Monday 14 March 2011

Over The Seven Hills?

Once dubbed 'Hollywood on the Tiber', it's the place where Richard Burton romanced Elizabeth Taylor while the pair made 'Cleopatra' and Charlton Heston learnt how to steer a hurtling chariot during the shooting of 'Ben Hur', but now Rome's famous Cinecitta film studios is having to diversify. With income from film-making dropping dramatically in recent years as productions found cheaper locations in Budapest, Bucharest and other eastern European cities, some of the studio's land has been given over to house Cinecitta World, an amusement park featuring attractions based on films made in Rome's movie making heyday. Oscar winning set designer Dante Ferretti has been charged with creating wow factor attractions for the development due to open in 2014. In tribute to Rome's glamorous movie making tradition, Highly Questionable takes the eternal city as the theme of today's quiz.           
 Rome Quiz 
 1  According to Roman legend, who were the twin brothers that founded Rome?
 2  In which year did Rome host the summer Olympic Games?
 3  Which actress played the female lead opposite Gregory Peck in the classic Hollywood film 'Roman Holiday'?
 4  Throwing coins into which of Rome's famous landmarks is said to guarantee visitors a return to the city?
 5  How many individual stairs are there in the flight of Rome's Spanish Steps? 
Answers will be published along with the next Highly Questionable quiz and associated blog post.
 Numbers Quiz Answers 
The answers to the previous Highly Questionable quiz which took numbers as its theme are:-
 1  Pi is the name by which the number 3.14159265 is better known.
 2  Q and Z are the the two letters that are worth ten points to a player who successfully uses them during a game of the English language version of Scrabble.
 3  The Drifters originally sang that 'you're more than a number in my little red book' in their 1976 hit single of that name.
 4  John Buchan wrote the novel 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'.
 5  Green is the colour of the background against which zero appears on a roulette wheel.
The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com.

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