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Late Tuesday Trivia: Quotes of the 1940s

1. Strange that a man can live with a woman for ten years and not know the first thing about her.
Solved by Hazel (comment #4).

2. I’m going crazy. I’m standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy.
Solved by George (comment #1).

3. This is the land of milk and honey for the health racket. Every woman in California thinks she’s either too fat or too thin or too something.
Solved by Melville (comment #6).

4. Ever hear of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd.
Solved by Evn (comment #5).

5. Yeah, yeah, I know that bromide. Something borrowed, something blue – old, new! Rice and old shoes, carry you over the threshold, Niagara Falls – all the silly tripe I’ve made fun of for years. Is this what I’ve come to? I can’t go through with it. I won’t marry you and that’s that!
Solved by Dawa Lhamo (comment #8).

6. Hey look, Mister – we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”.
Solved by George (comment #1).

7. My dear, since Eve picked the apple, no woman has ever been taken entirely unawares.
Solved by Amy (comment #3).

Trivia will be a nighttime event today

Or tonight.

So busy now.

Tuesday Trivia: Quotes of the 1930s

1. You know you’ve got the brain of a four-year old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.
Solved by Ken (comment #3).

2. I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

3. She’s a female! And all females is poison! They’re full of wicked wiles!
Solved by Ken (comment #3).

4. Now, hold on! Hold on. Don’t get excited here. I’m just tryin’ to tell you that I ain’t got any guns. You see if I woulda had a gun then, why, one of us might have been hurt and it might be me. I wouldn’t want that to happen… would I?
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

5. Well, I guess you can’t break out of prison and into society in the same week.
Solved by George (comment #4).

6. I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative!
Solved by Hogan (comment #5).

7. Look, someone upstairs is playing musical chairs with an elephant. Move one of them out, will you? I want to get some sleep.
Solved by George (comment #4).

Tuesday Do-It-Yourself Vowel Trivia

In honor of Orien Rose, all movies must start with a vowel.

I’ll start you with an easy one, and then you go on and post the next question.

Easy one:

“Falling Slowly”

Tuesday Trivia with Wednesday Theme

Theme solved by Evn (comment #6).

1. The “blouse man” shakes things up.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #13).

2. Hustling pool with Sing, Sing, Sing on the soundtrack.
Solved by George (comment #20).

3. The star of this biopic has the same birthday as the late comedian he portrayed.
Solved by Evn (comment #6).

4. “She must have a bladder the size of a peanut!”
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).

5. A coming of age romance set in 1957 Louisiana, this is the first movie for an Oscar-winning actress.
Solved by Melville (comment #9).

6. “Is this the way it happened? Was Jack the Ripper in fact a sixty-foot sea serpent from Scotland? Did I take this job to make a quick buck? We may never know the answers to these questions.”
Solved by Evn (comment #5).

7. The daughter of a Hollywood legend plays the title role; her mother died during filming.
Solved by Hogan (comment #8).

Tuesday Trivia: This Time, It’s Literary

It has been said that movies and literature go together like bananas and sardines1; that banana/sardine synergy is the subject of this week’s Tuesday Trivia quiz. Your task is to identify an actor who has appeared in adaptations of the work of all three listed authors; for example, if I gave you Tom Robbins, William Gibson, and William Shakespeare, you might answer Keanu Reeves (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Johnny Mnemonic, and Much Ado About Nothing or My Own Private Idaho). For extra credit: one of the actors I have in mind also appears in the work of a fourth (unnamed) author (who should be very familiar to Deborah’s readers).

Get it? Got it. Good.

  1. Dashiell Hammett, Somerset Maugham, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    [solved by Maurinsky, comment #6]
  2. Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leo Tolstoy
    [solved by Melville, comment #1]
  3. Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Lawrence Sterne
    [solved by Hogan, comment #3]
  4. Charles Dodgson, Ernest Hemingway, John O’Hara
    [solved by Melville, comment #8]
  5. Steven King, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler
    [solved by Hogan, comment #10]
  6. Philip K. Dick, Robert Howard, August Strindberg
    [solved by Melville, comment #2]
  7. Samuel Clemens, William Thackeray, John Steinbeck
    [solved by Melville, comment #13]

Note: I have one person in mind for each of these, but if you identify someone else who qualifies you will of course get full credit (and the question will remain open).

1I just said it, so it has in fact been said.

June trivia

All Solved! Go ahead and play trivia in comments!
1. It’s June! Name a movie with “June” in the title.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #4).

2. June is for brides. Name three movies with “Bride” in the title.
Solved by Evn (comments #1 and 3).

3. June is busting out all over! Name 2 movies with “All Over” in the title.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #8).

4. The Summer Solstice occurs this month. Name 2 movies with “Summer” in the title.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #4).

5. The Sun goes into Cancer (the sign of the Crab) this month. Name 3 movies about ocean life.
Solved by Evn (comment #1).

6. But before that, it’ll be in Gemini (the Sign of the Twins). Name 3 movies concerning twins.
Solved by Evn (comment #2) and by maurinsky 9 minutes later (with one overlapping movie) (comment #4).

7. And name 2 movies featuring summer vacations.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #4).

Tuesday Trivia Solutions

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Tuesday Trivia: Special Edition

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1. “I’m suddenly consumed with the overwhelming sensation that I’m covered in some sort of film. It’s in my hair, my face… it’s like a glaze… a coating, and… at first I thought, oh my god, I know what this is, this is some sort of amniotic – embryonic – fluid. I’m drenched in afterbirth, I’ve breached the chrysalis, I’ve been reborn.”
Solved by Trevor J (comment #1).

2. This movie received nine Academy Award nominations; the most for any film that did not receive a Best Picture nomination.
Solved by Melville (comment #3).

3. In this movie about two men who become increasingly enraged with one another after a chance encounter, one of the main characters attends Alcoholics Anonymous. His AA sponsor discusses the connection between anger and addiction with him.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).

4. “You had a leak? You call what’s goin’ on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #5).

5. One of the lead characters is a novelist who writes A Country Made of Ice Cream.
Solved by Melville (comment #3).

6. Tim Robbins full frontal (I think this is the only such movie, and if I’m wrong, I’m sure someone will tell me and I’ll have to come up with another clue).
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4) and maurinsky (comment #6) (3 minutes apart).

7. “It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.”
Solved by Trevor J (comment #1).

Name that actor: Whoosh, that was fast!

Fun!

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