The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

(31/12/20)

The Great New Year Movie Hump! 🎉 🐪

Happy New Year! And welcome to the Great New Year Movie Hump! All newcomers are most welcome :slightly_smiling_face: Check out the rules, pop your answers in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. :+1:

These questions are not from the regular Trivial Pursuit stash either, but from a movie quiz I found in the Boxing Day bargain bin at the supermarket. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

😂 Comedy
  1. What 1989 movie features the famous line: “I’ll have what she’s having”?

  2. Which band plays at Lillian’s wedding in Bridesmaids?

  3. What colour letter does Olive stitch onto her clothes in Easy A?

  4. Who played Arnold Schwarzenegger’s twin brother in Twins?

  5. Where is Peter Bretter on holiday when he runs into his ex and her new boyfriend in Forgetting Sarah Marshall?

  6. Which actress played the school principal in School of Rock?

  7. Who starred alongside Will Ferrell in Step Brothers?

  8. Which actor directed the movie Three Men and a Baby?

  9. Which actress played the lead role in Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles?

  10. In This is Spinal Tap what miniature landmark is lowered onto the stage during the band’s concert?

🎞️ Classic
  1. What is the name of Anne Bancroft’s character in The Graduate?

  2. Who played Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause?

  3. Which country in the setting for The Sound of Music?

  4. Who wrote the music for the movie An American in Paris?

  5. Who played the slave, Spartacus, in the 1960 movie of the same name?

  6. In what year was Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey released?

  7. Who played Bandit in the original Smokey and the Bandit?

  8. Where is the treasure buried in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

  9. In which 1975 movie did Jack Nicholson play a psychiatric patient?

  10. Duck Soup was a hit for which famous thespian siblings?

💥 Action
  1. Who directed 1984’s The Terminator?

  2. Who plays LAPD Officer K in Blade Runner 2049?

  3. Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen star in which 1979 Vietnam War movie?

  4. In which of the Bourne movies does Matt Damon not appear as Jason Bourne?

  5. In the 2008 movie Taken, Liam Neeson’s character’s daughter is snatched from which city?

  6. Which actress starred as the title character in Captain Marvel?

  7. Which heist movie featured Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Rihanna?

  8. In The Hunger Games movie, which district is Katpiss Everdeen from?

  9. Which movie is set on the distant moon of Pandora?

  10. In which James Bond movie did Daniel Craig make his first appearance?

🐻 Kids (but basically Disney)
  1. Who played Belle in the 2017 live action version of Beauty and the Beast?

  2. Which movie sees a bunny called Judy Hopps policing a city of animals?

  3. Who starred as the title character in Mary Poppins Returns?

  4. Tangled is the 2010 animated adaptation of which traditional fairy tale?

  5. In Moana, whose after-life spirit takes the form of a manta ray?

  6. “Everything is Awesome” is featured in which movie soundtrack?

  7. Justin Timberlake recorded “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” as the soundtrack to which animated movie?

  8. Which singer starred alongside the Jonas Brothers in the 2008 Disney movie, Camp Rock?

  9. Which animated film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Remember Me”?

  10. Westley and Buttercup are characters from which film?


Scoreboard

Total :joy: :film_strip: :boom: :bear:
@WillC 29½ 8 9 5
@Peitho 26 6 7 8 5
@MsSubExperimenter 24 5 6 5 8
@Sea 18¼ 3 5 4
@SexInTheCity 14 3 2 4 5

The Answers

| :joy: Comedy | :film_strip: Classic
— | — | —
| 1. When Harry Met Sally | 1. Mrs Robinson
| 2. Wilson Phillips | 2. James Dean
| 3. A red “A” | 3. Austria
| 4. Danny DeVito | 4. George Gershwin
| 5. Hawaii | 5. Kirk Douglas
| 6. Joan Cussack | 6. 1968
| 7. John C. Reilly | 7. Burt Reynolds
| 8. Leonard Nimoy | 8. A graveyard
| 9. Molly Ringwold | 9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
| 10. Stonehenge | 10. The Marx Brothers
|
:boom: Action |
:bear: Kids |
| 1. James Cameron | 1. Emma Watson
| 2. Ryan Gosling | 2. Zootopia
| 3. Apocalypse Now | 3. Emily Blunt
| 4. The Bourne Legacy | 4. Rapunzel
| 5. Paris | 5. Moana’s grandmother, Gramma Tala
| 6. Brie Larson | 6. The Lego Movie
| 7. Ocean’s 8 | 7. Trolls
| 8. District 12 | 8. Demi Lovato
| 9. Avatar | 9. Coco
| 10. Casino Royale | 10. The Princes Bride