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) In the 1932 movie Freaks, a beautiful trapeze artist marries a sideshow freak for his money. What kind of freak is her husband?
2) What actresses play Annabel Andrews in the 1976 and 2003 versions of Freaky Friday?
3) Stephan Fatsis’ book Word Freak documents the competitive world of what game?
4) She’s a very kinky girl — the kind you don’t what?
5) What NBC series, which ran for 18 episodes, was about the high-school experience of Sam and Lindsay Weir?
6) What crime author wrote Freaky Deaky, as well as Get Shorty, Rum Punch, and Out of Sight?
7) What current comic strip’s title character takes his name from one of P.T. Barnum’s freak show exhibits?
8) A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything in what 2005 nonfiction best seller?
9) Grady Stiles, who had the deformity ectrodactyly, performed in sideshows under what stage name?
10) On December 9, 1979, what song by CHIC replaced “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart?
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