Banana Split Infinitives Quiz / Test | Movies Word Play

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1. During WWII, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and others dig tunnels (1963) while Kurt Russell needs to get out of a large east coast US city (1981). What word unites these two movie titles?

Answer: Escape

"The Great ESCAPE from New York" sounds exciting!

"The Great Escape" is based on real events involving the preparations for and aftermath of a mass escape from a German prisoner of war camp by mostly British air force officers. Some dramatic license was taken.

"Escape from New York" is a sci-fi thriller set in a dystopian future New York where Russell's character is trying to save the President of the United States from the bad guys.

2. Shamus Humphrey Bogart works a case for Lauren Bacall's father (1946) whilst Tom Hanks has insomnia in the Pacific Northwest (1993). What five letters join these titles together?

Answer: Sleep

"The Big SLEEPless in Seattle"

In "The Big Sleep", Bogart plays shamus (private detective) Philip Marlowe who is hired by a wealthy man to delve into the misadventures of one of his daughters. During the investigation a rapport develops between Marlowe and the other daughter (Bacall) which leads to some great dialogue between the two.

"Sleepless in Seattle" is a pleasant enough love story about a widower whose son plays matchmaker using a national radio call-in show, with positive results.

3. Barbra Streisand sings about "People" to Omar Sharif (1968) while either Noomi Rapace (2009) or Rooney Mara (2011) uses her computer hacking skills to help a journalist find a long-missing woman. Ignoring the definite article, what word creates this movie merger?

Answer: Girl

"Funny GIRL with the Dragon Tattoo"

"Funny Girl" is about Fanny Brice and Nick Arnstein and her rise to fame as a singer and comedienne with the Ziegfeld Follies. Meanwhile Nicky's in debt and feeling the pain of being called "Mr Brice".

"(The) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is based on the novel by Stieg Larsson and has been made twice, with the first version being in Swedish, the second in English.

4. Barbra Streisand marries James Caan (1975), while Diana Ross performs for Billy Dee Williams (1972). The word that describes both women also unites the film titles. What is it?

Answer: Lady

"Funny LADY Sings the Blues" would make a good double feature.

"Funny Lady" picks up the story of Fanny Brice where "Funny Girl" left off, with Billy Rose her new husband, and also a successful show business character.

"Lady Sings the Blues" tells the life story of jazz great Billie Holiday focusing more on her early troubles and later descent into drug use than on her wonderful music.

5. John Wayne and Montgomery Clift argue about the final destination for their cattle drive (1948) while Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe try to escape from Indians using a wooden raft (1954). What word connects these titles?

Answer: River

"Red RIVER of No Return"

"Red River" is a classic western, directed by Howard Hawks. Wayne is the hard-headed old timer who thinks he knows what is best and Clift is his more flexible adopted son, who looks at all options and then proceeds. They inevitably clash, but it all works out in the end.

"River of No Return" sees farmer Mitchum and his young son (Tommy Rettig) having to take to a raft along with showgirl Monroe, after their only horse is stolen by her boyfriend. The natives attack and burn the homestead and the little party runs the rapids to try to reach safety.

6. Dying Scottish soldier Richard Todd falls for nurse Patricia Neal and drives Ronald Reagan to recite the books of the Bible (1949). Meanwhile Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt attempt to con wealthy Gene Hackman, amongst others (2001). These titles have five letters in common that join them together. What are they?

Answer: Heart

"The Hasty HEARTbreakers" are an odd couple.

In "The Hasty Heart", Todd plays a soldier who is injured in his only good kidney, which in the days before transplants is a death sentence. He doesn't know he is dying but his nurse and ward mates, including Reagan, do and try to keep him happy in the time he has left. It's his bagpipes that drive Reagan's character Yank to his recitations.

The two ladies in "Heartbreakers" play a mother and daughter con team who run into trouble when the daughter starts to have feelings for one of her marks.

7. James Bond (Roger Moore) matches wits with Yaphet Kotto and takes part in a thrilling speed boat chase as part of the plot (1973). Some time later James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) meets up with Halle Berry whilst undertaking a mission involving North Korea, diamonds and millionaires (2002). What single word unites these two "Bond" romps?

Answer: Die

"Live and Let DIE Another Day"

Having watched approximately ten "Bond" movies over the last three months I would like to observe that the plots are, for the most part, interchangeable!

Moore has been seen in a total of seven "Bond" films, of which "Live and Let Die" is the first, and "A View to a Kill" (1985) the seventh.

"Die Another Day" is the fourth film to feature Brosnan as Bond, the first having been "GoldenEye" in 1995.

8. Walter Pidgeon and Roddy McDowall live in a Welsh mining village (1941) and worry about cave-ins, while Barbara Parkins and Patty Duke have other pitfalls to worry about as they try to make it as actresses (1967). What word connects these two very different movies?

Answer: Valley

"How Green Was My VALLEY of the Dolls"

"How Green Was My Valley" is director John Ford's adaptation of the novel by Richard Llewellyn that tells of the Morgan family and their hardships as coal miners. McDowall plays the youngest son for whom a better life is hoped.

"Valley of the Dolls" is based on Jacqueline Susann's novel of the same name, a "shocking" best seller in its day, dealing as it does with drugs, sex and show business.

9. Doris Day surprises husband James Garner by returning alive after several years on a desert island (1963) while Julie Andrews falls in love with Rock Hudson in WWI Paris (1970). What is the endearment that connects the titles?

Answer: Darling

"Move Over, DARLING Lili"

In "Move Over, Darling" Doris turns up unexpectedly, just after Garner has a judge declare her dead, following an air crash several years earlier. Garner then marries his new girlfriend and when Doris finds out she tries to stop the honeymoon from happening with amusing results.

"Darling Lili" is Lili Smith/Schmidt (Andrews), a Mata Hari-like German spy who isn't supposed to fall in love with the enemy, but does.

10. Don Ameche invents the telephone (1939) and James Stewart and Kim Novak fall in love. So what if she happens to be a witch with a cat named Pyewacket? (1958) What is the common word here?

Answer: Bell

"The Story of Alexander Graham BELL Book and Candle" is quite a mouthful!

Don Ameche's performance as the title character in "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" is not likely to be useful in teaching the true story of the invention of the telephone, nor of his marriage to Mabel Hubbard (Loretta Young), but it is entertaining nonetheless.

"Bell Book and Candle" is a typical girl meets boy, girl hates boy's fiancee, girl and boy fall in love story - if you ignore the fact that the girl is a witch!

Source: Author spanishliz

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Banana Split Infinitives Trivia Quiz

Yes, we have no bananas...or infinitives for that matter, split or otherwise. What we do have are some merged movie titles for you to figure out from the clues. The answer will be the shared word; in the case of the quiz title this would be SPLIT.

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