mighty fine trivia by James Callan

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Movies

1) What 1994 film launched the career of Lisa Loeb, when her song “Stay (I Missed You)” became a #1 hit single?
2) What 1992 drama starring Willem DaFoe as a drug dealer does writer/director Paul Schrader consider the third film in a trilogy, after Taxi Driver and American Gigolo?
3) What 2007 comedy inspired a spokesman for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination to say”The movie has some of the expected stereotypes, but in its own disarming way, it’s a call for equality and respect”?
4) What 1996 comedy sequel inspired by a TV show starred both actors who played Jed Bartlet’s vice president on The West Wing?
5) What 1998 animated film, which introduced the character Dil, was the first Nickelodeon Movies production to reach #1 at the box office on its opening weekend?
6) What 1993 film based on a 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch featured mass quantities of SNL performers — 16, the current record for a single film?
7) What 1994 comedy set at the fictional Port Chester University introduced the Caine-Hackman theory, the idea that at any there’s a 100% statistical probability that a movie starring Michael Caine or Gene Hackman will be playing on TV?
8) 30 years after playing Catwoman, Eartha Kitt plays a woman who actually gets turned into a cat at the climax of what 2000 animated film?
9) What 1996 comedy about a Washington State governor’s race was the first film Gene Siskel walked out on in his career reviewing movies?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these movies?

Average score, 17 teams: 6.35

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Usually, the movie round at the Old Pequliar produces a list of nine movies and asks what actor or actress appeared in all of them. This week, I reversed the polarity — the first nine questions are clues about actors or actresses, and the final question is what film they all have in common.

It was a grand experiment, but I’ll be going back to the regular way of doing things for the foreseeable future.

1) Rod Steiger, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mitchum, and Burt Reynolds are all closer to the center of the Hollywood universe than what famously well-connected actor?
2) What Canadian actor, who died in Mexico, appeared in seven movies directed by John Hughes, more than any other performer?
3) Who played a mail carrier on a popular sitcom and also got to sweat through an appearance with Sharon Stone during cinema’s most famous upskirt video?
4) Who played a famously crusty producer for WJM-TV and editor for the Los Angeles Tribune, and also the guy who enslaved Kunta Kinte in the miniseries Roots?
5) What actor, currently featured on a police drama series, made his film debut as perhaps the second most famous Gomer Pyle in pop culture history?
6) What actor, one of Kevin Spacey’s key influences, starred in seven films for Billy Wilder?
7) Who was Uma Thurman’s first husband, who in 1986 played a legendary rock musician who died an untimely death?
8) Born Mary Elizabeth but better known by her nickname, who won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Crystal Gale’s older sister?
9) What major Hollywood star, who now owns most of a casino in Deadwood, South Dakota, drank his own urine in a film sometimes ridiculed as Fishtar?
10) What film features all these actors and actresses?

Average score (21 teams): 5.24

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1) That sweet blonde girl from Dawson’s Creek gets nicknamed “Deep Throat” in what 1999 comedy?
2) A poster boy for Scientology plays an angel in what 1996 comedy written and directed by Nora Ephron?
3) Jim Carrey and Lauren Holly won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for their smooch in what 1994 buddy movie?
4) When The Godfather Part II won the Best Picture, it defeated what other nominated drama also directed by Francis Ford Coppola?
5) After working with Robert DeNiro for four films in a row, Martin Scorsese directed Griffin Dunne as the lead in what 1985 comedy?
6) Ellen DeGeneres will be taking over a role first played by John Denver in a remake of what 1977 comedy?
7) What 1977 Steven Spielberg film popularized the musical phrase re-me-do-do-sol?
8) “That is one nutty hospital,” comments Bill Murray at the climax of what 1982 comedy?
9) What 1983 comedy about a Detroit engineer who loses his job was one of John Hughes’ first produced screenplays?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these films?

Average score: 6.5

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1) What 2000 film exposes the seedy underbelly of karaoke competition, and is the only film for which Bruce Paltrow directed his daughter, Gwyneth?

2) You can learn more than you ever wanted to know about the private life of the star of Hogan’s Heroes in what 2002 drama?

3) What 2006 satire features regular get-togethers of the MOD squad — that is, the Merchants of Death?

4) What 2005 action film remade a 1976 film, but left out the famous scene where a bad guy shoots a little girl who’s holding an ice cream cone?

5) Johnny Depp meets his violent hidden personality in what 2004 film based on a Stephen King story from Four Past Midnight?

6) Jessica Simpson was almost cast as John Goodman’s daughter in what 2000 comedy/drama about life in a New York City bar?

7) What 1999 crime thriller based on the Donald Westlake novel The Hunter is a remake of the 1967 film Point Blank, with Mel Gibson substituting for Lee Marvin?

8) Alec Baldwin was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role as a casino boss in what 2003 film?

9) Based on a graphic novel about a small-town cafe owner with a hidden past, what 2005 David Cronenberg film was the last major Hollywood film to be released on VHS?

10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these films?

Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.

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1) What 2000 comedy features Gary Shandling as an alien who decides to get Annette Bening pregnant?
2) The guy who directed the first Harry Potter movie later directed what 2005 film that brought a popular Broadway musical, including most of the original cast, to the big screen?
3) What 1998 social satire features a senator from California reviving his campaign by learning to rap?
4) What 1999 comedy features Chris O’Donnell in a role originally played by Buster Keaton, and shares its name with a reality TV series?
5) What 2001 comedy with the tagline “Caution: Dangerous Curves Ahead” features Jennifer Love Hewitt as Sigourney Weaver’s daughter?
6) Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote The Usual Suspects, made his directorial debut with what 2000 film about two criminals who kidnap a surrogate mother?
7) Kevin Smith had to delete a scene from Mallrats because, according to his studio, “nobody will ever laugh at cum in the hair.” What 1998 comedy proved the studio very, very wrong?
8) Dewey Finn rejects The Bumblebees, the Koala Bears, and Pig Rectum as band names in what 2003 comedy?
9) What unrated 2005 documentary was dedicated to Johnny Carson, because it was all about his all-time favorite joke?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these films?

Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on August 7, 2007. Average score (18 teams): 8.33

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1) John Cusack plays finders-keepers with $1.2 million dollars that fell off a truck in what 1993 dramedy?
2) Demi Moore has to choose between the justice system and her son’s life in what 1996 thriller?
3) Ultra-shiksa Melanie Griffith goes undercover as a Hasidic Jew in what 1992 Sidney Lumet crime drama?
4) What 2006 political drama was more faithful to the Robert Penn Warren novel it’s based on than the 1949 version that won an Oscar?
5) Quentin Tarantino did an uncredited script rewrite for what 1995 thriller, adding among other things a discussion about the Silver Surfer?
6) The 2005 film Be Cool was a sequel to what 1995 comedy?
7) Julia Roberts met Danny Moder, her husband-to-be, on the set of what 2001 romantic comedy-slash-road movie-slash-crime drama?
8) The lead in what 2001 neo-noir film wants to get rich by investing in a can’t-miss new technology called “dry cleaning”?
9) What 1993 crime thriller features a famous speech explaining the genetic history of the island of Sicily?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these films?
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1) “Just once, I’d like a regular, normal Christmas. A little eggnog… a fuckin’ Christmas tree… a little turkey. But, no. I gotta crawl around in this motherfuckin’ tin can.” So mutters the hero of what 1990 movie?
2) Spoiler alert! Steven Seagal gets killed while boarding an airplane in what 1996 action film?
3) Before he created Lost and Alias, J.J. Abrams wrote the screenplay for what 1991 drama, in which Harrison Ford’s life changes when he attempts to buy some cigarettes?
4) She broke two ribs wearing a corset, but Nicole Kidman won an MTV Movie Award for Best Actress for what 2001 musical?
5) Sean Penn took a role in what 1993 gangster film to earn enough money so that he could direct The Crossing Guard?
6) What 2005 film updated a 50-year-old sitcom, in part by editing out the hilarious threats of slapstick domestic violence?
7) Radiohead composed the song “Exit Music (For a Film)” for what 1996 tragedy based on a well-known play?
8) What 1993 flop was the first major theatrical released based on a video game?
9) The creators of Shaun of the Dead have a cameo in what 2005 zombie movie directed by George Romero?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these movies?
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1) Buffy’s little sister doesn’t want to go to Harvard — she wants to skate! At least, she does in what 2005 family film?
2) Britney Spears doesn’t sell her soul to the devil for talent. Obviously. But what pre-K-Fed film shares its title with a Ralph Macchio film that’s chock full o’ Satan?
3) “You can have fun with a baby as a movie character. Look Who’s Talking was an entertaining movie in which we heard what the baby was thinking. Baby’s Day Out, with its fearless baby setting Joe Mantegna’s pants on fire, had its defenders. But those at least were allegedly real babies. [This film] is about toddlers who speak, plot, scheme, disco dance and beat up adults with karate kicks. This is not right.” Roger Ebert wrote this in his one-and-a-half-star review of what 1999 film?
4) What 1996 thriller shares its title with the father/daughter duet that won the 1992 Grammy for Song of the Year?
5) What 1990 satire, one of the most famous flops in Hollywood history, features Morgan Freeman as a judge who’s Jewish in the novel it was based on?
6) What 1986 action film, directed by John Carpenter, inspired the TV show MythBusters to investigate whether or not you can really shoot locks off of doors?
7) What 1991 science fiction sequel popularized the modern proverb “Only Nixon can go to China”?
8) What 1984 comedy inspired 6 sequels, including City Under Siege and Mission to Moscow, as well as an animated TV series?
9) What 1982 high-school comedy was the highest-grossing Canadian film until 2006, and is possibly going to be remade by Howard Stern?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these movies?

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1) What 1996 comedy gave Jim Carrey his first $20,000,000 paycheck — but didn’t earn quite that much in its opening weekend?
2) What 1995 film stars Quentin Tarantino as the embodiment of luck, who robs banks, picks up hitchhikers, and swims in electical swimming pools?
3) What 1996 comedy reworks Cyrano de Bergerac to tell the story of a veterinarian and a model in love with the same person?
4) What 2001 film, based on a comic book, used the tagline “accentuate the negative”?
5) What 2006 animated film had a soundtrack album by Jack Johnson called Sing-A-Longs and Lullabyes?
6) What 1997 mockumentary contains the line “I’ll tell you why I can’t put up with you people. Because you’re bastard people, you’re just bastard people, and I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna, I’m gonna bite my pillow is what I’m gonna do!”
7) The cast of The Dirty Dozen hunts for the cast of This Is Spinal Tap in what 1998 action film directed by Joe Dante?
8) Will Smith won a Best Rap Solo Performance Grammy for the theme from what 1997 science fiction film?
9) What 2004 romance takes its name from a poem by Alexander Pope and a major character’s name from one of Huckleberry Hound’s favorite songs?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these movies?
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1) What undoubtedly awesome film, rated R for “strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use,” comes to a theater near you this Friday?
2) A prisoner has to convince his basketball-star son to attend the right college in what 1998 film?
3) Young Darth Vader hoodwinks The New Republic in what 2003 drama based on real events?
4) What 2005 film was based on “The Customer Is Always Right,” “The Hard Goodbye,” “The Big Fat Kill,” and “That Yellow Bastard”?
5) In what 2001 comedy does Carson Daly attempt to kill a character played by his then-fiancee?
6) Philip Seymour Hoffman smooches his student Anna Paquin in what 2002 drama?
7) What 2004 historical drama has been released on DVD three times — the theatrical version, a director’s cut, and “the final cut”?
8) What unrated 1995 drama was the notorious directoral debut of the photographer known for his books Tulsa and Teenage Lust?
9) In what 2002 action film does a postal clerk get recruited to help save the planet?
10) Who appeared in all nine of these movies?
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