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Blogger gets Better!

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will notice a couple of new features I have added to the blog. Thanks to those wonderful people at Blogger, you can now take part in a "Movie Quotes" Quiz. Also if movies aint yer thang, you can try the harder puzzles/riddles quiz.
The Movie quote thing, will only be up for a while though and then I will look to change it, nothing like a bit of variety!

Fun & Games

Festive Fun Quiz

Well I have finally found a spare few moments to get the Christmas Quiz posted, it's taken a while and for that I apologise, but as the wife has bought enough off Ebay for this year I get to go on the computer again!!!

OK so here we go have fun with the quiz, and a very Merry Christmas to you all!!!

Round 1 - What Movie
Nice easy one to start with, all the images below are from movies that have a christmas theme running through them. Simply name the film. Oh and the actor featured.

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There not so hard was it??

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Round 2: - Santa Who
Those pesky make-up Elves have been at it again, this time they've dressed up some stars as Santa. All you have to do is name the star!

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Another easy one Eh???

Now onto the round that Will hates, it's the music round!

Round 4: Christmas Carols
A nice round up of Christmas songs, simply name the song and the artist, a couple have been altered slightly (sped up) as it would be far too easy otherwise!

Christmas Tune 1
Christmas Tune 2
Christmas Tune 3
Christmas Tune 4
Christmas Tune 5
Christmas Tune 6
Christmas Tune 7
Christmas Tune 8
Christmas Tune 9
Christmas Tune 10

Finally we have the last round, that could be the hardest of all!

Round 4 - Christmas Crackers

Below are some of the worst ever Christmas cracker jokes, your task is to simply give the punchline or fill in the missing word.

1) What do sheep say to each other at Christmas time?Merry Christmas to ????

2) What's the best thing to put into Christmas dinner? ??????

3) What comes at the end of Christmas Day? ??????

4) What's the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet? The Christmas alphabet has ?????

5) What did Adam say on the day before Christmas? ???????

6) What is the best key to get at Christmas? ??????

7) What do angry mice send to each other in December? ????? ?? Cards

8) Knock Knock.Who's there?Mary.Mary who? ??????

9) Why is Rudolph always so wet? Because he ??????

10) Why did the lawyer have to dress up as Father Christmas? His Contract had a ??????

Awful jokes I know but that is why they belong in Christmas Crackers.

Hope the quiz was OK. Have a great Christmas and New Year!

Fun & games

Director Quiz Answers

Only two entries this time around, and Will only managed a couple of rounds, but still ended up with a very respectable 26. So once again the winner was Keith, who just happened to set the theme of the quiz! With an excellent 40! Please don't blame me if there is some dispute with Hitch's fav film, I got it from the official biography!
So here are those all important answers.

Round 1: The Movie Link

1) Stanley Kubrick – The Shining
2) Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window
3) George Lucas – Star Wars
4) Ridley Scott – GI Jane
5) Spike Lee – Malcolm X

All nominated for but never received a best director oscar


Round 2: Directors cut

1) Clint Eastwood
2) Paul Haggis
3) Steven Soderbergh
4) Stephen Spielberg
5) Martin Scorsese
6) Peter Jackson
7) Robert Zemeckis
8) James Cameron
9) Oliver Stone
10) Sam Mendes

Who are all incidently Best Director Winners!

Round 3: My Direction Music

1) Kim Wilde/Cambodia
2) Ultravox/Vienna
3) J Geils Band/Centrefold
4) Cock Robin/The promise you made
5) Limhal/Never ending story
6) Pet Shop Boys/West End Girls
7) Baltimory/Tarzan Boy
8) Call Me/Blondie
9) Jonah Luis/Stop the Calvary
10) Kelly Marie/Feels like I’m in love

Round 4: Quizzicles – Hitch

1) The lodger
2) An extra in the news room
3) Saint Ignatius College
4) Alma Reville
5) 14th August 1899
6) She was 1 day older
7) Benji!
8) Gave him a letter to take to the local police station where upon reading it the desk sergeant would lock him up for ten minutes!
9) He never drove
10) 7
11) Bowel Movement
12) Eggs
13) Luis Bunuel
14) True
15) Der Mude Tod

Fun & Games

Directors Quiz

Well fun and games pretty much describes what has been happening to me over the past few weeks. I have visited 5 sites in the States going from Phoenix to Iowa, to South Carolina and then Miami and then back to South Carolina! That last trip being tagged on with the view of "go or else". Worse still the last site, who my work INSISTED I went to, was not ready!!!!! Good theme then for this week - Directors, as my lot have only one sense of direction, and that is down!

Hey ho, on with the quiz

Round 1: Movie Link

OK quite simple I just want the name of the film, and it's Director, then tell me what links the directors.

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Round 2: The Directors Cut

We all know how film companies like to release director's cuts of films, well I like to cut directors, so here are 10 that have a shredded look. Just name them.

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Round 3: A Musical interlude

OK do you know how hard it is to try and find music that relates to directors?? So I yes me, I am the director of music for this quiz, and my directorial debut centres around music of the 80's, simply name the song and artist.

80s clip 1
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Round 4: Quizzicals on Hitchcock
OK a few questions now based on probably the best director of the lot, The Hitch, The Master of Suspense, yes 15 questions on Alfred Hitchcock.
1) Apart from directing many great films Hitchcock also reportedly had a cameo in them all, but what was the 1st film he directed and ‘starred’ in?
2) In relation to question 1 what part did he play?
3) Which school did Hitchcock attend?
4) What was the name of Hitchcock’s wife?
5) When was she born?
6) What was their age gap?
7) One of Hitchcock’s two guilty pleasure films was Smokey and the Bandit, but what was the other?
8) As a child how would Hitchcock’s father punish him if he misbehaved?
9) How long did Alfred Hitchcock hold a driving licence for?
10) What was his favourite number?
11) He often used the initials BM in his films, what did BM stand for?
12) What was it he had a morbid fear of?
13) Who did HE consider as the best director ever?
14) He appeared on a US stamp, true or false?
15) What was his favourite film?

Fun & Games

Magic Quiz Answers

So by the looks of things you all know your Harry Potter stars, as all of you got 100% on that round! But who won the quiz this week??
Twice in a row that I know of now, the winner was Keith with a whopping 71 out of 75!!

Here are the scores on the doors;

Keith - 71
Mark - 69
Mum - 62
Will - 55

All very good scores, so I will have to try and tax you a bit more on the Directors Quiz, that I am preparing next.

Here then are the all important answers;

Round 1: Movie Link

1) Escape to Witch Mountain
2) Blair Witch Project
3) Narnia The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe
4) Witches
5) The Witches of Eastwick

Link all have a witch in the title

Round 2: Potty about Potter

1) Stanislav Lanevski – Victor Krum
2) Mirian Margolyes – Professor Sprout
3) Kenneth Branagh – Gilderoy Lockhart
4) Alan Rickman – Professor Snape
5) Warwick Davis – Professor Flitwick
6) Richard Griffiths – Vernon Dursley
7) Evanna Lynch – Luna Lovegood
8) Timothy Spall – Peter Pettigrew/Wormtail
9) Robert Pattinson – Cedric Diggory
10) Matthew Lewis – Neville Longbottom

Warwick Davis played more than one part.

Round 3: Musical Magic

1) Puff the Magic Dragon – Peter Paul & Mary
2) Every little thing she does is Magic – Ra (I accepted Police)
3) C’est la vie – Bewitched
4) Genie in a bottle – Christina Aguilera
5) The Power – Snap
6) Pinball Wizard – The Who
7) See my Baby Jive – Wizzard
8) Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
9) Magic Moments – Perry Como (Accepted Frank Sinatra)
10) I put a spell on You – nina Simone

Round 4: Quizzicles of magic Some fiction some fact, but all Magic.

1) Wand lengths for Harry, Ron and Hagrid
2) Roy Wood
3) Debbie Mcghee
4) 62442 (MAGIC on a telephone pad!)
5) Quidditch
6) Dumbledore
7) Never tickle a sleeping dragon
8) Mark Wilson
9) It is part Kneazel
10) Tommy Cooper
11) “You’re going to like this not a lot, but you’ll like it!”
12) Give away his/her secrets
13) Claudia Schiffer
14) Opens locked doors
15) Pug
16) David Blaine
17) 175417
18) Kenmore Kestrals or Ireland
19) Ernie
20) Polyjuice Potion

Fun & Games

Travel Quiz
As I go way a lot, I thought it would be an idea to base this (new monthly) quiz, on travel. Plus you have got around a month to do it.

Round 1: Movie Links
Nice and easy to start this time, simply name the films and tell me what links them together.

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Possible Score: - 10 points

Round 2: Road Warriors
The following celebrities all feature in so called "Road Movies", the simple task for you is to name the star/s and the film they are from, except for number 3 where I just want the film.

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Possible score: 23 points

Round 3: Travel Anthems

Not really travel anthems in the rock and roll sense, more of the nationalistic pride sense. Yes folks simply identify the country by these national anthems, be careful though as not all of them are the start of the national anthem ;)

1)Anthem 1
2)Anthem 2
3)Anthem 3
4)Anthem 4
5)Anthem 5
6)Anthem 6
7)Anthem 7
8)Anthem 8
9)Anthem 9
10)Anthem 10

Possible score: 10

Round 4: Quizzicles

The last round now, and again it is the quizzicles, this time with a travel theme to them.

1) Which city is the most filmed city in the world?
2) What is the name of the real station that doubles as Hogsmeade Station in Harry Potter films?
3) What other TV series is this village station famous for?
4) Which country uses the Kwanza as it’s currency?
5) Which American state flys the Union Jack?
6) The Paris to Dakar Rally is world famous, but on what date did the first one start?
7) In 1982 a famous ladys son was lost for 6 days in the desert whilst competing in the Dakar, but what was his name?
8) The Amazing Race, is a TV show in which competitors race each other over the globe, but who won the first one?
9) And on the subject of question 8, what were their professions?
10) There are 52(in my mind!) sorry 50 states in America, but where is generally known as the 51st state?


Possible score: 10


A total of 53 points on offer then, the best of luck to you all.