Ok, pub quiz time. Question is - absent any other context - who is this?
I put Boris Karloff but apparently the answer they were after was Frankenstein. I think I was absolutely robbed because Frankenstein was the creator, not the monster, but nobody wanted to hear it. Bullllshit!
First rule of pub quizes, the arrangers are always correct, even when they’re wrong. Move on.
The answer they were after is wrong. But having us support you in that is not going to get you those lost points back!
Nm
Your answer should be acceptable, although I would have provided the character’s name and not the actor’s unless they were specifically asking “who’s this actor?”
Their answer is just wrong.
Yeah, pub mods always have the ‘correct’ answer.
Having said that. . . I would say the ‘person’ is Boris Karloff. The character was “Frankenstein’s monster,” but “Frankenstein” would have been OK (see ‘metonymy’). The monster did make a passing comment that he could have been Frankenstein’s “Adam,” although Frankenstein used less flattering terms to refer to him, usually as just “the fiend.”
I always think of Boris more for the roles he did without makeup such as in The Raven. In makeup I think more of the creature than I do him. And that isn’t Frankenstein — it is the monster.
It’s “moops”.
The OP is absolutely correct. At first I was going to say “Frankenstein’s monster” but the fact that you said who is this person changed that and makes Boris Karloff, imo, the only correct answer.
Who is this? Boris Karloff.
What is this? Frankenstein’s monster.
Regards,
Shodan
You’re all wrong, it’s morning me before coffee.
The organizer is correct, the monster is Frankenstein. It’s canon.
My first guess would have been Herman Munster.
To answer “Boris Karloff” as the answer to a pic of movie Frankenstein is stupid because it’s obviously not the answer a general info quiz is looking for. If I answer “H2O” to a “What is this?” picture of a lake I deserve to be mocked.
I don’t see how that is the same thing at all. First off, what is a “general info quiz” and for that matter, who said this is one? Do you mean there are no “trick” questions allowed? I guess I can see allowing “Frankenstein’s monster” but as I said, the “who” to me indicates the actual person, since the monster is a fictional character. If it was a picture of some anonymous shopping mall Santa Claus, then Santa Claus would be the answer. If it was Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa the correct answer would be BBT.
It’s not wrong:
It’s perfectly valid to refer to Frankenstein’s monster as just ‘Frankenstein’, because the creature refers to Victor Frankenstein as ‘father’.
FTR the quiz question was the same as in the OP; Who is this? With pictures underneath of various celebs and pop cultural ephemera, I’m sure you know the deal. I am mates with the quizmaster who is sticking to his guns based off this quote from the Wiki article;
I think he just doesn’t want to admit to being an ambiguous question-setter. I know, I should just let it go. Which I’m sure he thinks is a song performed by ‘Mrs. Frozen’.
The opening credits for the movie specifically call him “The Monster”:
http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/575/frankenstein-credits.jpg
By the way, I hate bar trivia where the guy is clearly just reading off questions he found and didn’t do any work.
Have you seen the absurd romp, “The Tower of London,” where he’s a hunchbacked murderer? (Kills the princes in the tower and drowns Clarence in wine – Clarence played with wonderful fecklessness by Vincent Price. Basil Rathbone is pure sliced ham as Richard III.) The movie is wonderfully over-the-top, and Karloff – and everyone else! – milks it shamelessly.
You’re all wrong. It’s not a person at all. It’s an arrangement of pixels on my computer monitor.
I don’t know. If I asked you “Who is this?” would you say “That’s Quincy Wagstaff.”
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