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

As a history major and would-be social studies teacher I'm ashamed to report I did better on Round 4 (7/10) than Round 3 (6/10). And I'm too embarassed to even discuss my score for the book quiz (Round 2).
Guess I've read all the wrong things . . .
Oh well, it is good fun anyway. Thanks, Mr. Frink!

Sure thing, but I believe Munchkin deserves the thanks

And what was that think Wowbagger said about "Fink?"

Yes. Munchkin: thanks! Good fun.

Just waiting for the next round.

Round Five is carefully concealed in a giant underground bunker under the wastes of Surrey, and will probably be trotted out next week. I intend to make it the last round of this quiz, so that we can proclaim a winner. A second quiz will start up soon after, to allow everyone to start from even terms again.

"Hooray" for equal terms!

So how do I get to "Equal Terms" if I've got to start from there?

Eventually, we all end up there.

~Irving

..or here.. here or there... it's much of a sameness...

Round Four - The Electric Kineomatograph Round Answers

1) It was recently voted Best British Film ever and has a cameo by Orson Welles. What is this film? The Third Man (I didn't think anyone was going to get this for a while)
2) While we are on Orson Welles, in Citizen Kane, what is Rosebud? A sledge
3) The Shawshank Redemption is based on a short story by whom? Stephen King
4) Who directed 2001: A Space Opera? Stanley Kubrick
5) And who wrote it? Arthur C. Clarke
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. Grosse Pointe Blank
7) In which recent summer blockbuster film does Bruce Willis end up vaporised along with a HUGE rock? Armageddon, as we all now know
8) She was once Wednesday Addams and was last seen (at least by me) in Sleepy Hollow. Who is she? Christina Ricci
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? Dark Star
10) The same Director, Writer, Producer team have made The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary Trainspotting and one other film. What was this film? Shallow Grave

Round Four Score:
Frink 6
Wowbagger 8
Phil 7
O.S. Device (?) 9
Katebytheway 7
Irving Washington 3
Fenny 4
Allister 9
Looney Tunes 2
JimiX 6
Swiv 6
HangingSheep 8

Thus current total scores:
Looney Tunes 20.5
Swiz 20.5
Phil 18
Hanging Sheep 16
JimiX 13.5
Fenny 9.5
Frink 10
Wowbagger 8
O.S. Device 9
Katebytheway 7
Irving Washington 3
Allister 9

Woo hoo! Currently a tie for first place. And a good few within range. So all to play for as we go into the final round; craftily named
Round Five: General Knowledge

1) Ho Chi Minh City is on which river?
2) Who wrote (and sang) Alice's Restaurant Massacree, a popular sixties protest song?
3) A political incident, known as The Pig War, occured on an island on the Pacific North West of the North American continent in the 1860s. Which two nations were involved?
4) What is Madonna's full name?
5) If Hitler's Germany was the Third Reich, what was the First Reich?
6) What is the Capital of Canada?
7) What is the Latin name for the set of stars known as the Plough (or Big Dipper if you are American)?
8) The Chang Kai Shek airport is where?
9) If Classic Star Trek was first and Star Trek: The Next Generation was third, what was the second Star Trek series?
10) The Eighteenth Ammendment of the U.S. Constitution was the prohibition of intoxicating liquors. What was the nineteenth?

Wow! I was so bad I'm not even on the score-thing! How poor can that be ?!?!

Ich bin doof.

I think I'll be dropping a few places down the leader board after this round as well

Oh OK MikeA can get one point for telling everyone else the Armageddon answer.
Now don't say I'm not generous. It would be true, but I don't like people mentioning it.

I think I could get a few of these new questions, I just need to get some time to send the magik email!

Well, as I shall be away next week, you will have a whole week and a half to get your answers in. Ain't I nice?

(Answers on the back of a ten pound note. Please note, Munchkin's niceness can go down as well as up. Do not invest in Munchkin without first seeking independant short persons advice)

Sorry to jump in at the end, but I have been following along and don't want to miss out if another set begins. My answers are on the way,

--Zmrzlina

I think I will be going up. I'm pretty sure i got all 10. Then again, I may actually have gotten everything so wrong that it is laughable. So what do I know?

hullo, everybody

just checking in, too, so I dont miss anything.

I enjoyed doing the last quiz, but everybody's real far ahead of me, so I am just here for the 'fun'...

blu
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Where are the answers then? thats what I want to know. Is a week and a half up yet??

Oh, leave poor Munchkin alone. Not only is he of diminutive stature, but he is closer to thirty and twenty, and I hadn't a ten - pound note to write the answers on, and can point out at least five other who haven't access to such currency as well. And yet he does the pub quiz. Hurrah for Munchkin!