Everyone Saw These Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Feet

In the movie "Big" (1988), the plot has 12-year-old Josh wishing that he were "big" because he is too short to ride a roller coaster. He is particularly put out because he was trying to impress a girl at the time. So, he drops some change into a fortune telling machine at the carnival and says he wants to be big. A card comes out of the machine that says "your wish is granted" despite the fact that the machine is unplugged at the time. By morning, he has grown physically into an adult's body. His mother chases him out because she thinks that he is a stranger who kidnapped her son. Josh finds his best friend Billy and convinces him who he is. Billy then works to track down the fortune telling machine because the carnival has moved on.

The grown Josh is then forced to get a job as a data entry clerk with a toy company. The owner of the company appreciates Josh's child-like insights into product development. In one scene, Josh and the toy company owner play a duet on an oversized piano by dancing across the keyboard with their feet. "Chopsticks" and "Heart And Soul" are played on the big keyboard by the two. While Josh works at the toy company, Billy locates the carnival, and Josh leaves a meeting to return to the fortune telling machine, where he unplugs it and wishes to be a kid again. His wish is granted by the end of the movie.

Answer: Steven Spielberg

"Saving Private Ryan" is a 1998 movie directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie stars Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain Miller, along with his squad of seven men (played by Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they try to rescue Private James Ryan (played by Matt Damon).

The movie opens with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. During the fighting, two Ryan brothers are killed in action. Another Ryan brother is killed around the same time while fighting in New Guinea. Their mother is scheduled to receive three telegrams on the same day about the deaths of her sons. US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall is given the opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother who is fighting for the US. He orders Captain Miller to go out to find Private James Ryan and take him home to his mother.

Answer: False

"The Silence of the Lambs" was a thriller that was released in 1991. There are two main threads in the story. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, is a serial killing cannibal who is in jail at the beginning of the movie. When the movie opens, another serial killer, nicknamed Buffalo Bill, is on the loose in the community where Lecter is housed. The FBI sends a young agent named Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) to interview Lecter in an attempt to learn more about the mind of serial killers, and to use that information to solve the latest crimes. The first thread in the movie is mainly about the developing relationship between Lecter and Starling.

The second thread in the story is mainly about the other serial killer, Buffalo Bill. He kidnaps young women and keeps them in a pit in the basement of his house before killing them some time later. At one point, he kidnaps a young woman named Catherine who happens to be the daughter of a Senator. Lecter is taken to meet the Senator on the pretext of helping her but essentially he just taunts her. During the trip, he is forced to wear a straight jacket that is strapped to a dolly. He is also forced to wear a mask over the lower half of his face that included small metal bars over his mouth. All of this was to prevent him from injuring the guards who were responsible for his transfer, or the Senator with whom he was meeting.

Answer: The Scarecrow

"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) is a classic that starred Judy Garland (Dorothy), Frank Morgan (Professor Marvel, also the Wizard of Oz/Gatekeeper/Carriage Driver/Guard), Ray Bolger (Hunk and the Scarecrow), Bert Lahr (Zeke and the Cowardly Lion), and Jack Haley (Hickory and the Tin Man). Dorothy's adventures begin when she is transported to the Land of Oz with her dog Toto during a tornado. The house that she had been in landed on an evil witch who wore ruby slippers. She is told by a good witch named Glinda that the Wizard of Oz can help her find her way home. Glinda also makes it possible for Dorothy to get the ruby slippers to wear. So, Dorothy sets out down the Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard of Oz.

Along the way, Dorothy has a number of adventures and meets up with some odd characters. The first is the Scarecrow. He appears to be a live scarecrow, stuck up on a pole in a corn field. Dorothy helps him down, at which time he declares that he only wants a brain. They later meet up with the Tin Man who wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion who wants courage.

Once the four characters make their way to the Wizard, he agrees to take Dorothy home in his hot air balloon. Unfortunately, Toto jumps out just before lift off. Dorothy chases her dog and the Wizard leaves without her. Glinda reappears at that point at tells her to tap the heels of her ruby slippers together while repeating "there's no place like home". Dorothy is transported back home where she is being cared for by her aunt and uncle. Their farm hands arrive too, all of whom resemble the characters in Oz. It becomes apparent at that point that Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz were actually dreams that she had while recuperating from a bump on her head.

Answer: Tim Robbins

The film "Fargo" was released in 1996. The story follows Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) who manages an Oldsmobile dealership that is owned by his father-in-law. Lundegaard is desperate for money, so he travels to Fargo, North Dakota to hire two crooks (played by Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife. He figures that if he receives a ransom demand, that his father-in-law will pay out, thus relieving his financial stress. He gives the crooks a new car for their troubles.

Lundegaard's wife is kidnapped, but the crooks are stopped by a police officer for having incorrect dealer plates on the car. They shoot the officer, as well as two witnesses. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) is the heavily pregnant police chief in town. She begins investigating as soon as the victims of the shootings are discovered. The chief realizes that the killers had been pulled over for the dealer plate issue. She learns that two men with a dealer plate recently checked into a local motel with two call girls. Using this information, she is led on a chase that takes her to the cabin where the crooks had been hanging out.

The end of this movie is particularly gruesome. When Chief Gunderson pulls up to the cabin where the criminals had been hiding out, she finds that one has killed the other and is feeding his body into a wood chipper. That criminal is arrested after he tries to flee and she shoots him in the leg. Lundegaard is arrested a short time later outside a motel in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Answer: House On Haunted Hill

Drew Barrymore started her acting career when she was eleven months of age. At that time, she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was still young, she appeared as Gertie in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" in 1982. This film is about an alien who makes contact with humans when he is left behind on Earth. Barrymore was seven-years-old at that time. As a side note, Steven Spielberg is her godfather.

Barrymore continued to act in the science fiction genre in her next film, "Fire Starter". This film was released in 1984. It is based on the Steven King novel about a girl who develops pyrokinesis and the government agency that attempts to control her.

In 1996, Barrymore played Casey Becker in "Scream". This movie moved away from science fiction into the horror/slasher genre. Barrymore's character is killed and dis-embowelled before being hung from a tree early in this movie.

"The House on Haunted Hill" is a 1959 horror movie starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig and Elisha Cook Jr. Drew Barrymore was not born until 1975, so this is well before her time.

Answer: 1955

In "Back to the Future" (1985), teenager Mart McFly (played by Michael J. Fox), is accidentally transported back in time when he gets into a time-travelling DeLorean that has been invented by his eccentric friend Emmett "Doc" Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd). He ends up in 1955 where he inadvertently interferes with his parents falling in love. He needs to correct this and get them to fall in love, or his own existence will be threatened.

"Back to the Future" was extremely successful. It was filmed on a $19 million budget, and made $388.8 million at the box office. The film's success resulted in two sequels, "Back to the Future Part II" (1989) and "Back to the Future Part III" (1990).

Answer: Jenny

"Forest Gump" (1994) stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and Sally Field. Hanks plays an innocent and kind young man with a IQ of 75 who is from Alabama. In the first scene, he can be seen waiting for a bus. As he sits in the bench, he tells various strangers the story of his life. When he was a child, he was often bullied, but had a friend named Jenny who often tried to protect him.

When it is discovered that he could run fast, Gump is offered a football scholarship at college. Upon leaving college, he serves in Vietnam, runs a shrimp boat, and becomes a championship ping pong player. He briefly reunites with his childhood friend Jenny at some point. The two make love, but she leaves him alone during the night.

Gump is heartbroken, so he goes on a run. He just keeps running for no reason for three years. During one of his chats with a stranger, he reveals that he is there because he received a letter from Jenny inviting him for a visit. When he arrives at her place, he discovers that she is sick, but he also learns that he as a son. They marry, but she dies a year later.

Answer: Rain Man

"Rain Man", starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, was released in 1988. Cruise plays a collectibles dealer named Charlie Babbit. At the beginning of the movie, he is engaged in a risky venture to import and sell some Lamborghini vehicles. Unfortunately, the sale is delayed because they do not pass emissions tests. The buyers have given down payments, but he has spent the money, so he is in dire financial straights.

Charlie gets word that his father has passed away, so he heads to Cincinnati from Los Angeles to settle the estate. He assumes that he will inherit a large sum of money that will help to repay his debts. However, when he arrives in Ohio, he finds out that his father has left him only some heritage rose bushes and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible. He is told that $3 million from the estate has been designated to a trust fund at a local mental institution. He discovers that he has an older brother named Raymond Babbit who lives in the institution because of his mental disorder, and a savant syndrome that he has.

In an attempt to take control of the trust fund to help his own situation, Charlie takes Raymond from the institution to go back to Los Angeles. However, Raymond won't fly, so they drive. The trip is not easy because Raymond must stick to his routines. Charlie learns that due to his savant syndrome, Raymond is able to count hundreds of things at the same time. They stop in Las Vegas and win $86,000 counting cards before they are asked to leave the casino. This is enough to repay Charlie's creditors.

At one point, Charlie realizes that his older brother Raymond lived at the family home when they were young. Charlie remembers a "Rain Man" that he had always assumed was an imaginary friend, but who was probably Raymond. At the end of the movie, Raymond moves back to the mental hospital and Charlie promises to visit in the near future.

Answer: It was the last movie directed by Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980 at the age of 80. "Family Plot" was the last film that he directed before he died. It was released in the US in 1976. This movie stars Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane. The movie tells the story of two couples. One is a pair of fake psychics/investigators. They are hired by an heiress to find the adult son of her sister who was given up for adoption when he was a baby. She promises $10,000 if the young man is found.

Through the course of their investigation, it is discovered that the boy's name was Edward Shoebridge and he was thought to have died quite young. However, viewers know that he murdered his adoptive parents, faked his own death and is now a jeweller going by the name of Arthur Adamson in San Fransisco. There, he and his girlfriend kidnap millionaires and hold them for ransom. Ransoms are demanded in the form of precious gems.

The investigating couple continue to work. She eventually finds the kidnapping couple just as they are leaving home with their latest victim. Unfortunately, her husband is not with her, so she is bound and kidnapped by the kidnappers. In the meantime, the investigator goes looking for his girlfriend. He finds her car at the kidnapper's house, breaks in, and devises a plan with his girlfriend just before the kidnappers get home. The plan works, the kidnappers are captured, and the investigators claim the reward for their capture.

This movie was mainly positively received by critics who appreciated the mix of comedy and drama in the film. The movie was made on a $4.5 million budget, and brought in $13 million at the box office, so it was a financial success. As with all of his other movies, Hitchcock made a cameo in "Family Plot". At the forty-minute mark, he appears in silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths.