Interesting Movie Tidbits

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1. The soundtrack in the 1949 film 'The Third Man' is played on what instrument? zither clarinet harp sitar

2. At the start of the 1949 film 'DOA', Edmund O'Brien stumbles into a police station and announces 'I want to report a murder'. Who was the murder victim? his wife his best customer his landlord himself

3. Which actors play the pair of compulsive gamblers so memorably depicted in Robert Altman's 1974 film 'California Split'? Paul Newman and Robert Redford Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight Elliott Gould and George Segal

4. The 1973 film 'Badlands' depicts the real-life crime spree of whom? Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate Bonnie and Clyde John Dillinger Al Capone

5. The American reporter played by Martin Sheen in 'Gandhi' represented what real-life journalist? Murray Kempton Edward R. Murrow Walter Lippmann William Shirer

6. In 'Cool Hand Luke', what song does Luke sing and play on his banjo after being informed that his mother has died? Plastic Jesus How Great Thou Art Just a Closer Walk with Thee Swanee River

7. 'Mediocrities of the world, I absolve you' was said at the end of what film? Amadeus The Ten Commandments Gandhi Jesus Christ, Superstar

8. The character played by James Earl Jones in 'Field of Dreams' is based on what American writer? Norman Mailer Philip Roth J. D. Salinger Frederick Exley

9. In 'Amistad', what does the Spanish Minister tell President Martin Van Buren that he must control in order to rule? the Congress the high seas the South the Courts

10. Which actress accepted a tidy sum of money to be a spokesperson for the National Beef Council, and then announced that she did not eat red meat? Farrah Fawcett Brigitte Bardot Cloris Leachman Cybill Shepherd