Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Question > Movies

What 1966 film features opening credits which are spoken aloud, rather than appearing printed on the screen?

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Question > Movies

Back to school week continues...

What silver screen teacher critiqued a student's poem by saying: "Congratulations. You may have just written the first poem to get a negative score on the Pritchard scale."?

UPDATE: Answer: John Keating from Dead Poet's Society

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Question > Movies

What is the name of the boat that takes the Man in the Yellow Hat to Africa in the 2006 movie, Curious George?

UPDATE: Answer: H.A. Rey (named after the original Curious George illustrator)

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Question > Literature

What author has written books which have been turned into movies starring John Cusack and Hugh Grant?

UPDATE: Answer: Nick Hornby (author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, respectively)

Monday, August 27, 2007

Question > Movies

What is the name of the Oscar-winning actor whose numerous roles included a samurai-like hitman, a security system installer turned criminal, and an African dictator?

UPDATE: Answer: Forest Whitaker (in Ghost Dog, Panic Room, and Last King of Scotland respectively)

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Question > Movies

What is the name of the actor who has played a King of Jerusalem, a neo-Nazi skinhead, and a ex-con card shark?

UPDATE: Answer: Edward Norton (in Kingdom of Heaven, American History X, and Rounders, respectively)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Question > Movies

What is the first and last name of the movie character who said: "When I was your age they used to say you could become cops or criminals. What I'm saying to you is this... When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"?

EDIT: Answer: Frank Costello in The Departed

Friday, April 13, 2007

Question > Movies

In the movie Fargo, where does Norm Gunderson say his painting will be printed?

UPDATE: Answer: The 3 cent stamp.

Monday, April 02, 2007

Question > Movies

The submarine in Raiders of the Lost Ark was featured in what other 1981 movie?

UPDATE: Answer: The submarine has been built for Das Boot, the WWII submarine drama.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Question > Movies

What movie and comic book character is primarily portrayed as hidden behind a Guy Fawkes mask?

UPDATE: Answer: V, from V for Vendetta

Monday, March 05, 2007

Question > Movies

What does Stingo read aloud at the end of the 1982 film Sophie's Choice?

UPDATE: Answer: Emily Dickinson's "Ample Make This Bed"

Monday, February 26, 2007

Question > Movies

Martin Scorsese just won the Best Director Oscar for directing The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. Name the other films in his repartee that are also remakes.

UPDATE: Answer: Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Question > Movies

What actor played characters with these unusual last names in three consecutive movies:

Ipkiss, Christmas, Nygma

?

UPDATE: Answer: Jim Carrey from The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Batman Forever

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Question > Movies

Who played JD, the father of main character Eddie, in the 1998 film "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"?

UPDATE: Answer: Sting

Monday, December 11, 2006

Question > Movies

"I write with a goose quill dipped in venom." What movie character said this line?

UPDATE: Answer: Waldo Lydecker, Laura
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