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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Aug-27-2006 01:42

LOL sorry Temperance!!! Someone who can count quite rightly points out that you won as well. So please accept a post-quiz drumroll and fanfare as I re-announce:

Oh yeah, who won... Rosamund AND Temperance.

Whoever gets a quiz ready first should post.

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

Aug-27-2006 10:55

Sleuth is set in the roaring twenties, the jazz era, the jazz age... This quiz is about those times.

Echoes of the Jazz Age:

1. All the charming girls in Sleuthville wear sequined flapper dresses. Who were the flappers?
2. Who played the title part in Francis Ford Coppola's film "The Great Gatsby" set in the twenties?
3. What term is used for the disillusioned young people who came from the World War I and also for the group of American writers who lived in Paris, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein?
4. What famous film actor was nicknamed "the great lover"?
5. What popular dance of the twenties was named after an American Southern town?
6. Who was the principal character in Charlie Chaplin's silent movies?
7. Who were the most popular film couple in the twenties, whose marriage was said to be "made in heaven"? (They divorced later.)
8. Name 3 prominent jazz musicians of the age.
9. Who are the best-known representatives of the hard-boiled fiction characteristic of the age?
10.What was the first sound movie (1927)?

Bonus: What famous American writer is the author of the essay about the twenties the title of which I borrowed for this quiz?

John Q. Publik
John Q. Publik
Old Shoe

Aug-27-2006 11:13

1. The "new" woman of the 20s. They were party girls.
2. Robert Redford
3. ?
4. Rudolph Valentino
5. ?
6. The Tramp
7. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell?
8. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, King Oliver
9. ?
10. The Jazz Singer

Bonus: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Emerald Drew
Emerald Drew
Old Shoe

Aug-27-2006 12:13

1. The wild girls
2. ?
3. Bohemians/Children of the Revolution
4. ?
5. The Charleston
6. The Tramp
7. ?
8. Louis Armstrong, Johnny Marvin, Rudy Vallee
9. ?
10. The Jazz Singer

Bonus: F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Q. Publik
John Q. Publik
Old Shoe

Aug-27-2006 12:47

I can't believe I missed #5. I spent a year there, and know how to do the dance.

Greyling
Greyling

Aug-27-2006 13:42

1. Borrowing Emerald's term "wild girls" in an attempt to sum it up
2. Robert Redford
3. Can't remember
4. Rudolph Valentino
5. Charleston
6. The vagabond
7. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford?
8. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt (or is he not till later?)
9. Rouges? The private eye? Sam Spade?
10. Will it still count if I go over and put on "Singing in the Rain" to remember?
Bonus: Fitzgerald

jroepel
jroepel
Con Artist

Aug-27-2006 17:14

1. Young women who were rebelling by smoking, drinking, partying, cutting thier hair short, and wearing short dresses.
2. Robert Redford
3. Lost Generation?
4. ?
5. Charleston
6. The Tramp
7. W?
8. Bud Powel, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk?
9. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett- Gumshoes-private eyes, private dicks,
10. ?
Bonus: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Aug-27-2006 18:51

1. Basically, they were considered to be the 'floozies' of their generation. They were the girls who smoke, drank, partied, dated whoever they wanted to, and lived by very few of society's rules at the time.
2. Robert Redford
3. Bohemians(??)
4. Rudolph Valentino (my grandmother ADORED him!!)
5. The Charleston
6. The Little Tramp or Vagabond (I've seen both terms used)
7. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford
8. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Satchmo Paige (??)
9. Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe (??)
10. The Jazz Singer
Bonus: F. Scott Fitzgerald

sushi kitty
sushi kitty

Aug-29-2006 00:47

1. my grandma. just kidding..it was probably YOUR grandma. actually, they were kind of like the hoochie mama's of their day. yes, hoochie mama's are going to be revered in the annals of history.
2. robert redford, baby!
3. lost generation
4. rudolph valentino, my grandma had the hots for him. your grandma probably did too.
5. the charlseton
6. little tramp
7. ?
8. louis armstrong, duke ellington, jelly roll morton?
9. ?
10. ?

bonus?



Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

Aug-29-2006 03:52

Sorry for the delay, it was the work of the villains.

1. Wikipedia: "The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking hard liquor and smoking." (all your answers are correct)
2. Robert Redford
3. The lost generation
4. Rudolph Valentino
5. The Charleston
6. The Tramp (Little Tramp, the Vagabond)
7. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
8. Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Rudy Vallee, Fletcher Henderson (Bud Powell, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and Django Reinhardt were later)
9. Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett
10.The Jazz Singer

Bonus: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

And the winner is... Breitkat!





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