It's weekly quiz time for the Pickus-Nothnagel clan. Last week's challenge
Start with the title of the 1982 film BLADE RUNNER. Change one letter to a G and you can spell the two-word name of something that isn't true, but a lot of people think is. What is it?
Answer: If you change one of the Rs to a G, you can spell URBAN LEGEND.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: PEOPLE WITH HYPHENATED NAMES
On-air questions: On July 29, 1907, Robert Baden-Powell began set up of the Brownsea Island Scout Camp. Located in Poole Harbor in the south of England, the camp would begin a week and a half later as a test environment for ideas in Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys. The week-long event is recognized as the first Scout camp in the world, and as the origin of the global Scout movement. To commemorate Baden-Powell's pioneering event, this week our questions are about famous people with hyphenated last names.
1. From 2010 to 2015, actor Rob James-Collier portrayed Thomas Barrow, a footman who works his way up to under-butler for the aristocratic Crawley family on what acclaimed drama series set in Yorkshire in the 1910s and 1920s?
2. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1922, earned a PhD in international law, and became the sixth person to hold the position he is most well-known for, succeeding Javier Perez de Cuellar and succeeded by Kofi Annan. Who is he?
3. Who won six Olympic medals – three gold, a silver, and two bronze – in the heptathlon and the long jump between 1984 and 1996 and was named the greatest female athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated, just ahead of Babe Didrikson Zaharias?
4. The first female war correspondent and the first woman to work in combat zones during World War II, Margaret Bourke-White began her career as a commercial photographer before becoming a photojournalist. She was hired in 1936 as the first female photographer for what magazine, who featured one of her photos on its first cover?
5. What singer became the second woman to have two singles in the Billboard top five simultaneously – 1978's "Hopelessly Devoted To You" and "Summer Nights" – both featured on the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time?
Extra credit
1. Daniel Day-Lewis is the only male actor to have won three Academy Awards for Best Actor. His second came in 2007 for There Will Be Blood and his third was for his portrayal of the title character in 2012's Lincoln. For what 1989 film did Daniel Day-Lewis win his first Best Actor Oscar?
2. The English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton is credited with coining phrases such as "the pen is mightier than the sword" and what oft-derided opening line, frequently typed by Snoopy in the Peanuts comics?
This week's challenge
Start with the phrase SCOUT CAMP. Add a letter and you can rearrange the result to spell a word for a type of car. What is the word?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Downton Abbey
2. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
3. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
4. Time
5. Olivia Newton-John
Extra credit
1. My Left Foot
2. "It was a dark and stormy night"
