The firey Phoenix plays blackjack... 21

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue May 30, 2006 1:44 pm

Sorry, darcle, better luck next time! It was indeed Italian..

All yours thehut!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:00 pm

i liked that question, too dozy to answer in time though.

thehut · Post by **thehut** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:34 pm

Ok, since I spent the afternoon watching Ghostbusters 2 yesterday, i'll base my question on that:

At which US university was Dr Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) a professor?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:35 pm

No idea, so I'll go for the most famous one...

Harvard?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:41 pm

a splendid way to spend the bank holiday sir. but i have no idea; princeton?

thehut · Post by **thehut** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:20 pm

Nope. Clue: Film is set in NY.

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:28 pm

Yale?

thehut · Post by **thehut** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:58 am

No, not Yale.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:08 pm

Displaying my anal knowledge for film trivia: I know Columbia Uni is where the college scenes were filmed, but the college insisted that their name was never mentioned in the film. So presumably the Venkman character was a professor at a different (presumably fictional) college? I've been scratching my head trying to remember what it is...

thehut · Post by **thehut** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:51 pm

Well the answer on my card is Columbia, so before you nerd it up any more Weyland, i'll hand you the reigns...

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:50 pm

(Removes bottle-end specs) Thankyou!

Right, I mentioned the Sargasso Sea in that question about the Bermuda Triangle, and remembered this:

The book "Wide Sargasso Sea" was famously made in to an abysmal movie in 1993, for which the only positive review (and the one given pride of place on the back of the video) was from the Sunday Sport (so you can guess why it was a positive review

). But what far more famous novel was the original book supposedly based on?

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:56 pm

It was one of them old type films like Emma or Pride and Prejudice wasnt it?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:08 pm

It's set in Jamaica in the 1840s, so yes, it is a bit of a bodice-ripper.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:09 pm

Robinson Crusoe?

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:10 pm

ahh, Is it Jane Eyre?