msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/08/86)
Well, I guess the quiz was tougher than I thought. The first posting
attracted 8 responses, but to my surprise, none of them was from
Mark Leeper. It turned out that it never made it to his site, so I
mailed it to him and asked him to repost it. The reposting drew no
further responses except his, so I conjecture that it was
only a small fraction of the net that missed the first posting.
I must say the results didn't surprise me. The winner is
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Mark Leeper (mtgzz!leeper) with a score of 88 out of 300, including
2 bonus points for expanding on my answers.
The second-place individual is Jeff Meyer (moriarty!fluke) with 53.
However, there was also a team entry from Betsy Hanes Perry (dartvax!betsy),
Jim Perry (dartvax!jimp), and Barry Hayes, which scored 79.
The other entries were from, in alphabetical order, Mr. Blore (udenva!showard),
deneb!ccrrick, Manny Costa (rayssd!mpc), Jennifer K. Merrill (dartvax!jennyk),
and tomp@stella.amiga. Their scores in numerical order were 9, 14, 15, 16,
and 17. Curiously, most of the low-scoring responses arrived very quickly.
Here are the answers -- or rather, the first 10 answers, because
I'm going to divide this posting into two parts. In each case I
enumerate how many responders identified the movie and how many
guessed it wrongly; I won't go into details about whether they
also identified the characters and actors.
By the way, the quotes were supposed to be in alphabetical order
by the first word, as a way of randomizing them, but I goofed.
1. "A man drowned in his bed? And in his pajamas: the second one
in his pajamas!"
CHARADE (1963). The next bit is rot13'd because of a *SPOILER*.
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2 responders got the movie, and 1 guessed ANIMAL CRACKERS.
2. "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944). John Alexander as "Teddy Roosevelt"
Brewster, to Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster. Incidentally, this
movie was filmed in 1941, but was not released until the play
had finished its run on Broadway. Nobody got it. 1 responder
guessed DR. STRANGELOVE.
3. "Are you getting all this, son, or am I going too fast?"
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941, not 1931).
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, to the police stenographer.
Nobody got it. 2 wrong guesses: THE BANK DICK, and a Foghorn
Leghorn cartoon (!).
4. "But you have to remember that, with few exceptions, a worm
is not a human being."
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974). Gene Wilder as Frederick
Frankenstein, to Danny Goldman as a student in his
lecture class. 1 responder got it.
5. "By the authority vested in me by the German Reich, I pronounce
you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution."
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951). Peter Bull as captain of the Louisa,
to Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut and Katharine Hepburn
as Rose Sayer, then to his sailor Theodore Bikel and the crew.
This was one of the three easiest, gotten by 4 responders.
6. "Can you give me your solemn oath, as a foreigner, that if the answer
has nothing to do with the murder, you will treat it confidentially?"
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974). Sean Connery as
Col. Arbuthnott, to Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot.
2 responders got the movie.
7. "Death's at the bottom of everything; leave death to the professionals."
"Mind if I use that line in my next western?"
THE THIRD MAN (1949). Trevor Howard as Maj. Calloway,
and Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins. 1 responder got it,
and 1 made the interesting guess of ROMANCING THE STONE.
8. "Don't worry; there'll be no treaty signed, old boy. I happen to
have in my employ a most dependable... soothsayer."
ARABESQUE (1966). Alan Badel as Najeem Beshraavi, to a banker.
No responses.
9. "Don't you get technical with me!"
STAR WARS (1977); later titled STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE.
Anthony Daniels as C-3P0, to R2-D2. Kenny Baker is credited
as R2-D2, but I think he only played in some scenes,
and I accepted just R2-D2. This is my favorite line in
one of my all-time favorite movies; 1 responder got it.
10. "Everybody's got his price. I'm talking big numbers."
"You and your big numbers. You ought to be wearing one right across
your chest!"
BORN YESTERDAY (1950). Broderick Crawford as Harry Brook,
and Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. No responses.
Mark Brader
Answers? Where we're going we won't NEED answers!