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TODAY’S QUESTION:
Since August 1955, what magazine has been home to jovial little creatures known as femlins?
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TODAY’S QUESTION:
What album in the rock ‘n’ roll canon originally ended with a track sometimes called “Inner Groove”?
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TODAY’S QUESTION:
What 1995 movie is based on the real-life story of Lefty and the Ant?
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TODAY’S QUESTION:
The easier question: What was the first film nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar based on a comic book or graphic novel?
The harder question: What was the first film nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar based on a comic strip?
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Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Dec. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.8/10 (15 teams)1) Queen’s song “Keep Passing the Open Windows” was originally written for what 1984 movie, which featured Nastassja Kinski as a woman who dresses in a bear suit?
2) What 1998 thriller, directed by Tony Scott, stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert similar to the character he played in The Conversation?
3) What 1990 Christian Slater film about a mysterious high-school rebel won the Golden Space Needle award at SIFF, defeating Jesus of Montreal?
4) Billy Crystal originally wrote what 2001 comedy “about celebrity, family, and other forms of insanity,” so he could play the romantic lead, but ended up playing John Cusack’s publicist instead?
5) What 2001 comedy was the first film made featuring two African-American Oscar winners, specifically Whoopi Goldberg and Cuba Gooding, Jr.?
6) According to Salon.com’s critic Stephanie Zacharek, the real stars of what 2003 caper are the Mini Coopers involved in the chase scene?
7) What 1999 comedy/horror movie about a boy who accidentally kills his parents and best friends had its release date pushed back because of the Columbine massacre?
8) What 1998 big last-day-of-high-school party movie includes nine actors who appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and four that appeared on Six Feet Under?
9) What 1997 movie features a British spy foiling the nefarious Project Vulcan, a subterranean delivery system for nuclear warheads?
10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these movies?
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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?
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TODAY’S QUESTION:
Boeing and Airbus wrangle over the title of world’s largest civil aircraft manufacturer. What aerospace companies based in Canada and Brazil swap third and fourth place every now and again?
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TODAY’S QUESTION:
Charles Lee Ray, the serial killer known as the Lakeshore Strangler, gained widespread notoriety after being featured in what movie?
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Netflix loves to guess whether or not you’ll like a movie based on how much you like movies that you’ve already seen. This is called their “recommendation engine.” Know what the most difficult movie for them to predict your reaction to is?
Napoleon Dynamite.
Other difficult-to-predict flix: I Heart Huckabees, Lost in Translation, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Kill Bill: Volume 1, and Sideways. (I’d love to see the complete 25-most-difficult list referenced in the Times.)
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Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 2, 2008
Average score: 6.27/10 (11 teams)1) What 1997 biography substitutes John Stamos for Luke Perry, and almost starred Jeff Goldblum until the subject decided to play himself?
2) Before directing episodes of Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, and Gilmore Girls, Nicole Holofcener wrote and directed what 1996 film, her first with Catherine Keener?
3) A pilot and a magazine editor fall in love while evading pirates in what 1998 adventure-slash-romantic comedy?
4) Katie Holmes’ film debut came in what 1997 drama, which featured the tagline “It was 1973, and the climate was changing”?
5) What Oscar-winning 1999 drama, originally written as a play by Alan Ball, shares its name with a Grateful Dead album and a variety of rose?
6) When she witnesses her husband being scalped, Renee Zellweger flees from Kansas to Hollywood in what dark 2000 comedy?
7) What 1999 romantic comedy riffs on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, setting the action in Padua high school?
8) Elaine May was nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for what 1998 film, an adaptation of a novel originally credited to Anonymous?
9) What 2007 comedy features Spider-Man’s boss as the father of an X-Man, and won an Oscar for the woman behind the Pussy Ranch?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these movies?
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