Nice quiz, Uncle Virgil. I got all except 4 and 5
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Nice quiz, Uncle Virgil. I got all except 4 and 5
Oh yes, I misunderstood. I thought you said you only got number 5 correct. Now I understand. :) Five is not bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I got 6 correct!! - 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9.
Virgil, 1,5,7,9. Oh well. :sick:
Dick, I got all but 1,5,7. Not Bad! :)
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.