Unutterably Silly Quiz

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I'm guessing this is going to be "well, duh" moment for me.

I think it might be. It certainly was for me when another member of our quiz team spotted the connection.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Ray, Files, Men, Games, Wing

Got it!

Spoiler:

X-Ray, X-Files, X-Men, X-Games, X-Wing

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Got it!

Spoiler:

X-Ray, X-Files, X-Men, X-Games, X-Wing

Yes - that's the answer I was looking for. Well done

So, doubleshuffle got three correct, orlok two and pdurrant got the connection. Can somebody please set the next question.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Well done pdurrant. And yep. Duh!

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Yes - that's the answer I was looking for. Well done

So, doubleshuffle got three correct, orlok two and pdurrant got the connection. Can somebody please set the next question.

I think that makes it doubleshuffle's turn.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I think that makes it doubleshuffle's turn.

Yup....

[doubleshuffle]

Well, if someone else could come up with something please? Tired and uninspired...

[pdurrant]

I have a rose-themed quiz I can post this evening, if no-one has anything sooner.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I have a rose-themed quiz I can post this evening, if no-one has anything sooner.

Yes please.

Although I'm pretty sure it'll confirm my first thought, which was that I'm not sure I know anything much about roses.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^But we can learn. We can learn.

[Bilbo1967]

Running late, Mr Mouse?

And I was hoping to learn a lot about roses tonight.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Running late, Mr Mouse?

And I was hoping to learn a lot about roses tonight.

Just back from London. Just a mo...

[pdurrant]

1. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
—Act II Scene II in a play by William Shakespeare

Which play is this phrase from?
Which character speaks the line?

2. "A rose is a rose is a rose”
Who wrote the poem “Sacred Emily” in 1913 in which this phrase appears?

3. “What a Lovely thing a rose is!”
This comes from a story called “The Naval Treaty” published in The Strand Magazine in 1893:

‘What a lovely thing a rose is!’
He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
‘There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,’ said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. ‘It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.’

This fictional character also has a rose named after him
What was his name?
Who wrote the stories about him?

4. “A rose-red city”
John Burgon wrote a prize winning poem in 1845 which includes these lines:

Not virgin-white —like that old Doric shrine,
Where once Athena held her rites divine:
Not saintly-grey —like many a minster fane,
That crowns the hill, or consecrates the plain:
But rosy-red, — as if the blush of dawn
That first beheld them were not yet withdrawn:
The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,
Which men call’d old two thousand years ago!
Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, —
A rose-red city — ‘half as old as Time!’

Which city?
Which modern country is it in?

5. How much did a 1lb drum of Cadbury’s Roses cost in the UK when they were first introduced in 1938?

[Bilbo1967]

1. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

[doubleshuffle]

2. Gertrude Stein.

3. Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle?