Military-Themed Film Quiz

[Roy]

Just for fun - so no prizes in other words.
If you want to give it a go, I'll provide the answers at a later date.

1) The actor, Val Kilmer said the line, " I'm your huckleberry," in which 1993 American Western film?

2) Ronald Lee Ermey (professionally known as R. Lee Ermey) was originally hired as a technical adviser, but was then cast as a main character, in which Stanley Kubric war film?

3) Dale Adam Dye, Jr. (top technical adviser to Hollywood) has featured in such films and television series as Platoon and Band of Brothers, but what US Military service is he a retired member of?

4) What colour was the little girl's coat in Steven Speilberg's (predominantly black and white) film Schindler's List?

5) The German actor Gert Fröbe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, appeared in which 1962 war film as the Unteroffizier "Kaffeekanne"?

6a) The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, is the war chant used in which other film?

6b) And, this film depicts the action near a crossing point on the Buffalo River (English translation used) where a historic British defence, in the southern African continent and now being well-documented and celebrated, what is the name of this 1879 battle?

7) The 1984 film The Killing Fields is concerning which Asian country?

8 ) What is the name of the film, based on a 1955 novel by Graham Greene, where Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser play a British journalist and an undercover CIA officer respectively, set in 1950s Vietnam?

9) In the 1972 West German film Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadors down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, is searching for which legendary city of gold?

10) The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won how many?

11) The city of Deadwood, USA, the historic town where "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot dead at during a poker game and a location depicted in many Cowboy films and television shows, is part of which US State?

12) In the literary work, and the film and television productions, of War & Peace, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is wounded and then, some years later, seriously wounded in which two, major Napoleonic battles?

[fsn]

Oooh! Nice one, Mr Roy. 

I'm stumped on 3 of them (without resorting to Google). Think I got the rest. 

[d_Guy]

I'm sure of 8 out of 12 (98% confidence level) without look up - good quiz - thanks for including the Ameican West 

[Leon]

I don't know if we're supposed to be giving our answers, but here's my attempts:

1) The actor, Val Kilmer said the line, " I'm your huckleberry," in which 1993 American Western film?

I can't remember the name of it, but he played Doc Holliday and was rather pale towards the end...

2) Ronald Lee Ermey (professionally known as R. Lee Ermey) was originally hired as a technical adviser, but was then cast as a main character, in which Stanley Kubric war film?

Full Metal Jacket

3) Dale Adam Dye, Jr. (top technical adviser to Hollywood) has featured in such films and television series as Platoon and Band of Brothers, but what US Military service is he a retired member of?

No idea.

4) What colour was the little girl's coat in Steven Speilberg's (predominantly black and white) film Schindler's List?

Never seen it I'm afraid.

5) The German actor Gert Fröbe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, appeared in which 1962 war film as the Unteroffizier "Kaffeekanne"?

No idea.

6a) The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, is the war chant used in which other film?

Zulu.

6b) And, this film depicts the action near a crossing point on the Buffalo River (English translation used) where a historic British defence, in the southern African continent and now being well-documented and celebrated, what is the name of this 1879 battle?

Rorke's Drift.

7) The 1984 film The Killing Fields is concerning which Asian country?

Nope.

8 ) What is the name of the film, based on a 1955 novel by Graham Greene, where Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser play a British journalist and an undercover CIA officer respectively, set in 1950s Vietnam?

Nope.

9) In the 1972 West German film Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadors down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, is searching for which legendary city of gold?

El Dorado?  I've not seen the film but know of the name.

10) The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won how many?

13?  

11) The city of Deadwood, USA, the historic town where "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot dead at during a poker game and a location depicted in many Cowboy films and television shows, is part of which US State?

I'll guess Wyoming, it's in the middle bit somewhere?

12) In the literary work, and the film and television productions, of War & Peace, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is wounded and then, some years later, seriously wounded in which two, major Napoleonic battles?

With my limited Naps knowledge I'll go with Borodino as one of them.

[Dave]

1) The actor, Val Kilmer said the line, " I'm your huckleberry," in which 1993 American Western film?

Nope.

2) Ronald Lee Ermey (professionally known as R. Lee Ermey) was originally hired as a technical adviser, but was then cast as a main character, in which Stanley Kubric war film?

Full Metal Jacket.

3) Dale Adam Dye, Jr. (top technical adviser to Hollywood) has featured in such films and television series as Platoon and Band of Brothers, but what US Military service is he a retired member of?

Marines?

4) What colour was the little girl's coat in Steven Speilberg's (predominantly black and white) film Schindler's List?

Red.

5) The German actor Gert Fröbe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, appeared in which 1962 war film as the Unteroffizier "Kaffeekanne"?

The Longest Day.

6a) The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, is the war chant used in which other film?

Nope.

6b) And, this film depicts the action near a crossing point on the Buffalo River (English translation used) where a historic British defence, in the southern African continent and now being well-documented and celebrated, what is the name of this 1879 battle?

Rorke's Drift.

7) The 1984 film The Killing Fields is concerning which Asian country?

Cambodia.

8 ) What is the name of the film, based on a 1955 novel by Graham Greene, where Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser play a British journalist and an undercover CIA officer respectively, set in 1950s Vietnam?

Nope.

9) In the 1972 West German film Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadors down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, is searching for which legendary city of gold?

Nope.

10) The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won how many?

6?

11) The city of Deadwood, USA, the historic town where "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot dead at during a poker game and a location depicted in many Cowboy films and television shows, is part of which US State?

Kansas?

12) In the literary work, and the film and television productions, of War & Peace, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is wounded and then, some years later, seriously wounded in which two, major Napoleonic battles?

Borodino + Moscow?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

1) The actor, Val Kilmer said the line, " I'm your huckleberry," in which 1993 American Western film?

Wayat Erp ?

2) Ronald Lee Ermey (professionally known as R. Lee Ermey) was originally hired as a technical adviser, but was then cast as a main character, in which Stanley Kubric war film?
Full metal Jacket

3) Dale Adam Dye, Jr. (top technical adviser to Hollywood) has featured in such films and television series as Platoon and Band of Brothers, but what US Military service is he a retired member of?
Coast Guard

4) What colour was the little girl's coat in Steven Speilberg's (predominantly black and white) film Schindler's List?

REd - that's the only bit I have seen


5) The German actor Gert Fröbe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, appeared in which 1962 war film as the Unteroffizier "Kaffeekanne"?

The Longest Day

6a) The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, is the war chant used in which other film?

Zulu

6b) And, this film depicts the action near a crossing point on the Buffalo River (English translation used) where a historic British defence, in the southern African continent and now being well-documented and celebrated, what is the name of this 1879 battle?

Rorkes Drift


7) The 1984 film The Killing Fields is concerning which Asian country?

Cambodia

8 ) What is the name of the film, based on a 1955 novel by Graham Greene, where Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser play a British journalist and an undercover CIA officer respectively, set in 1950s Vietnam?

The Quiet American

9) In the 1972 West German film Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadors down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, is searching for which legendary city of gold?

Eldorado

10) The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won how many?

None

11) The city of Deadwood, USA, the historic town where "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot dead at during a poker game and a location depicted in many Cowboy films and television shows, is part of which US State?

North ? DAkota, Its certainly in the Black Hills.

12) In the literary work, and the film and television productions, of War & Peace, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is wounded and then, some years later, seriously wounded in which two, major Napoleonic battles?

Austerlitz and Boridino (or La Battaie d'Moscow Dave)


IanS - no doubt most wrong.

[Westmarcher]

Confident on 6.

1.  Don't know.
2.  Full Metal Jacket
3.  US Navy?
4.  Red
5.  The Longest Day
6.  (a) Zulu (b) Rorkes Drift
7.  Cambodia
8.  Don't know.
9.  El Dorado?
10. 5 ?
11. Wyoming?
12. Austerlitz & Borodino

[Maenoferren]

1. Tombstone
2.  Full Metal Jacket
3.  Marines
4.  Haven't  a clue
5.  The Longest Day
6.  (a) Zulu
(b) Rorkes Drift
7.  Cambodia
8. Errrrrrr
9.  El Dorado it has Klaus Kindly in it if that helps
10. 10 or 11
11. South Dakota ( only know because a friend lives round about there) unless she lied and she is a plumber called Ron from Liverpool
12. Nope haven't a clue

[d_Guy]

11. South Dakota ( only know because a friend lives round about there) unless she lied and she is a plumber called Ron from Liverpool

[KTravlos]

1) The actor, Val Kilmer said the line, " I'm your huckleberry," in which 1993 American Western film?

Tombstone

2) Ronald Lee Ermey (professionally known as R. Lee Ermey) was originally hired as a technical adviser, but was then cast as a main character, in which Stanley Kubric war film?

Fulle Metal Jacket

3) Dale Adam Dye, Jr. (top technical adviser to Hollywood) has featured in such films and television series as Platoon and Band of Brothers, but what US Military service is he a retired member of?

US Marines(?)

4) What colour was the little girl's coat in Steven Speilberg's (predominantly black and white) film Schindler's List?

Red(?)

5) The German actor Gert Fröbe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, appeared in which 1962 war film as the Unteroffizier "Kaffeekanne"?

Cross of Iron(?)

6a) The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, is the war chant used in which other film?

Zulu

6b) And, this film depicts the action near a crossing point on the Buffalo River (English translation used) where a historic British defence, in the southern African continent and now being well-documented and celebrated, what is the name of this 1879 battle?

Rokre's Drift

7) The 1984 film The Killing Fields is concerning which Asian country?

Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge fighting

8 ) What is the name of the film, based on a 1955 novel by Graham Greene, where Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser play a British journalist and an undercover CIA officer respectively, set in 1950s Vietnam?

The Quite American

9) In the 1972 West German film Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadors down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, is searching for which legendary city of gold?

El Dorado

10) The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won how many?

10(?)

11) The city of Deadwood, USA, the historic town where "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot dead at during a poker game and a location depicted in many Cowboy films and television shows, is part of which US State?

Montana(?)

12) In the literary work, and the film and television productions, of War & Peace, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky is wounded and then, some years later, seriously wounded in which two, major Napoleonic battles?

Austerlitz and Borodino (?)

[Leman]

Reckon I got about 8 there. Not particularly hot on this type of quiz.

[Roy]

Here's the answers;

1) Tombstone
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) U.S. Marine Corps
4) Red
5) The Longest Day
6a) Zulu
6b) Battle of Rorke's Drift
7) Cambodia
8 ) The Quiet American
9) El Dorado
10) 11 Academy Awards
11) South Dakota
12) Austerlitz & Borodino

Wasn't necessary to provide answers, but it always generates more fun I've found when people do 

Cheers.

[Roy]

This is just a wind-up, people can take part if they like, or just laugh at the fact I've spent my valuable time (well, that's now up for debate) compiling a quiz concerning camels!

Next quiz, I'll make it all about camels!
You have been warned 

http://sdean-forum.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=40503.new#new

which came about because of this
http://sdean-forum.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=40459.45
my bottom post, with the camel dung depicted in wargaming

1. Operation F.7, though also known as the Tondern Raid, was a British bombing raid mounted by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force against the Imperial German Navy's airship base at  Tønder, Denmark. HMS Furious launched it's aircraft as part of this raid, but what aircraft were these?

2. A Zamburak was a specialised form of mobile artillery from the early modern era. Mounting weapons ranging from large crossbows, Gatling guns to small calibre cannon. What specific animals was used for this troop type?

3. The British Empire raised a camel-mounted infantry brigade in December 1916 - It's name's acronym is as follows ICCB, but what is it's full correct name?

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the film role of Conan, punched a real, live camel in the face [Yes, really, he did!]. But what (other) animal was associated with the evil cult in the film, Conan the Barbarian?

5. Legend would have us believe that Catherine the Great of Russia once got amorous, not with a camel, but with what animal?

6. Camel is a brand of cigarettes introduced in 1913 by an American company. Most current Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Virginian and Turkish tobacco. Turkey, as the Ottoman Empire, fought a major naval engagement on 7th October 1571, against the Holy League. What is this naval battle called?

7. What is a Ship camel?

8. In the 2005 film The Proposition, camels were seen to be used to cross the arid, dusty lands. The Proposition (film) is set in which country?

9. Camels are said to be the what, Of The Desert?

10. Camel wrestling is a sport in which two male Tülü camels wrestle, typically in response to a female camel in heat being led before them. During the 1850s an American military officer was inspired by the popularity of Camel Wrestling in Turkey and set out to establish a Camel Wrestling tournament in Texas, USA. He was unsuccessful, however, partly due to the American Civil War. What is the State Capital of Texas, USA?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

1) Camels ?
2) Camel ?
3) Imperial Camel Corp Brigade
4) Giant Snakes
5) Horse (she didna)
6) Lepanto
7) Water Tank
Australia
9) Sheeps (Mexican pronunciation)
10) Austin

[Roy]

Answers to the Camel Quiz

1. The Sopwith Camel 2F.1 was a shipboard variant, flown from HMS Furious. It had a slightly shorter wingspan and a Bentley BR1 as its standard engine. Additionally, one Vickers gun was replaced by an over-wing Lewis gun.

2. Dromedary, Camelus dromedarius

3. The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade (ICCB) was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in December 1916 during the First World War for service in the Middle East.

4. Snake cult

5. A horse (Equus ferus caballus) - But then you shouldn't believe everything you read

6. The Battle of Lepanto

7. A Ship camel is an external flotation tank that can be fitted to a ship to increase her buoyancy or reduce her draught. Its inner walls are concave and curve as to espouse the lines of the hull of the ship. The ship camel is partially sunk using ballasts, installed on ship, and water is then pumped out. The increased volume provided by the camels allow for the system to float in a reduced draught.

8. the Commonwealth of Australia

9. The ship of the desert

10. Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County.