Auntie's Quiz O' the Week

Thanks for the quiz, Auntie, and for the time and effort you spend in composing these gems.

I must have gotten really lucky this time – even though I missed the first one, the only other one I missed was number 5. And I have read some Robert Frost works within the past year, and I just watched Oklahoma again about two weeks ago!

I have to admit a couple of them were lucky guesses – for example, I wouldn’t have gotten The Green Knight were it not for the theme of this quiz, and Charlton Heston was the only actor I could think of in Soylent Green, which I never actually saw.

Thanks for taking the quiz, Virgil, and Miss Scarlett, don't beat yourself up for not getting the Robert Frost one. I had to look in every anthology I have until I found his poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay. And Mr. Z:

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. . . Charlton Heston was the only actor I could think of in Soylent Green, which I never actually saw.

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You haven't missed anything, believe you me. The late
Phil Hartman once did a dead-on impression of Charlton emoting that line on SNL.

The answer to the previous Bonus Question is: Riding


Whoever said “Getting there is half the fun” never had the experience of suffering through airport security or endless delays on the tarmac. Depending on the degree of convenience involved, travel can be either a pleasure or a pain in a certain region of the body.

Henry Ford’s right-hand man William Knudsen once explained the demand for the automobile thus: “Everybody wants to go from A to B sitting down.” Last year when the price of gasoline – to use the media’s pet verb - “skyrocketed” -- folks were sure to get their pictures in the local newspaper by getting to work or school via horseback. And if you ever become saddle sore, you won't feel like sitting down for a week.

Although the theme of this week’s jaunt concerns various modes of transportation, the great humorist Robert Benchley famously quipped that there were only two kinds of travel: first-class and with children. With that, let’s “go”— to the quiz:

Primp My Ride

1. This question would have fit the topic of an earlier quiz, but what is the title of Katherine Anne Porter’s only novel, as well as a 1494 allegorical work by Sebastian Brant?

2. “The Five Forty-Eight,” a taut short story taking place on a commuter train, was written by an American writer (1912-1982) known for uncovering the angst and guilt beneath suburban affluence. Who was he?

3. 1939 was a banner year for movies: Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and this masterpiece
by John Ford. What was the title of this classic western?

4. Speaking of movies, there have been three filmed versions of this hit Broadway musical by Jerome Kern, all adapted from a novel by Edna Ferber. What is it called?

5. What was the highly-unusual mode of transport which Hannibal used to cross the Alps in the Second Punic War (ca. 218 BC)?

6. According to the History Channel, the multi-million dollar spectator sport NASCAR arose from a tradition born in the mountains of southeastern America. What was the whimsical name for the folks who souped up the engines of their vehicles in order to elude the “revenuers”?

7. What was the derogatory nickname for Henry Ford’s Model T, a metaphor that mixes a metal with a diminutive for a feminine name?

8. What is the title of William Inge’s bittersweet play, adapted into a 1956 movie which featured Marilyn Monroe in the finest performance of her career?

9. In the opening number of On the Town (Comden/Green/Bernstein),which mode of transport
is referred to in the line: "The people ride in a hole
in the ground?"

10. What was the transportation-related “day job” of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of Night Flight and The Little Prince ?

11. If you’re singing a certain traditional American folk song, what have you been doing “all the livelong day”?

12. What is the 1843 opera by Richard Wagner based on the legend of a Dutch ship captain doomed to wander around the Cape of Good Hope for all eternity, unless he can find a woman willing to sacrifice everything for his sake?

13. And finally, a week from Saturday is the day for the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, the first leg of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown, which hasn't had a winner in thirty-one years. What was the name of the last Triple Crown winner?



Answers
1. Ship of Fools
2. John Cheever
3. Stagecoach
4. Showboat
5. Elephants
6. moon shiners
7. Tin Lizzie
8. Bus Stop
9. NYC subway system
10. Aviator (pilot)
11. “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad”
12. The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollander)
13. Affirmed

The theme for the next quiz can be found in the BONUS QUESTION:
Supply the missing word: In 1940, Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) was traveling on a airplane when he composed his signature song, “Flying ____” (what?)

AuntShecky - your quizzes are great fun. Thanks for taking the time to compose them each week!

I only got five right - #5, 9, 11, 12, 13. Admittedly, the only one I knew for sure was 13, because I've never seen a Triple Crown and every year the hope is renewed.

This was a tough one. I got only four: 1, 2, 5, 9.

By the way Hannibal only had a couple of dozen or so elephants. It wasn't like his whole arny was on elephants.

Thanks for the quiz, Auntie. Your timing is great, as I just returned last evening from a five-day visit to my brother and sisters in Texas and actually experienced firsthand several of the transportation modes you covered in your quiz.

I got number 1, as I actually read that book, but I had no idea that it was her only novel. I wrote Ms. Porter a letter telling her how much I enjoyed the book, and cited several samples of what made it so great. She was kind enough to answer, but I wasn't smart enough to save her answer well enough to be able to find it now. I sure thought I had her letter in the book, which I still have, but the letter isn't there. It's hard to believe the book was published in 1962 - it seems almost like yesterday.

After missing numbers 2 and 3 (although I should have gotten 3), I was able to get numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. I wrongly guessed bus driver for number 10, but I got numbers 11, 12, and 13 right. I only knew the English version of 12, so I hope that's OK.

OK, I went back and took the Green one and I only missed the first question. I will admit that I totally guessed on question 5. Great quiz as always, Auntie.

10 of 13 on the Transportation, missing 2, 4, and 8. These are always so much fun. Keep them coming.

Auntie (in quizmaster mode) -- Thanks Virgil, Wilde Woman,
Dick Z, and Pablo for playing our game.
I'd "tell you what you've won" viz a viz "parting gifts" but we're
all out of Lee Press-On Nails today. But I kid, I kid.
These things are fun to write.

Previous bonus question answer: Home


“A man’s home,” so it’s oft said, “is his castle.” If that’s the case, where does that put the lady of the house?-- not, one certainly hopes, where Orson Bean, the erstwhile professional talk-show guest said to put her: “in the stove!”

Fortunately, the Women’s Liberation Movement changed all that. Now women have equal rights to a full day’s work – and to come home to another full day’s work.

Humans generally delegate housekeeping duties to the distaff side, but in the world of our feathered friends, gender roles are reversed. For instance, the male bower bird of Australia doesn't merely construct a home for his beloved – he becomes a veritable interior decorator, festooning the elaborate edifice of moss and twigs with feathers, flowers, pretty pebbles, and shells, all without the benefit of the latest issue of Better Nests and Gardens. Not only that, while the bower bird is busily prettifying the premises, he has to keep his eye out for predators – especially the ones hawking sub-prime mortgages.

With that, let’s make ourselves at home, have a cup of tea, and visit with the quiz:

“Dumbesticity”

1. According to the speaker in Frost’s “Death of the Hired Man, ” Home is the place that when you have to go there, “ what has to happen?

2. Who was the British poet whose 1845 poem, “Home-Thoughts from Abroad” begins, “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there?”

3. In 1922 an American poet known for his iconoclastic style wrote a more conventional, albeit harrowing, autobiographical novel called The Enormous Room. Who was he?

4. The ancient Romans gave their Lares and Penates sacred personalities; in modern times we may almost worship what the late George Carlin called our “stuff.” What are they?

5. What’s the title of the 1852 Dickens novel centered around a interminable court case called Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce?

6. Name the adventure novelist and poet who wrote these famous lines: “Home is the sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill.”

7. What was the title of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel about a curse and its effect upon a spinster and her brother and their ingénue cousin and her sweetheart?

8. “You Can't Go Home Again” is advice one might want to take with the proverbial grain of salt, but it also serves as the title of a 1940 posthumous novel by a voluminous though brilliant American writer. Who was he?

9. It has nothing to do with the culinary skills of the concessionaires, but what is the term from sports slang referring to a team’s perceived advantage on its own turf, or possible preferential treatment by referees, or a cheerleader-like slant by the sportscasters calling the game?

10. Modern feminists adopted this 1892 American short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in which the female narrator descends into madness before the reader’s eyes. What is the title?

11. Set in the home of a sea captain, this work is a powerful anti-war allegory which blames “apathy, confusion, and lack of purpose” as the sources for the world’s problems. What is the title of this poignant 1920 play by George Bernard Shaw?

12. Who wrote The Kitchen God’s Wife, an acclaimed 1991 novel which is a loving portrait of the experience of Chinese immigrants in California?

13. And finally, what’s the title of the perennially popular, 1964 rock classic by The Animals which contains the lyric, “It’s been the ruin of many a poor boy/ And God, I know, I'm one?”

Answers:

1. “They have to take you in.”
2. Robert Browning
3. e e cummings
4. Household gods
5. Bleak House
6. Robert Louis Stevenson
7. The House of the Seven Gables
8. Thomas Wolfe
9. “home cookin’ “
10. “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Not to be confused with the dying words of Ronald Firbank:
“Either that wallpaper has to go – or I do!”)*
11. Heartbreak House
12. Amy Tan
13. “The House of the Rising Sun”
*There is dispute about the source of this quotation. If this is important to you, please read
this:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...649#post716649


A clue for the next quiz topic: What’s the subject of the most famous song by Howard Johnson (1887-1941) that begins “M is for the Many things she gave me?”

Thanks for another clever quiz, Auntie. I didn’t do nearly as well as I have in the past few weeks, so I won’t think I am getting smarter any more.

I got number 2, mainly because I’ve always loved that poem, and I got number 6 for the same reason. I got number 7 because I read that book, although I didn’t really love it.

I was happy to get number 8, but I have only read Look Homeward, Angel. I plan someday to read the other Wolfe books, because he has such a gift with words. His stories aren’t all that great, but his words are so magnificent that they make the stories better than they would be otherwise. And he has an uncanny ability to come up with such intriguing titles.

And I got number 9, because I’m a big baseball fan and the announcers use the term so often, as you explained.

In summary, I got numbers 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9, which isn’t even going to win me a set of press-on nails.

But I do know the answer to the bonus question.

I did slightly better this week - 7 correct. I got #2, 4, 5 (but only because of this week's theme...I'm not a Dickens fan), 7, 9, 10, and 12.

Oh, and "dumbesticity" made me laugh. I love it! Where do you come up with this stuff? Props to you, Auntie.

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Previous bonus question answer: Home


“A man’s home,” so it’s oft said, “is his castle.” If that’s the case, where does that put the lady of the house?-- not, one certainly hopes, where Orson Bean, the erstwhile professional talk-show guest said to put her: “in the stove!”

Fortunately, the Women’s Liberation Movement changed all that. Now women have equal rights to a full day’s work – and to come home to another full day’s work.

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Don't I know it. And more importantly my wife knows it. I ain't no King in this castle. :lol:

I'm in a slump. I've been in a slump for the last few. I only got five this time: 7, 8, 10, 12, 13. Though I think I want to protest number nine. I said "home field advantage" which I think fits as well.

Thanks for playing our game, Wilde Woman, and Virgil, number nine is fine-- you had the word "home" in yr. answer

Oh good. So now I got six right. :D

Maybe I should run away from "home". First, I have to cringe when I see poets and lines from poems. Unless it's Dr. Seuss, chance are it's a swing and a miss or I'm just guessing. I too will take credit for "home field advantage". So give me 6 on the old scoreboard. 5,7,8,9,12, and 13. Yikes!!

Previous topic clue: Mother


Ah, motherhood!– ranks right up there with baseball and apple pie. According to Oscar Wilde, “All women become their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

Then we have the notorious Philip Wylie, whose
devastating diatribe, A Generation of Vipers
blamed “Momism” for the emasculation of America. In addition of being guilty of every kind of character flaw you could possibly imagine, “Mom”
he says is “the bride at every funeral and the corpse at every wedding.” In the 1955 edition Wylie back-pedaled a little, insisting that, of course, he hadn't meantevery middle-aged woman,but by then the damage had been done.

The more traditional view of Mother, however, depicts her in a more endearing and elegant way. You might remember learning in your high school Latin class about Cornelia of the Gracchi. A rich matron visits Cornelia’s domicilium and after haughtily brandishing her bling-bling, demands of Cornelia, “Now let me see your jewels.” At that very moment, Cornelia’s two sons enter the room and Cornelia replies, “These are my jewels.” If your mother is anything at all like Cornelia, you've got it knocked!

Stop crying! And don't throw those tissues on my clean floor! What were you, born in a barn? This is the thanks I get for working my fingers to the bone! You'd better watch your step, or I'll send you to bed without any quiz!

Mom’s the Word

1. Imagine a relationship so shocking that Freud names a complex after it! Who is the protagonist in the drama by Sophocles who is destroyed by a revelation about the woman who is his “old lady” (in more ways than one)?

2. What is the term for the main part of a computer that contains the circuitry for the central processing unit, the keyboard, and monitor?

3. In the 8th century Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf confronts this monster in an underwater wrestling match before ultimately beheading her with a magic sword. Who is she?

4. By what name are nursery rhymes, as well as Charles Perrault’s 1697 book of fairy tales, Contes de Ma Mère l’Oye, more commonly known?

5. What is the inner iridescent layer of the shells of many bivalve mollusks, especially that of a certain species of oyster?

6. She always said that she didn't tell jokes, just the facts. Yet she was a great influence on all who followed her, including Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg. Who was the very first Black American stand-up comedienne (1894-1975)?

7. Known for his collages, who was the artist (1915-1991) who was a pioneer in Abstract Expressionism?

8. Katherine Hepburn created a film portrayal of this queen (1122-1204) whose sons included Richard I and King John. Who was she?

9. What was the title of Bertolt Brecht’s 1939 antiwar play about an itinerant peddler and her family on the battlefields of the Thirty Years War?

10. According to legend, she found the relics of the True Cross. According to history, she was the mother of Constantine, the Roman emperor who converted to Christianity in the year 313. Who was she?

11. To which Shakespearean character are these lines addressed?: “Seems, Madam! I know not ‘seems’. . .’Tis not above my inky cloak, good mother. . .that can denote me freely.”

12. Having coined the term “the Lost Generation,” this influential writer (1874-1946) almost played the role of mother hen to expatriates in Paris following WWI. She also wrote the libretto for a Virgil Thompson opera, The Mother of Us All. Who was she?

13. And finally, who is the titular subject of the Ernie K-Doe song that includes the line: “If she'd leave us alone, I'd have a happy home?”


Answers
1. Oedipus
2. Motherboard
3. Grendel’s mother
4. Mother Goose
5. Mother-of-pearl
6. Jackie “Moms” Mabley
7. Robert Motherwell
8. Eleanor of Aquitaine
9. Mother Courage and Her Children
10. St. Helena
11. Gertrude (Mother of Hamlet)
12. Gertrude Stein
13. “Mother-in-Law”

A clue for the next topic is the missing word in the title of the 1961 surrealistic World War II spy novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1922-2009) as well as the 1996 movie adaptation starring Nick Nolte:
Mother _____.

1,2,3,5,9, 11

I got 7 :banana: 1,2,3,4,5,8,11

I did well this week - 9/13. I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, and 12 right. I had fun with this week's quiz.

For #8, that brought back wonderful memories of watching The Lion in Winter in my humanities class as a high school freshman. Amazing movie.

And yes, Cornelia. The story you told is the only thing I remember from my Latin class! :lol:

I got seven again. That seems to be my most frequent number. Correct were: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11. 12.

Oh Happy Mother's Day to all our wonderful mothers here. :)

Thanks for the entertaining and clever quiz, Auntie.

I started out like gangbusters, getting the first six right, but then cooled off by missing 7-10. Had a slight comeback, getting 11 and 12 correct. So I got a total of 8, which is much better than I did last week.

And Happy Mother's Day to you and all the other mothers out there. I know that besides being an aunt, you're also a mother.

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And Happy Mother's Day to you and all the other mothers out there. I know that besides being an aunt, you're also a mother.

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Oh is Aunty a mother? I didn't know that. Happy Mother's Day then Aunty. :)

Yes, Happy Mother's Day, Auntie!

yes, I'm a little late, but I got 1-6,9 and 12. I missed 7,8,10,11 and 13.

Answer to previous clue: “Night”

Regarding the subject of “embarrassing moments,” when it applies to yours truly here have been hundreds -- with doubtlessly many more to come. I still blush nevertheless when I think of EM #849, which occurred over a quarter of a century ago. The workplace was closing for the weekend, and I asked one of my colleagues if she had a heavy date scheduled for that evening. “Not tonight,” she replied. “My boyfriend works on Friday nights.” “Oh?” I said, “what is he, a bartender?” “No,” she answered, as her smile disappeared. “He’s a rabbi.”

I have sympathy for people who have to tweak the natural human circadian rhythm in order to work nights. Speaking of “night shifts,” I wonder from where the expression “lobster shift"came. What is it about lobsters that they are the marine version of night owls? Unlike nocturnal crustaceans, species of fish must be morning people,especially on “school” nights.

Some folks shine with the sun; others find their element when the stars come out – (and if you see a Hollywood star before noon, it’s more likely he or she is heading home rather than heading out.) Me, I'm not particular – I can sleep any time of the day or night. No Ambien necessary. Just prop me in a chair in front of a televised Atlanta Braves game, and I'm stacking up zzzz’s quicker than a Congressman at a health care committee meeting. Listen, when you get to be my age, you'll see the truth in the words of Yogi Berra:

“It Gets Late Early”

1. What’s the word for a painting of a night scene, or in music, an evening song?

2. In a 1955 movie, Robert Mitchum plays a menacing preacher. What’s the title of this, the only film ever directed by British actor Charles Laughton?

3. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, “In the dark night of the soul, it’s always. . .”(what?)

4. Which playwright (1911-1983) wrote the 1961 drama, The Night of the Iguana?

5. Identify the title and the creator of these lines: “Day and night/Under the hide of me/There’s oh such a yearning, burning down deep inside of me.”

6. Broadcast between 1956 and 1984, what was one of television’s oldest daytime dramas?

7. Who wrote the most famous villanelle in English, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”?

8. Name the song from West Side Story which stops the show with its breathtaking four-part harmony and which shares its title with America’s oldest late night talk show.

9. Who was the Romantic poet who wrote “Ode to a Nightingale”?

10. Name the “visionary” title of a 1948 film noir or its more familiar theme song that became a jazz standard for Horace Silver, Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane, as well as pop hits for Bobby Vee and for the Carpenters.

11. What is the informal name for the collection of stories featuring such fabulous creations as a flying carpet and a stone door which opens only with a secret magic word?

12. What is the Shakespearean play whose dramatis personae include a duke named Orsino, Sir Toby Belch, a Puritan named Malvolio, and Feste, a clown?

13. And finally-- since this is the World Wide Web where spelling apparently doesn't count-- which National Leaguer was the Most Valuable Player in the 1986 World Series?


Answers:
1. Nocturne
2. The Night of the Hunter
3. “three o’clock in the morning.”
4. Tennessee Williams
5. “Night and Day” by Cole Porter
6. The Edge of Night
7. Dylan Thomas (Score no points if you said “Bob Dylan”)
8. “Tonight”
9. Keats (Give yourself half-credit if you said “Shelley.” Who doesn't confuse those two guys?)
10. “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.”
11. A Thousand and One Arabian Nights
12. Twelfth Night
13. NY Mets third baseman Ray Knight

Clue for next quiz topic:
Decades before James Cameron’s blockbuster, Titanic, Walter Lord (1917-2002) published his book about the tragedy, A Night to _______(What?)

I got seven. Maybe I'm coming out of my slump. I got 4,5,7,9,11,12,13. (I should have known numbers 1 and 8).

I've never heard of the "lobster shift." In my dealings with factories in my career, the 12AM to 8AM shift has always been reffered to as the "graveyard shift."

Thanks, Auntie, for the clever quiz, and for working Yogi Berra's classic line into it.

I got numbers 4, 7, 8, 11, and 13 correct, and will take you up on your offer for half credit on 9 since I’m like Marilyn Monroe in that she lamented how hard it was to distinguish Sheets from Kelly.

Number 13 was quite painful though, since I’m a Red Sox fan and we lost that series to the Mets in 1986.

I loved your bonus question, because my father gave me the Walter Lord book in 1956.

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Just prop me in a chair in front of a televised Atlanta Braves game, and I'm stacking up zzzz’s quicker than a Congressman at a health care committee meeting.

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Haha! For me, it's golf. Every time my grandpa puts that on, I fall asleep. When I wake up on the couch, my grandpa is then inevitably asleep with the golf still running on TV. Which begs the question....why do we watch golf??? :lol:

I got 7 correct on this week's quiz...not as good as last week. :(

Got #1 (thanks Chopin!), 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12.

I, for one, like Keats a lot better than Shelley.

Clue from previous quiz: “Remember”

In the emotion-laden days following the tragedies occurring in the United States of America in 2001, officials proposed that the eleventh of September be declared a National Holiday. After a few cursory mentions, the matter was dropped and perhaps that is a good thing. For the first few years, commemorations of the fateful date would undoubtedly consist of prayer services or secular ceremonies. A short time later it would deteriorate into a less solemn occasion.

Some Americans might consider the day off from school or work as an opportunity to take advantage of the fine weather in late summer. Armed with festive fare and beer, they'd head for the beaches, parks, or the campgrounds armed with festive fare and beer. The increase in traffic, along with intoxicated drivers, might cause a spike in motor vehicle accidents.

In time, the poignant significance of the date itself will yield to the appeal of the three day weekend, and the official holiday will be moved to the Monday after Labor Day. The inevitable picnicking and partying will gradually shed the unseemly appearance of impropriety. Discount stores and malls will advertise special sales, and the day itself most likely would topped off with fireworks.

Don't shake your head and cluck your tongue at this scenario -- it’s exactly what happened to Memorial Day.

All seriousness aside, let’s go to the quiz:

1. In the doo-wop era, The Five Satins added the parenthetical phrase, “I Remember” on the label of their recording of a tune to distinguish it from a Cole Porter standard. What’s the title which both songs share?

2. The subjective experience of memory as well as an analysis of the nature of love are just two of the themes in a 16-volume work written by a prominent French novelist who called it “In Search of Lost Time.” Name the title and author of this monumental work.

3. Who is the prominent artist (1899-1977) perhaps best known for the novel Lolita who also wrote a memoir of childhood called Speak, Memory?

4. A mental trick employed to help one’s memory (which upon typing this term might send the Spell-Check into overdrive) is called what kind of device?

5. In his role of Pruitt, a soldier serving in Pearl Harbor on the days prior to and including December 7, 1941, Montgomery Cliff plays a particularly poignant bugle solo of “Taps.” Name this award-winning 1953 film based on a novel with the same title.

6.What was the long-running series from the so-called “Golden Age of Television” which starred Peggy Wood as the matriarch of a family of Scandinavian immigrants?

7. Who was the British poet who wrote “In Memoriam,” a long poem written between 1833-1850 that is described as one of the “finest elegies in the English language”?

8. Remade in 1994, name the original 1957 movie, a “weepie” starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as lovers daunted but not defeated by ill luck.

9. Which Shakespearean character wanders around in a confused state while gathering wildflowers -- one of which, Rosemary, is known for “remembrance”?

10. Which centenarian songwriter/pianist (1883-1983) co-wrote the song, “Memories of You”?

11. Name the American novelist (b. 1915) honored last fall by the Library of Congress and who wrote the 1978 work, War and Remembrance, upon which a successful miniseries was based.

12. In Stardust Memories, a 1980 semi-autobiographical work, an extraterrestrial creature offers this advice: “You want to do mankind a service? Tell funnier jokes.” Who was the director as well as the star of this movie?

13. And finally, the mishaps of a Midwestern boy preparing for and attending his high school prom provide the content for Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, created by which prominent American humorist (1921-1999)?


Answers
1. “In the Still of the Night”
2. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
3. V. Nabokov
4. Mnemonic
5. From Here to Eternity
6. I Remember Mama
7. Alfred Lord Tennyson
8. An Affair to Remember
9. Ophelia
10. Eubie Blake*
11. Herman Wouk
12. Woody Allen
13. Jean Shepherd

Clue for the next quiz topic can be found in the missing word in this title of a 1935 song by Rodgers and Hart: “It’s Easy to Remember and So Hard to (What?)”

*Someone is going to read this quiz with all its old timey references and think that the author is a centenarian herself. I'm not – though I don't doubt that I look it.

annoyingly, I only got 1 (number 9) , oh I knew several of the other ones but I just couldnt think of the answer :rolleyes:

Hi Auntie,
Fun times as always. I got 6 this week - 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9. Oh, I just realized I got the bonus question from last week too!

By the way, the Tennyson poem is one of my favorites. Very moving.

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*Someone is going to read this quiz with all its old timey references and think that the author is a centenarian herself.

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Haha! Oh Aunty...you're only as old as you feel. And judging by the energy and effort you put into your quizzes, you're quite young indeed. :nod: I will say, though, that many of the movies you reference are before my time.

Auntie,

I've been ignorant of this thread from the time of its inception, and have only just discovered it. What fun it is! The content of these quizzes is interesting and varied, but I most appreciate the introductions, which are so very clever and subtle.

You have a talent. I wish I had even a smidgen of the creativity exhibited by yourself and others here at LitNet.

As for this quiz, I was able to answer questions 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 12.

Thank you, ShoutGrace and Nightshade, and Wilde Woman, but WW, do you have cable and if you do, do you ever watch Turner Classic Movies? Some of the old films really creak (like me bones!) but some of them are really "classic." You owe it to yourself to see the original From Here to Eternity.

Oh my God, I'm getting worse. I know nothing of movies. I only got three: 2,3,4. I can't believe I got Ophelia wrong. I had said King Lear. He wandered the country side too. I am really stinking lately. :D

not so bad really virgil, I thought lear in the first minute ( I guess because people have been discussing lear on the litnet :idea: ) but there is a whole thing about the rosemerry and I wrote an essay on it at aschool so it hit me pretty quick.

Thanks, Auntie, for the quiz and for remembering the true meaning of Memorial Day. Very few people do that anymore. If we have any current or former servicemen in this forum, thank you for your service.

I had no idea of the first question, even though I’m old enough to have known it, but I knew about Proust’s work – just not well enough to know it was that many volumes, or that it had another title. So I missed the first two.

Then I got hot – I remember Lolita, but none of the other Nabakov books. Besides, he’s in lots of crossword puzzles.

And don’t get me going on mnemonic devices. I know HOMES for the names of the Great Lakes and there’s another one for remembering the colors of the spectrum, but I always forget what it is. And then there was the one I learned in school for the cabinet succession to the US presidency that was called ST DAPIACL back then in the early days, but now there are so many more cabinet departments that they probably can’t come up with an acronym for the succession anymore.

I didn’t watch the TV series I Remember Mama, but I knew about it. However, I watched the movie of the same name, on which the TV series was based, so I got that one too.

I knew the writer of In Memoriam, and I even think I know the name of the person for whom it was written – his initials are AH but it’s not Alexander Hamilton, nor is it Andy Hardy.

The movie you described for number 8 is one of my favorites, so I had no trouble with that one, either.

It didn’t hit me until AFTER I saw the name Ophelia in your answers that Ophelia was out picking flowers after her major trauma, so I can’t say I got that one. But I should have.

And then I missed the last four as well. I knew 11 was either Wouk or Uris, but I went with Uris.

I’m almost embarrassed to say that the only Jean Shepherd work I’m familiar with is A Christmas Story.

So I got 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

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not so bad really virgil, I thought lear in the first minute ( I guess because people have been discussing lear on the litnet :idea: ) but there is a whole thing about the rosemerry and I wrote an essay on it at aschool so it hit me pretty quick.

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Thanks Nightie. I was averaging seven to nine correct, but lately I can't seem to break five. And this time only three. I haven't read Hamlet in a bit so perhaps that's why I forgot Ophelia. Definitely remember the rosemary quote. However I don't remember her wondering the countryside. That's what threw me.

Hey special hello to Shoutgrace. Perhaps now that he's discovered Auntie's quiz of the week, he'll drop by for them. :)

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Thanks, Auntie, for the quiz and for remembering the true meaning of Memorial Day. Very few people do that anymore. If we have any current or former servicemen in this forum, thank you for your service.

I second that!
I had no idea of the first question, even though I’m old enough to have known it. . .
If you get a chance, go to YouTube (not that I'm promoting that site, nor that it needs any promotion.) But that's the site where you might find "In the Still of the Night" by the original Five Satins. Love that tune, but Cole Porter's song of the same name is one of the most
beautiful ever composed in America.

And don’t get me going on mnemonic devices.
there was the one I learned in school for the cabinet succession to the US presidency that was called ST DAPIACL
A new one on me! I'll have to jot it down and try to remember it.
I knew the writer of In Memoriam, and I even think I know the name of the person for whom it was written – his initials are AH but it’s not Alexander Hamilton, nor is it Andy Hardy.
I've got the book in front of me, and I see that "A.H.H." was Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's bff as well as the intended of Tennyson's sister, Emily. Tragically, AHH passed away before the marriage could take place.


So I got 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

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Thanks so much for taking the quiz, DickZ. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
Auntie

Virgil, thanks for taking the quiz. I can see where "wandering the countryside" might make somebody think of King Lear.

Also, there's a case to be made for not watching movies, especially the ones being produced at present --all sequels and remakes!