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Quiz about My Favorite Movies of 1984 Part II

My Favorite Movies of 1984 Part II Quiz

Here are ten more of my favorite movies from the year 1984. See how many that you know; I'll wager that you will find some of your favorites as well.

A matching quiz by Reamar42. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Reamar42

Time
4 mins

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411,338

Updated
Dec 29 22

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Questions		Choices
1. An inventor buys an exotic pet for his son's birthday from a Chinatown curiosity shop, but it comes with very specific instructions.		2010: The Year We Make Contact
2. A team of Soviet and American astronauts man a joint mission to Jupiter to look for a lost American spacecraft.		Gremlins
3. An American documentary filmmaker chronicles the U.S.tour of an aging British heavy metal band.		The Last Starfighter
4. The captain of a British ship, sent to the South Pacific on a trading mission, pushes her crew to their limits with his harsh discipline.		The Bounty
5. In this film, the murder of a black soldier at a World War II US Army training camp is investigated by a black officer who faces racism and indifference while searching for the truth.		This Is Spinal Tap
6. A psychic is reluctantly recruited into a government program that attempts to control people's dreams.		Once Upon a Time in America
7. This epic film details the rise and fall of a gang of Jewish bootleggers in New York City from the early 1900s to the 1960s.		Dreamscape
8. This film is the story of a late nineteenth century English lord, shipwrecked off the African coast when an infant, who is raised by apes in the jungle.		A Soldier's Story
9. A teenage boy living in a trailer park in the Western USA is recruited by aliens to be their savior via a video game.		Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes
10. This spoof of gangster films has a good-hearted crime boss whose little brother, not knowing his big brother's business, becomes a district attorney and goes after his big brother's gang.		Johnny Dangerously

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1. An inventor buys an exotic pet for his son's birthday from a Chinatown curiosity shop, but it comes with very specific instructions.

2. A team of Soviet and American astronauts man a joint mission to Jupiter to look for a lost American spacecraft.

3. An American documentary filmmaker chronicles the U.S.tour of an aging British heavy metal band.

4. The captain of a British ship, sent to the South Pacific on a trading mission, pushes her crew to their limits with his harsh discipline.

5. In this film, the murder of a black soldier at a World War II US Army training camp is investigated by a black officer who faces racism and indifference while searching for the truth.

6. A psychic is reluctantly recruited into a government program that attempts to control people's dreams.

7. This epic film details the rise and fall of a gang of Jewish bootleggers in New York City from the early 1900s to the 1960s.

8. This film is the story of a late nineteenth century English lord, shipwrecked off the African coast when an infant, who is raised by apes in the jungle.

9. A teenage boy living in a trailer park in the Western USA is recruited by aliens to be their savior via a video game.

10. This spoof of gangster films has a good-hearted crime boss whose little brother, not knowing his big brother's business, becomes a district attorney and goes after his big brother's gang.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. An inventor buys an exotic pet for his son's birthday from a Chinatown curiosity shop, but it comes with very specific instructions.

Answer: Gremlins

Small town bank employee Billy Peltzer receives a creature called a Mogwai as a pet. The three rules for its care are: no bright lights, no food after midnight, and don't get it wet. When Gizmo has water thrown on him, six more creatures appear, but these become different, and wreak havoc on the whole town after reproducing a horde of themselves.

2. A team of Soviet and American astronauts man a joint mission to Jupiter to look for a lost American spacecraft.

Answer: 2010: The Year We Make Contact

In this sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey", a mixed team of Soviet and American scientists try to find out what happened to the "Discovery" and her crew, amid heightened tensions between the two countries. Despite distrust caused by the situation on Earth, the crews cooperate and return home with a message from an alien civilization.

3. An American documentary filmmaker chronicles the U.S.tour of an aging British heavy metal band.

Answer: This Is Spinal Tap

In this "mockumentary", directed by Rob Reiner, a "British Invasion" group from the 60s that now plays heavy metal slowly disintegrates during an American tour, and it is all captured on camera by an American filmmaker.

4. The captain of a British ship, sent to the South Pacific on a trading mission, pushes her crew to their limits with his harsh discipline.

Answer: The Bounty

Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty is under an inquiry as to how a mutiny occurred on his ship. Flashbacks detail how Bligh's harsh brand of discipline, and the attractions of Tahiti, caused his crew to cast him and others adrift while they found an island to live on. This is one of several versions of the story that has been filmed.

5. In this film, the murder of a black soldier at a World War II US Army training camp is investigated by a black officer who faces racism and indifference while searching for the truth.

Answer: A Soldier's Story

At a Southern US Army training camp during World War II, a veteran black sergeant is murdered, apparently by white officers. A black Captain from the Army's legal division is sent to investigate, but is resented by the camp's white officers. The Captain must overcome both racism and distrust to find the surprising truth about the incident.

6. A psychic is reluctantly recruited into a government program that attempts to control people's dreams.

Answer: Dreamscape

Psychic Alex Gardner uses his talents for gambling. To escape his debts, he enters into a program run by an old doctor friend that attempts to help people with sleep disorders by having a psychic "insert" themselves into the patient's dream. A rogue CIA agent takes over the program to make sure the President, who is also a patient, follows the agent's agenda.

7. This epic film details the rise and fall of a gang of Jewish bootleggers in New York City from the early 1900s to the 1960s.

Answer: Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone's final film follows a gang of four New York Jewish youths who excel at bootlegging, murder for hire, and protecting union workers from their beginnings as teenagers, through the deaths of three of the gang and the imprisonment of the fourth after a botched robbery.

8. This film is the story of a late nineteenth century English lord, shipwrecked off the African coast when an infant, who is raised by apes in the jungle.

Answer: Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes

Lord Greystoke and his pregnant wife are shipwrecked off of West Africa, where she gives birth in their shelter. An ape adopts the infant boy after the parents die and he grows to manhood. He is later discovered by a Belgian explorer and returned to England, where he struggles to fit into the civilized world.

9. A teenage boy living in a trailer park in the Western USA is recruited by aliens to be their savior via a video game.

Answer: The Last Starfighter

Alex Rogan has a go-nowhere life in a trailer park with his mother and little brother. When he gets the high score on a video game, he finds that the game was designed to recruit a warrior for a real galactic war and Alex goes off to fight while a robot double takes his place at home.

10. This spoof of gangster films has a good-hearted crime boss whose little brother, not knowing his big brother's business, becomes a district attorney and goes after his big brother's gang.

Answer: Johnny Dangerously

Young Johnny Kelly joins a gang to help pay for his mother's frequent medical expenses. He hides his occupation from his family. Becoming the boss, he puts his younger brother through law school, and the lad becomes a prosecutor and goes after gangsters with zeal.

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