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Quiz: Movies

13-August-08 / James Callan

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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Quiz: Movies

18-July-07 / James Callan

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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Quiz: Nudity

27-June-07 / James Callan

1) In August 1991, Demi Moore appeared nude and 7 months pregnant on the cover of what magazine?
2) What common term for a voyeur invokes the name of a tailor who got an eyeful of Lady Godiva?
3) What alt-porn site was founded in Portland in 2001 because the founders wanted to see “hot punk rock girls naked”?
4) Janet Jackson had a famous breast-exposing wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Who won the game?
5) What pair of lovebirds appears naked on the cover of the 1968 album Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins?
6) Who wrote and illustrated In the Night Kitchen, a frequently censored picture book about Mickey, a naked boy who falls into a big bowl of dough?
7) Who painted The Luncheon on the Grass (Le dÃ©jeuner sur l’herbe), a famous painting featuring a nude woman having a picnic lunch with two fully dressed men?
8) Two actors get naked in the first episode of NYPD Blue: David Caruso, and who?
9) Louise Bourgeois’s statue Father and Son in the Olympic Sculpture Park, depicting a naked man and a naked boy, inspired Seattle resident Judy Fenton to do what?
10) In 1991, Piero Cannata attacked Michaelangelo’s famous statue of David with a hammer. What body part did Cannata break?
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Quiz: Why I Hate My Parents

4-April-07 / James Callan

I’ll give you a baby’s first (and perhaps middle) name, you name at least one of his or her parents.

1) Apple Blythe
2) Zahara Marley
3) Moon Unit
4) Chastity Sun
5) Moxie CrimeFighter
6) Tallulah Belle
7) Kal-El (not the fictional character)
8) Pilot Inspektor
9) Zowie
10) George, George, George, George, George, and Georgette