Answers To The Weekend Brain Teasers
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jazzy_daveHere are the answers to my questions -
How might you size up compromising photos in 1946, a ransom demand in 1998 and sleight of hand on the stock market in 2015?
The size they have in common is Big - because they all refer to movie titles which are The Big something. Compromising photographs are central to the plot of the Bogart movie The Big Sleep, made in 1946. A ransom demand in a movie of 1998 might lead you to the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski. And a 2015 film uncovering decidedly risky dealings on the stock market was The Big Short.
Take a mythical ship, load it with goods, and send it first to a city in North Dakota, and then to a city in Florida, slowly. The connection?
The mythical ship is the Argo, loading it with goods is cargo, that North Dakota city is Fargo and the city in Florida is Largo. Largo is also the classical music term for "Slowly".
How might you size up compromising photos in 1946, a ransom demand in 1998 and sleight of hand on the stock market in 2015?
The size they have in common is Big - because they all refer to movie titles which are The Big something. Compromising photographs are central to the plot of the Bogart movie The Big Sleep, made in 1946. A ransom demand in a movie of 1998 might lead you to the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski. And a 2015 film uncovering decidedly risky dealings on the stock market was The Big Short.
Take a mythical ship, load it with goods, and send it first to a city in North Dakota, and then to a city in Florida, slowly. The connection?
The mythical ship is the Argo, loading it with goods is cargo, that North Dakota city is Fargo and the city in Florida is Largo. Largo is also the classical music term for "Slowly".
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