74. |
In 'The Matrix' film trilogy, the hovercraft of the character 'Morpheus' is named after which ancient ruler of Babylon? |
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Nebuchadrezzar |
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73. |
In which 2004 comedy/drama does the main character of Viktor Navorski come from the fictional country of Krakhozia? |
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The Terminal Some have noted that the story for the film appears to be inspired by the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, nicknamed "Sir, Alfred", an Iranian refugee who had lived in Terminal One of the Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris from 1988 until 2006, when his refugee papers were stolen. However, no public materials or the film's DVD/website mention Nasseri's plight as an inspiration for the film. |
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72. |
Which fictional character who first appeared in the 1940 Walt Disney animated film 'Pinocchio' was appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as the official conscience for Pinocchio? |
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Jiminy Cricket He is also a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures. In the 1960s and 1970s, Jiminy Cricket appeared in numerous safety films aimed at grade-school-aged audiences. He advised children how to steer clear of dangerous traffic, sharp objects, strangers, exposed electrical lines, and so forth. |
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Which is the only Hitchcock film to be remade by himself? |
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The man who knew too much The remake is in colour and stars Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. Hitchcock considered his remake to be superior, saying that the 1934 version was the work of a talented amateur, while the 1956 version was the work of a professional. |
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70. |
In 2003, AFI (American Film Institute) came out with a list of 100 Heroes and Villians. Who topped the list in each respective category? |
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Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mocking Bird) and Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) |
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69. |
Who are Kambei Shimada, Katsushiro Okamoto, Gorobei Katayama, Shichiroji, Kyuzo, Heihachi Hayashida, and Kikuchiyo? |
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The Seven Samurai Seven Samurai is usually regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and is one of a select few Japanese films to become widely known in the West for an extended period of time. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven masterless samurai warriors to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. |
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68. |
Which influential 1966 film's title comes from a last line in the film which expresses that if one had enough time and money, it would be possible to follow this around the world making it everlasting?
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The Endless Summer When the movie was first shown, it encouraged many surfers to go abroad, giving birth to the "surf-and-travel" culture, which prizes finding "uncrowded surf", meeting new people, and finding the perfect wave. It also introduced the sport, which had become popular outside of Hawaii and the Polynesian Islands in places like California and Australia, to a broader audience. |
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67. |
Which film of his did Stanley Kubrick refer to as overall optimistic because "anything that says there's anything after death is ultimately an optimistic story."?
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The Shining (1980) |
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66. |
What is the name of the unforgettable character played by Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien'? As a bonus, also name the spaceship. |
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Ellen Ripley; Nostromo |
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65. |
Before being made famous by Scorsese in the movie 'The Aviator', Howard Hughes was also the idea behind the character of Willard Whyte in which James Bond movie? |
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971) |
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64. |
Who created 'Star Trek'? |
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Gene Roddenberry Star Trek originated as a television series in 1966, starring William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk (originally James R. Kirk), and told the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise and that crew's five-year mission 'to boldly go where no man has gone before.' |
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63. |
Which 2002 romantic comedy is the highest-grossing film to never have been number 1 on the weekly North American box-office charts? |
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding It became a sleeper hit and grew steadily from its limited release. An independent film with a meager $5 million budget, it ultimately grossed over $368 million worldwide. |
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The title of which 2003 movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death? |
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21 Grams MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and thus measurable. These experiments are widely considered to have had little if any scientific merit, and although MacDougall's results varied considerably from 21 grams, for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass. |
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Which cult movie released in 1975 has taken in over $139 million since its release making it the highest grossing movie to have never played in more than 1,000 movie theatres at the same time? |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show The length of its run in cinemas (weekly for over 30 years) combined with its considerable total box office gross is unparalleled by any other film. The Museum Lichtspiele in Munich, Germany has been screening the movie without interruption since September 19th, 1975, and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has the longest running United States engagement, having shown the movie since January, 1978. |
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In 1966, which prominent scientist was asked to contribute an interview about the possibility of extraterrestrials to a proposed introduction to the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'? |
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Carl Sagan According to an unsourced anecdote in 'The Independent', Sagan "responded by saying that he wanted editorial control and a percentage of the film's takings, which was rejected." |
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59. |
The 2005 movie 'The Interpreter' was the first to be officially filmed inside the UN General Assembly and Security Council buildings. However, which Alfred Hitchcock's film features a scene illegally filmed there? |
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North by Northwest At the time, the United Nations prohibited film crews from shooting around its New York City headquarters. In an example of guerrilla filmmaking, Hitchcock used a movie camera hidden in a parked van to film Cary Grant and Adam Williams exiting their taxis and entering the building. |
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58. |
How do we know Verne Troyer better? |
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As 'Mini-Me' in Austin Powers' movies. It is most commonly believed that Mini-Me was inspired by Nick Nack, the little henchman of the film version of Francisco Scaramanga, the eponymous villain of the James Bond novel 'The Man with the Golden Gun'. |
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57. |
As of 2007, which is the only non-American film to win the Academy award for Best Animated Feature? |
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Spirited Away (2001-Japanese release) It is also the first anime film to win an Academy Award, and the only winner of that award to win among five nominees (in every other year there were three nominees). |
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56. |
Burkittsville in Maryland, USA gained notoriety in 1999 for what reason connected to films? |
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The release of the film 'The Blair Witch Project', which supposedly takes place there. It attracted fans of the cult film, and provided a spike to local commerce. Contrary to popular belief, however, the majority of the film was not filmed in Burkittsville, and the events depicted in the film and the legend of the Blair Witch itself were entirely fabricated by the producers themselves. The majority of the film was shot in the state of Virginia, with parts filmed in Maryland. |
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What 1967 film is regarded as the first of the New Hollywood era, in that it broke many taboos and was popular with the younger generation? |
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Bonnie and Clyde The film was directed by Arthur Penn, and starred Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker. |
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54. |
What is the name of the famous Japanese animation film studio headed by the acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki, which is responsible for animated classics like 'Spirited Away (2001)'? |
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Studio Ghibli Its name derives from the nickname the Italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in the Second World War, which derived from the Libyan word for hot wind blowing through the Sahara Desert (also known as sirocco). The company's logo features the character Totoro from the film 'My Neighbor Totoro'. |
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53. |
Mammy Two Shoes, a recurring character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons was inspired by which African-American actress and singer best known for playing 'Mammy' on screen? |
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Hattie McDaniel She played 'Mammy' on 'Gone with the Wind'. As a partially-seen character in the cartoons, she was famous for never showing her head (although it is briefly visible in Saturday Evening Puss and Mouse Cleaning). Mammy's appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated as a slim white woman in later television showings, since her character is a mammy archetype now generally regarded as racist. |
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52. |
According to the British tabloid The Sun, which 1965 movie was selected by BBC executives as one to be broadcast after a nuclear strike, to improve the morale of survivors? |
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The Sound of Music The soundtrack album of the film was also included in the stockpile of records held in 20 underground radio stations of Great Britain's Wartime Broadcasting Service, designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack. |
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51. |
Which 1971 coming-of-age movie is based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher and is set on Nantucket Island off the coast of New England? |
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Summer of '42 It tells the story of a boy in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation where he embarked on an ill-fated, one-sided romance with a woman whose husband had gone off to fight in World War II. |
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50. |
Which 1972 movie musical has the distinction of winning the most Oscars (eight) without the 'Best Picture' award, losing the coveted award to 'The Godfather'? |
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Cabaret In 2006 this film ranked #5 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. |
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49. |
About which American film critic, who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991, did Roger Ebert say "she had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades"? |
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Pauline Kael She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style. She was often regarded as the most influential American film critic of her day and made a lasting impression on other major critics. |
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48. |
In the movie 'Dances with Wolves', much of the dialog is in which language? |
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Lakota Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film which tells the story of a United States cavalry officer in the 1860s who befriends a band of Sioux, sacrificing his career and ties to his own people. |
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47. |
Which 1988 movie tells the true-life story of naturalist Dian Fossey and her work with gorillas? |
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Gorillas in the mist Dian Fossey (1932 – 1985) was an American Zoologist who completed an extended study of several gorilla groups. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontologist Louis Leakey. Her work is somewhat similar to Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees. Fossey was found murdered in the bedroom of her cabin in 1985.
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Which 2005 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn deals with African politics and has been banned by the office of President Mugabe of Zimbabwe? |
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The Interpreter There are strong parallels between the movie and the real country of Zimbabwe. Among others, the name of the fictional country of Matobo is an apparent reference to the name of the Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe.
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45. |
Which largest privately-owned home in the United States was prominently featured in the 2001 movie 'Hannibal' among others? |
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Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina This location was chosen by Ridley Scott to signify the huge personal wealth of the character Mason Verger. It built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1888 and 1895 and occupies 175,000 square feet. Still owned by Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age. |
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44. |
During her state visit to Beijing in the 1980's, Queen Elizabeth II was unable to visit the Forbidden City because of a specific reason. Why?
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The Last Emperor was being shot there and the production was given priority over the queen by the Chinese authorities. |
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43. |
In the movie 'Rainman', what airline does Raymond insist on flying as it has a perfect safety record? |
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Qantas While the airline's safety record is respected around the world, the safety fact is that the company has never lost a jet airliner and not any kind of plane. Between 1927 and 1951, Qantas had eight fatal accidents with the loss of 62 people. Half of these accidents occurred during World War II, when the Qantas aircraft were operating on behalf of the Royal Australian Air Force. |
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42. |
Anna Wintour, the Editor-In-Chief of the U.S. edition of Vogue, was the main inspiration for the character of Miranda Priestly in which surprise hit film of 2006? |
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The Devil Wears Prada (the character of Miranda Priestly was played by Meryl Streep) Although the movie is set in the fashion world, most designers and other fashion notables avoided appearing as themselves for fear of arousing the wrath of the powerful Anna Wintour. Wintour later overcame her initial skepticism, saying she liked the film and Streep in particular. |
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41. |
In the movie Jaws, what is the the name of the boat the trio use to hunt down the beast? |
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Orca |
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40. |
Which brothers are known in the film business as "the two-headed director"? |
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The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan They have have written and directed numerous successful films, such as the comedies 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', 'Raising Arizona' and 'The Big Lebowski', and have also become notorious for blurring the line between drama and comedy with movies like 'Fargo', 'The Man Who Wasn't There', and 'Barton Fink'. The pair are frequently credited on their own films as editor under the name "Roderick Jaynes". |
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39. |
Which fictional island is the original home of King Kong? |
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Skull island In King Kong, Skull Island is a long island, located at approximately 90 degrees East and 2 degrees South - somewhere off the coast of Sumatra. There is a distinctive rocky knoll in the center of the island which is shaped like a human skull, hence its foreboding name. |
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38. |
Rowan Atkinson plays which British comic character described as "a child in a grown man's body"? |
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Mr. Bean The character of Mr. Bean was first developed when Rowan Atkinson was studying for his PhD at Oxford University, with a sketch featuring the character first being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s. |
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37. |
Truman Capote, who sold the film rights of his novella to Paramount Studios, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the role of Holly Golightly. But when X was cast instead of Marilyn, Capote remarked: "Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast X". Who is X and what is the novella/movie? |
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Audrey Hepburn in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Wisp-thin Hepburn as Holly, carrying a cigarette holder, is considered one of the iconic images of 20th century American cinema. |
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36. |
Which military doctrine is central to the plot of the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film 'Dr. Strangelove'? |
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MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction It is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by one of two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. It is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use of the very same weapons. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash Equilibrium, in which both sides are attempting to avoid their worst possible outcome — nuclear annihilation. |
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35. |
What is a colloquial term for a sub-genre of the horror/thriller movie also known by the name Older women in peril, which was most prevalent from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s? |
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Psycho-biddy The genre has also been variously nicknamed by the press as "hagsploitation," "hag horror" and "Grande Dame Guignol". The genre began in 1962 with 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' directed by Robert Aldrich; however, the 1950 Billy Wilder classic 'Sunset Boulevard', which shares many thematical and plot similarities with the former, can also be seen as a precursor to the genre. |
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34. |
'Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli'. Enough said, which movie? |
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The Godfather |
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33. |
The 1997 gay-comedy 'In and Out' was inspired by Tom Hanks's speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar (for his role in 'Philadelphia'). What did Tom Hanks do? |
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He outed his high-school drama coach and his former classmate with "two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with." |
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32. |
In the 1984 adventure film 'Romancing the Stone' that stars Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner and is set in Columbia, what type of precious mineral is the 'Stone'? |
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An Emerald Even if you haven't see the film, just the fact that it is set in Columbia should give you a hint that it is an Emerald. |
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31. |
Which American animator, actor, writer, and producer created the hit animated television series 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'King of the Hill' and also wrote and directed the film 'Office Space'? |
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Mike Judge |
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30. |
Which film from 1985, starring Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and John Candy, has a cult following among many generations of Peace Corps personnel? |
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The Volunteers |
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29. |
'Midnight Cowboy' was the first X-rated movie to win the Oscar for best picture. But what was the first R-rated movie to have won the award for best picture? |
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The French Connection in 1971. |
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28. |
Which 2007 film starring Chris Cooper is based on the story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union? |
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Breach |
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27. |
Which 1999 film which tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand? |
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The Insider |
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26. |
Which incredible site in Jordan, once described as "a rose-red city half as old as time", is featured in the film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' as the Holy Temple where the Holy Grail is located?
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Petra It is an archaeological site, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. |
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Named after child actor Jackie Coogan, what is 'Coogan's Law', a landmark legislation in the late 30s in the US concerned with? |
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It is designed to protect a child actor's earnings, by depositing some of the minor's earnings in court-administered trust funds that the child receives when he/she reaches the age of majority. As a child star (famous in 'The Kid' with Chaplin), Coogan earned as much as $4 million, but the money was taken by his mother Lilian and step-father Arthur Bernstein for cocaine and heroin. He sued them in 1935, but only received $126,000. The legal battle did, however, bring attention to child actors and resulted in the state of California enacting the California Child Actor's Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill or the Coogan Act. This requires that the child's employer set aside 15% of the child's earnings in a trust, and codifies such issues as schooling, work hours and time-off. |
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The most famous scene in the film is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps where the Russian Tsar's Cossacks slaughter a crowd as they attempt to flee. Which film is this?
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'The Battleship Potemkin' by Sergei Eisenstein Toward the end of the sequence, the soldiers shoot a mother who is pushing a baby carriage. She falls to the ground, and as she dies she accidentally kicks the carriage away; it rolls down the steps alongside the frightened crowd. This scene has been endlessly referenced in many motion pictures, with famous homages occurring in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's version of The Untouchables, and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (except the troopers marched up the stairs). |
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Charlie Chaplin once called him "the greatest comedian in the world," and he is often referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". Who is this star, wildly successful in Spanish-speaking Latin America, where he still has many devoted fans? |
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Cantinflas Born Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes on August 12, 1911, he was a comedian of the Mexican theatre and film industry. His interpretation of Cantinflas, a character originating in the pelado, the impoverished campesino slum-dweller that came to represent the national identity of Mexico, earned him popularity with the common people that he was able to parlay into a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. |
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Often regarded as one of the most gifted and influential persons in his field, who provided the definitive voices for iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Barney Rubble among hundreds of others? |
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Mel Blanc (1908 - 1989) Blanc's will stated his desire to have the inscription on his gravestone read, "THAT'S ALL FOLKS", considered by some to be one of the most famous epitaphs in the world. |
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21. |
Which 1987 comedy film, starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as "Rogers and Clarke", has become synonymous with a box office flop? |
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Ishtar The movie ran significantly over budget in production, due largely to unanticipated problems with desert filming, and was a financial flop, generating under $13 million in revenue. Its high-profile disastrous performance at the box office is part of the film's enduring bad reputation. Ishtar was nominated for Worst Picture in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards. |
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20. |
Which is the most watched TV show in the world of all time, with over 1.1 billion viewers? |
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Baywatch Baywatch is very popular and still airs in many countries today.
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19. |
Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming, USA features prominently in which landmark science fiction film? |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Tribes including the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Lakota, and Shoshone have had cultural and geographical ties to the monolith long before European and early American immigrants reached Wyoming. |
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18. |
Four of the Star Wars films (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope) were partly filmed in Tataouine in which North African country?
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Tunisia George Lucas notably uses the name for his fictional planet Tatooine. |
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17. |
Who is the first actress to win two Academy Awards before the age of 30? |
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Luise Raimer (1910 - ) For 'The Great Ziegfeld' (1936) and 'The Good Earth' (1937).(Many thanks to Appalling Gael for pointing out that it is not Jodie Foster (who became the second person to do it).) |
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16. |
According to an article in Vanity Fair in 1999, about which movie did Stanley Kubrick say "possibly the greatest movie ever made and certainly the best cast"?
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The Godfather |
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In the film 'Almost Famous', what is the name of the band the kid William Miller travels with? |
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Stillwater |
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14. |
During the shooting of the 1981 movie 'Reds', Warren Beatty lectured his Russian extras on the capitalist exploitation of labour, attempting to inspire them. In 2004, why did the magazine 'Total Film' call it the 4th dumbest decision in movie history? |
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The extras went on strike, demanding higher wages!
The film centers on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book 'Ten Days that Shook the World'.
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13. |
In film language, what is a 'MacGuffin'? |
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A plot device that motivates the characters and/or advances the story, but has no other relevance. The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Hitchcock explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: "[We] have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin.' It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is most always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers." |
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12. |
The television channel TNT was launched on October 3, 1988 with a showing of which movie as it was the founder Ted Turner's favorite? |
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Gone with the Wind |
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11. |
In which film does Kevin Spacey portray the serial killer John Doe? |
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Se7en (1995) |
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10. |
In the climax of the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', whose poster does warden Norton rip to reveal the tunnel that Andy Dufresne had dug? |
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Raquel Welch Andy Dufresne first starts digging the tunnel when he has the poster of Rita Hayworth on his cell wall. |
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9. |
Which silent film released in 1922 is considered the first feature-length documentary? |
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'Nanook of the North' by Robert J. Flaherty Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuit Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic. But Flaherty has been criticised for deceptively portraying staged events as reality. Much of the action was staged and gives an inaccurate view of real Inuit life during the early 20th century. |
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8. |
On which 1953 film poster are Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr sharing a passionate kiss on a beach? |
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From Here to Eternity The famous beach scene was lampooned in the movie 'Airplane!', where Robert Hays' and Julie Hagerty's characters become covered in seaweed. |
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7. |
Which two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor also studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at the latter's Arizona residence and Wisconsin studio, Taliesin? |
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Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) He is perhaps best known in the US for his roles in two Hollywood films, the title role in Zorba the Greek and his Oscar-winning performance in Viva Zapata!, while in the rest of the world he is associated with his role of the brutish circus strongman Zampanò in Federico Fellini's La Strada. |
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6. |
What is the world's largest film festival open to the general public? |
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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Held in Toronto, Canada, it is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world. It is the premiere film festival in North America from which the Oscars race begins. Quoted by the National Post in 1999, Roger Ebert claimed "...although Cannes is still larger, Toronto is more useful and more important...."
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Which prominent character of a 90's blockbuster had the same first name but different middle & last names of Dewitt Bukater and Dawson Calvert? |
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Rose from 'Titanic' (1997) Played by Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart, both of whom were nominated for Oscars. |
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4. |
'Q' is a popular character in James Bonds' movies, played mostly by Desmond Llewelyn. What does 'Q' stand for? |
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Quartermaster |
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3. |
Which chilling 1968 film mostly takes place in Bramford apartment building in New York City? |
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Rosemary's baby Outside shots of the movie's Bramford apartment building were in fact The Dakota, the future home of the main lead Mia Farrow's friend John Lennon, and his wife and son, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. Director Roman Polanski filmed the exteriors for Rosemary's Baby at the Dakota; however, the interiors were created in a Hollywood soundstage. The building does not allow filming inside. |
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2. |
Which 1984 mockumentary directed by Rob Reiner satarizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of rock bands and has achieved cult status among its fans? |
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This is Spinal Tap It became a common insult for a pretentious band to be told they were funnier than Spinal Tap. |
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Which epic 1960's film, a multiple oscar winner, is unique in the sense that the only female featured in the entire film is a camel named Gladys! |
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Lawrence of Arabia It is unique in being the only film to win the Best Film award without containing a single female speaking role. |
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