Little Black Project: Ebon Episodes Quiz

Answer: An execution

A man has been found guilty of murder and is to be hanged, but there is still doubt about his involvement. In fact, several signs point to his innocence and no autopsy was ever done on the alleged victim. On the morning of the execution, the sky over the village is pitch black, yet, filled with hatred, the sheriff proceeds with the execution, to the applause of the villagers. Then, just hours later, the darkness spreads, engulfing many places of hate and injustice around the world...

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Answer: Special sales after Thanksgiving

"Lie to Me" starring Tim Roth featured a team of experts in micro expressions who helped law enforcement agencies to determine who was lying and who was telling the truth. In the "Black Friday" episode, part of the team tried to establish who started a stampede as a store opened its doors for the special sales on the day after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the danger involved in Black Friday stampedes in the USA are not just an urban myth. Every year people queue up hours, or even days before to be the first through the doors. Record sales on Black Friday have been noted since 2005. Nearly every year since 2006, there have been multiple injuries and even deaths. In 2011 alone forty people were injured in two separate incidents at Walmart stores in different parts of the country.

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Answer: Pot Black

"Pot Black" came from the fertile imagination of David Attenborough, then the Director of BBC Two, when colour broadcasting was still in its infancy. The program is credited with turning a little known professional sport into a fun sport, played by a wide section of the population. The event was run annually until 1986, but there have been short seasons and "one-offs" at intervals.

Although all the matches were recorded in one day at the BBC's Birmingham studios, the matches were shown individually throughout the winter, with the co-operation of the Press, which did not reveal the winner till after the match was aired. The first century break was notched by Australian Eddie Charlton in 1973 with a break of 110. In 2006 Mark Williams broke the "Pot Black" record with a break of 119.

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Answer: Black Books

Black Books premiered on 29 September 2000 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The series is set in a London bookshop called "Black Books", and follows the lives of its owner Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), his assistant Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey) and their friend Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig). In the episode, "The Blackout", Manny celebrates his birthday drinking too many expressos and thinks he is a 1970's cop, other characters try to remember and explain how their injuries happened. The thoroughly British humour of "Black Books" was only to last for eighteen episodes over three series, ending on 15th April 2004.

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Answer: Orange

"Orange is the New Black" revolves around a woman sentenced to fifteen months jail time in New York's minimum security prison, Litchfield Penitentiary for money laundering and drugs trafficking. "Orange is the New Black" was adapted from Piper Kerman's memoir "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison". The TV series collected sixteen Emmy Award nominations for four wins in its first season.

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Answer: Black Sails

"Black Sails" debuted in 2014 and ran for four seasons, totalling 38 episodes. Toby Stephens played the fictive character Captain Flint and Luke Arnold played the fictive John silver, but there were also characters inspired by real historic pirates: Captain Charles Vane (played by Zach McGowan), Anne Bonny (role by Debra Paget) and Jack Rackham (played by Toby Schmitz).

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Answer: A pirate ship

The title of 'The Curse of the Black Spot' is a play on that of the first film in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series - 'The Curse of the Black Pearl'. In the episode, the Doctor and his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams landed on a 17th century pirate ship whose crew were being terrorised by a strange creature known as the Siren. Whenever a crew member suffered an injury, an example of the titular black spot was placed on their palm. This caused them to be drawn to the Siren and apparently disintegrated upon touching it. The idea of a black spot being a sign of impending death to pirates was first created by Robert Louis Stevenson in his book 'Treasure Island'.

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Answer: ATM

"The One with the Blackout" was the seventh episode of Season One. As can be guessed by the title, New York City has a power outage. While the other five friends are at Monica's apartment, Chandler is trapped in an ATM. Luckily for him, he has Jill Goodacre, a Victoria's Secret model for company. Goodacre played herself in this cameo. Chandler being Chandler creates awkward situations while trying to impress Jill and ends up freaking her out.

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Answer: Sideshow Bob

This episode marked the second appearance of Sideshow Bob and the first since Bart and Lisa exposed him trying frame Krusty of robbing the Kwik-E-Mart. While in prison for that crime, Bob struck up a relationship with his pen pal Selma, who is Marge's oft-married sister. Selma has come into some money on the stock market and Bob plans to murder her by an explosion in their hotel room after their wedding.

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Answer: Game of Thrones

"The House of Black and White" was the second episode of the highly acclaimed fifth season of the epic "Game of Thrones". This season was marked by more pronounced deviations from the underlying novels than the previous ones, resulting in additional suspense for long-time fans who had already read the books. The titular House of Black and White is the headquarter of the Faceless Men, an assassins' society.

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