Sunday, December 07, 2008

[pseudonyms] a rose by any other name

For one point each:

1. Nikolaus Gunthar Nakazynski and Werner H. Stipetić had a tempestuous relationship which produced five classics. Name one of them.

2. Which hit did Joan Marie Larkin and Thomas Gregory Jackson both have separately?


3. Name one film with Betty Joan Perske in a leading role.


4. Eric Arthur Blair wrote a novel which is quite topical in this day and age. What was it?


5. Name one of
Marion Michael Morrison's classics.

For a second point each, what were their stage, musical or literary personae?


Some of the answers only

4 comments:

  1. 1. I think this is Elton John and Bernie Taubman? Rocket Man.

    2.Again, a stab in the dark but Joan Bias and Bob Dylan.

    3. Bette Davis- Baby Jane

    4.Orwell- 1984

    5.That's John Wayne but I don't know any of his films as I hated him and the whole genre.

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  2. 1 Cobra Verde, Woyczek, Aguirre (as shown) Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu. I love Herzog's films

    2. No idea

    3. Key Largo

    4. 1984

    5. True Grit

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  3. Great topic for a blogpost given that so many of us are pseudonyms! :)

    The Orwell one is brilliant- partly because I've always enjoyed the idea that he named himself after a river in Suffolk which he liked.

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  4. N1 - correct, Jams.

    N2 - hmmmmm :)

    N3 - correct, Jams.

    N4 - of courseUber, Jams, Tiberius.

    N5 - of course.

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