Farm or City Trivia Quiz

Answer: City

"Sex and the City" was a TV series that ran from 1998 to 2004. Later there were also some movie spin-offs made with the same cast reprising their roles.
The story of "Sex and the City" was narrated by Carrie Bradshaw (role by Sarah Michelle Gellar), one of the four single women living in New York who became close friends. The other were Samantha Jones (played by Kim Cattrall), Kristin Davis (role by Charlotte York) and Miranda Hobbes (played by Cynthia Nixon).
Carrie had several love interests, including an affair with many ups and downs with John "Mr. Big" Preston (role by Chris Noth), a divorced businessman.

Answer: Farm

Patricia Cornwell wrote several books starring Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner in Virginia (later on she would resign and start a private practice in Florida). Scarpetta usually worked with Pete Marino, a homicide detective (later captain, and yet a few books later a private detective), with her niece Lucy Farinelli (a computer wizard) and with Kay's love interest Benton Wesley (a profiler for the FBI).
In the fifth novel "The Body Farm" (1994) the plot started when Kay Scarpetta undertook the autopsy of the eleven year old victim Emily Steiner, murdered in North Carolina. The facts resembled closely some cold cases of a serial killer. In order to find some answers, Scarpetta made a visit to the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility (better known as "The Body Farm", hence the novel's title). In the end Scarpetta caught the murderer in the act of torturing Pete Marino.
By the way, there is also a British police TV mini-series titled "The Body Farm" and starring the coroner Eve Lockhart (played by Tara Fitzgerald) and the detective inspector Craig Hale (role by Keith Allen).

Answer: City

This pair of doomed lovers refers to the TV mini-series "Troy: Fall of a City" (2018), a modernized story vaguely resembling Homer's "Iliad". According to reviews on IMDb, the only real resemblance is that the same names appear (Paris, Helen, Hector, Achilles, Zeus, Odysseus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite...) and that Greeks fight against Trojans.

But a young Nestor (Peter Butler) was only a minor casting error. Alas, Helen was played by a very ordinary-looking, not even blonde girl (Bella Dayne) and Achilles (David Gyasi) and Zeus (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) were even played by actors who don't look as Greeks at all: Gyasi is of Ghanaian descent, and Kae-Kazeem is Nigerian - and they both look as typical people from the tropical rainforest.

Answer: Farm

The comedy "Funny Farm" (1988) starred Chevy Chase as Andy Farmer and Madolyn Smith Osborne as his wife Elizabeth.
Andy and Elizabeth Farmer bought a desolate farm in a quirky town, not to start agricultural production, but to clear their heads for literary output: Andy decided to write a novel, while Elizabeth always wanted to write children's literature. But Andy did not get around to putting his ideas on paper, and when he tried to keep his publisher at bay by sending him Elizabeth's first draft, the mishaps accumulated and Elizabeth filed for divorce. In preparation of the divorce proceedings, the Farmers tried to sell back their house, and Andy promised the locals a big reward to keep up a nice clean town image.
IMDb mentions that Chevy Chase considered this one his best comedy, far better than for instance the series "National Lampoon's Vacation".

Answer: City

"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" (2017) is a science-fiction movie directed by the French Luc Besson. The story evolved on space station Alpha, a space station as grand as a city where people from over thousand planets have found a home in the 28th Century. Major Valerian (role by Dane DeHaan) and his assistant (as well as love interest) Sergeant Laureline (played by Cara Delevigne) were charged with leading the police force and recovering a mysterious artefact of a less advanced civilization.

But then of course mayhem occurred... Oddly neither Valerian nor Laureline seem to have any first name. Another quirk is that Valerian and Laureline were born in the 25th Century, while in the 28th Century they are 21 years and 17 years, respectively. Apparently they have mastered time travel.

Answer: Farm

Even if you've never seen this short-lived British TV series, you could probably derive from the character's names a lot of information. First of all: with character names as Baa Baa and Quack Quack, this was clearly a production aimed at pre-school children.
Secondly: you did probably not have to stretch your little gay cells too much to guess that Baa Baa was a sheep, and Quack Quack was a duck. Other main characters were Woof Woof the dog, Oink and Oinky the pigs, Moo Moo the cow and Neigh Neigh the horse - all portrayed by puppets.
And thirdly, you could make an estimated guess that the title was based on the song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". Indeed: the TV series was named "MacDonald's Farm" (2000). Judy Bennett, Gary Martin (as Neigh Neigh), Richard Pearce (as Woof Woof), Rhonda Millar (as Quack Quack) and Jill Shilling were the main voice actors.
If you would like to watch the series with your kids, be sure not to confound the title with the similar Australian TV show "New MacDonald's Farm" (2004) starring Max and Milly with Daisy the cow, Henry the horse, Percy the pig, Shirley the sheep, Dash the duck and Charlotte the hen.

Answer: City

"City of Bones" (2007) was the first fantasy novel for young adults in the series "The Mortal Instruments" by Cassandra Clare. The next five instalments could also fit the description: "City of Ashes" (2008), "City of Glass" (2009), "City of Fallen Angels" (2011), "City of Lost Souls" (2012) and "City of Heavenly Fire" (2014).
Clary Fray occasionally used the first name Cassandra and/or the surnames Morgenstern or Fairchild. She accidentally discovered to be not a mere human, but one of the Nephilim: a type of guardian angels. Simon Lewis, a nerdy teenage boy (born human but later transformed into a vampire) fell in love with Clary, but Clary had more amorous feelings towards Jace (also known as Jonathan Morgenstern or Jonathan Wayland), another Nephilim.
But there were of course several evil characters in the series, and the leader of the evil faction was a family member...
"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" was filmed in 2013, but had disappointing ratings.

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Xavier Dolan directed "Tom ŕ la Ferme", a 2013 movie based upon the book "Tom at the Farm" by Michel Marc Bouchard. The story is a romance between Tom Podowski, an advertising executive from Montreal, and Francis Longchamp, the farmhand brother to Tom's deceased lover Guillaume.
Tom met Guillaume's family after Guillaume's funeral, and decided to spend a few weeks helping out at the Longchamps farm. And then mother Agathe Longchamp finally found out that not only Guillaume, but also Francis was more attracted to men than to women...
Xavier Dolan played the title character Tom, while Pierre-Yves Cardinal played Francis.

Answer: City

Charles Dickens published "A Tale of Two Cities" in 1859. The plot evolved in 1789, the time of the French Revolution, both in London and in Paris (the two cities to which the title points).
One of the leading characters was Charles Darnay, a cousin of the French Marquis St. Evrémonde. Darnay was fed up with the lifestyle of the nobility, and so he changed his name and took residence in London. When faced with a trial for high treason in London, Darnay was acquitted because of an uncanny resemblance to his lawyer Sydney Carton, thus undermining the allegations that Darnay attended some meetings of conspirators against the British monarch.
Around the time of the French Revolution, Darnay returned to Paris trying to save a servant of the late Marquis. Alas, Darnay was arrested and condemned to death on the guillotine. And at that point, Carton resorted to an elaborate scheme to free Darnay and take his place on the way to the scaffold.

Answer: Farm

George Orwell wrote the dystopic novella "Animal Farm". On Mr. Jones' manor, the animals took control after the death of the pig Old Major because of neglect. The pigs Napoleon and Snowball lead the revolution and organised the farm. At first Snowball installed a more or less idealistic society model, but gradually Napoleon took over and fortified his position as a tyrant, especially after the disappearance of Snowball.
Snowball also wrote the seven laws of Animalism, including "All animals are equal". Later Napoleon had a line added: "but some animals are more equal than others".
"Animal Farm" was a bitter parody on communism: Snowball could be compared to either Trotsky or Lenin, while Napoleon has clearly the character of Stalin.
The novella published in 1944 inspired several theatre productions, an animated movie (1954) and a live-action movie (1999), radio broadcasts and a comic strip.