ANSWER: Contemporary Films

Harvey


As Elliott walks slowly back up the driveway to the house with the pizza, he hears sounds coming from near their home's backyard toolshed. He calls out his dog's name - "Harvey, is that you, boy?" Elliott's mother Mary, wearing an orange kimono, is working in the kitchen. When she bends down to place dishes in the dishwasher, one of Mike's friends extends his finger toward her rear - Mike yells for him to stop.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 83-67

QUESTION: Contemporary Films

Elliott and Gertie are siblings who befriend a benign alien in E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. Elliott and Gertie have a pet dog. What is the name of their dog?

ANSWER: US Presidents

Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson had a pet mockingbird named "Dick" which he kept in the White House study. The bird often rode on Jefferson's shoulder and was trained to take small bites of food held between Jefferson's lips at mealtime.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 83-66

QUESTION: US Presidents

What U.S. President had a pet mockingbird named "Dick"?

ANSWER: Icons

An American in Paris


An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant.

The story of the film is interspersed with show-stopping dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to popular Gershwin tunes. Songs and music include "I Got Rhythm," "I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise," "'S Wonderful," and "Our Love is Here to Stay". The climax is "The American in Paris" ballet, an 18 minute dance featuring Kelly and Caron set to Gershwin's An American in Paris. The ballet alone cost more than half a million dollars, a staggering sum at the time.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 83-65

QUESTION: Icons

In which of his films does Gene Kelly dance with school children while singing "I Got Rhythm"?

ANSWER: Science

The answer is butte. To avoid any whining, I suppose I will accept mesa, even though it is not correct. Explanation below.


A mesa is a broad, flat-topped elevation with one or more cliff-like sides, common in the Southwest United States, and that the word is Spanish, meaning 'table.' A butte is defined as 'a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding area, has sloping sides and a flat top,' and the word derives from the old French word meaning 'mound behind targets.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 83-64

QUESTION: Science

What geographic term describes a hill with sharply sloping sides and a flat top?

ANSWER: Guilty Pleasures

Heather Graham



Matt: WRONG
Record: 83-63

QUESTION: Guilty Pleasures

What actress appears as the character Mercedes Lan in the 1988 Corey Feldman/Corey Haim collaboration License to Drive?

ANSWER: Football

Atlanta Falcons


Brett Favre was selected in the second round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons (33rd overall). After one season with the Falcons, Favre was traded to the Green Bay Packers on February 10, 1992, for the 19th pick in the 1992 NFL Draft. He became the Packers' starting quarterback in the fourth game of the 1992 NFL season, starting every game from then until his retirement in 2008.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 83-62

QUESTION: Football

What team did Brett Favre begin his career with?

ANSWER: Classic Films

Spain


The entire film was shot in Spain, except for the scene in Tunisia where Patton visits Carthaginian ruins, and the scene at the dedication of the welcome center in Knutsford, England, which was filmed at the actual site. The scenes set in Africa and Sicily were shot in the south of Spain, while the winter scenes in Belgium were shot near Madrid (to which the production crew rushed when they were informed that snow had fallen). In one scene, a supposedly "Arab" woman is selling "pollos y gallinas" (chickens and hens) in Spanish.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 82-62

QUESTION: Classic Films

Franklin J. Schaffner's Patton was filmed in what country?

ANSWER: Miscellaneous

Goofy


Colvig is probably best known as the voice of Disney's Goofy and the original Bozo the Clown, a part he played for a full decade beginning in 1946. He also provided the voice for Practical Pig, the pig who built the "house of bricks" in the Disney short Three Little Pigs, as well as both Sleepy and Grumpy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the barks for Pluto the dog. Colvig worked for not only the Disney studio, but the Warner Bros. animation studio, Fleischer Studios (Bluto, Gabby), and MGM, where he voiced a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 82-61

QUESTION: Miscellaneous

Pinto Colvig is best known for being the voice of what animated character?

ANSWER: Movie Quotes

Crap Thunder


I would have liked to find video of that line but I couldn't.

So yea, that's what he said.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 81-61

QUESTION: Movie Quotes

Finish Mickey's sentence from Rocky: "You're gonna eat lightnin' and..."

ANSWER: Music

John


The album was originally going to be titled Everest after a brand of cigarettes. The idea included a cover photo in the Himalayas but by the time the group was to take the photo they decided to call it Abbey Road and take the photo outside the studio. The cover designer was Apple Records creative Director Kosh. The cover photograph was taken by photographer Iain Macmillan. Macmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo. That cover photograph has since become one of the most famous and most imitated album covers in recording history. The man standing on the pavement in the background is Paul Cole, a US tourist unaware he'd been photographed until he saw the album cover months later. The zebra crossing today remains a popular destination for Beatles fans.

Also, the cover photo of Abbey Road may perhaps have ignited the "Paul is dead" rumor, as it is said to be a funeral procession. Leading the procession is John wearing white, symbolizing the clergy. Ringo, dressed in black, is the undertaker. Paul, the corpse, is out of step with the other Beatles, he is barefoot and his eyes are closed. George, dressed in work clothes, is the gravedigger. Also, Paul is smoking a cigarette, also known as a "coffin nail". He is holding the cigarette in his right hand, even though the real Paul McCartney was left handed.

He obviously is not dead.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 80-61

ANSWER: Guilty Pleasures

!THIS IS FRIDAY'S ANSWER!

California


Bulworth is a veteran Senate Democrat who is losing his bid for re-election to a fiery young opponent. His liberal views, formed in the 60s and 70s, have lost favor with voters, and so he has conceded to moderate politics and to accepting donations from special interests. In addition, though he and his wife (Christine Baranski) have been having affairs openly for years, they must still present a happy facade in the interest of maintaining a good public image.

While planning to commit suicide, Bulworth negotiates a $10 million life insurance policy with his daughter listed as the beneficiary in exchange for a favorable vote for the insurance industry. Tired with the state of affairs and politics in general, he then contracts to have himself assassinated within two days' time. Here, Bulworth takes a major turn, politically and personally. Knowing his time left on earth is short, he begins speaking his mind freely at public events and in the presence of the C-SPAN film crew following his campaign. His frank, potentially offensive remarks make him an instant media darling and re-energize his campaign. After becoming involved with Nina (Halle Berry), Bulworth tries to set his sordid political track-record straight while he is pursued by the paparazzi, his insurance company, his campaign managers, Nina's protective drug-dealing brother, and an increasingly adoring public, all before his impending assassination.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 79-61

QUESTION: Music

Who crossed Abbey Road first?

QUESTION: Guilty Pleasures

What state does Senator Jay Billington Bulworth represent in Warren Beatty's 1998 political comedy Bulworth?

ANSWER: War

World War I


Before World War II, the war was also known as The Great War, The World War, The War to End All Wars, The Kaiser's War, The War of the Nations and The War in Europe. In France and Belgium it was sometimes referred to as La Guerre du Droit (the War for Justice) or La Guerre Pour la Civilisation / de Oorlog tot de Beschaving (the War to Preserve Civilization), especially on medals and commemorative monuments.

The term used by official histories of the war in Britain and Canada is The First World War, while American histories generally use the term World War I.

There is evidence that German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel used the key phrase shortly after the start of the fighting in Europe: "There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared "European War"...will become the first world war the full sense of the word."

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 78-61

QUESTION: War

What conflict was known as "The War to End All Wars"?

ANSWER: Academy Awards

Gone with the Wind


Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama-romance-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming. The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of the Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland, and tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint.

It was the first film to get more than six Academy Awards nominations. Of the 17 competitive awards which were given at the time, Gone with the Wind had 13 nominations. It was the Winner of 10 Academy Awards. (8 regular, 1 honorary, 1 technical).

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 77-61

QUESTION: Academy Awards

What was the first color film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?

QUESTION: Literature

The Joads


Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath at his home, 16250 Greenwood Lane, in what is now Monte Sereno, California. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. In a nearly hopeless situation, they set out for California's Central Valley along with thousands of other "Okies" in search of land, jobs, and dignity.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 76-61

QUESTION: Literature

What is the name of the the family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?

ANSWER: Name That Film

The China Syndrome


The China Syndrome is a 1979 thriller film which tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. The title refers to the concept that if an American nuclear plant melts down, it will melt through the Earth until it reaches China (see China Syndrome).

The film was released on March 16, 1979, just twelve days before the real-life events at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. The Three Mile Island accident helped propel The China Syndrome into a blockbuster.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lemmon) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Fonda), among others.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 76-60

QUESTION: Name That Film

This 1979 thriller about an incident at a nuclear power plant features Jane Fonda as an investigative reporter.

ANSWER: Places

Nantucket


Nantucket is an island 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket CDP, or census designated place. The region of Surfside on Nantucket is the southernmost settlement in Massachusetts.


It would be wrong not to mention that Nantucket also happens to be the setting of possibly my favorite TV show ever.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 75-60

QUESTION: Places

Where in Massachusetts is the only island, county and town in the U.S. that share the same name?

ANSWER: Directors

Silent Bob


Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe created and used in most films, comics and television by Kevin Smith, which began in Clerks.

Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in most of Smith's films with the exceptions being Jersey Girl and Zack and Miri Make a Porno. They are drug dealers, mainly marijuana, who spend most of their time standing in front of stores selling their product. This was only changed once in Clerks: The Animated Series, in which they were turned into illegal fireworks salesmen, with no mention made of their drug habits.

Of the duo, Jay usually takes the role of the leader, because Silent Bob, as his nickname suggests, seldom talks. Bob only speaks to deliver insightful monologues to the other characters, which he does very rarely, and only in appropriate situations. Otherwise, he relies on hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate, with the occasional exception of quiet, muffled laughter. In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, he gets angry when Jay does not understand his gestures and yells at Jay, perhaps for the first time.

According to the animated series, Silent Bob's full name is revealed to be Robert Blutarsky, which is a nod to the film Animal House, where one of the main characters is also revealed to later become a Senator of the same name.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 74-60

QUESTION: Directors

What is the name of the character director Kevin Smith plays in several of his films, including Clerks and Chasing Amy?

QUESTION: Animals

What is the gestation period of an Hippopotamus?

ANSWER: Animals

8 months


Hippopotamuses give birth to one calf after an 8-month gestation period. A female hippopotamus will go off by herself to have her baby. She will then stay away from the herd for anywhere from 10 to 44 days. The baby hippopotamus is born alive and underwater. Its first act is to swim to the surface so it can breath. The mother hippopotamus takes care of her calf, nursing it underwater and occasionally giving it a ride on her back. Female hippopotamuses will also watch over groups of calves.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 73-60

ANSWER: Contemporary Films

Ku Klux Klan


Forrest:

Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest... She said we was related to him in some way. And, what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my name. Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 73-59

QUESTION: Contemporary Films

Forrest Gump explains that he is named after a man who founded something. What is it?

ANSWER: Miscellaneous

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider


In 2001, Jon Voight appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Based on the popular video game, the digital adventuress was played on the big screen by Voight's own real-life daughter, Angelina Jolie.

A year later he infamously claimed Jolie was suffering from "severe emotional problems" during a tearful TV interview. The pair hasn’t spoken since.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 72-59

QUESTION: Miscellaneous

In what film does Angelina Jolie's real-life dad play her character's father?