1. Answer: James Mason
James Mason took the role of Captain Nemo, the master of the fictional
submarine Nautilus in Disney's first science-fiction film production.
2. Answer: The Philadelphia Story
(1940)
In his entire career, Stewart won only one Best Actor Oscar, for
his performance in The Philadelphia Story.
3. Answer: Anastasia (1956)
Bergman was nominated six times for Best Actress, and won twice
- in 1944 and 1956.
4. Answer: Flower, the skunk
Flower was a fictional skunk found in Disney's Bambi (1942), not
in Cinderella (1950).
5. Answer: Only once
In his first American screen appearance and talking picture debut,
Claude Rains played the role of the mysterious, bandaged stranger
only once, in James Whale's original science-fiction film The
Invisible Man (1933), although there were other remakes and
sequels.
6. Answer: Doc Holliday
All of them played the role of the Old West's gambler/gunfighter Doc Holliday: Romero
in Frontier Marshal (1939), Huston in The Outlaw (1943), Mature
in My Darling Clementine (1946), and Douglas in Gunfight at the
O.K. Corral (1957).
7. Answer: Hadleyville
Newly-married Will Kane (Gary Cooper) reluctantly remained in the
town of Hadleyville (in the New Mexico Territory) to face the vengeful
Miller Gang alone.
8. Answer: Chief Dan George
Chief Dan George received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role as tribal
leader Old Lodge Skins.
9. Answer: Halloween (1978)
Originally, Halloween's script called for the events (a number of
babysitter murders) to take place over an entire week, but then
to condense things (and reduce expenses), it was decided that
everything would occur on just one day - Halloween - and the
title was changed.
10. Answer: The Chitauri
The alien race of Chitauri, led by the exiled Asgardian prince
Loki and his Chitauri allies, fought against the forces of
the Avengers (and S.H.I.E.L.D.) and was defeated at the Battle of New York.
11. Answer: Cat People (1942)
Tourneur's Cat People (1942) starred Simone Simon as a Serbian fashion
artist named Irena Dubrovna who turned into a threatening black
panther. In Paul Schrader's remake Cat People (1982), Nastassja
Kinski starred as Irena Gallier, a virginal female who also turned
into a lethal panther after sexual awakening.
12. Answer: The Birth of a Nation
It is widely regarded that the first-ever film sequel was writer/director
Thomas Dixon Jr.'s The Fall of a Nation (1916), coming directly
after D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). [Note: Currently,
it is a lost film.] Dixon, whose 1905 book The Clansman was
the source for Griffith's 1915 film, sought to capitalize
on the film's financial success by writing and publishing
a new novel in 1916 titled The Fall of a Nation - that he
made into a film. It was a commercial disaster and his Dixon
Studios went bankrupt. Some have argued
that The Fall of a Nation wasn't a true sequel, because
it didn't follow a similar story, wasn't set in the same
time period, and didn't include any of the same characters.
Another major candidate for the title of first sequel is
The Son of the Sheik (1926), the follow-up to The Sheik (1921).
13. Answer: Tiffany
In the film's plot, Chucky - a doll possessed by serial killer Charles
Lee Ray, killed Ray's human sweetheart Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly)
by electrocution in a bathtub, and then transferred her soul
into the body of a child's play-doll (his 'doll bride').
14. Answer: Nakatomi Plaza
The 34-story high-rise skyscraper in Century City, known as Fox
Plaza, stood in for the fictional Nakatomi Plaza. Fox Plaza has
been utilized in a number of other films, including No Man's
Land (1987), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Motorama (1991), Airheads
(1994), and Fight Club (1999).
15. Answer: Wilson Phillips
In the film's climactic wedding sequence of Maya Rudolph's character
Lillian, the girl group Wilson Phillips (composed of Carnie
Wilson and her sister Wendy Wilson - daughters of Brian Wilson
of The Beach Boys, and Chynna Phillips - daughter of John and
Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas), performed
"Hold On" (their # 1 hit from 21 years earlier in 1990).
16. Answer: Chocolate
To be specific, the flavor of Pop Tarts was Frosted Chocolate Fudge.
Buddy's breakfast ingredients included spaghetti, sugared maple
syrup, sprinkles, mini-marshmallows, Hershey's chocolate syrup,
M&M's, and the Pop Tarts.
17. Answer: "To avoid
fainting, keep repeating: 'It's only a movie, only a movie, only
a movie...'"
Wes Craven's debut feature film carried a very effective tagline
that appealed to viewers' anticipatory emotions.
18. Answer: Zither
The 'Third Man Theme' (or 'Harry Lime Theme'), was written and performed
by Anton Karas on a zither - a Central
European folk music stringed instrument placed horizontally and
played by plucking. The ad campaign for the film capitalized
upon the music: "Featuring the Famous Zither Score by Anton Karas...He"ll
have in you a dither with his zither!"
19. Answer: LOVE / HATE
Robert Mitchum's serial killer character Reverend Harry Powell delivered
a powerful monologue about LOVE and HATE and the
internal struggle inside himself - using the tattoos on his right
and left knuckles to illustrate. In homage, Spike Lee's Do the
Right Thing (1989) featured a character named Radio Raheem (Bill
Nunn) who wore brass knuckles on each hand also imprinted with
"LOVE" (right) and "HATE"
(left) - and delivered a similar soliloquy.
20. Answer: La La Land
After being given the wrong envelope (the previous card announcing "Emma
Stone, La La Land, Best Actress in a Leading Role"), Faye
Dunaway announced the heavily favored La La Land (2016) as the
winner for Best Picture. When the mistake was soon realized,
it was revealed that Moonlight (2016) had actually won. It was
the only time in Oscar history that a person or film was erroneously
announced as a winner.
21. Answer: The Little Mermaid
The Disney Renaissance is regarded as the time period from 1989 to
1999 when Walt Disney Studios returned to producing
successful animated feature films - it was the dawn of the
studio's new golden era, beginning with The Little Mermaid
(1989). It won two Academy Awards, for
Best Original Score and for Best Original Song ("Under the
Sea"). Disney would go on to release one animated musical a
year for the next decade.
22. Answer: Green
In the startling sequence, after Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart)
had forced Judy (Kim Novak) to wear her hair and dress to appear
like his lost love Madeleine (also Novak), she was transformed
before his eyes. From Scottie's point of view, the ghostly
figure of Madeleine appeared bathed in eerie green-tinged
neon light, then crossed the floor to him and surrendered to
him with a kiss.
23. Answer: Bing Bong
11 year-old Riley's effervescent,
eccentric imaginary friend (voiced by Richard Kind) was named Bing
Bong - a fluffy pink creature (with a body made of sticky-sweet
cotton candy) that was a hybrid of an elephant, cat, and dolphin.
24. Answer: Red Apple
The fake or fictional brand of cigarettes, Red Apple, appeared
in dialogue or images in Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill
Bill: Volume 1, Death Proof, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon
a Time in Hollywood, among others.
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