A Bite of Beagles' Favorites Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Yearling

The film is about an innocent young boy who falls in love with a fawn he rescues and then tragically learns of the world of suffering and death that he, as all children, is forced to grow up in. The title refers to the fawn, obviously, but also symbolically to the young boy.

The screenplay for the film "The Yearling" was an adaptation of the novel "The Yearling", which was published in 1938 and written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. The film version garnered several Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Actress (for Jane Wyman's performance), Best Directing, Best Film Editing, and Best Motion Picture. It lost in all of these categories, mostly to the film "The Best Years of Our Lives"; however, it did win Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Originally, the role of Penny Baxter was going to go to Spencer Tracy, but Gregory Peck ended up with it.

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Answer: Becket

Welshman Richard Burton portrays Thomas Becket, who had been born a commoner. Through his friendship with King Henry II, played by Irishman, Peter O'Toole, he rises to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. Englishman John Gielgud plays King Louis VII of France, who acts as an intermediary between Henry and Becket when they disagree. Unfortunately, Henry and Becket grow further and further apart, and Henry, in a drunken rage asks, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" The king's followers take his words as a serious request to kill Becket, which they do, much to the consternation of Henry.

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Answer: "Imagine" - John Lennon

"The Killing Fields" tells the story of journalists Dith Pran, a Cambodian, and Sydney Schanberg, bureau chief for the "New York Times", in Phnom Penh during the 1970s. When the Khmer Rouge take control in 1975, despite the efforts of his Western friends, Pran is forced to live under Pol Pot's totalitarian regime for the next four years before fleeing the country.

Dr Haing S. Ngor played the role of Dith Pran in the film, despite having no previous experience as an actor and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 . A survivor of the Khmer Rouge atrocities himself, Haing lost most of his family and his wife in childbirth during those years. He was shot dead in a robbery outside his home in Los Angeles in 1996.

Dith Pran moved to America to be with his family, and from 1980 onward worked as a photojournalist with the "New York Times". He passed away from pancreatic cancer on the 30 March 2008.

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Answer: Strange Days

"Strange Days" is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated films to come out of the 1990s. In the film, Ralph Fiennes plays Lenny Nero, a dealer in discs that are recorded from actual human emotions and experiences by placing a special device on someone's head when performing an action. The disc can then be played back, allowing someone else to experience the emotions. However, Lenny stumbles onto crimes recorded on discs and, with the help of friend and bodyguard Mace (Angela Bassett), has to unravel a conspiracy that takes them to the heart of the police department.

The film also stars Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore and Michael Wincott. It features a screenplay by James Cameron and direction by Kathryn Bigelow that captures how the future could play out if we misuse technology.

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Answer: Darren Aronofsky

Released in 2000, "Requiem" looked at the downward spiral that drugs pull you into, in an honest and uncompromising way. Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly portray a drugged-out couple, but the scene-stealer was Ellen Burstyn as Leto's mother, a role that earned her an Academy Award nomination.

Even though Darren Aronofsky had started making headlines with his film "Pi" in 1998, this movie moved him into the mainstream. He followed the success of "Requiem" with critically acclaimed films like "Black Swan" and "The Wrestler", also films that look at human frailty and how our decisions impact not only ourselves but everyone in our circle.

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Answer: Danny Trejo

The movie "Machete", released in cinema in 2010, began as a false trailer in the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino collaboration "Grindhouse", which was a double feature to honor 1970's movie houses that showed low-budget films, often in a tandem, in an afternoon. The "Machete" trailer, shown between the two main movies, featured a machete-wielding antihero who was dealing his own unique brand of justice. Fan reaction to this idea, as Danny Trejo had become famous as a sympathetic but no-nonsense bad guy, was so enormous that Rodriguez created a full-length movie based on the concept. Co-starring Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, and Robert DeNiro as part of an ensemble cast, the film did decently at the box office, and has become a cult favorite. A sequel, "Machete Kills", was released in 2013.

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Answer: He is resting up the week before his heart surgery.

In the beautiful and heart-touching film "The Secret World of Arrietty", Shawn is a young boy with a heart condition who is not expected to survive his upcoming surgery. While at his aunt's house for resting, he discovers the borrowers, a race of tiny people who live in the floors. The borrowers take small amounts of food from the houses they inhabit, but only what they need to survive. Although borrowers do not trust humans, Arrietty slowly grows to trust Shawn, and the two eventually become friends. Initially afraid that he won't survive his surgery, Shawn gains confidence from Arrietty, who he says taught him to not be scared.

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Answer: The Razor's Edge

The 1984 movie "The Razor's Edge" was the second version of this 1944 Somerset Maugham novel of the same name; the first was the 1946 adaptation starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. Bill Murray plays Larry Darrell, an American ambulance driver who grows disillusioned with humanity following his involvement in World War I and begins a quest for enlightenment. He abandons his engagement to his fiancé Isabel Bradley (played by Catherine Hicks) to live a life of poverty in Paris before journeying to the Himalayas and a Buddhist monastery.

The film represents Bill Murray's first real attempt at a dramatic role. Despite the film's commercial failure and a harsh critical response, mostly aimed at Murray, it has now achieved quite a following with a more positive critical reception. The film almost wasn't made because no production company wanted to take a risk with it; however, Murray, following Dan Akroyd's advice, made somewhat of a bargain with Columbia Pictures by refusing to participate in its "Ghostbusters" film unless it financed "The Razor's Edge". The screenplay was co-written by Murray and a friend, John Byrum, who also directed it.

Denholm Elliott was a critically-acclaimed character actor who remarkably won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role three years in a row: 1983, "Trading Places"; 1984, "A Private Function"; and 1985, "A Defence of the Realm". He was nominated three times before his streak of wins and once more in 1986 for "A Room with a View".

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Answer: The Usual Suspects

The movie was directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. I had to watch this film several times before I discovered the clues to unraveling the mystery of Keyser Söze. After a ship blows up killing everyone onboard except two men, police interrogate one of the survivors, "Verbal" Kint. By spinning a complex story behind the tragedy, the viewer must decide who the mastermind behind the events of the story really is. In other words, who is Keyser Söze?

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Answer: To Be Or Not To Be

A comedy about an acting troupe in Poland at the time of the Nazi invasion, the original 1942 movie starred Jack Benny as the head of the troupe, Joseph Tura. Carole Lombard (third wife of Clark Gable), in her last role, played Tura's unfaithful wife, Maria, whose lover, pilot Stanislav Sobinski played by Robert Stack, joins the Polish division of the Royal Air Force. As the plot unfolds, Sobinski discovers a traitor in the Polish resistance and warns his inamorata. What ensues is an absurd farce of mistaken identities, both intentional and unintentional, as the troupe of actors impersonate various Nazis, including Hitler, himself. Sadly, Lombard died in a plane crash at the age of 33, before the film was released.

The 1983 remake starred and was produced by Mel Brooks. His real-life wife, Anne Bancroft, played the philandering wife. It included the talents of Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, Tim Matheson and José Ferrer.

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