Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Answers to last week's Secret Themes

Ray's:

The theme was varieties of dance.

1) What 1959 MGM adventure film was the sequel to the
1950 film King Solomon's Mines? Watusi
2) What monosyllabic word is used generically to
describe finely cut rolling tobacco? Shag
3) What 1978 Martin Scorsese concert film featured The
Band with their friends Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and
Neil Young? The Last Waltz
4) What 1972 film stars Marlon Brando and Maria
Schneider
? Last Tango in Paris

5) What high school sit-com, which ran 1982-3, starred
a young Sarah Jessica Parker? Square Pegs

6) What basketball magazine started publication in
1994 and prints only 9 issues/year, in basketball
season? Slam
7) What Showtime series ran 2000-2005 and shared its
title with the shorter-lived (1999-2000) British
series that it was based upon? Queer as Folk
8) What southern American city has the nickname "The
Holy City
" because churches dominate its low skyline?
Charleston, SC
9) What song/production number was cut from The Wizard
of Oz
(1939) for fear it would date the film and
because it did not develop the plot? "The Jitterbug"

10) Serbian paramilitary leader and accused war
criminal Željko Ražnatović (Жељко Ражнатовић) was known
by a much simpler one-word name. What was it? Arkan, which is also an
Eastern European dance

... and what theme links the 10 answers?

Frank's:

The theme was NHL hockey franchises.

1) What successful 2001 movie was based upon a
best-selling 1999 book by Philadelphia Inquirer
journalist Mark Bowden? Blackhawk Down/Chicago
Blackhawks
2) What 2006 animated film featured the voice talents
of Keifer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard,
Janeane Garofalo and William Shatner? The Wild/Minnesota Wild
3) Which Batman villain was born Oswald Cobblepot? The
Penguin/Pittsburgh Penguins

4) What was the name of the Wright Brothers' first
successful airplane (Kitty Hawk, NC 1903)?
(Wright) Flyer/Philadelphia Flyers
5) What hugely influential 1914 song by W.C. Handy was
the first to have published notation suggesting jazz
improvisation, and inspired the Foxtrot? "St. Louis
Blues"
/St. Louis Blues
6) Name the two gangs in West Side Story. Sharks
and Jets/ San Jose Sharks and Winnipeg Jets

7) What's the title of the National Wildlife Fund's
kids' magazine? Ranger Rick/New York Rangers
8) What's the title of the first song on the first
side of Van Halen's eponymous 1978 debut album?
"Runnin' with the Devil"/New Jersey Devils

9) With whose band did Louis Armstrong come to
prominence (as the second cornet player)? King
Oliver
/Los Angeles Kings
10) What cable TV network, founded in 1994, dropped
the exclamation point from its name in 2005? Hint: Its
parent network is Encore. Starz/Minnesota North Stars
(who became the Dallas Stars)

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