Friday, January 7, 2011

Do you know the answers?  (scroll to the bottom for all answers)

Name the movie containing the following famous lines:

1---"We're gonna need a bigger boat"
2---"Go ahead---make my day"
3---"After all, tomorrow is another day"
4---"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
5---"We rob banks"

Name the Poem and Poet:

6---"Tell you what I like the best, long about knee-deep in June"
7---"Ah, distinctly I remember, It was in the bleak December"
8---"And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils"
9---"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
10---"I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
     With my lest saints,---I love thee with the breath,
     Smiles, tears of all my life!---and, if God choose,
     I shall but love thee better after death."

Who Said It?

11---"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
12---"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well   organized and armed militia is their best security"
13---"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing---after they've tried everything else"
14---"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice"
15---"Being powerful is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren't"

Answers:

1.   "Jaws"  1975  Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider---"Jaws"
2.   "Sudden Impact"  1983  Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood---"Sudden Impact"
3.   "Gone With the Wind"  1939  Vivian Leigh
Vivian Leigh---"Gone With the Wind"
4.   "The Godfather Part II"  1974  Al Pacino

Al Pacino---"The Godfather"
5.   "Bonnie and Clyde"   1967   Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway---"Bonnie & Clyde"
6.  "Knee-Deep in June"   James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley
7.  "The Raven"   Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
8.  "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"   William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
9.  "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
10.  "How Do I Love Thee?  Let Me Count the Ways"   Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11.  Mao Tse-Tung

Mao Tse-Tung
12.  Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson
13.  Winston Churchill

14.  Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler
15.  Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

6 comments:

  1. Well, you sure did some good research on this post. I think my favorite one is number 15 by Margaret Thatcher.

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  2. Wonderful! Culture, literature, art - it's a one post blog renaissance!!

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  3. Wonderful interesting post, I only knew 2 answers. but it was fun trying to guess,

    Yvonne.

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  4. Hi.

    This is so interesting. I got only two answers correct - the quote from Gone With The Wind and Margaret Thatcher. It is interesting to learn Hitler said what he said.

    Nice to meet you. I think I'll visit again.

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  5. Clint, great stuff! Thanks for your comments on my blog as well. Go Houston!

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  6. Boromax---Ha! Yes, this was my attempt at a little culture!

    Yvonne---It doesn't matter how many you get right---just having fun trying to figure them out is all that matters.

    Ocean Girl---Glad you visited. Please come back any time, and God bless...

    Hi Steve! BTW---I love your blog and recommend it to everyone.

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