alll riiigghhtt I got 7, although I am kicking myself for not getting 2 and 4.
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alll riiigghhtt I got 7, although I am kicking myself for not getting 2 and 4.
[The answer to last week’s Bonus Question is: Barrett Strong.]
The real life generosity of legendary comedian Jack Benny belied his shtick as a tightwad. In a famous sketch, a robber demanded “Your money or your life!” The only response was silence, and as the pause grew longer and longer, the laughter from the studio audience grew louder and louder. After what – in broadcast terms – seemed like an eternity, Benny finally spoke: “I'm thinking! I'm thinking!”
To the quiz:
1. What is the unit of currency which is the medium of exchange in Ireland, Germany, Austria and nine other countries?
2. What did the Roman satirist Horace say to do: if not “honestly,” then “somehow”?
3. Name the title of the work by the Scottish writer Adam Smith extolling the virtues of a “laissez faire” economic system.
4. Which character in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is described as having “a voice full of money”?
5. Who is the French novelist who wrote about “the majestic egalitarianism of the law, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”?
6. Name the character from Greek mythology who could change everything he physically touched into gold.
7. Who is the NY Times columnist awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008?
8. In which Shakespearean play does a money lender demand a pound of flesh as payment for an overdue loan?
9. Name the Italian film director whose movies include
A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.
10. Who was the writer who first used the phrase “the haves and have-nots”? (Hint: His work first appeared in the early 17th century, and the language he used was not English.)
11. According to the Gospel of St. Matthew, it’s easier for what to happen than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?
12. And finally, complete the title of this humor book by Jean Shepherd: “In God We Trust -----“
Answers:
1. The Euro.
2. make money
3. The Wealth of Nations
4. Daisy Buchanan
5. Anatole France
6. King Midas
7. Paul Krugman
8. The Merchant of Venice
9. Sergio Leone
10. Cervantes
11. “. . .for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.”
12. “All Others Pay Cash”
BONUS QUESTION, whose answer contains a hint about the next topic, which will be revealed in the posting of the next quiz:
Complete this line from the first chorus of the song “Ain’t We Got Fun” (Whiting-Kahn-Egan):
“The rich get rich and the poor get —“ (what?)
oh, I only got four correct.
Lets see, I got 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11. I got seven right.
I tied with Virgil - 1,3,6,8,9,11,12
Thanks, Auntie. I got numbers 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12 outright. And maybe you will give partial credit for answering number 4 as Mia Farrow.
1, 2, 8, 10...
1, 6, 8, 11, 12. 5/12 Poorly!
Pen I would say that's roughly average. That's what I normally get on the quizes. I did a little better this time but I don't think it was typical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
The answer to last week’s bonus question is: children.
It’s been said that having children is a blessing. Well, hearing about the California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets made me count my blessings. Number one on the list is I'm glad that poor lady isn't me. To the quiz:
These Kids Today, I'll Tell Ya!
1. Name the song from the musical Bye, Bye Birdie containing the line: “Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way?”
2. What is the 1959 German novel by Gunther Grass in which the narrator/protagonist is so emotionally traumatized by the Nazis that he refuses to grow up beyond age 3?
3. Many of us are familiar with the eternal child, Peter Pan, via the animated Disney movie and the Richard Rodgers musical which starred Mary Martin in the title role. Who was the playwright who wrote the original 1902 dramatic fantasy?
4. Name the 18th century portrait artist whose most famous painting is Blue Boy.
5. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne’s daughter is described as an “outcast of the infantile world.” What’s the little girl’s name?
6. The 1949 movie, The Fallen Idol, stars Ralph Richardson as a butler whose duties include caring for a boy who admires him to the point of obsession, that when circumstances seem to frame the servant for murder, the kid fabricates alibis which only serve to implicate his idol further. Name the versatile 20th century British author who wrote both the screenplay and the short story upon which this fictional dilemma was based.
7. Which orphan created by Dickens famously – and naively – asked for “some more” gruel?
8. Which song composed by Hoagy Carmichael contains these lyrics by the great Frank Loesser: “Stay in shallow water” and “You ain’t the biggest catfish in the sea”?
9. Name the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson historical novel whose adventures include a shipwreck, a murder, and a miserly character who wasn’t created by Dickens, though his name was Ebeneezer.
10. The movie version of a childhood classic once infamously pre-empted an NFL telecast at a crucial point in the progress of the game. What was its title which will forever live in infamy among long-time football fans?
11. Name the 1901 Kipling novel about an Irish orphan raised in India.
12. The bustling life of a burgeoning family raised by parents who also happened to be industrial engineers formed the basis for film versions starring Clifton Webb in the earlier version and Steve Martin in the remake. What is the title shared by the original memoir and both movies?
Answers
1. “Kids”
2. The Tin Drum
3. J. M. Barrie
4. Thomas Gainsborough
5. Pearl
6. Graham Greene
7. Oliver Twist
8. “Small Fry”
9. Kidnapped
10. Heidi
11. Kim
12. Cheaper By the Dozen
BONUS QUESTION containing a clue about the next topic: Complete the title of this bouncy song introduced in 1937 in the Marx Brothers classic
A Day at the Races :
“All God’s Children Got —“ (what?)
Number to shoot for is 8. I missed 4, 5, 8, and 12.
Only got 3.7,9, and 11
Thanks, Auntie. I got numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, and 12.
I should have gotten 9 right too, but I said David Balfour instead.
And I got number 12 by only seeing the original with Clifton Webb, as I refuse to see the remake.
Oh my, this was my worst showing yet. I only got two, 2 and 11. I should have gotten The Scarlet Letter one. I guess it's been too long since I read it. I can't believe Pablo and Dick got eight correct. Outstanding.
The answer to last week’s bonus question is: Rhythm
This week we're all about rhythm, music, and dance, so snap those fingers, tap those toes, and get ready to cut a rug.
It’s Got a Good Beat and You Can Dance to It
1. Soon after his Philadelphia-based afternoon dance show became a pop culture institution when it went coast-to-coast, this television personality parlayed his success by hosting game shows and the annual New Year’s Eve celebration from Times Square. Who is this celebrity often dubbed “America’s oldest teenager”?
2. Who is the major poet in English literature who wrote these lines from 1645:
“Come and trip it as ye go
On the light fantastic toe”?
3. “Who could ask for anything more?” is a question from a Gershwin standard. What’s the title? (Hope you “get” this one.)
4. One-word literary term to describe the “unit of poetic meter, which in English verse consists of a fixed combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.” (Hint: the word is the same as that for the part of the body that moves in a dance “step.”)
5. What is the term for the macabre motif found in medieval mystery plays, woodcuts by Hans Holbein, and, notably, the Ingmar Bergman classic film
The Seventh Seal
in which departed souls link arms in a procession that, alas, only goes one-way?
6. Evolving from French origins, and traveling on a "circuit," this type of entertainment offered a variety of acts including acrobatic stunts, magicians, and especially song-and-dance teams which favored crowd-pleasing steps such as the “soft shoe” and the buck-and-wing. Name this now-defunct show biz medium, sometimes called the "Three-a-day."
7. What is the general term for the part of an orchestra or band that includes congas, cymbals, maracas, tambourines and other percussive instruments?
8. What was the name given to the group of earnestly hip writers such as Ginsberg and Corso who railed against the cultural repression of Post-War II America?
9. The muse Terpsichore is commonly pictured sitting down, but her area of expertise is dance. According to Greek mythology, how many Muses are there?
10. The title of a 1984 movie by Francis Ford Coppola featuring musicians and gangsters from the Roaring Twenties is the same as a landmark nightspot in Harlem. What is it?
11. She was a niece of the pioneering film-maker who specialized in Biblical epics, but in her own right she was a groundbreaking choreographer known for her work on Rodgers-Hammerstein musicals such as Oklahoma! Who was she?
12. And finally, name the Grimms’ fairy tale about a bevy of beauties who mysteriously go out stepping each night.
Answers
1. Dick Clark
2. Milton
3. “I Got Rhythm”
4. Foot
5. “The Dance of Death”
6. Vaudeville
7. Rhythm section
8. The Beat Poets
9. Nine
10. The Cotton Club
11. Agnes DeMille
12. “The Twelve Dancing Princesses”
Bonus Question: Containing a hint about the topic for the next quiz:
What was the Whitney Houston megahit originally written by country music queen Dolly Parton?
oooh, I got eight this time: 1,2,4,6,7,8,9,10. Wow, five in a row at one point. That's got to be my personal best. :) Thanks Auntie.
Thanks, Auntie. I got numbers 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10 correct. I don’t know why I wouldn’t know number 11, because I recently watched a documentary about musicals on the silver screen. I may have fallen asleep during the part in which they were discussing Agnes DeMille. I should have paid more attention to your clue about her being the niece of the Biblical epic specialist, because that should have tipped me off. I definitely remember Eleanor Powell, Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, and a few other dancers, though. I just don't remember any choreographers - except for Bob Fosse.
And I think I know the answer to the bonus question, assuming it once appeared in a movie.
Alll Rriiiigghhhtt I got 7 and I know the answer to the bonus question.
I didn't even see the bonus question. But now that I do, I have no idea to the answer. :D
Yeah, Virg, there has been a bonus question for the past few weeks, mainly to give a clue about to the next topic. Think about the song title and the themes of most pop songs , and then look at the calendar and see which holiday is coming up. But even if you guess the song title correctly, it will only give you a very broad idea of what the quiz topic is.
And yes, Dick Z, that Whitney song was in the "Bodyguard"movie but I think it was on the charts long before the movie was released. (The movie stunk, by the way, although beloved by fans of the Diva, such as my older daughter.)
Another trivia fact about Ms DeMille. My long-suffering spouse said that she had been married
to the Zorba the Greek actor, Anthony Quinn, but
no, he was married to Agnes's cousin, Katherine.
Cecil B. DeMille was Quinn's father-in-law. (I guess that's one way to get work in Hollywood.)
Thanks for the reminder, Auntie. I almost forgot which holiday is coming up, which would have caused me to be 'long-suffering' too!Quote:
Originally Posted by AuntShecky
And what is your spouse suffering from? Or should we not ask?
Notched 7 this time. And I too know the bonus question and the theme for next week, but I'm not sure what Abraham Lincoln has to do with that song.
The answer to last week’s bonus question is: “I Will Always Love You.”
St. Valentine’s Day usually finds us quoting poets of passion, but how about the wild and crazy guy who hung out with a sea-going geezer and created exotic places beginning with “X”? I'm talking Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1774-1834)who joked that the perfect marriage would be between a deaf man and a blind woman. He also wrote: “He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity and then by loving himself best of all.”
Hence, the quiz topic: lovers of self, narcissists, egotists, and folks who send valentines to themselves, all devotees of
The Greatest Love of All
1. Who was the Irish author, playwright, and wit who said “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance?”
2. From Greek mythology, name the youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a fountain, and thus drowned.
3. What’s the word that means an extended or far-fetched metaphor, or an inflated sense of self-esteem?
4. Who was the prominent American poet (1819-1892) who wrote “Song of Myself?”
5. Derived from Greek tragedy, what’s the term for a character’s overweening pride, presumption, or arrogance?
6. Who was the Russian-born novelist
(e.g. The Fountainhead ) who fanatically promoted a philosophy of self-interest?
7. Describe the off-beat way in which the protagonist of the musical comedy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, sings the love song, “I Believe in You.”
8. Which character in David Copperfield takes great pride in announcing how “ ‘umble” he is?
9. Name the English poet (1608-1674) who wrote a monumental epic in which these lines appear: “Oft-times nothing profits more/Than self-esteem. . .”
10. According to Proverbs 16:18, what goeth before a fall?
11. Name the French monarch who allegedly boasted,
“L’Etat, c’est moi” (“I am the State”)?
12. And speaking of “C’est Moi,” that’s the song sung by a full-of-himself Sir Lancelot in which Lerner and Loewe musical?
13. And finally, the line “You took the part that once was my heart” comes from a song recorded by, among others, Billie Holiday and Count Basie. Name this title, shared by a 1984 slapstick comedy starring Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin, directed by Carl Reiner.
Answers
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Narcissus
3. conceit
4. Walt Whitman
5. hubris
6. Ayn Rand
7. He sings it to himself while looking into a mirror.
8. Uriah Heep
9. John Milton
10. “a haughty spirit.” (I said “pride,” but evidently, pride goeth before “destruction.”)
11. Louis XIV
12. Camelot
13. “All of Me”
BONUS: It spells out a clue for the next quiz topic. Finish this title of a song made famous by Thomas “Fats” Waller:
“I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a ______” (what?)
1,2,3,4,6,8,10,11,12! Not Bad this round!
Seven correct. I got, 1,2,4,5,6,8,11. I'm kicking myself for not getting 3 and 9. I should have gotten those.
Thanks, Auntie. Not only did I get last week’s bonus question, but I think I have this week’s as well. I guess I won’t know for sure about this week’s until next week, though.
I was able to come through on numbers 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, and 12. I said Longfellow instead of Whitman so I guess I shouldn’t get any credit for that one despite the fact that they were both Americans and lived during the same century.
I also said pride for number 10, so I’m going to take partial credit since you did the same thing.
I asked my congressman if he could add a line to the stimulus bill for an allocation to Aunt Shecky because she makes such educational quizzzes and lots of us are getting pretty intelligent thanks to her, but he said "no dice" if I was supposed to be an example of pretty intelligent. I told him I'm voting for someone else next time.
Tied Virgil. 1,2,4,6,7,12,13 for me. Picked the wrong damn Louis.
Well, Pablo, you should add For Whom the Bell Tolls to your shelf, while it still has room.Quote:
Originally Posted by PabloQ
The answer to last week’s bonus question is “Letter”
On this week’s quiz, methinks, will suit you to a “t.” I'm sure you'll be A-O.K. You might find it as easy as a-b-c. Get the idea?
Letter Perfect
1. What do the letters A.D. mean after historical dates?
2. What’s the only letter in the English alphabet that is a homonym for an insect?
3. Which alphabet is used in Russian, Bulgarian, and several Slavic languages?
4. Who was the amateur detective who broke the blackmail case in Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”?
5. Novels such as Richardson’s Pamela solely written in the form of letters or journal entries are called what?
6. What is the term for the adjustable setting on a camera lens?
7. From which classical language are borrowed the names of college fraternities and sororities?
8.Who is the female protagonist in The Scarlet Letter?
9. What do we call characters or symbols representing an idea or thing in written languages such as Chinese?
10. What is the title of a controversial Biblical translation which contains for the initial letter of the name the unknown author uses for God? Its editor, Harold Bloom, postulates that these New Testament books were written by a woman.
11. What is the name of the Irish town which in the early-ninth century was the home of an exquisite illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels in Latin?
12. In the Periodic Table, the letters “Pb” represent which element?
13. First used by cabalists as a charm to ward off such ills as ague, flux, and toothache, this word was made up from the initials of the Hebrew words for the Father (Ab), the Son (Ben), and the Holy Spirit (Ruach Acadsch.)The word has come down through the ages as “Abracadabra,” often intoned in what kind of show biz act?
14. Borrowing a letter often employed in the realm of mathematics, what is a common expression which means “to an indefinite power” or “to an infinite extreme”?
15. According to the Book of the Apocalypse, what expression did Christ use to say that he was “the beginning and the end”?
16 and 17. It could have originated as an admonition to children learning how to write the alphabet, or scoring up the tab in public houses, but it came down through the language as a warning to watch what one is doing. What is the expression?
18. What was the archeological discovery of 1799 which provided a key to the deciphering of three different ancient languages?
19. What is the Morse Code distress signal, tapped out by three dots, three dashes, and three dots?
20. What is the only letter in the English alphabet which is a homonym for a beverage?
21. What are the initials used in popular culture to describe an aeronautical device of unknown origin?
22. What is the title of a 2005 movie starring Natalie Portman about underground rebels attempting to undermine a totalitarian regime in Great Britain set in the near future?
23. What are the five “W’s” in journalism?
24. What’s the title of a popular American TV series and two movies about FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigating the answer to question #21?
25. What is the name of the still-relevant 1916 novel by Ring Lardner consisting of a series of letters written by a semi-literate rookie pitcher?
26. And finally, what is the name of the 1969 Oscar-nominated political thriller starring Yves Montand and directed by Costa-Gavras?
Answers
1. Anno Domini
2. B
3. Cyrillic
4. Dupin
5. Epistolary novel
6. F-stop
7. Greek
8. Hester Prynne
9. Ideograms
10. The Book of J
11. Kells
12. Lead
13. Magic (or Magician)
14. N th degree
15. “I am the Alpha and the Omega”
16. Mind your P’s. . .
17. . . .and Q’s
18. Rosetta Stone
19. SO S
20. T
21. UFO
22. Vis For Vendetta
23. Who, What, Where, When, and Why
24. The X -Files
25. You Know Me, Al
26. Z
I almost forgot the BONUS question! Answer the question, and your “award” will be a clue about the next quiz topic:
What do the letters “AMPAS” stand for?
All but 5, 10, 11, and 25 Not Bad! :thumbs_up:
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: