Pop Culture Rare Entries Last Chance!

panatropic · Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:33:05 -0700

Time's running out for my August Pop Culture Rare
Entries contest (and given the response, this will be the
last time I do one). The deadline is today, though if
you get your entry to panatropic_at_... before I
get to work tomorrow morning, I probably won't notice
the difference. ;)

Once again, here are the
special rules and the questions:

> 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.

[Because of this rule, right now
about 2/3 of the entries have a score of
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.

> 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
nor
> the show a current show. Also, I'll be fairly
lenient on what
> constitutes "significantly more
unusual", but that the actor's
> 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