Continuous Quiz - Resurrect your brain cells!

[eyebee]

A quick one whilst LK is thinking up a question.

 

What's the connection between Little Orphan Annie, Olivia Newton-John and Keith West (he of the "Grocer Jack" fame)?

[robaus]

Keith West was a singer with the band "Tomorrow"

 

"Tomorrow" is a song from the musical Little Orphan Annie

 

Toomorrow is a 1970 film featuring the band Toomorrow fronted by Olivia Newton-John.

 

Very devious, eyebee. :-)

 

[LizardKing]

OK, a bit of an overhang from last night, so let's not make this too hard.

 

1) This Detroit-based group of mobsters allegedly helped deliver a very famous Valentine's Day gift in the late 1920s.

2) What is the common name of the famous anti-apartheid protest held in Cape Town in 1989 just days before elections?

3) This controversial Pulitzer Prize winning book, told in the form of diary entries and letters, is set in Georgia in the 1930s and follows the lives of poor black women.

4) The Japanese had a secret weapon formally known as AN-1. What was its code name to the U.S. Army's Signals Intelligence Service?

 

What's the blatantly obvious connection?

[robaus]

Purple Gang

Purple Rain Protest

The Color Purple

Japanese Purple cipher machine

 

Connection purple.

 

The Color Purple was the only one I knew off the top of my head, but researching the others led to some fascinating reading. Thanks LK.

 

Here's a quickie.

 

28.35 grams but how many legs?

[TroyinEwa/Perv]

seven

[robaus]

No.

 

I'll keep you in suspenders (and black fishnet stockings :hubba:) for a little while longer.

 

 

[The_Munchmaster]

Errol Flynn was a member of the Hollywood Cricket Club with David Niven. ... (one son, Sean Flynn, born 1941, reported missing in Cambodia in 1970 and presumed dead) ... His only son, Sean, an actor and later a noted war correspondent, disappeared in ... he was presumed dead in 1971, probably murdered by the Khmer Rouge

Sean Flynn not buried in Cambodia war grave

 

 

In March two amateur archaeologists presented a jaw and a femur bone to US officials, unearthed at a site in eastern Kampong Cham province, saying they believed the parts belonged to the war photographer.

 

The remains from the site, which some researchers believe is a mass grave for up to a dozen foreign journalists killed by Khmer Rouge fighters during Cambodia's war in the early 1970s, were sent for forensic analysis in Hawaii.

 

Lt Col Wayne Perry, JPAC spokesman, said that tests showed the remains were not those of Flynn, who disappeared 40 years ago while covering Cambodia's war.

 

Lt Col Perry said there was no match between DNA from the recovered remains and DNA samples they had on file from the Flynn family.

 

"The remains do not match any known Westerner for whom JPAC has a reference sample," he added.

 

Flynn, who worked as actor before covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia as a photographer, bore a striking resemblance to his father, who starred in swashbuckling roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood.

 

The 28-year-old's fate has been a mystery since 1970 when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone were captured by communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas while on assignment in the area, and never heard from again.

 

Keith Rotheram, a Briton in the team that found the remains, said in March that they based their search on a local villager's claims to have seen regime soldiers kill a prisoner there matching Flynn's description in 1971.

 

At least 37 journalists were killed or disappeared covering the brutal 1970-75 conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas supported by North Vietnamese fighters.

 

[robaus]

Clue: 28.35 grams is an ounce.

 

[Redbaron]

36... (18 Bee Hummingbirds)

[Redbaron]

80 (20 pygmy shrews)