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Introduction:
"Mermaid movies constitute a rare but generally delightful genre. Are you fond of this particular type of "star-fish"?"


1. This lighthearted 1984 film is a love story about a lissome mermaid named Madison who visits New York City. It stars a blonde actress who has also played a killer replicate, and a cave girl.
    Splash
    A Bigger Splash
    Splash Mates
    The Big Splash


2. Back in 1948, this furry-voiced British actress starred as Miranda Trewella, a mermaid who appears human until wet (when her tail reappears) in a film titled 'Miranda'.
    Googie Withers
    Fenella Fielding
    Barbara Windsor
    Glynis Johns


3. The popular Disney animated feature 'The Little Mermaid' (1989) won Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Before that, what was the last Disney film to win an Academy Award?
    The Fox and the Hound (1981)
    The Rescuers (1977)
    Mary Poppins (1964)
    Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)


4. The 1994 film 'The Secret of Roan Inish' introduced movie audiences to a different kind of mermaid, a "selkie", who is a beautiful woman transformed from what type of water-loving creature?
    An otter
    A salmon
    A dolphin
    A seal


5. Everything seems real enough in this 1983 film about a U.S. oil company that wants to build a refinery on the site of a remote Scottish coastal village... until we realize that the character called Marina has webbed fingers and seems much more at home in the sea than on shore - the director's subtle hint that she's a mermaid. What's the name of this charming environmental fantasy?
    From Far Away
    The Living Sea
    Local Hero
    Wet Blanket Policy


6. There's a long "Little Mermaid Ballet" in the 1952 musical film 'Hans Christian Anderson', because he's the author of the original tail (sorry, tale!). Who starred as the singing and dancing Danish fairytale author?
    Danny Kaye
    Gene Kelly
    Bing Crosby
    Fred Astaire


7. There have been numerous screen versions of J.M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan', including the 2003 version starring Jeremy Sumpter, the 1953 Disney animation and the 1960 TV adaptation of the Broadway show starring Mary Martin. What key role do the mermaids play in most tellings of the 'Peter Pan' story?
    They save Peter from death by drowning.
    They lead the crocodile away from Captain Hook.
    They scuttle the pirate ship.
    They rescue Wendy from the pirates.


8. In the Coen brothers' 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', Everett, Pete and Delmar are tempted by Sirens: strange and sinister women who originally called sailors to their deaths in the ancient epic upon which the film is loosely based. Which ancient epic would that be?
    Euripides' "Medea"
    Homer's "Iliad"
    Homer's "Odyssey"
    Virgil's "Aeneid"


9. Although the 2004 sword-and-sandal epic 'Troy' plays down the role of gods and goddesses, it alludes to the classical myth that Achilles' mother, Thetis, made him invincible by dipping him in water (except for his heel). Thetis was an immortal sea nymph; which sea god was her father in Greek mythology?
    Nereus
    Triton
    Poseidon
    Neptune


10. When Isabella Oliveira displeases the Brazilian sea goddess Yemanja, the fish stop biting, she loses her love, and she even loses her supernatural cooking ability. Not until she carries out a sacrifice to the goddess, depicted as a mermaid, can she regain these blessings. Who plays Isabella in this sleeper of 2000?
    Jennifer Lopez
    Juliette Binoche
    Catherine Zeta-Jones
    Pen?lope Cruz


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