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The big Brokeback Thanksgiving Quiz 2007 !***Answers posted***
David In Indy:
Chrissi, where do we post our answers? Here or elsewhere?
I don't want to do something wrong and spoil it for everyone else! I have a tendancy to do that, you know! ;)
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: David on November 19, 2007, 06:27:33 am ---Chrissi, where do we post our answers? Here or elsewhere?
I don't want to do something wrong and spoil it for everyone else! I have a tendancy to do that, you know! ;)
--- End quote ---
David darling, yes, you post your answers here on this thread. Just paste© the form in my second post, add your answers and you're ready to run for the BetterMost Thanksgiving champion title :).
from my introduction post:
--- Quote ---Please keep this thread "answers only". This way it will be much easier for us to go through your answers next week. I'll open an extra thread for comments, questions, etc. about the quiz.
--- End quote ---
:-* :-*
Ellemeno:
1) What is the name of the bar Ennis goes to after the blowup with Alma?
The Black and Blue Eagle
2)When (roughly) was the Riverton Thanksgiving scene filmed?
a) At the beginning of the actual filming
3)Which two teams were to be seen on TV during the Childress TG scene?
I forget, but was it Canadian football?
4) What did Bobby eat on Thanksgiving?
Ah, the age-old question. The one that *I* asked Pierre Tremblay himself. But we don't have 100% certainty. Let's say peaches and milk.
5) What vegetable was served in both, the Riverton and the Childress TG scenes?
Do potatoes count as a vegetable?
6) What reason did the NFL give for refusing to grant the filmmakers rights to use game footage in the Childress Thanksgiving scene?
Wow, I don't know about this. Side note - I went to high school with the current NFL commissioner! But he wasn't commissioner when BBM was filmed.
7) Who was Alma going to yell for in the story?
Bill, of course.
8 ) Where did Jack want to knock LD's ignorant ass to in the German version of the movie?
Garmisch-Partenkirchen?
9)How many containers sit on the back of Alma's stove?
2?
10) How on earth did Lureen cook a Thanksgiving dinner in three hours?
Open can of peaches and put in dish - 2 minutes
Write lengthy list of cooking tasks for Jack - 10 minutes
Choose bolo tie - 5 minutes
Do hair - 2 hours 43 minutes
11 ) What's the name of this boy?
Jake Church
12)What song is playing in the bar while Ennis is getting beat up on the street?
"No One's Gonna Shove You Like Me."
13) What aftermath of the Thanksgiving blowup in Riverton is mentioned in the story, but not in the movie?
Ennis didn't try to see his girls for a long, long time. :(
14)Think: Alma, Thanksgiving, bracelet. What two kinds of bracelets do you associate with it?
The angry rub bracelet from Ennis's grip in the story and ... hm ... the only thing I can think of is that darkened line that pregnant women get from their belly buttons on down, so I guess I'll have to go with that. :)
15) What is wrong with the skating competition Monroe is watching?
It's not gay enough?
16) Who is KC Moriarity?
The author of "Indications and limitations of cosmetic botulinum toxin type A," published in Operative Techniques in Oculoplastic, Orbital and Reconstructive Surgery, Vol. 4, No. 2. (June 2001), pp. 81-88, of course.
17) What does Monroe smoke after diner?
A cigarette.
18)What other purposes are electric knives sometimes used for?
19) Which headlight on Ennis's truck does not work?
The front one.
20)What other Ang Lee movie features an angst-fraught Thanksgiving scene?
b) The Ice Storm
21) What expression from another scene of the story (other than the TG scene) is used in one of the movie's TG scenes?
"Stud duck." GREAT question!
Ellemeno:
Oh my gosh, I was first?? I wouldn't have made such a huge effort to keep from scrolling, if I'd known! And I'm extra-glad for all the uncopiable answers I gave. :laugh:
David In Indy:
1) What is the name of the bar Ennis goes to after the blowup with Alma?
I don't know.
2)When (roughly) was the Riverton Thanksgiving scene filmed?
a) At the beginning of the actual filming
b) In the middle
c) Towards the end
d) It was reshot after all other scenes were finished
D. I think it was reshot, wasn't it?
3)Which two teams were to be seen on TV during the Childress TG scene?
The New York Jets and The Denver Broncos. I don't know.
4) What did Bobby eat on Thanksgiving?
I don't know. God how embarrassing! Did he maybe eat fried chicken instead of turkey?
5) What vegetable was served in both, the Riverton and the Childress TG scenes?
Mashed potatoes.
6) What reason did the NFL give for refusing to grant the filmmakers rights to use game footage in the Childress Thanksgiving scene?
Additional note: two of the following answers are correct.
a) "The movie appears to condone and even encourage marital infidelity."
b) "The view that a boy who does not watch football will somehow grow up to be less than a man is narrow-minded."
c) "A substantial proportion of NFL fans would be uncomfortable with the movie's controversial subject matter."
d) The game would have been portrayed in a negative context, including cursing in the line, "I'll knock your ignorant ass into next week."
It MUSt be B and C. This just sounds like the NFL. They are sooooo homophobic.
7) Who was Alma going to yell for in the story?
Ennis. I know, it's a safe guess and once again... I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA!!
8 ) Where did Jack want to knock LD's ignorant ass to in the German version of the movie?
Additional note: I know that this is a tough one, but give it a guess, just to humor me ;). Or get creative about sources of information... ;D.
a) into next week
b) into last week
c) to Wyoming
d) to hell
e) three times around the globe
Into hell maybe?
9)How many containers sit on the back of Alma's stove?
Six (6) Just a guess
10) How on earth did Lureen cook a Thanksgiving dinner in three hours?
Additional note: There is no final, correct answer to this question, but many ways to score a point. Let your imagination run wild...
She called 1-800 DIAL-A-MEAL
I still think she had the dinner catered.
11 ) What's the name of this boy?
Is that a picture of Heath?
12)What song is playing in the bar while Ennis is getting beat up on the street?
a) "Mason Dixon Line" by Jeff Wilson.
b) "I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall" Merle Haggard
c) "Trust In Lies" The Raven Shadows featuring Tim Ferguson
d) "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
B. Yeah, I guessed again! :P
13) What aftermath of the Thanksgiving blowup in Riverton is mentioned in the story, but not in the movie?
Chrissi, why did you make this so damned hard! :laugh: I don't know. I'll take a guess and say she knocked Ennis upside his head.
14)Think: Alma, Thanksgiving, bracelet. What two kinds of bracelets do you associate with it?
Mood rings and friendship bracelets.
15) What is wrong with the skating competition Monroe is watching?
a) It has never been broadcast on American TV.
b) The couple shown together on the screen never actually competed together in pair skating.
c) The match he's watching took place in 1980, yet the banner at the charity ball in a later scene reads 1978.
d) The Association of World Figure Skating Championships denied the producers permission to use footage, so they staged the match.
Probably A.
16) Who is KC Moriarity?
That sounds like the name of my former priest at St. Matthew's. Surely not! C. maybe?
a) The food designer who worked on the items on the Thanksgiving platters.
b) The inventor of the electric knife.
c) A co-owner of the house in which one of the Thanksgiving scenes was filmed.
d) Heath's stand-in for the Riverton scene.
17) What does Monroe smoke after diner?
A cigar?
18)What other purposes are electric knives sometimes used for?
a) Trimming Christmas trees.
b) Screwdriver and powerdrill, if proper attachments are available
c) shaping polyurethane foam rubber to make hip and buttock padding.
d) You don't want to know.
I really don't think I want to know. I've hears stories about these so called power tools....
19) Which headlight on Ennis's truck does not work?
The left one?
20)What other Ang Lee movie features an angst-fraught Thanksgiving scene?
a) Sense and Sensibility
b) The Ice Storm
c) Ride With the Devil
d) Hulk
A.
21) What expression from another scene of the story (other than the TG scene) is used in one of the movie's TG scenes?
Ennis's scowling look? I really don't know Chrissi!
Great quiz Chrissi! I enjoyed it, even though I doubt I even got ONE answer correct! ;) :D :-\
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