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Huh, then maybe it's not heavy metal and it's something like British musicians sang songs named for these books?
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1. Easy one. Dorsal.
2. I'm thinking lamp. 3. I loves me some Enya. 4. The coins have 2 headed eagles. I have a bunch. 5. I know this one. Henry. (Thanks to having too much time and too little money during that era.) 6. Picasso 7. I've read three of them, and can't figure out what the connection is. |
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Main Characters 1984 - Winston Smith Stranger in a strange land -Mike Smith Loneliness of the long distance runner - Colin Smith |
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Based on a couple I know, I think Damian's got #7!
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Ooh, that's better than Steve's guess (sorry Steve!):
Blood and Guts in High School: Janey Smith. If I'd read more than two of them I might have spotted that myself, but with only two it just seemed a coincidence (which I'll pretend I noticed). |
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No! I'm right! The main character of In Cold Blood is Richard Hickock! Oh, and Perry Smith.
Yeah, Damian's got this one. Well done. Last edited by Steve; 03 August 2018 at 02:37 PM. |
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I never would have put that together. Very cool!
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Whenever there is a question about movies or books, the first thing I do is try to link main characters in some way.
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Hello, all. Tuesday trivia time again.
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS 1. Fish fins can be pectoral, pelvic, or caudal, but what adjective is used for the fin on a fish's back? As Shark Week fans might know, this is the dorsal fin. 2. The balanced-arm Anglepoise, which debuted in 1932, is an iconic design still used today for what desktop item? The Anglepoise is probably the most famous desk lamp ever manufactured. 3. Since rising to mega-stardom with albums like Watermark and Shepherd Moons, who has sold 75 million records worldwide without ever once going out on tour? Enya never tours. Enya has never even done a live solo concert. This is because Enya doesn't exist in corporeal human form; she is an artificial intelligence created when lightning struck a "Learn Irish Gaelic" Rosetta Stone CD-ROM in 1997. 4. What was anatomically unusual about the eagle used as an imperial symbol by the medieval Byzantines, and then by the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia? Unlike most eagles you are likely to see in the wild, this heraldic eagle, still seen on the flags of Albania and Montenegro, has two heads. 5. In movies between 1986 and 1991, Michael Rooker, Fred Ward, Kenneth Branagh, and Harrison Ford all played title characters who shared what first name? The movies are Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Henry and June, Henry V, and Regarding Henry. 6. Who grappled with the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in his 1937 painting The Burning Giraffe? The Burning Giraffe is a rare political work by surrealist Salvador Dali. 7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these literary works? Blood and Guts in High School, Forge, The Hairy Ape, In Cold Blood, The Lilies of the Field, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Singular Man, Stranger in a Strange Land. These are all novels (or plays or short stories) where the main character is named Smith. Or claims to be, anyway. A likely story! THIS WEEK'S QUESTIONS 1. Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were the three directors of what influential institution? 2. The first NASA communications satellite, launched in 1960, shared its name with what nymph from Greek myth? 3. What TV series was inspired by Carl Reiner's stint as a writer-performer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shoes? 4. What color does sodium hydroxide turn litmus paper? 5. In 1974, what sport reinstated its ban on left-handed players, to avoid dangerous head-on collisions? 6. What Spanish fashion retailer was originally named for an iconic Anthony Quinn film before a 1975 name tweak? 7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world rivers, and no others? Congo, Danube, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Rio de la Plata. Enjoy! |
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1. Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were the three directors of what influential institution?
Bauhaus 4. What color does sodium hydroxide turn litmus paper?* Blue |
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#3 must be The Dick van Dyke Show.
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I thought I was doing OK this week but a lot are guesses or half-answers... 1. Something to do with architecture? 2. Cassiopeia? Hmm, or Ariadne rings a bell - I think they've both been space programs? I don't know, anyway. (My first guess was Calypso but then I convinced myself I'd been thinking of the thing I wrote...) 3. No idea 4. It's alkaline so blue. 5. Sounds like it must be polo. Or possibly ice hockey? 6. I could probably work it out if I thought for long enough... Quote:
It isn't countries named after them (wouldn't be an exclusive list even if all of those did have that - The Gambia isn't on it for example), and I don't see how it can be to do with border crossings, since some of those cross lots of borders and others not so many if any. |
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Ken you done screwed up! You forgot that Harrison Ford also played Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. In the Last Crusade in 1989!
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For #7 my first thought was they had no tributaries flowing into them, but that can't be true of the Danube for one, can it?
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Lots of guesses this week...
1. Bauhaus. 2. Echo? 3. The Dick van Dyke Show? 4. I can never remember which does which color. Blue? 5. The only thing I can think of that might fit is polo. 6. Zara/Zorba. 7. Nothing comes to mind. |
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1. Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were the three directors of what influential institution?
Bauhaus. Not the one that did "Bela Lugosi's Dead". 2. The first NASA communications satellite, launched in 1960, shared its name with what nymph from Greek myth? Nike? (Not Telstar, right?) 3. What TV series was inspired by Carl Reiner's stint as a writer-performer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shoes? The Dick Van Dyke Show - once called "Head of the Family" when Reiner was to star. 4. What color does sodium hydroxide turn litmus paper? It should be blue, but somehow I think this is a trick question. 5. In 1974, what sport reinstated its ban on left-handed players, to avoid dangerous head-on collisions? Jousting? 6. What Spanish fashion retailer was originally named for an iconic Anthony Quinn film before a 1975 name tweak? Can't be Zappos. Doubt if it's something like Ghosts Can't Wear It. Zorbo's? Sorba's? 7. What unusual distinction is shared by these world rivers, and no others? Congo, Danube, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Rio de la Plata. They are all on this list! Last edited by ChasFink; 07 August 2018 at 03:16 PM. |
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But for him to have been a title character, wouldn't it have to have been titled Henry Jones Jr and the Last Crusade?
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Loopholes!
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Similarly I don't think there can be any rivers with no tributaries! It has to be to do with rivers over a certain size or status to be able to say "and no other" like that... |
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