Trivia Answers

1. The first hanging (correct answer: Peter)
2. The London Sun
3. Parking meters
4. George VI & Elizabeth (Peter & Vicki)
5. Fire (Peter & Vicki)
6. Tate Modern (Peter ... come on Mommy isn't this your favorite museum ever?)
7. Lots of possible answers. (Vicki)
8. Lots again. Google "london boroughs map" if you care.
9. Eros
10. Madame Tussauds (Peter & Vicki)
11. Christopher Wren (Peter)
12. Hyde Park and Regent's Park (Vicki ... though she said "Regency" -- I ruled it was close enough).
13. 1665, 1666 (Peter). Those must have been two really crappy years for Londoners!
14. 1863.
15. Trafalgar Square (Peter & Vicki)

So that's 8 points for Peter and 6 for mom.

London Trivia for Blogpoints

1 blog point per correct answer. This time I'll be nice and let everyone have a shot, on the honor system of course.


Part 1: Our London

1. In 1830, London's first what occurred?

2. The initial issue of London's first newspaper was published and printed in 1831. What was the name of that paper?

3. These were installed in London in 1948.

4. In 1938, what 2 members of the British royal family paid London a visit?

5. In 1845, what disaster occurred, destroying about 150 buildings, nearly one-fifth of the town?


Part 2: The Real London

6. Which museum has gigantic slides that run from the top floor to the ground level and are available for visitor use?

7. Name 5 tube stops.

8. Name 5 boroughs.

9. What is the name of the statue in the middle of Piccadilly Circus?

10. Where is the Chamber of Horrors located?

11. Who was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral?

12. In which park is Speaker's Corner located? What about the London Zoo? (must answer both correctly for the point)

13. What years did the Great Plague and the Great Fire take place in? (hint: they're very close to each other!)

14. In what year did the tube open? (you can be within 3 years on either side)

15. Where Nelson's column and the National Gallery meet.

Who blogs the most?

I think we all know the answer to this, but here are some handy facts I compiled. And I think I'll award some blog points for this, since is there anything more appropriate to award them for if not blogging? So I'll round your average number per day (according to the normal rules of rounding) and you'll get that many points.

Avg. # of posts per day since inception:

	# of posts	# of days blogging	avg. posts / day
Kimota	538	119	4.52
CJG	48	38	1.26
James	94	75	1.25
Tammy	121	118	1.03
Luke	75	75	1.00
Jack	16	17	0.94
Dan	14	15	0.93
Peter J.	684	1747	0.39
Ron	4	24	0.17

Look people

I really need to get some more blog points so please post some trivia or math problems or anything that I can get blog points from! I'm not ready to go cold turkey yet.

How to order my list

I can't seem to get the blog points list above to have line breaks in between the names, you know, so that it looks like a list instead of all jumbled together. 1 point for help!

Movie Quotes for Blog Points

I give you the quote, you tell me the movie. Points are indicated in brackets. First person to answer correctly gets the points for that question, no duplicates. Hint: most (but not all) are from favorite movies of mine.

1. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires!" [1 point]

2. "Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic." [2 points]

3. "You're a... you're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and I don't know why you have wings, but you have very lovely legs and you're a very nice tiny person and what am I saying, I don't know who my mother was; I'm an orphan and I've never done drugs because I missed the sixties, I was an accountant." [2 points]

4. "Now Sid, don't you blame the movies, movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!" [1 point]

5. "Why do you have to point out how stupid everyone is all the time?" [3 points]

6. "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die." [1 point]

7. "You accuse me once, I put up with it. You accuse me twice... I quit. You pressure me to fear for my life and I will put a fucking bullet in your head as if you were anybody else." [2 points]

8. "Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks." [3 points]

9. "I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics." [1 point]

10. "Remember those posters that said, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life?" Well, that's true with every day except one: the day that you die." [2 points]

Beat Me at Oscar Noms

Below are my predictions for what will be nominated in each of the 8 major categories. If, on Tuesday, we find out that you guessed more correct nominees than I did in a particular category, then you get 1 blog point per additionally correct nominee. So if I got 3 of the best picture nominees right, and you got all 5 right, you get 2 blog points. Alrighty.

Sidebar:
- I've decided I might as well just call them blog points.

Best Picture:
Babel
The Departed
Dreamgirls
United 93
The Queen

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Actor:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
Leonardo Dicaprio, The Departed
Peter O'Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress:
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Mark Whalberg, The Departed

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kukuchi, Babel

Best Original Screenplay:
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Queen
Volver

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
Thank you for Smoking

Another question for my comptuer savvy readers

But first, just a sidenote: it's quite beneficial to have a lot of techy people to ask these questions of - thank you!

So, I'm using Outlook for Windows XP ... one of the newer versions (2003, maybe?) and I often use the task list as my personal "To do". However since I switched over to a more recent version (I had been using 2000 for the longest time), I can't seem to figure out how to clear the checked off tasks. Now I have a ridiculously long list of completed tasks dating way back to 2005! It's pretty annoying. I sorted the tasks so that the incomplete ones are listed first, but it's still kind of hard to tell which is which.

Oh and 5 points if you can help me. 10 if you can recommend some kind of better, free, downloadable software that keeps track of tasks.

Blogger Question

My good friend Daniel Kricke, a 20-something journalism student from Chicago, has started up a blog called Extravadanza . You should check it out, especially if you like sports and pop culture. But, he's having a problem with the blogger system and I thought I'd put it out here to all those techy types and see if someone knows the solution:

"I posted a new entry. But see how I have that blockquote at the bottom? I want to get a block quote like that on the other side of that too...like a closing quote. But it won't do it."

Anyone know? I couldn't help him, I obviously don't even know how to get ONE blockquote! (see above). 5 Albert Halls (my version of the trend sweeping the blogosphere) for the first person to figure it out.