Panama City
Mexico City
Kuwait City
Luxembourg
Guatemala City
Numerous actors have won an Oscar for playing real life historical figures. Name 5 such figures.
(Just to clarify, I’m asking for the roles, not the actors. To use one example: Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for playing Ray Charles, so “Ray Charles” would be a good answer. But “Jamie Foxx” would not be.)
David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush)
Katherine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett)
Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts)
Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
Harvey Milk (Sean Penn)
Name 5 famous Anns/Annes.
Anne Murray, country singer
Anne Hathaway, “Princess Diaries” star
Anne Rice, vampire novelist
Anne Boleyn, beheaded queen
Anne Frank, diarist
Name five WW2 aviators who became famous in civilian life much later on.
John Glenn
Chuck Yeager
Lyndon Johnson
Joe McCarthy
George McGovern
Name five cheeses you’ve never tasted.
Brie
Roquefort
Canaber
Cottage
Fondue
Name 5 members of the 2nd Generation of a political dynasty
Chidren of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.:
- Joseph P. Jr.
- John F.
- Robert F.
- Edward M.
- Kathleen
Extra credit?:
6. Eunice
7. Rosemary
Yes, I know the above “2nd” generation’s maternal grandfather
was politician (Boston Mayor) “Honey Fitz” Fitrgerald, so someone
is going to come along and say no, I’m wrong, 1-7 above are really
3rd generation. I am sure some clever person can think of a dismissive
reply to that, but I am not up to it.
So let me admit I am not counting the line of female descent out pure
sexist chauvinism, and also because I wanna ask a question.
QUESTION:
Name five US five-star generals.
Douglas MacArthur
Omar Bradley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George C. Marshall
Hap Arnold
Bonus: George Washington and John J. Pershing were each named “General of the Armies,” with Washington posthumously outranking all other U.S. uniformed officers ever by Act of Congress.
Name five unpleasant women of the Silver Screen.
I goofed myself, at least once, but Joe McCarthy wasn’t an aviator and neither was LBJ.
I beg to differ: Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia
LBJ got his (undeserved) Silver Star for an air mission; I suppose “aviator” is open to interpretation: Lyndon B. Johnson - Wikipedia
Can you be a little more specific? Actresses who were famously bitchy? Or characters who were awful people?
Sorry. The latter.
Mama (Anne Ramsay) in “Throw Mama from the Train”
Jane (Bette Davis) in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Elmira Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) in “Wizard of Oz.”
Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) in “Misery”
Name 5 famous people who died in plane crashes.
The Big Bopper
Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens
Wiley Post
Will Rogers
Two crashes, five dead!
Name five movies with a title of royalty or aristocracy in the movie’s title.
The Last Emperor
The King and I
The Prince and the Pauper
Dracula, Prince of Darkness
The Count of Monte Cristo
Five warships named for royalty or aristocracy (name of titleholder optional) including at least two not British.
The Bismarck (German)
The Potemkin (Russian)
King George V (British)
Charlemagne (French)
HMS Nelson (British)
Name 5 people who’ve been lead singer of King Crimson.
Adrian Belew
Greg Lake
Boz Burrell
John Wetton
Gordon Haskell
Name five literary villains who have not appeared in a movie.
Maurice the pimp, from ***Catcher in the Rye
The Crimson King, from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series
Papa Monzano, tyrannical dictator in Kurt Vonnegut’s*** Cat’s Cradle
Lana Lee, pornographer in A Confederacy of Dunces
Floyd Ferris in Atlas Shrugged (I had to get this one in before Angelina Jolie’s movie comes out!)
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Give the names of 5 US Presidents’ pets.
Euhm …
Roosevelt had Fala
Nixon had Checkers
Obama has Bo
Bush(W) had Miss Beazley
And Clinton had Monica
or Socks if you insist
give me 5 fictional rivers…
Anduin, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Sirion, in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion
The River, in Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld
Fevre, in George R.R. Martin’s Fevre Dream
Holana, on Bajor, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Name five countries you’d like to visit someday, but haven’t yet.