Romeo's Trivia Contest

[romeothemonk]

Music:
1. For 1 point, name the classic American Movie that has the following line, "We have both kinds of Music, Country and Western."

2. I really like country music, so here is a chance to score up to five points, with a bonus point for all of them. I will give the first name of a country star, you provide the last name.
Hank
Johnny
Lefty
Willie
Waylon
Kris
Merle
Conway
Loretta

3. Last Music Question. Johnny (See above) won a Grammy in 2003 for a video and cover of a modern rock song. Name both the original artist and song for 1 point.

Cinema:
4. How many Oscars did the American film legend John Wayne win?

5. George Lucas was taken under the wing of an important Hollywood director. Name that Director.

6. Name the classic film actor most noted for playing gangsters who starred in "Some like it hot" and "Key Largo."

Literature:
7. Hemingway's books involve a lot of drinking and death and raw human emotion, which maybe why I like them. He won a pulitzer prize for which work?

8. An American biography book helped immensly with the colonization of California. For 1 point each, name the book and the Author.

9. I really like Classic French literature, most notably Dumas and Hugo. For one point each, name the leading character of several of the most famous of their works
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"The Three Musketeers"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
"Les Miserables"

Geography
10. Name 2 Major rivers that flow North, one point for each.

11. In Puritanical American, what was "West Indies Product," and for which industry was it considered vital? (2 points total)

History
12. Name the battle in France where the Muslims were stopped from their conquest of Europe.

13. The Mongol Empire decimated the land of Iran, destroying the remnants of what religion?

14. In what year was the Transcontinental Railroad constructed (finished)in the U.S?

Science
15. Name the process for the first mass production of steel?

16. Nanoparticles are my friend as they are my area of research. For whom was much of the early work on Carbon nanoparticles named?

17. Who is credited with the quote, "Any sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic?"



Please PM the answers to me. Deadline is Thursday my time. I.e, I will check and post answers on Thursday.

[Tubby Rower]

PM sent... I should get at least 7 points here

[Rik Meleet]

Is there a possibility to have the questions numbered ?

[romeothemonk]

sure coming right up.

[Rik Meleet]

I hope to get more than 2, but I fear I won't. :(

[sz_matyas]

Wow considering how much our knowledge overlaps, I was considering an easier quiz. Well at least I know my country music.

[barbu1977]

Answered sent, many guesses. Maybe I'll get lucky.

[akots]

I think I'll give it a try but it is very tough for me.

[Socrates]

Way too hard, too US-centric. [blush2]


Actually, Krys, with the exception of my little brother, you are leading the submitters. (His score will probably not count)

Perhaps this is too U.S. Centric. I rather thought that Country music was more popular world wide.

That and Hollywood trivia is some of my personal favorites.

Keep the Answers coming everyone. There are still two questions that NOBODY has gotten correct.

[akots]

quote:Originally posted by romeo
... I rather thought that Country music was more popular world wide. ...


I beg to disagree here. IMHO country is not even popular all over the US. It seems to be rather popular in Texas though. As for me, I hate it.

[Mistfit]

I posted answers just to show that this is not "common US knowledge"

Romeo really knows how to make a guy feel dumb..

[digger760]

quote:Originally posted by romeothemonk

There are still two questions that NOBODY has gotten correct.


I am guessing that would be 15 and 16.

[romeothemonk]

Alrighty then, it is answer time. I will try to include wikipedia links with my answers in the grand tradition of Barbu.

#1. The correct answer is the movie "Blues Brothers."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/quotes
6/10

#2.
Hank Williams 7/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams
Johnny Cash 9/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash
Lefty Frizzell 2/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_Frizzell
Willie Nelson 10/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Nelson
Waylon Jennings 4/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon_Jennings
Kris Kristofferson 2/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson
Merle Haggard 4/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard
Conway Twitty 3/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Twitty
Loretta Lynn 4/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynn

Some classic answers included Waylon Smithers and Kris Kros. Sorry, hip hop is next week. :p

#3.
Johnny Cash covered “Hurt” originally done by Trent Reznor of NiN fame. I accepted both Trent and NiN. This is a personal favorite of mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash
4.5/10 (Meli just said Nine Inch Nails)

#4.
John Wayne won one Oscar. 2/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne

#5.
Francis Ford Coppola 3/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas

#6.
Edward G. Robinson 0/10
My bad on this one guys. In Some Like it Hot, it was his son, Edward G. Robinson Jr. Surprisingly, on the copy of Some Like it Hot that I saw, the Jr. was conspicuously missing from the huge credits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson

#7.
“The Old Man and the Sea” 6/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

#8.
The book was “Two Years Before the Mast” by Richard Dana Jr. 0/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast


More to come later

[digger760]

I think i answered Hank Snow fore the first one...after originally writing Hnnk Williams, for some reason both names were in my head:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Snow

[sz_matyas]

There other possibilities for Johnny as well, such as Johnny Paycheck and Johnny Lee. Good to see someone remembers Hank Snow (not that it was forgetten for the question, just Hank is one of the faces of country music).

Also the wrong question makes me not feel so bad about missing #6 and the complete lack of answers for #8 is somewhat comforting. Oh well, can't know it all.

[romeothemonk]

Ill try and get the rest of theses answers posted really soon.

Work kinda turned into a Bear, and thus limited my time greatly.

[romeothemonk]

Anyway, with Wikipedia currently down, and at least I can give my own answers.
If they are contested, I can be called many bad things and my forum spammed again.
Continuing on.

#9.
Edmund Dantes (6/10) (I accepted "The Count")
Chevleiar (SP) D'Artagnan (5/10)
Quasimodo, Esmeralda (4/10) (surprisingly no one said "The Hunchback")
Jean ValJean (4/10)

#10.
There were lots of correct answers to this one. (15/20)
Nile, Ob, Rhine, etc. I was actually looking for Nile and Red River North, but you guys found acceptable ones all around

#11.
I was looking for Rum and shipping. I accepted Sugar, Molasses, slave trade. I didn't accept Kry's answer, although it was humorous, it was in decided bad taste. (Krys is actually an O.K. guy, we just appear to have gotten off on the wrong foot). (6/20)

#12.
I accepted Tours, Poiters and Anjers. Special bonus to Krys for naming Charles Martel, one of my military heroes. The battle of Tours is sometimes called Poiters, and Anjers happened 5-7 years after Tours, and completely destroyed the Moslem military prescene north of the Pyrenees. (6/10)

#13.
I was looking for Zorastriaism. (SP) Basically, if you said anything that started with a Z and followed with an o, you got credit. (2/10)

#14.
1869, at Promontory Point Utah. I think everyone said between 1865-1870, but I am not sure anyone got it right. My notes are unclear. (0/10)

#15.
I was looking for the Bessemer process. 2 people got it right, and I also got answers for cold rolling, hot rolling, Pressing, etc.
(2/10)

#16.
I was looking for Fuller. Akots said Fullerenes which I accepted. (2/10)

#17.
Arthur C Clarke. Congrats to Meli. He was the only one who didn't hedge on this one at all. Their were a lot of Einstein's on this quote as well.
(3/10)

[romeothemonk]

And if anyone cares, the scores.
sz_matyas (doesn't count) 25
Tubby_rower 8
Rik 10
Barbu 12
Akots 12
Krys 11
Digger 10
Meli 7
Mistfit 12
David C 11

Thank you everyone for playing. I learned a lot about how to run these things, and Barbu wins the tiebreaker for hosting so many trivia contests.

[Mistfit]

ok so mabe it was US - centric [:p]

[barbu1977]

Thanks Romeo, for making this one. I'm looking forward to your next one. If you have time, I'm currious on who got those 2/10 answers.

And I can't beleive I could not come up with the Blues Brothers.

I'll try to have #6 up by the end of the week.

[akots]

I got the Bessemer process right. Actually, I did rather not so bad on this one despite having no idea about questions 1 to 6. [confused] It seems it were a challenge for everyone.

[DavidC]

[lol]
I only answered the first 8 questions intending to answer the other ones later
(which I forgot to do) and I am still second [crazyeye]

I just read an amazing book on Country music so I scored well on those ;)

[Melifluous]

quote:Originally posted by romeothemonk


#17.
Arthur C Clarke. Congrats to Meli. He was the only one who didn't hedge on this one at all.


Arthur C Clarke is one of my personal literary heroes along with the late great Isaac Asimov.

For science fiction no-one even gets close IMHO, although the Mote In Gods Eye was an awesome first contact book.

[meli]

[Tubby Rower]

woo hoo... I wasn't last [lol]