Movies2003Round1 by Ray Luo
tossups 1-50 of 160+3 total

1). Her relationships with her 4 husbands are described in her autobiography The Lonely Life.  In one of her famous roles, she looks the other way as her husband Horace is dying of a heart attack.  Her true love was William Wyler but he wouldn't leave his wife.  She didn't get her coveted role because Errol Flynn doesn't look good as Rhett Butler, but she got anything else from Warner Bros, including the best actress Oscar winners Dangerous and Jezebel.  Deemed to have as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville, FTP name this great actress who starred in The Little Foxes and Now, Voyager.
	Answer: Bette Davis

2). This most famous Freudian horror film ever made saved the director's life when he suffered from pneumonia, inspiring his search for artistic truth: to be silent.  Defined as "a poem in images," it analyses the deprivation of human recognition.  An actress becomes silent after a performance of Electra and leaves her husband and child.  Elisabeth Vogler merges with her nurse Alma, causing her husband to mistake one for the other.  A shot of Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullman's faces combine them into one of the same, FTP this 1966 Ingmar Bergman film.
	Answer: Persona

3). Containing the skit "No hay bando," this 2001 film ends with the final "Silentio."  When the director goes home during mid-day, he is thrown out by his wife's lover, the pool man played by Billy Ray Cyrus.  Beginning with a woman going to bed, letting us know that the the first half is a dream, FTP name this film about a Hollywood love affair and a car crash on the titular road, directed by David Lynch.
	Answer: Mulholland Drive

4). He claims that a "film cannot translate the real rhythm of modern life."  His films tackle the problem of memory regained, or recollection of time.  His fragments of narratives deal with war, reconstruction, and existence, portraying an antique furniture seller and a disillusioned Spanish revolutionary in his most famous films.  Collaborating with authors like Cayrol, Robbe-Grillet, Mercer, and Duras, FTP name this father of stream-of-consciousness filmmaking who stayed clear of the New Wave with Muriel, ou Le temps d'un retour and La guerre est finie.
	Answer: Alain Resnais [RENE]

5). The online institute that teaches this publishes the scholarly journal HolQeD.  Invented by Marc Okrand, who urges his listeners to "speak forcefully," it uses wI' as the -er, -ant, -ion, -ment, and -ing derivations combined, and has the augmentative 'a', the diminutive Hom, and the plural mey.  HotlhwI' means scanner, yuQ means planet, and So'wI' means cloaking device.  FTP name this language spoken by Star Trek's Lieutenant Commander Worf.
	Answer: Klingon

6). Her boyfriend is one of the few males that suffers from penus envy.  She had a dream that singer Frank Sinatra with glasses and a high pitched voice was suffocating her.  She thinks Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems were neat, but The Denial of Death was like a weight on her back.  A Wisconsin native, she moved in with Tony Lacey in LA before returning to NY for a showing of The Sorrow and the Pity.  A neurotic who keeps saying "la-li-da," FTP name this lover of Alvy Singer in a 1977 Woody Allen film.
	Answer: Annie Hall

7). Christmas, no school, pillow fights, telegrams, birthday presents, any presents, daffodils, green meadows, cream colored ponies, schnitzel with noodles, bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with string, raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens.  FTP name these things of Fraulein Maria from The Sound of Music.
	Answer: "These are some of my favorite things."

8). Managed by her single mother Brandy, her first films were Napoleon and Samantha and Tom Sawyer.  George Lucas decided to make Princess Leia older after this actress, the first choice to play the part, could not get out of her Disney contract.  Oscar-nominated for her work with Martin Scorsese, she's the first actress to receive 2 Oscars before the age of 30, for her portrayals of Sarah Tobias and Clarice Starling.  FTP name this Yale graduate admired by John Hinckley.
	Answer: Jodie Foster

9). This 2002 film propelled the actor who played Danny Witwers to further stardom.  The kidnapper Leo Crow is hired to be killed, generating this, which occurs when one precog sees something different than the other two.  Tom Cruise plays the leader of the pre-crime division, John Anderton, who is now suspected of a future murder.  Based on a Phillip K. Dick short story, FTP name this Steven Spielberg film.
	Answer: Minority Report

10). First names of the following film characters are the same.  The character played by Scott Beehner in The Last Days of Disco.  The charming Czech refugee played by Charles Boyer in Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown.  The black ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.  A prosecutor who interprets "Vive la difference" as "Horray for that little difference" in a movie with Katherine Hepburn who plays his wife, a lawyer who got a man so convinced he may actually go out and become a woman.  Also the name of Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice, FTP give the common name shared by the Raymond Massey character who condemned Cal Trask in Elia Kazan's East of Eden.
	Answer: Adam

11). Midge's Mozartian musical therapy could not sweep the cobwebs away, so that, upon the release of this ex-detective, he wonders to the Hotel Empire, meeting Judy Barton from Salinas, Kansas on the way.  Earlier he had followed a 26 year old to the Museum at the Palace of Legion of Honor, then to the McKittrick hotel and the Golden Gate bridge, and finally watching Madeline impersonating Carlotta Valdez and jumping off a bell tower.  FTP name this agrophobic ex-policeman played by Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's Vertigo.
	Answer: Scottie Ferguson; or Johnny O.; prompt on Vertigo early

12). Based on a Peter George book, it was initially called Edge of Doom until a late night epiphany brought in Terry Southern to work on the script.  Operation Dropkick is initiated by a man who believes in the Clemenceau mantra that "war is too important to be left to the politicians."  The crisis really began in 1946 with the international Communist conspiracy that led to loss of essence due to contamination of precious bodily fluids.  FTP name the film whose title character believes that 93 years in a mine shaft would rehabilitate his newly active limbs, by Stanley Kubrick.
	Answer: Dr. Strangelove; or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

13). Seduction begins with a performance of Rosmer, a diluted version of Ibsen's Rosmersholm.  Constructed via the Minimum Description Length Principle, a labyrinth of solitude where everyone wears the same Chanel suit, this gallery conscious anti-film introduced the Seven Game, in which the beginner always wins.  The stranger X tries to convince the woman A that they met in the gardens at Fredericksbad.  The husband M does not arrive in time to stop their appointed elopement one year later in, FTP, this 1961 maze erected by Alain Resnais [RENE].
	Answer: L'annee derniere a Marienbad; or Last Year At Marienbad

14). When asked "May I rescue you?" maiden Madeline replies "No, I prefer being in distress," when the suitor continues with showers of tears, sparks of lightning, and thunderous kisses to woo her in the song "Isn't this a lovely day."  Jerry Travers meets Dale Tremont when afflicted by the disease of dancing on the floor above her, singing "Fancy free."  They dance "The piccolino" and the title song in "white tie tails."  FTP name this Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers musical named after the best thing you can put on your head.
	Answer: Top Hat

15). In search of a truly original idea, it encounters a prodigal roommate who discourages it from studying the principles of Adam Smith and discovering the governing dynamics.  It imagines Dr. Rosen to be a Russian spy and William Parcher to be a CIA agent, but finds true love with Alicia Larde.  FTP name this 2001 Ron Howard best picture starring Russell Crowe as economist John Nash.
	Answer: A Beautiful Mind

16). The quadrupartite relationship ends when Mark calls Howard "the largest packet of untapped natural gas known to man."  He studied virgin detection at U of Chicago and meets a group of singers with small pox on his trip to the Riviera.  Mark's wife Joanna has an affair of her own, but she came back to take care of his passport.  Written by Frederic Raphael with music by Henry Mancini, FTP name this Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn film narrating the separate paths of a couple coming together.
	Answer: Two For the Road

17). A world champion chess player dies after being stabbed in the foot by a knife coming out of a shoe.  Earlier the hero's invaluable suitcase prevented his being strangled by Red Grant, thus saving the Lektor from enemy hands, prompting Number 1 to execute his chess champion by poison.  Ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb poses as a maid to get her hands on the decoder, but Tatiana guns down her ex-boss now in the SPECTRE.  FTP name this second 007 film ever made that reads like a letter from the Soviet Union.
	Answer: From Russia With Love

18). It ends as a RKO radio picture, with the narrator declaring the human race as insects lost in time, space, and meaning.  Giving himself over to "absoute pleasure," even smiling makes Frank's face ache.  "Superheroes" is the last song, but the most famous are "Science fiction, double feature" and "Time warp."  Encouraging audience participation, FTP name this cult classic starring Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter.
	Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

19). The most coveted role in this film should have gone to Lena Horne, but went instead, to a more famous actress less known for her singing.  Containing lovely songs like "Why do I love you?" "Where's the mate for me?" and "Can't help lovin' dat man," it stars the pair that also appeared in the 1953 musical Kiss Me Kate, directed by the same director, George Sidney.  Meeting while "making believe" that one is an actress and the other is in love, Nolie and Gaylord rejoin on the Cotton Blossom, on which William Warfield sings its most famous song.  FTP name this musical starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ava Gardner, featuring "Ol' man river."
	Answer: Show Boat

20). In a duet, Laurey sings that she'd rather "Let people say we're in love."  Ado Annie is engaged to the pedler Ali Hakim, who intentionally wins the luncheon auction to rid himself of his new bride.  Beginning with Curly strolling through the corn field singing "Oh what a beautiful mornin'," it continues with "The surrey with the fringe on the top."  FTP name this first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration that resulted in the entry of the titular state into the Union.
	Answer: Oklahoma!

21). An ad for this movie says: "She's young, she's engaged, she uses after shave lotion."  Referring to a fish of the Hering family that shrinks when it's marinated, the pretending Shell Oil Junior hooks up with the Jello on springs with a built-in motor, the daughter of a polish conductor who almost gets caught drinking.  Jerry and Joe dress up as female musicians traveling to Florida to avoid the mob in, FTP, this Billy Wilder comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe.
	Answer: Some Like It Hot

22). The solution is: the killer was seen with Wolf by Wynant and so killed him, the killer wanted to use Wynant so that money can be wired to Wolf, the killer knocked off Wolf when she has Mimi come over, but Nunheim saw the murder so the killer kills him and counts on the police to look for Wynant, but Wynant is the real identity of the body with a shrapenel in its ribs, and Mimi declares she saw Wynant last night.  Featuring the happiest married couple in the movies, this film lost the Oscars to It Happened One Night.  Modeled after Dashiell Hammett and Lilian Hellman, FTP name this first in a series of 6 films, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.
	Answer: The Thin Man

23). The owner of the Theatre Robert Houdin, this man's first film was called A Game of Cards.  His Joan of Arc and The Dreyfus Affair were the first multi-scene narrative films created.  The originator of both montage and mis-en-scene, he contrasted the realism of the Lumiere Brothers with the imaginative fantasy of works like The Palace of the Arabian Nights and The Conquest of the Pole.  FTP name this magician-turned filmmaker who made A Trip to the Moon.
	Answer: Georges Melies

24). At its time the longest set in Hollywood was built for this film, originally a vehicle for the male star of His Girl Friday.  Based on a story printed on Christmas cards, it was a box office disappointment on its initial release.  Coming in just after the war, the male lead was unsure about his technique in kissing Donna Reed, the eventual wife of the richest man in town, according to Harry, who just received the Congressional Medal of Honor.  Clarence gets his wings when the bank clerk who wanted to kill himself sees what the world would be like without him.  FTP name this Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey.
	Answer: It's a Wonderful Life

25). The title character consults the Wizard when he feels that things are going to hell.  Rejected by Betsy because he took her to a porno movie, he buys a 44 magnum and decides to kill the pretender, Senator Palantine.  He shoots a robber, kills off the pimps that guard the young prostitute Iris, and runs out of bullets to commit suicide.  His real name is Travis, but you know him better as, FTP, this maniacally stupid worker in the transportation industry in a film by Martin Scorsese.
	Answer: Taxi Driver; prompt on Travis early

26). Officially listed as a comedy, this 1989 movie has often been considered the biggest omission from the AFI top 100.  Wearing rings of love and hate, Radio Raheem begins all the trouble by bringing his instrument of pride into Sal's Pizzeria.  Mookie is the unlikely hero who joins the forray on the hottest day of the summer in a New York neighborhood.  FTP name this Spike Lee film about a downtown riot.
	Answer: Do the Right Thing

27). His friend sees the sunrise for the first time: Nosferatu, Gone with the Wind, and finally, Superman, but he's still stuck in a New Orleans graveyard.  Rescued by the Mississippi wild life after being cut up by his "daughter" Claudia, he gives Malloy the choice he never had.  Drink from him and live forever.  FTP name this sinister vampire played by Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire.
	Answer: Lestat de Lioncourt

28). He played Henry Adams in the 1953 classic The Million Pound Note, based on a Mark Twain story.  He debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory and became a star in 1944 in The Keys of the Kingdom.  Nominated for the Oscar for his role of Penny Baxter in The Yearling, he also appeared in the dreadful Hitchcock court drama The Paradine Case.  FTP name the actor who portrayed Doctor Mengele in The Boys From Brazil and Captain Ahab in Moby Dick.
	Answer: Gregory Peck

29). A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this movie was published by Brady Books, including such topics as VFX, concept art, motion capture, and texture mapping human skin.  Espousing the Gaia theory of planetary development, it employs James Woods to play the bad guy, Alec Baldwin to play the good guy, and Ming-Na, his love-interest.  FTP name this 2001 movie made by Square that attempts to duplicate the success of a popular role-playing game series.
	Answer: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

30). The first saves a baby by dressing up as a priest.  The second joins in order to find friendship.  The third is an old right hand man who survives at the end.  The fourth is a joker cutting wood for money.  The fifth is a world class swordsman perfecting his skills.  The sixth is a kid who wants to learn from the master.  A farmer's son who pretends to be a warrior is the last one of, FTP this titular band of heros who saves the village from bandits in a Kurosawa film.
	Answer: Shichinin no samurai; or Seven Samurai

31). After taking animation classes at Louisiana State University, he directed music videos and the concert film 9012 Live.  He followed up his win at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival with Kafka, starring Jeremy Irons.  Then came King of the Hill, about the Great Depression; The Underneath, a remake of Criss Cross; and the experimental Schizopolis.  FTP name this director of sex, lies, and videotape, Erin Brockovich, and Traffic.
	Answer: Steven Soderbergh

32). A candidate for the Replacement Party claims that Christmas has always smelled like oranges, and that the two purposes of lawyers are to clarify and to confuse.  "For the sake of the children we must say goodbye" and "We must be doin' something right the last 200 years" are songs in this film in which "Comes from the heart," Buddy Hamilton's only composition, was interrupted by a sighting of Eliot Gould.  "You may say that I ain't free but it don't worry me" comes after the assassination of Barbara Jean in, FTP this Robert Altman film about a concert in Music City USA.
	Answer: Nashville

33). The actress who played BBC reporter Opal in Nashville starred as the wife of the titular character of this film.  Produced by Carlo Ponti with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, it translated poetry into cinema, receiving an Oscar for the music of Maurice Jarre.  Rod Steiger is the amoral Victor, Julie Christie is the loving Lara, and Alec Guiness is General Yevgraf, the brother of the Russian poet played by Omar Sharif.  FTP name this David Lean film inspired by Boris Pasternak.
	Answer: Doctor Zhivago

34). Roland thinks that it's a rotten film because all he "meets are crazy people."  A film lost in the cosmos, or a film found on a scrap heap, its most famous sequence was borrowed by Robert Altman in Nashville, with cars honking away over 15 minutes of traffic nonsense.  Marxist guerillas shooting with phony bullets conclude this work following a couple's trip to Ouiville to murder the wife's mother.  FTP name this 1967 last famous film of Jean-Luc Godard.
	Answer: Weekend

35). As hilarity ensues, one of the beggars remarks: "Let them sin, it's good for their soul, now they can repent."  Ending with the burning of a crown of thorns and a game of cards among Ramona, the heroine, and Jorge, the son of a man played by Fernando Rey, who believes that "life brings some people together and separates others."  The most famous scene is a blind man playing the role of Jesus Christ in a photograph of the Last Supper involving beggars sheltered by the naive religious titular heroine played by Sylvia Pinal.  FTP name this film in Spanish by Luis Bunuel.
	Answer: Viridiana

36). Appearing cut-off next to Drew Bledsoe in the Boston Star Ledger, he's great at friendship but bad at intimacy.  Dubbed as the ambassador of quan, his troubles began when Steve Remo of the Chicago Blackhawks went down with a concussion, prompting him to write a memo titled "The Things We Think and Do Not Say."  He lost first overall pick Cushman to Denver and Bob Sugar, but retained Rod Tidwell, the Arizona Cardinal's best kept secret in the NFL, who exhorted him to "show him the money."  FTP name this sports agent played by Tom Cruise.
	Answer: Jerry Maguire

37). Trained in ballet, two of her greatest roles both came playing characters named Marianne, as the lover of a revisionist Spanish revolutionary in Resnais' La guerre est finie, and as the daughter-in-law of a cold and empty medical professor in Bergman's Wild Strawberries.  Dubbed by Angela Lansbury in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, she starred along side Liv Ullmann and Harriet Anderson in Cries and Whispers.  Not to be confused with the lover of Roberto Rossellini, FTP name this other great actress from Sweden named Ingrid.
	Answer: Ingrid Thulin

38). Pauline Kael called it a simplistic "cartoon," because it's so familiar that it no longer has emotional impact.  After an interlude, crowds are drawn to the tent, a memorial for one who "died for a spoonful of soup."  Then comes the greatest example of dialectical film making: point, counterpoint, and fusion.  A clenched fist, a citizen without legs, a child's hand crushed by a military boot, eyeglasses pierced by a bullet, and a baby carriage falling down the steps.  FTP name this famous sequence in a 1925 film by Sergei Eisenstein.
	Answer: Odessa Steps; prompt on Bronenosets Potyomkin and Battleship Potemkin

39). Count Leon D'Algout represents Grand Duchess Swana, whose jewels are being sold by Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopalski, the namesake of a Russian restaurant in Constantinople, with Kopalski protesting against the other two's monopolistic capitalism.  The titular figure falls in love with the Count on the Eiffel Tower, but must return to the stuffy Soviet regime.  FTP name this Ernst Lubitsch film in which Melvyn Douglas is laughed at coquettishly by Greta Garbo.
	Answer: Ninotchka

40). Institutional psychiatrist Dr. Chumley'd rather spend 2 weeks in Ackron telling a strange woman all his secrets.  Based on a play by Mary Chase written for a neighbor who lost her son in World War II, this film won Josephine Hull a best supporting actress Oscar, for her portrayal of Vita Louise Simmons, the sister of a good-natured man who drove people away when he introduced them to his six-feet tall friend, the titular pooka.  Jimmy Stewart's favorite performance, FTP name this film starring an invisible rabbit.
	Answer: Harvey

41). Formerly titled "Tell your children," this 66 minute "film" is narrated by the principal Dr. Carroll.  Bill is convicted of killing his girl friend Mary while under the spell of the supposedly hallucinagenic and malevolent drug "marihuana," while Ralph clubs Jack the dealer to death and his girl friend jumps out the window.  "Women cry for it!  Men die for it!"  FTP name this 1936 drug scare exploitation classic warning against the craze induced by marijuana.
	Answer: Reefer Madness

42). The biographer of the "duck" of death, W. W. Beauchamp, wasn't shot, but almost everybody else was, including the sheriff who killed Ned Logan and put his body in a coffin outside the brothel.  The actor and director of this film called it a summary of everything he feels about the Western.  Starring Richard Harris as English Bob, Gene Hackman as Little Bill, and Morgan Freeman as the sidekick of Will Munny, FTP name this 1992 best picture by Clint Eastwood.
	Answer: Unforgiven

43). His landlady Elena is getting ready to marry the movie manager Paolo so that she can get into the cinema for free.  The housekeeper Maria is pregnant with the child of either the tall one from Naples or the short one from Florence.  He tried to give away his dog Flag and almost commits suicide on the train tracks because he could not pay his rent.  FTP name the titular old retired official of the Ministry of Public Affairs in arguably the best film by Vittorio de Sica.
	Answer: Umberto D.

44). The titular character steals Sidney and exclaims, "gentlemen don't argue over gentlemen's gentlemen," after which he stole Anna Held, who sings "Be be be marry" in America.  Ray Bolger performs "If you know Suzie like I know Suzie" while Fannie Brice gives her rendition of "My man," but most famous is a kaleidascopic circling of music from the Humoresque, Il Pagliacci, and Rhapsody in Blue, culminating in Daniel Morgan's "A pretty girl is like a melody."  FTP name this 1936 best picture, a biography of Ziggy of the namesake Follies.
	Answer: The Great Ziegfeld

45). The male lead reprises his most famous song from a previous musical twice: "It only happens when I dance with you."  Turning down Ziegfeld's Follies and singing about "A couple of swells," Don loves Nadine who loves Johnny who loves Hanna who loves Don.  Ann Miller dances "Shaking the blues away" while "Ragtime violin" and "Alabama choo choo" steal the show.  For every rose that withers and dies another blooms in it's stead.  FTP name this Fred Astaire and Judy Garland musical concluding with Irving Berlin's stroll down Madison Avenue on a holiday.
	Answer: Easter Parade

46). It is its director's only major contribution to detective film noir.  Based on the greatest novel by James M. Cain, it showcases Edward G. Robinson as the ingenius boss Barton Keyes who receives the final message.  Barbara Stanwyck is Phyllis Dietrichson, the wife who falls in love with her husband's insurance agent Walter Neff, played by Fred MacMurray, culminating in conspiracy.  FTP name this 1944 Billy Wilder film.
	Answer: Double Indemnity

47). Before Charilaos Konstantinides found it in a shop in 1923, it had turned up in Sicily in 1713 and reappeared in Paris in 1840.  Given by the Knights of the Rhodes to Charles V as a tribute, it was traced to General Kemidov in an Istanbul suburb.  Unfortunately, the package brought back by Captain Jacoby of La Paloma contained nothing but "the stuff dreams are made of."  Title of a John Huston film, FTP name this bird seeked by Mr. Gutman and Sam Spade.
	Answer: The Maltese Falcon

48). Roger Ebert calls it the ultimate answer to the questions that doesn't explain anything.  It can be seen as the president's neice reads the Chronicle, and it finally appears next to a portrait of the protagonist, who, while in search of it, met a singer whose review prompted the firing of Jed Leland.  Making its appearance near a lodge admist piles of snow, it signifies youth, love, and the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle played by Susan Alexander.  FTP name the sled owned by Charles Foster Kane, a delicate flower.
	Answer: rosebud

49). It was remade in 1979 under the direction of Anthony Page.  Although most passengers are only interested in getting back to England to watch the big game - a cricket match, a sacrificing young woman who accepted the marriage proposal of a count and a musicologist wasting time on useless pursuits press the issue when an old governess disappears.  Iris Matilda Henderson and Gilbert Redman find her kidnapper Dr. Hartz of Prague, a secret agent who knows of the tune heard by Miss Froy, played by Dame May Whitty.  FTP name this 1938 Hitchcock film about the disappearance of an old woman.
	Answer: The Lady Vanishes

50). Sold to RKO because its producer needed money to finance a more extravagant project, the turning point of this film comes when Alex realizes "Unica" is missing until the morning.  He finds the sink wet, the floor soiled, and the cap opened on one of the Pommard from 1940 instead of 1934, prompting his plea to mother that he's "met an American agent."  Famous for a crane shot in the party from the top of the stairs down to the key in Alicia Huberman's hand, FTP name this Hitchcock classic starring Ingrid Bergman as the titular type of disreputable woman.
	Answer: Notorious