Pop Culture Trivia Questions VIII

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According to a study, what is the most common line in Hollywood pictures, appearing in 81 percent of them from 1938 to 1985?

       a. Catch you later
       b. Let's get out of here
       c. What's going on?
       d. I love you


Sylvester Stallone's only Oscar nominations are for Rocky. One was for Best Actor. What was the other for?

       a. Best Original Screenplay
       b. Best Musical Score
       c. Best Film Editing
       d. Best Direction


In TV lingo, "Chuck Cunningham" refers to a character that, like this Happy Days character, does what?

       a. Vanishes
       b. Marries
       c. Dies
       d. Is played by someone else


What 1999 horror movie earned a Guinness world record for "Top Budget Box Office Ratio", having earned $10,931 for every dollar spent making it?

       a. The Exorcist
       b. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
       c. Blair Witch Project
       d. The Creature from the Black Lagoon


Commercials for what car featured child actor Micah Kantor whispering "zoom zoom" as the Serapis Bey song "Zoom Zoom Zoom" plays?

       a. Nissan
       b. Mazda
       c. BMW
       d. Audi


In both the 1978 and 2004 versions of Dawn of the Dead, the survivors try to hide from the zombies. Where?

       a. In a shopping mall
       b. In a subway system
       c. In a skyscraper
       d. In a university campus


What singer and TV personality became famously confused over whether Chicken of the Sea was a bird or a fish?

       a. Jessica Simpson
       b. Anna Nicole Smith
       c. Paris Hilton
       d. Britney Spears


If all of these SF icons somehow found room for each other in one universe, and you were writing a history of that universe, whose story would come first chronologically?

       a. Luke Skywalker
       b. Flash Gordon
       c. James T Kirk
       d. Buck Rogers


In "The Great Dictator", the Jews speak what language, which was invented by a Jewish eye doctor?

       a. Hebrew
       b. Yiddish
       c. Esperanto
       d. Vulcan


Which Disney character was almost always depicted wearing a Tyrolean green-felt hat with a feather in it?

       a. Pinocchio
       b. Donald Duck
       c. Grumpy the Dwarf
       d. Goofy


In the 1990s, who reprised both a Rex Harrison role from 1967 and a Jerry Lewis role from 1963?

       a. Eddie Murphy
       b. Robin Williams
       c. Billy Crystal
       d. Whoopi Goldberg


Flanders, Lovejoy, Terwilliger and Kearney are not only streets in Portland, Oregon, but also minor characters in what TV series?

       a. Star Trek
       b. The Simpsons
       c. LA Law
       d. Frasier


Born Raquel Tejada, what Bolivian American made her movie debut in an Elvis movie called "Roustabout"?

       a. Linda Carter
       b. Ann-Margret
       c. Raquel Welch
       d. Farrah Fawcett


What actor's voice, if not her face, appears in two Tarzan movies, once when she dubbed over Andie McDowell in "Greystoke" and once as Tarzan's ape mom Kala in a Disney movie?

       a. Glenn Close
       b. Helen Mirren
       c. Glenda Jackson
       d. Meryl Streep


For 19 straight years until 1967, Edith Head was nominated for Oscars in what category?

       a. Costume design
       b. Script
       c. Score
       d. Art direction




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