What do these works have in common?
Tom and Jerry, Peanuts, Cowboy Bebop, Happy Days, All My Children, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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One question that involves lateral thinking or combining knowledge, rather than the pure recall of a pub quiz question. Not really suitable for use on quiz night, frankly.
What do these directors (and only these directors) have in common?
John Ford, Elia Kazan, Leo McCarey, and Billy Wilder
Hint: Billy Wilder did it twice.
What unusual directorial experience do John Boorman and Dario Argento have in common?
Hints: Ron Howard could do this, but hasn’t come close. And Francis Ford Coppola didn’t do it when he had the chance.
What do these movies have in common? Sunset Boulevard, Dave, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Waking Life, and The Muse
Hint: Also qualifying: Contempt.
Sidney Poitier, Al Pacino, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, ?
Hint: Here’s a longer sequence. Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson; Barbra Streisand; Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman; Jack Nicholson; Harrison Ford; Robert De Niro and Al Pacino; Sidney Poitier; Al Pacino; Sean Connery; Harrison Ford; ?
“Sunday Girl” and “Denis” (Blondie), “Hold On Tight” (ELO), “Jennifer Juniper” (Donovan), “Fade to Grey” (Visage), “Eyes Without a Face” (Billy Idol), “Psycho Killer” (Talking Heads), “Games Without Frontiers” (Peter Gabriel), “Michele” (The Beatles), “Lady Marmalade” (Patti LaBelle)
I’ll post the answer in a few days, if someone hasn’t gotten it.
What unusual distinction unites these artists (and some others)?
Tori Amos, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Erasure, Nanci Griffith, Guns N Roses, k.d. lang, Annie Lennox, Mandy Moore, Simple Minds, and Luther Vandross
What do these musical artists have in common?
The Beatles, Cabaret Voltaire, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Faith Hill, Paris Hilton, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J, Roxette, Third Eye Blind, The Troggs, and Jody Watley
What do these movies have in common?
Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, Coyote Ugly, Blue Crush, The Fast and the Furious, Pushing Tin, Live Free or Die Hard, and The Insider?
(There are other movies that fit the category, but it’s not that common, either.)
Every now and again, I’ll have an idea for a question, do a little research, and find out that it hasn’t been answered yet. At least, not in a simple “check the almanac” sort of way.
Case in point, a question I had been considering for a geography round at the Old Pequliar: what foreign country has had more US citizens die there than any other?
When I came up with the question, I figured it was probably France, what with our participation in a couple of world wars. Then I thought maybe a nearby country like Mexico or Canada would actually win by gradual accumulation — lots of visitors, some of whom die.
Googling didn’t turn anything up. At all. I figured this might be one of those interesting statistics that someone had listed somewhere, but no dice.
I ended up starting a thread on the Straight Dope Message Board. So far, no consensus, but I’m starting to think the answer is Mexico.