Deborah Lipp

So continue to be trivial.

1. “Don’t you believe what you read in all them newspapers. That’s the law talking there. They want us to look big so they gonna look big when they catch us.”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

2. “I can’t stand for a person I respect to behave like a small, cruel boy. ”
Hint: Film adaptation of the work of a famous playwright,featuring three major stars–all now dead.
Solved by Melville (comment #15).

3. “What sharp little eyes you’ve got.”
Hint: The next line is “Wait ’til you get to my teeth.”
Solved by Proteus (comment #11).

4. “Oh, no, sir. I’m sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals.”
Solved by maurinsky (comment #2) and Evn (comment #3) at the same moment!

5. “The War Department promised me 180 men. They sent me eighteen. You are the eighteen… so each of you will have to do the work of ten men.”
Solved by Melanie (comment #8).

6. “Love, desire, ambition, faith… without them life is so much simpler.”
Hint: A science fiction classic.
Solved by Evn (comment #6).

7. “I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk.”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

This was a tough one, but you managed it with only one hint.

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Since I reviewed a sexually-explicit movie yesterday, today’s quiz is about sex.

1. She says she’s not good at sex, but they try anyway. Unfortunately, they each get a phone call and have to leave.
Solved by Roberta (comment #2).

2. Making love while discussing the etymology of “honeymoon.”
Solved by George (comment #25).

3. Provoked to lose her virginity on a bet, she and the young man meet in the middle of a lake.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

4. They meet and marry in the same day, barely making it to City Hall before it closes. The next morning, they glow with the sweetness of their first night together, but he must leave.
Solved by Roberta (comment #10) and Hazel (comment #11).

5. After they make love for the first time, she teases him about his suit, and he finds a penny in the pocket.
Solved by Pax/Geoffrey Stewart (comment #29).

6. Waiting at her daughter’s sub-leased apartment, she discovers a large supply of dildoes belonging to the leaseholder, and begins exploring her own sexuality.
Solved by Karen D (comment #26).

7. While making love, she pulls a knife in a threatening manner, and then uses it to slice a piece of fruit for them to share.
Hint: One of the top-grossing movies of its year, which is hmmm…between 1995–2006.
Solved by George (comment #38).

All solved in one day.

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I’m still having fun with this, and you all seem to enjoy it as well, so here goes.

1. A hooker who slept with a preacher, a farm girl in love with a cowboy, and a librarian.
Solved by Melville (comment #7).

2. A butler, a hotel clerk, and a transvestite.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

3. The traitorous wife of the head of British Secret Service, a nun, and the adulterous wife of an Army Captain.
Solved by Melville (comment #10).

4. An influential newspaper columnist, first officer on a submarine, and an accused Nazi war criminal.
Solved by Melville (comment #2).

5. A terrorist/revolutionary, an FBI investigator, and a porn star.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

6. A hairdresser, an angel, and a ghost.
Solved by Hazel (comment #14).

7. A murderious poet, a television reporter, and an evil witch.
Solved by lunofajro (comment #11).

Okay, I have like no time today. Should have prepared this yesterday. So today, we’re posting trivia questions in a round robin.

If you answer a question, you can post a question. Here’s the twist: Every movie must have a place name in the title. I’ll start:

Based on a true story, which became a fictional play, which became a movie with one or two songs (but not really a musical), which became a musical play, which became a musical movie.

Name the actor by figuring out the relationships (each from a different movie).

1. Daughter of Barbara Harris. Mother of Tom Felton. Sister of Rob Lowe.
Solved by maurinsky (comment #8).

2. Father of Seth Green. Brother of Jeff Bridges. Husband of Sally Field.
Solved by Melville (comment #6).

3. Husband of Julianne Moore. Uncle of Barry Gordon. Boss of Dustin Hoffman.
Solved by Melville (comment #4).

4. Wife of Christopher Walken. Employee of Yaphet Kotto. Lover of Christopher Reeve.
Solved by Evn (comment #5).

5. Lover of Christopher Reeve. Rival of Laurence Olivier. Employee of Christian Bale.
Solved by Evn (comment #1).

6. Employee of Hugh Grant. Niece of Stockard Channing. Daughter of Ellen Burstyn.
Solved by Evn (comment #1).

7. Father of Teresa Wright. Husband of Janet Gaynor. Fiance of Susan Hayward.
Solved by Melville (comment #4).

The only unanswered one was a movie I knew was obscure, but you all knocked ’em out of the park so fast last week, I was determined to make it a little tougher.

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…to the last remaining clue for Tuesday Trivia.