Game the Eleventh: Caption Contest {4}

Well, everybody, here is the fourth picture upon which you can demonstrate your wit. ;)

You may submit one caption very clever or two moderately clever by Friday, March 1st. (They can be any amount of clever that you like, of course--I am only quoting Emma. Anyways, you can submit up to two.) The winner will be presented the following day. As always, do keep in mind that we reserve the right not to publish or consider any captions we do not deem Appropriate. (Haha. That can hardly be accompanied without a haughty sniff, do not you think so?)

Also, for those of you who haven't noticed, each winning captioned picture is added to the caption contest archive page, where the winners receive fame and glory and you can look at the old ones in hopes of a chuckle.

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

The Soundtrack Game - Answers

Here is the answer video for last week's soundtrack game, and more details below it, as well as links to the full songs.

One/I:
Title - Lydia's Elopement
Track number - 18

Two/II:
Title - The Gardiners
Track number - 7
The Gardiners are arriving from London for a Christmas visit.

Three/III:

Title - Thinking About Lizzy
Track number - 17
Mr. Darcy is doing a nightly round of some sort, I think, with his ugly dog trotting along behind him, and pauses in the room with the piano, remembering The Look and being generally contemplative. 

Four/IV:
Title - Telling the Truth
Track number - 12
This is while Mr. Darcy is writing his letter-- that's the narrative anyways; at this point in the song we are seeing some things to do with Georgiana and Wickham. It's one of my favorite songs on the soundtrack--it has some nice dramatic parts. ;)

Five/V:
Title - Pemberley
Track number - 14
The Gardiners and Elizabeth arrive at Pemberley, and the latter is taken by its beauty. 

Six/VI:
Title - Winter into Spring
Track number - 8
This song varies in events, but begins with the two youngest Miss Bennets and Mrs. Bennet suffering the winter doldrums  then shows Elizabeth reading a letter from Jane and of course we are made aware of the contents. The clip of the song in the video was right after that bit, when Elizabeth is taking a walk in the newly spring-like weather.

Seven/VII:
Title - Return of Bingley
Track number - 21
Mr. Bingley is returning to Netherfield "and the whole town is talking of it!"

Eight/VIII:
Title - Canon Collins
Track number - 5
We are first introduced to Mr. Collins through his letter to Mr. Bennet. This song suits him amazingly well, I always think. In fact, all adaptations of P&P except the fake 2005 version have a theme song for Mr. Collins and they are always amusing. This one's the best, of course. Goes without saying. ;-)

Nine/IV:
Title - Rosings
Track number - 10
The Hunsford Parsonage party are going to Rosings and meet Lady Catherine.

Ten/X:
Title - Double Wedding
Track number - 23
Happy ending.

Our winner is: Katrina, with 90% (that is, 9/10 correct).
Other player scores:
Miss Elizabeth Bennet - 76%
The Elf - 68%
Jane - 50%
Emily - 32%
Livia Rachelle - 24%

Thanks, everybody! Keep an eye out on Monday for the next activity. :)

The Club's New Facebook Page

I have done something dastardly modern, and made a Facebook page for the club. Is not that shocking?

I am only joking, for I think this will be a very good thing. Those who follow things more easily on Facebook can do so, and of course I'm hoping it will garner some more interest from people not generally in the blogging sphere.

It's off to a smashing start of 16 "likes" since it was created yesterday. (Okay, well, I'm not sure that's a smashing start, but I'm pleased) It would be a happy thought indeed if some of you Facebooking members "liked" the page, too! :)

Game the Tenth: The Soundtrack Game

Several years ago, in the summer of 2010 I believe it was, I listened to the soundtrack to P&P95 for the first time. I was borrowing the CD from a friend, and took it with me on a trip, using a handheld CD player thing to listen to it over and over and over and over. I'd brought a few other CDs (this was before the days of my MP3 player--I/my family tend to get new stuff about 5-10 years later than when "everybody" seems to have them, BTW, and then it is not the cool kind--and you know what? I like it that way) but I was strangely addicted to that one. And then of course it was fun to see the movie all over again with the songs I knew so well by then.

Anyways. I'd actually play a game with myself, where I'd put it on shuffle and then not look and try to guess which track number and song title it was. (Since I was looking at the CD cover a great deal, I started knowing those things by heart.) I never found anybody else who wanted to do that with me, though, so today I am appealing to all you P&P95 fans to do it. ;) Well, a similar thing anyways.

The 4-minute video below contains clips (about 20-30 seconds each) of ten different songs from the soundtrack. It is your job to identify these. There are three different things to guess--the title of the song, a brief description of what's going on in the movie when the song (or that particular part of the song) is playing, and the track number. 

As for points, if you get all three categories for a song, that's 5 points. (The total, then, is 50 points, but since it's even like that it can also be a high score of 100%, and I may choose to work with percentages. I feel so teacherly that way, and teacherly is fun.) The title and description are worth 2 points each, and the track number is worth 1. (Just because I think that's the hardest, and I'm making it worth less so that your score can be higher even if you don't have those down. Not all of you probably sat there looking at the track number & CD booklet like I did... and even that was over two years ago. Here's a hint, in case you want to try random guessing: there is a total of 24 tracks on the soundtrack.) 

Everything clear? As mud? Well, try your best. ;) Guesses will be accepted through Friday, with answers and results posted on Saturday, as always. (That's the 23rd, in case you really wanted to know.)

Oh, and in the video I'm using Roman Numerals so that the song number in the video won't get confused with your track number guesses. (Come to think of it, I'm not exactly sure why I didn't just spell them out. DUH. Well it's done now... you may do that in your answers if you choose.)

If you're coming back to guess again, this list of when the songs start may assist you:

I/One) 0:10

II/Two) 0:30

III/Three) 0:49

IV/Four) 1:14

V/Five) 1:47

VI/Six) 2:13

VII/Seven) 2:33

VIII/Eight) 2:54

IX/Nine) 3:17

X/Ten) 3:37

Thanks for playing!!

Degrees of Separation Answers

And the winner is... Miss Laurie, with 31 points (out of a possible 33)!  A big thank you to everyone who participated.  I do want to point out that with a Degrees of Separation game, there is often more than one correct answer in any given film.  I've listed below the people I had in mind, but some of you who commented gave alternate answers for some actors/characters.  That's perfectly fine-- I gave you the points anyway because the connexions are there even if you didn't read my mind (which wasn't a requirement of the game, heehee).  :D

Jennifer Ehle was in Pride and Prejudice (as Elizabeth Bennet) 

with Anthony Calf (as Colonel Fitzwilliam) 

who was in Lorna Doone (as Tom Faggus) 

with Richard Coyle (as John Ridd) 

who was in Wives and Daughters (as Mr. Coxe) 

(second from right)

with Barbara Flynn (as Miss Browning) 

(far left)

who was in Return to Cranford (as Mrs. Jamieson) 

with Tom Hiddleston (as William Buxton) 

who was in Henry V (as King Henry) 

with John Dagliesh (as John Bates) 

who was in Lark Rise to Candleford (as Alf Arless) 

with Brendan Coyle (as Robert Timmins) 

who was in North and South (as Nicholas Higgins) 

with Anna Maxwell Martin (as Bessy Higgins) 

who was in Bleak House (as Esther Summerson) 

with Alun Armstrong (as Inspector Bucket) 

who was in Little Dorrit (as Flintwinch) 

with Harriet Walter (as Mrs. Gowan) 

who was in Sense and Sensibility 1995 (as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood) 

with Greg Wise (as John Willoughby) 

who was in Cranford (as Sir Charles Maulver) 

with Julia Sawalha (as Jessie Brown) 

who was in Pride and Prejudice (as Lydia Bennet) with Jennifer Ehle!

Come back Monday for a new game!

Game the Ninth: P&P Degrees of Separation

Most period drama fans play the "recognize that actor game" from time to time-- after all, it is a truth universally acknowledged that many of the same actors have played multiple roles in our favorite old-fashioned films.  This is true for Pride and Prejudice as well as any other period drama... and so

today we bring you a Degrees of Separation game, inspired by the lovely Miss Laurie at her blog Old-Fashioned Charm.  To play, simply identify the characters, actors and period dramas in the blanks below.  Copy and paste the text into a comment, and fill in the parentheses with the names of characters, actors and films that you know.  If there are any that stump you, just leave a question mark within those parenthesis.  

Have fun!

Jennifer Ehle was in Pride and Prejudice (as Elizabeth Bennet)
with ______  (as ______) who was in Lorna Doone (as ______ )
with _____ (as ______ ) who was in Wives and Daughters (as _____)
with _____ (as ______) who was in Return to Cranford (as ______)
with _____ (as _____) who was in Henry V 2012 (as _____ )
with _____ (as _____) who was in Lark Rise to Candleford (as ______)
with _____ (as ______) who was in North and South (as _____)
with ______ (as _______) who was in Bleak House (as _____)
with ______ (as _______) who was in Little Dorrit (as _____)
with ______ (as _______) who was in Sense and Sensibility 1995 (as _____)
with ______ (as _______) who was in Cranford (as _____)
with ______ (as _______) who was in Pride and Prejudice (as ______)
with Jennifer Ehle!