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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?

1) What 1994 film launched the career of Lisa Loeb, when her song “Stay (I Missed You)” became a #1 hit single?
2) What 1992 drama starring Willem DaFoe as a drug dealer does writer/director Paul Schrader consider the third film in a trilogy, after Taxi Driver and American Gigolo?
3) What 2007 comedy inspired a spokesman for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination to say”The movie has some of the expected stereotypes, but in its own disarming way, it’s a call for equality and respect”?
4) What 1996 comedy sequel inspired by a TV show starred both actors who played Jed Bartlet’s vice president on The West Wing?
5) What 1998 animated film, which introduced the character Dil, was the first Nickelodeon Movies production to reach #1 at the box office on its opening weekend?
6) What 1993 film based on a 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch featured mass quantities of SNL performers — 16, the current record for a single film?
7) What 1994 comedy set at the fictional Port Chester University introduced the Caine-Hackman theory, the idea that at any there’s a 100% statistical probability that a movie starring Michael Caine or Gene Hackman will be playing on TV?
8) 30 years after playing Catwoman, Eartha Kitt plays a woman who actually gets turned into a cat at the climax of what 2000 animated film?
9) What 1996 comedy about a Washington State governor’s race was the first film Gene Siskel walked out on in his career reviewing movies?
10) What actor or actress appeared in all nine of these movies?

Average score, 17 teams: 6.35

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