Color Me Purple Part 2: Purple Screenings Quiz

Answer: Oklahoma!

Lynn Riggs's play used traditional folk songs (hence the title) which were replaced by material from Rodgers and Hammerstein for the 1943 musical. The plot was basically the same: Laurey is a farm girl in the Oklahoma Territory, which is just about to become a state (setting things in late 1906 or early 1907), who is being courted by two men, a farmhand named Jud and a cowboy named Curly. The conflict between the two is representative of the ongoing conflict in the region between farmers and cattlemen. In the movie, Laurey was played by Shirley Jones, Curly by Gordon MacRae, and Jud by Rod Steiger.

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Answer: Gregory Peck

All four choices were in the movie, but only Peck was American. He played the part of a Royal Air Force officer, Squadron Leader Forrester, whose lack of care for his own life during operations meant that he was being critically observed by the doctor portrayed by Bernard Lee. As was sometimes done in British movies of the time, Peck's American accent was explained by making Forrester a Canadian, indicated by the CANADA flashes on the shoulders of his uniform.

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Answer: Count von Count

Jerry Nelson was involved with "Sesame Street" from the first season. He played many characters until 2004 when he retired his other characters due to illness. He would continue to do the Count's voice while Matt Vogel did the puppeteering. After Nelson's death, Vogel took over performing the voice as well.

Count von Count is always trying to count things. He lives in a castle, complete with a squeaky door, with his cat Fatatita.

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Answer: Prince

In the film, Prince portrayed "The Kid", a semi-autobiographical role. Apollonia Kotero co-starred. The movie featured multiple concert scenes and featured several hit songs by Prince and the Revolution, including "When Doves Cry", "Let's Go Crazy", and "Purple Rain". The movie won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. "Purple Rain" was also successful financially, earning over 80 million dollars (US) on a 7.2 million dollar budget.

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Answer: The Purple Rose of Cairo

The "Purple Rose of Cairo" directed by Woody Allen and released in 1985, is a fantasy romantic comedy film set in New Jersey during the Great Depression. It stars Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels in the leading roles.

Cecilia, a waitress, is enduring a loveless and abusive marriage with husband Monk (Danny Aiello) and has tried on several occasions, but without success to leave him. As a means of escape she visits a cinema where she watches a fictitious film (similarly named "The Purple Rose of Cairo") starring Jeff Daniels as archaeologist Tom Baxter. After sitting through the movie several times, Tom emerges from the screen and in a series of unlikely adventures, which involve the two of them flitting between the screen movie and the real world, they fall in love. However, the situation is untenable and after divorcing her husband, the final scene sees Cecilia sat in the cinema once again, this time immersed in the film "Top Hat" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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Answer: Sailor Saturn

Sailor Saturn, aka Hotaru Tomoe, appears in "Sailor Moon S", the third series. She is the daughter of the mad scientist Professor Tomoe, and is possessed by an extraterrestrial being known as Mistress 9, who eventually takes over her body. Because of being possessed, Hotaru occasionally suffers from fits, and has the ability to heal wounds. She befriends Chibiusa after retrieving Chibiusa's hat for her. The Outer Senshi come into conflict with the Inner Senshi when they try to kill Hotaru, as they fear that she will awaken as Sailor Saturn and destroy the world by bringing down her Silence Glaive. Though Hotaru does become Sailor Saturn when she forces Mistress 9 out of her body, she sacrifices herself fighting Pharaoh 90, another alien, and is reborn as a baby. The Outer Senshi adopt her in the fifth season, and she reawakens as Sailor Saturn and quickly grows up when Queen Nehellenia attacks them. She is later killed by Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune while they are pretending to work for Sailor Galaxia, but is brought back to life by Sailor Moon.

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Answer: The Phantom

Panned by the critics when released, "The Phantom" has had reasonable success since then and developed somewhat of a cult following. It tells the story many of us have long been familiar with since the days when it appeared regularly in comics. A young 16th century boy who manages to swim ashore after witnessing the death of his father at the hands of pirates, is taken into the home of tribesmen, and swears to devote the rest of his life to fighting cruelty and injustice. Several centuries pass and this fight continues, generation after generation, right up to the 1930s where the current phantom, Kit Walker, aka the Ghost Who Walks, is about to take on the fight of his life against the evil Quill, a leader of a mercenary group with diabolical plans to steal one of the magical Skulls of Touganda.

Throw in Diana Palmer, Kit's feisty ex-girlfriend, based in New York, but prone to wandering all over the globe; her uncle who appears to now own a powerful newspaper; and a group of corrupt businessmen in cahoots with Quill, and you can guess which way the plot is developing. Uncle Dave sends Diana off to do some investigating, but along comes an aircraft hijacking to interfere in her plans, and Diana is kidnapped and held captive conveniently close to where the Phantom lives - and - sorry, I can't possibly spoil the rest of this movie for you. All you need to know is that the ending is somewhat unsatisfactory, but leaves the way open for other movies to follow on with more adventures of that purple clad, masked hero - drum roll - the Phantom!

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Answer: Tinky Winky

Noted for its high production values, UK-produced "Teletubbies" (1997-2001) won multiple BAFTA awards and earned two Emmy nominations for its pre-school program of gently babbling, baby-like beings named for the TVs in their bellies. In 1999, US televangelist and political activist Jerry Falwell accused the globally popular show of promoting homosexuality among children. He claimed that the biggest character Tinky Winky was coded with Gay Pride symbols, namely a purple color and a triangle-shaped antenna atop his head, and that he carried a purse while his voice was clearly male. (Apparently, Falwell had conflated the *pink* triangle, which the Nazis used to stigmatize homosexual men and which the 1990s Gay Pride movement co-opted, with the *purple* triangle, which branded Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian sect whose members refused to perform the Hitler salute.) The BBC responded that "Tinky Winky is simply a sweet, technological baby with a magic bag". As the controversy raged in news and entertainment media, Tinky Winky and his fellow Teletubbies made no public comment.

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Answer: Harold and the Purple Crayon

The TV series, lasting just 13 episodes, was based on a children's book of the same name. The book was written by Crockett Johnson and published in 1955.

The series was narrated by Sharon Stone. Connor Matheus provided the voice of 4-year-old Harold in every episode.

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Answer: Harry Potter

In the "Harry Potter" film series, based on the books by J.K. Rowling, Lavender Brown is one of the students in Gryffindor House, to which also Harry and his best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, belong. She first appears in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002) as a non-speaking cameo by Kathleen Cauley, and is portrayed by Jennifer Smith in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004), again in a non-speaking role. In the last three films, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (2009), "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1" (2010) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2" (2011), Lavender Brown is played by Jessie Cave, and has a larger role. In "Half-Blood Prince", she becomes Ron Weasley's first girlfriend; their relationship, however, lasts only a few months because of Ron's lack of true involvement, and Lavender's jealousy of Hermione Granger. In the final film, during the Battle of Hogwarts Lavender is attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and later dies of her injuries.

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