Playground Squares XI: And here we go again!

[Helgraf]

Hmmm. Going to disagree.

[Lex-Kat]

I'd like to apologise for being so rude and disappearing without warning. Real-life stuff happened.

Anyway, I am indeed female, and good luck to my replacement!

It's alright. Life happens. I hope the Real-life stuff is better now.

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DING! DING! DING!

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It was a Cloak Room Charge.

Your turn, Zeb.

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G: Gator
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K: A Knight's Tale
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S: Supergirl
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[Zeb The Troll]

I'm going with billtodamax and the letter Y.

[billtodamax]

Let's do it!

[Lex-Kat]

In 1988, Yahoo Serious is Young Einstein!

Dedicated to Albert Einstein, this strange and funny tale has very little to do with reality.

After discovering how to split the beer atom, Young Einstein travels from his home in Tazmania to the Patent Office in Sydney, Australia, to patent his theory: E=mc².

On the train he eventually finds himself on, he meets a lovely Scientist with a mind as brilliant as his own, Marie Curie (Odile Le Clezio). What year does she tell Sir Preston Preston (John Howard) she won the Nobel Prize for Applied Science?

[billtodamax]

As I recall, Young Einstein was actually pretty accurate about dates - Marie Curie won her Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911.

[Zeb The Troll]

Hmmm, I saw the movie years ago and it was pretty forgettable, but I don't recall them being very accurate about anything, so I'll disagree.

[Lex-Kat]

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But.... she did win a Nobel Prize in 1911, for Chemistry.

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DING! DING! DING!.

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But it seems you were correct to disagree anyway. The year she said she won for Physics was in 1903, which was accurate.

Have a go, Helgraf.

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[Helgraf]

I think Penguinator is the next in the Q.

[Penguinator]

Q: seventh letter of the alphabet, or maybe the seventeenth, depends on who you ask. An enigmatic letter, usually followed by the letter u, unless you're Qwaz. Nobody seems to remember how you make one in cursive. (It is in fact some sort of 2) They are often minded, along with Ps.

And on that note, I can't think of any movies I've seen recently that start with the letter Q.

[Lex-Kat]

I don't think anyone's seen the movies I'm using "recently".

Including the 1995 movie, The Quick and the Dead.

A gunfighter tournament taking place in the Old West. Sixteen contestants vie to be the last one standing and win the $123,000 prize.

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1. Gutzon (Sven-Ole Thorsen)
2. Ace (Lance Henriksen)
3. "Kid" (Leonardo DiCaprio)
4. Eugene Dred (Kevin Conway)
5. Sgt Cantrell (Keith David)
6. Spotted Horse (Jonothon Gill)
7. Scars (Mark Boone Jr.)
8. Virgil Sparks (Josef Rainer)
9. Simp Dixon (David Cornell)
10. Red (Scott Ryder)
11. Carlos Montoya (Arturo Gastelum)
12. Foy (Lennie Loftin)
13. Herod (Gene Hackman)
14. Cort (Russell Crowe)
15. Ellen (Sharon Stone)
16. Dog Kelly (Tobin Bell)

One of those 16 is Spotted Horse (in case you didn't look in the spoiler), who constantly claims: "Spotted Horse cannot be killed by a bullet." After the first time, he proceeds to tell everyone in the salloon all the places he's been shot, and how many.

The question: During his lifetime, and including the tournament, how many times is Spotted Horse shot?

[Penguinator]

Ah, well, maybe that one isn't so bad. I seem to recall that Spotted Horse was shot thirteen times, known as an unlucky number. Then thrice during the tournament, so he could say that he had taken as many bullets as the number of participants in the tournament.

[Helgraf]

Ah, well, maybe that one isn't so bad. I seem to recall that Spotted Horse was shot thirteen times, known as an unlucky number. Then thrice during the tournament, so he could say that he had taken as many bullets as the number of participants in the tournament.

Tried to answer this yesterday, but forums were being wriggley for me.

I'm pretty sure he was shot twelve times including a bullet still inside his brain beforehand, so I'm going to disagree.

[Lex-Kat]

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Of the bullets mentioned, Spotted Horse was shot 15 times: 4 in the Right Arm, 3 in the Left Leg, 1 in the Right Leg, 2 in the Back, 1 in the Lip, 1 in the Left Foot, and one in the Head. He's then shot two more times: 1 in the chest and 1 more in the head, when fighting Cort.

Zebs turn.

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[Zeb The Troll]

Let's go with Fawkes and the letter A.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Oooh, maybe we'll get a question about Allizdog?

[Lex-Kat]

Sorry Llama. Wrong again. A is for the Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension!

For those who don't know, Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) is the son of two genius scientists, who were trying to break through to the eighth dimension. But an explosion took their lives.

In 1984, Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers succeed where his parents failed. But in doing so, he gives hope to the Black Lectroids enemy, the self-proclaimed "Lord" John Whorfin (John Lithgow). He wants to escape his prison in the Eighth Dimension, and lead his Red Lectroids against his enemies.

But who cares about all that. Buckaroo Banzai has found someone he cares about, Penny Priddy (Ellen Barkin). In an amazing coincidence, Penny looks just like his previous wife.

What was his previous wife's name?

[Fawkes]

Oh, jeez, Buckaroo Bonzai. What a weird movie.

It's been a while, but I know she had a similar name. Let's see... Penny... Patty, Peggy, Pippy... Posey? Pansy? Peppy?

Hm. I'm gonna go with... Peggy.

[Zeb The Troll]

I haven't seen that in ages but I was thinking it was Patty, which is probably wrong, so agree.

[Lex-Kat]

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Will you two get it wrong once in a while? The red buzzer is getting jealous. DING! DING! DING!
It was indeed Peggy. She was Penny's long lost twin sister.

Okay Helgraf, choose a category.

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[Helgraf]

Bladescape! What U know?

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Well bladescape, what do you know about The Untouchables (1987)?

Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) is a Federal Agent sent to Chicago to stop Al Capone (Robert De Niro) and his illegal alcohol racket.

But the Chicago Police are corrupt. He's tipped of to some illegal Canadian whiskey coming through, and leads a raid on the warehouse where it is being stored. But instead of whiskey, he finds paper umbrellas. Embarrassing.

After recruiting Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith); Jim Malone (Sean Connery); and George Stone (Andy Garcia), who collectively become known as the Untouchables because they wouldn't take bribes, Malone leads the team on their first successful raid.

In what building was the illegal alcohol found?

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

In what building was the illegal alcohol found?

Cristo Meyer's house!!

[Mordokai]

Cristo Meyer's house!!

I would actually be willing to bet that's the right answer...

...because the bastard didn't share any!

[Lex-Kat]

I think you guys might be confused. I'm asking about the illegal alcohol. Not the horded alcohol.

Not that I think the Cristos were hording any alcohol, I never asked.

[bladescape]

Oh! The Untouchables! ... Haven't seen that in long enough my memory of it is fuzzy.

Lemme see. Where the first raid was. Where the first raid was. Memory says it was something to do with Mail. A Post Office, I think it was.

[Helgraf]

I'm quite fond of this movie, actually.

And I Agree.

[Mordokai]

I think you guys might be confused. I'm asking about the illegal alcohol. Not the horded alcohol.

Not that I think the Cristos were hording any alcohol, I never asked.

Then what was that I sneaked out of his basement?

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DING! DING! DING!
Yes, it was the basement of the Post Office.

And Zeb's turn to sew chaos.

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Q: The Quick and the Dead
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[Zeb The Troll]

Clearly, I must choose Bushranger, and we'll query on the letter R.