spotes wrote:
That
is dirty pool.
Completed or not,
Number 13 was most certainly Hitch's directorial debut. I still would have probably gone with
The Pleasure Garden (had this question/answer on more than one occasion), but I promise you the guys would have had to put up with a boatload of kvetching all the way down the line.
Any questions about where Hitch cameoed in his films?
They could easily knock out a premium game length quiz on that.
Of course, the villagers would grab the pitchforks and torches if they ever did that...
I would have liked to have played that game tonight. I've played both NTN and live trivia with a buddy that used to play under HITCH. He's been grilling me on this crap for two almost decades. It would have been nice to put some of it to use.
Do you remember any of the other 12 questions, or were they also fairly easy?
Thanks for asking, yes you should have played that, you would probably have aced it. Some of the questions were repeat countdown questions, here are 13 (maybe 14) that I remember:
1) What was first movie he directed? (start out with 212 points)
2) What actress was slashed in the shower in Psycho? (Janet Leigh)
3) How is Cary Grant attacked in North by Northwest? (crop duster, not tank or F-16)
4) Which movie did not involve a murder? (Wrong Man, would have been good question but there is a similar countdown question in database)
5) What actress starred in remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much? Doris Day
6) What notorious character was "The Lodger" based on? Jack the Ripper
7) Hitchcock movie titled, The Trouble with (Blank). (hint: your name)
8) What movie featured an out of control merry go round? ( Strangers on a Train) I think that is a repeat in Countdown
9) Which Hitchcock movie won Best Picture? (Rebecca) One of most asked questions in Countdown
10) What was Hitchcock's first movie based in Hollywood? (Rebecca) Paul, (alias Nick the Crow NCROW), our best movie expert screams answer and we go against him anyways, we deserve to lose.
11) Lifeboat is a movie based on a book from? (John Steinbeck)
12) What movie is based on a book from Daphne Du Maurier? (The Birds)
13) Which landmark was part of the movie, The Man Who Knew Too Much? (Royal Albert Hall)
14) I think there was a question on which movie Julie Andrews was in but not sure. (Torn Curtain)
As you can see, not really much meat on actual scenes/twists/plots of the movies themselves..Now that I think about it, the topix was Hitchcock Faves, the first question doesn't even apply to the topix. Now I'm mad
16 people saw the Pleasure Garden.