This or That - Round 39

[gk_891]

Kimchi although I also love kefir

Cheers or Frasier

 

[Buzz]

Cheers


NYTimes best selling non-fiction:

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Seven Brief Lessons On Physics - Carlo Rovelli
Between The World And Mr - Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Man Called Intrepid - William Stevenson
Playing To The Edge - Michael V. Hayden

 

[Maofan7]

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

The criticism of the The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - Fair or Unfair?

 

[Buzz]

Yes


Batman v Superman
OR
Suicide Squad

 

[gk_891]

Both but maybe Suicide Quad by a hair.

1984 Olympic AA:

Retton or Szabo

 

[Buzz]

Szabo


Suicide Squad
OR
Doctor Strange

 

[gk_891]

Both! But maybe a slight edge to Doctor Strange.

1992 Olympic AA gold:

Gutsu
Miller
Milosevic

 

[Buzz]

Gutsu


The Unified Team replacing Rozalia Galiyeva with Tatiana Gutsu:

YAY
or
NAY

 

[gk_891]

YAY - she had a better shot a winning the gold

In 1992, Natalia Kalinina didn't make the Olympic team because:

A - Allegedly because there were already too many Ukrainians on the team (Gutsu, Lysenko, and 1st alternate Stovbchataya)
B - Kalinina was not in the same physical shape as she had been in 1990 (and to a lesser extent 1991) and was no longer an obvious choice for the Olympic team

 

[Maofan7]

A - it was politics

In terms of acting ability: Katherine Hepburn or Meryl Streep?

 

[Buzz]

Hepburn


McDonald's
A&W
Harvey's
Burger King
OR_________

 

[Maofan7]

KFC

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev OR Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers?

 

[Buzz]

Astaire & Rogers


Was Rafa Nadal's seven month absence due to doping?
http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/35800550

YES
or
NO

 

[gk_891]

No

Aside from Russia, which country produces the best ballet dancers?

Canada
USA
France
UK
Cuba
Australia

 

[Buzz]

USA


If you found a priceless artifact what would you do?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35801246

Hand it over to the relevant authorities?
OR
Selling it to the highest bidder?

 

[gk_891]

Sell it to the highest bidder. Yes, I'm a very greedy person!

Which country has produced/produces the best looking skaters?

Russia/Soviet Union (e.g. Gordeeva, Klimova, Platov, Urmanov, Mishkutionok, Navka)
Germany (e.g. Witt, Steuer, Muller, Winkler, Lohse, Koch, Szewczenko, Jeschke)

 

[Buzz]

Russia/U.S.S.R.


Corn flakes
Cheerios
Special K
Cocoa puffs
Raisin bran
Frosted Flakes
Finer one
Trix
Mini wheats
Shredded Wheat
Lucky Charms
Rice Krispies

 

[gk_891]

I hate cereal so none. But if I had to choose, rice krispies.

Greatest performance by a lead actress in a motion picture?

Maria Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc
Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind
Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Bette Davis - All About Eve
Katharine Hepburn - A Lion in Winter
Marlene Dietrich - The Blue Angel
Liv Ullmann - Face to Face
Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H
Liz Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
Louise Brooks - Pandora's Box
Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata

 

[Buzz]

Bette Davis


Putin's withdrawal from Syria:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35807689

Totally Surprised
OR
Not really surprised

 

[slicekw]

Not really surprised, but more because it's Putin's style than anything they accomplished.

Do you care about March Madness?

 

[Buzz]

No


Jin Boyang
OR
Yan Han

 

[gk_891]

Maybe Yan Han by a small margin since Jin Boyang's skating is a little too boyish for my taste.

Best performance by a male leading actor in a motion picture?

Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
Max von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Toshiro Mifune - Yojimbo
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
Max Schreck - Nosferatu
Klaus Kinski - Nosferatu the Vampyre

 

[Buzz]

Charlie Chaplin


Are there too any people on earth?
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160311-how-many-people-can-our-planet-really-support

YES
or
NO

 

[Maofan7]

Yes - the population level has reached a level which has become unsustainable.

1. Best of the following comedians from the silent movie era?

Charlie Chaplin
Fatty Arbuckle
Harold Lloyd
Laurel & Hardy
Buster Keaton

2. Did Ian McShane reveal too much about the plot of Season 6 of Game of Thrones or do Game of Throne fans need to get a life?

 

[Buzz]

1) Harold Lloyd
2) get a life


Popcorn with butter
OR
Popcorn without butter

 

[Maofan7]

With butter

Jazz or Country Music?

 

[Buzz]

Jazz


B.B.King
Bessie Smith
Muddy Waters
Lead Belly
John Lee Hooker

 

[Maofan7]

B.B.King

Best of the following Jazz artists?

Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
Mary Lou Williams
Herbie Hancock
Nat King Cole
Miles Davis
Keith Jarrett
Kurt Elling
Thelonious Monk
Wynton Marsalis

 

[Buzz]

Miles Davis


Jimi Hendrix
OR
Eric Clapton

 

[gk_891]

Jimi Hendrix

Best mover/runner in men's tennis at their prime?

Michael Chang
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic
Lleyton Hewitt
Gael Monfils
Guillermo Coria
Kei Nishikori
David Ferrer
Arnaud Clement
Pete Sampras
Miloslav Mecir
Stefan Edberg
Ivan Lendl
Bjorn Borg
Rod Laver
Roger Federer
Vitas Gerulaitis