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1. This is a movie about a group of people brought together to decide another's fate. A certain Fonda and other fine actors face an emotional, sometimes angry, experience. Although not set in a bar, the test is in the glasses.
What is the name of this movie?
2. On Oct. 12, 1960, I made the television news for throwing a very public tantrum. I was the Premier of the Soviet Union, and I got so mad at a meeting of the United Nations that I took off my shoe and pounded the table with it!
Who am I?
3. "Alice in Wonderland" featured a character that was neither angry nor insane. Yet, he was called "The Mad Hatter". Why was he called by that name?
4. George and Lenny were two great characters from the pen of author John Steinbeck.
They appeared in a 1937 novel set in rural California. George seemed to be an angry man, venting his spleen often, but the gentle giant, Lenny, had a soothing effect upon George.
What is the name of this great work of American Literature?
5. Hey! Just think, you're sitting around, nothing to do except look at your phone or computer - suddenly you see a flock of birds attacking pigs. Looks like fun so you join in, flinging birds at the pigs that have stolen their eggs. You think it's a lot of fun, but what is it?
6. Suppose you have a problem with anger, who would you go to for help? Adam
Sandler? Jack Nicholson? That's who you'll get if you go to this 2003
movie. A nerdy man has to go to anger therapy and is assigned to a psycho
therapist. The movie shares its title with a Charlie Sheen TV series, but what is that title?
7. Some people, when they are angry with their boss, would like to say exactly what David Allen Coe wrote a song about, "Take This Job and Shove It". It was made famous by an outlaw singer in the '70s. What was this singer's name?
8. This Warner Bros. cartoon character was a small, red-haired and bad-tempered
westerner. He always seemed to express his anger by waving his six-guns in the air and shooting (and shouting).
From which national park did he get his name?
9. The Ringmaster was not the name of a TV show, but the nickname of the host of a very angry talk-show, one built on conflict. Belligerent guests arguing and fighting with each other made it necessary to have big security men to control them. The host had once been mayor of a large U. S. city. What was this show?
10. A group of playwrights and novelists became noted in the years following WWII in the '50s. They wrote critically of social issues in Britain, the mediocrity of the middle class, life seemed drab. The play, "Look Back in Anger", by John Osborne, is an example of this outlook. What were these young idealists called?
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