Spuds MacKenzie vs. The Werewolf?

Quiet here today...downright peaceful...

Bride of Frankenstein.

I got nothing.

I will add that the actress' name should not be unknown to most players.

Dimly remembering the story, I just can't imagine what a female character was doing there in the first place.

Um, Katherine Hepburn, woods and water, African Queen.

Ice-T's version was cool . . .

It may be helpful to know that these two films actually shared sets for some of their scenes.

Thinking on it, KH is known for a lotta flicks. So I'm switching to: central element, jungle stuff. Fay Wray, King Kong.

Not wanting to get the answer even by chance after last week's erhm, "incident", I googled to try to test my guess of "The Island of Dr. Moreau," which is wrong. I inadvertently found the correct answer, though. Thus my silence.

Well, that and being unable to come up with any sort of Bob Hope "On the road to. . ." joke that was even funny to me.

The actress's name was not unbeknownst to me, nor was the film title unbeknownst. In fact, it turns out that it is showing on the big screen not far from my house this weekend. As is "The Bad News Bears." Which you just really have to see on the big screen with the surround sound -- Jeezus! It sounded just like Buttermaker's beer can landed right behind me. Etc. Etc.

The actress in question is not Tatum O'Neill, let me add.

That story was published in the twenties; the movie must be pretty old, too.

"The Most Dangerous Game" is a great example of bait-and-switch teaching, like Bob Dylan lyrics in poetry class. It's been much anthologized, but over the last several decades, mostly in textbooks. It's one of those stories that commands almost no canonical literary respect, but presumably textbook compilers assume their first task is to get high schoolers to want to read at all. After they hook them with a story that the kids enjoy, teachers can wean them off the junk food and onto Willa Cather, chock full of vitamins. (What do you mean, "could use a little salt"?)

Hackly has it, as a matter of fact. And Mr. De Selby is correct -- the film adaptation of Collins' much-anthologized yarn (which seems to this ex-Victorianist to owe more than a little to Conan Doyle and H.R. Haggard) was produced in 1932.

There were no female characters in Collins' story -- a brother-sister pair of victims was added to the screenplay, presumable to add some more straight-friendly sex appeal to this otherwise strictly homosocial outing (the final paragraphs of the story do, after all, resolve with the hero claiming the villain's bed!). Fay Wray, therefore, appeared in both The Most Dangerous Game and the one with the big monkey.

I'm trying to figure out if this means that Hackly is the current Quiz Champ (in terms of total wins). More on that soon.

As it turns out, a preliminary survey of the records indicate that Boxjam remains the leader in total victories with 9; Hackly has just tied Gavin for second place with 8, and Scott and Kathleen share third with 7 wins apeice. Honorable mentions are Jonathan, Bootsy, and Teenidol.

You may regale one another with taunts, boasts, and put-downs, as appropriate.

Cultural bias in the test questions! If the answer had more often (or, quite frankly, ever) been Bob Hope, I'd be way in the lead right now. You snotty Brooklynites just got no place for red-blooded, Bob-Hope-lovin' Americans.

I AM glad, in light of this new "permanent record" revelation, that I didn't resist the urge to smack last week's quiz question right out of Wombat Field. The teasing fun of a Friday quiz question batted about is lovely and all that, but any such future urges to leave things in play for the "common good" shall, in the unlikely event that they arise, be similarly resisted.

PS to BT in PS -- thanks for 75 weeks of fun.

I've just got to find a way to stay up later on Friday night--i knew that one! Isn't Monster Island somewhere on my side of the world anyway?

I know that the 1976 King Kong remake (with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lang) was partly shot in Kauai, Hawaii. I saw the rock edifice under which a chopper flew.

But Scott makes an interesting sidebar. Is it OK to Google your guesses, assuming the guess preceded the Google? I agree that an incorrect guess, followed by Google-checking, resulting in a non-guessed correct answer is out-of-bounds. What says Hoyle on the subject?

Woohoo! I'm #2!

Somehow (sniff) this makes the experience of standing at a wonky Brit public web terminal worthwhile.

I was also recelty in Kauai, which is beautiful and the site of basically every H'wood island production ever, including Fantasy Island and Jurassic Park.

I believe that community standards, teenidol, have already established the relationship of Googling to the Quiz; the Googler, upon confirming his or her guess, can then only wail aloud his or her weakness in the "Damn! I knew I should have guessed!" manner. After all, since multiple guesses are OK, all one loses in the case of guessing wrong is a little crack in one's facade of serene omniscience.