Romeo's Trivia Contest

[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.

#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 []

[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.