Society: Blunders and Brilliancy Movie Quote Quiz Answers!!! :)

1. "It's just this new small-talk: You do it so well!" "Well, if I did it properly, then what was you sniggering at?"

Answer: Freddie Einsford Hill and Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady--people who got it right: Melissa, Abigail, Jo March, and Nana & KK

2. "Yes, the library is fine. I wish I read more....I prefer being out of doors....of course, I can read...and I'm not suggesting one can't read out of doors..."
Answer: Mr. Bingley from Pride and Prejudice (2005)--People who got it right: Melissa, Carrie, Nana & KK, and Abigail

3. "It's not.....so bad...." "Are you blind?! You look like a circus clown!"
Answer: Society girl and Eloise in Eloise at the Plaza. People who got it right: No one. :)

4. "You must give us either one thing clever, or three things very dull indeed."
"Three things very dull indeed...well, that will just do for me."
"Oh, but there may be a difficulty. You must limit it to only to three at once."
Answer: Frank Churchill, Miss Bates, and Emma Woodhouse from Emma -- People who got this right: Melissa, Abigail, Nana & KK, Jo March, Carrie, Maria Elisabeth

5. "Dancing is the ornament of every polished society."
"And every unpolished society--every savage can dance."
Answer: Sir William Lucas and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1995)--People who got this right: Maria Elisabeth, Abigail, Jo March, Melissa, Nana & KK

6. *Gun shot* "Boring conversation anyway. Luke! We're gonna have company!"
Answer: Han Solo of Star Wars (pardon my slipping memory as to the name of the first movie)--People who got this right: Melissa, Jo March, Nana & KK, Abigail, Carrie

7. "Oh hey! What are you doin' here? I mean, it is your house but...."
Answer: Riley Poole in National Treasure 2--People who got this right: No one

8. "Cynthia. If you must have the last word, please don't let it be a truism."

Answer: Mrs. Gibson from Wives and Daughters--People who got this right: Carrie and Abigail

9. "You may, like us, admire her hair from a distance without taking the liberty of touching it."
Answer: Richard Carstone from Bleak House--People who got this right: Abigail

10. "I can hardly believe my ears!"
"*We* can hardly believe your mouth!"
Answer: Lord Tarleton and MP (Member of Parliament) from Amazing Grace--People who got this right: No one. :D

11. "More at home here, than in Vienna? In all your glittering salons, gossiping gaily with bores I detest, soaking myself in champagne...."
Answer: Georg VonTrapp in The Sound of Music--People who got this right: Maria Elisabeth and Jo March

12. "No light propitious shone..."
"Edward, you have no passion. Read it like this: "No LIGHT propitious shone!"

Answer: Edward Ferrars and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility--People who got this right: Melissa, Nana & KK, Abigail, and Maria Elisabeth and Taylor Lynn

So, without further ado, and counting in the extra points for correct character identification, the scores stand as follows:

Taylor Lynn: 2 points

Carrie: 9 points

Jo March: 9 points

Maria Elisabeth: 12 points

Nana and KK: 14 points

Abigail: 15 points

Melissa: 15 points. :)

So that leaves me with a tie! Melissa and Abigail have both won the Society: Blunders and Brilliancy Movie Quotes Quiz. So....do you gals want to try a tie-breaker quote? :) Here it is:

"Well, I'm sure he's a very good sort of man..."

"Yes...and I'm sure he kept a very good sort of shop before his elevation to knighthood!" :D

It's up to you two to break the tie or call a truce! ;) So, did you have fun with this themed movie-quote quiz? :)

Winners announced!

Okay! Thanks to everyone who participated in the Marvelously Mixed-up Movie Quotes contest! :)

The Winner is....................

The King's Daughter with 8 out of 10 points!!!!

(we can hand deliver your prize on Tuesday! :)

Tied for 2nd place are: Abigail, Shaina and Leanna with 4 out of 10

3rd place: Stephanie with 3 out of 10

4th place goes to: Jo March with 2 out of 10

We did judge by how many fully correct quotes you got. (Making sure you named *every* movie in the quote)

So did you think this was fun? Should we do one again? Please let us know in a comment! :)

The real answers were:

1. Pride and Prejudice and the Fellowship of the Ring

2. Cinderella and the Sound of Music

3. the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Robin Hood

4. My Fair Lady and Bleak House

5. the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Sense and Sensibility, and the Sound of Music

6. Emma, Pride and Prejudice and the Sound of Music

7. Little Women and Amazing Grace

8. Our Mutual Friend, Eloise, and Amazing Grace

9. Anne of Green Gables, Bleak House, and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader

10. Sense and Sensibility, the Dawn Treader, and Ratatouille

Some of these were pretty tricky, and you all did a great job! :)

-Sarah

Answers Are Finally In! :)

Hey Guys! Here are the answers to the Period Drama Movie Quote Quiz Rachie did.

#1"She won't even allow me to reapply the blacking to her hair! There is a great grey streak going right down her centre part!" Miss Pole from Cranford
People who got it right: Abigail

#2 "She seems to expwess herself vewy fwankly, Clare!" -Lady Cumner from Wives and Daughters
People who got it right: Abigial

#3 "I made money overnight? How very clever of me!" - Ms. Margaret Hale from North and South
People who got this right: Abigail

#4 "Roger Riderhood. Sometimes known as "Rogue" Riderhood. But that's a friendly name used by thems that don't know me well."- Riderhood in Our Mutual Friend
Nobody got that right!

#5 "...I encourage him in that, too."- Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice
People who got it right: Jo March and Abigail

#6 "What care I for a cold, when there is such a man?!" -Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility
People who got it right: Abigail, Jo March, Always Narnian, and Leanna!:)

#7 "I abhor the notion of being over-trimmed!" -Mrs. Elton from Emma 2009 version
People who got it right: Abigail

#8 "She says that Colonel Wallace says, that Mr. Elliott says"--"That's enough!!" -Ann and the widow lady in Persuasion
People who got it right: NOBODY!

#9 "Do you think he could be a captive like Smee in Nicholas Nickleby?" - Jo in Little Women
People who got it right: Abigial, Always Narnian, Shi of Narnia, and Leanna

#10 "People's ideals change sometimes." -Diana from Anne of Avonlea
People who got this right: Abigail, Jo March, Always Narnian, Shi of Narnia, and Leanna.:)

Okay! So the winner of this contest is:::::::::: ABIGAIL!!
Congratulations, and good job to everybody else, as well! :) Ya'll give yourselves a pat on the back! Thanks for entering.
-Sarah

Answers To Book Quotes Quiz, And A Reason To Celebrate! :)

Hey Everybody! Time to see who won our Book Quote Quiz! :)

Jo March won with 9 1/2 points!
Abigail Taylor was second with 6 points
And Stephanie was third with 3 points!

Here are the answers:

1. "An Old-Fashioned Girl" by Louisa May Alcott (Tom Speaking to Polly)
2. "Mary Poppins" by P.L. Travers (Uncle Albert speaking to Mary Poppins)
3. "Heidi" by Johanna Spyrie
4. "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgeson Burnett (Dickon speaking to Mary)
5. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (Abigail! You were off by one book! :)
6. "The Silver Chair" by C.S. Lewis (Puddleglum speaking to Jill and Eustace)
7. "Betsy-Tacy" by Maud Hart Lovelace
8. "Pollyanna" by whats-her-name? (Pollyanna speaking to Aunt Polly)
9. "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott (Meg and Marmee)

Yay! Do you guys want to do one again sometime? Jo, your prize will be choosing something for Sarah to post about! :) Do whatever, as long as it does not require pictures of us to be put up here! :P And another piece of news: I will officially and forever and ever-until-I-am-homeschooling-my-own-children be done with algebra tomorrow!!!! YAY! If you remember from a post away back last year, I promise to dance a jig on top of my algebra! I will! I promise! It required me getting up early when Leah milked all but one morning for the past several weeks, and doing 4 pages of the evil subject, but I have nearly conquered it! Huzzah! Someone get out the confetti! :) -Rachel

Oops!

Hey Everyone! We forgot to post the winner of our contest about a week or so back! Sorry. Here are the results: ( we didn't have alot of people leave answers so...:)
Abigail: 6 wrong
Hannah: 9 wrong
Shaina: 10 wrong
Jo March: 10 wrong

Here are the real answers:
Likes putting honey on her mashed potatoes: Sarah :)
Popularized using the word "blast" in our circles: Rachel
Has had a vacuum cord plugged into the top of her head: Rachel :P
Her nickname in volleyball is CeCe, the Viper Server: Sarah
Thinks that if you name your kid "Chase" or "Hunter" that's what you'll always be doing.(Chasing or hunting for them:) : Rachel
Hates slugs passionately: Sarah
Sings constantly while she works, to the point of irritation to some people: Rachel
Closed her eyes the whole time on the Griffin: Sarah
Screamed the whole time on the Griffin: Rachel
Is not scared of people choking: Sarah
Would rather go barefoot than wear any kind of shoe:Rachel
Is always commanded to sit as a model for a profile for the other sister's drawings: Sarah
Likes the Casting Crowns song "What this World Needs": Sarah
Is the flip-flop queen: Sarah
Can get online and check the comments on blogs in 25 seconds, much to the other sister's glee: Rachel
Cannot for the life of her draw men: Rachel
Can't ever keep a straight face when asked to: Rachel
Used to climb any tree she could get her hands on: Sarah
Thinks ice plants look like lizard tails and wants to squish them: Rachel
Frequently gets charley-horses at night:( or used to ) Sarah

Whew! There you are! So you've learned a few random things about each of us, and yes, honey is very good with mashed potatoes. How did I find out? I was at a friend's house when I was little and we were eating dinner. I saw a bottle of honey and hadn't seen that there were rolls to go with it, so used it on my 'taters! :)
So the Walkers are officialy moved out. Tonight they are sleeping for the 1st time at their own house on their land! Hurray for them!:) But we are gonna miss having them around to stay up late with us and fun around with! :'(
Well, that's all I have for now.
-Sarah

6-word descriptions, valentines, and various musings of Rachel (which should be enough for most of ya'll to come see what I've come up with!)

Hey guys! Okay! I will post the 6-word descriptions of two people, and later, when she's around, Sarah will do the other two. Right-O!

Abigail: spunky, dancing, dramatic, giggles, considerate, enouraging

Joanna: my-girl, stylish, SINGING!!!, hugs, smiles, homemaker

There seems to have been a fifth person, but he already described himself. It is none of our business to refute one's own opinion of oneself, but I shall only say, all six things were redundant, and so did not fit the quota of 6 words describing the person.

Okay! So today we got just enough snow to make it nice and silvery-filigree on the trees! I wrote a poem about it, but I'm not sure if anyone cares to read my poems on here. If you do, leave a comment, and I'll tell you about it. Let's see.....

We were supposed to go to an ice-skating party, but bad weather cancelled it. (Boo-hoo-sob-sob. I've never been ice-skating before!!!) But that is alright, because at least we didn't have to be the ones cancelling it. The hostess did herself! I made three valentines today. I can't show pictures of them here, because they are for some of the gals that read this blog and so that....would be no fun at all! :) I will only say that I watercolored them and used hand-crocheted lace I had never found out what to do with after I made it, and had a load of fun! At the top, in case you were wondering, is the picture I watercolored for Alaina's 18th birthday. (The hostess of the aforementioned ice-skating party.) I am in love with the 1800's fashions and life, only I wish that there wasn't the whole industrial-revolution, feminist movement thing! Tell me how you like it! I can see several flaws in the painting, but over all, I think it turned out nicely. We leave for NY on Friday! Yay! The Laundry-fairy has paid for Sarah, Daniel, Matthew and myself to fly up their for 8 days! It is now a yearly tradition. This'll be my 3 time. We feel so rich going through the airports.... ahhhhhhhhhh......*sighs happily*. The first time I was the teensiest bit scared, mostly that I'd be sick. But then when we got to the lay-over in Baltimore, I was wanting to go walk around the airport. They have the best Mexican resteraunt there! Has anyone ever noticed that airport food is pricey? 3 of us shared a latte or something from Starbucks, and it was like 9 dollars!!! Oh! Mama had a brilliant idea the other day! If we start saving our money now, then when Sarah turns 18 (2 and a bit years) then she'll take us two to Prince Edward Island in Canada! I am wild with delight! I know I must get there someday, somehow. If not then, perhaps on my honeymoon? Or if not then maybe for my 50th wedding anniversery? And if not then..... this sounds like that segment on UP when they keep breaking that money jar doesn't it? And I'm sure it's really boring to read!

Oh! At Matthew's surprise party last night we did skits, and I played a part I'll never live down.

WAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!

Okay! Talk to you all later! -Rachel

p.s. Matthew may post videos of it so stay tuned!

Later:

Alright! This is Sarah and I'm doing Kelsey and Matthew's 6 words thingy.

Matthew: good-friend, athletic, fun, sincere, responsible, my-cousin :)

Kelsey: friendly, funny, giggles, creative, tall, energetic

Okay, there you go! I hope I did them well. I don't know Kelsey very well but I did my best!:)

-Sarah

Answers to Sarah's Master of Me Contest!

And the winners are: Maddie and Katie!! *Woot Woot!* :)
So here are the scores of everybody:

Katie and Maddie-2 wrong (ya'll know me well!)

Matthew-3 wrong(And he's me own cousin! SHOCKING!;)

Elisa-5 wrong (And You did very well considering that you've only seen me one week of my entire life! and the rest of 'em have known me all my life!:)

So there you go and if You 2 winners want a prize, help Morgan decide on our next poll!:)

-Sarah aka. Reepicheep, aka Louisa Joy Popplewell, Aka Noodle Blond, aka, Lesslie Kehn, etc...
Oh yeah! And make sure you look at the post underneath this!

And The Winner Is....!

Hey Everybody! Wow! Ya'll did a great job guessing about me since many of you have only met me a couple times! As I predicted, Miss Morgan did a wonderful job and guessed every swingin' question correctly! (clap, clap, clap) I am glad you didn't fail in this test of our 17 year long friendship! ;) Hannah and Melissa came in close second, each only missing one question! The rest of you did a wonderful job! I only frown upon Katie, Elliott, and Abigail who thought I would stoop low enough to paint a chia pet! (I shudder at the mention of those strange and unworldly things. Terra Cotta gives me the shivers when I touch it! :) So, Morgan, what should we do a poll about? Okay! Here are the real answers!

1. "What is my favorite kind of tootsie pop?
Answer: raspberry

2. "What is my method to memorizing scripture?"

Answer: reading it over and over again until it is familiar and easily called up.

3. "Do I like rainy days?"

Answer: depending on the day (usually I like them)

4. "If I could pick one group of three things to do on a December Saturday I would..."

Answer: Write a letter to Mrs. Foster or another friend, laugh with Daniel, Sarah, and Mama late at night, and read an enthralling book that captures my imagination like Duncan's War or Little Women. (The first dozen times I read it)

5. "Yesterday my creative accomplishment was?"

Answer: writing 4 new poems in a short time span

6. "If I could order my first wee bairn (s) as a baby it would be:"

Answer: A pair of red headed twins (a lad and a lass) that are chubby and rosy and laugh alot and have blue eyes


So there you have it! Morgan is the Master of Me, and by the way to answer Kelsey's questions, I NEVER make prank calls (I blush to answer the phone when anyone from church calls much less call a perfect STRANGER! No one believes me when I say I am shy when I meet someone new.) And, yes, the mud did come out of my Civil War skirt nicely.
The nursing home singing went well! The people really liked Gracie! All the elderly ladies wanted her on their lap! Then we went to sing at two other houses. Yay! Sarah will do her questions tomorrow! :) Oh! And thank you Mr. Donahue (everything rhymes with your name! Sorry!) for following our blog! -Rachel