Week 5 - Drinks Round
Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE
1. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
2. A ‘Slime’ is the collective noun for a group of slugs.
3. If the rider of a commemorative statue is on a horse with all four legs off the ground then it indicates that the body of the ‘hero’ was never found.
4. A year before starring in ‘Terms of Endearment,’ Deborah Winger was the voice of E.T.
5. In the film ‘Silent Movie,’ mime artist Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
6. Charles Manson was short listed to star in the American TV show ‘The Monkees’
7. James Joyce wrote his first draft of ‘Ulysses’ sitting in the bar of ‘The Zoo’ - a public house in
8. Radio and TV presenter Terry Wogan holds the record for the longest holed golf putt to be televised
9. Ronald Reagan began his career touring the American mid-west entering and winning dozens of Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contests.
10. Petula Clark had a No 1 hit with 'This is My Song' – it was written and given to her by her next door neighbour - Charlie Chaplin,
11. The ‘tea cosy’ was invented by French soldiers at the Russian Front.
12. The Art Garfunkel hit ‘Bright Eyes’ was written by Mike Batt about the effects of opiates
13. The Disney film ‘Finding Nemo’ has a higher body count than Sylvester Stallone’s first Rambo film.
14. Tom Hanks and Kate Bush are related by a common ancestor called Ezekiel Franklin Polk
15. The most prolific writers of UK No1 hits were Lennon and McCartney, the next most successful is Mel C.
16. ‘Peter Pan’ was the first instance the name Wendy – it was made up for the book.
17. The origin of poles and circular stairways in fire stations is to stop horses from walking up the stairs.
18. The second moon landing in Apollo 12 was nearly aborted when a toy dinosaur (a mascot given by the daughter of lunar module pilot Al Bean) became lodged behind a control panel
19. WD-40 stands for Water Displacement at the 40th attempt.
20. The character of Ensign Chekov was added to the television series ‘Star Trek’ because an editorial in Pravda had criticized the lack of a Soviet crewman on board the U.S.S. Enterprise.
1 comments:
1. TRUE
2. FALSE – the actual term is generally accepted to be cornucopia.
3. FALSE – Both front legs in the air - the person died in battle, one front leg in the air - the person died as a result of wounds received in battle, all four legs on the ground - the person died of natural causes.
4. TRUE
5. TRUE – His line is: ‘Non!’ (When refusing a role in the silent film). The has fewest spoken lines of any sound movie.
6. FALSE – It’s an urban myth – he was in his thirties – already too old for the part.
7. FALSE – It’s a load of made up rubbish
8. TRUE - In a 1981 pro-celebrity game at the Gleneagles golf course he set the world record for the longest successful golf putt ever televised - 33 yards.
9. FALSE – It’s a load of made up rubbish
10. TRUE
11. FALSE – It’s a load of made cup rubbish
12. TRUE – Mike Batt’s father was taking opiate painkillers as a result of terminal illness
13. TRUE – The first Rambo film has a body count of just 1 whereas there are approximately 50 kills within the first few minutes of ‘Finding Nemo’ (an estimated 400 in the film as a whole.)
14. FALSE
15. TRUE - She holds the joint record with Madonna – they both have 13
16. TRUE
17. TRUE –horses were used to pull fire engines – it was discovered that they would walk up a straight flight of stairs.
18. FALSE – It’s a load of made up rubbish
19. TRUE - That's how many tries it took Norm Larsen, to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion by displacing water.
20. TRUE - Gene Rodenberry was thinking of adding a British Beatles-type character but changed his mind and made him Russian after hearing the view of the soviet newspaper
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