1, 3, 4, 6, 9, and 10.
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1, 3, 4, 6, 9, and 10.
I got 1, 4, 6, 9, 10. I guess that's about average.
this is my first time at this I got 1 4 5 6 7 and 9
Oh, you people are so wonderful! I'm gratified that you've been giving my little quizzzzes a shot. You should have seen my dismal results for the cluster of quizzes I just took on the MSNBC website. It was an exercise in humility, I'll tell ya.
Are you kidding? I love these quizes and look forwward to them. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by AuntShecky
Party Patter
‘Tis the season. . .to suffer through another one of those office parties, especially the cheaper, “scaled back” fare offered this year with the economy having become a latter-
day Scrooge. But you can brighten up the joint by sparkling with some witty repartee.
This week’s quiz-zzz offers some quips you can use. All you have to is identify the original speaker of the line. (Even if you forget to give credit where credit is due, though, no one will sue you. All of these people have since gone to the Great Soiree in the Sky. So if you think you see any of these folks at a party, that might be a good time to switch to plain ginger ale.)
1. “Fasten your seatbelts – it’s going to be a bumpy night.” (She won awards for saying that, as well as other lines, in a movie.)
2. “If you can’t say anything good about someone, come sit by me.”(A daughter of a former U. S. president.)
3. “A woman drove me to drink,and I never had the courtesy to thank her.”
(Comic actor, radio star and legendary toper.)
4. “Let’s make this one Christmas program where nobody sings ‘Silent Night.’ “ (Playwright and Broadway critic. As a panelist on a tv show, he got fired for saying this line.)
5. “I never met a man I didn’t like, but in your case I’ll make an exception.” (Film star, early television legend.)
6. (After a woman told him he was drunk): “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning I will be sober." (Statesman, orator, author.)
7. “An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you.”
(Welsh poet whose first name became the last name for an American music legend.)
8. “I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.” (Outstanding concert pianist, occasional movie star, and frequent guest on Jack Paar’s television show.)
9. “It’s not the men in my life that count. It’s the life in my men.” (Curvaceous celeb for whom a life preserver was named.)
10. “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people just once a year.” (Concert pianist and comedian.)
Answers:
1. Bette Davis 2. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
3. W. C. Fields 4. George S. Kaufman
5. Groucho Marx 6. Winston Churchill
7. Dylan Thomas 8. Oscar Levant
9. Mae West 10. Victor Borge
2,3,5,6,9, 10. Not bad this round! :p:lol:
Thanks as usual for the quiz, Auntie. I got numbers 1, 6, 7, and 9 right.
However, I have to admit that I only got number 7 because of your hint and wouldn’t have known it otherwise.
I’m disappointed that I didn’t know number 10, because I was a big fan of Victor Borge, and treasure the fact that I once had the opportunity to meet him. I even got to trade some jokes with him, sitting alongside the swimming pool at a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico sometime in the mid-1960s. His jokes were much funnier than mine.
I only got 1 and 9
Only got four this time. 1, 3, 6, and 7.
I got only three for this one. My favorite is number nine (yes that was one of the ones I got right)
3,5,9,and 10 Not so hot this time.
I got zilch!
Holiday Hits and Myth(es)
Hope “yule” like this last snore-fest of Ought Eight – right in time for a “long winter’s nap.” The questions below examine some of the facts and misconceptions about year-end celebrations.
1. What is the name of the spinning toy with which children play during Hanukkah?
2. Last week an Australian astronomer revealed his findings about the heavens above the Holy Land circa the time of Christ’s birth. He not only believes that The First Christmas fell on June 17 in the year 3, but he also states that the Christmas Star was not a star at all
but a rare conjunction of what?
3. Which ancient Roman festival began on December 19 and lasted for seven days full of – according to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, “ freedom from
restraint, merrymaking, and often riot and debauchery” ?
4. In one of the opening staves of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, two fund-raisers try to hit Scrooge up for a contribution for the poor. What was his reply?
5. In a “very special episode” of the television series, Seinfeld, George Costanza’s father celebrated a completely fabricated “holiday” called what?
6. In “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” what classical literary device did Clement C. Moore employ in these lines: “As dry leaves before a hurricane fly/ When they meet with
obstacle, mount to the sky,/So up to the house-top the coursers they flew. . .”?
7. She may or may not be a parasite, and her kisses may or may not be poisonous, but this holiday plant is both, though the Druids considered it to be sacred. What's its name?
8. Three red, three green, and one black candle symbolize seven community principles commemorated between December 26 and 31. What is the name of this celebration?
9. A traditional carol doesn’t refer to Christmas, but it does mention snow, the feast of St. Stephen, and noble acts of charity. By what title is it known?
10. The opening passages of a magnificent medieval poem occurs at a New Year’s Eve celebration that gets a little out of hand, mainly because the festivities are marred by
the beheading of an uninvited guest. Despite the seemingly-mortal attack, the victim speaks! He forces the poem’s hero to promise to appear at a far-off place
in a “year and a day” so this victim/villain can return the favor, so to speak.
We don’t know the name of the poet who wrote it, but we do know the title of the poem.
What is it?
11. What is the literary term defined as “a sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of a thing” and which, when capitalized, refers to the Feast of the Adoration of the Magi?
12. In a lengthy carol, what did “my true love give to me” on the first day of Christmas?
Answers:
1. Dreidel
2. Planets
3. Saturnalia
4. Scrooge asks the men if the prisons and workhouses are still in operation.
5. “Festivus– for the rest of us.”
6. Homeric simile
7. mistletoe 8. Kwanzaa
9. Good King Wenceslaus
10. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
11. Epiphany
12. A partridge in a pear tree ( I was going to ask what the
gifts were on the twelfth day of Christmas, but I didn’t want to do all that typing!)
Note: This will be my last quiz of Ought Eight. If Pong II, yours truly, and the world all make it to Ought Nine, the next quiz will be on or around New Year’s Day. There may be a short story or two by yours truly before then.
In the meantime, please consider posting an entry in the Subject Poem Contest and the Form Poetry Contest in the “Poetry Contests and Games” forum on this LitNet.
The form for current round of the latter contest is a parody, due by January 2.
Happy Holidays!
Auntie
Thanks, Auntie, for another great quiz. I will really miss your quizzes during the holidays. I once tried to pinch hit when you didn't post the weekly quiz because you were off doing something important, but I didn't do a very good job at it. My questions were nothing like yours, so I don't think I'll try to pinch hit again. I'll think about it.
For this one, I only got numbers 1, 2, 5, and 12 right. And I wouldn't have gotten number 12 if you had stuck with your initial intention.
I thought I was pretty close on number 3, but Bacchanlia is spelled somewhat differently than Saturnalia. And I thought I had number 4 with "Bah, humbug" but I was wrong again.
And I have now learned that Homer could smile, which I never knew before.
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year. And I hope there will be a Guy Lombardo special on television this New Year's Eve because I can't take these new folks.