One clue of any kind leads to a movie starting with “A” (“the” doesn’t count). Whoever guesses it leaves the next clue.
You know, you see a girl a couple of times a week, just for laughs, and right away they think you’re going to divorce your wife. Now I ask you, is that fair?
One to go.
Name the movie.
1. We see his wife sip his beer and his scotch, and take drags off his cigarettes. He says she sometimes steals bites off his plate as well.
Solved by Barbs (comment #14).
2. The dog being trained is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
Solved by Hazel (comment #13).
3. The male lead sneaks into the female lead’s seventh floor apartment, but the building used for filming (shown in exterior shots) only has six floors.
Solved by George (comment #12).
4. He shoots the cook for upsetting the balance of the universe.
Solved by Ken (comment #1).
5. “If it wasn’t for teachers like me, there would be more individuals like you, socially inept, hating the world, prattling off pompous ideas that no one wants to hear in the first place.”
Hint: 1996—Based on a true story.
Solved by Becky (comment #19).
6. The money she stole doesn’t fit in her white purse. She changes to a black purse to hide it.
Solved by Ben (comment #3).
7. “I don’t believe in surrenders. Nope, I’ve still got my saber, Reverend. Didn’t beat it into no plowshare, neither.”
Solved by Melville (comment #2).
Hi. Thanks to all of you for your patience during this difficult time. I would like to resume “normal” posting, so trivia is here.
The lesser-known cousin of the Oscars, SAG awards acting only, in both movies and television. All of the following clues will lead you to SAG winners.
1. The only posthumous SAG recipient for an individual* movie performance.
Solved by Evn (comment #3).
2. The only posthumous SAG recipient for an individual television performance.
Solved by Hazel (comment #10).
3. The first African-American to receive an individual SAG for a movie performance.
Solved by George (comment #12).
4. The first African-American to receive an individual SAG for a television performance.
Solved by George (comment #12).
5. Awarded for playing an attorney, he’s been a gangster, a lothario, a famous detective, and a cartoon character.
Solved by Melville (comment #6).
6. He’s been a pirate, a filmmaker, a monster, a novelist, and a barber.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).
7. She’s been a murderer, a real-life author, the girlfriend of a real-life author, a delusional actress, and a foster mother.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).
*SAG gives ensemble awards to entire casts. I didn’t look up all those people.
Busy day again, so I start, and you guys take over:
Today it’s movies starting with M.
Name the movie based on the quote: “I’m sure it was your lack of vegatation and not your wife’s rampant nymphomania that was the problem.”
All solved. Today Melville is a hero: He solved a clue that was wrong. He’s like a genius.
As a cheesy tie-in to an historic event, all of today’s movies will begin with “In.”
1. Followed by two sequels and a TV series, the second movie had the name of the lead character in in its title.
Solved by Hazel (comment #6).
2. Somebody from Milk and Deep Throat.
Solved by Melville (comment #5).
3. “There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie. ”
Solved by George (comment #7).
4. A woman-centric boxing movie with a woman director.
Solved by Melville even though the clue was totally screwed up (comment #12).
5. The second of a trilogy about a swingin’ sixties spy .
Solved by Ken (comment #1).
6. Battlestar Galactica + Taxi + The Fly.
Solved by Daven (comment #3).
7. “You’re very good at the English, aren’t you? You see, I don’t understand your language. “Justice.” “Mercy.” “Clemency.” I literally don’t understand what those words mean. I’d like to put in an application to get all my teeth extracted. That way I could put my fist in my mouth and never speak another word of fuckin’ English so long as I live.”
Solved by Giljorak (comment #8).
You rallied with our change of format.
Sunday night, Mad Men won the Best Television Drama Golden Globe, and gave a shout out to Basket of Kisses, where my sister and I blog about Mad Men.
Therefore, today’s trivia is all about television dramas that have received nominations from the Golden Globes. Have at!
1. A retired astronaut. A morning DJ. A moose.
TIE: Solved by Hogan (comment #1) and L. (comment #2).
2. Some of the original concept of this show was created by Ian Fleming.
Solved by Hogan (comment #12).
3. Arguably the most famous lollipop on television.
Solved by Melville (comment #4).
4. One of the stars of this show played Mama Rose on Broadway.
TIE: Solved by Hogan (comment #1) and L. (comment #2).
5. Stars of this show have subsequently been seen on CSI, Star Trek: Voyager, and Desperate Housewives.
Solved by Tina (comment #7).
6. Father and son lawyers.
Solved by Melville (comment #5).
7. This cop show was adapted as a movie in 1999. Of the film’s stars, one stars on a Golden Globe-nominated show, and one has been nominated for multiple Golden Globes for television acting.
Solved by Melville (comment #8).
1. “I should be sincerely sorry to see my neighbor’s children devoured by wolves.”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
2. “Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #2).
3. A: “I don’t want to die!”
B: “Neither do I, baby, but if I have to I’m gonna die last.”
Solved by Bill (comment #10).
4. “You don’t like it, do you _______, the storm? Show it your gun, why don’t you? If it doesn’t stop, shoot it. ”
Solved by Bill (comment #10).
5. “The way it works is, you do the thing you’re scared shitless of, and you get the courage after you do it, not before you do it.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #3).
6. “How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me; that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
7. “Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it’s stupid, but I’m gonna do it! Okay?”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).
