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The Quiz #215

1. Who was chosen to play the popular sailor in the 1980 film adaptation of "Popeye?"

Answer: Robin Williams

2. What baseball team was Jimmy Fallon obsessed with in the Americanized remake of "Fever Pitch?"

Answer: Boston Red Sox

3. In what stoner comedy will you find rappers Method Man and Redman getting into Harvard University after a batch of magical marijuana enhances their brainpower during their college entrance exams?

Answer: "How High"

4. Which of the following isn't the name of a Steven Seagal vehicle?

Answer: "Hard Target"

5. What 1985 movie tells the story of a group of senior citizens who find an extraterrestrial fountain of youth in an abandoned Florida estate?

Answer: "Cocoon"

6. What was the name of the character played by Bruce Campbell in the "Evil Dead" movies?

Answer: Ash

7. Which of the following H.G. Wells novels has not yet been adapted for the silver screen?

Answer: "The War in the Air"

8. What actress made her French-speaking debut in 2004's "A Very Long Engagement?"

Answer: Jodie Foster

9. Who hasn't played Dracula in a motion picture?

Answer: Peter Fonda. Though he played vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing in the 1994 indie "Nadja," he has never played Count Dracula. Langella was the title character in the Broadway adaptation "Dracula" (1979); Oldman played the famous vampire in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992); and Nielsen took a more satirical approach to the character in Mel Brooks's "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (1995).

10. What actor lost a third of his body weight to play the tortured title character in "The Machinist?"

Answer: Christian Bale

11. Which of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers features a climactic scene atop the Statue of Liberty?

Answer: "Saboteur"

12. What future Oscar winner made his screen debut playing Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird?"

Answer: Robert Duvall

13. Paddy Chayefsky wrote the scripts for all of the following satires except:

Answer: "A Face in the Crowd"

14. Who was the first actor to ever refuse an Academy Award?

Answer: George C. Scott. In a pre-Oscar night interview, Scott called the ceremony a "two-hour meat parade" and declared that he would not accept the Best Actor award if he won for "Patton" (1970). True to his word, when his name was announced as the winner for Best Actor, he was sitting at his home in New York, watching ice hockey on TV. He never picked up the award.

15. Years before it referred to the characters played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the popular blockbuster, this 1984 indie featured a pair of alien bounty hunters credited as "Men in Black."

Answer: "The Brother From Another Planet"



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