Unrelated Movies and TV Shows With Same Title [2] Quiz

Answer: Arthur

"Arthur", the animated series, premiered in 1996 and is based on the series of book by author Mc Brown; the title character is a bespectacled eight-year-old aardvark dealing with the same childhood concerns that an audience of human children might also be experiencing: too much homework, school bullies, strict teachers, etc.

It is the second longest-running children's animated series behind only "The Simpsons" which began in 1989. The movie "Arthur" (1981) was about a an extremely wealthy playboy played by Dudley Moore, who is also an alcoholic.

He is confronted with the choice of marrying for love or for money. His faithful butler (Hobson) was played by the legendary classical actor Sir John Gielgud who nearly steals the movie with his deadpan wry one-liners. Gielgud actually turned down the role several times but eventually relented when the money offered was an offer he couldn't refuse.

Answer: Monster

Charlize Theron won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying the serial killer Aileen Wuornos who made a habit of seducing men while she posed as a prostitute and then killing them. Wuornos was executed in 2002. In 2004, Ms. Theron won her Oscar on February 29th, which coincidentally was Wuornos' birthday.

The Japanese anime series ran from 2004 to 2005, and was about a neurosurgeon named Dr. Kenzo Tenma who defies hospital orders and saves the life of a boy who was brought in before the mayor was admitted to the hospital.

Answer: Primal

In "Primal", Nicolas Cage played big-game hunter Frank Walsh, who captures wild and exotic animals with the intention of selling them to zoos. While the animals are being transported on a cargo ship, a dangerous assassin is being extradited back to the United States on that same ship.

The original title was actually "Persona Non Grata" but Lionsgate studio (what better studio name to helm a big game film) decided that title was too unappealing from a marketing standpoint. While cave men and dinosaurs never co-existed, that didn't stop creator Genndy Tartakovsky from taking a stab at his tale "Primal". Impressively though, he does manage the accomplishment of creating a tale without the characters using words, but with growls and grunts.

It was the first series for the Cartoon Network Studios that was rated TV-14.

Answer: Hannibal

The 1959 sword and sandals epic called "Hannibal" focused on the Carthaginian general Hannibal, played by Victor Mature. The action takes place during the Second Punic War in 218 B.C. and the famous attack on the Roman Empire in which Hannibal led his army including elephants across the Pyrenees and Alp mountains, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Trebbia, but eventually realizes he won't be able to defeat all of Rome.

The TV show "Hannibal" was based on the Thomas Harris series of thrillers about Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter a genius serial killer played in various films by Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Aaran Thomas, and Gaspard Ulliel, but in the TV series "Hannibal" he was played by Mads Mikkelsen.

The structure of that TV series was a prequel to the novels and movies, and focuses on the co-investigative, co-analyzer tasks that Dr. Lecter and agent Will Graham had.

Answer: Survivor

In "Survivor", released in 2015, Milla Jovovich plays a Foreign Service employee, based in London's American Embassy, who is on the trail of the "Watchmaker" a notorious terrorist played by Pierce Brosnan in an about face from his former good guy agent James Bond character. Through a series of accidents Kate Abbott (Jovovich) becomes the prime suspect in the case investigating an attack on the Embassy. "Survivor", in case you've been living under a rock is still going strong after making its American debut in 2000, hosted by Jeff Probst.

The premise of the show is to plant a group of contestants in a remote location and have them undergo a series of competition as they form alliances and thinning out the participants in a series of votes designed to kick one of them off the island each week.

Answer: Donald Pleasance as deranged psychohypnotist using fear to "cure" patients (2013)

Donald Pleasance died in 1995, before any of these movies were made, real and fake. In Ray Liotta's "Unforgettable" he was framed for the murder of his wife, but was found not guilty. He's not only trying to find his wife's murderer, he's also trying to solve a related case involving a mass murderer.

In the Korean "Unforgettable" (as it was called in the USA, aka "Soonjung" in Korea), the DJ hosting the show about first loves, receives a letter while on the air that relates stories about a fishing village, arising his own memories of his past. And poor Rosario Dawson is being victimized by divorcee Katherine Heigl in the 2017 thriller that originally had actresses Kate Hudson and Kerry Washington in casting negotiations for those two roles.

Answer: Providence

Sir John Gielgud again, as Clive Langham suffering health problems as he tosses and turns in bed. Alain Resnais directed this very highly critically acclaimed film which examines the nature of creativity and the nature of memory. Providence here referred to the name of the estate where Gielgud lives as well as symbolizing the control he wields as he reimagines his characters and their outcomes. Melina Kanakaredes played Dr. Sydney Hansen in "Providence" the TV series, a medical drama. Dr. Hansen leaves Beverly Hills behind and moves back to her hometown in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives with her father played by Mike Farrell from "M*A*S*H*".

The show was notable for having an abrupt end to the series when several cast members chose not to return after the fifth season.

Answer: Instinct

All the wrong answers here are James Patterson novels. "Instinct" however, was based on the writer's book "Murder Games". In the TV "Instinct" Alan Cumming plays Dr. Dylan Reinhart, the university professor who is persuaded to help the NYPD find a serial killer who is inspired by, and basing his murders on Reinhart's book. Anthony Hopkins played Dr. Ethan Powell in the 1999 film "Instinct". Turns out that during that time he was missing he had been hanging out with the mountain gorillas of a jungle in a Ugandan forest.

He is convicted of killing several Park Rangers and thus imprisoned. Cuba Gooding, Jr. is the psychiatrist who tries to discover more about this case, and in so doing learns a lot about the history of mankind's nature.

Answer: 2011 baseball drama co-starring Gerald McRaney / 1950 TV comedy with William Bendix & William Frawley

That 2011 baseball drama with Gerald McRaney is a show called "The Umpire", and the 1950 project was actually a movie, not a TV show, called "Kill The Umpire". John Leguizamo's movie "Empire" was about a Bronx drug dealer who attempts to get out of the business and befriends a Wall Street broker to invest his money for him.

But when that ploy goes awry, Leguizamo seeks revenge. The Andy Warhol film "Empire" was made in 1965, and was a slow-motion shot of the Empire State Building. It was filmed at 24 frames per second, the normal film rate, but was shown in slow motion at 16 frames per second, so that its original six-and-a-half hour film was eight hours.

Answer: Scandal

The Michael Caton-Jones directed film "Scandal" (1989) starred John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley and Bridget Fonda. It was based on the real-life Profumo affair in which Secretary for War John Profumo had an extramarital affair with a 19-year-old young woman.

The scandal led to the Conservative Party losing the 1964 election. In the film Ian McKellen played Profumo and Joanne Whalley was the young model, Christine Keeler. The popular TV show "Scandal" starred Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope founder of a crisis management firm. Olivia becomes embroiled in an affair with the President of the United States, played by Tony Goldwyn. Ms. Washington won a Screen Actors Guild award in 2014 for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.