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Quiz: Fairy Tales

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 3, 2009

1) According to one of the Grimms’ fairy tales, who is Snow White’s colorfully named sister?

2) Disney did two short films based on “The Ugly Duckling,” but what was the first full-length Disney movie based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?

3) Gregory Maguire’s second novel, after Wicked, was Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, a revisionist version of what fairy tale?

4) “Red Hot Riding Hood,” Tex Avery’s cartoon featuring a lustful, bug-eyed wolf visiting a nightclub, was parodied in what 1994 comedy/action film?

5) Slavic witch Baba Yaga’s house walks around on what kind of legs?

6) Four old animals decide to travel to Bremen and become town musicians. What kind of animals are they? For one point, name two; name all four for a bonus point. (Write down no more than 4 species.)

7) Giants, soldiers, and kings assumed the brave tailor who killed “seven with one blow” killed seven men. But he actually killed seven what?

8) In the Hans Cristian Andersen tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” the solder falls in love with what kind of paper doll?

9) The only Razzie award won by an animated film went to “Marry the Mole,” a song from what 1994 Don Bluth movie?

10) What Disney movie is based on the tale called “Briar Rose” by the Brothers Grimm?

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Quiz: Movies

Round 7 at the Old Pequliar on Nov. 18, 2008
Average score: 4.2/10 (15 teams) — a little more difficult than I’d like

1) Stephen King wrote the miniseries Rose Red after he left working on what similar 1999 horror film based on a novel by Shirley Jackson?

2) What 2006 Robert Altman comedy is set at a farewell performance at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota?

3) John Grisham’s favorite adaptation from any of his novels is what 1997 Francis Ford Coppola film co-starring Danny DeVito?

4) What Rob Reiner movie dramatizes the 1994 trial of Byron de la Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of assassinating Medgar Evars in 1963?

5) According to the poster, what 1995 horror film that spawned four sequels features “an evil born in heaven … about to be unleashed on earth”?

6) Alan Smithee and Judas Booth are credited with directing and writing a longer cut of what David Lynch film, which he turned down Return of the Jedi to film?

7) Until this year’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, what 2006 thriller, set in Seattle, was the last Harrison Ford film in theaters ?

8) Mr. Skin’s favorite movie for seeing Jennifer Connelly naked (butt and breasts!) is what 1990 neo-noir directed by Dennis Hopper?

9) What 1992 horror film, inspired by the legend of Mary Worth, spawned two sequels, subtitled Farewell to the Flesh and Day of the Dead?

10) What actor or actress appears in all nine of these movies?

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