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Old 30-07-2004, 19:49   #1
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Sophisticated quiz

Never done this quiz lark before but all the quizes I ever seem to come across are easy pop culture. I thought I'd try and raise the bar a bit No doubt everyone will get the answers in 10 minutes I'll nip back later to see how people are doing.


1) The hymn Amazing Grace - what was the profession of its author?

2)

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me,
The rock, the river, the tree, your country.

Where was the author born, and for which occasion did she read the poem?

3) Lee Perry may have burnt down his first recording studio but what was it called?

4) "I lie here and wait. I think about Janice, how I lost, how she ran away red through my fingers in the rain, and I wait."

Taken from the last page of which series of books?

5) The names of the trio of black girls in Little Shop of Horrors?

6) Which of the above three is the name of the group who had a "hit" with Be My Baby?

7) What was a "graveyard smash"?

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

9) What was Dr Phibes' servant called?

10) In the book "Misery", which animal betrays Paul Sheldon and how does Annie Wilkes punish him?

11) As they fight in the belfry the Joker says that Batman made him - but how did the Joker make Batman?

12) Name the (anti) war poet born on 8th September 1886 and awarded the Military Cross in 1916 for courage under fire.
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Old 30-07-2004, 20:03   #2
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7) The Monster Mash?
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Old 30-07-2004, 20:06   #3
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11) Killed his parents?
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Old 30-07-2004, 20:43   #4
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Re: Sophisticated quiz

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7) The Monster Mash?
Correct. I was a bit worried about that one - never heard it played on radio.


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11) Killed his parents?
Correct. "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
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1) Slave trader
10) Dog? and broke his ankles?
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1) Slave trader
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10) Dog? and broke his ankles?
Wrong on both - in the film she breaks his ankles but not in the book
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12) Is that Siegfried Sassoon? (sp) if not the only other poet I've heard of from around then was Wilfred Owen.
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ok here are my feeble attempts:

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1) The hymn Amazing Grace - what was the profession of its author? slave ship captain

9) What was Dr Phibes' servant called? Vulvaniva (sp?)

10) In the book "Misery", which animal betrays Paul Sheldon and how does Annie Wilkes punish him? some kind of bird?

damnit if someone beat me to them...
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3) Lee Perry may have burnt down his first recording studio but what was it called?
Black Ark

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5) The names of the trio of black girls in Little Shop of Horrors?
Crystal, Ronette, Chiffon
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Ronette (The Ronettes)
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Correct. I was a bit worried about that one - never heard it played on radio
.....they did the mash, the monster mash. It was a smash.....a graveyard smash.....they did the mash (all in an upper class accent)
....bonus point....who did 'Werewolves of London'?
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12) Is that Siegfried Sassoon? (sp) if not the only other poet I've heard of from around then was Wilfred Owen.
Yeah - bit easy that one. Sassoon is correct, as is the spelling.


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1) The hymn Amazing Grace - what was the profession of its author? slave ship captain

9) What was Dr Phibes' servant called? Vulvaniva (sp?)

10) In the book "Misery", which animal betrays Paul Sheldon and how does Annie Wilkes punish him? some kind of bird?
Correct on the first but beaten to it. Nearly correct on the second - Vulnavia. All the right letters, but not necessarily in the right order You're going to have to do better than "some kind of bird" but yeah - it was a bird.


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Crystal, Ronette, Chiffon
Ronette (The Ronettes)
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.....they did the mash, the monster mash. It was a smash.....a graveyard smash.....they did the mash (all in an upper class accent)
....bonus point....who did 'Werewolves of London'?


Bobby Pickett (??) did the Monster Mash, if memory serves. It's on a vinyl album I have of very weird and wacky music by him. Gravestone on the front I think. Not sure on the Werewolves of London - I usually go for wacky songs but I've not heard of it.
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Bobby Pickett (??) did the Monster Mash, if memory serves. It's on a vinyl album I have of very weird and wacky music by him. Gravestone on the front I think. Not sure on the Werewolves of London - I usually go for wacky songs but I've not heard of it.
Ahwooooo.....werewolves 'o London
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Ahwooooo.....werewolves 'o London
......Warren Zevon
If I heard it I might know it. Radio 2 is a good place for non-main stream music.
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10) In the book "Misery", which animal betrays Paul Sheldon and how does Annie Wilkes punish him?
It's been years since I read it, but wasn't it a penguin? (not as daft as it sounds) - she had ceramic penguins, on a cabinet, and he accidentally moved one, and as punishment she 'hobbled' him, which I think invloved cutting off one of his feet.
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