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Books (and Bookworms) on Film

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Introduction:
"This is a quiz on well-known films that have libraries or librarians in a prominent role. Sort of the ultimate oxymoron..."


1. Tracey Walter plays the part of a uninformed librarian who asks AIDS patient Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) to move to a more secluded part of the library to avoid contact with other readers. In what landmark film does this scene take place?
    And The Band Played On
    Philadelphia
    Yesterday
    Rent


2. In what 1998 film does 'Bud Parker' (Tobey Maguire) help the kids of a black-and-white TV land fill in blank books with actual words, making the town library the hottest place in town?
    Pleasantville
    Love Finds Andy Hardy
    Leave It To Beaver
    The Truman Show


3. In what classic movie does author Paul Varjak (George Peppard) take socialite Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) on her first visit to the New York Public Library to check out one of his own books?
    The Subject Was Roses
    The Apartment
    Breakfast At Tiffany's
    A Place In The Sun


4. In what 1962 musical does Iowa librarian Marion Paroo (Shirley Jones) find out that visiting salesman Harold Hill (Robert Preston) is a con-man?
    The Professionals
    The Producers
    The Flim-Flam Man
    The Music Man


5. Although this 1985 Brat Pack tribute to teen angst takes place in a Shermer, Illinois high school library, the set was actually constructed at the Maine North High School Gym. What movie is it?
    Weird Science
    Sixteen Candles
    The Breakfast Club
    St. Elmo's Fire


6. In what sci-fi classic is the fire department sent to set a library on fire, rather than put a fire out?
    Fahrenheit 451
    Soylent Green
    The Omega Man
    Brazil


7. In this popular movies series, several library scenes are actually filmed at the historic Bodleian Library at Oxford University. What series is this?
    The 'Andy Hardy' series
    The 'Harry Potter' series
    The 'American Pie' series
    The 'High School Musical' series


8. In what prison movie does veteran actor James Whitmore play the role of Brooks, head of a prison library who has little to do with the outside world?
    I Was A Fugitive from a Chain Gang
    The Longest Yard
    The Shawshank Redemption
    The Defiant Ones


9. In a poignant scene in this 1946 Frank Capra classic, Jimmy Stewart's character finds if he had never married, his wife (Donna Reed) would be doomed to become a spinster librarian. What movie is it?
    Meet John Doe
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    The Philadelphia Story
    It's A Wonderful Life


10. In what 1984 movie will you find poltergeists (and a phantom librarian) attacking the card catalog of a New York library, sending the characters played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Harold Ramis to the rescue?
    Ghostbusters
    Ghost
    Poltergeist
    Ghost Dad


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