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Quiz about A Few of My Favourite Movies
Quiz about A Few of My Favourite Movies

A Few of My Favourite Movies Trivia Quiz


I have rather an eclectic taste in movies, and my collection reflects that. These are a few of the movies in my collection. Can you guess what they are?

A multiple-choice quiz by skunkee. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
skunkee
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
145,828
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
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Average
Avg Score
12 / 15
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Question 1 of 15
1. (1987) This comedy/action movie is about pirates, fencing, giants, and true love. You can take a stroll through the Fire Swamp with Wesley and Buttercup, 'as you wish'.

Answer: (Three Words, The... 8 & 5 letters)
Question 2 of 15
2. (1991) When his twin sister tries to kill herself, again, this southern teacher/football coach travels to New York to try to help. While spending long hours with his sister's New York psychiatrist, trying to determine what drives his sister, he uncovers horrors from their past that keep him from being whole. Of course a wonderful romance develops between the man and the psychiatrist but he does eventually go back to his wife to rebuild his life. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. (1964) This WW2 comedy tells the story of a man who has been coerced into becoming a plane spotter for the Australian navy. Sparks soon fly when he ends up having to house a very proper French diplomat's daughter, and the school girls in her charge, who are fleeing from the Japanese. But not to worry, before too long 'Goody Two Shoes' and 'The Filthy Beast' manage to work out most of their differences. Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. (1948)Hitchcock has always been one of my favourite directors. This movie tells the tale of two prep school friends who murder a third student, partly for the thrill and partly as an intellectual experiment. Then they entertain family, friends, and their favourite professor while the body is still hidden in the apartment, to see if they can handle the stress. Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. (1984) This action movie finds a romance novelist journeying to Colombia to deliver a treasure map to save her sister's life. Unfortunately several people are after the map, and she gets drawn into the kind of adventure she has only written about before. Michael Douglas plays the hero of the story, although he's not quite as perfect as the heroes that she invents. It all works out in the end though, and they sail away down the streets of New York. Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. (1977) This action/adventure took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A princess, a budding Jedi, and a smuggler with his giant hairy friend band together with the rebel alliance to save the universe. I've already said more than I need to!

Answer: (Two Words, 4 & 4 letters)
Question 7 of 15
7. (1983) This drama tells the story of a bunch of college friends reuniting for the funeral of a friend who'd committed suicide. Radicals in their college days, the friends had all 'sold out', most of them becoming very successful when they opted back into society. It also had one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. (1988) There aren't many 'Chick Flicks' in my collection, but this one is definitely in there. This movie is about a thirty year old friendship between two girls, from very different backgrounds, who meet on a beach in Atlantic City. The movie traces them through their successes and failures, marriages and divorces, and ends with one of them dying young, leaving her daughter in the custody of the other.

Answer: (One Word, 7 letters)
Question 9 of 15
9. (1944) Cary Grant stars in this comedy in which he discovers, on his wedding day, that his 2 dear, beloved aunts are making a hobby out of poisoning lonely old gentlemen and burying them in their basement. Things heat up a little when Grant's criminal brother shows up with his plastic surgeon friend, looking for a place to lay low while he acquires a new face. Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. (2000) A cocky, chauvinistic ad executive is mildly electrocuted and finds himself blessed with the ability to hear what women are thinking. At first he uses this ability to further his own ends by scoring points with his daughter, scoring with the local waitress, and manipulating his new boss out of her job. But then he starts to really take a look at the people he's using, and finds himself caring. Too bad more men can't read womens' minds!

Answer: (Three Words, 4, 5 & 4 letters)
Question 11 of 15
11. (2001) This movie tells the tale of a recently split couple who have to pretend to be nice to each other to promote the release of the movie they made just before they split. But the eccentric director isn't letting anyone see the movie just yet, and the studio's publicity department has their hands full keeping that information away from the press. Fortunately the actions of the estranged couple, her new boyfriend and her sister who waits on her hand and foot are titillating enough to hold everyone's attention. Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. (2000) She bullied him into hiring her, she bullied him into taking the case, but together they brought a huge corporation to its knees. This tale is a true story of contaminated ground water, the people who were poisoned by it, and how the Pacific Gas and Electric Company were forced to pay for all the damage that they'd done. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. (1989) An archaeologist and his bookish dad go on a search for the Holy Grail, encountering treachery, Nazis, and ancient knights along the way. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. (1984) After being kicked out of the university where they pulled comfortable paychecks, three friends go into the paranormal business, just in time to save their city from a ghostly invasion of mammoth proportions. They succeed of course, after turning the Staypuft Marshmallow Man into goo.

Answer: (One Word, 12 letters)
Question 15 of 15
15. (1995) After almost being killed by a psychotic killer that she helped put in jail Dr. Helen Hudson, former criminal profiler, becomes housebound, a victim of agoraphobia. This does not stop her from being stalked again, by a serial killer who gets his kicks out of copying the methods of past killers. Hint



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1. (1987) This comedy/action movie is about pirates, fencing, giants, and true love. You can take a stroll through the Fire Swamp with Wesley and Buttercup, 'as you wish'.

Answer: The Princess Bride

Rob Reiner directed this masterpiece starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant and Robin Wright. Billy Crystal is hysterical as Miracle Max and Peter Falk plays a wonderful grandfather, reading to his sick grandson played by Fred Savage.
2. (1991) When his twin sister tries to kill herself, again, this southern teacher/football coach travels to New York to try to help. While spending long hours with his sister's New York psychiatrist, trying to determine what drives his sister, he uncovers horrors from their past that keep him from being whole. Of course a wonderful romance develops between the man and the psychiatrist but he does eventually go back to his wife to rebuild his life.

Answer: The Prince of Tides

Barbra Streisand directed and starred as the psychiatrist, while Nick Nolte did a fantastic job as the haunted coach. Jason Gould, son of Streisand and Elliott Gould, played Streisand's on screen son.
3. (1964) This WW2 comedy tells the story of a man who has been coerced into becoming a plane spotter for the Australian navy. Sparks soon fly when he ends up having to house a very proper French diplomat's daughter, and the school girls in her charge, who are fleeing from the Japanese. But not to worry, before too long 'Goody Two Shoes' and 'The Filthy Beast' manage to work out most of their differences.

Answer: Father Goose

Ralph Nelson directed this delightful movie with Cary Grant starring as 'The Filthy Beast' and Leslie Caron as 'Goody Two Shoes'. There's a very funny scene when Caron thought that she was bitten by a snake. Grant, learning that all indigenous snakes were extremely poisonous, spent what he believed were her last hours on earth getting her drunk.
4. (1948)Hitchcock has always been one of my favourite directors. This movie tells the tale of two prep school friends who murder a third student, partly for the thrill and partly as an intellectual experiment. Then they entertain family, friends, and their favourite professor while the body is still hidden in the apartment, to see if they can handle the stress.

Answer: Rope

This was Hitchcock's first colour film, which he shot in 10 minute intervals to produce the smooth flow of movement that he was so fond of. It starred Jimmy Stewart as the horrified professor and Farley Granger and John Dall as the two students.
5. (1984) This action movie finds a romance novelist journeying to Colombia to deliver a treasure map to save her sister's life. Unfortunately several people are after the map, and she gets drawn into the kind of adventure she has only written about before. Michael Douglas plays the hero of the story, although he's not quite as perfect as the heroes that she invents. It all works out in the end though, and they sail away down the streets of New York.

Answer: Romancing the Stone

Robert Zemeckis directed this movie which also starred Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Oh, by-the-way, the boat that they sail away on is really being towed.
6. (1977) This action/adventure took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A princess, a budding Jedi, and a smuggler with his giant hairy friend band together with the rebel alliance to save the universe. I've already said more than I need to!

Answer: Star Wars

George Lucas directed this totally amazing movie starring three virtual unknowns (at the time), Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. Alec Guiness had a small role and James Earl Jones contributed his incredible voice. I still get shivers of excitement when I hear the opening music.
7. (1983) This drama tells the story of a bunch of college friends reuniting for the funeral of a friend who'd committed suicide. Radicals in their college days, the friends had all 'sold out', most of them becoming very successful when they opted back into society. It also had one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.

Answer: The Big Chill

This Lawrence Kasdan film sports an all star cast including; Glenn Close, Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly and JoBeth Williams. Kevin Costner had been cast to play the friend who committed suicide, but the flashback scenes that he was in ended up being cut from the final product.
8. (1988) There aren't many 'Chick Flicks' in my collection, but this one is definitely in there. This movie is about a thirty year old friendship between two girls, from very different backgrounds, who meet on a beach in Atlantic City. The movie traces them through their successes and failures, marriages and divorces, and ends with one of them dying young, leaving her daughter in the custody of the other.

Answer: Beaches

Garry Marshall directed Bette Midler and Barbara Hersey in this movie which is very funny until it becomes a tearjerker. Bette Midler had a huge hit with the song from the movie, 'Wind Beneath My Wings'.
9. (1944) Cary Grant stars in this comedy in which he discovers, on his wedding day, that his 2 dear, beloved aunts are making a hobby out of poisoning lonely old gentlemen and burying them in their basement. Things heat up a little when Grant's criminal brother shows up with his plastic surgeon friend, looking for a place to lay low while he acquires a new face.

Answer: Arsenic and Old Lace

Raymond Massey is suitably threatening as the psychotic brother and Peter Lorre plays the plastic surgeon with a drinking problem.
10. (2000) A cocky, chauvinistic ad executive is mildly electrocuted and finds himself blessed with the ability to hear what women are thinking. At first he uses this ability to further his own ends by scoring points with his daughter, scoring with the local waitress, and manipulating his new boss out of her job. But then he starts to really take a look at the people he's using, and finds himself caring. Too bad more men can't read womens' minds!

Answer: What Women Want

Mel Gibson played such an excellent chauvinist, it was a little scary. Helen Hunt played the new boss that he fell in love with and Marisa Tomei the waitress that he used. Nancy Meyers directed.
11. (2001) This movie tells the tale of a recently split couple who have to pretend to be nice to each other to promote the release of the movie they made just before they split. But the eccentric director isn't letting anyone see the movie just yet, and the studio's publicity department has their hands full keeping that information away from the press. Fortunately the actions of the estranged couple, her new boyfriend and her sister who waits on her hand and foot are titillating enough to hold everyone's attention.

Answer: America's Sweethearts

Joe Roth directed this very funny movie starring Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack and Hank Azaria.
12. (2000) She bullied him into hiring her, she bullied him into taking the case, but together they brought a huge corporation to its knees. This tale is a true story of contaminated ground water, the people who were poisoned by it, and how the Pacific Gas and Electric Company were forced to pay for all the damage that they'd done.

Answer: Erin Brockovich

Steven Soderbergh directed Julia Roberts to an Oscar for her performance as Erin Brockovich. Albert Finney played her poor beleaguered boss.
13. (1989) An archaeologist and his bookish dad go on a search for the Holy Grail, encountering treachery, Nazis, and ancient knights along the way.

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

This offering, in the "Indiana Jones" trilogy, was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliot, John Rhys-Davis, Alison Doody and River Phoenix.
14. (1984) After being kicked out of the university where they pulled comfortable paychecks, three friends go into the paranormal business, just in time to save their city from a ghostly invasion of mammoth proportions. They succeed of course, after turning the Staypuft Marshmallow Man into goo.

Answer: Ghostbusters

Ivan Reitman directed this very funny movie starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver.
15. (1995) After almost being killed by a psychotic killer that she helped put in jail Dr. Helen Hudson, former criminal profiler, becomes housebound, a victim of agoraphobia. This does not stop her from being stalked again, by a serial killer who gets his kicks out of copying the methods of past killers.

Answer: Copycat

Jon Amiel directed and Sigourney Weaver starred. Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney played the detectives determined to drag Dr. Hudson back on the job to catch the guy, despite her reluctance.
Source: Author skunkee

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