October 19, 2012: Last Words |
Last Words Champion
LehmannS
Runner-Up
SuessE
TODAY'S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS1.
On whose gravestone are these lines found? Click here 2.
Which 1990 romantic comedy ends with a man walking down the street saying the following words? Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here. This is Hollywood, the land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't, but keep on dreamin'. This is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'. 3.
Which American author's last known words, spoken to his fourth wife, Mary, were: Goodnight my kitten? 4.
Which 1971 song, written in the form of a letter, and which appears to reference the Scientology state of 'Clear,' ends with the line, Sincerely, L. Cohen? 5.
Who, at the very end of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, finally realizes that he loves Big Brother? (first and last name required) 6.
Which English economist, named one of Time magazine's 100 Persons of the Century in 1999, is reputed to have said, on his deathbed, I should have drunk more champagne? 7.
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! What August 1485 battle was King Richard III fighting (and losing) at the time he reportedly spoke this line? 8.
Which bone, one of the very last words found in some dictionaries, is more commonly known as the cheekbone? 9.
Whose address to the 1984 Democratic National Convention ended thus? We come from disgrace to amazing grace. Our time has come. Give me your tired, give me your poor, your huddled masses who yearn to breathe free and come November, there will be a change because our time has come. Thank you and God bless you. 10.
Which talk show host created his signature signoff, Take care of yourself, and each other, when he was a news anchor at WLWT in Cincinnati? 11.
He went like one that hath been stunned/And is of sense forlorn/A sadder and a wiser man/He rose the morrow morn So concludes the seventh and final part of which 1798 poem, a work that, on seven separate occasions, mentions what Monty Python might call a 'bloody sea bird'? 12.
I'm convicted unfairly and I die innocent. These were the last words of which Norwegian politician, executed in 1945? How to read the One-Day scoreboard• For each player line, the top row is regular points, the bottom row is money points. • For each row, if a number > 0 appears in the cell, then that question was answered correctly. • If the cell is bold green, then the player receives that number of points (for the top row, every correct answer will be green; for the bottom, the green ones are the ones the player designated as Money Questions). • All correct answers are worth 15 points (top row); all questions designated as Money Questions are worth the percentage of players who answered incorrectly (bottom row). • The Total is the sum of all green numbers. |
