SCAVENGER HUNT QUESTIONS

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to travel back in time through the miracle of cyberspace and learn more about the Marx Brothers. Each question requires your travel to distant sites on the Internet where you will discover clues about their life and feats. Use these clues to complete your assignment. Votre mission si vous l'acceptez est de remonter le temps et d'en apprendre plus sur les Marx Brothers. Utilisez l'espace cybernétique et recherchez sur le web les réponses aux questions ci-contre. Prenez des notes. Attention: vous devrez répondre en anglais et indiquer à chaque fois l'adresse du site sur lequel vous aurez trouvé la réponse. 

1. How many Marx brothers were they?

2. One of the Marx brothers only appeared in the first five movies. What is the name of this Marx brother?

3. What were their first names?

4. Who was the eldest?

5. What was their father's profession?

6. Which instrument did Harpo play? What instruments did the other brothers play?

7. What was the profession of their mother's father?

8. What is their first film called?

9. How many films were they starred in?

10. Is "Harpo Speaks" a written autobiography or one of their films?

11. What are the main features of their comic?

12. Where did they start performing?

13. Cite three of their films

14. Who said :"There's Groucho, then there's all the rest."?

15. Did Chico speak American with a German accent or an Italian accent?

16. What was the real name of the Marx brothers?

17. Which one of the Marx brothers never spoke in their films? Why?

18. When did Groucho die?

19. What does Groucho always smoke in their films?

20. In which film do the brothers never appear together at the same time?

LIENS LINKS 

Utilisez les liens ci-dessous pour effectuer vos recherches. Vous pouvez aussi utiliser le moteur de recherche de Google ci-dessus. N'oubliez pas de prendre des notes à chaque fois que vous trouvez quelque chose.

Use these links to discover clues about the life of Charles Dickens.

http://members.tripod.com/Cleo256/marx/main.html 

Frank Bland's Why A Duck?

Stefan Timphus' The Marx Brothers

J. Bradley Main's Groucho Marx Slept Here!

La página Web de los Hermanos Marx (in Spanish)

Rolf Cleis's Die Marx Brothers (in German)

Kim Bruno's Groucho Marx

J. C. Kaelin's The Marx Brothers - Duck Soup Wavs

Christoph Windpassinger's Meine Marx Brothers Zitate

Bob Black's Theses on Groucho Marxism

"Los Hermanos Marx - La página de Miguel" (in Spanish)

The Marx Brothers

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