One quiz at a time

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:05 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Yeah alright, simmer down.

Are you in this quiz or just doing show tunes tonight?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:06 Sun 25 Jan 2015

OK, you're in the quiz.

8%

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:09 Sun 25 Jan 2015

“I like flowers more than people.” It’s my favourite scene.

42%?

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:12 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Oh no, Jerry has been shot! He is confused.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:21 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Andre; I thought you were in bed.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:24 Sun 25 Jan 2015

The only bit I saw on telly was a fat baby Jesus, replete with nappy striding across the stage singing in a rich baritone about excrement or some such. I felt strangely drawn to it.

15%

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:24 Sun 25 Jan 2015

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:26 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:29 Sun 25 Jan 2015

“You all wanted to be on the show. You all had your fifteen seconds of fame. You all got to stay in a three-star hotel, minus mini-bar bills Chucky. You all had an all-expenses-paid trip to Chicago. Remember that’s Chicago, the Windy City. The City of Wind! You all knew the risks. You all signed the disclaimers.”

51%?

“It takes a little more than a red suit to be the devil.”

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:33 Sun 25 Jan 2015

jdaw1 wrote:“You all wanted to be on the show. You all had your fifteen seconds of fame. You all got to stay in a three-star hotel, minus mini-bar bills Chucky. You all had an all-expenses-paid trip to Chicago. Remember that’s Chicago, the Windy City. The City of Wind! You all knew the risks. You all signed the disclaimers.”

We'll call. Next!

26%

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:34 Sun 25 Jan 2015

32%

“Whoa, wait a second. Let’s rewind here. I don’t want to serve in hell. At this stage in my career that would be a sideways move.”

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:36 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Owen wins. It's 57.5%. A whisky from the SMWS called 'Balanced and Harmonious'. Delicious.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:39 Sun 25 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Owen wins. It's 57.5%. A whisky from the SMWS called 'Balanced and Harmonious'. Delicious.

Daniel, can you help with this terrible affliction of Julian's? He seems unable to stop humming.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:39 Sun 25 Jan 2015

“You got the wrong guy. I don’t solve problems. I just televise them.”

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:42 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Owen, was that your question? I'm hesitant about replying before we clarify this.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:47 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Jerry (reading cards): “From time immemorial heaven and hell have been at war. But is there a way of reconciling the irreconcilable, and giving both parties a sense of closure and chance to move … hold on, I don’t do never have done and never will do conflict resolution.”
Chorus: “Then you will fry.”
Jerry: “Please welcome my first guest, the Prince of Darkness, Satan”.

(And I thought that elderberry was the prince of darkness: how mistaken I was.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:48 Sun 25 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:Owen, was that your question? I'm hesitant about replying before we clarify this.

This is what is known on these pages as the 'Jewesbury lock'.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:52 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Owen, please shut him up.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:52 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Good night.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:53 Sun 25 Jan 2015

Night night, Jerry.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:02 Mon 26 Jan 2015

jdaw1 wrote:Good night.

Encore! Bravo! Mooorrreee!!!

Night.

Post by **DRT** » 01:02 Mon 26 Jan 2015

Are there any tickets left for the show?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:13 Mon 09 Feb 2015

From what or whom have I taken the following?

This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 18:56 Mon 09 Feb 2015

A Lord Peter Wimsey novel?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:01 Mon 09 Feb 2015

AW77 wrote:A Lord Peter Wimsey novel?

Not a Lord Peter Wimsey novel. The idea that Lord Peter would have any indifferent ports lying around his pied-à-terre is ridiculous.
I'm doing the mime that shows that it's a play, and a film.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:18 Mon 09 Feb 2015

djewesbury wrote:From what or whom have I taken the following?
This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

It has a sort of 'Abigail's Party' feel to it.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:28 Mon 09 Feb 2015

What about something by JB Priestly?

Edit; that's Priestley, thanks Andre!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:30 Mon 09 Feb 2015

LGTrotter wrote:What about something by JB Priestly?

Not he. More recent, though not very so. It is a London story.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:31 Mon 09 Feb 2015

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:From what or whom have I taken the following?
This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.
It has a sort of 'Abigail's Party' feel to it.

And nobody in Abigail's Party drinks port. Port and lemon maybe. But not so you'd remark on the indifferent quality of the port itself.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 23:24 Mon 09 Feb 2015

Caryl Churchill? Or is this too highbrow?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:28 Mon 09 Feb 2015

AW77 wrote:Caryl Churchill? Or is this too highbrow?

Not Caryl Churchill. Interesting guess. Too recent.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:33 Fri 13 Feb 2015

Tom bloody Stoppard. Cos it always is.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:34 Fri 13 Feb 2015

LGTrotter wrote:Tom bloody Stoppard. Cos it always is.

Also too recent. And mind your language.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:36 Fri 13 Feb 2015

The film version was made in a year in which VP was, on the whole, not made.

EDIT: what I mean is, I'm not aware of any, but I'm not so rash as to claim there was 'none'.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:09 Fri 13 Feb 2015

djewesbury wrote:The film version was made in a year in which VP was, on the whole, not made.

EDIT: what I mean is, I'm not aware of any, but I'm not so rash as to claim there was 'none'.

1993 then.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:14 Fri 13 Feb 2015

I just said that Tom Stoppard was too recent. And before that I said that Caryl Churchill was too recent. And it's not your turn.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:15 Fri 13 Feb 2015

But they might have made the film version later.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:16 Fri 13 Feb 2015

LGTrotter wrote:But they might have made the film version later.

They didn't make it very much later. It's contemporaneous with the play. And much better known than it. And it's still not your turn.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:24 Fri 13 Feb 2015

It's not Owen's turn. Still.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:38 Fri 13 Feb 2015

The only playwrights I can think of between Priestley and Stoppard are Americans, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. I suppose Pinter would have been around, but I can't imagine he was into port. And as for the year it is all getting very obscure. 1954?

And these are just considerations around the question rather than guesses, so feel free to respond with something other than "It's not your turn".

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:40 Fri 13 Feb 2015

I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 20:43 Fri 13 Feb 2015

Leo Butler?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:44 Fri 13 Feb 2015

I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:45 Fri 13 Feb 2015

djewesbury wrote:I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

djewesbury wrote:From what or whom have I taken the following?
This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

Your question refers to what or whom, I was thinking about the whom.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:54 Fri 13 Feb 2015

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.
djewesbury wrote:From what or whom have I taken the following?
This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.
Your question refers to what or whom, I was thinking about the whom.

Yes; I was deliberately imprecise. Then I gave further clues. Now go away and let someone else guess, you naughty boy.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:55 Fri 13 Feb 2015

AW77 wrote:Leo Butler?

In what way is he less recent than Caryl Churchill or Tom Stoppard? He's younger than me.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 21:01 Fri 13 Feb 2015

I just wanted to give Owen an opportunity to guess so I just threw in a name.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:03 Fri 13 Feb 2015

AW77 wrote:I just wanted to give Owen an opportunity to guess so I just threw in a name.

That's very selfless. It gives us all a bit of a break from his constant nipping around the ankles…

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:03 Fri 13 Feb 2015

It's Owen's turn.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:21 Fri 13 Feb 2015

djewesbury wrote:It's Owen's turn.

OK, how about a response to the above nippings.

And while we're at it, Agatha Christie's the Mousetrap?