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August 17

How to get the "Driving Mr. Bellic" and "That's How We Roll" achivements in GTA 4

--FilmGuySuper8 (talk) 00:16, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Have you heard of gamefaqs.com ? It's a website basically dedicated to answering questions like that. I bet if you go there and look up GTA4 you'll find achievement guides that will have the answer. Vespine (talk) 05:19, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Try gamefaqs as Vespine suggested. More than likely you'll find the answer there--GroovySandwich 20:33, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok --FilmGuySuper8 (talk) 23:39, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

First movie sequel

Ok, so what is the first movie sequel. Not so much what is the "first" sequel, because, I imaging that the "New Testament" is a sequel to the "Old Testament." I am looking for the first Hollywood-type move that went with the "part 2" or "2" or "II" suffix in the title. Anyone know? Quinn ^{❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY} 02:03, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

It'd probably be hard to nail down. In the early days of film, many films were series or serials. For example, in the 1930's, the film The Thin Man spawned a whole series of sequels, though none that I know used the "Part II" convention. I think (seriously) the earliest use of a "Part 2" for a sequel (rather than giving it its own name) was The Godfather Part II. --Jayron32 02:29, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

The Million Dollar Mystery (1914) serial was followed by The Twenty Million Dollar Mystery. Pepso2 (talk) 03:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

There were various Son of ... and Return of ... movies, which were usually made only because the original was lucrative and they wanted to cash in. In that sense, they were sequels. See Son of the Sheik (1926), Rudolph Valentino's last movie. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 04:07, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Jayron32 is correct; the first "II" movie was The Godfather Part II; see that article's "Production" section. Comet Tuttle (talk) 08:52, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Olivier's Richard III (1955) is a sequel to his Henry V, as part of the Wars of the Roses, but it didn't follow Richard I or Richard II. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:51, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Reminds me of a question on Millionaire Hot Seat yesterday. Which of the following was not a king of England: Richard I, Richard II, Richard III, or Richard IV? Without knowing anything about English history, it couldn't reasonably have been anything but the last option. But the contestant chose one of the other answers and got booted out. Duh! -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 10:08, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Not necessarily. There was no regnant Louis XVII as king, nor was there an Emperor Napoleon II, but there were rulers named Louis XVIII and Napoleon III. Likewise in Sweden, the monarchs numbered Eric XIV and Charles IX based their numbers on fictional or semi-mythical kings prior to them; it is likely that early Erics and Charles didn't exist. --Jayron32 12:33, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Yep, but in the game show scenario, sometimes Occam's Razor applies 1000%. Eddie's always saying there are no trick questions in his show. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 21:52, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

It depends on whether it's a "$100" question or a "$1,000,000" question. (Or, on Jeopardy!, a $200 question versus a $2,000 question.) The low-money questions never have a trick answer, but the high-money questions never have an easy answer. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 22:24, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

But there *was* a Richard IV of England! Adam Bishop (talk) 07:02, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Alternatively, there could be a trick in the country's name. Which of the following is/was not a queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth I or Elizabeth II?

Re: the New Testament, the Odyssey is older still. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 12:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

• Birth of a Nation 1915 The Fall of a Nation 1916. μηδείς (talk) 00:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Recognize This Piece of Music

Can you recognize the name of the piece played here since 1:06? thanks, Oh, well (talk) 15:14, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

I didn't recognize it, but apparently it's "The Cordyceps" from Planet Earth (soundtrack). It's incidental music composed byGeorge Fenton. ---Sluzzelin talk 17:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)