the usual suspects – Quiz Quiz Bang Bang

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 2, 2008
Average score: 5.95/10 (11 teams)

Given the famous spoiler or plot twist, tell me what work it comes from. (Spoilers ahead, naturally.)

1) (movie) Keaton wasn’t the mastermind after all — it was Verbal all along.
2) (graphic novel) The bad guy destroys New York City to avert nuclear war. But as one of the heroes reminds him, “Nothing ever ends.”
3) (movie) Katherine is her sister and her daughter. And her father-slash-babydaddy gets custody.
4) (TV) Number 1 is a chimpanzee. Or Number 6. Or maybe the screenwriter. It’s open to interpretation.
5) (book) He finds himself back in the desert where it all began, but this time he’s carrying the Horn of Eld.
6) (TV) She moves to New York, becomes a photographer, and dies in 2085 at age 101.
7) (novel) Each of the 12 suspects stabbed Mr. Ratchett once.
8) (play) Technically, he says he could have asked for the moment to go on forever — so he gets to go to heaven after all.
9) (movie) When Diane — or maybe she’s Betty — finds a blue key, she shoots herself. No one agrees what it all means, though.
10) (web series) Captain Hammer gets hurt, Penny gets killed, and the main character gets his wish: joining Bad Horse in the Evil League of Evil.

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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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