- Calvin's Quiz #487 - REPOST - 1 Update
- Calvin's Quiz #487 - 1 Update
- QFTCI5EP Game 3, Rounds 7-8: scientific TV and bad movies - 3 Updates
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: May 27 03:00AM -0500 In article <0557d3d8-f5e9-49ee-b286-84d78bb68306@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the moon? Lyndon Johnson > 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)? > 3 Which Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International Monetary Fund? > 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness? warm puppy > 5 Name any of the 3 Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears. > 6 What does an upside-down flag traditionally signal? assistance needed > 7 What physical feature do anteaters such as the echidna and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess? navel > 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"? flubber > 9 Extending from the lumbar to the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body? sciatic > 10 Which 1988 Tim Burton comedy fantasy film won the best makeup Oscar in 1989? Beetlejuice -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: May 27 07:55AM Calvin <334152@gmail.com> wrote in > hadn't posted it! > 1 Who was the American President when man first walked on the > moon? Nixon > 2 Passing thought China, India and Bangladesh, what is the > tenth largest river in the world (by water flow)? Ganges > Frenchwoman is currently managing director of the International > Monetary Fund? > 4 What, according to Charles M Schultz, constitutes happiness? A Warm Puppy > and armadillo lack that virtually all other mammals possess? > 8 What fictional substance is also the tile of a 1997 remake > of the 1961 film "The Absent-Minded Professor"? Flubber > 9 Extending from the lumbar to > the back to the thighs, which is the longest nerve in the human body? Sciatic > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com Pete Gayde |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 26 01:53PM > 3. Since 1974: This PBS science documentary series is the US answer > to <answer 2>, and in fact it often airs re-narrated <answer 2> > episodes. Jay O. Sanders has narrated the most episodes at 55. Nova > series, sheds light on the manufacturing process of various > household objects. The narrator generally has at least one > terrible pun per episode. How It's Made > 5. 2003-16: Arguably the most popular science TV series, it starred > Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who put urban legends and popular > beliefs to real-world tests. Explosions were usually involved. Mythbusters > 6. 1993-98: Hosted by everyone's favorite bow-tied engineer, this > series inspired kids of all ages. There was a goofy science > music video at the end of every episode. Bill Nye the Science Guy > 7. 1980 and 2014: The original 13-episode series was rebooted > in 2014 by executive producers Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan, > the wife of the original narrator. Name the series. Cosmos > 1. A so-called satire of the fashion industry, the first movie in > this series had a following, but this putrid Ben Stiller vehicle > appeared 15 years after the original. Zoolander 2 > aliens attacking world monuments made its money-making > appearance, this sequel, described as coarse and stupid, came > and flopped. Independence Day 2 > a Dan Brown novel. That sounds like "The Da Vinci Code", but > it's not that movie, it's a sequel, and it died a fitting death > at the box office. Angels and Demons > 6. Sacha Baron Cohen presents another so-called comedy, about > a soccer hooligan who reunites with his brother, an MI6 spy. > It's scatological, humorless, and mean-spirited. The Brothers Grimsby > De Niro as a senior who goes to spring break with his grandson > actually made money. Do people really want to see great actors > humiliate themselves for a paycheck? Bad Grandpa -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: May 26 04:37PM +0200 >> appearance, this sequel, described as coarse and stupid, came >> and flopped. > Independence Day 2 As if the original was not bad enough. I suffered through the original on a bus in Argentina. (The same bus ride also had me see "Twister" (dubbed in Spanish) and "Demolition Man". In this triplet, the last one was the only one with some qualities, albeit not many.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: May 27 06:46AM +0100 > 1. Since 2010: This series airs on the Science Channel and is > hosted by Morgan Freeman. The episode titles are all questions, > with the most recent being "Can We All Become Geniuses?" Nope > 2. Since 1964: This BBC program is the longest-running science > series worldwide. Most episodes are documentaries on a specific > topic. Paul Vaughan hosted 135 episodes from 1968 to 2013. Horizon > 5. 2003-16: Arguably the most popular science TV series, it starred > Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who put urban legends and popular > beliefs to real-world tests. Explosions were usually involved. Mythbusters > 6. 1993-98: Hosted by everyone's favorite bow-tied engineer, this > series inspired kids of all ages. There was a goofy science > music video at the end of every episode. Bill Nye The Science Guy > 7. 1980 and 2014: The original 13-episode series was rebooted > in 2014 by executive producers Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan, > the wife of the original narrator. Name the series. *adopts Carl Sagan voice* Cosmos > produced for the BBC, had James Burke as the narrator, exploring > how one invention led to the development of the next from ancient > times to the present. The later seasons were produced by TLC. Connections > definition and the most expensive ever commissioned by > the network. Parts of this series were also released as a > documentary film in 2007. Planet Earth > animal behavior. BBC-produced, it aired on Discovery Channel US > in 2010, with Oprah Winfrey replacing David Attenborough as > narrator. Life > 1. A so-called satire of the fashion industry, the first movie in > this series had a following, but this putrid Ben Stiller vehicle > appeared 15 years after the original. Zoolander 2 > aliens attacking world monuments made its money-making > appearance, this sequel, described as coarse and stupid, came > and flopped. Independence Day 2 > a Dan Brown novel. That sounds like "The Da Vinci Code", but > it's not that movie, it's a sequel, and it died a fitting death > at the box office. Inferno > 4. After his terrible performance in 2015's "Mortdecai", Johnny > Depp, fresh from his marital split, embarked on this bloated > sequel to his movie from 2010. Go ask Johnny. Alice Through The Looking Glass > 5. The third and last book in the "Divergent" series got made into > a movie and nobody went. Insurgent? > 6. Sacha Baron Cohen presents another so-called comedy, about > a soccer hooligan who reunites with his brother, an MI6 spy. > It's scatological, humorless, and mean-spirited. "The Brothers Grimsby" (just "Grimsby" in some territories). My wife is from Grimsby - she was not amused. > De Niro as a senior who goes to spring break with his grandson > actually made money. Do people really want to see great actors > humiliate themselves for a paycheck? Bad Grandpa > 8. It's enough to make you break out in hives when reading about it. > Will Smith plays a dad who loses his daughter and starts writing > letters to Love, Death, and Time. We're not kidding! Collateral Beauty. God, the cast they wasted on that garbage. > 10. This historical fantasy/action film stars Gerard Butler. > It was a sand-and-sandals epic with bad special effects, cheesy > characters, and a big studio write-down. Gods of Egypt? the Ben Hur remake? |
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