Movies Word Play Trivia

1. Here's your first sentence: "By adding tumeric I mar Ronzoni's pasta recipes." Now then, which answer below applies to the Best Picture winner hidden in that sentence?

From Quiz Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #5

Answer: western

"By adding tumeriC I MAR RONzoni's pasta recipes." "Cimarron" was remade in 1960, but it was the original 1931 version that was awarded The Best Picture Oscar. The story focuses on the years 1889-1929 when the U.S. government opened up the Oklahoma territory for people to settle in. Richard Dix plays the newspaper editor who grabs a plot of land with his family, and he soon becomes a leading citizen of the town of Osage. Restlessness would soon overtake him again. "Cimarron" was the first western to win any Oscar let alone a Best Picture Oscar. It would be another 59 years until another western took the top prize ("Dances With Wolves"). "Cimarron's" release during one of the darkest times of the Great Depression hurt its box office tremendously, despite its Oscar win, which historically has shown to boost a film's box office a great deal.

From Quiz Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #4

Answer: Title has a character's name in it

"GrANNIE HALLucinated due to her dementia." Woody Allen plays Alvy Singer, who like Allen is a Jewish comedian, who muses endlessly on his failed relationships over the years, especially the romance he had with the eponymous ex-lover played by Diane Keaton who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role. Annie wants to become a nightclub singer. When "Annie Hall" won its 1977 Best Picture Oscar it was the second shortest film at 93 minutes to win a Best Picture Academy Award. "Marty" was the shortest at 91 minutes. Woody Allen became the first actor to give an Oscar nominated performance in a film for which he won the Oscar for Best Director.

From Quiz Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #3

Answer: In black and white

"A stouT HEART IS The key to perseverance." An unusual choice in modern times, the filmmakers chose to shoot 2011's Best Picture winner, "The Artist" in black and white. The film told the story of the silent film era during its transition into talkies, and how this change affected a big star of the silent era as he developed a relationship with a younger up and coming ingenue. In truth, the film was actually filmed in color, but then converted to black and white for theatrical showings. Some films that are intended to be shown in black and white, are filmed in color to allow for the option of returning it to color, but the other reason for filming in color is that it allows for more control as to mapping the colors to black and white. Mark Bridges, who won the Best Costume Design for "The Artist" said that the film was originally shot in color "because there was a chance that in some markets it would be shown in colour."

From Quiz Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #2

Answer: musical

"Noshing a pieroGI GIves me heartburn." During the Belle Époque in Paris, Gigi (Leslie Caron) is mentored by her grandmother to become an educated courtesan, a mistress to high society wealthy men. Gigi has a dear platonic friendship with her male friend Gaston, who is a rich aristocrat-playboy. Will their friendship become more than platonic? "Gigi" (1958) was the first film to win nine Academy Awards, including its Best Picture win. It also won the Oscar for Best Original Music. Some of the more familiar songs you've heard include "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" and "I Remember It well." In fact, it had won all nine Oscars that it was nominated for. However, that record was short-lived, as only one year later the film "Ben-Hur" won eleven Oscars.

From Quiz Find a Best Picture Oscar Hidden in a Sentence #1

Answer: con games

The answer is "con games" because "The Sting" is the film hidden in the sentence "He ran the furTHEST IN Gym class trials." "The Sting" was 1973's Best Picture winner. It also won Best Director for George Roy Hill who utilized many film-making techniques and styles appropriate to the 1930s era in which the film about poker playing con men took place. For instance he used the old-timey Universal Pictures logo for the start of the film, along with editing scene transitions such as wipes and iris-in shots, all in the service of putting the audience back into a nostalgic frame of mind.

From Quiz Who's in What Film 5

Answer: Wild Wild West

Will Smith plays Jim West, a Civil War hero. Kevin Kline plays the roles of Artemus Gordon, (a U.S. Marshal), and also President Ulysses S. Grant. A mad Confederate supporter called Arliss Loveless is intending to kill the President. He has brought with him a huge walking weapon-transport vehicle called "The Tarantula" to aid his attacks on the Union. West and Gordon are requested by the President to bring Loveless to justice.

From Quiz Who's in What Film 4

Answer: The Guns of Navarone

In "The Guns of Navarone", Anthony Quinn plays a Greek Colonel, part of a British led team sent to destroy massive gun emplacements on the Greek island of Navarone. They overlook a nearby strait and can quite easily sink anything travelling through. A flotilla of Royal Navy warships evacuating endangered British troops is due to pass through in a couple of days and it is vital to disable the guns before they arrive. The question is: How do the Germans seem to know in advance?

From Quiz Who's in What Film 3

Answer: Zulu

"Zulu" was a true story that rocketed Michael Caine to stardom in 1964. The British army had just lost a huge battle against the Zulus at Isandlhwana, South Africa, in 1879. Something like four thousand Zulus then marched against a small missionary outpost at Rorke's Drift where around 150 Welsh infantrymen were stationed, many of them in hospital. A young Lieutenant, Gonville Bromhead (played by Michael), who was inexperienced in battle, found himself in command of the British soldiers. The Zulus attacked the outpost several times but the defences held. The battle went into a second day until it grew quiet around 2a.m. The defenders were exhausted and running out of ammunition when the Zulus returned shortly after dawn. Instead of attacking, they saluted the defenders and left the battleground. Eleven Victoria Crosses, (the highest award that can be awarded in the British army), were won that day.

From Quiz Who's in What Film 2

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster won her second Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar in this film. She plays Clarice Starling, a trainee FBI agent. Clarice is is asked to interview a cannibalistic serial killer, the psychiatrist Doctor Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), who has spent the last eight years in gaol. It is thought he knows the identity of another serial killer and her job is to try to get him to reveal his secret. It soon becomes clear that Lecter enjoys playing mind games with her.

From Quiz Who's in What Film 1

Answer: As Good As It Gets

Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for his performance of Melvin Udall in "As Good As It Gets" (1997). Jack's character Melvin always tries to avoid stepping on cracks in the pavement. A dog in the film can also be seen doing this in the film after a little digital help in post-production.

From Quiz Is Less Enough?

Answer: Vertigo

Hitchcock's 1958 film noir thriller starred James Stewart as a former policeman suffering from acrophobia and Kim Novak as a woman who may have had something to hide. A new camera effect was used in the film to give visualization to Stewart's character's fear of heights. The technique has since become known as "the 'Vertigo' effect".

From Quiz One Letter Will Do

Answer: Z

Konstantinos Gavras was born in Greece in 1933. He chose the alias Costa-Gavras and emigrated to France, where he started a movie directing career. In 1969 his first success was "Z", named after the main character. The opposition party holds a peace rally, but during this meeting someone runs into the leader of the opposition. Z is seriously injured in the head and later succumbs to his wounds. As explained in the movie, the letter zeta (Z) in ancient Greek was used as a symbol for "he is alive" - or at least his ideas still are.

From Quiz Isn't It Pun-derful?

Answer: "It was a Kodiak moment."

The scene of the bear mauling DiCaprio's character was created with computers and stuntmen in costume. No actual bears was used in the grizzly moment.

From Quiz Movie Maths 3

Answer: 1000

The films are "2001: A Space Odyssey", "3000 Miles from Graceland" and "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective". The required number is therefore 3000 - 2001 + 1 = 1000. The clue relates to "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969), starring Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold, as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

From Quiz Movie Maths 2

Answer: 1

The films are "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Zero Effect" and "One Hour Photo". The answer is therefore (2001 x 0) + 1 = 1. The clue refers to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) which earned Jack Nicholson his first Oscar. Jack's character leads a revolt of the patients in a mental hospital against the evil Nurse Ratched.

From Quiz Movie Maths 1

Answer: 11

The films are "Fantastic Four" and "Seven Samurai". The total is therefore 11. The film referred to in the clue is the original "Ocean's 11" starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr. and Peter Lawford.

From Quiz Drop a Letter on the Screen

Answer: Orange

"A Clockwork Orange" was a disturbing 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the dystopian novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess (1962). Malcolm MacDowell played a young thug named Alex, whose principal interests were rape, violence, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

From Quiz Nail Biter

Answer: Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, "Strangers on a Train" was based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. In the movie, two strangers who meet during a train journey think they can get away with murder if each kills the other person's target as nothing will link them to the victim. The movie starred Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker in the lead roles.

From Quiz Oh Dear...I Dropped My Projector

Answer: Dune

"DUNE" is based on an intricate imaginary society set in the year 10,191, where humans have left the Earth and have colonized other planets. Duke Leto, of the House of Atreides is sent to colonize Arrakis, a desert planet with large amounts of melange, a very valuable spice drug, popular with the wealthy. Once the Duke arrives to Arrakis with the Atreides, he has to protect the planet from a takeover by the men of Baron Harkonnen. Duke Leto's plan is to recruit the Fremen, who are natives to Arrakis to help him fight the battle against the Harkonnens. Harkonnen manages to beat Duke Leto, by killing him and his men. The only hope for the planet is set on Leto's mistress Jessica and her son Paul, who flee into the desert and finally end up finding the Fremen. Paul manages to unite the Fremen, forming an army and finally defeating Harkonnen. When "Dune" was finally released it was written and directed by David Lynch. Previously there had been several failed attempts in producing the film as the rights had been acquired by other directors and producers, such as Dino de Laurentiis. The film was shot entirely in Mexico on the Samalayuca Dunes, with a budget of 40 million dollars. Most of the critics gave it a negative review, and it ended up with a poor commercial reception, all sequels that had been intended were cancelled.

From Quiz Movie Palette

Answer: Green

The two colours were blue and yellow, which combine to make the colour green. The Na'vi were blue-skinned humanoids of the moon Pandora in James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi epic 'Avatar'. They were in tune with the natural world, but were being driven from their home and sacred places by humans who were trying to exploit Pandora's mineral wealth. The Simpsons were yellow-skinned cartoon people in the 2007 animated film 'The Simpsons Movie'. Apart from the character Lisa, they were pretty much out of tune with the natural world, especially since Homer Simpson polluted the environment so badly that a dome was placed over the entire town to keep it from harming the outside world, and the Government made plans to obliterate the site.

From Quiz Ten Things I Hate About Ewe

Answer: You've Got Male

"You've Got Mail" (1998) features Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly, the owner of a small bookstore, up in arms against a chain bookstore owner Joe Fox (Tom Hanks). Unknowingly the two befriend each other in an online chatroom and soon fall in love without realising that they know (and dislike) one another in real life.

From Quiz Elemental "Star Wars"

Answer: Hoth

Hoth was only seen in "The Empire Strikes Back". It was a snow-covered world that the Rebel Alliance had built their base on. The Imperials found it by using Probe Droids, and sent a large portion of the Imperial fleet to Hoth in order to capture or kill as many high-ranking Alliance officers as possible. During the Battle of Hoth, Luke Skywalker led Rogue Squadron in airspeeders against General Veers and his Blizzard Force of AT-ATs (the large four-legged walkers). Although most important personal escaped Hoth, the Rebels suffered heavy losses, and is considered an Imperial victory.

From Quiz Hooray For Hollywood!

Answer: Midnight Cowboy

Mid + Knight + Cow + Buoy Best Picture 1969. A naïve and emotionally abused Texas stud, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), tries to find a successful hustle in New York City but is reduced instead to sordid male prostitution. His encounter with the street-wise Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffmann) results in a caring and poignant relationship between two men down on their luck and the least capable of sustaining anything meaningful in their lives.

From Quiz Drop and Add a Letter: Movies Edition

Answer: Flower

This 1961 film was directed by Henry Koster, and was based on the not very well known Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Fans of opera may be interested to note that the famous mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (then in her late 20s)provides the singing voice for Reiki Sato, who plays Helen Chao.

From Quiz So Rune, What Really Are These Silly Acrostics?

Answer: Yoda

Yoda is famous for the way he reverses the order of his words in his sentences. Frank Oz, who provided the voice of Yoda, also provided the voice of several "Muppets" characters such as Miss Piggy.

From Quiz First and Last V: Movies

Answer: Goodfellas

Bringin(g) (o)ne t(o) groun(d) (f)ells th(e) (l)argest corpora(l) (a)sh motionles(s).

From Quiz Inflationary Movies

Answer: Auseleven Powers & Auseleven Powers: International Man Of Mystery

"AusTIN Powers" was a parody of the James Bond series. It borrowed from several of the movies, including "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," "From Russia With Love," and "Dr. No." The opening credits sequence is a homage to "A Hard Day's Night," and the use of Burt Bacharach's "The Look Of Love" is an acknowledgement of the first Bond spoof, "Casino Royale."

From Quiz Before and After

Answer: Steve Lawrence of Arabia

From Quiz Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #5

Answer: crime

"'I loaTHE GOD FAT', HER religious dietician complained." The gangster film to end all gangster films, "The Godfather", one of the greatest American motion pictures of all time told the story of the Corleone crime family patriarch, played by Marlon Brando, and his three sons. Coincidentally it was the second Best Picture Oscar winner in which Marlon Brando also won the Best Actor Oscar, and both films are about organized crime. The first was "On The Waterfront" (1954), and then "The Godfather" (1972). Only Brando was fighting against the criminals in the first film and was the prime criminal in the second. Also coincidentally, both films had three actors nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category and they all lost.

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