Quiz Set 4 - Answers
Round 1: General Knowledge
1. John Wayne.
2. The UK (England,
Britain etc are all fine) and China. There were two wars, both in the 19th
century, and concerned British trade in China, as well as the latter’s sovereignty.
3. Eric Clapton
4. It’s a bird
5. Milhouse. This is
the question that inspired my Simpsons connections round, and I forgot to
include it! It might have made the round too obvious, however.
6. The product is
condoms, and the company is called Mates. Logically, it’s the one product you
really don’t want to be advertising with the name “virgin”…
7. Agenda.
8. The stapes, or
stirrup. It’s in the ear.
9. There are 88 keys.
10. She was the last woman to be executed
in Britain.
Round 2: Film Plots
1. Pleasantville.
2. Layer Cake. The
first part of the question is how the protagonist describes himself in an early
monologue.
3. Leon: The
Professional. Any bit of that, or all of it, is correct, as the title varied
between international markets.
4. In Bruges.
5. Star Wars (Episode
4: A New Hope specifically, but Star Wars is fine). The description comes from
The Thick Of It, from Malcolm Tucker – who is played by Peter Capaldi, perhaps
better known now as the 12th Doctor.
6. Baseketball, made
by the creators of South Park. They don’t appear to remember the film fondly,
but I’ve always loved it.
7. Battle Royale, a
Japanese film based on a novel, which also got a manga adaptation. The last
question is the tagline. This film will always have a special place in my
heart, as I met some very important people through it.
8. Love Actually. The
description may also fit other films, but the year removes any ambiguity.
9. The Raid, an
Indonesian film. The latest Judge Dredd film is virtually identical except for
the imagery and characters from the latter’s mythos.
10. Toy Story. The description
comes from Orange Is The New Black, and was too funny not to include.
11. The Blues Brothers.
12. In The Loop, which is the film
spinoff to The Thick Of It, which is itself the precursor to Veep.
13. Rogue Trader, based on the
memoirs of Nick Leeson. Having studied the fiasco, I can tell you that both the
book and the film are heavily biased nonsense that propagates Leeson’s own
self-promotional perspective.
14. Dodgeball: A True Underdog
Story.
15. Falling Down. Cathartic for
anyone who has endured a city grind and a city commute, though I’m not
convinced the film has aged well; it seems to be frozen in time as a period
piece.
Round 3: Connections
1. Virginia
Wade, who was the inspiration for this connections round.
2. Washington Irving.
Yossarian uses his name when in the hospital, censoring letters in Catch-22.
3. The Colossus of Rhodes,
the first of the Ancient Wonders to be destroyed. The authorities decided that
such an event was because the Colossus was offensive to the Gods, and refused
to allow it to be rebuilt, though the huge ruins became a tourist attraction in
their own right.
4. Indiana Jones.
Unfortunately I can no longer use this question in a future round on fictional
characters known by a nickname. As his father, Henry Senior, points out in the
3rd film, Indiana was the name of the family dog!
5. Oregano. This was a classic
case of me struggling to find a decent question, having started with the
answer.
6. Flo Rida.
7. Oklahoma.
8. Baked Alaska. Yes, the
same dessert involved with “Bingate” in The Great British Bakeoff.
9. Hampshire. If you got
the connection and remembered the “double answers” round from last week, then
you may have been able to use one of those answers to get this one!
10. American states.
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