Saturday 30 May 2020

My Round Again


Chuck Jones originally referred to this character as "Antwerp"
apparently because he looked like both an ant and a twerp.

 We did another quiz. Here's my round. No pictures. It falls apart a bit at the end. I've posted the answers in the comments.  

 1. ODD ONE OUT
Which of these actors has never played Van Helsing:
Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer,  Herbert Lom, Hugh Jackman, Mel Brooks, Dolly Wells, David Suchet, Frank Finlay or Weird Al Yankovic?

 2 & 3. THE GAME OF THE THRONES
"Standupstraight Taily" and "Ignore Subtractty" are the opposite of WHICH TWO ACTORS who played royalty in the show? (Someone suggested a whole "Game of Thrones" round but not enought of us had seen it. I, for example, hadn't seen it.) 

 4. ODD ONE OUT (AGAIN. A LOT OF THESE WERE GOING TO BE ODD ONE OUT.)
 Which of these is not a Font: Hoe Down, Saddlebag, Van Cleef,  Paleface or Wantedo? (This took far longer to research than I hoped, because nearly everything, it turns out, is a font.)

 5. VAGUE THREATS
Which film came first?
A. "It! The Terror from Beyond Space"
B. "It Came From Outer Space!"
C. "The Thing (From Another World!)"
D. "Them!"

 6. SPECIFIC THREATS
Which of these is the second Godzilla movie?
A. "Son of Godzilla"
B. "Destroy All Monsters"
C. "Godzilla Raids Again"
D. "Godzilla versus King Kong"

 7. TERRIBLE QUESTION
What do these directors have in common, given Question 8: Peter Weir, Alan J. Pakula, George Lucas, or Mike Nichols  
(Noone got either of these. It was a rushed question. I... I'm not sure it even makes sense.)

 ... & 8. TERRIBLE QUESTION FOLLOW-UP
What director is double the answer to Question 7? (See parenthesis to 7)

 9. ODD ONE OUT AGAIN
Yeah. Just which of these is the odd one out?
Barney Rubble, Captain Caveman, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd?

 10. THIS WAS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ODD ONE OUT QUESTION, ABOUT THE MANDELA EFFECT, BUT I COULDN'T THINK OF A TRUE FACT THAT MIGHT CONVINCINGLY BE MISTAKEN FOR A FALSE MEMORY SO THIS ENDED UP AS JUST A BOG STANDARD TRIVIA QUESTION
What brand takes its name from its two original main ingredients sodium perborate and sodium silicate?

2 comments:

  1. AND HERE ARE THE ANSWERS... 1:- Weird Al Yankovic (nobody got this - most guessed David Suchet - this pleased me). 2 & 3:- Lena Heady and Mark Addy. 4:- Van Cleef, as far as my research took me, is not yet a font. 5:- The Thing From Another World (1951). It Came From Outer Space was 1953, Them! was 1954, It! The Terror from Beyond Space was 1958. 6:- Godzilla Raids Again. 7:- Each has directed two films with Harrison Ford. 8:- Steven Spielberg has directed four films with Harrison Ford. I think. 9: Mel Blanc did not voice Elmer Fudd. Some argued Barney Rubble was the odd one out because he wasn't armed, but I'm not sure Marvin was always armed, and Capatin Caveman's club is more of an all-purpose tool. Others argued Marvin was the odd one out because he's an alien, but I'm not sure Captain Caveman is human.
    10:- Persil. Just Persil. That's all. Thank you for playing!

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    1. Thank you for that factoid about Persil; it has finally stopped me wondering why it was named after parsley!

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