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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:44 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Sorry, darcle, better luck next time! It was indeed Italian..

All yours thehut!

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:00 pm
by Istenem
i liked that question, too dozy to answer in time though.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:34 pm
by thehut
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?

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:35 pm
by Cardinal Sin
No idea, so I'll go for the most famous one...

Harvard?

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:41 pm
by Istenem
a splendid way to spend the bank holiday sir. but i have no idea; princeton?

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:20 pm
by thehut
Nope. Clue: Film is set in NY.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:28 pm
by darcle
Yale?

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 11:58 am
by thehut
No, not Yale.

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:08 pm
by Weyland
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...

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:51 pm
by thehut
Well the answer on my card is Columbia, so before you nerd it up any more Weyland, i'll hand you the reigns... :)

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:50 pm
by Weyland
(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?

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:56 pm
by darcle
It was one of them old type films like Emma or Pride and Prejudice wasnt it?

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:08 pm
by Weyland
It's set in Jamaica in the 1840s, so yes, it is a bit of a bodice-ripper.

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:09 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Robinson Crusoe?

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:10 pm
by darcle
ahh, Is it Jane Eyre?