The Old Curiosity Cinema #3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Grease

"Greae" was released in 1978. It stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Danny Zuko (Travolta) has met and fallen in love with Sandy Olsson (Newton-John) during a summer. When the summer ends, Sandy is worried that all between them is over, with Danny assuring her it is not.

However, they end up enrolled in the same school, which surprises them both. Yet, when they meet, Danny behaves in an indifferent way, in order to maintain his reputation for being cool, which results in a break-up between them. Subsequently, the two youngsters decide to change, in order to attract each other, ending up in a complete reversal of characters, before they announce their love for each other at the end of the school year.

Answer: The Blues Brothers

"The Blues Brothers" was released in 1980. It stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.
Jake (Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Aykroyd) are the founders of the band "The Blues Brothers". At some point, Jake is convicted of an armed robbery, which he perpetrated in order to pay a debt the band had. After three years he is released and learns that the orphanage he and his brother had grown up is about to close. He decides to reform the band and raise enough funds to save the institution.

Answer: From Russia With Love

"From Russia With Love" was released in 1963. It was the second movie in the "James Bond" franchise, starring Sean Connery as the famous MI6 agent. In the film, James Bond is assigned to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets, which Soviet cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova supposedly offers to the British, if they help her defect to them. Unbeknownst to both the British and Romanova, the whole thing is a scheme, put forward by SPECTRE agent Kronsteen, who, at the bidding of the organization's leader, wants to kill Bond as an act of vengeance for the death of SPECTRE executive Dr. No and then sell the Lektor back to the Soviets.

Answer: The Jazz Singer

"The Jazz Singer" was released in 1927. It was the first talkie film ever made.
Al Jolson, who was a singer himself, portrayed Jakie Rabinowitz, a man with a Jewish background, who defied the strict traditions of his family by singing in a beer garden and was expelled from his home by his father. So, he changed his name to Jack Robin and managed to become a successful jazz singer, which brought him into conflict with the demands his family had of him.

Answer: The Pink Panther

"The Pink Panther" was released in 1963. It stars Peter Sellers in the role of incompetent French Inspector Clouseau.
In the film, Clouseau is on the trail of "The Phantom", a notorious jewel thief who is after the Pink Panther, a precious diamond belonging to exiled Indian Princess Dala. What Clouseau does not know is that the informant of "The Phantom", who is also sought after by Clouseau, is his wife.

Answer: Johnny English

"Johnny English" was released in 2003. It is a spoof of the "James Bond" films. It stars Rowan Atkinson, the well-known "Mr. Bean", in the title role. In the film, Johnny English is an MI7 agent who wants to be Agent One. After the death of Agent One in a submarine accident (which was due to English, who made a mistake while checking the submarine's hatch code), English is entrusted with the safety of the English Crown Jewels, which are displayed in the Tower of London. On the very night the Jewels are open to the public, they are stolen. English has to catch the thieves and escape the ire of his superior.

Answer: Family Plot

"Family Plot" was released in 1976. It was the last film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the film, the fake psychic Blanche Tyler and her boyfriend George Lumley were assigned to track down the nephew of a rich, old lady. The lady had given the boy for adoption and he was adopted by the Shoebridge family and was given the name Edward. Lumley discovered that Edward Shoebridge had been presumed dead and that a local crook, named Maloney had paid for the tombstone.

It is revealed that Shoebridge had faked his death after murdering his parents and that he has become a criminal, who abducts famous people and releases them after a ransom is paid in gemstones. Maloney goes to Shoebridge, now living under the name Adamson, and tells him about Tyler's and Lumley's efforts to locate him.

He, in turn, hires Maloney to dispatch them. The pair must survive and solve the mystery of the Shoebridge family plot.

Answer: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was released in 1948. It was directed by John Huston.
The film stars Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt as two young Americans facing financial difficulties, who decide to join the old man Howard in an expedition to Mexico, to find gold. However, when they find the precious metal, they become ensnared by it and lust after it. The situation becomes much more strained when a fourth American and a bandit gang are involved.

Answer: Casablanca

"Casablanca" was released in 1942. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The film takes place in Casablanca, at the end of 1941. Rick Blaine is an American expatriate who owns a nightclub in the city. One day, an outlaw named Ugarte boasts to Rick that he has in his possession letters of transit, which he acquired after the murder of two German officers, which can allow their possessor to travel freely through Axis-controlled Europe. Ugarte gives the letters to Rick, but is soon arrested and dies in police custody.

However, soon there are new arrivals in town: Czech Resistance man Victor Laszlo and his wife, Ilsa, who was formerly Rick's girlfriend. Rick has to help Laszlo flee to the neutral United States, but to do so he first has to overcome his bitterness towards the man who has married his true love.

Answer: Jurassic Park

"Jurassic Park" was released in 1993. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. The film centers around the effort of billionaire John Hammond to create a park of cloned dinosaurs in the fictitious Isla Nublar, located near Costa Rica. Hammond's team of genetic scientists has located dinosaur DNA and has substituted the missing parts with frog DNA. Hammond has invited paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and mathematician Ian Malcolm, plus his grandchildren.

However, chief computer programmer, Dennis Nedry, is secretly working for a rival of Hammond's and he plans to steal the dinosaur eggs kept in the park. Nedry causes a power breakdown, which allows the dinosaurs to escape their cages, but is killed by dilophosaurus and thus no one can restore the system.

Moreover, the island is isolated due to inclement weather. The scientists and Hammond are all alone to cope with the dinosaur threat.