Hi all, I'm back. I'm afraid that once again, I don't have too long to research this post, chiefly for the reason that our performance on Sunday was absolutely abysmal. Or at least it was if you consider some of these questions essential information. A bad performance on the news round, a sub par movie quotes round and the inclusion of a whole round on Glastonbury left us without a chance at winning the cash (a princely £200), but I still feel that I let myself down on this one. As such, you lucky devils, you have a cracking 23 questions where you can show me up and taunt me with how badly I needed your help. Tweet me at @MPRTaylor if you got any of these. Here we go...Venue: The Duck and Scholar Team: Me + 3 others
Score: 36/60
Questions
We begin with the news round. (I was tempted to put the word news in quotes here.)
1) Whisper the Staffordshire Bull Terrier is in need of a new owner. But what is she afraid of?
a) People and the outside world b) Other dogs c) Being left alone
2) Hong Kong designer Wallace Chan's jewellery has recently made the headlines. But what exactly is it?
a) A miniature face in a sapphire b) Thousands of ants made of gold c) The world's smallest piece of jewellery
3) Why did rapper Professor Green make the news whilst at Durham University this week?
4) What was novel about one of the most recent victims of the 'Fappening'?
5) Which Oscar winning actor angrily defended the religion of Islam on the Real Time with Bill Maher talk show this week?
6) Australian Rubgy League player Sam Burgess played his last game for the South Sydney Rabbitohs this week. But what happened to him during the first tackle?
We now embark upon a round exclusively about Glastonbury Festival. From this early stage we knew the contest was lost, but even so, I didn't expect to tank as badly as we did. There are 8 questions here for your pleasure. 7) What price did the first Glastonbury tickets sell for?
8) In which decade were the first proper toilets introduced to the festival?
9) How many official weddings were held at last year's festival? a) 2 b) 8 c) 0
10) Which drink was given free to all attendees of the first festival?
11) How large is the area that the festival covers? a) 1200 acres b) 900 acres c) 700 acres
12) Which animals usually graze on the farmland on which the festival is held?
13) Mud surfing originated at Glastonbury - true or false?
14) How many minutes did the 2015 tickets take to sell out?
Onto the movie quotes round. The chance to win was gone, so we let some simple ones through the net. Which movies do these quotes come from?
15) 'Shiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf' be messin' mah old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?'
16) 'I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.'
17) 'You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.'
18) 'Take your top off!'
19) 'If Butch goes to Indochina, I want a nigger hiding in a bowl of rice waiting to pop a cap in his ass.'
Identify these two films from the pictures.
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And finally, here are the two Cockney rhyming slang questions that just added to the general sense of despair...
In Cockney rhyming slang what are these:
22) Aunt Joanna
23) Jack Jones
Did you enjoy those? I certainly hope you did, because I didn't. Let me know how you did by either tweeting or commenting at the bottom of the page.
Answers
1) a) People and the outside world
2) a) A miniature face in a sapphire
3) He slapped a student
4) He was the first man to undergo the experience
5) Ben Affleck
6) He suffered a broken cheekbone
7) £1
8) The 1980s
9) 0
10) Milk
11) 900 acres
12) Cows
13) True
14) 29 minutes
15) Airplane!
16) Full Metal Jacket
17) Toy Story
18) Mean Girls
19) Pulp Fiction
20) Evil Dead 3
21) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
22) Piano
23) Alone
Analysis and Excuses
Fact File: Whisper is 6 years old and came to the Old Windsor branch of the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in January. According to Wikipedia, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier is the fifth most popular breed of dog in the UK.
2) We went with world's smallest piece of jewellery on a hunch. My excuse for missing this story is that it must have got lost in the outpouring of news on the recent Hong Kong democracy protests. Fact File: Wallace Chan invented the 'Wallace Cut' in 1987. His most recent piece of work is the representation of the faces of the Greek goddesses of the Seasons, the Horae. He does make ants as well however. You can watch more here.
Fact File: Professor Green was born Stephen Manderson in Hackney in 1983. He rose to prominence after winning the original 'JumpOff MySpace' rap tournament in 2008. Green first charted in 2010 with singer Ed Drewett on the song 'Need You Tonight', which reached No. 3. He is currently in the charts with 'Lullaby' featuring Tori Kelly, which is featured on his 3rd album 'Growing Up In Public'. He married Made In Chelsea star Mackintosh in 2013.
4) I had read about this, but almost immediately forgot about it. Hopefully before long, this will no longer be a news item. Fact File: The 'Fappening', for those of you who are unaware, refers to the many private celebrity photos that have been stolen from Apple's 'iCloud' service and posted on the website 4chan, specifically the ones containing nudity. The first man to have nude images of himself posted is Nick Hogan, son of the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan. If you want to know why it is called the 'Fappening', then I am sure that Urban Dictionary will be able to tell you.
5) Affleck crossed my mind, but I think I was too easily swayed by the wording of the question (which led me to think it was a Best Actor winner) when really I should have looked at it a bit harder and applied deductive reasoning. I can't remember what we put for this question but it might have been Tom Hanks. Affleck is also promoting his new film, Gone Girl, which presumably explains why he was on the talk show in the first place.
Fact File: Affleck was born Benjamin Affleck-Bolt in 1972 in Berkeley, California. He rose to prominence in 1997 for co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, for which the pair won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. He is well known for his roles in Chasing Amy and Pearl Harbor, and for directing Gone Baby Gone and the Best Picture winning Argo. Affleck married fellow actor Jennifer Garner in 2005, is the brother of Casey Affleck and is due to star as the next Batman in 2016.
6) Predictably I had no idea on sport, and a question about Australian Rugby League was so far out of my comfort zone that I knew this point was more or less a write off. I pressed for the notion that he was sent off, which would have been suitably anticlimactic, but the truth isn't a bad story in itself! Burgess played for the full match with his injuries, and has earned his place in the sport's history books.Fact File: Sam Burgess was born in 1988 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. He had previously played for the Bradford Bulls from 2006 to 2009, as well as the UK national sides (England and Great Britain), and was persuaded to join the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2010. Burgess' last game was crucial, securing the Rabbitohs their first Premiership title since 1971. He has now switched from Rugby League to Rugby Union, playing in the Aviva Premiership for the English club Bath.
Glastonbury Round
7) My thought was £2, but I gave into the team's consensus of £5. It doesn't matter if it's still wrong. Having neither lived through nor studied prices before decimalisation I was pretty much out of my depth here.Fact File: 1970 was 1 year before the UK made the conversion to decimal currency, hinting that we should have been erring on the low side. The 2015 tickets retailed at £225.
Fact File: The first proper toilets were introduced in 1983. There are now usually over 4000 portable toilets in use, and a significant reason that Michael Eavis chose not to hold the festival in 2012 was because of the expected shortage of toilets thank to the London Olympics.
9) Foiled again. I should have been on the lookout for this, but I'm still getting used to the Duck and Scholar quiz.
Fact File: It is actually illegal to get married at the festival, but plenty of people have proposed such as this gentleman in 2013.10) This was an unexpected miss. I opted for cider, given the Somerset location of the festival.
11) I think we went for 700 acres. Classic example of our not being able to squeak a guess.
Fact File: 900 acres equates to around 3600 square metres.
13) Probably should have got this, but we didn't have the time to think it through and inevitably went the wrong way. I can't find a specific date for the birth of the sport, but the festival's reputation for getting people caked in mud means that this is hardly a massive surprise.
14) 29 minutes is the general consensus figure I can find, despite an earlier link to a Guardian article. I forgot to write this down, but I would have been out by one minute. I think that basically sums up our performance in this quiz.Fact File: 29 minutes smashes 2014's record of 1 hour 27 minutes which was headlined by Arcade Fire, Kasabian and Metallica.
15) We said Airplane, and in the flurry to get something down on paper at the end of the quiz, forgot all about it. A very bad miss.
Fact File: Airplane! was released in 1980 and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen. The fast-paced comedy was voted the second best comedy film of all time in 2006, after Monty Python's Life of Brian. The quote is uttered by First Jive Dude, who is speaking to Second Jive Dude.
16) I hadn't seen this film, so at least this one wasn't an annoyance. Fact File: Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey. The film is set during the Vietnam War and the term 'full metal jacket' refers to the bullets that the troops used. The quote is shouted by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at Private Davis in this scene.
17) Another easy one that foxed us. When you are certain you've heard a quote, but can't place it, it is the most frustrating feeling. Hardly a unique experience on Sunday though...Fact File: Toy Story is a 1995 film directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear. It is the first full length computer animated movie and thrust Pixar Animation Studios into the spotlight. It has spawned two critically acclaimed sequels and is probably one of the most iconic films ever made. Buzz says this to an exasperated Woody, who is trying to convince Buzz that he is not a real superhero.
18) Should I be worried that this film has passed me by? Perhaps not.Fact File: Mean Girls was released in 2004 and was directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. It stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert. It is partly based on the book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The quote is gleefully yelled by the character Jason as two girls take part in a catfight.
19) Should have got this one, but panic had set in by this stage.Fact File: Pulp Fiction is a 1994 film starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman and is probably director Quentin Tarantino's most celebrated film. The film won Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The quote is said by the gangster Marsellus Wallace, who is played by Ving Rhames.
20) Happily we got most of the picture rounds though this one irritated my teammates.
Fact File: Also known as 'Army of Darkness', Evil Dead 3 is part of a franchise directed by Sam Raimi and stars Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davitz. It was released in 1992.21) I hadn't seen this one either. What more can I say?
Fact File: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was released in 2004, was directed by Michel Gondry and starred Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. The central premise of the film is that a couple who have drifted apart from one another are erased from each others' memories.
22 & 23) Just ugh! I quite like the Aunt Joanna one, but since I hadn't heard it on Only Fools and Horses, I had no chance. Fact File: Cockney rhyming slang is thought to have originated in London's East End in the 1840s and may have been developed by criminals in order to communicate without being as easily incriminated by the Metropolitan Police.
So there you have it. This killer session has exhausted me, but don't forget to tell me if you think I've got anything wrong. Until next time then...
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