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August 19, 2021

Post a line from a TV show & see if anyone knows the show without using Google - Part 44

(Guesses are always welcome)


1) "Who died and made you T-Bone Walker?"

2) "Get down, Lester!" (answered)

3) "You just dumb, son..You just dumb" (answered)

4) "Why, Ralph, why?" (answered)

5) "I couldn't help overhearing your conversation..because I was eavesdropping"

6) "I only came downtown to have one of my suits serviced"

7) "You know, Dick, when life gives you lemons, just shut up and eat the damn lemons"

8) "How was Boca, Uncle June?" (answered)

9) "Get out of Dodge!" (answered)

10) "Your breath could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon!" (answered)

11) "Corporal, deform the men!" (answered)

12) "We shoulda stopped at Roy Rogers!" (answered)

13) "Heck no, we won't go!"

14) "How do you like me so far?"

15) "I thought ironic meant made up entirely of Iron"

16) "I've got a tattoo of Moses parting the Red Sea on my butt, wanna see it?"

17) "Woodrow, you came in here with teeth, do you want to leave here with teeth?" (answered)

18) "Let's go buy a boat!"

19) "Anybody touches my liquor'll get cut!"

20) "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are oversexed, overpaid, and over here!"






More TV show lines from Part 43:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181529600

August 13, 2021

Pose a question about a movie & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google

Who was director Barry Sonnenfeld's first choice to play the part of Chili Palmer in his 1995 film
"Get Shorty"? (answer is Danny DeVito)

August 12, 2021

Not so silly question thread

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

August 12, 2021

Ask a question about an American writer & see if anyone knows the answer w/o using google-Part 3

(Guesses are always welcome)


1) Who wrote the now-famous story in Esquire titled "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"? (answered)

2) Of the nearly 1800 poems by Emily Dickinson, how many were published during her lifetime?
(Approximately)

3) What was the name of the rock & roll magazine Cameron Crowe regularly submitted articles to while still in high school
(It was before he wrote for Rolling Stone) (answered)

4) Truman Capote's first published story won the O'Henry Award, what was it's title?
(It was published in a well-known magazine)

5) What was the original title of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

6) What was Dan Brown's occupation before "The Da Vinci Code" was released?

7) Who is the best-selling American writer still alive? (answered)

8) What sport did Tom Wolfe excel in in high school and college? (answered)

9) What award did Michael Shea win for his first novel, "Nifft the Lean"? (answered)




More unanswered American writer questions from Part 2:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181530527

August 4, 2021

Ask a rock & roll trivia question and see if anyone knows the answer W/O using Google - Part 5

(Guesses Are Always Welcome)

1) What was the original name of "Heart"? (answered)

2) How did ABBA get it's name? (answered)

3) What was the original name of The Sex Pistols?

4) Who was the highest-paid performer at Woodstock? (answered)

5) When Bill Graham agreed to help out at Woodstock, he had one condition, what was that condition? (answered)

6) What band holds the Guinness World's Record for longest-running rock group fan club?

7) What was the name of the band Jerry Jeff Walker co-founded in the late 1960's?

8) What was the original name of The Ramones?

9) What band did Billy Joel co-found before he went solo?

10) What was Pink Floyd's original name? (answered)

11) What was the only band ever to be paid not be on The Ed Sullivan Show? (answered)





More Rock & Roll Trivia Questions from Part 4:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181531816

August 1, 2021

Post a line from a song & see if anyone knows the song without using Google - Part 27

(Guesses Are Always Welcome)


1) "He went down to Huntington Beach one week, For the annual surfers' convention meet" (answered)

2) "You can always come in my back door" (answered)

3) "I met my love by the gas works wall..Dreamed a dream by the old canal" (answered)

4) "I been smokin' dope, snortin' coke, Tryin' to write a song" (answered)

5) "Don't want to get myself shot down, by some trigger-happy policeman"

6) "Gonna' find her, Gonna' find her, Gonna' find her" (answered)

7) "I'm gonna turn and walk away..There's nothing left for me to say..It wouldn't change things anyway though, I suppose"

8) "When I'm past the boulevards, Out here underneath the stars..I've been flyin' past the houses, farms and fields" (Not 'City of New Orleans')

9) "Well the curtain falls too early, so they say..Some will go, others just stay and stay"

10) "There's no place to run and hide, for He knows where you're at"








More song lines from part 26:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181523205

July 29, 2021

List your five favorite directors, living or dead

1) Alfred Hitchcock

2) The Coen Brothers

3) Harold Ramis

4) Oliver Stone

5) Mel Brooks

July 29, 2021

Post a line from a TV commercial & see if anyone knows the product without using Google -Part 18

(Guesses Are Welcome)


1) "Gentle as a lamb, so right for you" (answered)

2) "Have you..had your soup today? (answered)

3) "You're not fully clean 'til you're __fully clean" (answered)

4) "It's everywhere you want to be" (answered)

5) "Pass the orange juice, Nathaniel" (answered)

6) "Biggest candy bar on reservation" (answered)

7) "Hey there partner hear the news, all about those ___ shoes"

8) "No more messes, no deposits..No more empties in the closets"

9) "Oh do you know the muffler man, the muffler man, the muffler man, oh do you know the muffler man, __ ___ is his name" (answered)




More TV commercial lines from Part 17:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181526963

July 26, 2021

Ask a trivia question about a fictional person, place, thing, TV show, or movie W/O using Google

Part 15

(Guesses are always welcome)



1) What was Vito Corleone's birth name? (answered)

2) Little Lulu first appeared in a single panel cartoon as a flower girl at a wedding, but she wasn't tossing out flower petals...What was she tossing out?

3) Who was the Security Officer on 3rd Rock?

4) What was the name of Archie Bunker's joke-telling friend from the loading dock? (answered)

5) What was the name of Homer Simpson's boss? (answered)

6) What was the name of the building WKRP was located in?

7) In "Porky's" what was the big guy's nickname? (answered)

8) In "My Name is Earl" what was the name of the guy who lived next door to Earl's parents?

9) What fictional city did "Defending Your Life" take place in?









More trivia questions from Part 14:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181528884

July 21, 2021

Post a little-known fact about someone famous, Part 2

1) John Travolta did a commercial for Band-Aid when he was a kid.

2) Walter Matthau played a villain in "King Creole" and got beaten up by Elvis Presley.

3) Harlan Ellison had gargoyles mounted on the outside of his Los Angeles home.

4) Billy Bob Thornton has been married six times.

5) Vincent Van Gough may not have committed suicide..He may have been shot accidentally by a French teenager who was playing with a gun, and who, along with his friends, bullied Van Gough on a daily basis (They gave him cheap wine)

6) In real life, Richard Simmons is the same as he was on TV.

7) Carly Simon wrote "Anticipation" while waiting for her date, Cat Stevens, to show up.

8) In 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear tied to a tree by the trip guide during a bear hunting trip in Mississippi.

9) After she disbanded The Runaways, Joan Jett founded Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
23 major record labels rejected her debut album, so she released it on her own.
Her first single "I Love Rock & Roll" became a number 1 hit, selling more than 10 million copies.

10) Harlan Ellison's older sister, Beverly, died in 2010 without having spoken to him since their mother's funeral in 1976.

11) As a struggling writer, Charles Bukowski survived on one candy bar a day, it was a Payday, and cost a nickel.

12) John Wayne was afraid of horses.

13) Adolph Hitler was afraid of heights.

14) Inside Disneyland, Walt Disney had his own private apartment for his family..It's located near City Hall above the fire station.

15) When he was 9, John Wesley Hardin attempted to run away from home to join the Confederate Army.

16) Martin Sheen had a heart attack while filming Apocalypse Now.

17) Redd Foxx avoided the draft by eating a bar of soap before his physical, which resulted in heart palpitations.







More little-known facts about someone famous from Part 1:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181516566

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