Random trivia

I have no life.  I decided to rank the directors on the IMDB top 250 by descending merit (#1 gets 250 pts, #2 gets 249, etc).

Hitchcock wins with 1550 pts (avg 141 per movie), followed by Kubrick (1240, 155 per), Spielberg (962, 192 per), Scorsese (879, 220 per), and Nolan (779, 195 per).
 
@Nush:

Time to change that, mate. ;)

I admit that I still have to see three of those Kubricks, but I have seen all these Hitchcock films:

Family Plot (1976)
Frenzy (1972)
Topaz (1969)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Marnie (1964)
The Birds (1963)
Psycho (1960)
North by Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
I Confess (1953)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Stage Fright (1950)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Rope (1948)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Notorious (1946)
Spellbound (1945)
Lifeboat (1944)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Saboteur (1942)
Suspicion (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Sabotage (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Rich and Strange (1931)
The Skin Game (1931)
Murder! (1930)
Blackmail (1929)
Champagne (1928)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Downhill (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

....And I still have to see quite a few.

IMO only Fritz Lang and Akira Kurosawa come close with their filmographies (in the sense of many enjoyable movies).

edit: @Loosey, that's interesting! :)
Yeah, Nolan is delivering the goods! The Prestige is still my fav.
 
Which are, according to the latest info, the 5 biggest exporting nations in the world?    (...don't look it up! ;) )

This time no multiple choice. Just guess 5 countries and I say if they are correct or not, until all 5 are mentioned.
 
China (Mainland), Russia, Korea (South, not the glorious eternal one), India...

...United States?
 
Number one is Germany. At least that's what the media and the government keep telling me.
 
Last one not being Russia, India, South Korea, Hong Kong ... not many candidates left outside Europe, so I guess it's got to be a European country.

Is it the UK?

(Thinking of it, it could also be some oil-exporting country in the Middle East ...)
 
Then I choose one of Pilau's suggestions, namely Saudi Arabia. They're the biggest country on the Arab peninsula and thus have most of the oil. Qatar are growing, mainly in gas, but I think S-A is still exporting a lot more.
 
Sorry mate, Saudi Arabia is not correct. They probably have the highest rate of executions and torture but even their less demonic products can't compete with the top in international export (at least not the top 5).
 
Lol, so who can it be then? Perhaps an African country? They have wars and diamonds to export, and plenty of them.
 
Well, Brazil export loads of both oil, coffee and other stuff, so I'd pick them over any African country. They are the world's 7th biggest country by area and a lot of that is productive farming land.

A useful hint from Foro could be; what kind of exports are we talking about from country #5 in the list? Industrial products? Oil and gas? Farming products? Fish?
 
I'll give you a different hint:

Eddies Wingman said:
Last one not being Russia, India, South Korea, Hong Kong ... not many candidates left outside Europe, so I guess it's got to be a European country.
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Indeed.
 
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