Friday Quiz

[NoMercy]

How are your brains doing today?

Let's hope this quiz gets more participation than the last one. First person to submit correct answer asks the next question, yada, yada...

Q1. Torvill and Dean skated to victory in 1984 in which city?

[TWR]

Birmingham?

[pa___ul3]

Sarajevo?

[NoMercy]

Well done, Paul.

[pa___ul3]

ok, sticking with that city... who plays the American journalist Flynn in the amazing film Welcome to Sarajevo?

[rowanwitch]

Woody Harrelson

[pa___ul3]

sure was Rowan!

[rowanwitch]

Backwards and in heels is a recognition of whose skill

[NoMercy]

Ginger Rogers...?

[rowanwitch]

yep NoM the quiz princess strikes again

[NoMercy]

Fab!

Sharlene Spiteri fronted which band?

[joggerjayne]

Texas?

[NoMercy]

Correctamundo, Seagull. Your go.

[joggerjayne]

Which famous actress co-starred in the 1980(something) film Paris, Texas?

[jno]

was it Thingy Kinski?

[joggerjayne]

Err ... yes.

[jno]

well, I can't remember how she spells it. Nastassa or something. Daughter of the more famous Klaus.

[joggerjayne]

Nastassja Kinski

[jno]

oh, my question. Which famous authors appeared in High Wind in Jamaica and Day for Night? (One author each)

[jno]

nobody knows those? I blame the British education system. First one was Martin Amis, who was a child star. Second one was Graham Greene, who appears briefly as an estate agent.

[NoMercy]

Well do you want to ask another one, jno?