23 Ski-Feud By Twickster (it's not about skiing) [Closed]

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Try to think of the most popular answer, to get the most people matching you. Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

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Write your answers like this; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.
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2. response
3. rejoinder

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The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at 3:30 PM Central on Friday, 6/27/08 whichever comes first. Good luck!

  1. Give a slang expression from the ‘20s.
  2. Other than Charlie Chaplin, name someone who starred in silent comedies.
  3. Other than Rudolph Valentino, name someone who starred in silent dramas.
  4. Name someone who appeared in vaudeville during the ‘20s who later went on to appear in talking films.
  5. Name a movie set in the ‘20s that was made after WWII.
  6. Name a musician who was active during the ‘20s.
  7. Name an admired public figure from the ‘20s.
  8. Name something a flapper might wear.
  9. Name something you might see in a speakeasy.
  10. Other than The Great Gatsby, name a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  1. The bee’s knees
  2. Fatty Arbuckle
  3. Mary Pickford
  4. W.C. Fields
  5. The Untouchables
  6. Duke Ellington
  7. Babe Ruth
  8. Cloche hat
  9. Alcohol
  10. Tender is the Night

ETA: I googled most of these answers, BTW. :smiley:

  1. The bee’s knees
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Mary Pickford
  4. The Marx Brothers
  5. Some Like It Hot
  6. Louis Armstrong
  7. Charles Lindberg
  8. Long necklace
  9. Piano player
  10. Tender Is the Night

ETA: Heh. I didn’t google any of them. :wink:

  1. Now you’re on the trolley!
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Mary Pickford
  4. Bob Hope
  5. Chicago
  6. Louis Armstrong
  7. Fitzgerald
  8. Beaded necklace
  9. Booze
  10. Tender is the Night

I predict number 10 is the conch.

  1. The bee’s knees.
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Mary Pickford
  4. The Marx Brothers
  5. The Great Gatsby
  6. Al Jolson
  7. Woodrow Wilson
  8. A hat
  9. A flapper
  10. Tender is the Night
  1. Dame
  2. Harold Lloyd
  3. Clara Bow
  4. George Burns
  5. Shadow of the Vampire
  6. Louis Armstrong
  7. Charles Limburgh
  8. One of those dresses with all the tassles
  9. Alcohol (illegally of course)
  10. The Last Tycoon
  1. 23 skidoo
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Clara Bow
  4. W. C. Fields
  5. The Great Gatzby
  6. George Gershwin
  7. Charles Lindbergh
  8. Sleeveless shirt
  9. piano
  10. Tender is the Night
  1. Give a slang expression from the ‘20s.

  2. Other than Charlie Chaplin, name someone who starred in silent comedies.

  3. Other than Rudolph Valentino, name someone who starred in silent dramas.

  4. Name someone who appeared in vaudeville during the ‘20s who later went on to appear in talking films.

  5. Name a movie set in the ‘20s that was made after WWII.

  6. Name a musician who was active during the ‘20s.

  7. Name an admired public figure from the ‘20s.

  8. Name something a flapper might wear.

  9. Name something you might see in a speakeasy.

  10. Other than The Great Gatsby, name a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  11. 23 skidoo!

  12. Harold Lloyd

  13. Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

  14. W. C. Fields

  15. Singing in the Rain

  16. Duke Ellington

  17. Herbert Hoover

  18. Cloche hat over a bobbed hairdo

  19. bathtub gin

  20. Tender is the Night

Whew … that’s a hard one! laughs I dunno how well I’m gonna do on this one either, esp. considering that I’ve been scoring rather low lately. Oh well! Re #8-my daughter wanted me to say the hat, but I wanted the bobbed hairdo. :wink:

  1. Cat’s pajamas
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. John Barrymore
  4. Pass
  5. The Great Gatsby*
  6. Charlie Parker?
  7. Charles Lindbergh
  8. Long beads
  9. Jazz bands
  10. Tender Is the Night
*The one with Robert Redford in it.
  1. The bee’s knees

  2. W.C. Fields

  3. Douglas Fairbanks

  4. George Burns

  5. The Great Gatsby

  6. Louis Armstrong

  7. Aimee Semple McPherson

  8. Bobbed hair

  9. Alcohol

  10. Tender is the Night

  11. Would love to use Bix Beiderbecke just 'cause of the cool name.

  1. The cat’s pyjamas
  2. Harold Lloyd.
  3. Theda Bara
  4. W.C. Fields
  5. The Great Gatsby
  6. George Gershwin
  7. Lindbergh
  8. A long, beaded necklace
  9. Piano
  10. Tender Is The Night
  1. Bees Knees
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Rudolph Valentino
  4. Marx Brothers
  5. The Untouchables
  6. Louie Armstrong
  7. Charles Lindbergh
  8. Garter
  9. Moonshine
  10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  1. Bee’s Knees
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. John Barrymore
  4. Bob Hope
  5. Singin’ in the Rain
  6. Bessie Smith
  7. Charles Lindbergh
  8. Flapper Dress
  9. A Flapper
  10. Tender Is the Night

The conch award goes to #2

  1. 23 skidoo! (duh)
  2. Harold Lloyd
  3. Clara Bow (?)
  4. George Burns
  5. Cheaper by the Dozen
  6. Eubie Blake
  7. Susan B. Anthony (?)
  8. Long strands of beads
  9. Booze!
  10. pass

Ah, shit. Full disclosure: I Googled the last one, with the intent of naming a work if I at least had heard of it and knew it was F. Scott’s (and I still would have disclosed my Googling.) But I STILL came up empty! I bet I’ve got some other lame-o answers too.

  1. 23-skidoo
  2. Harold Lloyd
  3. Douglas Fairbanks
  4. Eddie Cantor
  5. The Untouchables
  6. Charlie Parker
  7. Herbert Hoover
  8. Fringed dress
  9. Booze
  10. The Last Tycoon

I’m enjoying reading the answers to #8 (flapper wear), and also to #5 (movie set in the '20s).

  1. Bee’s knees
  2. Buster keaton
  3. Clara Bow
  4. George Burns
  5. Singing in the Rain
  6. Jelly roll morton
  7. Charles Lindbergh
  8. Cloche hat
  9. Gin
  10. the last tycoon
  1. 23-skidoo!
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Douglas Fairbanks
  4. Bob Hope
  5. Chicago
  6. Louis Armstrong
  7. Herbert hoover
  8. flapper dress
  9. booze
  10. Tender is the Night
  1. 23 skidoo!
  2. Buster Keaton
  3. Mary Pickford
  4. George Burns
  5. The Untouchables
  6. Aaron Copland
  7. Babe Ruth
  8. A cloche hat
  9. Alcohol
  10. I have no idea