Obscure and Unusual Trivia Contest #2. Round 1

[dhuskins]

Obscure and Unusual Trivia Contest #2.

seumas_13 began a trivia contest.  As my reward, I offer you my trivia contest.  If you compete, you must be willing to post these comments on a contest you run as well as the list of previous winners.  As with the original contest, this is an honor-based contest.  No cheating or researching is permitted.  That

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[dhuskins]

As the number of people participating was too low to make a contest out of this, I have included the answers, but otherwise will not present further rounds.

1. This is from the movie "STROZAK" by Werner Herzog. Herzog is a master director of depressing movies. It might sound lame, but I highly recommend his stuff. It makes my poor pathetic life look grand.

2. This is from the Belgariad series of books by David Eddings. Person1 is Belgarath. Person2 is Silk and Person3 is Brill.

3. This is the count of pieces each country (player) starts with in the game of Diplomacy. Almost everyone starts with two armies and one fleet. England starts with two fleets and one army, while Russia starts with two of each.

4. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Oscar Wilde's actual words. All the others are misquotes.

5. Doc, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Bashful, Happy, and Grumpy

6. This would be a reasonable heraldic blazon of the US flag. Heraldry does not deal with large numbers such as 50, but instead states the area is "strewn with" the object. Mullety means "strewn with stars".

7. The Supremes rose from the poverty of Detroit's Brewster housing project to become Motown's most consistent hitmakers and the most popular female group of the Sixties. The first came together in a quartet, the Primettes, that had been recruited by singer Paul Williams as a sister act to his locally popular Detroit group, the Primes (later known as the Temptations).

8. In 1604, King James I of England published a pamphlet "A Counterblaste to Tobacco", in which he described smoking with the quote in question.

9. Dan Rowan and Dick Martin were the hosts of NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in.

10. The Black Plague (called the Great Mortality by its original contemporaries) infected people when the trading ships entered port in October 1347. By 1348, all of Italy suffered. By 1351, the Black Death made its way up to Scotland. Surprisingly, Most of Poland, and parts of Belgium (and the Netherlands) were spared from the outbreak. Milan, Italy seems to also been spared.