OK, Virgil -- I got correct -- 1, 5, 6, 8, & 9 :)
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OK, Virgil -- I got correct -- 1, 5, 6, 8, & 9 :)
And Dick, I only got 6. & 10. correct! That was difficult, but I loved the quiz. You are right -- we should all go through the effort of putting one together (with a common theme, of course). That would indeed be a challenge. :)
Well, on DickZ's attempt I got 5-10.
On Virgil's I got all but 4 and 9.
Interesting typo there, Virg, "on the hells of Dick's quiz". Wow, slings and arrows!!:)
Well, on DickZ's attempt I got 5-10.
On Virgil's I got all but 4 and 9.
Interesting typo there, Virg, "on the hells of Dick's quiz". Wow, slings and arrows!!:)
:lol: You're right. I had to go back and check. I meant "on the heals of Dick's quiz."Quote:
Originally Posted by PabloQ
Thank you DickZ and Virgil for volunteering to write some
quizzes.
It’s About Time
Last night the PBS science series Nova asked “Is There Life on Mars?” The results were inconclusive, but one thing I now for sure is that New Year’s Eve on Mars is
a helluva lot livelier than it is at Chez Auntie.
Tomorrow we’ll all be hanging up new calendars, and if you’re still using the Julian version, it’s time to upgrade to a Gregorian. Meanwhile, here’s this
week’s quiz:
1. “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow,” was composed by the same songwriter who gave us “Killing Time,” “Time After Time,” and the perennial hit, “Just in Time.”
Name him.
2. The narrator/protagonist of Laurence Sterne’s innovative masterpiece almost wasn’t conceived because at the critical moment, his mother asked his father
if he remembered to wind the clock. What is the name of this 1759 off-the-wall novel?
3. Produced in 1941, Watch on the Rhine was one of the first anti-Nazi plays in America. Who was the dramatist?
4. Led by Lt. Colonel James Doolittle, the first bombing raids on Japan formed the subject of a 1944 movie starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Walker, as well as Van
Johnson who died this week. Name the title.
5. During the American Revolution, what was the term for the scrappy New England volunteers who, according to legend, could be ready for battle within a moment’s
notice?
6. Name the 2002 film for which Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayalof Virginia Woolf.
7. What is the title of the 1939 Nathaniel West novel about Hollywood in which the title character is named – I kid you not – “Homer Simpson”?
8. Written in 1849, what is the title of Thoreau’s first book?
9. What is the title of the 1850 Turgenev play about the eternal triangle?
10. Daniel Defoe sounded as if he were an eyewitness to the effects of an epidemic which, in reality, took place when the author was only five years old. What was
this book, written in 1722?
11. What was the title used for two works, the first a poetry collection by W. H. Auden and the other a ballet danced to Leonard Bernstein’s Second Symphony?
12. Back to Methusaleh (1921) is a five-part play cycle which ends in the year 3l,920 A.D. For this satiric fantasy and his other ground-breaking works its author
won the Nobel Prize four years later. Who was this British dramatist?
Answers
1. Jule Styne 2. Tristram Shandy
3. Lillian Hellman 4. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
5. Minutemen 6. The Hours
7. The Day of the Locust
8. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
9. A Month in the Country
10. Journal of the Plague Year
11. The Age of Anxiety
12. George Bernard Shaw
Eeek, I did horrible on this one. I got four: 2, 5, 10, 12.
I hadn't seen this thread before. A fun discovery for the new year. Just took Virg's quiz and Aunt Shecky's latest. I got all of Virg's questions except the Bela Lugosi one (5). Aunt Shecky's was pretty tricky. I got nine: # 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, & 12. Happy New Year all. :)
Uh-oh. We got a ringer in here now. Perhaps one day you can write up t=our own. ;) Just don't make it too hard for us common folks. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love
Wow, I only got #5 right. Since I did so poorly, I thought about not saying a word - and maybe I should have stayed with that approach.
I am subscribing to this thread so that I can view it when I have more time. Just letting you all know that I shall return. ;) lol
Ooooh, why haven't I noticed this thread earlier?! :D
I just took your quiz, Uncle Virgie, and got 8 right: # 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
I'll try Aunt Shecky's once I'm fully awake...
3, 6, 7, 8, 9
Think thats the best i've ever done!
Did you take my quiz Niamh? It's a page or two back. The one on blood. :D
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Originally Posted by Niamh
Oops! well i followed your link and thats the one i got the answers right to. didnt realise it till now that there has been another one since!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
1,6,8 and 10 on the previous quiz (Virgil's) and only 2 and 12 on Auntshecky's.:blush:
Only #5 on Aunties. :blush::blush::blush:
The World, The Flesh, and The Devil
The troublesome trio gets the testy treatment – - serves all three of ‘em right after leaving me off their Christmas card list:
1. In 1700, The Way of the World garnered such a poor reception that its author gave up writing plays completely, yet it turned out to be his masterpiece. Who is the playwright?
2. Which Shakespearean character wished that “this too, too solid flesh would melt”?
3. Who wrote the 1937 short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” in which the revered statesman argues for the soul of a New England farmer in front of a demonic jury?
4. Which British poet began an 1807 sonnet with the line: “The world is too much with us; late and soon”?
5. Whose 1903 posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, satirized the English middle class, the clergy and the prevalent child-rearing practices of the day?
6. Name the Elizabethan dramatist who wrote such tragedies as The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil.
7. Upon whose tombstone, located in Bennington, Vermont, are carved the words: “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”?
8. Derived from the medieval Latin and old Italian languages and associated with Mardi Gras festivals, what is the word that means “the putting away of flesh”?
9. In The Devil’s Disciple, an unprincipled man surprises himself by allowing himself to be arrested in the place of a pious parson during the American Revolution. Who is the author of this funny yet emotionally affecting melodrama?
10. Who wrote the 1978 novel The World According to Garp?
11. In which book of the New Testament would one find this passage: “And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us”?
12. And finally, hope you guess the name of the rock group which in 1968 released a monster hit with the song, “Sympathy for the Devil.”
Answers
1. William Congreve
2. Hamlet
3. Stephen Vincent Benet
4. Wordsworth
5. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
6. John Webster
7. Robert Frost
8. carnival
9. George Bernard Shaw
10. John Irving
11. The Gospel of St. John
12. The Rolling Stones
2, 10, 12...
1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12. Eight!!! I think that's the best I've ever done. :) Of course number 12 was handed to me. :D I think Auntie knows I'm a big Stones fan. :)
3, 11, 12... I do so poorly on these things... :blush:
I only got three right - numbers 2, 3, and 5. Either these quizzes are getting harder or I'm getting dumber.
Hey, Guys -- nobody's keeping track of your scores. Sorry if
the questions are a tad obscure. I had to look 'em up meself.
On the other hand, it's a "literature" site, correct?
Auntie, we would still be complaining if it were too easy. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AuntShecky
2, 5, 9 and 11 :)
Freedom Fighters
Some are born great; others achieve greatness, but all I can do is thrust upon you a quiz about the greats.
1. Where was Dr. Martin L. King when he wrote the following lines on April 16, 1963?: “. . .Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects us all indirectly. . .”
2. Name the Venezuela-born freedom fighter who earned the names El Libertador and “The George Washington of South America.”
3. Who was the leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance whose themes recurrently examined “a dream deferred”?
4. Name the folksinger and advocate for migrant workers who was the subject of the 1976 movie, Bound for Glory.
5. Who was the “great-souled” political and spiritual father of modern India?
6. Which twentieth century political event formed the setting for Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls?
7. Which part of the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of worship, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press?
8. The French Revolution is the dynamic, glorious, and tragic background for which masterpiece by Charles Dickens?
9. What is the title for both the Laura Z. Hobson novel and the courageous 1947 movie in which the hero takes a stand against anti-Semitism in the United States?
10. Where and when did the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King give his iconic “I have a dream” speech?
Answers:
1. (Letter from) Birmingham Jail
2. Simon Bolivar
3. Langston Hughes
4. Woody Guthrie
5. Mahatma Gandhi
6. The Spanish Civil War
7. The First Amendment (Bill of Rights)
8. A Tale of Two Cities
9. Gentlemen’s Agreement
10. Washington, DC, August 28, 1963
This was relatively easy one for me. I got seven, numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10.
I only got three right, #4, #5 and #8
Oh a number of the questions are American specific, so I can see how this might be a little difficult for non Americans.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiz_paws
Thanks, Auntie, for continuing to come up with these quizzes, which are a lot of fun. And the way you work in clever statements like "... thrust upon you ..." provides as much fun as the quiz itself.
I got numbers 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 completely right. And I’m going to take half credit for number 4 because I said Arlo Guthrie instead of Woody.
And I knew number 5 even before that Seinfeld episode came out about volunteers to help senior citizens.
I wonder if I can take some extra credit for knowing that Don Johnne wrote the poem with the title that Hemingway borrowed for his book in number 6. Or maybe I just have that backward - maybe Johnne borrowed the name of Hemingway's book when he (Johnne) wrote his poem.
That's a good idea, Virgil. Maybe someone will put out a non-American counterpart every week. Then we'd have twice as much fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
By what criteria are Gandhi and Charles Dickens considered
"American"? Simon Bolivar is American, but South American, not North.
I just can't please people, can I? Sigh.
Well, those questions aren't but two very specific Martin Luther King questions (I bet non Americans have never even heard of Birminghamor perhpas even Alabama), Langston Hughes (are non Americans aware of Harlem, let alone of the Harlem renaissance?), Woody Gutherie, and The First Admentment to the American Constitution I do think made this fairly American centric. Not that I'm complaining.Quote:
Originally Posted by AuntShecky
I'd be a wretched example of an Indian if I didn't get #5. :)
Other than that, only #6 and #8.
8.5 for me. Totally missed 9. Didn't know the date for the Dream speech, but knew he delivered it on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Well, to be honest I didn't know the date either (I thought it was in 1969 just before his death), but I knew it was at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Originally Posted by Virgil
Wait a minute, I DID do a quiz with more international material. Check back to reply #6 on this thread, Virgil, please.
Oh, and here's a BONUS QUESTION containing a hint about next week's topic:
One of the many hits by the Beatles was "Money (That's What I Want)". But do you know who the original artist was? I'll give the answer in the beginning of next week's quiz. You probably can guess what the topic is, and yes, I'm afraid it will be heavy on the Americana.
Aw, what're ya gonna do? Your old Auntie is extremely limited.
And myopic.
Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Aunty I didn't say all your quizes were American centric. I said this one was. All I said was how this quiz this week could be harder for some who were not American. I wasn't criticizing this quiz or any quiz. I was just empathizing with a couple of people who got low scores on this one. I don't want you to change anything. Your quizes are great and I and many look forward to them. Honest I'm not criticizing you. :)
Aw, I know, Virgil. I was just trying to be funny. You know me: I kid, I kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Meanwhile, start thinking about what I told you about next week's topic (in which I will really try to include more than just damn yanquis.)
And don't forget the song that's the theme of the upcoming
quiz. . .