Weekend Trivia
No Googling! It's just for fun!
1. A road trip takes you to: An apostle, three US Presidents, a legendary frontiersman, an Iron German and a stony Frenchman. Where have you been?
2. Though he never won, Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for a Best Director Oscar five times. Name the films. And, for bonus marks, which Hitchcock movie DID win the Best Picture Oscar and who won the Best Director award that year and for what film?
3. What type of dogs were owned by:
a) Bill Sikes
b) Stiffy Byng
c) Dr Mortimer
4. What links Sam Maguire and Liam McCarthy?
5. First lines:
"XXXX XXXX was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to XXXX."
To whom did this mean a lot and in which novel?
Have at it in the comments! Answers will be posted in a few days.
UPDATE: The keenly awaited answers...
1. Yes it's a road trip through various US state capitals: St Paul (Minnesota), Madison (Wisconsin), Lincoln (Nebraska) and Jefferson City (Missouri), Carson City (Nevada), Bismarck (North Dakota) and Pierre (South Dakota).
2. Hitchcock was nominated for: Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954), and Psycho (1960). Rebecca did win the Best Picture Oscar, but Best Director went to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
3. a) Bill Sikes owned a Bull Terrier named Bullseye in Oliver Twist
b) Stiffy Byng owned a Scotch (Aberdeen) Terrier named Bartholomew in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
c) Dr Mortimer owns a small "curly-haired" spaniel in The Hound of the Baskervilles
4. The trophies awarded to the Senior All Ireland Football and Hurling champions are named after Mr Maguire and Mr McCarthy respectively.
5. These are the first two lines of The Sun Also Rises. Robert Cohn was the middleweight boxing champion at Princeton.
I'm guessing the Dakotas for #1 - Iron German might be Bismarck, stony Frenchman might be Pierre, the founding father and 3 presidents could be Mt Rushmore (although that has 4 presidents, not 3...?).
Posted by: Andrew | May 19, 2007 at 08:42 AM
Agreed with #1 - Bismarck, Pierre and so on. The frontiersman - Paul Bunyan? - anyone who's seen Fargo will make the same guess.
Hitchcock - I couldn't say which 6 he was nominated for, but his best picture winner was, I think, Rebecca. No idea who won Best Director.
And that's about it. Must do better.
Posted by: Mr Eugenides | May 19, 2007 at 09:26 AM
St Paul for the Apostle? Bismark, yes, Franklin a city up there somewhere?
Bill Sykes, Dickens somewhere. Bulldog wasn't it? Or a Staffordshire?
Stiffy Byng is in Wodehouse? Drones Club habitue? No idea about the dog though. A pug or Pekenese like PG himself?
Posted by: Tim Worstall | May 19, 2007 at 10:12 AM
An apostle
St. Paul, MN
Three US Presidents
Lincoln, NE
Washington, DC
Iron German
Bismarck, ND
a stony Frenchman
Pierre, SD
Where have you been?
On a tour of US state capitals.
Posted by: ben | May 19, 2007 at 12:24 PM
I thought Byng had a Pomeranian. The GAA question puts me in mind of the 1997 Ulster Final (football) when we pulled up next to a family in a Derry car in Clones.
"We came through such-and-such-a-town", said the Derry man.
"Aye, that's a right little Orange Lodge," said my friend, the Cavan man.
"They were making an effort, tho'", says the Derry woman. "They had a banner up across the road saying 'WELCOME SAMUEL TO LONDONDERRY'."
Posted by: ben | May 19, 2007 at 12:31 PM
I'm reasonably sure the answer to 5 is Robert Cohn from The Sun Also Rises. Not my favorite novel, indeed, not even my favorite Hemingway, and Cohn is the only thing I remember from it because of the whole "Hemingway is an anti-semite" bit.
I think Stiffy Byng had an Aberdeen or something of the sort. Actually, knowing nothing of dogs, I'm not even sure if that's a breed.
That's all I've got.
Posted by: Averroes | May 19, 2007 at 02:22 PM
'On a tour of US state capitals.'
Including Madison WI and Jefferson City, Missouri.
Hitchcock's films included Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, Lifeboat and The 39 Steps. Guessing; he won for Psycho.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | May 19, 2007 at 07:09 PM
The frontiersman is Carson City, Nevada.
Posted by: Brittain33 | May 20, 2007 at 08:13 PM
I think he must've been nominated for Rebecca.
Posted by: Gabriel | May 21, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Stiffy Byng had a Scotch Terrier, with eyebrows. (Name of Bartholomew.)While not large, it biteth like the serpent, and stingeth like the adder, meaning watch your ankles!. Still not as scary as Dr. Mortimer's dog.
Posted by: James | May 21, 2007 at 03:50 PM