It's a glow-in-the-dark compass ring. So you don't get lost. -Big (1988)

1. What did Colonel Jack D. Ripper mix with his pure grain alcohol?

2. Who Oscared as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire?

3. Who won an Oscar nomination for best actress for her role as Margo Channing in All About Eve?

4. What Tracy-Hepburn film was billed as the hilarious answer to "who wears the pants"?

5. What was Woody Allen's reply in Sleeper to the question: "You mean you haven't had sex in 200 years?"?

ETA: Answers in comments.

There is no spoon. -The Matrix (1999)

1. Who portrayed The Ugly in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?

2. What was Gene Kelly's occupation in the 1951 classic An American In Paris?

3. What 1957 film had the line: "Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you're three feet tall"?

4. What co-star of Shane died at 30 when he slammed his van into the side of a truck in Lakewood, Colorado, in 1972?

5. What was Brian's last name in Monty Python's Life Of Brian?

ETA: answers in the comments.

You have another question? Sure, I got one question for you. It's CAN YOU DEAL WITH THAT? -Meet The Parents (2000)

Now that the internet problems at chez 57 have been resolved 1001 Movies trivia can post on schedule:

1. What did the blind flower girl throw in The Little Tramp's face in City Lights?

2. Who played gay desparado Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon?

3. What did Harold Chasen convert his Jaguar into in Harold And Maude?

4. What 1974 Jack Nicholson film was set in 1937?

5. What famed Paris restaurant was Vincente Minnelli's 1958 musical Gigi partly set in?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!" -Ghostbusters (1984)

Movie trivia time...

1. What film had Sugar claiming she always got "the fuzzy end of the lollipop"?

2. What was the theme song for The Grapes Of Wrath?

3. What 1936 Charlie Chaplin film ended with the title card: "Buck up. Never say die. WE'LL GET ALONG"?

4. Who played teenage hooker Iris in Taxi Driver?

5. Where did Cary Grant meet Deborah Kerr in An Affair To Remember?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Your first concert in years and you wear odd shoes. -Shine(1996)

1. Who did a 14-year-old Andy Williams dub [parts of] the singing for in To Have And To Have Not?

2. What 1934 Dashiell Hammett inspired film was shot in 16 days by director W.S. Van Dyke, known as One-Take Woody?

3. Who played Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup?

4. What was the baby in Bringing up Baby?

5. What was the last line of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't. -The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Trivia questions are back...in case you were waiting.

1. What 1974 film was set in part before the Kefauver Committee in the Senate caucus room?

2. Whose poem inspired production of 1939's Gunga Din?

3. What Walt Disney film was originally titled The Sorceror's Apprentice, then renamed Concert Feature?

4. Who directed Red River?

5. Who played the nasty Noah Cross in Chinatown?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Once I get inside and hit these air conditioners I get a little dizzy. -Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

The quote I really wanted to use, but is too long for a blogger title:
-First of all, don't make fun of the weather here, and don't say the weather is the same all the time here. Because it's not. In fact, it's two degrees colder today than yesterday.
-Two degrees colder, me without my muff.


1. What film did Alfred Hitchcock make twice?

2. What actor's arms did Frank Sinatra die in, in From Here To Eternity?

3. What 1970 war epic ended with the line: "All glory is fleeting"?

4. Who sang Put the Blame on Mame in Gilda?

5. What film concerned the first murder in the annals of Sparta, Mississippi?

ETA: Answers, finally, in the comments.

Tuesday night's plastic corrosion awareness meeting, was I think, a big success. -Toy Story (1995)

It's trivia time once again, on schedule for once! (Question, is it still a schedule if it rarely follows it? This of course akin to the age old, if a tree falls in the forest...)

1. What was blown up in Blow-Up?

2. What Fellini film opened with a helicopter lifting a statue of Christ out of Rome?

3. What medal was Raymond Shaw awarded in The Manchurian Candidate?

4. What Bogart film was so complicated that the director said: "Neither the author, the writer nor myself knew who had killed whom"?

5. What did Clark Gable call the sheet he strung up between him and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night?

ETA: Answers in the comments

Yeah but when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't start to eat the people. -Jurassic Park (1993)

To make up for missing last weeks installment:
9 questions with numbers for answers, 1 with a number in the question...

1. How many lines did Dumbo have in the Disney animated film Dumbo?

2. How many horse drew the buck in Stagecoach?

3.What percent of the action in Springtime for Hitler was sold in The Producers?

4. How many Von Trapp children were there in The Sound Of Music?

5. How many months did Henry Higgins give himself to make a lady of Eliza in My Fair Lady?

6. How many biplanes shot down King Kong in 1933?

7. What stretch of time was Cool Hand Luke sentenced to?

8. How many members of the commando force survived the assault on the bridge on the River Kwai?

9. How many broke out, however briefly, in The Great Escape?

10. What film saw Bud Baxter stuck in Section W, Desk 861, of the Ordinary Policy Department?

ETA: Answers in comments

Life is like a movie. Only you can't pick your genre. -Scream (1996)

It's movie trivia time once again. As some of you may have noticed, or not noticed, I've been posting one question or post title quote for every movie in 1001 MYMSBYD that I've seen--no repeats so far. To keep track of this I added a column to my spreadsheet, which also allows me to count how many have been covered (after this post it's 57). I'm not sure what I'll do when I, inevitably, catch up to my watched movie total. I'm guessing repeats, maybe an all Casablanca week, although the accuracy of those answers doesn't have the best track record so far. Anyhow, that's a long way in the future because my watched movie number recently surpassed the 200 mark and now stands at 205. This gives me 24 and 2/3 weeks before I run out, assuming I stop watching movies now. It's nice to have some breathing room. So here's this weeks crop:

1. What was the name of Citizen Kane's castle?

2. What two words appeared on Regan MacNeil's body in The Exorcist?

3. What Casablanca cast member played Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood?

4. What film featured the line: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool"?

5. What 1930 movie ended with a soldier being shot dead as he reached out for a butterfly?

ETA: Answers in the coments

Do you think there's someplace where we can meet that's not in silence and not in sound? -Children Of A Lesser God (1986)

I think I'm back on my self-imposed schedule...for now.

1. Q: What film had William Holden saying of Faye Dunaway's character: "She learned life from Bugs Bunny"?

2. What Hitchcock film had Sean Connery trying to break the kleptomaniacal habits of his wife?

3. What Paul Newman-Robert Reford film offered the last line: "I'd only blow it"?

4. Which West Side Story gang boasted the members Baby John, A-Rab, Joy Boy, and Big Deal?

5. What playwright did Jack Nicholson portray in Reds?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Better late than not at all

Here's the movie trivia for this week:

1. Q: What Hitchcock film had the key to a wine cellar playing an important role in the plot?

2. Q: What was Mr. Deed's first name? (from Mr. Deed's Goes To Town)

3. Q: How many chariots start the race in 1959's Ben-Hur?

4. Q: What film had Bette Davis causing a ruckus at the Olympic Ball in New Orleans?

5. What 1940 film concerned the hectic 24-hour period before Tracy Lord's wedding?

I'll post the answers on Tuesday, and try to get back on track for posting new answers on wednesday. (fingers crossed)

ETA: Answers in the comments.

I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone.-Brazil (1985)

I'm going on vacation today. I'll be gone for a week, so this is an expanded edition of movie trivia.

1. Whose giant door bore a sign reading: "Bell Out of Order, Please Knock"?
2. What Cary Grant film was about U.S. flyers in the Sout American port of Barranca?
3. What film offered the dying words: "Can you see the gray over there where our castle is? I'll wait for you until you come"?
4. Who played Paul Newman's younger brother in Hud?
5. What was the name of the inflatable automatic pilot in Airplane!? (spelling counts)
6. What film contained the line: "I'll live to seee you-all of you-hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fllet"?
7. What film had Dustin Hoffman say: "I'm sorry that I was late, but I was trying to make a living, okay?"?
8. What city was the setting for Garbo's Ninotchka?
9. What 1945 movie saw Ray Milland thrown out of a nightclub for stealing a woman's purse?
10. What allegedly drove Ben Gazzara to murder in Anatomy Of A Murder?

I'll post the answers when I get back.

ETA: Answers in the comments.

Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby. -Top Gun (1986)

I'm on airport shuttle duty for my parents tonight, so without further ado, the questions:

Q: What did Alvy Singer feel was the only cultural advantage California had over New York in Annie Hall?

Q: What was the pre-release title of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid?

Q: What Robert Altman film included 27 songs?

Q: What Hitchcock film opened at 3:15 p.m. in Davidson's Pet Shop?

Q: How many times did Indiana Jones lose his hat in Raiders Of The Lost Ark?

ETA: Answers now posted in the comments.

This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather. -Groundhog Day (1993)

I've found the self referential-possibly made up-question in the Silver Screen edition of Trivial Pursuit. Q: What game was invented 40 years to the day after the world priemere of Gone With The Wind? Now onto the more serious fare.

1. What 1972 movie ended with the line: "Andrew, don't forget-be sure to tell them it was just a bloody game"?

2. What two cities provided the settings for Meet Me In St. Louis?

3. What 1949 film's climax took place in the Vienna sewer system?

4. What film opened with William Holden floating face-down in a swimming pool?

5. How many screws unscrewed themselves from the floor grate in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind?

ETA: Answers in the comments.

I'm trying to understand our world. I don't deal with petty materialists like you. -Pi (1998)

It's movie trivia time again. Here's this weeks batch:

Titles
Q: What film had Peter Lorre saying to Bogie: "You will please clasp you hands together at the back of your neck"?

Q: What film did Alfred Hitchcock appear in, standing outside an office wearing a cowboy hat?

On Screen
Q: What television network did the astronauts watch their interview on in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Q: How many jurors voted for a conviction on the first ballot in Twelve Angry Men?

Production
Q: Who was originally cast to play Ben's father in The Graduate?

I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers never look at the road in old movies. -Amelie (2001)

There are two kinds of trivia questions- those I know the answer to and those I don't. Questions in the first group seem obvious, questions in the second group-interesting and tricky. That said, I'm trying to avoid the questions that only require basic plot knowledge to answer (e.g. What Hitchcock film featured Jimmy Stewart as a new photographer with a broken leg?) and stick with the latter-you had to be paying attention, or be a good guesser type. Here's this weeks movie trivia:

Settings:
Q: What film featured an aerial attack at Prairie Stop, a deserted bus stop on Highway 41? (A trickier question for this film would be: When Eve Kendall says "I never discuss love on an empty stomach," what do her lips actually say that had to be overdubbed to meet decency standards?)

Titles:
Q: What film had Delta 9 nerve gas not sprayed over Fort Knox?

On Screen:
Q: How many characters took part in the final airport scene in Casablanca?

Production:
Q: What U.S. First Lady did John Huston tell Katharine Hepburn to play Rosie like for The African Queen?

Q: What was the first scene filmed in the making of Gone With The Wind?

Answers in a day or so.

We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia. -Diner (1982)

I mentioned previously that my 1001 Movie watching project was partly motivated by my desire to win Trivial Pursuit: Silver Screen Edition; I was only partly joking. The categories and corresponding colors for the wedges in this edition are as follows: Blue=Settings, Yellow=Off Screen, Green=Production, Pink=Titles, Brown=Off Screen, and Orange=Portrayals. Instead of just listing the movies that I've seen from the list, I think it will be more fun to post some of the trivia questions relating to the movies. I'll probably do five movies at a time until I catch up with myself. Here are the first five:

Settings:
Q: Where was Sonny Corleone ambushed in 1972's The Godfather?

Titles:
Q: What film offered the gruesome line: "The torso has been severed in mid thorax. There are no major organs remaining."?

On Screen:
Q: What was Popeye Doyle disguised as in the opening scene of The French Connection?

Production:
Q: Who produced All The President's Men?

Portrayals:
Q: Who played Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H?

I read that this is considered the most difficult edition of Trivial Pursuit ever made. Anyhow, I'll post answers in a day or so.


ETA: Answers now posted in the comments

One Thousand And One Nights

Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out. In a quest to be able to hustle a game of Trivial Pursuit, Silver Screen Edition, I am trying to watch all of the movies in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Before I took stock of the number I had already seen on the list, I figured- hey I like movies, I've seen alot, so I've probably already seen a fair number of these. Not so. I'd seen just over a hundred. To be fair, I couldn't have seen most of these in the theater since 658 were released before I was born. But with the help of a DVR and cable television I've now seen 167. To some this may seem like an exercise in pro forma movie watching. So far though I've enjoyed watching these, including the excellent jazz soundtrack to Anatomy Of A Murder, the completely sung dialogue (in french) of The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, and the unexpected ending of Network. I created a spreadsheet to track my progress, it's posted here if you feel inclined to see how many you've seen:1001 Movies Spreadsheet.