Comments on: Quiz at Nine – what’s in a name?

By: MTG

MTG — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:03:08 +0000

With deference to Andrew’s general knowledge, film producers knew Nicolas Givusthepartoriteluncle by many names.

By: Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:44:38 +0000

Does “Er…” mean you are wondering if I should be awarded a bonus point too?

By: James Higham

James Higham — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:30:07 +0000

Er …

By: Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:26:45 +0000

1. Citizen (sooo easy!)
2. Ms. Bullock
3. Mr. Konigsberg
4. Mother of Jean from my primary 5 class actually, honest
5. Nicolas Cage?

Full marks please

By: James Higham

James Higham — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:06:53 +0000

Oops. Corrected. You’re always catching me out.

People do seem to be enjoying these so more to come on subsequent days.

By: Nigel Sedgwick

Nigel Sedgwick — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:53:11 +0000

Should 2 not read Anna Mae Bullock?

I got 1, 2, 3 and 5 right, but only by relying on Wikipedia. On 4, it was no use, and I failed to try harder: silly me, given that what I accepted had nothing to do with films or music.

[Aside: I really should have played at yesterday’s maths: it looked such fun. But I’m not good enough at maths to do it instinctively (let alone be a real mathematician); I’m too old to do such complicated things with enough accuracy and reliably to be efficient; and yesterday I was too ~~tired~~ lazy to write a little computer program in Python to have done for me the accuracy, reliably and efficiency, though I did realise almost immediately that a programmed solution was the best way.

Best regards