General Knowledge Quiz

[ComUtoR]

Not 2001 but maybe 1985 will help.

 

[theageofthetra]

Something to do with Brazil?

 

[ComUtoR]

Something to do with Brazil?

That would be nuts ! Crikey this is becoming a battle. No more room for clues

 

[D6975]

Bond had a fight with Christopher Walken (Zorin) on the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1985 film A View to a Kill.

 

[ComUtoR]

James Bond is clearly the wrong genre. You could link one of the Bonds if we were playing 6 degrees of separation or even a whip swishing, hat wearing, archaeologist. Mr Craig was in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

Please put me out of my misery. The trail of clues are getting harder for me to think up.

 

[DasLunatic]

Something to do with Indiana Jones, then?

 

[ComUtoR]

Something to do with Indiana Jones, then?

No, but the actor who plays Indiana can be linked.

Think Laterally
Take literally
Sci-Fi
1985
Game
Direction
Space
Playground
Dragon
Harrison Ford

The clue I haven't highlighted pretty much tells you the answer :/

 

[DaleCooper]

Ender Wiggin?

 

[deltic1989]

Han Solo?

 

[ComUtoR]

Ender Wiggin?

Huggs and kisses.

The floor is gratefully passed to you. Personally I thought you would get it pretty quickly.

For everyone else.

The Battle Room was a spatial awareness test for the Battle School. Ender Wiggin was given charge of Dragon Squad. As there is no gravity in space and they had no reference to what is up or down Ender cleverly realized that by keeping the enemy's gate as "Down" they would always manage to navigate and drop in on the enemy.

The book was released in 1985 and Harrison Ford played Colonel Graff in the 2013 Film adaptation.

Great book for Sci-Fi lovers but Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker is one of my all time favorite books series.

Well done Dale that was well fought.

 

[DaleCooper]

I don't really deserve the praise, it was just a case of extensive "research" until I found something that ticked all the boxes.

Anyway I don't have a question at the moment so I'll throw it open.

 

[backontrack]

Name The Simpsons episodes from the quotes.

1). D'oh! Stupid poetic justice.
2). Mmm...fattening.
3). Trust in yourself and you can achieve anything.
4). How could this happen? We started out like Romeo and Juliet but it ended in tragedy.
5). I didn't do it.

 

[deltic1989]

Now you're talking

1) s5 ep8 Boy Scouts N The Hood "D'oh Stupid Poetic Justice"
2) s3 ep19 Dog of Death
3) s5 ep14 Lisa Vs Malibu Stacey
4) s3 ep23 Bart's Friend Falls in Love
5) s5 ep12 Bart gets Famous (Although there have been several appearances of this line throughout all the seasons, this episode is the most notable [over]use.

 

[backontrack]

Now you're talking

1) s5 ep8 Boy Scouts N The Hood "D'oh Stupid Poetic Justice"
2) s3 ep19 Dog of Death
3) s5 ep14 Lisa Vs Malibu Stacey
4) s3 ep23 Bart's Friend Falls in Love
5) s5 ep12 Bart gets Famous (Although there have been several appearances of this line throughout all the seasons, this episode is the most notable [over]use.

You're very close, but I'm afraid that, unless I'm missing something, no.2 is wrong. You have the right year (1992), however.

 

[deltic1989]

I wasn't entirely sure of that myself even as I was typing it, now I watched the episode again I've confirmed my incorrectness. However after watching one of my friends favorites, s4 ep3 Homer the Heretic, I can confirm the presence of that line, when Homer is making "Moon Waffles".

 

[backontrack]

I wasn't entirely sure of that myself even as I was typing it, now I watched the episode again I've confirmed my incorrectness. However after watching one of my friends favorites, s4 ep3 Homer the Heretic, I can confirm the presence of that line, when Homer is making "Moon Waffles".

Indeed you are correct. Your floor.

I imagined that the line that precedes it, "mmm...waffle runoff" would have been too easy, so I went with the "mmm...fattening" line instead. It is a very good episode though - one of the funniest.

 

[deltic1989]

Ever so sorry to take so long to come back to this. I have been out of internet range for the last couple of days.

Staying along similar lines. Please put these five movie quotes in chronological order by the release date of the film. Also to really impress me give the film title and name of the character speaking.

1) "Sheriff do the letters, F.O. Mean anything to you?"
2) "For England, For home, and for the prize"
3) "Bet you half a crown it doesn't work anyway."
4) "I can see it may be dangerous for you, but if the government trusts me, maybe you could"
5)"That's detente Comrade. You don't have it I don't have it".

 

[fowler9]

I know 2 and 4 deffo. Hmmmm.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Number 5 : The words were spoken by James Bond in the film "For Your Eyes Only" to General Anatol Googol, who had just landed in his military helicopter, after Bond threw the ATAC machine from the building helicopter landing area of the building at the top of the mountain, causing it to totally shatter.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

At a guess, I'd say that they were all lines from Bond films.

1. James Bond (Roger Moore) to Sheriff J W Pepper in "Live and Let Die"
2. 009 (Sean Bean) to 007 (Pierce Brosnan) in "Goldeneye"
3. 007 (Sean Connery) to Q (Desmond Llewellyn", film unknown
4. 007 (Daniel Craig) to unknown, film unknown!
5. As above.

The order .... 3, 5, 1, 2, 4.

 

[deltic1989]

Number 5 : The words were spoken by James Bond in the film "For Your Eyes Only" to General Anatol Googol, who had just landed in his military helicopter, after Bond threw the ATAC machine from the building helicopter landing area of the building at the top of the mountain, causing it to totally shatter.

You have this one correct.

At a guess, I'd say that they were all lines from Bond films.

1. James Bond (Roger Moore) to Sheriff J W Pepper in "Live and Let Die"
2. 009 (Sean Bean) to 007 (Pierce Brosnan) in "Goldeneye"
3. 007 (Sean Connery) to Q (Desmond Llewellyn", film unknown
4. 007 (Daniel Craig) to unknown, film unknown!
5. As above.

The order .... 3, 5, 1, 2, 4.

I can understand your thinking, as I have posted an entirely Bond themed question previously. However only one is from a Bond film, the rest are un-related to the James Bond Series.

Clue: The earliest of these films was released in 1955 the most recent was released in 2003.

 

[DaleCooper]

3) "Bet you half a crown it doesn't work anyway."

That sounds like something Michael Caine would say.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

As luck would have it, I was watching the very film this came from only minutes ago

My answers are as follows:

3. Dambusters - Captain "Mutt" Summers

1. Smokey and the Bandit - Bandit

5. For Your Eyes Only - Commander James Bond

4. Top Gun - Lieutenant Pete Mitchell, callsign "Maverick"

2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Captain Jack Aubry

 

[deltic1989]

As luck would have it, I was watching the very film this came from only minutes ago

My answers are as follows:

3. Dambusters - Captain "Mutt" Summers

1. Smokey and the Bandit - Bandit

5. For Your Eyes Only - Commander James Bond

4. Top Gun - Lieutenant Pete Mitchell, callsign "Maverick"

2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Captain Jack Aubry

Is 100% correct, and extra ration of rum for you shipmate

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Is 100% correct, and extra ration of rum for you shipmate

Thanks - I love movies, so that was easy for me...

Tricky five for you:-

1) In Star Trek, what class of ship was the Enterprise-A?
2) Name the only German vessel in WW2 that sank ships without the loss of ANY lives of their crews?
3) When privatised services started for the first time in decades, what was funny about the 0105 Fishguard service that day?
4) Who lived in a lake on Wild Cat island?
5) What purpose did heart valves in articifial hearts originally serve?

 

[ComUtoR]

1) In Star Trek, what class of ship was the Enterprise-A?

Constitution

2) Name the only German vessel in WW2 that sank ships without the loss of ANY lives of their crews?

If this is about film then I'm gonna guess U571 ?

4) Who lived in a lake on Wild Cat island?

It's making a return with a name change !!

5) What purpose did heart valves in articifial hearts originally serve?

To provide a heart beat ?

 

[Springs Branch]

3) When privatised services started for the first time in decades, what was funny about the 0105 Fishguard service that day?

Was this meant to be the very first train departure (or one of the first departures) on the newly-privatised, post-BR railway, but was operated by a Rail Replacement Bus? An early taste of things to come.

 

[BurtonM]

The rail replacement bus story rings a bell, ironically. I agree with that.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Yes, Springs Branch and BurtonM

ComUtoR and Springs Branch are winning so far with 1 point (even if I am being somewhat generous about the answer to Q1)

 

[Springs Branch]

Can we take it that ComUtoR has won this one with 4 out of the 5, and now has the floor to post the next question ?