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1. Jo became a storm chaser because she was fascinated by the funnel that caused the death of her father, blown away from the family's storm shelter by a tornado when she was a child. As an adult, she and her soon-to-be-ex husband cross paths at he attempts to get her signature on the divorce papers, and she enlists his help in placing a measuring device at the heart of a tornado, to provide information that will help save future lives. What is the name of this 1996 movie with a name suggestive of a game?
2. In 1991, the fishing boat Andrea Gail ignored a developing thunderstorm to head for a potentially-rewarding fishing ground. Due to a broken ice machine, the crew decided to brave the storm so that the catch could get to market before spoiling. Technically, the boat was submerged by a huge wave, but the wave's source was the convergence of two hurricanes in the vicinity, so this boat could be considered to be 'gone with the wind'. What is the name of the 2000 film which dramatized a 1997 non-fiction book about this disaster?
3. This film is a 1979 remake of a 1937 film that starred Dorothy Lamour. A young girl visits her father, who is governor of a South Pacific island where he administers the law strictly. She falls in love with a native who, in her opinion, has been harshly treated, and they flee into the face of a giant storm. What film is described by this synopsis?
4. The 2004 made-for-television movie "Category 6: Day of Destruction" shows the power grid of which mid-west American city being (ironically) 'gone with the wind' after three unusually large storms converge in its vicinity?
5. Not all storm movies are disaster epics. "Trouble the Water" is an award-winning 2008 documentary about the hurricane that made large parts of New Orleans be 'gone with the wind' in 2005. What was the name of this deadly hurricane?
6. In a 1991 remake of a 1962 drama starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, a lawyer and his family are pursued by an irate former client, who blames his rape conviction on a poor defense. The violent retribution reaches a climax on board the family houseboat, which is broken apart by a violent storm, sinking with the vengeful Cady handcuffed to it, making him become 'gone with the wind'. What movie fits this description?
7. Sometimes the storm is just the beginning. The 1977 film "Cyclone" (aka "Terror Storm") features an airplane falling out of the sky in a cyclonic storm, a fishing boat sinking, and a tourist boat being stranded mid-Caribbean - all of them 'gone with the wind' so as to allow the survivors to undergo further tribulations. One of the main themes of the film, shared by the director's earlier "Saved!", was which of the following?
8. April (played by Mimi Rogers) really has it tough in this 2008 made-for-television drama. First her parents are 'gone with the wind', killed in a violent storm when she is 13, then thirty years later her teenage daughter is trapped in a twister which threatens to make Seattle become 'gone with the wind'. Do you remember the name of this disaster film?
9. In 1974 a made-for-television movie called "Hurricane" told the story of a battle for survival when a violent hurricane struck the Gulf Coast town where the movie was set, causing a lot of it to be 'gone with the wind' and/or swept away by the accompanying huge waves. The film used actual footage of which 1969 hurricane?
10. A twister is a key plot feature in one of 1939's most memorable movies, in which a house is carried from Kansas to Oz, landing on a wicked witch. Which movie would not have been the same if that house had not been 'gone with the wind'?
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