The Evil Pub Quiz

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So Monday night is the usual pub quiz night in my local pub and week after week the evil quiz master asks questions on impossible questions rounds like “the human body”, “around Britain” (which consists of places that i never knew existed). 🙁
Well last night to my surprise the evil quiz master put in a round of questions on Sci-fi movies. Ah at last i thought a list of questions in order for me to shine. 😀 So the questions came and out of the ten questions asked i felt i had got ten right. Feeling very smug with myself i went to the bar to get myself another pint of Guinness.
When i got back to my horror the evil quiz master had marked our paper and i got a question wrong. 😯
No i couldn’t have i knew that answer. I had seen the film hundreds of times but the evil quiz master had marked me wrong! The question was:
How Many Crew did the Nostromo have in the movie Alien?
My answer and i think the correct answer was 7 (plus a cat)
Evil Quiz master said 5?
Does anyone think i was cruelly judged? Am i wrong?
Anyway we lost the quiz by one point.

[Anonymous]

Eight if you include Mother. There were six people and one synthetic (Ash) on board. Could it have something to do with rank? I guess he separated officers from crew, in which case I suppose that Dallas and the science officer Ash would not be included. I only re-watched Alien, one of my fave movies, about two weeks ago. Hmm…

Still, yeah, sounds to me rather unfair.

[nursewhen]

CAST:
DALLAS – Tom Skerritt
RIPLEY – Sigourney Weaver
LAMBERT – Veronica Cartwright
BRETT – Harry Dean Stanton
KANE – John Hurt
ASH – Ian Holm
PARKER – Yaphet Kotto

You were robbed!

[Anonymous]

Robbed or tricked? Semantically speaking…

I’m not/ haven’t been defending the quiz master… It’s indisputable that there were seven members on board the ship, but doncha think it might have been some kind of trick question?

My point was that in one sense of the word, the crew is differentiated from the officers (officers and crew). However, since it can also refer to all the people manning the ship… So, unless he noted a particular definition of the word “crew”… At the very least I can consider the question unfair.

Note: even when talking about those who man a ship, one is often referring to the crew as opposed to the officers.

Could you both be right? And if you were both right then you’re both wrong! The answer should then be 5 and 7 crew members.

[Anonymous]

Ash and Ripley werent members of the crew if memory serves.

Werent they both there as specialists?

[nursewhen]

Well having gone to my dictionary and looked up crew, I’ve got a theory.

definition 1. The men who man a boat, ship, aircraft etc

There we go, the fluffy air hostesses don’t count. 😛 😀

If it was a trick question, I do think the evil quiz master should have explained the trick.

Edit – Ahah.. Reasearch has found this little gem

‘The flight crew (Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm, John Hurt, and Sigourney Weaver) appear educated and are initially at odds with the working class mechanics (Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton)…..’

So we kick out the mechanics and you’ve got 5. Personally, I think a crew involves everybody employed on a ship from the captain to the cook. Flight crew is something different

Here’s my source

[Anonymous]

LexxLurker, NurseWhen, both neato points/observations. 😀 *thumps up*

Edit: Well Streudel me timbers Nursie, now I shall have to myself. 😀

Good find there!

[nursewhen]

Yargh! You’ve Streudeled me. I’ve added an edit, please see my post above! 😆

I’m not sure that Ripley was a specialist. I thought she was the regular warrant officer. Ash could be described as a specialist since he was a last minute replacement for the regular science officer.

[Anonymous]

My memory is really hazy on Alien. But for some reason I thought they were along just for this specific mission.

But I could be mixing that up with Aliens and ten thousand other Sci-Fi plots that get meshed together due to ill-spent weekends. 😈

In any event if I had been asked I woulda said 7 as well.

[nursewhen]

”LexxLurker” wrote:

But I could be mixing that up with Aliens and ten thousand other Sci-Fi plots that get meshed together due to ill-spent weekends. 😈

Hey, what better way to spend a weekend? 😀

Logan, I think we should work on getting ‘streudeled’ accepted into the Oxford English dictionary before the year is out.

For those not in the know

Streudeled – 1.When replying to a post, somebody else slips a post in ahead of you

2. After deleting or editing a post, you find that somebody has already quoted it in its original form, so you have to shamefacedly admit that, yes, you did say that. Also known as the phenomenon of ‘Ninja Quoting’

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