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Old 07-12-06, 03:36 PM
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Take the Economist's Film Quiz
A pretty interesting film quiz. A bit different from the usual ones as it deals with everything from Godard to Spielberg to Lord of the Rings to Chaplin.

http://www.economist.com/diversions/quiz.cfm/filmquiz

I did pretty pitifully. About 4 out of 13. I got tripped up by one because the answer was so obvious I thought it was a trick question.
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I got 5 and guessed on every one except for the question about Spirited Away.
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Originally Posted by spainlinx0
I got 5 and guessed on every one except for the question about Spirited Away.
I did exactly the same.
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I got 4/13, and only flat out knew two of them, used logic to guess the third, and the forth one I got right was just a blind guess.
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6/13, and also guessed on all but Spirited Away and the Snow White/Star Wars DVD questions.
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How can you not get the Snow White/Star Wars question anyway?
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6/13 -- Would have only bet on two of my answers.
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Old 07-12-06, 05:09 PM
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Add me as another who got 5
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I got 5, guessed on most.
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I got 5 and guessed on every one except for the question about Spirited Away.
Same here except I only got 3 right. The Spirited Away question was the only one I was sure of.
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How can you not get the Snow White/Star Wars question anyway?
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7/13.

They really mined the obscure index.
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I missed the Oscars question because
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I thought it had to be more than 40% of the Best Picture winners that were dramas. If you go to the page they link to, they break down the winners by genre. "Historical" gets 15%, and "War" gets 8%. Come on, most of those are dramas.
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Originally Posted by Drexl
I missed the Oscars question because
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I thought it had to be more than 40% of the Best Picture winners that were dramas. If you go to the page they link to, they break down the winners by genre. "Historical" gets 15%, and "War" gets 8%. Come on, most of those are dramas.
I agree and missed it for the same reason.

Got 4, only sure on Spirited Away and Disney/Star Wars.

Also regarding this question: In 2002 the president of the Philippines and four economics ministers modeled for the Philippine Tatler dressed as characters from which film?
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So they wore suits and sunglasses? Wow! How could I have missed that story!?!
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Same here.
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5 for me.
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4/13, but it would have been 6/13 if I'd gone with my first, gut choice.
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You scored 9 out of 13

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7/13. Not too bad, but a few were lucky guesses.
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3/13 "You need to look up from your popcorn every once in a while."
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6/13 but like others only thought I got 2
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