Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on August 12, 2008
Average score: 7.27/10 (11 teams)

1) What 1991 Wes Craven film stars two actors from Twin Peaks as the mother and father of a terrifying family?
2) What 1999 Martin Scorsese drama about a paramedic working the night shift was one of the last American films released on laserdisc?
3) What 2002 animated Disney film, their first set in Hawaii, was promoted with trailers that parodied The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King?
4) Jessica Biel plays a civil rights lawyer in what 2007 comedy, her highest grossing movie to date?
5) What 1999 film was described as an attempt to build an entire movie around a sequence involving Catherine Zeta-Jones’ ass and some laser beams?
6) Barb Wire, The Stupids, Ed, and The Island of Dr. Moreau all lost the 1996 Worst Picture Razzie to what Demi Moore film based on an actually pretty-good Carl Hiaasen novel?
7) What 1998 crime film starring Jennifer Lopez inspired Karen Sisco, the criminally short-lived TV series starring Carla Gugino?
8) Before directing 300, Zack Snyder directed what 2004 remake of a classic 1978 horror film?
9) What John Woo film, an action sequel loosely based on the Hitchcock film Notorious, was the highest-grossing movie in the world in 2000?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all 9 of these movies?

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Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on July 1, 2008.
Average score: 7.59/10 (17 teams)

1) Since 1996, four fourth of July weekends have kick-started blockbuster films starring what actor?
2) What’s the short, popular name for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001?
3) What Tom Cruise film takes its title from George M. Cohan’s song “The Yankee Doodle Boy”?
4) Which Democratic presidential candidate used Neil Diamond’s song “America” as a campaign theme?
5) The July 2005 issue of GQ magazine featured what blonde performer on the cover wearing dog tags and an American flag bikini?
6) Tom Petty knows that Felicity Merriman, Josefina Montoya, Addy Walker, and Ivy Ling all belong to what series?
7) “The Star Spangled Banner” is our national anthem, but what’s our national march?
8) The Knights of Columbus added the words “under God” to the pledge of allegiance, quoting a phrase used by a former president in what historical document?
9) What Howard Zinn book does Tony Soprano think is “bullshit,” but Will Hunting declare will “knock you on your ass”?
10) According to Charlie Daniels, “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a” what?

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Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on May 6, 2008
Average score: 5.25/10 (11 teams)

1) Women swoon over an earthbound angel because “he smells like cookies” in what 1996 Nora Ephron film?
2) The second-oldest performance to be nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar appeared in what 2007 drama based on the New York magazine article “The Return of Superfly”?
3) Tobias Wolff wrote a memoir about growing up in Skagit County. Leonardo DeCaprio starred in the 1993 film adaptation. What’s it called?
4) A former star from NBC’s “must see Thursday” lineup plays the mother of Rilo Kiley’s lead-singer-to-be in what 1989 comedy?
5) What family film, written by two creators of Reno! 911 and based on a picture book by Milan Trenc, became the second-highest-grossing movie of 2006?
6) Jet Li kills Jet Li over and over and over again — and only Jet Li can stop him — in what 2001 action film?
7) The poster for what 1993 comedy parodied the famous painting American Gothic, with the star holding a pitchfork, and used the tagline “He’s a relative nightmare”?
8) The Secretary of Defense is shot and Nicolas Cage has to figure out whodunnit in what 1998 Brian DePalma thriller?
9) George Clooney plays the head spy in the Office of Strategic Services in what 2001 Robert Rodriguez film?
10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these films?
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Can you name the 10 highest grossing films in America that were not part of a franchise (no sequels, no prequels, no sidequels)? You’ve got five minutes.

I got three in the first few minutes … then was inspired to get three more before running out of time.

I tried five different spellings for Shrek before remembering that yes, there were sequels.

1) Two television series based on SNL debuted last season. Which one was renewed for next season?
2) In the short music video “Lazy Sunday,” Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg go to see what movie?
3) New Shimmer is a floor wax … and what?
4) Which former SNL performer has had the most successful movie career, measured by total box office gross of all their films?
5) What recurring character is a gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano?
6) In a 2000 sketch, Gene Frenkle plays what instrument?
7) Which cast member has anchored or co-anchored Weekend Update the most times?
8) In the short film “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” who is the last surviving member of the Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Players?
9) In 1981, Charles Rocket was fired for saying “fuck” on the air during a sketch parodying the season finale of what show?
10) Do not taunt … what?
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