The Guardian Quiz

[f4f3]

For hano  and coughingbear  (and anyone else who might be Jonesing at Foxtrot Mansions...)

ETA: Spoilers in comments, since I'm too lazy to screen...

ETA2: Answers in the morning - you all play nice while I'm asleep...



1. What's unique about the Bob Hope film, Call Me Bwana?

2. What crashed at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937?

3. Which song asserted that Gordon is a Moron?

4. Whose parliament is the Althing?

5. What reason did Jack Vetriano give for not painting Colin Montgomerie?

6. Whose third son was called Seth?

7. Lyrical Ballads contained poems by whom?

8. Whose remains were found in Gough's Cave, Somerset?

What links:

9 Bradford philanthropist; Beatles in 1967; Cluedo military man?

10. Barack Obama; Harold Sakata (Oddjob); Michelle Wie; Bette Middler?

11. Annie Hall; Batman; The General?

12. Discovery of the True Cross; exile of Napoleon?

13. Mawensi; Shira; Kibo?

14. My Sweet Lord, Bohemian Rhapsody; Jailhouse Rock; One Night and It's Now or Never?

15. Alexander Borodin; Margaret Thatcher; Primo Levi?

Anything in double figures is respectable this week...

Comments

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

I know TWO of those (5 and 14)! That must be a record for me....

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell. Make that three (I know number 3 as well). I'm a genius, clearly.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well?

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to reveal in case I'm right, but what the heck.

3) is Jilted John by, well, Jilted John
5) is because Mr Vetriano refuses to paint "men with breasts"

and (I'm not so sure about this one...)

14) are songs re-issued (possibly for charity) after the death of their singer. I think.

[hano.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, thanks a million. Even now the kittens are on their knees* reciting a novena such that your reward in the afterlife will be suitably impressive.








*this may be an exaggeration

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

They do have extra knees, though, so it's a nice thought. Must try to get those Rosary beads off Anna now...

[hano.livejournal.com]

ah yes, Catholic cats can be so awkward sometimes...
(and if at some point I could trouble you for the answers I'd be extra grateful - either mail em to me or in a locked post or some such - thanks again)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You don't get the answers until you put up your own guesses. Yes, cruel, but fair...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. It's funny
2. The R101
3.
4. Iceland
5. It was an offer he could refuse
6. The Starkadders
7. Kipling?
8. Piltdown man
9. Colonel Mustard
10. Florence Nightingale
11. Diane Keaton, ?? Keaton, Buster Keaton
12. Empress Josephine
13.
14. Verdi's requiem
15. If this be a man

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Two.
And a third.

You're still answering the Christmas quiz, aren't you?

[deililly.livejournal.com]

I am dumb.

Guessing White for 9 and Hawaii for 10 though (big guess but the names suggest it)

14 - re-released at some significant point?

6 is bothering me. I have a feeling I know it.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

One and a half...

[deililly.livejournal.com]

11) Keaton? The first two I am sure had Keatons. I don't know about the third though.

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

You should know 6, you really should...but then there've been any number of arts, music and architecture questions I've failed at miserably!

[deililly.livejournal.com]

Waaaaah but I majored in Buddhism!

Well see I am guessing Genesis but the only couple I can think of of course featuring in that are Adam and Eve but I am sure there were lists somewhere so going for them seems a bit obvious...

Nuts I just realised White is so so wrong. It wasn't Colonel White it was Colonel Mustard. Which leaves me all buh.

AM SO DUMB.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

2) The Hindenburg

4) Iceland

6) Adam & Eve

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Three out of three....

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

But I have no clue on any of the rest. Sigh.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

15. Chemistry.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

...and she knocks that one clean out of the park...

[white_hart]

Oh, you star! (Will you put the answers behind a cut? We won't get to do this until this evening now...)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Done, and behind a cut - but feel free to guess here before looking!

[coughingbear]

we finally got round to doing it this evening, and got ten and a half. Which I think is not too bad! I liked no.9.

Thanks again.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

A pleasure.
You got almost exactly the same as us, although I might be being a bit generous giving us 11.
So which 4 and a half DIDN'T you get?

[coughingbear]

We didn't get Bob Hope, Vetriano, Kilimanjaro and the songs that had been no.1 twice. We gave ourselves half a point for Gough's Cave - we knew it was a Something Man but we couldn't remember which one. What about you?