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You Want It When? Trivia Quiz


In this quiz, try and identify when each of these movies takes place and match the descriptions up to their date-themed titles. Good luck!

A matching quiz by kyleisalive. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
kyleisalive
Time
3 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
396,089
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
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1. Taking place over three days, Earth had to face off against a powerful alien race, but the United States took centerstage.  
  Freaky Friday
2. It was the night HE came home to Haddonfield and high school student Laurie Strode became his obsession.  
  Independence Day
3. Garry Marshall's antepenultimate film, it featured vignettes all set on the same holiday.  
  Groundhog Day
4. A mother and daughter switched bodies thanks to a magical fortune cookie.  
  Halloween
5. Climate change caused a new ice age, flash-freezing much of the northern hemisphere.  
  The Day After Tomorrow
6. A fictional football team led by Al Pacino struggled behind the scenes.  
  Friday the 13th
7. A group of camp counsellors faced off against a disgruntled parent of a former camper.  
  April Fool's Day
8. The same day just kept repeating for a weatherman in this movie, one in the United States National Film Registry.  
  Valentine's Day
9. Muffy St. John invited her friends to an island getaway, but they found themselves getting killed off one by one-- by Muffy herself, perhaps?  
  Any Given Sunday
10. A teenager and two of his friends skipped school.  
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off





Select each answer

1. Taking place over three days, Earth had to face off against a powerful alien race, but the United States took centerstage.
2. It was the night HE came home to Haddonfield and high school student Laurie Strode became his obsession.
3. Garry Marshall's antepenultimate film, it featured vignettes all set on the same holiday.
4. A mother and daughter switched bodies thanks to a magical fortune cookie.
5. Climate change caused a new ice age, flash-freezing much of the northern hemisphere.
6. A fictional football team led by Al Pacino struggled behind the scenes.
7. A group of camp counsellors faced off against a disgruntled parent of a former camper.
8. The same day just kept repeating for a weatherman in this movie, one in the United States National Film Registry.
9. Muffy St. John invited her friends to an island getaway, but they found themselves getting killed off one by one-- by Muffy herself, perhaps?
10. A teenager and two of his friends skipped school.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Taking place over three days, Earth had to face off against a powerful alien race, but the United States took centerstage.

Answer: Independence Day

This 1996 film may have been one of director Roland Emmerich's greatest hits since it took in over $800,000,000 at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing films to date. Starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman, "Independence Day" followed several Americans over the first few days of July as aliens took position over Earth's major cities.

Its first sequel, "Independence Day: Resurgence", showed up in theatres twenty years later with Goldblum and Pullman reprising their roles.
2. It was the night HE came home to Haddonfield and high school student Laurie Strode became his obsession.

Answer: Halloween

This 1978 horror classic by John Carpenter featured the first appearance of icon Michael Myers and, in the role of Laurie Strode, inevitable scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis. "Halloween" became so popular as a franchise that it spawned several reboots and remakes in the decades following its original release in the late '70s.

In the original, a six-year-old murderer, then much older, escaped custody to return to Haddonfield to resume his killing spree. Laurie got caught in the mix. She would return in several sequels and the 2018 reimagining.
3. Garry Marshall's antepenultimate film, it featured vignettes all set on the same holiday.

Answer: Valentine's Day

Released in 2010, "Valentine's Day" featured a series of loosely-linked short scenes in which characters in an ensemble cast found love and the like. The movie was the first in a series of three Marshall made before passing away in 2016 (the next two being "New Year's Day" and "Mother's Day", both of which followed the same style).

The film made over $200,000,000 in the box office and was, interestingly, Taylor Swift's first cinematic appearance.
4. A mother and daughter switched bodies thanks to a magical fortune cookie.

Answer: Freaky Friday

The 2003 film "Freaky Friday", based on Disney's earlier adaptations (two of them, one in the 1970s and another in the 1990s) was a major hit for the company featuring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter unable to see eye to eye. Things changed, of course, thanks to a magical fortune cookie that allowed them to swap bodies until they were able to come to a common ground (which they did, thankfully, at a wedding rehearsal). Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role.
5. Climate change caused a new ice age, flash-freezing much of the northern hemisphere.

Answer: The Day After Tomorrow

Canada be damned-- in this movie, global warming caused catastrophe, enough to destroy the environment and cause mega-storms to instantly freeze all in its path in an effort to right itself. This movie, another Roland Emmerich classic, saw a group of people in New York trying to brave out the storm (led by Jake Gyllenhaal), a man (Dennis Quaid) trying to reunite with his son, and the Earth reeling from cinematic weather-related disasters.

It grossed more than $500,000,000 internationally. Emmerich followed it up with "2012", naturally.
6. A fictional football team led by Al Pacino struggled behind the scenes.

Answer: Any Given Sunday

This 2001 film followed the fictional Miami Sharks as a seasoned coach (played by Al Pacino) stepped in to shuffle things up and send the team to the playoffs. Written, directed, and produced by seasoned industry figure Oliver Stone, the movie also starred Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, Aaron Eckhart, Dennis Quaid, and LL Cool J and featured past NFL greats.

The movie was excessively long at nearly three hours in length, but took in over $100,000,000 in the box office.
7. A group of camp counsellors faced off against a disgruntled parent of a former camper.

Answer: Friday the 13th

In this 1980 slasher movie, camp counsellors returned to open up the long-closed Camp Crystal Lake following the death of one of the campers who spent the summer there, having drowned due to a bit of negligence on the counsellors' part. What resulted was a number of murders at the hand of a mysterious killer who-- spoilers-- turned out to be the boy's mother.

Not to fear-- the actual boy, Jason Voorhees, showed up in the sequels. Oh yeah, and the series had more than a dozen sequels from 1980 onwards, becoming one of the most well-known franchises in the genre.
8. The same day just kept repeating for a weatherman in this movie, one in the United States National Film Registry.

Answer: Groundhog Day

"Groundhog Day", a Bill Murray classic, involved a Pittsburgh weatherman who spent a great deal of time living his life, but only one day of it, over and over and over, trying to figure out a way to break free of the inexplicable time loop he got himself into.

The story has been repeated in several films and TV shows since its release in 1993 (including "Happy Death Day" and "Supernatural"). The movie was written and directed by Murray's "Ghostbusters" co-star Harold Ramis.
9. Muffy St. John invited her friends to an island getaway, but they found themselves getting killed off one by one-- by Muffy herself, perhaps?

Answer: April Fool's Day

One in a chain of holiday-themed horror movies in the 1980s ("Happy Birthday To Me" being a favourite of mine, along with "My Bloody Valentine"), "April Fool's Day" was a bit of a spoiler in and of itself as a title because this slasher film (with weirdly imaginative and dangerous 'kills') ended up being a big prank leading up to the gloriously-named Muffy St. John's revelation that she was using the island to demonstrate her idea for a weekend getaway murder mystery business.

The movie was remade as a straight-to-DVD horror film in 2008 though it didn't really follow the same story.
10. A teenager and two of his friends skipped school.

Answer: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

In this 1986 teen comedy, Matthew Broderick played the title role of Ferris Bueller, a teenager who was able to break the fourth wall throughout the film and get into some crazy hijinx with his closest friends, Cameron (played by Alan Ruck) and Sloane (played by Mia Sara). Written and directed by John Hughes, the movie played a big role on teen comedies in the 1980s and has since become a classic, lauded by critics and moviegoers in general.

It was added to the National Film Registry in 2014.
Source: Author kyleisalive

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