Tuesday Trivia: April 17

1. Because he wants to be a gunman, he tries to hide his nearsightedness.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #5).

2. A pair of brothers hired to repair a small tractor.
Solved by OhKen (comment #12).

3. A young woman, who doesn’t really like to talk about herself, plays touch football in a skirt.
Solved by Kathy (comment #7).

4. He is killed with a crossbow while diving into his swimming pool.
HINT: He is killed by a woman. Our hero wanted him alive.
Solved by lunofajro (comment #20).

5. She makes roses out of paper. She dreams of someday making them out of silk, but she is shot to death before that can happen.
HINT: Her former lover finds her in bed with another man and shoots them both. The other man shoots and kills him, but his own wound will ultimately prove fatal.
Solved by sopka (comment #21).

6. “I don’t like cold things touching my skin.”
Solved by Amy (comment #15).

7. Three sailors having a picnic in a park on a freezing winter day.
Solved by George (comment #1).

21 comments

  1. George says:

    I’m pretty sure #7 is The Last Detail butI haven’t seen it in years.

  2. deblipp says:

    Not bad after years!

  3. Evn says:

    Arg, these are all ringing vague, unattainable bells. Must…. focus…

  4. Louise says:

    Is #1 Little Big Man?

  5. deblipp says:

    Sorry, Louise. Tom got it.

  6. Kathy says:

    I can’t believe I actually know one — or at least I think so. #3 is The Big Chill.

  7. deblipp says:

    Yay, Kathy for knowing one!

  8. Roberta says:

    I can’t believe I freaking missed the Big Chill.

  9. witless chum says:

    Is four the “Last Action Hero?”

  10. OhKen says:

    Is #2 “The Straight Story”? Or is that too easy…..

  11. deblipp says:

    witless chum, no, OhKen, yes.

  12. TehipiteTom says:

    #6 sounds really, really familiar. I don’t think it’s Miller’s Crossing, but I don’t have any better guess, so what the hell.

  13. Amy says:

    #6 is To Catch a Thief?

  14. deblipp says:

    Amy, yes. Tom, that’s why it sounds familiar.

  15. Roberta says:

    Is #5 that movie? With Lee Remick?

    umm… Anatomy of a Murder?

  16. deblipp says:

    Although Lee Remick is indeed in Anatomy of a Murder, that is not the answer.

  17. Roberta says:

    And Ben Gazzara. He’s a good actor.

  18. lunofajro says:

    #4 is “For your Eyes Only”

  19. sopka says:

    Dead Man with johnny Depp as new lover and gabriel byrne as the former