A NEW POTUS REQUIRES A NEW MOVIE QUIZ
A NEW POTUS REQUIRES A NEW MOVIE QUIZ
PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS IN A COMMENT, OR YOU WILL RUIN THE QUIZ FOR EVERYONE ELSE. POST THEM IN A PRIVATE NOTE TO ME, BUZZ OF THE ORIENT, AND I WILL REPLY WITH YOUR SCORE AND THE CORRECT ANSWERS.
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The two-picture clue system seems to work well so here we go again. Same as previously, the symbols or pictures represent either the title of a movie or an important item or aspect of it or is in some way representative of it. None of the image clues are actual screen shots from the movie films and I try to use clues that do not make it easy to do a web search, and since this is a test of your movie memory, web searching is cheating. Some of the questions are about relatively well known movies, but some classics and lesser known ones are included. Some of the movies are repeats - ones I've used before, but with different clues. So give it a try and NAME THESE MOVIES.
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The quiz has been up for a week, and there appears to be less interest in it than previously. Only 7 members gave it a shot, so I will allow the exercise to rest for a while before producing a new one. This time, Snuffy was tops with 18 out of 20, Vic Eldred was next with 17, and Kathleen came in third with 16. Honourable mention to Perrie with 15. Every question was answered correctly by one participant or another, so none were impossible. Here are the answers.
Thanks to all who participated. Unfortunately there are very few members who are into movies on this site.
I had fun with it too.
What would everyone think about a movie quiz with the genre being horror?
Best way to find out is to do a sample - 10 movies.
How about Sci-Fi as a quiz?
I don't see why not.
Although, some sci-fi could classify as horror and some horror could classify as sci-fi.
There's no reason not to try different themes for the quizzes - even politics because it's the most popular topic of the day. There are lots of movies, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The American President, etc.
I just had a thought. It involves a not so well known movie from 1962. It probably derailed Bobby Darin's brief foray into acting only because he was too convincing as a man we might all tend to hate & fear. It contained a scene that was over the top & sexually torrid - I hate to admit that concerning a woman being humiliated. Sidney Poitier was brilliant. You could call it political in the extreme sense.
Do we dare do it, Buzz?
Do what, Vic? You've given away the name of that movie by naming the two stars in it, because the two never were in any other movies together. It isn't easy to produce these quizzes because of having to not use screen shots or quotations (there are web sites that will identify the movies from those), or identifying the actors/directors, etc and having to read the story synopsis on movie web sites to make sure the answers are not made obvious by them. The clues cannot be too remote nor too obvious. They have to be a true test of the participants' memories of the movies themselves in order to be able to identify the clues. However, I also posted many questions where just saying out loud what the clues are will identify the movie even if you never saw the movie, for example in the quiz above "Blackboard Jungle". It was fun to put together three questions in a row where the Empire State Building played a part - most participants were able to name them. I considered this last quiz to be a success because every movie I posted clues about was identified by at least someone or other (notwithstanding that one participant bitched about A Price Above Rubies). In the previous quiz, nobody was able to identify the movie "Taken" which surprised me, as it starred Liam Neeson, and the words "Good luck" were the key for him to identify the kidnappers of his daughter, who had just arrived with a girl friend as tourists in Paris. I thought that anyone who saw the movie would surely have been able to answer that one. So there are hits and there are misses. The idea that MsAubrey has come up with for theme-basing the quizzes has me interested in doing another one based on her concept now.
I never intended to ask a question regarding the title. I thought it was an interesting movie in many ways, unpopular in it's time, yet of a bit more interest came later. The questions I would use would be only for those who saw the movie. For instance my first question would be "what turned the patient into an anti-Semite? There is only one way to know - you had to have seen the movie. That being said, I think a theme-based quiz is far better than one based on a single movie.
If a quiz were based on a single movie it would have to be one that was exceptionally popular, or else the quiz would have a VERY limited participation, especially if it were an esoteric movie. On a quiz long ago I used a movie called Meetings With Remarkable Men, a movie about the early life of Gurdjieff in which Terrence Stamp acted, and of course nobody had ever seen that movie (except me).
So what shall the category be?
Film Noir?
I have my fedora ready.
Still considering ideas, Vic. Need to come up with a theme that I know enough movies on. I'm not sure I have enough Film Noir movies within my memory, although I do have a bunch.
I'd never get even one answer on a quiz about political movies.
Well, we may well see about that.