msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (01/06/86)
Presenting Mark Brader's movie line identification quiz. Rules are given
at the bottom. Each of the 30 lines or exchanges is from a movie that I
enjoyed watching; the number of different movies is between 20 and 30.
*
1. "A man drowned in his bed? And in his pajamas: the second one
in his pajamas!"
2. "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
3. "Are you getting all this, son, or am I going too fast?"
4. "But you have to remember that, with few exceptions, a worm
is not a human being."
5. "By the authority vested in me by the German Reich, I pronounce
you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution."
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?"
7. "Death's at the bottom of everything; leave death to the professionals."
"Mind if I use that line in my next western?"
8. "Don't worry; there'll be no treaty signed, old boy. I happen to
have in my employ a most dependable... soothsayer."
9. "Don't you get technical with me!"
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!"
11. "Greetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for
that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
And remember, future events such as these will affect YOU, in the
future."
12. "I thought you were a newspaperman."
"Well, that doesn't include kidnapping your fiancee where I come from."
13. "I'm not a cab driver -- I'm a coffeepot!"
14. "Oh, very well. If I were interesting myself in this case, which
I am not, my first move would be to follow that man there."
15. "It flies like a truck."
"Good. What is a truck?"
16. "It's sort of a cause: I want everybody to be smart. I want them
to be as smart as they can be. A world full of ignorant people
is too dangerous to live in."
17. "My density has brought me to you. Oh! What I meant to say was,
I'm your density."
18. "No, no, no reading up, Mr. Jones. I want you just as you are.
What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
19. "On the contrary, you were most attractive, and as for forbidding,
you were anything but. But you were also a little the worse,
or better, for wine, and there are rules about that."
20. "STOP -- THAT -- TRAIN!"
21. "The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as
the party of the first part."
22. "The password will be
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch."
23. "The witnesses will refrain from making jokes. The attorneys will
provide the wisecracks."
24. "There's been a lot of tea about lately. They've captured India,
or something."
25. "They will always belong to me, or to a man like me. Art belongs to
those who can appreciate it."
26. "This scene's supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out.
It'll play just as well this way."
27. "We use the guillotine in this country. I have always suspected that
the blade causes no more than a slight tickling sensation on the back
of the neck. It is only a guess, of course. I hope none of you ever
finds out for certain."
28. "When you say 'others', do you mean-- others?"
29. "Yes sir. I know it makes a terrible noise, excellency. It was
installed for just that purpose."
30. "You followed me!"
"No I didn't. You went to the embassy, and I came HERE, to my HOTEL."
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For each item you can score 10 points, for a total of 300.
Identify the movie ................................ 4 points.
(3 points if there are 2 or more movies by that title and
you don't specify the year.)
Identify who is speaking the line ............... 3 points.
(I want actor's name and character's name, but you can
get 2 points by giving just one.)
Identify who is spoken to ....................... 3 points.
OR Identify speaker of second line ................. 3 points.
(Again, 2 points for identifying only the actor or only the
character name. Or you can win 2 points by telling me what
they are talking about, or something like that.)
Also, I must admit that I don't have all parts of the answers for some
of the questions myself, so if you can answer something I don't know,
you get a 1-point bonus. If you correct an error in the quotations
and I believe you, you get a 5-point bonus. I should add that I have
chopped off one or two beginnings or ends of quotations, to avoid
giving a spoken-to character's name in the question.
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I'll post the answers and scores in 2 weeks or when they stop coming in,
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