General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

Salvador Dali

 

[Gloster]

Jacques Tati?

No. It was another branch of the arts, so not film (although there were tenuous connections).

Jean-Paul Sartre?

No, but a touch nearer.

Salvador Dali

No.

 

[DaleCooper]

Serge Gainsbourg

 

[Gloster]

Serge Gainsbourg

No. The person was not French, but lived in France for the last twenty-five years of their life.

 

[RyanOPlasty]

Brussels yo Mechelen?

No. The person was not French, but lived in France for the last twenty-five years of their life.

Pablo Picasso?

 

[Gloster]

Pablo Picasso?

No.

 

[xotGD]

Ernest Hemingway

 

[Gloster]

Ernest Hemingway

Who died in 1961, so would have made a very surprising appearance in a 1973 film. So, no.

The person was a British author, many of whose books have been filmed.

 

[Donny Dave]

John Le Carre?

 

[Gloster]

John Le Carre?

No. The author caused a minor uproar with his review of a Shirley Temple film pre-war that ended with 20th Century Fox suing, some early reviewing being his third connection to films.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Graham Greene?

 

[Gloster]

Graham Greene?

Indeed it was he. Truffaut was trying to fill a very small role of an insurance agent (film production insurance) in the film and had considered but turned down the translator Michael Meyer. Meyer suggested a friend called Henry Graham for the part (I think it is only one scene), but it took a while for Truffaut to realise why everybody else was having a quiet laugh. (This seems to be the general run of events, although there are variations.) It was Greene’s only acting credit.

To you to cast the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Staying with films.
Who was the first black person to win the best actor award at the Oscars?

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.
Staying with films.
Who was the first black person to win the best actor award at the Oscars?

Sidney Poitier

 

[D1511]

That would have been my guess......for that film where he helps a bunch of currant buns build a chapel

 

[Peterthegreat]

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitiers is correct, winning it for the 1963 film "Lillies of the Field".
Your turn to direct the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

That would have been my guess......for that film where he helps a bunch of currant buns build a chapel

That's the film. Unfortunately you were pipped at the post.

 

[DaleCooper]

Sidney Poitiers is correct, winning it for the 1963 film "Lillies of the Field".
Your turn to direct the next question.

It's a good job you didn't ask for the film, I would have said "To Sir, with Love".

Next question:

Which song with lyrics based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice reached no.6 in the UK Singles Chart?

 

[Acathater]

I'll guess at "Don't look back in anger"

 

[DaleCooper]

I'll guess at "Don't look back in anger"

You clearly know the Greek myth unfortunately that's not the song.

 

[Acathater]

Only other relevant piece of music I can think of is the Can-Can dance but I'm sure you don't mean that...

 

[DaleCooper]

Only other relevant piece of music I can think of is the Can-Can dance but I'm sure you don't mean that...

Bad Manners got to no.3 with Can Can but there are no lyrics as it's an instrumental, apart from that it was a good idea.

 

[Acathater]

Bad Manners got to no.3 with Can Can but there are no lyrics as it's an instrumental, apart from that it was a good idea.

don't all those whoops and screams count as lyrics?

 

[martinsh]

To me the immediate association with Orpheus is Underworld, so I'm guessing at From The Underworld by The Herd

 

[DaleCooper]

To me the immediate association with Orpheus is Underworld, so I'm guessing at From The Underworld by The Herd

Yes, from 1967 a year that produced so many classics. Your turn...

 

[martinsh]

Ah, inspired guesswork does work sometimes !

Staying with 1960s/70s music, what feature do the following songs have in common

Sylvia's Mother - Dr Hook
A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty
Same Auld Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold

 

[Donny Dave]

Same songwriter?

 

[DaleCooper]

Ah, inspired guesswork does work sometimes !

Staying with 1960s/70s music, what feature do the following songs have in common

Sylvia's Mother - Dr Hook
A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty
Same Auld Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold

Alcoholic drinks

 

[martinsh]

Neither of those

I'll keep adding more examples - gradually getting more obvious
First one

Maggie Mae - Rod Stewart

 

[xotGD]

Months of the year mentioned in the lyrics?