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Quiz: Movies

21-May-08 / James Callan

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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Movies

26-September-07 / James Callan

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

Quiz: Baby Boys

8-August-07 / James Callan

1) Given that little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, what three ingredients make up little boys?
2) “The boy who lived,” saved from certain death by his mother’s love, is a popular nickname for what fictional character?
3) In 2006, Jacob was the most popular name for baby boys in the US. What name, derived from the Hebrew for “Who is like God,” was second most popular?
4) The holidays Vesak, Hanamatsuri, Bucheonim osin nal, and Lá»… Pháºt Ä‘áº£n all celebrate the birth of what religious figure?
5) What fictional boy was born in Rome at 6:00 a.m. on June 6, 1966?
6) What man-cub, one of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ inspirations for Tarzan, was raised in the jungle by Father and Mother Wolf?
7) What character, introduced on commercials for Freeinternet.com, ended up with his own sitcom and as a spokesman for Quizno’s?
8) The song “Baby Boy” was the second #1 hit off of the album Dangerously in Love, the solo debut for what singer?
9) What holy relic was allegedly a Christmas present from Charlemagne to Pope Leo the III, and in 1983 was allegedly stolen out of a priest’s closet by agents of the Vatican?
10) According to John Lennon’s song “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” a lullaby written for his son Sean, life is what happens to you while you’re busy doing what?

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