| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Dec 18 09:50AM Mark Brader wrote: > 1. The role that brought Irons fame was that of Charles Ryder, > in a 1981 British television adaptation of an Evelyn Waugh novel. > Name the novel. Brideshead Revisited > the TV series "The Borgias", playing the role of patriarch > Rodrigo Borgia. By what title is Rodrigo Borgia better known > in history? Pope Gregory IX > Simon Gruber (brother of the villainous Hans Gruber, who was > played by Alan Rickman in the original film). Name the franchise > or the specific movie. Indiana Jones > 8. In 1998, Irons played a musketeer alongside John Malkovich, > Gérard Depardieu, and Gabriel Byrne in the movie "The Man in > the Iron Mask". What was his character's name? Aramis, Porthos > 10. Irons has also done voice work in animated movies. He provided > the voice of the villainous brother Scar in a 1994 Disney movie. > Name the film. Lion King > A2. There is no standard way to measure waterfall height, but > most experts agree that Angel Falls is the tallest in > the world. In which country can you find it? Venezuela > B1. Who was "Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, > with hideous ruin and combustion down, to bottomless > perdition"? Satan > B2. Which literary character seemed to have met his doom by > being cast off a cliff into Reichenbach Falls, but was > later revived by the author due to public pressure? Sherlock Holmes > about Germany. > C2. Name Edward Gibbon's historical masterpiece, published in > the late 18th century. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire > Earth's axis is not perpendicular to the plane of its > orbit around the Sun, but is tilted -- by how much, plus > or minus 1½°? 6 degrees, 9 degrees > E2. At which point of the compass does the Sun set on the evening > of the fall equinox, as seen from every point on the globe? West > runner Zola Budd may or may not have caused an American > runner to fall during the women's 3,000 m event. Name the > American runner. Mary Decker > F2. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, TV viewers in North > America could see Yugoslavian Vinko Bogotaj ["BO-ga-tie"] > fall horrifically every week. What show were they watching? Peter Smyth |
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