August Pop Culture Rare Entries

panatropic · Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:47:28 -0700

Though I had some difficulties last time, I've
decided to take another swing at a Rare Entries contest.
This time, instead of just films and TV, I've put in a
couple music subjects as well.

By this point I
think we know the main rules to these things, so I'll
just point out a couple of the differences. First, as
I did last time, I'll throw out a contestant's
highest individual score when tallying the final totals.
This means that if nine of your answers are unique and
the tenth isn't, you still finish with a
1.
Second, since I suspect that part of the reason for low
participation in recent contests is the difficulty in finding
acceptable answers, I'm offering a page
(<a href=http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~kmwilcox/Bowl/help.html target=new>http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~kmwilcox/Bowl/help.html</a>) with links to sites that have some. The links
don't go straight to lists, but at least you don't have
to hunt through twenty or thirty different sites
just to find something.

And now, the
questions:

1. Name a movie with Richard Harris (the one who
played Marcus Aurelius in "Gladiator") besides
"Gladiator".

2. Give any response Pinky's ever given to Brain's
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

3. Name
an actor or actress whose character was killed in
one of the three "Scream" movies.

4. Name an
"X-Files" episode (besides the pilot) with the same name as
an episode of another series. Please give the
episode name and the name of the other series.
[Note:
The scoring will be based just on the episode title.
For example, if two people entered "King of the Hill"
(not an XF title) and one matched it with "Cheers"
while the other matched it with "Hawaii 5-0", they'd
still be counted as giving the same answer.]

5.
Name an original song (lyrics and music) by Weird Al
Yankovic.

6. Conversely, name a song which was covered by the
Beatles either on an album or on "Live at the
BBC".

7. Give the subject of any "Sunrise Semester" on
SCTV.

8. Name a theatrical feature in which one or more of
the Marx Brothers appeared.

9. Name an actor
or actress who has been a regular on an American
daytime soap opera whose own first name is significantly
more unusual than his or her character's. Please give
the actor, the character, and the show.
[Note: The
actor doesn't have to be a current cast member. Also,
I'll be fairly lenient on what constitutes
"significantly more unusual", but that the name is more unusual
at all should not be in doubt.]

10. Name an
Academy Award winner for Original Song. Please give the
song and the film.

Responses must be
emailed to panatropic_at_... by Thursday, August
10.

K. M. Wilcox
I've already emailed my entry to
myself. If you want to see it, I'll gladly show you after
you've submitted your entry.