Movie Occupations Trivia

1. What is the name of the knight hero in the movie "DragonHeart"?

From Quiz A Knight At The Movies

Answer: Bowen

Bowen is a knight and dragon-slayer in the film "DragonHeart". In the movie, Bowen is forced to work with Draco, the last dragon on Earth, to fight against an evil king. It is a film that was released in 1996. Draco was created using computer generated imagery (CGI). Dennis Quaid played the part of the knight Bowen, and Sean Connery voiced the part of the dragon Draco. During filming, the crew used a long pole with markers at the top that indicated where Draco's eyes would be when the CGI was inserted into the film. This allowed Quaid as the knight Bowen to look as though he was giving eye-contact to the dragon throughout the film. The budget for the movie was $57 million, and it made $115.3 million at the box office, so it was well-received by fans when it was released.

From Quiz Veils on the Silver Screen: Nuns in Films

Answer: Black Narcissus

Released in 1947, at the time that India became independent from British rule, "Black Narcissus" spins a tale in which the elements, the political climate and emotional issues work against the mission of a group of nuns commissioned to minister to poverty-ridden mountain inhabitants. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron, respectively, portray the Sister Superior and the most difficult nun in her charge.

From Quiz Help! It's on Fire!

Answer: Steve McQueen

The fictional Glass Tower, as the building is known, is the tallest building in the world. It is magnificent in design but it was poorly constructed. When a fire breaks out on the 81st floor it threatens the lives of a host of people including a large party commemorating its opening on the top floor. The San Francisco Fire Department is overworked and ill-equipped to deal with this disaster and Chief Michael O'Halloran (Steve McQueen) must work closely with the Tower's designer (Paul Newman) to save the day. "The Towering Inferno" was the highest grossing film of 1974, received eight Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), and was the first occasion that two major Hollywood studios (20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.) co-produced a motion picture. This question was created by Phoenix Rising team member pollucci19.

From Quiz Day Jobs

Answer: Cruciverbalist

In case you are not familiar with the word, a cruciverbalist is someone who writes and designs crossword puzzles. Bullock plays one of these. Thinking she is in love with 'Steve', a television camera man (played by Bradley Cooper) she follows him on his assignments. This film was panned by critics and moviegoers alike. It won two Razzie awards for Bullock as worst actress and Bullock and Bradley Cooper as worst screen couple. Additional nominations for Razzies were for direction, screenplay, and film. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 7%. It 'lost' worst picture to some "Transformer" movie.

From Quiz U.S. Coast Guard in the Movies

Answer: The Guardian

"The Guardian" has old salt rescue swimmer played by Kevin Costner testing, training and then passing the baton on to a new hero played by Ashton Kutcher. For a few years after release of this movie, the Coast Guard used "Guardians" to refer to members of the service before reverting to the traditional "Coastguardsmen" or "Coasties".

From Quiz Who Took Up the Habit?

Answer: Shirley MacLaine

Hogan becomes suspicious of the sister when he sees her smoking cigars and sipping whiskey. Turns out she is a prostitute masquerading as a nun in order to travel more safely. And Hogan is not what he appears to be either, but you will have to watch the movie for the rest of the story. What an illustrious film career MacLaine has had. I especially loved her in "Steel Magnolias." She received several awards for her character of Aurora Greenway in "Terms of Endearment" in 1983. Besides her film career, she has done theater, danced, sang, authored books and been involved in activist pursuits.

From Quiz Books (and Bookworms) on Film

Answer: Philadelphia

While all the listed films centered at least in part on the AIDS epidemic, this 1993 film garnered the first of two consecutive Best Actor Academy Award for Hanks as an AIDS-infected lawyer suing his firm over being fired (he won for 'Forrest Gump' the following year). Only Spencer Tracy accomplished that feat before. Bruce Springsteen also garnered an Oscar for his original song 'Streets of Philadelphia'. The scene with Hanks and Walter (you may remember from 'Conan the Destroyer', 'Batman' and dozens of other movies) was filmed at the Furness Fine Arts building at the University of Pennsylvania.

From Quiz Preachers In Movies

Answer: Harry Powell

Robert Mitchum played Harry Powell, a marrying and murdering psycho who hid his wicked ways behind the disguise of a fire and brimstone preacher. Ben Harper was awaiting hanging for a bank robbery gone bad, and he refused to tell his cellmate, Preacher, where the loot was stashed. As soon as Preacher was released, he made a beeline for Harper's widow and two young children, John and Pearl. The children soon became Preacher's prey as he tracked them across the countryside in a harrowing, unrelenting chase in "Night of the Hunter". This was the only film that acting great Charles Laughton ever directed. Years later, Robert Mitchum would say that Laughton was the best director he ever worked with. "Night of the Hunter" was based on the novel by David Grubb. Besides Mitchum, the cast included Peter Graves as Ben Harper, Shelley Winters as Willa, Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce as the Harper children, and Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper.

From Quiz Artists in the Movies

Answer: Michelangelo

Directed by Sir Carol Reed, Charlton Heston submits his usual performance as the honest and upright, but tormented lead character, in this case Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine Renaissance sculptor. Rex Harrison appears as the incredibly demanding Pope Julius II in the film, and the artist Raphael makes an appearance as well, played by Tomas Milian.

From Quiz Occupations In The Movies

Answer: Professional wrestler

In the book he was a professional wrestler known as The Dunce.

From Quiz Artists and Musicians in the Movies

Answer: Kirk Douglas

With Lauren Bacall and Doris Day.

From Quiz A Knight At The Movies

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott published the novel "Ivanhoe" in 1819. The movie basically follows the story that is laid out in the book where Richard the Lionheart, King of England, vanishes. The knight Ivanhoe searches for him and attempts to rescue him. In the meantime, Richard's brother has taken the throne. There's lots of jousting between knights and a love story before Richard regains his position on the throne. The part of Ivanhoe was played by Robert Taylor in this MGM movie.

From Quiz Veils on the Silver Screen: Nuns in Films

Answer: In This House of Brede

The fictional Brede Abbey, based on Stanbrook Abbey in Sussex, is a contemplative Benedictine abbey. The strong and capable Philippa, widowed and with no living children, follows her vocation and does it well, but not without coming to terms with the pain of having lost her child...a grief which strikes her anew because of a young woman who enters the convent a few years behind Philippa. Note: This quiz author highly recommends both the film and the book of the same title--but don't compare them; both can be enjoyed on their own merit. The book's main story was greatly simplified to fit into movie format and not all of the many subplots of the book made it onto the screen.

From Quiz Help! It's on Fire!

Answer: Cyrano de Bergerac

The movie is more about love than fire, but although most of the part-time firemen of the team are comically incompetent, they do manage to rise to the occasion when C.D. Bales (Steve Martin), with his Cyrano de Bergerac trademark nose, sniffs out a fire in town and the crew save the day. This question was created by Phoenix Rising member smpdit.

From Quiz Day Jobs

Answer: Nurse

His girl friend's father, played by Robert De Niro, is a macho type with a CIA background and looks with distain on Stiller's chosen profession. Add to that Stiller's character's last name Greg Focker, his penchant to be accident prone, and the disappearance of the family cat. The situation was funny enough to spawn at least two sequels.

From Quiz U.S. Coast Guard in the Movies

Answer: I Am Legend

"I Am Legend" shows the struggles of a sole survivor after a man-made pathogen has mutated everyone else to feral subhumans. At the beginning of the plague, Dr. Neville (Will Smith) loads his family into a CG helicpoter for evacuation from Manhattan, only to watch them die as the helo crashes during a bombing raid to destroy the bridges and isolate the island.

From Quiz Books (and Bookworms) on Film

Answer: Pleasantville

David (Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) are transported by a remote control (given to them by an old TV repairman played by Don Knotts) into a 1950s TV show about small town life and values, while they assume the characters of Bud and Mary Sue Parker. They soon learn the idyllic lifestyle comes at a price, when they find all of the books are blank until they remember passages which then magically appear on the pages. The new books also have an interesting side effect...those who take in the new literature begin to change from black-and-white to color.

From Quiz Artists in the Movies

Answer: Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek shines in her Oscar-nominated performance as the long-suffering beauty Frida Kahlo, surrealist artist extraordinaire. For her outstanding performance in the film, Selma Hayek was awarded one of Kahlo's own necklaces by a living relative of the artist.

From Quiz Occupations In The Movies

Answer: Waitress

From Quiz Painters At The Movies

Answer: Gerard Philipe

Gerard Philipe (1922-1959) died of liver cancer soon after the release of the movie.

From Quiz Artists and Musicians in the Movies

Answer: Beethoven

The Mozart movie was 'Amadeus'.

From Quiz A Knight At The Movies

Answer: John Cleese

The Monty Python comedy group created this hilarious movie in 1975 using a parody of the legend of King Arthur and the holy grail. Each of the Monty Python actors plays multiple parts in the movie. For example, John Cleese who plays a major role as Sir Lancelot also plays the Black Knight, the French Taunter, and Tim the Enchanter, as well as some minor roles. Perhaps because each actor played multiple roles thus keeping costs down, this movie's budget was only $400,000. It made $5 million at the box office, so is a very successful knight movie. In the US in 2011, it was voted as the second best comedy movie of all time. In the UK in 2000, it was voted the fifth best comedy movie of all time.

From Quiz Help! It's on Fire!

Answer: An Ex-WWII Bomber plane

One of Steven Spielberg's lesser known movies starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and a Douglas A-26 Invader fire bomber, "Always" (1989) was a romantic comedy and a remake of the 1943 romantic drama "A Guy Named Joe". Both Spielberg and Dreyfuss were inspired by this older movie when they were younger, and when they were both on the set of "Jaws" (1974) they traded quotes from the movie and made a pact to re-make the movie. "Always" was also notable as it was Audrey Hepburn's last movie. This question was created by Phoenix Rising member 1nn1.

From Quiz Day Jobs

Answer: Basketball referee

In this very underrated romantic comedy, Crystal stars and also directs, with Debra Winger as his independent wife. As a professional referee, Crystal is on the road much of the time and when he is home, he finds himself a caretaker of Winger's confused father played by William Hickey in one of his last performances. The ups and downs of their relationship is told around a dinner party with Richard Mazur and Julie Kavner.

From Quiz U.S. Coast Guard in the Movies

Answer: Yours, Mine and Ours

"Yours, Mine and Ours" follows the comic turmoil caused by blending two large families headed by very different single parents. The 2005 version received extensive cooperation from the Coast Guard, with filming taking place on various ships and stations throughout the country.

From Quiz Espionage in Movies I

Answer: Maj. John André

"The Scarlet Coat" captured the ambivalence of the American officers about executing the charming André, who was disguised as an American officer when he foolishly revealed his true identity to three renegade American soldiers. André was returning from a clandestine meeting with American Gen. Benedict Arnold at West Point and was carrying documents from Arnold detailing his plans to surrender the fort to the British. He was executed primarily because the British had previously executed the American spy Nathan Hale. However, despite Sturges' direction, the movie had little to recommend it other than one of the best-known performances of Elizabeth Taylor's second husband, Michael Wilding, as André.

From Quiz Books (and Bookworms) on Film

Answer: Breakfast At Tiffany's

This 1961 film about separate social and private lives was based on a novel by Truman Capote. Hepburn, as the irrepressible Golightly, was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar in 1962, but lost to Sophia Loren for 'Two Women'. The big Oscar winner was Henry Mancini for his music score and original song, 'Moon River'.

From Quiz Preachers In Movies

Answer: Jean Simmons

Based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, "Elmer Gantry" was the story of a con man who teamed up with an evangelical preacher, Sister Sharon Falconer (nee Katie Jones) to spread the gospel in midwest America in the 1920s. Burt Lancester received a Best Actor Academy Award in 1961 for his portrayal of Gantry. Shirley Jones received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Lulu Bains, a prostitute determined to ruin him. Richard Brooks (who also directed "Elmer Gantry") won the Oscar for his screenplay adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel. "Elmer Gantry" also garned Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Andre Previn for Best Music. Jean Simmons (who was married to Richard Brooks) played Sister Sharon, and also successfully worked with her husband in the 1969 film "The Happy Ending" for which she received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. The cast of "Elmer Gantry" also included Patti Page and Dean Jagger.

From Quiz Occupations In The Movies

Answer: School teacher

He taught english composition.

From Quiz Painters At The Movies

Answer: Cezanne

Cezanne (1839-1906) put a term to his friendship with Zola in 1886 because he thought one of Zola's novels was a reference to his failure as an artist.

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