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Who Am I?
Winner: Daniel Berman - Answer: Cujo. A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town. |
What type of animal was Philo Beddoe's sidekick?
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: Orangutan. 1978's Every Which Way But Loose featured Philo Beddoe as an easy-going trucker and a great fist-fighter. With two friends - Orville, who promotes prize-fights for him, and Clyde, the orangutan he won on a bet - he roams the San Fernando Valley in search of cold beer, country music and the occasional punch-up. |
What movie featured the following quote? "Whatever you do, don't fall asleep"
Winner: Kris B. - Nightmare on Elm Street. |
What is the highest grossing movie of all time at the US box office?
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: Titanic. This romantic tale of the ill-fated cruise liner grossed over $600 million at the U.S. Box Office |
What movie is identified by the following tagline? The Blues Are Back
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: Blues Brothers 2000. We had several correct answers, among which Blue Brothers II, as many of you responded, was not one . |
Which actor played the architect in 1987's Three Men and Baby?
Winner: Alias - Answer: Tom Selleck |
What's the term for a movie that is set in time before a previously released movie in the same series?
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: Prequel |
What movie is represented by the following graphic?
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: The Great Escape. This 1963 movie starred Steve McQueen who along with several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp. |
In what movie do Billy Crystal and Dana Carvey play mime waiters?
Winner: Alicia - Answer: This is Spinal Tap |
In 1997's Air Force One, what is the name of the country that the terrorists are from?
Winner: D. - Answer: Kazahkistan. D gets half credit as he/she was the first to guess "Russia". No one correctly guessed Kazahkistan. |
What movie is represented by the following still?
Winner: Daniel Berman - Answer - Born on the Fourth of July. |
In 1972's Night of the Lepus, what species of mutant animal terrorized the countryside?
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: Rabbits. Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies. Eventually the National Guard is called in for a final showdown with the terrorizing rabbits.
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Who is the oldest performer to win an Academy Award® in the leading actor category?
Winner: J. Ragland - Answer: Henry Fonda. He won for his performance in On Golden Pond. |
In 1985's The Breakfast Club, What Does "The Brain" have in his pocket?
Winner: Amy - Answer: A porn photo |
What movie featured the following dialogue?
Girl A: I'm going steady, and I French kiss.
Girl B: So? Everybody does that.
Girl A: Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it.
Winner: Brent Y. - Answer: Vacation. The movie featured The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the WallyWorld theme park. |
Spot the Plot - What movie is described by the following: "A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilaus, commanded by Captain Nemo."
Winner: Brent Y. Answer: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The 1954 Jules Verne film is widely considered a Disney Classic. |
What movie featured the following characters? Curt, Steve, John, "The Toad", Carol, and a disc jockey with a partial nickname of "Jack".
Winner - Brent Y. Answer: American Graffiti. The Disk Jockey's name was Wolfman Jack |
What image was on the back of Peter Fonda's jacket in the movie Easy Rider? This image was also painted on the gas tank of his motorcycle.
Winner - Brent Y. Answer: An American flag. |
What film featured the following quote? "Fill your Hands you sons of bitches."
Winner - Honey Vanilla Answer: True Grit. You might remember that he delivers this line from horseback just as he places the reins in his teeth and fills both hands with pistols. |
What film is widely considered to be Elvis Presley's first appearance on the big screen?
Winner - Brent Y.. Answer: Love Me Tender. Elvis plays Clint Reno, one of the Reno brothers who stayed home while his brother went to fight in the Civil War for the Confederate army. |
What film is described by the following plot description?
A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. They have just begun their voyage when it becomes clear there is a saboteur on board.
Winner - Terese Henry. Answer: Fantastic Voyage. The movie starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance. It spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series of the same name. |
What was the first film to have a rap/hip-hop song nominated for an Academy Award?
Winner - Brent Y. Answer: 8-Mile |
What embarrassing event transpired at the 1974 Academy Awards as David Niven was presenting an award?
Winner - Brent Y. Answer: A streaker ran across the stage. |
What movie featured the following quote? "It's Good to be the king!"
Winner - Perky. Answer: History of the World: Part I |
Has a woman ever been nominated for a Best Director oscar. If so, who and for what picture?
Winner - D. Answer: Yes, Jane Campion for The Piano. The only other woman to win an Oscar for Best Director was Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for Seven Beauties. |
Name one of only three movies to ever have won Academy Awards in all of the following categories: Best Picture, Directing, Actor, Actress and Writing?
Winner - Brent Y. Answer: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934). The two others; ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975); and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991). |
What movie is represented by the following graphic?
Winner - Terese H. - Answer: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This classic, directed by Stanley Kubrick starred George C. Scott and Peter Sellers. |
What movie featured the following quote? "You just keep thinkin' Butch. That's what you're good at."
Winner - Brent Y. Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This 1969 film featured Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two western bank/train robbers who flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close. |
What movie featured the following tagline? It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: Mary Poppins. In this 1964 picture the song is sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. |
In the 1970 movie Woodstock, who was Max Yasgur?
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: Max Yasgur was the owner of the farm where The Woodstock Music Festival took place. |
What movie featured the following personalities? Richi Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Carlos Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, and Max Yasgur.
Winner - CarolinaChick220 - Answer: Woodstock - The movie as an intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers. |
What movie is described by the following plot? In the year 2022, the starving masses depend upon the government manufactured food item Soylent Green to exist. But in the midst of a murder investigation, a cop named Thorn (Charlton Heston) uncovers the chilling source of the product.
Winner - Chili Bean - Answer: Soylent Green |
In 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, against whom did the empire strike back?
Winner - Brent Y.. - Answer: The Republic or The Rebel Republic. According to the book "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", this story begins four years after the events in "Star Wars". |
What 1980 movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards yet didn't win a single Oscar?
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: Elephant Man (1980) It was nominated for the following awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (John Hurt); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stuart Craig, Robert Cartwright, Hugh Scaife); Best Costume Design (Patricia Norris); Best Director (David Lynch); Best Film Editing (Anne V. Coates); Best Music, Original Score (John Morris); Best Picture (Jonathan Sanger); Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Christopher De Vore) (Eric Bergren) (David Lynch) |
What movie's tagline is as follows? And be specific. When the gangs take over the highway... ...Remember he's on your side.
Winner - Hellions - Answer: Mad Max (1979). Not Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and not Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome. Contratulations to Hellions for being first to submit the correct answer. To all you non-winners - Better Luck Next Time! |
What movie is represented by the follwing graphic?
hint: banjo
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: Deliverance.
We had many correct answers, but Brent Y. submitted his first. Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty starred in this canoe trip horror. |
What brand of cigarettes does Butch smoke in Pulp Fiction?
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: Red Apple.
Brent was the only person to provide the correct answer. This is the same brand of cigarettes smoked by Tim Roth's character in Four Rooms (1995) |
Who holds the record for winning the most Oscars in a single ceremony?
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: Walt Disney.
We had many correct answers, but Kris B. submitted hers first. In 1954 Walt Disney won four Oscars for four different films. |
What movie featured the following quote: "A wed wose, how womantic!"
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: Blazing Saddles. |
What racing number was displayed on the hood of Herby the Love Bug?
Winner - Cat Daddy - Answer: 33 |
What movie features the following songs? Wild and Untamed Thing and The Sword of Damocles.
Winner - Cat Daddy - Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
What movie features the following plot? In this black/white movie classic, a scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounters a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature.
Winner - John H. - Answer: Creature From the Black Lagoon |
What movie features the characters, Morpheus and Neo?
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: The Matrix.
We had many correct answers, but Kris B. submitted hers first. Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo. Val Kilmer was at one time attached to play Morpheus. To those of you who submitted the wrong answer or were late in your replies, better luck next time! |
Which movie starring Dick Van Dyke, featured a car that could fly and whose engine chugged the name of this movie.
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang.
We had many correct answers, but Kris B. submitted hers first. |
In the movie Young Frankenstein, how many times does the clock chime at the beginning of the film?
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: thirteen.
We had many correct answers, but Brent submitted his first. To those of you who submitted the wrong answer or were late in your replies, better luck next time! |
In the movie Back to the Future, what was the speed that had to be attained in order for the flux capacitor to activate the time machine?
Winner - None, nada, zilch - Answer: 88 m.p.h.
To achieve time travel, the time machine must be traveling at 88 miles per hour. The number 8, turned sideways, is the symbol for infinity. We had many people who thought for sure that the answer was 55 mph. Several answers were submitted with comments like, "that was an easy one. I've got your easy one right here. YOU'RE WRONG. Try again you chumps, and better luck next time! |
What movie featured Hal 9000?
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Hal 9000 was the name given to the computer in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke called the computer Heuristic ALgorithm Computer or HAL. We had many correct answers, but Kris submitted hers first. To all you non-winners....better luck next time. |
Who is the youngest academy award winner in a competitive category?
Winner - Kris B. - Answer: Tatum O' Neal
She won an Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of Addie Loggins in Paper Moon, a film set in the depression-era Midwestern region of the United States. Paper Moon was nominated for four academy awards, winning one. |
What movie featured a now classic Hollywood beauty portraying a roller-derby skater?
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: Kansas City Bomber
This 1972 movie featured Raquel Welch. She broke her wrist doing some of her own stunts |
What movie featured an old school bus with "One way road to heaven" written on its side?
hint: It co-starred Farah Fawcett and Billy Bob Thornton
Winner - Jim J. - Answer: The Apostle.
We had many correct answers, but Jim J. submitted his correct answer a mere 3 minutes before Brent Y. |
What is the film industry term used to describe the Assistant Chief Lighting technician of a film? This person is the head of the electical department responsible for the execution of the lighting plan for a movie?
Winner - Brent Y. - Answer: Best Boy.
The chief assistant, usually of the gaffer, but more often lately used as a general term for the second in command of a group. This term is likely borrowed from early sailing and whaling crews, as sailors were often employed to set up and work rigging in theatres. There are no "best girls" per se; female chief assistants are also called "Best Boys". |
What is the film industry term used to describe the Chief Lighting technician of a film? This person is the head of the electical department responsible for the execution of the lighting plan for a movie?
Winner - Fancypants. - Answer: Gaffer.
The head of the electrical department, responsible for the design and execution of the lighting plan for a production. Early films used mostly natural light, which stagehands controlled with large tent cloths using long poles called gaffs (stagehands were often beached sailors or longshoremen, and a gaff is a type of boom on a sailing ship). In 16th Century English, the term "gaffer" denoted a man who was the head of any organized group of laborers. |
Who am I and what movie am I most known for?
Winner - Brent Y.. - Answer: Peter Billingsley, A Christmas Story. A wonderful story featuring Ralphie, a young boy growing up in the '40's, dreams of owning a Red Rider BB gun. He sets out to convince the world this is the perfect gift. But along the way, he runs into opposition from his parents, his teacher, and even good 'ol Santa Claus himself.
Brent was the first to provide his answer. |
What movie starred Juliette Lewis sporting a scorpion tattoo on her abdomen?
Winner - Jim J. - Answer: Natural Born Killers. A disturbing movie about the misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks.
As expected, the majority of you answered Kalifornia but the correct answer was, of course, Natural Born Killers. A few of you got this one right, but Jim submitted his answer first. |
What was Harvey? And the answer is not a "rabbit".
Winner - Brian G. - Answer: "Pooka". We learn about a pooka in the 1950 James Stewart movie called Harvey in which a middle aged drunk has been driving his sister and niece wild by introducing everyone he meets to his pal Harvey. Harvey is a big white rabbit, six feet three and a half inches tall, which only Elwood (and occasionally his sister when she's feeling odd) can see.
Brian comes through with a late inning rally and gives the correct answer. A "pooka" is a mischievious spirit. Terese came close with her answer "an imaginary friend" but "pooka" is what I was looking for. Jim comes up a bit short with his answer - "an evil black dog (a satanic labrador of which i think i had one of it's siblings)" |
Name the movie that is represented by the following graphic.
Winner - Jim J. Answer: The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
We had many attempts, but only two were correct. Jim J. submitted his first.
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A major segment of this movie takes place in the Devil's Island penal colony? Name the movie.
Winner - Jim J. - Answer: Papillon
We had many correct answers, but Jim J. submitted his first.
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What is the film industry term used to describe the person responsible for the adjustment and maintenance of production equipment on the set?
Winner - Jim J. - Answer: grip. |
What is on the tip of Mary Poppins' umbrella?
Winner - Jim J. - Answer: a bird.
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