kevin smith – Quiz Quiz Bang Bang

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.93/10 (15 teams)

1) Biff, pow, urkkk, glipp, zgrupp, and other words chosen to imitate the sounds in Batman fight scenes are examples of what literary device?

2) The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing Warner Brothers and what director for stealing his city’s name?

3) According to the comics, the last movie Bruce Wayne’s parents saw was about what masked adventurer?

4) Super-hacker and information broker Oracle is the current crimefighting identity of what Batman ally paralyzed by the Joker in 1988’s Killing Joke?

5) A scene of Batman debating what crotchety nemesis became popular on YouTube in October because of its amusing echoes of the Obama/McCain debates?

6) In the 1987 Batman story A Death in the Family, readers called 1-900 numbers and voted to kill what character?

7) What fan-favorite director and comic book writer named his daughter Harley Quinn, after the Joker-obsessed villain from Batman: The Animated Series?

8) According to Frank Miller, Gotham City is New York at night, while what other comic book city is New York during the day?

9) Two long-standing members of Batman’s rogues gallery were introduced in 1940 in Batman #1. For a half point each, name them.

10) What go-go dance, introduced in the first episode of the Batman TV series, was nominated for TV Land’s Greatest TV Dance Craze, but lost to The Fonzie?

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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