h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Mt McKinley (Denali) has NOT reverted back to its Indian name - as someone mentioned above. It has reverted to its original Eskimo name.

Pedantically yours L

And allow me to correct myself - "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" *is* in Latin American literature. Just got to that part in the book. So the problem was not, in fact, the questions, but the timing.

I am trying. It's not that easy to think of pop culture questions that are also sufficiently international. Also, you've gone and got me paranoid over my intended answer to this rounds number one. I'm going to have to actually research a question now!

Hopefully the movie round coming up will be a bit more pop culture orientated.

Hmm, the Weird Al round, hmmm, thinks.

Pub Quiz Round Three answers

1) Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Soviet Union in which year? 1985
2) India became independent in which year? 1947
3) In the First World War the third battle of Ypres had a second name, What was it? Passchendaele
4) Oct. 31 1984, in Delhi. Who was assasinated then? Indira Gandhi (Just Gandhi won't do. Could also have been Mahatma or Rajiv.)
5) What was the first country to introduce votes for women? New Zealand
6) Berlin's infamous Nazi Olympics were held in which year? 1936
7) Penecillin, top anti-biotic, was discovered by whom? Sir Alexander Fleming (well, his assistant actually, but that's scientific fame for you.) (He was born just up the hill from where I went to school you know. Another notch in the "Scots invented everything" board)
8) The European Coal and Steel Board has now grown into what? European Union. Or European Economic Community. I even took European Commision, even if it is 20 bloated plutocrats and their dentists.
9) What was the first part of the British Comonwealth to introduce its own citizenship? Canada
10) Allende was overthrown in Chile in which year? 1973

Round Three Scores:
Fenny 2
Hanging Sheep: 8
JimiX: 5
Looney Tunes: 8
Phil: 6
Swiv: 6

Thus overall scores currently stand at;
Looney Tunes: 18.5
Swiz: 14.5
Phil: 11
Hanging Sheep: 8
JimiX: 7.5
Fenny: 5.5
Frink: 4

Round Four - The Electric Kineomatograph Round (That'll be the Movies then)

1) It was recently voted Best British Film ever and has a cameo by Orson Welles. What is this film?
2) While we are on Orson Welles, in Citizen Kane, what is Rosebud?
3) The Shawshank Redemption is based on a short story by whom?
4) Who directed 2001: A Space Opera?
5) And who wrote it?
6) A film starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver with a top Eighties soundtrack. It also had Dan Ackroyd in it and is about hitmen. Name the film.
7) In which recent summer blockbuster film does Bruce Willis end up vaporised along with a HUGE rock?
8) She was once Wednesday Addams and was last seen (at least by me) in Sleepy Hollow. Who is she?
9) Alien, seriously cool late seventies Sci Fi, was written by Dan O'Bannen. He got the idea from a film he wrote with John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape from New York etc.). What was the name of this film?
10) The same Director, Writer, Producer team have made The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary, Trainspotting and one other film. What was this film?

Wow I'm doing better than I thought after that round

Hey, is this a private quiz or can I join in?

I know the answer to #7.

It's Armageddon.

Hi Mike A, anyone can join in. email your answers to Munchlkin at;
[email protected]
He'lll then score them and post the answers and results here before going on to the next round.

Damn! Now the other people know the answer! Not that it's hard...*^_^*

Thanks for the filling in mate!

Wow guys. I'm doing *really* bad. . You all still love me, right?

Anyhow, back to coming up with answer that *would* be considered correct, if I (made it public that I have) ruled the world (for a while now)...

Errr... badly, that is. I'm going to go and sit in the corner for a bit.

Round four is really good! I got most of the answers (I think). I think I will have to come back here more often.

Just because I got here late and only know three answers in Round Four I'll have at the quizmaster a bit. In round three you mentioned that just Gandhi wouldn't count, as it "could have been Mahatma...". There was never anyone named "Mahatma Gandhi". "Mahatma" is a religious pseudo title that he never liked very much. *I* will give *you* points if you can tell me at [email protected] A) what "Mahatma" means, and B) what the Mahatma's first name actually was. Bonus points for his middle initial, which shouldn't be hard, as it's used almost anywhere his first name is used...

~Irving

Oooh damn! I was reading a book about Gandhi a few weeks ago, with all these names in it....
Ask me what his wife's name was and I'll get it. It sounds rude!

So - I have entered the fray at round 4 so how are we going to keep the scores with us late comers? How about giving us an average score of everyone elses or something...?

I've entered! Finally! Hurrah!

Oh - and what Fink says

Well that was what he was called in My-Big-List-O-Assasinated-People

I shall look it up in a bit.

Incidently, you are all doing well on the film round. Keep it up.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

That would be him.

~Irving

You hear the answer, and kick yourself thinking "why didn't I get that?"

Well done .

Perhaps you didn't do a report on him in highschool? If it's any consolation, I didn't know his middle name. I knew him as Mohandas K. Gandhi.

~Irving