Sophisticated quiz

[Mr_love_monkey]

4) The Green Mile.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

4) The Green Mile.

Correct! Even though I did mess up the quote

[Mr_love_monkey]

What about number 10?

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

What about number 10?

Whoops! Didn't spot the post. Both correct! The penguin faced South and when Paul knocked it off he didn't put it back facing the right direction, and Annie, being the nutter she was, noticed. As you say, she hacked his foot off with an axe and cauterised the wound with a blow torch If the film had stuck to the plot of the book it would have been up there with Silence of the Lambs.


[edit] Just (2) and (8) left methinks.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

[edit] Just (2) and (8) left methinks.

2)

Maya Angelou. Born in St. Louis, Missouri.

She read the poem at the inauguration of Bill Clinton in January 1993.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

8) Who wrote the haunting signature tune for the war movie Platoon, and can you name the equally moving choral version?

It's Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and the choral version is often know as Agnus Dei

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

Correct! Even though I did mess up the quote

I knew what you meant though....

Here's the full closing bit, typed out, from my own copy (and I apologise for the 'n' word..)

I have at least one old mans ill: I suffer from insomnia. Late at night I lie in my bed, listening to the dank and hopeless sound of infirm men and women coughing thier courses deeper into old age. SOmetimes I hear a call-bell, or the squeak of a shoe in the corridor, or Mrs. Javit's little TV tuned to the late news. I lie here, and if the moon is in my window, I watch it. I lie here and think about Brutal, and Dean, and sometimes William Wharton saying That's right, ni**er, bad as you'd want. I think of Delacroix saying Watch this Boss Edgecombe, I teach Mr. Jingles a new trick.. I think of Elaine, standing in the door of the sunroom and telling Brad Dolan to leave me alone. Sometimes I doze and see that underpass in the rain, with John Coffey standing beneath it in the shadows. It's never just a trick of the eye, in these little dreams, it's always him for sure, my big boy, just standing there and watching. I lie here and wait. I think about Janice, how I lost her, how she ran away red through my fingers in the rain, and I wait. We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

[greencreeper]

Great book It was a bit tricky picking a quote that wasn't too easy - i.e. mentioning Mr Jingles would have been a dead giveaway.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Matt D

2)

Maya Angelou. Born in St. Louis, Missouri.

She read the poem at the inauguration of Bill Clinton in January 1993.

Correct on both.

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

It's Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and the choral version is often know as Agnus Dei

Also correct on both.


I think that's it. Lasted a bit longer than I thought

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

I think that's it. Lasted a bit longer than I thought

Good quiz

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

Good quiz

Thanks