You scored 6 out of a possible 10
Canned goods. Not bad at all. True, some of the more obscure nuggets of Cannes wisdom have passed you by, but you have a decent grasp on the festival’s high and low culture, and are as at home with the porn stars as you are watching a three-hour Ukrainian art movie.
cannes quiz
17 Thursday May 2007
casa azahar 
More like can’t than Cannes. 3 out of 10, and I wasn’t certain of any of those.
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You scored 2 out of a possible 10
Canned laughter. Frankly this is a little comical. Your Cannes knowledge is all but non-existent and you probably pronounce “Grand Prix” phonetically.
Interesting that a lack of film, and especially Cannes Film Festival knowledge is taken to mean a lack of language skills too.
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Well frankly, referring to the correct answer to number 6 as an “undisputed cinematic masterpiece” would throw anyone off. I only knew the answer because it stuck in my mind last year – I couldn’t believe this piece of crap would be shown at any film festival.
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That was one of the ones I got right actually – I assumed they were being sarcastic (correctly, I hope).
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I scored 4 out of 10, and I was guessing at the answer on every single question. So, you can get by with “logic” rather than “knowledge” on this particular quiz.
I’m with you az, I didn’t think “undisputed cinematic masterpiece” applied either. Maybe the wording of the question was meant to be sarcastic?
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Johnny, I keep finding your comments in my spam file. Maybe it would help if you linked back to your h2g2 PS as your website?
So both you and hmh thought that reference was sarcastic? You could be right as most of the Grauniad’s coverage on Cannes I’ve seen so far is sounding rather sarky.
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I’ll give it a try – it isn’t a problem I’ve noticed until recently though – and I don’t think I’ve changed anything.
Lets see what happens.
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You scored 4 out of a possible 10
Canned goods. Not bad at all. True, some of the more obscure nuggets of Cannes wisdom have passed you by, but you have a decent grasp on the festival’s high and low culture, and are as at home with the porn stars as you are watching a three-hour Ukrainian art movie.
OOPS! Sheer luck – I guessed at every single question…
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All mine but 2 were lucky guesses too, dq.
Meanwhile, I don’t recall ever having seen a Ukranian art film and I wouldn’t say I am ‘at home’ with porn stars… how about you?
Nope, didn’t work, Johnny – I just had to ‘de-spam’ your last comment with the link back to h2g2. How odd. The only thing I can think of is that I didn’t catch and de-spam one of your recent comments and it’s taking awhile for Akismet to register that you aren’t spam. Sorry about that – I’ll check the spam file more often and more carefully in future.
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I got 7, by picking answers at random. And I’ve never been at home or anywhere else with a porn star.
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Porn? Rather boring stuff. At least the five minutes I accentally watched while zapping TV channels at a hotel once. Made me understand why some people decide to join convents.
Don’t think I’ve seen any ukrainian movies either.
However, I read a quite funny book lately “a short history of tractors in ukranian” (hope I remember the title)- well worth reading.
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Another Cannes quiz – I only got one right.
Name that film
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😯
three correct!!?!?! – and I just guessed…
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