Quiz: White House Movies

Posted on June 26, 2013 at 3:59 pm

The third movie of the year featuring an attack on the White House opens this week. How many of these films featuring 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue do you know?

1. Jeff Bridges plays a President with a taste for sandwiches.

2. Jack Nicholson plays two roles in a movie that has aliens in the White House.

3. A look-alike takes over for the President but does not fool the First Lady.

4. This tense drama is the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

5. A widowed President dates a beautiful lobbyist.

6. A murder takes place in the White House and Wesley Snipes is called in to investigate.

7. Name three movies with African-American Presidents.

8. Name two movies about the President’s children.

9. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for this portrayal of a President with many scenes in the residence of the White House.

10. Teenage girls get jobs in the White House in the midst of the Watergate era.

For detailed information about the accuracy of White House portrayals on screen, see the White House Museum website.

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Father’s Day Quiz: Answers

Posted on June 22, 2013 at 8:00 am

Answers to the Father’s Day Movie Quiz — thanks to all who answered!

1. Cheaper by the Dozen (original version)

2. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father

3. The Parent Trap

4. Three Men and a Baby

5. John Houston directed Angelica Houston in “Prizzi’s Honor” and Walter Houston in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”

6. Jane and Henry Fonda in “On Golden Pond”

7. Spike Lee and Francis Ford Coppola

8. Ordinary People

9. Parenthood

10. Finding Nemo

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Quiz: Father’s Day Movies

Posted on June 16, 2013 at 3:35 pm

How many of these can you identify?

1. This movie is based on the true story of a pioneering “motion study” couple (efficiency, occupational safety, and ergonomics) engineer who brought their techniques to family life.

2. What movie has a widower with a young son who almost marries the wrong woman until his young son guides him in the right direction?

3. What movie has a divorced dad who almost marries the wrong woman until his daughters guide him in the direction of their mother?

4. A man and his roommates unexpectedly find themselves responsible for a baby he did not know he had fathered.

5. What Oscar-winning director directed his father and his daughter in Oscar-winning performances?

6. What real-life Oscar-winning father and daughter played father and daughter on screen in a movie based on a hit play?

7. Two top directors made movies with soundtracks composed by their fathers. Who are they?

8. In this Oscar-winning movie based on a best-selling book, a father devastated by the loss of a son must decide between supporting his wife or the son who survived.

9. In this movie, when the birthday party entertainer does not show up, the birthday boy’s father steps in.

10. A father spends most of a movie looking for his lost son in this animated classic with an upcoming sequel.

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Jurassic Park Quiz: Answers

Posted on April 14, 2013 at 8:00 am

Thanks to all who responded!

1. Which actor in “Jurassic Park” appears in a 2013 #1 box office release? Joseph Mazzello, who played Tim, appears as Mouse in “GI Joe: Retaliation.”

2. Name two classic movies that have dinosaur skeletons in museums collapsed by the characters. “Bringing Up Baby” and “On the Town”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B16rhVK5Av0

3. The co-screenwriter and author of the book “Jurassic Park” had what unusual academic achievement for the movie industry? He was a doctor.

4. In real life, humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, but movies cannot resist putting them together. What movie has a famous 60?s beauty in a fur bikini playing opposite an Allosaurus? Raquel Welch in “One Millon Years B.C.”

5. What movie features a frozen dinosaur awakened by a 20th century bomb test? “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbAHR0djrMQ

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Jurassic Park Quiz

Posted on April 6, 2013 at 3:45 pm

Questions inspired by the 20th anniversary re-release of “Jurassic Park,” just converted to 3D.

1. Which actor in “Jurassic Park” appears in a 2013 #1 box office release?

2. Name two classic movies that have dinosaur skeletons in museums collapsed by the characters.

3. The co-screenwriter and author of the book “Jurassic Park” had what unusual academic achievement for the movie industry?

4. In real life, humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, but movies cannot resist putting them together. What movie has a famous 60’s beauty in a fur bikini playing opposite an Allosaurus?

5. What movie features a frozen dinosaur awakened by a 20th century bomb test?

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