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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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biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Aug-26-2006 05:52

1. English?
2. J
3. William the Conqueror
4. black eyed peas
5. billy idol
6. venus
7. im gonna go opera singer since ive never heard of him in my life
8. braveheart
9. texas?
10. Captain Kirk
B1. no idea
B2. Al Z?

Temperance Brennan24
Temperance Brennan24

Aug-26-2006 19:24

1. swiss?
2. J
3. William the Conqueror
4. BEP's
5. Blly Idol
6. Venus
7. panter?
8. Braveheart
9. TX
10. Capt. Kirk!

B1. ?

B2. Virginia Woolf

Temperance Brennan24
Temperance Brennan24

Aug-26-2006 19:25

*panter = painter

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Aug-26-2006 20:05

Ok here are the answers kids:

1. Swiss
2. J
3. William the Conqueror, William II of Normandy, William the Bastard
4. Black Eyed PEas
5. Billy Idol
6. Venus
7. Painter (Lady of Shalott, Pandora's Box... etc...) when he was late for dinner, he was definitely a panter though Temperance.
8. Braveheart
9. Miss New York
10. Captain James (Yes Em!) Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek

Bonus 1: Bananarama
Bonus 2: Virginia Woolf

If you want to read Virginia Woolf's essay:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/chapter1.html

lol and if you want to learn more about Bananarama (yes folks they're making a comeback):
http://www.bananarama.co.uk/index_fla.html

Oh yeah, who won... Rosamund :)

Al Z
Al Z

Aug-26-2006 20:32

I know all the answers this time for sure SS!

1. Swiss
2. J
3. William the Conqueror, William II of Normandy, William the Bastard
4. Black Eyed Peas
5. Billy Idol
6. Venus
7. Painter
8. Braveheart
9. Miss New York
10. Captain James Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek

What do I win?


jroepel
jroepel
Con Artist

Aug-26-2006 21:19

LMAO Al Z! Good Show!

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Aug-26-2006 21:24

Sorry Al. No BQ answers. :) But you win my undying admiration. Well that's kind of a second prize but, oh well...

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

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