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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 06/23/2008 : 11:54:15
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New Series
starts today on BBC Radio4 at 1.30pm. You can listen online.
This is the fiendishly difficult quiz series which commissions questions from me. See if you can guess which are mine 
Or not.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 12:28:17
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Maybe someone should tell the website that this is not actually a comedy program!
As usual I have virtually no idea as to the answers, except Benny Goodman '36 probably refers to his Carnegie Hall concert, the first jazz act ever at that classical music venue - go find the album, particularly "Sing, Sing, Sing"! - and I guess Enterprise '68 refers to "Where no man has gone before..." although how its disproved!? And Moses was first to see the promised land.
And Q8 must refer to Tigers, somehow, as they're Tamil ones in Sri Lanka and Tiger Tiger burning bright.
I assume the clown is Marcel Marceau?!
If you tell me how many of the questions were yours I'll guess which ones!
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 14:44:35
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Maybe someone should tell the website that this is not actually a comedy program!
As usual I have virtually no idea as to the answers, except Benny Goodman '36 probably refers to his Carnegie Hall concert, the first jazz act ever at that classical music venue - go find the album, particularly "Sing, Sing, Sing"! - and I guess Enterprise '68 refers to "Where no man has gone before..." although how its disproved!? And Moses was first to see the promised land.
And Q8 must refer to Tigers, somehow, as they're Tamil ones in Sri Lanka and Tiger Tiger burning bright.
I assume the clown is Marcel Marceau?!
If you tell me how many of the questions were yours I'll guess which ones!
If you listened to the show you'll know you've only got the tiger refs correct. I had two questions in this week ... they commission 20 per series from me, but I never know how many they wind up using or in which show.
If you missed it, I believe it's repeated - I think on Sat nite, but I'll let you know.
PS: Whippy - the BBC category is "Comedy & Quizzes"
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 14:58:39
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You don't need to worry about repeats - isn't it available on-line for a week after broadcast?
And at least I got one right - that's one more than usual. 
And for my next get-wrong trick, I'm going to say you were responsible for questions 1 and 2, and if one of them is wrong, then no.8. And then I give up.
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 15:07:52
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
You don't need to worry about repeats - isn't it available on-line for a week after broadcast?
And at least I got one right - that's one more than usual.
And for my next get-wrong trick, I'm going to say you were responsible for questions 1 and 2, and if one of them is wrong, then no.8. And then I give up.
Thanks for the reminder.
Actually #2 & #4 are mine.
Believe me, although I spend lotsa time researching them, it's much easier to write the questions than answer them. I'm in awe of those panellists. Though, I did get Q 7 right before they did. 
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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 17:24:46
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
I assume the clown is Marcel Marceau?!
I think it's Charlie Chaplin but the others escape me. |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 18:19:13
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I take my hat off to you Beanie. And wave my cane too.
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/23/2008 : 19:16:26
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
I take my hat off to you Beanie. And wave my cane too.
Wave what you like - you're both wrong!
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 07:21:20
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I know the answer to number 6, I think.
Hm... was I supposed to reveal my answer here?
Ehud Barak was PM of Israel and in Strauss' opera "The Woman Without a Shadow" (Die Frau ohne Schatten) there's a character called Barak. |
Edited by - ChocolateLady on 06/25/2008 06:10:58 |
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 12:37:55
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
I take my hat off to you Beanie. And wave my cane too.
Wave what you like - you're both wrong!
Harpo Marx? |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 13:46:35
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
Harpo Marx?
There's a direct link to the other two parts of the question -- get those and you'll get this.
Alternatively - a hint: it's not that kind of clown.
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 14:15:30
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
Harpo Marx?
There's a direct link to the other two parts of the question -- get those and you'll get this.
If we could get those we would have.
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 14:19:39
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Anyhow Beanie, I don't know what right you have to make any guesses here.
This is "Round Britain" quiz, and if you wanted to take part, well, you should have thought about that before the Easter Rising. 
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 14:56:25
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Anyhow Beanie, I don't know what right you have to make any guesses here.
This is "Round Britain" quiz, and if you wanted to take part, well, you should have thought about that before the Easter Rising.
Fine i know when I'm not wanted......
I'll just go and make my own Round The Republic quiz so then I can answer all my own questions.
(....it'll be somewhat shorter in a geographical sense)
Though Bafta I know what you mean about making up questions. I put on a pub quiz a couple of years ago and I looked at the questiona again a few months ago and couldn't answer half of them!! |
Edited by - Beanmimo on 06/24/2008 16:04:49 |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 15:29:13
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
You've very welcome here as far as I'm concerned. Which is pretty far
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 16:06:57
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
And Q8 must refer to Tigers, somehow, as they're Tamil ones in Sri Lanka and Tiger Tiger burning bright.
Clemenceau's nickname was "The Tiger" and Detroit's baseball team is the Tigers. |
Edited by - lemmycaution on 06/24/2008 16:08:45 |
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Round Britain Quiz
