Sunday, January 28, 2007

Movie Trivia For Blog Points

Here's a bit of movie trivia, to stimulate the brain cells and generate some Blog Points. As always, if you can't summon up the answer by memory alone, you can't answer! One Blog Point per correct answer, and I'll allow multiple right answers - rather than just the first right one - with the understanding that you haven't read anyone else's comments/answers. We believe in the Honour System around these parts, after all. I'll post the answers in a separate entry tomorrow night.

1) In what movie did Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle exchange bodily fluids?

2) In Raising Arizona, Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter played a childless couple who decided to steal a bambino from a local family that had just been blessed with a multiple birth scenario. How many newborns did that blessed family take home from the hospital?

3) Long before his turn as Dr Mark Green on ER, Anthony Edwards starred in my chiropractor's all-time favourite movie, Top Gun. What was his nickname in that film?

4) Name Atom Egoyan's 1997 film that had the tagline, "There is no such thing as the simple truth."

5) In what movie did Clint Eastwood immortalize the words, "Go ahead, make my day" (and it's probably not the one you immediately think of)?

6) In Hitchcock's dark comedy, The Trouble With Harry, who made her big screen debut playing the female love interest for John Forsythe's character? Bonus Blog Point: What was Harry's connection to her?

7) What noir film, considered by many - though not this Humble Blogger - to be one of the greatest films of all time, featured Orson Welles as Harry Lime, along with an over-abundance of zither music?

8) Who directed, and who played the title role, in the 1980 masterpiece, The Elephant Man? (both answers required; no half Blog Points)

9) What famous directing brothers were responsible for Fargo?

10) In strict movie release chronology terms - meaning, in the order the various flicks in the series have come out - who played the first human to have his chest burst from the inside by a Giger alien?

14 comments:

Tammy said...

Now THIS is my kind of trivia!! Thanks :)

1. Young Frankenstein
2. Wow. I'm going to guess 12?
3. Goose! (Having recently watched it for the first time, actually)
4. Initially I was thinking Exotica because it seems like an appropriate tagline for that movie, but I think that was early 90s, not late. So I'ma go with The Sweet Hereafter. Finally answer.
5. It's not Dirty Harry? Shit.
6. Don't know this one, even though we've probably watched it more than once together. Is it the one with the mice? I remember not liking it much.
7. M? Was he even in that? Hmm.
8. Dunno.
9. Cohen brothers.
10. That guy who went on to be on X files? Or Millenium or something like that. Actually wasn't he in the sequel and wasn't he a robot so probably not, huh?

Kimota94 aka Matt aka AgileMan said...

Gonna need first names on # 9, if you want the Blog Point, Tammy.

Tammy said...

Joel and ... Noel? Haha. I don't know the other one.

Tammy said...

PS. I wanna watch the Alien series again sometime.

Anonymous said...

Hard to post a comment without seeing others, so I'll just fill in a few of Tammy's....

5. Sudden Impact (the third of the Dirty Harry movies, I believe). A followup on commonly-held movie beliefs: which film is the first, in movie chronology (i.e. plot occurrences, not release date), to feature Inspector Jacques Clouseau?
6. Just for kicks, I'll say Joan Collins because of the Dynasty thing, either as older sister or mother.
7. The Third Man
9. Joel and Ethan Coen

Kimota94 aka Matt aka AgileMan said...

I'm always up for watching at least the first two, Alien and Aliens! The 3rd and 4th are a bit harder to take, although not a complete disaster. And AvP was downright fun!

Kimota94 aka Matt aka AgileMan said...

PeterJ, you could always just put your answers into Notepad before clicking on the Comments link, in order to avoid seeing others' answers. It's not rocket science! :-)

Anonymous said...

That presumes that I actually visit your site. :) I'm actually subscribed to both the posts and comments feeds, which I read in reverse chronological order, so I saw Tammy's comment before the post it was attached to. Guess I could always unsubscribe.

Tammy said...

Re: Peter. A Shot in the Dark? Or is this the commonly held but wrong answer?

Jimmy said...

2) Five
6) I know the trouble with harry was that he was dead. I'll say Kim Nolan
8)David Lynch
10) Paul Reiser

Anonymous said...

"A Shot in the Dark" is correct. It was actually filmed first, but wasn't released by the studio until after "The Pink Panther" turned into a hit.

Kimota94 aka Matt aka AgileMan said...

Yeah, we're definitely set up here for visitors, not subscribers. And with four to six new posts a day, why wouldn't someone want to visit frequently? Unlike some other blogs I could mention... ;-)

Anonymous said...

1. Young Frankenstein
2. 3
3. Ice Man was Val Kilmers name!
4. Exotica
5. Good, Bad & Ugly?
6. Shirley McLain, her husband
7. Thin Man - too funny that you inc this one
8. John Hirt...
9. Cohn Brothers
10. The Thing?

Anonymous said...

1. Young Frankenstein
2. 5
3. Goose
4. The Sweet Hereafter
5. Sudden Impact
6. Shirley MacLaine. Her husband
7. ??
8. ??
9. The Cohen Brothers (Joel and Ethan)
10. John Hurt (Alien)