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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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1) What are the original Bennifer’s last names?
2) De La Soul, 2 Live Crew, Simply Red, and the Notorious B.I.G. have all sampled the song “I Can’t Go For That,” by what Philadelphia duo?
3) What duo made a cameo appearance in the 1986 sex comedy My Chauffeur as Bone and Abdul, and now host the show Bullshit! on Showtime?
4) Hooked on Phonics worked for a lot of kids, but it ended the careers of what fun duo who debuted in the 1930s?
5) When Coy and Vance drove off in 1983, they were replaced by their cousins — who?
6) Viewers made what cop show a top 10 hit after CBS uncancelled it in 1983?
7) Commonly known as the Wonder Twins, what brother/sister team graced the Super Friends with their shapeshifting powers, purple bodysuits, and chattery blue monkey?
8) Fictional versions of what 19th century linguists were portrayed by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger in a 2005 film directed by Terry Gilliam?
9) They may sound like a pharmaceutical company, but this research duo actually wrote the book on human sexual response, called Human Sexual Response.
10) Before The Graduate and Ishtar, what comedy duo performed a Broadway show and released a comedy album about “An Evening With” them?

Average score (21 teams): 5.81

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