Oscar Trivia 2009 #9
I'm posting a little earlier than usual today. Still feeling bad about publishing the last answer too early and having to disqualify that question.
Today's quotes is a two-fer, from two different movies. I personally think they're toughies, but you guys have been getting everything else, so here goes!
1) "O-Lan, you are the earth."
Name the movie for 5 points. Name the actress who played O-Lan for 5 bonus points.
2) "Caterina, Caterina . . . where you go, rain go. One-a day you gonna smile and we're gonna have a big holiday."
And no, I'm not making fun of Italian-Americans. I merely copied the dialect in which the line was spoken, which might (or might not) help you identify it. Name the movie for 5 points. Name the actor who played the title role for 5 bonus points.
There is a connection between these two actors related to the Oscars. Ten bonus points if you can tell me what it is. There's a possible 30 points for all the right answers.
The answers to be published on Thursday, noon-ish Central Time. No matter how early Cassandra responds, I promise not to publish her answer until after I post the answers. The time that will show the post was made might appear as though she answered after the deadline, but I assure you she did not.
Good luck!
I GOOFED
Cassandra has been having difficulty posting her answers direct to the blog, so she's been e-mailing me and I have been cutting and pasting them. Somehow I accidentally published her answers to question #8 before others had a chance to answer. I have no other recourse but to cancel that question. I'm so sorry. I still don't know how I did that.
For the record, the movie was Carmen Jones (1954). The star was Dorothy Dandridge, and the actresses who spoke the lines in the quotes were Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll. The movie's distrinction is that it was the first to feature an performance by an African-American actress that was nominated for a leading role. Cassandra got all parts of the question correct.
Tune in tomorrow for the first of the last 3 questions.
Oscar Trivia 2009 #8
(See my post from Monday, February 16th. This question of the contest has been canceled. Tune in on Tuesday the 17th for the next quote.)
Is it that time already? It almost slipped past me!
Let's get down to brass tacks and go over the answers to Friday's lightning round questions. For some reason Blogger is not allowing me to add movie posters, so the list of answers is going to look pretty boring, I'm afraid.
1) Frankenstein (1931). This was a remarkably chilling screen version that brought Mary Shelley's 19th century novel to life.
2) Life (1999). Martin Lawrence co-starred with Eddie Murphy (who played Ray), and that line might be his most memorable.
3) The Fugitive (1993). Tommy Lee Jones was the deputy who nicknamed himself "the big dog."
4) Splash (1984). Tom Hanks was the unlucky man who fell in love with a fish.
5) Sabrina (1954). The stars of the first screen version of this play were Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, and Audrey Hepburn. This is, in my opinion, the last film William Holden made before excessive drinking ruined his good looks. Bogart looked markedly unwell to me in this film, I think the cancer that would kill him within a few years had already formed. It's said he considered Holden an overripe juvenile and Audrey Hepburn "awright . . . if you don't mind a dozen takes." And he was miffed when critics suggested he was a little long in the tooth to get the girl from Bill. As for Audrey, all I can say is, what a wardrobe! She truly looked exquisite.
Anyway, LadySilver was the only one to get all five answers and all five bonus questions correctly. Cassandra said "Young Frankenstein" instead of Frankenstein, which was the original and the answer I was looking for, but she does gets the bonus points for correctly naming the author. Kia got all but the last question. We did not hear from Donna this round.
So . . . here are the latest tallies:
Cassandra - 82
Kia - 75
Lady Silver - 60
Donna - 49
Patricia - 28
Wow. What a difference two days makes.
Here's today's quote, the answer to which will be provided on Tuesday, noon-ish Eastern Time. There are only four more sessions, and the last two, those of Thursday and Saturday, will both be lightning rounds. Winners will be announced on Monday, February 23rd. I also want to announce that fourth and fifth place winners will receive special gifts from me as well.
There are two quotes, both from the same film:
1) "We'll be livin' off the fatheads of the land."
2) Woman #1: "Somethin' tells me Chicago's gonna be real good for you." Woman #2: "Somethin' tells me you're gonna be real bad for Chicago."
Five points for the name of the movie. Two bonus points for the actress who played the title character. Three bonus points for the names of the two actresses who made the comments in these quotes (and no, you do not have to specify who said what). Five more bonus points if you can state this film's distinction with regard to the Academy Awards.
That's a total of 15 possible points to be had, folks! Good luck, and see you Tuesday!
Oscar Trivia 2009 #7
My apologies. I was supposed to post an updated score last night, but I ended up going out with my husband on a spontaneous outing, so blame it on Bernard. The updated scores are below.
Shelia informs us that she was writing and had Turner Classics on in the background when she heard Ann Blyth speak the very words to Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce just in time to answer the question! Neat, huh?
I also heard from Reon, who told me this is a busy time for her and she's not able to join us this year. But Donna, you have formidable opponents in both Cassandra and Kia!
As for the one-legged gentleman who gave three different versions of how he lost his leg, I'm sure most of y'all will say that one was a toughie. The answer is the classic Mutiny on the Bounty, the first version from 1935 (Oscar, Best Picture). The tall tales were told by the ship's doctor (or, as Kia pointed out, "surgeon" was the term of the day), who brought cases and cases of liquor aboard for the 2-year voyage.
This film set an Oscar record that still stands today in that all three stars, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone (love that name, is it any surprise that he came from a wealthy New York family?) all received Best Actor nominations (none of them won).
Anyway, Donna knew the name of the movie, but Cassandra (she's back, y'all) and Kia both got the bonus question (that it was the ship's surgeon speaking) as well. I'm impressed that three of y'all knew this one.
Here's where everyone stands, including the above answer:
Donna had 28 points going in, she answered three questions/two bonuses correctly and earned 15 points plus 6 bonus points. New total: 49
Cassandra had 28 points going in, she correctly answered two questions and bonuses and earned 10 points plus 7 bonus points. New total: 45
Kia had 18 points going in, she answered all three new questions and bonuses correctly (the only one to get everything) and earned 15 points plus 10 bonus points. New total: 43
Patricia had 12 points going in and correctly answered two questions and bonuses, earning 10 points plus 6 bonus points New total: 28
Lady Silver had 10 points going in and answered one question correctly, earning 5 points plus 3 bonus points. New total: 18
Shelia is just having fun!
For the weekend I am posting 5 quotes/exchanges, and they might shake things up a bit. You don't have the entire weekend, but you do have until Sunday noonish (Eastern Time) to get in your answers. Some of these you'll probably recognize right off.
1) "It's alive! It's alive!"
Name the movie for 5 points. 3 bonus points if you can name the author of the novel upon which the movie was based on.
2) Man: "Why you got to say nasty shit, Ray?" Ray: "'Cause I'm a nasty motherfucker."
Name the movie for 5 points. Name the actor who played Ray (and who delivered that response with such snark that's it all but guaranteed to break you up) for 3 bonus points.
3) "Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. Don't ever argue with the big dog, because the big dog is always right."
Name the movie for 5 points. Name the actor who said it (the "big dog") for 3 bonus points.
4) "I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's... she's a fish."
Name the movie for 5 points. Name the actor who expressed this lament for 3 bonus points.
5) “David, the last pair of legs that was something cost the family $25,000.”
Name the movie for 5 points. This movie had three stars. 1 bonus point if you can name one, 3 points if you can name two, and a whopping 5 bonus points if you can name all three.
Good luck, and have a wonderful Valentine's Day tomorrow! (I'm going to celebrate by giving my house a really good cleaning.)
Oscar Trivia 2009 #6
A ripple ran through the publishing world yesterday with an announcement about job cuts and restructuring at Harper Collins. Just when I thought the ax was finished falling, at least in the world of publishing. I'd better make my next proposal irresistible . . . and realize that even that might not be good enough.
All of you guessed that Monday's quotes came from Mildred Pierce (1945). I think most of you, if not all, knew that the daughter-from-hell was so disrespectully addressing her mother. Donna told me she thinks I used this movie in last year's trivia. It's one of my favorites. Still, I'll have to watch that repeating.
Interestingly, Shelia said the movie was playing as she posted her answer. Shelia, did you know the answer ahead of time, or did you happen to hear Veda bash her mother while watching the movie? Incidentally, I don't think the movie has been remade. If they were to remake it, they'd probably follow the plot of the James M. Cain novel more closely. The mother of the boy Veda tricked into marrying her recognized Mildred from when she'd applied for a job as a maid in her household, and Veda ended up getting away with the whole enchilada, her mother's money, control of her business, and her husband!
Donna, I totally agree with your comments. You and I will have to get together for lunch one weekend and chat about old movies and their wonderful structuring.
And now for today's quote. This time there's three of them, all from the same film and by the same character:
#1, "I lost my leg with John Paul Jones back in '78."
#2, (five minutes later) "Now, if you’d lost a leg . . . I lost mine in action against the French off Jamaica. A French surgeon did the trick for me. He apologized in French, and I cursed him in English."
#3, (a day or two later) "Now, if you’d lost a leg, my lad . . . I lost mine with a Spanish pirate off the coast of Trinidad. A bullfighter did the trick for me. He was so drunk he nearly cut off the wrong leg."
Five points for the name of the movie. A big 4 bonus points if you can name the occupation of the one-legged man sprouting all this hyperbole (yes, he had a function other than spinning tall tales and, of course, drinking).
The answer will be provided on Friday. Sometime tomorrow, probably in the evening (I'm off tomorrow but am meeting friends for lunch and have a dental checkup), I will publish the tally of where everyone stands through the Mildred Pierce question. On Friday we'll do a "lightning round" of five questions, since it's the weekend.
I'm outta here! Have a good one!
Oscar Trivia 2009 #5
It's the second of three weeks of trivia, and this week's movie quotes might be a little more difficult (but then again, we've got some real pros playing). Let's get straight to it. The line about the murderous, thieving Grogan posted on Saturday came from Romancing the Stone (1984). It was actually dictation of a book from a romance novel, so the occupation was romance novelist.
Only three people answered this one. Patricia missed Thursday's quote, but she's back in it. Kia joined us a little late, but she's still going strong. And, since I did not hear from Cassandra, who posts as VAM170, Donna is the one to beat!
Now for today's quotes (there are two of them):
#1 "With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture, and this town and its dollar days, and its women who wear uniforms and its men who wear overalls. "
#2 "You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing."
Answer on Wednesday, noon-ish (Eastern Time), so get those answers in!
Oscar Trivia 2009 #4
First of all, let me say that although I drafted this post this morning, it's not being published until close to 1PM Eastern Time, so don't let the time of publication throw you off.
Okay, now for Bettye's observations of the day. How 'bout that woman in California who just gave birth to octuplets and now has a total of 14 kids! No sane person would want to do this, even with a husband. What kind of doctor would even consent to implanting more eggs in a situation like that? It's like plastic surgery addicts, but even worse. At least with plastic surgery you're only messing up yourself. There are 14 young psyches to be nurtured here. God help them.
Now (finally) for Thursday's quote. "Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera," was famously said by Yul Brynner in his signature role of the King of Siam (now known as Thailand) in The King and I (1956). He shaved his head to star in the stage production and pretty much kept it shaved the rest of his life. Yul Brynner was also famous for filming anti-smoking ads with the caveat that they be aired only after his death (from lung cancer), which made them very powerful. It's said he had to be given oxygen after filming the strenuous Shall We Dance number (he was just 39 years old at the time).
I had to laugh when someone included in their answer a fondness for the song Getting to Know You, because that is also a favorite of my husband's (although he'll be quick to add that he was in the 2nd grade at the time). This movie was set in 1862, so anyone who said 1860s was correct, and anyone who said 1862 gets double bonus points.
Here's where everyone stands (and this took longer to figure than I thought it would!):
Donna is tied for 1st place with 28 points:
5 +2 bonus for Question #1
5 + 3 bonus for Question #2
5 + 2 + 6 bonus for Question #3)
VAM170 is tied for 1st place with 28 points:
(same as Donna above)
Kia is in 3rd place with 18 points:
5 + 3 bonus for Question #2
5 + 2 + 3 bonus for Question #3
Patricia is in 4th place with 12 points:
5 + 2 bonus for Question #1
5 for Question #2
Ladysilver is in 5th place with 10 points:
5 + 2 + 3 bonus for Question #3
Carol is next with 7 points:
5 + 2 bonus for Question #1
Shelia (who is very busy with two upcoming novels to promote and is playing for fun only) is last:
5 for Question #2
By the way, I want to wish Mrs. Goss (Shelia's mom) a very happy birthday tomorrow!
I will next post a tally on Thursday, because I'm off that day. It isn't a normal question/answer day, but that's when I'm going to do it. Those of you who are behind, don't worry, because: First, next weekend we're going to have "lightning rounds" of 5 quotes at a time, which can change the dynamics of this whole thing (although Donna and VAM seem to be movie experts). Second, a more pratical circumstance: People have been known to simply forget to check my blog and post their answers. Finally, finishing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd means you get something out of playing (did I mention my author copies of The People Next Door came yesterday?) So carry on!
Here's the quote for today:
"That was the end of Grogan... the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible!"
Five points for the name of the movie. Three bonus points for the occupation of the person speaking. Good luck!
Your answers and my answer will be published noon-ish Eastern Time on Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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