They’ll Offer You Food and Wine
Yesterday, Julie accused me of never having seen The Sound of Music. I took immediate offense, and challenged her to a Sound of Music trivia throwdown. These were the questions we asked each other (entirely without the web, I might add):
- What was the name of the Captain’s new lover?
- What was the name of the eldest daughter’s beau?
- What’s the betraying beau’s job?
- What were the names of all the kids?
- Where did the family escape to at the end of the film?
- What were the children’s play clothes made out of?
- What animal was featured in the puppet show the children created?
We came out about even. How’d you do?
Incidentally, the title of this post comes from a line from the duet “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”. The whole line goes:
Oh crap. I just searched for the original line, and found my own post from four years ago. I was going to write about the very same thing–the interesting etymology of the term ‘roué’. Clearly I have been blogging too long.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I’ve seen The Sound Of Music more times than I’d like to admit. I couldn’t remember the character names you questioned, but I knew the other answers.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:50 am
I think it’s lovely that you and Julie can have impromptu Sound of Music smackdowns. Your marriage is a house build on solid ground…
December 7th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
True story…my Austrian husband had never seen The Sound of Music until I forced him to watch it one evening. :-P Apparently, it was primarily a North American phenomenon…who knew? *lol*
December 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I laughed out loud at your last paragraph, having done the same thing myself (found my own blog or website results when searching for something).
Oddly, though I used to watch SOM endlessly, I couldn’t answer all the questions. Except the puppet one. That’s my favourite song. Or at least the worst earworm for me.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
A few years ago the Roxy Cinegog here in Victoria showed the sing-a-long version of The Sound of Music. It was the perfect way to enjoy the film as R&H intended it - me and two hundred strangers yodeling along to ‘The Lonely Goatherd’. Lay-o-de-lay-o-de-lay-he-hoo!
December 8th, 2007 at 12:19 am
I’ve learned now, before dashing off some witty blog post on some topic on which I’ve just had a brilliant insight, to do a quick check and make sure I didn’t have the same brilliant insight on my blog three years (or four months) ago.
So, what’s next, The King and I?
December 8th, 2007 at 8:44 am
If that’s all you’ve being acused of, by the other half, then your in good shape Darren!
December 9th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I have never seen the sound of music. Even though my best friend just loaned me the DVD… three days before I left for a six week holiday!