E: 09/01 FT quiz of the year/champagne

Soosieboo

Q2 is doing my nut in..
2 What links the Sun and Mars, The Avengers (2012), and the US in 1971?

So we are looking for a link for all 3..
I've searched for US history 1971 and come across the launch of Mariner 9, the launch of Apollo 15 and there was a skyjacking done by Dan Cooper. BUT I can't see any link to the Avengers or Sun & Mars.

We are NOT looking for a link between the Sun and Mars.. It should really have been written Sun & Mars..

Now as a very long shot....Jeremy Renner was born in 1971 in the US.. does he have SUn & Mars in his horoscope??

pippolone

For Q3 I also found a link to the color red: red planet (mars), giant red (sun), SCARLETT Johansson, but US in 1971? Also, the Avengers (2012) is or has been shown on the International Space Station, around earth's orbit, so could it all be about orbits?

Jokey

Would people like me to populate a list that's all in one place that I can update, so that it will be easier to enter? The thread is a bit all over the place.

I have to nip out now but I can try & get it done before 8pm?

blondecaz

Jokey wrote: »

Would people like me to populate a list that's all in one place that I can update, so that it will be easier to enter? The thread is a bit all over the place.

I have to nip out now but I can try & get it done before 8pm?

Yes please!!!

HelenPie

Question 2 - Long shot but Jeremy Renner, who was in Avengers was born in 1971 and is American....still no Sun and Mars link though...

Jokey

josie301 wrote: »

could the answer to 30ii be Stone Roses - I found this
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/43232f80-c1ef-11e1-b76a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2GrMZ9pPP

?

I agree with this, they played in Manchester & the question refers to someone from Manchester - so You're right I would say

Jokey

1.(i) Nuclear Power
(ii) Heineken

2 ??

3. They all went to Eton college
(ii) Major Winters - he is an American, the others are upper-class Brits
OR Sgt. Nick Brody - Wooster and Steed fictionally attended Eton

4. Miss Piggy

5. Dance to Gangnam Style

6. Fidel Castro

7. Dante

8. Dame Helen Mirren

9. The Hunger Games

10. Darth Vader

11. Retire

12. (i) The “bloody jobsworth” cut the power and turned their microphones off
(ii) Because they had gone past the strict 10.30pm noise curfew

13. Cape Karoo, South Africa

14. Swastika

15. Terrence Malick

16. Velvet Underground

17. (i) Elf and Vampire
(ii) Cate Blanchett Lord of the Rings
and Kristen Stewart, Breaking Dawn Part 2

18. India

19. Spain

20. Dame Maggie Smith

21. The Phantom of the Opera

22. George Orwell

23. Semicolon

24. (i) LLCool J
(ii) Ladies Love Cool James

25. They are walking back across the road from right to left AND Paul McCartney has footwear on.

26. Singapore

27. Troilus and Cressida ?

28. Emily Dickinson

29. Beethoven

30. (i) a Garbage
b Black Sabbath
c Stone Roses
(ii) Stone Roses?

31. Romania

32. a Le Corbusier
b Moscow

33. Virginia Woolf

34. Verdi

35. On The Road

36. Vertigo

37. Rihanna

38. (i) Kurt Vonnegut
(ii) James Joyce
(iii) Charlotte Bronte

39. Virgin Mary

40. Zosia Mamet who plays Shoshanna Shapiro in "Girls" is the daughter of David Mamet the playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross

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Jokey

The red are the answers that people are unsure of. Need a definite answer for 3(ii) and an answer for 2.

Deadline tomorrow :eek:

Lady_Inversneckie

Hi,

I dont have the complete answer but;

Veronica Mars is in the Avengers
Joss Whedon (American) the writer and director of The Avengers.


In 1971 there was a Theatre Production of the Avengers
http://declassified.theavengers.tv/stage_main.htm


I'm still looking but some of this might "spring an idea" with someone.

There is a video called Bring Back the Sun - Veronica Mars is linked to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoQ-15HkAYc

Amanda

nilo

Hi - I was thinking about qu 2 and reading through suggestions. I was wondering about the eclipse suggestion by joshmuffin as sun and moon does make me think of things like that. There was a total eclipse in feb 1971 visible from the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1971_lunar_eclipse

I haven't seen the Avengers - but was wondering if there was anything about an eclipse in the plot.