

Hummmmm....

I hate to bore you with my book collection, but here we go:

All of these are legitimate titles of Sherlock Holmes books or collections except:

1) Gaslight Grimore
2) Gaslight Grotesque
3) Ghosts In Baker Street
4) The Ghost on the Moor
5) The Monster of Marleybone

Spot the truth about the fake book. Good luck:hurray::hurray:

Is anybody out there, or should I have Scotty just beam me up? :( :( :(

It's a trick question. Both four and five are illegitimate. Ghost on the Moor is fake, I believe. And The Monster of Marleybone is actually entitled The Monster of St.Marleybone. Case closed?

Five!

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Originally Posted by MatthewFarlow

It's a trick question. Both four and five are illegitimate. Ghost on the Moor is fake, I believe. And The Monster of Marleybone is actually entitled The Monster of St.Marleybone. Case closed?

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Actually, Number four was the fake one, but I did err in titling The Monster of St. Marleybone, which is by Wayne Worcester, and a darn good read, I highly recommend it. So for catching the correct one, and catching my mistake :( , you're up Matt!

Of these books, which have I read in entirety?

1. Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
2. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. Stephen King Different Seasons
4. Plato The Republic
5. Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five

Five.

Number 1 seems right for an obvious intellectual

Nope. Nope.

Is it number two?

It is number two!

1. Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged - On page 80 something... less than 8% done. I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
2. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - READ
3. Stephen King Different Seasons - I'm reading Shawshank Redemption (a short story in this book) right now, but haven't finished quite yet.
4. Plato The Republic - Never read it.
5. Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five - I saw the movie recently and am waiting until I forget enough of it to read the book.

Batter up!

3 Sparrows, it is your turn! Come on down! You are the next contestant on: Spot the Truth!

In yet another effort to keep this thread alive, sigh, I willpost the next SPOT THE TRUTH,

Which of these is a real fictional detective?

1) Lamont Cranston
2) Race Williams
3) Doctor Gordon Fell
4) Sir Harry Merrivale
5) Richard Wentworth

Real fictional detective? Let's see if I get what you mean.

Race Williams was a detective. Lamont Cranston and Richard Wentworth were both millionaire playboys. Sir _Henry_ Merrivale was a John Dickson Carr detective, but if you deliberately misspelled him as Harry to eliminate him, then he's out. Gordon Fell sounds familiar, but both Google and I are blanking on him.

So unless I'm missing something re. Fell, it would be Race, correct?

Best,

Calidore

Very thorough detective work, Calidore! Now let's see if the dragon says you're right...

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Originally Posted by Calidore

Real fictional detective? Let's see if I get what you mean.

Race Williams was a detective. Lamont Cranston and Richard Wentworth were both millionaire playboys. Sir _Henry_ Merrivale was a John Dickson Carr detective, but if you deliberately misspelled him as Harry to eliminate him, then he's out. Gordon Fell sounds familiar, but both Google and I are blanking on him.

So unless I'm missing something re. Fell, it would be Race, correct?

Best,

Calidore

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You are right, nice use of resources available, you might be a detective yourself.

The rundown:


1) Lamont Cranston was the Shadow but then The Shadow was not Lamont Cranston. Odd, right? Cranston and The Shadow, who by the way is really Kent Allard had a deal whereby they shared the Cranston identity, so not Lamont Cranston.

2) Race Williams was a fictional detective from the pulps written by Carroll John Daly. A new book has been released chronicling his adventures, so Race it is.

3) Doctor Gordon Fell sounds familiar because he is really Doctor Gideon Fell, created by John Dickson Carr, so not Gordon.

4) Sir Harry Merrivale as you suspected was deliberately a misspelling or variation on Sir Henry Merrivale, written by John Dickson Carr under the pseudonym of Carter Dickson, so not Sir Harry.

5) Richard Wentworth is the Spider, a violent vigilante more concerned with blowing criminals away instead of solving crimes and turning them over to the police. Not Wentworth then.

So you are up, Cal. Let us see if you are as brilliant at concealing the truth as revealing it! :hurray::hurray::hurray:

Cool. Here's mine. Apologies if my first try is too easy.

Everybody likes quoting movies, especially if they're Monty Python or The Princess Bride, but sometimes they get it wrong, and the misquote lives on. Following is a list of very famous misquotes from film, plus one that's actually accurate. Which one was spoken as-is in the movie?

1) “Top of the world, Ma!"

2) "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

3) “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

4) “Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”

5) “Play it again, Sam”

I think it's III. Funny scene.

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Originally Posted by MatthewFarlow

I think it's III. Funny scene.

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Buzzzz! Sorry, incorrect. Though "funny scene" makes me wonder if you're thinking of Blazing Saddles, where they might have said it like that. The original, however, is from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and goes like this:

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”

If the link below survives the post, you can hear it as well:

http://listverse.com/quotes/treasuresm.wav

I understand the version in the source novel is even harsher, with a lesson in Spanish obscenities as a bonus.

Best,

Calidore

I'll say 4, because I think the rest are all wrong.

Dingdingding! Correct. #4 is usually misquoted as "Mirror, mirror...", but I posted the correct version. Others are:

1) "Made it, Ma. Top of the world!"

http://www.filmsite.org/wavfiles/whiteheat.wav

2) "...you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"

http://www.filmsite.org/wavfiles/dirtyharry3.wav

5) "You played it for her, you can play it for me...If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"

http://www.filmsite.org/wavfiles/casablanca4.wav

Congratulations, and you're up.

Best,

Calidore

bump! Bump! Bump!

Isn't anyone going to play this game? I grow weary of restarting all the time! :Yawn::Yawn::Yawn::Yawn:

I will ease you of your burden, Mister Dragon.

I have been in a couple of casual bands, and like many bands, we changed our name far too often. Of the following six band names, which one was I never in:

I. The Electric Preachers
II. Two Face Moon Face
III. To Face Moon Face
IV. He and His Backing Band
V. Captain Midnight and the Sapphire Dream
VI. The Flights

Out of two and three I suspect one of them is the correct answer. Try three.

I shall go with the last one:
VI. The Flights

Ding Ding. We have a winner!

I. The Electric Preachers (My first gig was with this two man rap group at some bar that payed us in peanuts. We got the name by filling up a cup with adjectives and another full of nouns and whatever we picked from each would sum to our name.)

II. Two Face Moon Face (I was looking around the room at a practice, as we were coming up with name suggestions, and saw a mural with a half sun half moon face on the wall and blurted out Two Face Moon Face. It stuck.)

III. To Face Moon Face (Our guitarist thought that we were saying To Face Moon Face, like to face a villain named Moonface, and told everyone that was the new name. That stuck.)

IV. He and His Backing Band (I just thought this was the simplest, cool sounding band name ever, and still do. Just the music sucked...)

V. Captain Midnight and the Sapphire Dream (In college I hosted a radio show with a few friends. It was from 11pm to 12am. We would play a (somewhat) improvised selection of songs. No idea where the rest of the band name came from, but Captain Midnight was my DJ-ing alias)

VI. The Flights (Made up. Sounds plausible though.)

Therefore, Pensive wins this round.

Go, Pensy! Batter up! :iagree:

Last time I restart this thread, I swear!

I am:

1) A Baptist Minister
2) A Bass singer
3) A member of the NRA
4) Father of four children
5) Inclined to be cynical

#5 = pure truth!

Five's taken. Arg!
Three?

Ah, the old rundown!

I am:

1) A Baptist Minister (False, I am a nondenominational minister)

2) A Bass singer (False, I sing lead or baritone, depending on the song, the group I'm singing with, etc.)

3) A member of the NRA (False, although I'm not in favor of gun control)

4) Father of four children ( False, I am the father of three children)

5) Inclined to be cynical (You betcha! Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce has nothing on me!)

You're up, Comedian!
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Alright!

Three False, One True: Spot the Truth! Topic: Hair

1. I once had long, shoulder-length hair.

2. I once colored my hair pink to honor the death of Kurt Cobain.

3. I purchased one of Keats' "hair"s (yes that Keats) on Ebay for $25.

4. I'm allergic to cat hair.