In the words of those who have passed: 2017, PART I by Egantx7

Champion(s):

LorinBurte
Get off my lawn!


Runner(s)-Up:

HowellT3


Quiz Description

As the curtain falls on the nightmare of 2017, we pause here to remember those who have passed. This is a longer quiz, and a bit more difficult than usual because it covers such a wide range of fields and ages. You will be given a very short description of the person's relationship to the quote, and then the quote itself. Based on this, identify the writer or speaker of the quote, all of whom shed their mortal coils in 2017. Remember, you are always giving a person's real name, never the name of a character or book.

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Questions:

Author:

He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.

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William Peter Blatty (author of "The Exorcist")

Speaker:

We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

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Eugene Cernan (the last words spoken from the surface of the moon)

Actress, in character:

Well I just wanted you to know, that sometimes I get concerned about being a career woman. I get to thinking my job is too important to me. And I tell myself that the people I work with are just the people I work with, and not my family. And last night I thought, "what is a family anyway?" They're just people who make you feel less alone and really loved. And that's what you've done for me. Thank you for being my family.

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Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show)

Actor, in character:

I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a man!

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John Hurt (as John Merrick in "The Elephant Man")

Actor, in character:

I'm ready, man. Check it out! I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do not want to f@(k with me. Check it out! Hey, Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out. Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx. WHAP! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase plasma pulse rifles, RPGs. We got sonic, electronic ball-breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...

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Bill Paxton (as Private Hudson in "Aliens")

Singer & songwriter:

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track

Oh, the engineer would see him sittin' in the shade

Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made

The people passing by, they would stop and say

"Oh my, but that little country boy could play"

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Chuck Berry ("Johnny B. Goode")

Television host:

So, alright, let's give him another chance! Here comes GENE GENE the DANCING MACHINE!

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Chuck Barris (as host of "The Gong Show")

Film director, making an acceptance speech:

In the context of my movie loving life, this is very unanticipated. The only way I can really understand this is to recognize that I had the great good fortune to have a chance to work with Ted Tally's great adaption of Thomas Harris' extraordinarily moral and amazing book.

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Jonathan Demme (Oscar acceptance speech as director of "The Silence of the Lambs")

Actor, in character:

I'm looking for Dr. Goodhead.

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Roger Moore (as James Bond in "Moonraker")

Actor, in character:

Yet ... an exploding shark was pulling my leg!

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Adam West (1966 film "Batman")

Speaker:

Die deutsche Einheit und die europäische Einigung sind zwei Seiten ein und derselben Medaille.

Translation:

The German Reunification and unification of Europe are two sides of the same coin.

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Helmut Kohl (former Chancellor of West Germany and Germany)

Actor, in character:

May I have 10,000 marbles, please?

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Stephen Furst (as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in "Animal House")

Author, from the 1951 monograph Social Choice and Individual Values:

If we exclude the possibility of interpersonal comparisons of utility, then the only methods of passing from individual tastes to social preferences which will be satisfactory and which will be defined for a wide range of sets of individual orderings are either imposed or dictatorial.

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Kenneth Arrow (Arrow's Impossibility Theorem)