film trivia question

[Ken Gargett]

i would not have got this in a thousand years. be interested if anyone can, without googling etc. i have put the answer well down below so you can scroll down.

who played the centurion at the cruxification in "the greatest story ever told"?

john wayne.

[Ken Gargett]

i should add that is about all i know about religion.

[Ken Gargett]

and yes, it is in the wrong section so if anyone knows how to move it, most grateful.

[Munts]

i would not have got this in a thousand years.

The current world population is roughly 7 billion. Lets say it takes on average 2 seconds to say a name. That would take 14 billion seconds to say every name of every person on the planet. 14 billion seconds is 233 million minutes, which is 3.88 million hours, which is 162,037 days or 443.6 years.

So not counting the fact there are people with the same name and even if you got it on your last guess. You would actually quite easily guess the answer within your thousand year time limit.

[Ken Gargett]

The current world population is roughly 7 billion. Lets say it takes on average 2 seconds to say a name. That would take 14 billion seconds to say every name of every person on the planet. 14 billion seconds is 233 million minutes, which is 3.88 million hours, which is 162,037 days or 443.6 years.

So not counting the fact there are people with the same name and even if you got it on your last guess. You would actually quite easily guess the answer within your thousand year time limit.

which is even more trivial than john wayne playing a centurion.

but, and this is probably even more trivial yet again, you have not factored in the time taken to think of the combinations.

[cigcars]

John Wayne also played Ghengis Khan in some movie called The Conqueror(?) in the '50's I believe.

[Ken Gargett]

John Wayne also played Ghengis Khan in some movie called The Conqueror(?) in the '50's I believe.

that one i knew about. but i don't think that he did many little cameo's like this. although he did do a shoe advert for a small aussie company in the 70's. i think he was so amused to be asked, and they offered a fee that that was about 2% of his usual - i think he was out here for the logies also?

and while on shocker commercials -

[asmith]

John Wayne also played Ghengis Khan in some movie called The Conqueror(?) in the '50's I believe.

I once had Mongolian Beef at a restaurant called Ghengis Khan

[Munts]

I once had Mongolian Beef at a restaurant called Ghengis Khan

Is that the one near the RNA??

I staggered into that one a few years ago after having one too many beers. Was a pretty good feed from what i remember.

[shrink]

Trivia question: Who was "The greatest Tory ever sold"?

It was Margaret Thatcher, played in real life by Meryl Streep

[Ryan]

I knew John Wayne played the centurion from a joke that went around years ago.

When he gave the line "Truly this man is the son of God", the director wasn't happy with the delivery, given in John Wayne's usual drawl.

The director says, "John can you put more 'awe' into the line please."

Take 2 goes "Aww, truly this man is the son of God."