Reposting of Brader film quiz
m.r.leeper
Subject: REPOSTING Mark Brader's movie line identification quiz
Summary: 30 lines or exchanges from some favorite movies
Reply-To: m...@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
This is Mark Brader (lsuc!msb) speaking. Mark Leeper (mtgzz!leeper)
told me that my posting of the quiz below never got to mtgzz. So I
figure there are probably a bunch of other places it didn't get to.
So I asked him to repost a copy of it FROM mtgzz, to try to avoid a
repetition of whatever blocked the distribution before. Here it is.
Apologies to those who are seeing this for the second time.
Anyway, the full rules are given at the bottom, but I'm asking you to
identify each of the following 30 lines or exchanges. Each is from a movie
that I enjoyed watching; the number of different movies is between 20 and 30.
*
1. "A man drowned in his bed? And in his pajamas: the second one
in his pajamas!"
2. "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
3. "Are you getting all this, son, or am I going too fast?"
4. "But you have to remember that, with few exceptions, a worm
is not a human being."
5. "By the authority vested in me by the German Reich, I pronounce
you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution."
6. "Can you give me your solemn oath, as a foreigner, that if the answer
has nothing to do with the murder, you will treat it confidentially?"
7. "Death's at the bottom of everything; leave death to the professionals."
"Mind if I use that line in my next western?"
8. "Don't worry; there'll be no treaty signed, old boy. I happen to
have in my employ a most dependable... soothsayer."
9. "Don't you get technical with me!"
10. "Everybody's got his price. I'm talking big numbers."
"You and your big numbers. You ought to be wearing one right across
your chest!"
11. "Greetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for
that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
And remember, future events such as these will affect YOU, in the
future."
12. "I thought you were a newspaperman."
"Well, that doesn't include kidnapping your fiancee where I come from."
13. "I'm not a cab driver -- I'm a coffeepot!"
14. "Oh, very well. If I were interesting myself in this case, which
I am not, my first move would be to follow that man there."
15. "It flies like a truck."
"Good. What is a truck?"
16. "It's sort of a cause: I want everybody to be smart. I want them
to be as smart as they can be. A world full of ignorant people
is too dangerous to live in."
17. "My density has brought me to you. Oh! What I meant to say was,
I'm your density."
18. "No, no, no reading up, Mr. Jones. I want you just as you are.
What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
19. "On the contrary, you were most attractive, and as for forbidding,
you were anything but. But you were also a little the worse,
or better, for wine, and there are rules about that."
20. "STOP -- THAT -- TRAIN!"
21. "The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as
the party of the first part."
22. "The password will be
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch."
23. "The witnesses will refrain from making jokes. The attorneys will
provide the wisecracks."
24. "There's been a lot of tea about lately. They've captured India,
or something."
25. "They will always belong to me, or to a man like me. Art belongs to
those who can appreciate it."
26. "This scene's supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out.
It'll play just as well this way."
27. "We use the guillotine in this country. I have always suspected that
the blade causes no more than a slight tickling sensation on the back
of the neck. It is only a guess, of course. I hope none of you ever
finds out for certain."
28. "When you say 'others', do you mean-- others?"
29. "Yes sir. I know it makes a terrible noise, excellency. It was
installed for just that purpose."
30. "You followed me!"
"No I didn't. You went to the embassy, and I came HERE, to my HOTEL."
*
For each item you can score 10 points, for a total of 300.
Identify the movie ................................ 4 points.
(3 points if there are 2 or more movies by that title and
you don't specify the year.)
Identify who is speaking the line ............... 3 points.
(I want actor's name and character's name, but you can
get 2 points by giving just one.)
Identify who is spoken to ....................... 3 points.
OR Identify speaker of second line ................. 3 points.
(Again, 2 points for identifying only the actor or only the
character name. Or you can win 2 points by telling me what
they are talking about, or something like that.)
Also, I must admit that I don't have all parts of the answers for some
of the questions myself, so if you can answer something I don't know,
you get a 1-point bonus. If you correct an error in the quotations
and I believe you, you get a 5-point bonus. I should add that I have
chopped off one or two beginnings or ends of quotations, to avoid
giving a spoken-to character's name in the question.
MAIL YOUR RESPONSES, DO NOT POST THEM. And send them to me, not Mark Leeper;
the r/R command will reach him, NOT ME, unless your site has the best software.
So, mail to:
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also via { hplabs | amd | ... } !pesnta!lsuc!msb
Mark Brader and uw-beaver!utcsri!lsuc!msb
I'll post the answers and scores in 2 weeks (after this reposting)
or when they stop coming in, whichever comes second. I'll acknowledge all
responses, so if you don't hear back from me, try remailing. My further
apologies to those who did receive this on the first posting and have
already been waiting 3 weeks for the answers -- but the first time I mailed
this to Mark Leeper for reposting, the *mailed* copy disappeared too!
Have fun, anyway!
Mark Brader
Mark Brader
Well, I guess the quiz was tougher than I thought. The first posting
attracted 8 responses, but to my surprise, none of them was from
Mark Leeper. It turned out that it never made it to his site, so I
mailed it to him and asked him to repost it. The reposting drew no
further responses except his, so I conjecture that it was
only a small fraction of the net that missed the first posting.
I must say the results didn't surprise me. The winner is
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Mark Leeper (mtgzz!leeper) with a score of 88 out of 300, including
2 bonus points for expanding on my answers.
The second-place individual is Jeff Meyer (moriarty!fluke) with 53.
However, there was also a team entry from Betsy Hanes Perry (dartvax!betsy),
Jim Perry (dartvax!jimp), and Barry Hayes, which scored 79.
The other entries were from, in alphabetical order, Mr. Blore (udenva!showard),
deneb!ccrrick, Manny Costa (rayssd!mpc), Jennifer K. Merrill (dartvax!jennyk),
and to...@stella.amiga. Their scores in numerical order were 9, 14, 15, 16,
and 17. Curiously, most of the low-scoring responses arrived very quickly.
Here are the answers -- or rather, the first 10 answers, because
I'm going to divide this posting into two parts. In each case I
enumerate how many responders identified the movie and how many
guessed it wrongly; I won't go into details about whether they
also identified the characters and actors.
By the way, the quotes were supposed to be in alphabetical order
by the first word, as a way of randomizing them, but I goofed.
1. "A man drowned in his bed? And in his pajamas: the second one
in his pajamas!"
CHARADE (1963). The next bit is rot13'd because of a *SPOILER*.
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2 responders got the movie, and 1 guessed ANIMAL CRACKERS.
2. "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944). John Alexander as "Teddy Roosevelt"
Brewster, to Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster. Incidentally, this
movie was filmed in 1941, but was not released until the play
had finished its run on Broadway. Nobody got it. 1 responder
guessed DR. STRANGELOVE.
3. "Are you getting all this, son, or am I going too fast?"
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941, not 1931).
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, to the police stenographer.
Nobody got it. 2 wrong guesses: THE BANK DICK, and a Foghorn
Leghorn cartoon (!).
4. "But you have to remember that, with few exceptions, a worm
is not a human being."
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974). Gene Wilder as Frederick
Frankenstein, to Danny Goldman as a student in his
lecture class. 1 responder got it.
5. "By the authority vested in me by the German Reich, I pronounce
you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution."
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951). Peter Bull as captain of the Louisa,
to Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut and Katharine Hepburn
as Rose Sayer, then to his sailor Theodore Bikel and the crew.
This was one of the three easiest, gotten by 4 responders.
6. "Can you give me your solemn oath, as a foreigner, that if the answer
has nothing to do with the murder, you will treat it confidentially?"
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974). Sean Connery as
Col. Arbuthnott, to Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot.
2 responders got the movie.
7. "Death's at the bottom of everything; leave death to the professionals."
"Mind if I use that line in my next western?"
THE THIRD MAN (1949). Trevor Howard as Maj. Calloway,
and Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins. 1 responder got it,
and 1 made the interesting guess of ROMANCING THE STONE.
8. "Don't worry; there'll be no treaty signed, old boy. I happen to
have in my employ a most dependable... soothsayer."
ARABESQUE (1966). Alan Badel as Najeem Beshraavi, to a banker.
No responses.
9. "Don't you get technical with me!"
STAR WARS (1977); later titled STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE.
Anthony Daniels as C-3P0, to R2-D2. Kenny Baker is credited
as R2-D2, but I think he only played in some scenes,
and I accepted just R2-D2. This is my favorite line in
one of my all-time favorite movies; 1 responder got it.
10. "Everybody's got his price. I'm talking big numbers."
"You and your big numbers. You ought to be wearing one right across
your chest!"
BORN YESTERDAY (1950). Broderick Crawford as Harry Brook,
and Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. No responses.
Mark Brader
Answers? Where we're going we won't NEED answers!
Mark Brader
This is the second part of a two-part posting. You have to read the
first part to find out that Mark Leeper is the winner and see my
other remarks.
11. "Greetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for
that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
And remember, future events such as these will affect YOU, in the
future."
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959); also titled GRAVE ROBBERS
FROM OUTER SPACE. (The introduction.) Criswell, as himself,
to you, the audience. I said the quotes were all from movies
I enjoyed watching; this is the only one where the reason
I enjoyed it was that it was hilariously bad. 2 responders
got the movie, and 1 guessed THINGS TO COME.
12. "I thought you were a newspaperman."
"Well, that doesn't include kidnapping your fiancee where I come from."
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940). George Sanders as Scott ffoliott [sic],
and Joel McCrae as Johnny Jones alias Huntley Haverstock.
This was apparently the easiest one to guess wrong; one responder
even gave two wrong guesses. Nobody got the movie. There were
2 guesses each of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and THE FRONT PAGE, and 1
guess each of of HIS GIRL FRIDAY and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. In none
of these does a male reporter consider kidnapping a woman to
whom he is engaged at the time.
13. "I'm not a cab driver -- I'm a coffeepot!"
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE again. Garry Owen as the cab driver,
to Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster and the world at large.
2 responders got it, and 1 guessed YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.
14. "Oh, very well. If I were interesting myself in this case, which
I am not, my first move would be to follow that man there."
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976). Nicol Williamson [sic] as
Sherlock Holmes, to Robert Duvall as Dr. John Watson and
Alan Arkin as Dr. Sigmund Freud. "That man there" is Joel Grey.
3 responders got the movie.
15. "It flies like a truck."
"Good. What is a truck?"
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (1984).
[That's the title I saw it under, but I have evidence that it may
have been shown under shorter titles, so I accepted BUCKAROO BANZAI.]
Peter Weller as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, and Carl Lumbly as John Parker.
4 responders got this one also.
16. "It's sort of a cause: I want everybody to be smart. I want them
to be as smart as they can be. A world full of ignorant people
is too dangerous to live in."
BORN YESTERDAY again. William Holden as Paul Varel, to
Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. No responses.
17. "My density has brought me to you. Oh! What I meant to say was,
I'm your density."
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985), of course. Crispin Glover as
George McFly, to Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines.
Again 4 responders got it.
18. "No, no, no reading up, Mr. Jones. I want you just as you are.
What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT again. Harry Davenport as Mr. Powers,
to Joel McCrae as Johnny Jones. No responses.
19. "On the contrary, you were most attractive, and as for forbidding,
you were anything but. But you were also a little the worse,
or better, for wine, and there are rules about that."
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). James Stewart as Macaulay Connor,
to Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord. 2 responders got it.
20. "STOP -- THAT -- TRAIN!"
THE DRESSER (1983). Albert Finney as "Sir", to the driver of
a train just leaving the station without him and his company.
2 responders got the movie.
21. "The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as
the party of the first part."
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935). Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood,
to Chico Marx as Fiorello. 2 responders got the movie, and
1 guessed PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE.
22. "The password will be
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch."
BARBARELLA (1968). David Hemmings as Dildano, to Prof. Ping.
Nobody got it, but 1 responder wrongly guessed MONTY PYTHON
AND THE HOLY GRAIL.
23. "The witnesses will refrain from making jokes. The attorneys will
provide the wisecracks."
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959). Joseph Welch as the judge.
He later became a judge in real life, incidentally.
No responses.
24. "There's been a lot of tea about lately. They've captured India,
or something."
1984 (1984, not 1956; and not 1985, which was the date of
general release in North America). Suzanna Hamilton as Julia,
to John Hurt as Winston Smith. 1 responder got it.
25. "They will always belong to me, or to a man like me. Art belongs to
those who can appreciate it."
THE TRAIN (1965). Paul Scofield as Col. von Waldheim, to Burt
Lancaster as La Biche. No responses. Now, if I'd cross-posted
to net.railroad ...
26. "This scene's supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out.
It'll play just as well this way."
NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941). W.C. Fields, stepping
out of the ROLE of himself to BE himself (got that?), talking
to you, the audience. --And he's telling the truth about the
censor, too! No responses.
27. "We use the guillotine in this country. I have always suspected that
the blade causes no more than a slight tickling sensation on the back
of the neck. It is only a guess, of course. I hope none of you ever
finds out for certain."
CHARADE again. Same people as in #1.
The same 2 responders got it.
28. "When you say 'others', do you mean-- others?"
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE again. Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, to
Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster and Jean Adair as Martha Brewster.
No responses.
29. "Yes sir. I know it makes a terrible noise, excellency. It was
installed for just that purpose."
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966). Jacques Marin as the chief guard
at the Kleber-Lafayette Museum, to an exalted personage on the phone.
No responses.
30. "You followed me!"
"No I didn't. You went to the embassy, and I came HERE, to my HOTEL."
ARABESQUE again. Sophie Loren as Yasmin Azir, and Gregory
Peck as David Pollock. Nobody got it; 1 responder guessed MISSING.
Mark Brader
"Let's get outta here!"