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The Quiz #177

1. Who was not a member of "The Breakfast Club?"

Answer: Jennifer Grey

2. John Travolta has starred in all of the following except:

Answer: "Meet Joe Black"

3. Best known for her TV work, this actress won her first starring movie role with the 2004 romantic comedy "13 Going on 30."

Answer: Jennifer Garner

4. Who played "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie in "Finding Neverland?"

Answer: Johnny Depp

5. What were the names of the warring gangs in "West Side Story?"

Answer: Jets and Sharks

6. What 1971 cult black comedy chronicles the unusual romance forged between a death-obsessed teenage boy and a spirited 79-year-old woman?

Answer: "Harold and Maude"

7. What actor provided the narration in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events?"

Answer: Jude Law

8. What was the minimum speed that the bus in "Speed" had to maintain in order to prevent an on-board bomb from detonating?

Answer: 50 mph

9. Sailor Ripley, Lula Pace, and Bobby Peru are among the bizarre characters you'll meet in this 1990 cult favorite.

Answer: "Wild at Heart"

10. Which of the following musicals does not feature songs written by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Answer: "Hair"

11. Who played the titular character in Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka?"

Answer: Jeremy Irons

12. Which of the following artists has never won an Oscar for Best Song?

Answer: Sting. Though the former Police front man has been nominated for his songs in "The Emperor's New Groove" (2000), "Kate & Leopold" (2001), and "Cold Mountain" (2003), he has never taken home the statuette. Phil Collins won a Best Song Oscar for Disney's "Tarzan" (1999); Bob Dylan took the prize for his song in "Wonder Boys" (2000); and Eminem was a surprise winner for 2002's "8 Mile."

13. Kirk Douglas and Tim Roth have both played this legendary artist in motion pictures.

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh. Kirk Douglas played the Dutch artist in Vincente Minnelli's "Lust for Life" (1956), and Tim Roth played him in Robert Altman's "Vincent & Theo" (1990).

14. "The Blue Angel," "Morocco," and "The Scarlet Empress" were among the films directed by Josef von Sternberg that introduced this screen siren to the world.

Answer: Marlene Dietrich

15. Though it is now regarded as a masterpiece, this 1960 psychological thriller effectively destroyed the career of one of Britain's greatest and most beloved directors.

Answer: "Peeping Tom." Upon its initial release in England, the incredibly controversial film – about a sociopathic voyeur who films the deaths of the young women he murders – was so hated that director Michael Powell never found work in the United Kingdom again. The movie was not seen in the U.S. until 1978.



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