Answer: There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Move over, Sergio Aguero! Jimmy Grimble (Lewis Mackenzie) is a 15-year-old Manchester City fan who is being bullied at school by 'Gorgeous' Gordon, a David Beckham lookalike with a rich dad, who also happens to be one of the school's best footballers. He also has an awkward crush on his classmate Sara (played by Samia Ghadie of 'Coronation Street' fame). Harry (Ray Winstone), his mum's ex-boyfriend, regularly takes him to City games and he aspires to play for them himself. His luck changes when an old woman gives him a pair of boots that used to belong to one of City's players; the boots are not magical, but they have a psychological effect on Jimmy and he becomes more confident.
From Quiz: Football? That Depends . . .
Answer: Cast Away
"Cast Away" is a 2000 film starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Chuck Noland (Hanks) is an engineer for FedEx who experiences a crash landing in the Pacific Ocean. He is the only survivor and is marooned on a desert island with little food and only the wreckage from the plane to help him survive. He opens one of the packages and discovers a volleyball which he names Wilson. Not to spoil the movie but the saddest part of the story is when Chuck attempts an escape of the island and loses his faithful volleyball companion to the open sea.
From Quiz: "Balls " in the Movies
Answer: San Pedro
The town, specifically the beach, was referenced several times throughout the film, including near the beginning and end of the film when there are establishing shots of the beach.
The film followed Zach and Shawn who met each other in the surf, and eventually figured out they had an animal attraction to each other. The only problem was, they couldn't figure out how to work a relationship into their busy lives.
Zach was a 20-something who had to take care of his dysfunctional family and Shawn had a girlfriend.
Hijinx ensued as the pair figured out how, or if, their relationship would work.
From Quiz: Catch the Wave ...
Answer: Paris (1924)
The Games of the 8th Olympiad in Paris 1924 were the first to feature the famous Olympic motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' (Faster, Higher, Stronger). Built in 1907 (and later expanded for the Soccer World Cup in 1938), the Olympic Stadium in Colombes in the Nanterre Arrondissement in Paris was the venue for the opening ceremony, the running events dominated by the Finns and the English and several other sports. 'Chariots of Fire', with its memorable, Oscar winning theme song by Vangelis, follows the true story of English runners Abrahams (played by Ben Cross) and Liddell (Ian Charleson). Due to religious beliefs, Liddell refused to run his specialty event, the 100m sprint, as it was to be held on a Sunday. Events then allowed him to race in the 400m, which he subsequently won, despite not being favorite. Jewish-born Abrahams battled prejudice and became an elite sprinter and long jumper at Cambridge University. In Paris, he took Liddell's place in the 100m and won the gold medal, defeating the 1920 champion, Charley Paddock. Later in life Abrahams became a doctor, wrote books on the Olympics and was associated with the British team as a manager and a reporter. Liddell moved to China where he was a missionary, before dying of a brain tumor in 1945.
In addition to the Best Score, 'Chariots of Fire' won the Best Picture Oscar as well as Oscars for Best Writing and Best Costume Design at the 54th Academy Awards.
From Quiz: What's on at the Olympics?
Answer: Geordie
The film is also known as "Wee Geordie" (1955). Geordie is a Scots lad who takes up throwing the hammer as part of a campaign to become larger and stronger, and lose the "wee" prefix to his name. He is successful, and Bill Travers plays the adult Geordie who wins a spot on the British Olympic team going to Melbourne for the 1956 Games.
"It Happened in Athens" (1962) concerns itself with the Marathon at the 1896 Olympics. "Chariots of Fire" (1981) is about two runners at the Paris Olympics in 1924, while "Walk, Don't Run" (1966) features race walking at the Tokyo Olympics of 1964.
From Quiz: Sports on the Silver Screen
Answer: Hoosiers
The 1986 film "Hoosiers" was about a fictional coach named Norman Dale, played by Gene Hackman, leading a small town Hickory High School to the Indiana state basketball championship. This movie was based on Milan, Indiana High School's journey to the 1954 Indiana state basketball championship.
From Quiz: Movies About Basketball
Answer: Pisces
The team changed the name after revamping the teams with players that all had the same astrological sign of Pisces. This movie also starred Jonathan Winters, Stockard Channing and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar.
From Quiz: Name the Sports Team
Answer: Buster Keaton
A pampered rich man's son is sent to the mountains to 'be a man'. There he meets a beautiful girl that he falls in love with. Her father is reluctant until he mistakes him for the boxer with the same name. He must then fight to get his girl.
Keaton is one of the giants of silent screen comedies.
From Quiz: Boxing Films
Answer: Nuke
The Durham Bulls is a minor league baseball team where washed up players come to end their career and up and coming stars come to shine. One such player is Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh, played by Tim Robbins. He is a pitcher who has some talent but justs act a little crazy on the playing field. To calm him down there is the catcher named Crash Davis, played by Kevin Costner. He is at the end of his career, and is not afraid to push situations to the limit on and off the field. Question by TechHammer.
From Quiz: Sports Movies
Answer: Skiing
Robert Redford starred in this 1969 offering about a maverick member of the US ski team. Gene Hackman had the unenviable task of trying to mould him into the team ethos.
From Quiz: Sport on the Silver Screen
Answer: Jake LaMotta
'Raging Bull' (1980) was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Robert De Niro in an Oscar-winning performance as former world champion boxer Jake LaMotta. Jake LaMotta, aka The Bronx Bull, won the world middleweight championship in 1949.
From Quiz: Boxing in Film
Answer: Bear Bryant
Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks, has a penchant for running...he just doesn't know when to stop. This doesn't matter to Paul 'Bear' Bryant, coach of the Alabama football team, however, just as long as Forrest runs through the endzone.
From Quiz: Football in Film
Answer: Anna Kournikova
Anna never won a major tennis tournament in her rather short career, and her world ranking usually fell just under 300th. Despite her mediocre tennis career, her good looks translated into calendar and poster sales, making her the most recognizable face in women's tennis. After landing the small part of a motel manager in "Me, Myself, and Irene", Anna went on to increase her celebrity status by appearing in the Enrique Iglesias video for "Escape". Anna also consistently placed in several magazine's sexiest women lists, including being named the "Sexiest Woman in the World" by the Australian version of "FHM" in 2002. Kournikova retired from tennis in 2004 due to chronic lower back pain.
From Quiz: From Athlete To Actor
Answer: Wildcats
Goldie Hawn was comical as Molly. My favorite part of the movie was at the end when all the football stars are singing and Goldie sings, "Football..."
James Keach plays her ex-husband, who is determined to either take Molly's job, or their two daughters away from her.
Nipsey Russell plays Ben Edwards, 'right...'
From Quiz: Are You Ready For Some Football?
Answer: Billy Dee Williams
Mekhi Phifer played Gale Sayers in the 2001 remake, however, he did not star in any "Star Wars" movies. Billy Dee Williams and James Caan played Sayers and ill-fated teammate Brian Piccolo in the made-for-TV classic.
From Quiz: Sports at the Theatre
Answer: Frank Thomas
In his only film appearance of any kind, Frank plays the new first baseman.
From Quiz: Baseball in Movies
Answer: The Champ
This classic movie tells the story of an alcoholic ex-boxing champion and his relationship with his son.
From Quiz: Boxing At The Movies
Answer: Harold Lloyd
The film, which was called 'College Days' in the UK, describes a hapless college student's attempts to make the football team.
From Quiz: Football At The Movies
Answer: Bushwood
Judge Smails tried to keep Rodney Dangerfield out.
From Quiz: Movies With Sports
Answer: ping pong
1994 winner of best picture. A Paramount production.
From Quiz: Movies and Sports
Answer: James Caan
The story of Brian Piccolo and Gayle Sayers.
From Quiz: Football Movies and Actors
Answer: Kirk Douglas
Good job for young Kirk
From Quiz: Movies About Sports
Answer: Green Street
Mordor has nothing on the Boleyn Ground when the Green Street Elite firm are there, as former journalism student Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood, who also played Frodo in the 'Lord of the Rings' films) discovers. He goes to a football match with his brother-in-law's friend Pete (Charlie Hunnam), the leader of the Green Street Elite. Matt becomes a member after some of the GSE rescue him from a pack of Birmingham City fans. However, things get seriously dark when the GSE go head-to-head with a rival firm, the NTO, culminating in Pete's death at their hands of their leader. ('The Hammers' is the nickname for West Ham United, who formerly played at the Boleyn Ground aka Upton Park, and whose symbol is a pair of hammers, as they formed at an ironworks. 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles', which Matt sings at the end, is their theme tune.)
From Quiz: Football? That Depends . . .
Answer: Dodgeball
"Billy Madison" is a 1995 comedy directed by Tamra Davis and starring Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, and Bridgette Wilson. Billy is born into a rich family but is forced to return to grade school to prove that he could pass all 12 grades and earn the right to run his father's company. Billy completes each grade in two-week intervals and makes friends with kids in the 3rd grade. In one scene however, Billy takes on the elementary kids in dodgeball making a number of them cry. Ultimately, Billy graduates, wins the company, and the love of his 3rd grade teacher.
From Quiz: "Balls " in the Movies
Answer: bowling
Well, we can name tons of movies about football, e.g. "North Dallas Forty" released in 1979; movies about tennis include "Wimbledon" (2004) and "Match Point" (2005); surprisingly, there are even rowing movies like "Miracle at Oxford" (2004) and "The Sixth Sense" (1999) where Bruce Willis' character had been a rower, but bowling? One of the best bowling films of all time would have to be "The Big Lebowski" from 1998, directed by the Coen Brothers. Jeff Bridges played Jeff Lebowski "the Dude", an easy-going likeable burnout who happens to get confused with a millionaire (with the same name) whose wife owes a lot of people a lot of money.
From Quiz: Sports Movies Too
Answer: Rubin Carter
"The Hurricane" is a 1999 movie about middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937-2014) who was arrested in 1966 for a triple homicide at a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. He was tried and convicted twice (in both 1967 and 1976); however, the verdict was overturned in 1985 and the case was not prosecuted a third time. In the film, Denzel Washington played Carter as the innocent man who wrongly served 20 years in jail. The wrong choices are: Jake LaMotta ("Raging Bull"), Rocky Graziano (the subject of "Somebody Up There Likes Me") and Charley Davis, the fictional boxer in 1947's "Body and Soul".
From Quiz: Sports Films
Answer: Point Break
Reeves starred as FBI agent Johnny Utah. Patrick Swayze led the surf loving gang of misfits as they hung out on beaches with their surfboards and planned their next bank robbery.
The gang was named because each wore a rubber mask with the face of a former U.S. President during the bank robberies.
During the movie Utah went undercover on the beaches to gain entry into the gang, all the while searching for enough information to catch the crooks in the act.
From Quiz: Catch the Wave ...
Answer: Charlie Chan
Warner Oland played many roles before coming to widespread renown playing Dr Fu Manchu. He first played Charlie Chan in the 1931 film 'Charlie Chan Carries On'. The popularity of this character led to Oland continuing this role for another 15 films. 'Charlie Chan at the Olympics' was notable in that it featured the ill-fated air-ship, the Hindenberg, within the Berlin Olympics. Chan eventually found the guidance system for the Hopkins plane and caught the perpetrators of the crime, just in time to see his son, Lee, win the 100m freestyle gold medal. Charlie Chan, created by American playwright and novelist Earl Derr Biggers, was a fictional Chinese American detective. Chan was based in Honolulu but traveled widely to solve the often perplexing crimes with which he was confronted. Biggers deliberately created Chan, a very positive role model, to counteract the 'yellow peril' atmosphere unjustly facing many Asian people in western society at that time.
From Quiz: What's on at the Olympics?
Answer: Babe Ruth
The movie is about Lou Gehrig, played by Gary Cooper, and how baseball's Iron Horse is cut down by disease. Babe Ruth appears as himself, Gehrig's teammate on the Yankees.
Mantle and Maris are from a younger generation, and appear in "Safe at Home" (1962) as themselves.
There is an entire room in the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, NY, devoted to baseball movies.
From Quiz: Sports on the Silver Screen
Answer: Angels in the Outfield
In the original 1951 "Angels in the Outfield", Guffy McGovern played by Paul Douglas makes a deal with a heavenly being to both behave better and try to get his team to also change their behavior in exchange for angelic assistance.
From Quiz: Baseball in the Movies
Answer: Rudy
The 1993 movie "Rudy" was based on the story of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger and the pursuit of his dream of playing football for the University of Notre Dame. Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger was a mill worker from Joliet, Illinois. He didn't possess the financial means or academic ability to attend the University of Notre Dame. And since he was small and not physically gifted, he wasn't able to earn a football scholarship. Rudy moved to South Bend, Indiana after his best friend died to pursue his football dreams. After two years of studying at a local junior college, Rudy was accepted to the University of Notre Dame and earned a spot on the football team's practice squad. Through his hard work on the practice squad, he was allowed to play in one game his senior year.
From Quiz: College Sports in Movies
Answer: Blue Chips
"Blue Chips" was a film about the basketball program at a fictional Western University. Head Coach Pete Bell, played by Nick Nolte, was under pressure to bring his Dolphin team back to its winning ways. So Bell decided to enlist the help of a "friend of the program" booster to help him land several "blue chip" recruits such as Neon Boudeaux (played by Shaquille O'Neal) and Butch McRae (played by Anfernee Hardaway).
From Quiz: Movies About Basketball
Answer: Texas State Armadillos
ESPN's Chris Berman actually introduces the Texas State Armadillos in a sports segment at the beginning of the movie, as the team that went from "Champs to Chumps". Kathy Ireland was the starting kicker for this team of misfits that included Sinbad and Scott Bateman.
From Quiz: Name the Sports Team
Answer: Jackie Cooper
King Vidor directed the film which also had a nomination for Best Picture. The film proved a transition for Beery into similar roles and established hims as a strong character actor. Cooper was able to parley this early success into a long film and television career. At age nine he was the youngest to be nominated for a supporting actor award for "The Champ". Cooper's 1982 auto- biography was called "Please Don't Shoot My Dog" based on a scene in "Skippy" in which a director threatened to do just that if he did not cry in a scene. Later Cooper was to do two television series and played Perry White, Clark Kent's editor, in the "Superman" series.
In 1979 "The Champ" was remade starring Jon Voight and Ricky Schroder.
From Quiz: Boxing Films
Answer: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Denzel Washington plays Coach Herman Boone from Alexandria, Virginia and T.C. Williams High School. To try and get his team together and help ease racial relations, the team was brought to Gettysburg College as a getaway from the problems they had lived in and would return to after camp. As an example of how they could work their problems out, Boone took his team and coaching staff on a pre-dawn run through the woods with the destination being a battlefield from the Civil War. Part of his speech to the team included this quote "If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don't care if you like each other of not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, maybe we'll learn to play this game like men". Question by Illini43.
From Quiz: Sports Movies
Answer: Pool
The movie was made in 1980 and starred James Coburn, Omar Sharif and Bruce Boxleitner. Coburn played a fading pool star who took the fledgling hustler Boxleitner under his wing.
From Quiz: Sport on the Silver Screen
Answer: John Avildsen
John Avildsen also directed such films as 'Save the Tiger', 'Lean on Me' and 'The Karate Kid'. 'Rocky' earned Academy Awards for Best Directing, Best Film Editing and Best Picture. Sylvester Stallone was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Writing, but garnered neither award.
From Quiz: Boxing in Film
Answer: Spearchucker
G. Wood plays Brigadier General Charlie Hammond, who makes a bet with Lt. Colonel Henry Blake about who will win the football game. Fred Williamson, a former NFL star, plays the role of Spearchucker Jones, who helps the 4077th win the game in the second half.
From Quiz: Football in Film
Answer: Fred Dryer
The number one draft choice of the New York Giants in 1969, Fred Dryer's football career didn't take off until he moved to the L.A. Rams in 1972. After retiring from football in 1981, Dryer became a full time actor, landing the role of Milt Cooperman in the 1981 television movie "The Star Maker". After a couple of other TV movies and an appearance as a policeman in "Cannonball Run 2", Dryer landed the lead role on the NBC detective series, "Hunter", playing loose cannon, Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter from 1984 to 1991. Dryer took his action status to the movie theaters, playing his first leading role in the 1987 movie "Death Before Dishonor". Some TV fans may also recognize him for his recurring role on "Cheers" as sportscaster Dave Richards.
From Quiz: From Athlete To Actor
Answer: Billy Fox
While La Motta won the belt from Cerdan and lost it to Robinson, it was Fox that mafia gangsters asked Jake to lose to. Robert DeNiro won the Oscar that year for his gritty portrayal of La Motta.
From Quiz: Sports at the Theatre
