Answer: Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass (1783-1833) was a real life trapper whose early life is obscure. His first major adventures were during 1823 expedition of General William Ashley. Those adventures formed the basis for "The Revenant" (2015). The story was also told in "Death Valley Days" (1966) and "Man in the Wilderness" (1971).
Glass was mauled by a bear near Shadehill Reservoir in Perkins County, South Dakota. Left for dead by his colleagues, a gravely injured Glass traveled 200 miles to Fort Kiowa on his own. The real Glass was killed by Arikara warriors in 1833.
There is a monument to Glass, part of the Hugh Glass Recreation Area. It is the northern part of the state, near the North Dakota border, about 100 miles west of Mobridge.
In "The Revenant" John Fitzgerald was Tom Hardy, Andrew Henry was played by Domnhall Gleeson and Will Poulter was Jim Bridger. DiCaprio won the Academy Award for Best Actor after three prior nominations.
From Quiz: Exit, Pursued by a Bear
Answer: Lon Chaney
This movie was an early horror movie, featuring murder and revenge. It was directed by Joseph de Grasse. Sadly, there are no known prints left although there may just be a copy out there somewhere lost in an attic or shed...
Lon Chaney was one of the greatest stars of the early days of black and white cinema. He was known as "The Man of A Thousand Faces" for his ability to portray so many characters, in particular grotesque monsters and villains. He was also a pioneer of stage makeup techniques for film, in a time when most actors would do their own face, and special effects were barely more than false spectacles or a stuck on mustache.
From Quiz: Arachnids in Film
Answer: Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Academy Award winning director, has made some interesting films over his long career. Two of the more interesting were "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978) and "Any Which Way You Can" (1980) in which the actor teamed up with an orangutan.
In the films, Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a trucker who is a talented fighter. Manis played the orangutan in the first film, but was replaced by C.J. in the second film. The film also stars frequent Eastwood co-stars Geoffrey Lewis and Sondra Locke.
"Every Which Way But Loose" was a huge box-office success, becoming the first film to open with over a $10 million weekend. It would gross over $100 million, and factoring for inflation, was actually the biggest hit of Clint Eastwood's career.
Eastwood got his start in acting in the 1950s, became popular on the television western "Rawhide" in the last 1950s, but became internationally famous in the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone in the mid-1960s. He is probably most famous as police inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
From Quiz: Going Ape at the Movies
Answer: Elsa
Joy and George Adamson ran a wildlife reserve in Kenya. They found three lion cubs, two boys and a girl, and brought them home to raise. When they grew bigger the two boys were sent off to zoos, but the girl was quite small and Joy was fond of her so they kept her. The couple needed to move on to a different wildlife reserve, so they could not keep Elsa and did not want to send her to a zoo, so they trained her to fend for herself in the wild. They were successful and Elsa was the first lion to be rehabilitated into the wild.
From Quiz: Animal Stars
Answer: Jaws of Satan
"Jaws of Satan" (aka "King Cobra") (1981) was originally produced in 1979 when Christina Applegate was seven years of age. The movie is about a priest (Fritz Weaver), whose witch-killing ancestors were cursed by the Druids, being hunted by a Satan possessed king cobra. The snakes used in the film were real and credit to Jon Korkes, who plays herpetologist Dr. Paul Hendricks, who handles the snakes and whose timidness was evident in one particular scene where he removes a rattlesnake from a bed. Producer Bill Wilson said that the film was inspired by a true story of a train derailment in 1955 near Springfield, Missouri. Though heavily criticized, this movie is enjoyable and certain aspects are unintentionally hilarious, especially the cobra shadow, which appears to be a hand in a sock.
From Quiz: Starring... Snakes
Answer: Ferret
You see the ferret 'Cyrano' when Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) is at Carl Jenkins's (Neil Patrick Harris) house testing Rico's ESP ability. During the testing, Cyrano kept getting in the way. This made Carl a bit angry so to get Cyrano to scram, Carl gave Cyrano a mental suggestion that a grub was crawling on his mother's leg. Cyrano than goes upstairs to find it. A minute later in the scene you hear his mother scream.
From Quiz: What Kind Of Pet Did They Have?
Answer: Joe Fox
Joe Fox, played by Tom Hanks, is the owner of Brinkley. Joe Fox is the public face of Fox & Sons, a firm of booksellers. He had an unsatisfying relationship with Patricia Eden (played by Parker Posey), and was conversing on-line with Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan). Once he and Patricia broke up, he asked Kathleen (or 'Shopgirl', Kathleen's online persona) if she thought they should meet.
Joe and Brinkley are seen together frequently throughout the movie. Brinkley has some lovely moments in the movie, not the least of which is being the advance guard for Joe as he reveals himself as Kathleen's online friend.
Nelson Fox, father of Joe, was played by Dabney Coleman. George Pappas is an assistant in The Shop Around the Corner, owned by Meg Ryan's character, Kathleen Kelly.
From Quiz: Joy to the Dog
Answer: White
"White Gorilla" was released in 1947 by Special Attractions and directed by Harry Fraser. Ray Corrigan, who played the main character, also filled in the monkey suit as the white gorilla. Ray Corrigan plays Steve Collins, who tells the story of the white gorilla to a trading post he walks into after coming out of the African jungle.
From Quiz: Monkeying Around In Movies
Answer: Twister
If you're looking for cows, you have to go with "Twister" (1996) which features cows flying every which way around the Oklahoma countryside. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play a separated couple; she is leading a team of storm chasers following some of the largest tornadoes the Midwest has ever seen, while he is simply trying to get her to finalize their divorce. They wind up getting back together by the end of the film.
Jami Gertz, playing Paxton's fiancee Melissa, delivers the line. She is in a truck as cows are flying past, talking with a patient on a cell phone. As for the other films, there are not too many cows in downtown Los Angeles, outer space or the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
From Quiz: "I Gotta Go, We Got Cows"
Answer: Stealing them
The movie, directed by one of Australia's best known arthouse directors, Paul Cox, is a story based on E.L. Grant's novel "Priest Island". The tale centres on Peter (Aden Young) who steals the sheep in an effort to pay for his wedding dowry. He's exiled to an island with some rudimentary tools and is under the penalty of death should he return to the mainland. His wife to be, Jean played by Claudia Karvan, is then forced to marry another man and loses her child during birth. A young servant girl, Mary (Beth Champion), arrives on the island, curious about its sole inhabitant, and develops a relationship with Peter, who remains haunted by visions of Jean. As usual Paul Cox puts forward a visually strong film but it tends to move slowly, particularly early in the piece.
From Quiz: Barber Black Sheep
Answer: The Edge
Bart the Bear co-starred in the movie. Bart was an Alaskan Kodiak bear as well as a seasoned ursine actor. His mother acted in films as well. Standing 9 feet tall, he was quite an imposing figure. Bart died in 2000.
From Quiz: The Bear Necessities
Answer: Fantasia
"Fantasia", considered by many to be one of Walt Disney's works of genius, is a feature that is a collation of eight separate stories. Each segment is set to a separate piece of classical music. The section that involves the elephants is set to Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" and showcases a ballet in four sections covering the hours of the morning, the afternoon, the evening and the night. Elephanchine and her troupe of elephants, who use their trunks to blow bubbles, provide the amusement that represents the evening section. There is much amusement when one troublesome bubble lands on Elephanchine's foot and she cannot shake it off.
From Quiz: Horton Hears a Why
Answer: Brussels Griffon
In the movie the dog's name is Verdell. Verdell was played by six dogs: Timer, Sprout, Debbie, Billy, Parfait, and Jill. Jill was the star of the six.
From Quiz: Dog Breeds in Movies
Answer: Elliott
Elliott is the dragon that befriends the orphan boy Pete in the fictional Maine town of Passamaquoddy. Elliott is a larger than life animated pink and green dragon that has the ability to make himself invisible. The dragon helps Pete escape from the wicked Gogan family and ultimately helps the boy find a home with Paul and Nora at the lighthouse.
Merle, Grover, and Willie are all members of the Gogan family.
From Quiz: Dragons of My Youth
Answer: hockey
In the first movie we see Buddy playing basketball and then in the sequels we see him playing (in order) football, soccer, baseball, and volleyball. There is a spin-off of "Air Bud" called "Air Buddies" featuring Buddy's puppies.
From Quiz: The Hound of the Basketballs
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Hollywood took extensive liberties with the Perdicaris Incident, in which a Greek-American and his son were kidnapped in Morocco. In the film, Perdicaris' wife (portrayed by Candice Bergen) and two children were kidnapped by a Berber rebel (Sean Connery) who was using them as a bargaining chip against the Moroccan government. Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith) decided to use the incident for political propaganda and mounted a rescue operation to show the might of the US military.
From Quiz: A Lion's Pride
Answer: After The Fox
In this 1966 film, Sellers played the role of Aldo Vanucci, a master criminal with a talent for disguises. Thieves in Cairo have hijacked three million dollars of gold bullion and enlist Vanucci to get the two tons of gold bars into Europe. Using disguises, Vanucci escapes from prison and masquerades as an Italian film director who shoots a movie on the beach where the ship with the booty will land, making the smuggling a part of his movie. In the 1964 movie "Dr. Strangelove", Sellers did several roles, including that of Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the British Royal Air Force.
From Quiz: Twentieth Century Fox Presents "Foxes in Films"
Answer: Chicken Little
In the 2005 film, Chicken Little starts off by causing panic in the town when he mistakes a falling acorn landing on his head for a piece of sky. He then tries to restore his reputation (successfully) only to have to put it at risk again.
There are actually two movies with this title, both produced by Walt Disney. The 1943 version is based on the fable; the 2005 version is only loosely so.
From Quiz: Birds in Film
Answer: Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush was the United States' First Lady during the presidency of her husband, George H W Bush, from 1989-1993, and thus held that office when this film was released. In this sequence, the business of eating lobster is treated as a source of slapstick visual humour, as is to be expected from a "Naked Gun" movie. The harder Drebin tries to extract the flesh from his enormous lobster, the more he hits, pokes and generally assaults the wife of the President. Apparently, the real Mrs Bush subsequently told Leslie Nielsen that she and her husband had enjoyed the movie enormously.
From Quiz: Lobsters in Film
Answer: Ants
Based on a short story written in 1938, by Carl Stephenson, "The Naked Jungle" (1954) starred Charlton Heston as plantation owner Christopher Leiningen. He and his new wife, Joanna, played by Eleanor Parker, decide to stay and try to defend their home against a massive column of army ants which are headed right for them.
It was directed by Byron Haskin, who also directed the 1953 version of "War of the Worlds".
From Quiz: Spineless on Screen
Answer: Aragog
Aragog was originally Hagrid's pet spider but was framed by Tom Riddle for the murder of Moaning Myrtle at Hoqwarts. Hagrid helped Aragog escape to the Forbidden Forest. In 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', Harry and Ron followed Aragog's children into the Forbidden Forest and encountered Aragog who told them that he was not the monster who killed Myrtle and that Hagrid was innocent. Aragog's hungry spiderlings surrounded Harry and Ron intending to eat them but the boys were saved by the flying car.
From Quiz: Spiders on Screen
Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany's
"I'm like Cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other."
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" starred George Peppard, Audrey Hepburn (Holly Golightly), Mickey Rooney and Cat. Truman Capote, who wrote the original novella, had wanted Marilyn Monroe as Holly but was overruled. It's not known whether he had any views on who should play Cat.
Here's a film that has violence against animals (well, a cat), prostitution, a drug ring and commitment problems yet manages to pull it off as a great romantic comedy. For anyone concerned about Cat, Hepburn and Peppard go searching and, in finding Cat, they find each other.
From Quiz: Pussies Galore: Cats in the Mewvies
Answer: Spike
Spike is a brown and white bulldog. He is played by Tubbs. In "The Game Plan" Payton dresses him up as a ballerina.
From Quiz: Animals in Movies Part Two
Answer: Sam
Sam, short for Samantha, is played by the dogs Kona and Abby. She is a German Shepherd. She is Dr. Neville's best friend and only companion. "I am Legend" is about Dr. Neville, who lives in the abandoned city of New York. It is about a disease that turns almost everyone into zombie-like creatures. Sam dies from the disease in the movie.
From Quiz: Animals in Movies
Answer: shark
Did you know that the shark in "Jaws" is not real? It's mechanical. It has a name too. It was nicknamed Bruce by its handlers.
From Quiz: Animals In The Movies
Answer: American Bulldog
American Bulldogs are one of the dog breeds that are not a part of the American Kennel Club. In the movie, Chance, being a bit clumsy, is always the one who gets himself and the other pets into trouble.
From Quiz: Dogs In Movies
Answer: Sam
Sam appears in three of the four "Lethal Weapon" films -- for some reason, he's nowhere to be seen in "Lethal Weapon 3" (1992).
From Quiz: Dogs and Cats in the Movies!
Answer: Pig
Babe was a sheep herding pig. James Cromwell played his ownwer.
From Quiz: Animal Movies
Answer: Tinkerbell
Nathan Lane provides the voice for the beautiful white Persian.
From Quiz: Cats At The Movies
Answer: Harvey
In my opinion, the Jimmy Stewart version is still the best
From Quiz: Rabbits Galore
Answer: DDT
This movie was first released in 1958 and DDT was considered the "wonder pesticide" of the time.
The gallons of DDT are pumped into the cave where the spider has made its lair, and at first the townsfolk think it is dead, and take the body back to the high school gym. Unfortunately, the creature is still alive, and awakes to rampage through the town.
From Quiz: Arachnids in Film
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was an actor before he got into politics, making around 50 films between 1938 and 1964. One of them was "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951), in which Reagan plays a college professor attempting to prove theories about sociology by raising a chimpanzee.
Democrats often used the film to make fun of Reagan during his presidency. "Bedtime for Ronzo" was a popular button in 1984. Johnny Carson often referenced the film, because it was directed by his producer, Freddie DeCordova.
From Quiz: Going Ape at the Movies
Answer: Beethoven
This is a feel good movie about a family adopting this huge dog contrary to the father's wishes. The dog does many good deeds, and after many problems and complications the father eventually realises that he is very fond of him too. The dogs who appeared in the film were owned and trained by Eleanor Keating.
From Quiz: Animal Stars
Answer: Venom
"Venom" (1981) is about Philip Hopkins (Lance Holcomb) who has just purchased a snake from an exotic pet store but has inadvertently been given a black mamba. When the Hopkins' housemaid, Louise Andrews (Susan George), and chauffeur, Dave Averconnelly (Oliver Reed), decide to kidnap Philip for ransom they enlist the help of Jacques Müller (Klaus Kinski). When the mix-up of snakes is noticed, a police officer is sent to pick up the black mamba, but Dave panics and shoots the police officer. The house is ultimately surrounded by the police, trapping the kidnappers and Philip, and you guessed it, the mamba is loose in the ventilation system. Klaus Kinski in his autobiography 'All I Need Is Love: A Memoir' mentioned that he took his role in this movie over an offer to appear in Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) as he thought the script for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was ridiculous.
From Quiz: Starring... Snakes
Answer: Turtles
The turtles names were Cuff and Link. Rocky bought them at the pet store where Adrian (Talia Shire) worked. When Rocky's trainer Micky (Burgess Meredith) saw them, he told Rocky that they made good soup.
From Quiz: What Kind Of Pet Did They Have?
Answer: Chihuahua
As a society girl, carrying her tiny pet Chihuahua around is Elle Woods' trade mark. Bruiser accompanies her everywhere, usually wearing a stylish doggie vest. He even gets a makeover at the beauty parlour, having those hairy eyebrows tended to.
Elle decides to investigate the pedigree of Bruiser, and when she finds out that Bruiser's mother is being used in animal testing, it leads her to campaign for animal rights.
From Quiz: Joy to the Dog
Answer: Amy could do sign language and speak with help from a special glove.
Michael Crichton wrote the best selling book that was turned into a 1995 movie. "Congo" was produced by Paramount and directed by Frank Marshall. "Congo" tells the story of a group of researchers returning a very special gorilla named Amy to the African jungle. While living in a research lab, Amy learned sign language and a special glove she wears helps her communicate with humans. The expedition into the African jungle to return Amy also helps each person try to complete their own agenda for traveling to the jungles of Africa at the same time.
From Quiz: Monkeying Around In Movies
Answer: The Squatter's Daughter
"The Squatter's Daughter" is a melodrama directed by Ken G. Hall and it is a re-working of a similar movie shot in 1910 which, in itself, was based on a play of the same name. Clive "Ironbark" Sherrington seeks to bankrupt Enderby's station to acquire the land cheaply but Joan receives help from a stranger (Wayne Ridgeway) who mysteriously appears on the property. He later reveals himself as the rightful heir to the Sherrington estate. The film's climax features a significant bushfire that was made to burn hotter by the strategic placement of old nitrate film among the trees. Joyce Howarth, who played Joan Enderby, would eventually move to Hollywood where she performed under the name of Constance Worth and appeared in movies such as Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" (1941) and "Dillinger" (1945).
The subtle hint there was "crouching" which, used another way, means to squat.
From Quiz: Barber Black Sheep
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Harrison Ford suffered a hernia while filming the 1984 Steven Spielberg film, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". His character took a journey by elephant through the jungle to Pankot Palace in search of a sacred stone with magical powers. Accompanying him was a nightclub singer, played by Kate Capshaw, who often sprayed her elephant with perfume to get rid of the stench, and young Chinese boy, Short Round, who nicknamed his baby elephant Big Short Round.
From Quiz: A Herd of Heffalumps
Answer: The Jungle Book
This classic Disney film tells the story of a boy named Mowgli who was raised by wolves and who feels at home in the jungle. He is encouraged by his animal friends to go to a man tribe where he will not fall prey to a tiger named Shere Khan. The song "The Bare Necessities" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
From Quiz: The Bear Necessities
