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Quote from: Swatopluk on February 12, 2008, 08:45:18 AM
4. The Leper's Colony

13. What do the soldiers try to sink in the moat in Castle Keep?  The protagonist .

14. Why was Peter Cushing filmed mostly from the hip upwards in the first Star Wars movie? his lleg was in a cast ?

15. What was the first movie to have both Cristopher Lee and Peter Cushing in it and what roles did they play? passengers on a train ?

16. The countdown was invented for what movie?When Worlds Collide?


20. In what movie is Gregory Peck killed by dogs for murdering a close relative of a hobby photographer?The Boys from Brazil

1) Richard Greene as Robin Hood (or Michael Praed and Jason Connery as Robin Hood with a tardis).

7) Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country

12) The Sound of Music and Jaws, one, two and three.

18) Ed Wood

5 correct answers for beagle although one incomplete

1.  Richard Greene in Robin Hood (riding throgh the glen)
5. The dog was renamed from Nigger to Trigger (but they didn't changed the Morse code signals accordingly)
No, John Wayne took no part in this but there was another change (an addition to be precise)
11. Descartes (I think, therefore I am)
12. The Sound of Music (twice an hour, probably sped up ), Jaws 1,2&3
18. Ed Wood was an angora fetishist

Two for Bruder Cuzzen
4. The Leper's Colony (in Twelve o'clock High/The Commander)
20. The Boys from Brazil (Peck played Dr.Mengele)

All else are wrong.
Concerning the Hamlet quote: it is a full sentence
Concerning the countdown: Much earlier than When Worlds Collide

Quote from: Swatopluk on February 13, 2008, 10:18:09 AM
All else are wrong.
Concerning the Hamlet quote: it is a full sentence

At least it was a rightish wrong answer. It's from Hamlet and the film was 1991.
How many ruddy films do they name from Hamlet each year  .

Too many. But I can't remember that Shakespeare (or the guy that actually wrote the stuff and had the initials W.S.) mentioned Star Trek in one of his surviving works (it might have in been in Gay Boys in Bondage but Sir Philip Sidney confiscated the script)

!5. Lee played Hamlet , Cushing played Osric .

16.Frau Im Mond

Quote from: Swatopluk on February 13, 2008, 03:40:11 PM
Too many. But I can't remember that Shakespeare (or the guy that actually wrote the stuff and had the initials W.S.) mentioned Star Trek in one of his surviving works (it might have in been in Gay Boys in Bondage but Sir Philip Sidney confiscated the script)

Probably safe to say that was one of Marlowe's rather than W.S. , given his views on tobacco and boys.

19. Les Triplettes de Belleville

(pity, I knew the Ed Wood one, but I haven't open this thread in a while...  )

Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on February 13, 2008, 05:47:48 PM
!5. Lee played Hamlet , Cushing played Osric .

16.Frau Im Mond

Both answers are essentially correct though Lee did not play Hamlet but just in Hamlet (as an uncredited spear-carrier). Cushing indeed played Osric.

Frau im Mond turned out so prophetic and technically detailed that the film was withdrawn from circulation in the 3rd Reich.
It was as if George Lucas had included detailed blueprints for a working X-Wing in Star Wars. The consultants for the movie included Oberth and von Braun (the latter still as student iirc).

Sibling Zono is also correct with Les Triplettes de Belleville
Btw, wouldn't frogs be cheaper than the hand grenades used to catch them?

I'm not playing because i always ruin the game with pedantry 


(but i bet swatos new quiz is riddled (geddit?) with errors!)

I love pedantry. Why deliberately deprive me?

pedantically speaking i am not 'deliberately' depriving you as when the statement was made i was unaware that you derive pleasure from pedantry and would in any sense feel 'deprived' by the lack of it here.

i hope this helps 

PS. It was either and Octopus or a Hexopus and you all know it so come out and admit it you scurvy cowards!

Quote from: goat starer on February 14, 2008, 07:40:01 PM
.....when the statement was made i was unaware that you derive pleasure from pedantry and would in any sense feel 'deprived' by the lack of it here.

Drat. The collective unconscious fails again.

Yep, turns out it's pretty rubbish in the area of males interpreting female thought processes, though surprisingly accurate the other way round.

Apparently Jung was wrong, it turns out there are two collective unconsciousnesses.  A male one concerned mainly with gearboxes, playstations, and what there might be for lunch, and also a female one concerned with relationships, long term planning and fabric samples.

(Actually I thought it was a euphemism for a commune of stoned hippies, but I digress).

Quote from: Swatopluk on February 12, 2008, 08:45:18 AM
17. What very British activity was taking place on the stage, when the bandits carried off the loot that was hidden under it in The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery?

Seen this, but I forget. From the clue I'd say one of:

A school prize-giving.

A pantomime.

Something involving a French maid's outfit and whips.

All of the above.