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FRIDAY 11/2/07 QoD

#1 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:23 pm

WikiPedia is verboten for this QoD

1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?

2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?

3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?

4. In what city was that Commandant born?

5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)

7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

A. 3000
B. 6000
C. 13,000
D. 16,000

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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#2 Post by jarnon » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:37 pm

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3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List? Ralph Fiennes

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew) Yad VaShem
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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#3 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:41 pm

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TheCalvinator24 wrote:

Not such a good start for me...

1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?
Plascow and I dunno, Auschwitz? That seems unlikely.
2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?
Goth
3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?
Ralph Fiennes
4. In what city was that Commandant born?
I dunno
5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?
I dunno
6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)
I dunno
7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

C. 13,000
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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#4 Post by andrewjackson » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:44 pm

I used Google to look these answers up but I was careful not to use WikiPedia. If that was not correct under the rules I'll take my zero.
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1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?
Plaszow and Auschwitz. I think also Gross-Rosen.

2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?
Amon Goeth

3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?
Ralph Fiennes

4. In what city was that Commandant born?
Vienna

5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?
Zwittau

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

B. 6000
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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#5 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:45 pm

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1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?

Kraków-Płaszów and Auschwitz

2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?

Amon Goeth

3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?

Ralph Fiennes

4. In what city was that Commandant born?

Vienna

5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?

Zwittau

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)

Yad Vashem

7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

B. 6000

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#6 Post by andrewjackson » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:46 pm

Crap. Transliteration not translation.
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#7 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:23 pm

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Well, CRAP!!!! I'm already going to have to accept an alternate answer from what I intended.
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#8 Post by jarnon » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:41 pm

TheCalvinator24 wrote:
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Well, CRAP!!!! I'm already going to have to accept an alternate answer from what I intended.
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Since you're being so flexible,
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#9 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:20 pm

jarnon wrote:
TheCalvinator24 wrote:
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Well, CRAP!!!! I'm already going to have to accept an alternate answer from what I intended.
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Since you're being so flexible,
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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#10 Post by tubadave » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:04 pm

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1. Auschwitz and Plaszow

2. Rudolf Hoess

3. Hans-Michael Rehberg

4. Baden-Baden, Germany

5. Zwittau, Austria-Hungary

6. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial

7. B. 6000
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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#11 Post by takinover » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:13 pm

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1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers? Auschwitz and Dachau

2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps? Joseph Mengele

3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?
Ralph Fiennes (this is the only answer I am relatively sure of).

4. In what city was that Commandant born? Nuremberg

5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born? Vienna, Austria

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew) I don't know

7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

A. 3000
B. 6000
C. 13,000
D. 16,000

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#12 Post by LookingForHumorPoints » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:31 pm

1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?

Camp Grenada and Camp Crystal Lake


2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?

Col. Wilhelm Klink


3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?

Werner Klemperer


4. In what city was that Commandant born?

Gastonia


5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?

Hoboken


6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)

The Wailing List


7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

A. 3000
B. 6000
C. 13,000
D. 16,000

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#13 Post by wintergreen48 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:57 pm

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1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?
Płaszów was the main one, he rescued some from Auschwitz also

2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?
Amon Göth

3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?
Ralph Fiennes (kind of looks like the real Amon Göth)

4. In what city was that Commandant born?
Vienna

5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?
Zwittau at the time, it is now Svitavy

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)
Yad Vashem

7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

B. 6000

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#14 Post by Odyssey » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:29 pm

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Auschwitz and Gross Rosen
Amon Goeth
Ralph Fiennes
Garden of the Righteous
6000

I googled but did not wikipedia
Anyone know the book title Schindler's List is based on?
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#15 Post by Odyssey » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:33 pm

Sorry, I forgot the cities:
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Schindler-Zwittau, Austria
Goeth-Vienna
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#16 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:35 pm

Odyssey wrote: Anyone know the book title Schindler's List is based on?
I have confidence that it was based on "Schindler's List,"
by Thomas Keneally.

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#17 Post by Odyssey » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:40 pm

No, SC, that is not the right answer.[/quote]
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#18 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:50 pm

Odyssey wrote:No, SC, that is not the right answer.
[/quote]

From Library Journal

"How the German Oskar Schindler came to save more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust is one of the most fascinating stories of the century. Although millions are now learning about Schindler through Steven Spielberg's recent Academy AwardR-winning film, his achievement first gained prominence with Keneally's 1982 "facticious" novel (which is also the basis for the film). Keneally's account is less melodramatic than the motion picture, and although he does not fully explain how a hedonistic German could have been so altered by the plight of the Jewish workers in his factory, he does make Schindler less enigmatic than the big-screen version."

That's all I know. What is your answer?

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#19 Post by Odyssey » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:06 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
Odyssey wrote:No, SC, that is not the right answer.
From Library Journal

"How the German Oskar Schindler came to save more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust is one of the most fascinating stories of the century. Although millions are now learning about Schindler through Steven Spielberg's recent Academy AwardR-winning film, his achievement first gained prominence with Keneally's 1982 "facticious" novel (which is also the basis for the film). Keneally's account is less melodramatic than the motion picture, and although he does not fully explain how a hedonistic German could have been so altered by the plight of the Jewish workers in his factory, he does make Schindler less enigmatic than the big-screen version."

That's all I know. What is your answer?[/quote]

That the book was originally called "Schindler's Ark" but the title was changed to "Schindler's List" for the movie. With the success of the movie, the book title was changed too.

I'd love to take credit for the question, but DH asked me when I was googling the QoD stuff. I didn't know either. He said he read it when studying for his A levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_Ark
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#20 Post by Odyssey » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:07 pm

I'm sorry I'm screwing up the quotes tonight!
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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#21 Post by ToLiveIsToFly » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:34 pm

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TheCalvinator24 wrote: 1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?
Plaszow and Emalia
TheCalvinator24 wrote:2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?
Goeth
TheCalvinator24 wrote:3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?
Ralph Fiennes
TheCalvinator24 wrote:4. In what city was that Commandant born?
Vienna
TheCalvinator24 wrote:5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?
Zwittau
TheCalvinator24 wrote:6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)
Yad Vashem
TheCalvinator24 wrote:7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?
B. 6000

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#22 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:51 am

I saw the movie only once, so I'm gonna channel LFHP®...

1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?

Camp Pendleton and Camp Candy

2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?

Albert Burkhalter

3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?

Leon Askin

4. In what city was that Commandant born?

North Gastonia

5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?

Where Else®

6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)

The Liam Neeson Fan Club

7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?

A. 3000

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Re: 11/2/07 QoD

#23 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:36 am

1. What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers?
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The first was Plaszow - then they came from Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz. I do not know which of the last 2 you are looking for.
2. Who was the Commandant of the first of those camps?
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Amon Goeth
3. Who portrayed that Commandant in the movie Schindler's List?
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Ralph Fiennes
4. In what city was that Commandant born?
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Vienna
5. In what city was Oskar Schindler born?
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Zwittau
6. What is the name of the Memorial in Jerusalem in which Schindler is honored? (Please give the English transliteration, and not the original Hebrew)
Spoiler
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
7. Oskar Schindler is credited with spending over 4 million German Marks to save approximately 1200 Jews. According to the movie, Schindler's List, approximately how many descendants of the Schindlerjuden were living at the time of the movie's production?
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B. 6000
I hope my spoiler usage worked. I am also bummed that I did not see the sticky post yesterday, as I would have tried for the time bonus. I will know to look up there in the future.

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#24 Post by ToLiveIsToFly » Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:24 pm

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ToLiveIsToFly wrote: What were the two camps from which Oskar Schindler obtained his workers
Plaszow and Emalia
I'll take my lumps as necessary, since it seems like everybody interpreted this question different than I.

What I was thinking was that a lot of the sites I was reading made it sound like at first the workers were mainly in Plaszow and then he had them moved to the more humane Emalia camp.

I suspect you meant "rescued" where I was thinking more "where were the workers, um, housed, while they were working for Schindler"

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#25 Post by mrkelley23 » Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:32 am

Fair notice: I did not use Wikipedia, but I did use other internet sources, primarily imdb.com. I would not have known any of these, otherwise, so please give me 0 if that was against the rules.
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1. Plaszow and Brinnlitz

2. Amon Goeth

3. Ralph Fiennes

4. Vienna, Austria

5. Zwittau, Moravia

6. The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

7. B. 6000
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