C Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cool Runnings

Irv Blitzer (John Candy) is a disgraced former double gold medalist. Derice Bannock (Leon Robinson) failed to qualify for the Summer Olympics. They join forces for another chance at Olympic glory in this movie, very loosely based on the Jamaican Bobsled team that participated in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

John Candy passed away in his sleep in 1994 at age 43 from a heart attack. He had starred in 47 movies.

Answer: Clerks

Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is not having a good day. One of his ex-girlfriends has died, another is getting married, and his current girlfriend wants him to quit his job and go back to school. To top it off, he is called into work on his day off, and then has to deal with annoying customers, drug dealers, his friend Randall in the video store next door, and trying to find someone to cover for him to go to his hockey game at 2pm.

As well as starring in the movie, Kevin Smith was the writer, producer, director and editor of "Clerks".

Answer: Coyote Ugly

Violet Sanford's (Piper Perabo) recording career is going nowhere. Desperately in need of money, she applies for a job at the bar "Coyote Ugly" and in doing so, overcomes numerous difficulties and finds her lost confidence and also love along the way.

This movie was based on a real bar called Coyote Ugly in New York City. Coyote Ugly now has a national chain of bars across the USA.

Answer: Catch Me If You Can

Having a hard time dealing with the breakup of his parents marriage, Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) runs away from home. His ever escalating cons attract the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), who pursues Frank across the globe.

The real Frank Abagnale Jr. was captured in France in 1969. After his arrest, 26 different countries wanted to extradite him for fraud. He ended up spending time in prison in France, Sweden and the US. Ironically, he now runs a financial fraud consultancy company.

Answer: Chocolat

Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) moves to a small traditional French town with her six-year-old daughter and opens a chocolate shop. Opening the shop on Sundays incenses the local priest, but Vianne slowly wins over all the locals with her magical treats.

Juliette Binoche is of Polish descent, and her maternal grandparents were incarcerated in the infamous Auschwitz.

Answer: Cruel Intentions

Based on the novel "Les Liaisons dangereuses", which has been adapted for film on several occasions, this movie follows the exploits of step-siblings Kathryn Merteuil (Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Phillippe) as they lie, cheat, manipulate and bed those around them. In the end of course, they both have to pay for their actions.

When Sarah Michelle Gellar was four years of age, she starred in an advertisement for Burger King which named and criticised their competitor McDonald's. As a result, both she and Burger King were sued by McDonald's. The case was settled when she was five years of age.

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

After sighting a UFO Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) becomes obsessed with making models of a mountain he has never seen, driving his family away. After seeing the mountain in a television broadcast, Roy, and others like him, head towards the site for a chance of a close encounter of the "third" kind.

A close encounter of the first kind is sighting a UFO. Of the second kind is a sighting with physical effects, eg. crop circles or electrical interference. A close encounter of the third kind is physical contact with a UFO. A close encounter of the fourth kind is abduction by a UFO.

Answer: Cocktail

Unable to find work and needing to earn money while he earns his degree, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) takes a job as a bartender. He is shown the tricks of the trade by the older, though not necessarily wiser, Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) and manages to find love along the way.

Australian born Bryan Brown has been married to his wife Rachel Ward since 1983. Although frequently working outside of Australia, he is known for being one of the few Aussie actors that keeps his Australian accent for the vast majority of the roles he plays.

Answer: Chicago

Based of course on the musical of the same name, "Chicago" follows Roxy Hart's (Zellweger) attempt to be acquitted of murder and make it as a famous jazz performer.

Though it was widely rumoured, at the time Catherine Zeta Jones was not pregnant during the making of "Chicago". She was, however, pregnant when she made the 2000 movie "Traffic" and the writers added her pregnancy into the script of that movie.

Answer: Carrie

Raised by a disturbed mother and ostracised by her co-students, Carrie (Sissy Spacek) develops telekinetic powers. On the night of the school prom, a cruel prank pushes her over the edge and she takes her revenge on the school and on her mother.

"Carrie" was the first Stephen King novel to be turned into a movie, many others have followed with varying degrees of success.