Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover Quiz

Answer: Linda

Well, one can easily call it "Runaway Bride" syndrome. In the 1998 Adam Sandler film, "The Wedding Singer", the eighties are in full swing. Robbie Hart is about to marry his fiance, Linda, but she leaves him at the altar, claiming that she couldn't go through with it, since he can't leave his steady career as a wedding singer behind.

He meets Julia, a newly-engaged waitress (played by Drew Barrymore) who asks for his help in planning her wedding, but along the way the two hit it off quite well. Robbie goes to great extremes to help Julia out and soon discovers that her fiancee, Glenn (whose last name is Gulia), has been cheating on her.

This culminates with his sneaking onto a plane where he (along with help from other first-class passengers and Billy Idol) sings a song on his guitar for her and wins her over.

Answer: Armageddon

"Armageddon", upon its theatrical release in 1998, gained popularity in the box office, grossing over five hundred fifty million in its run. Well known as one of the numerous asteroid movies released around the same time (remember "Deep Impact"?), it prevailed as one of the most popular films of the year. Starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler, the film takes a number of men, most of whom are top oil drillers, and sends them into space to stop a large asteroid from colliding with our ill-fated planet.

Despite its use at one of the more pivotal moments of the film (when Ben Affleck leaves Bruce Wwillis' daughter behind) the Chantal Kreviazuk cover of John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was only one of the big hits off the film. Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" was also a major charting single.

Answer: Jack Nicholson

In this 2003 film, Dave Buznik (played by Adam Sandler) consistently works and can't find it in himself to show public affection with his girlfriend (played by Marisa Tomei). He becomes involved in a rather long-winded scheme with Jack Nicholson who, throughout the course of the movie, makes him believe he has true anger issues.

At one point, however, his girlfriend ends up leaving with Jack Nicholson in a weird twist, and it's up to Dave to head to Yankees Stadium to stop the proposal he had originally set up for her.

As it turns out, everything (for the most part) was orchestrated by the psychiatrist. Everybody sings the song "I Feel Pretty" in a circle and it fades to black- perhaps a worse fate than leaving your lover?

Answer: Famke Janssen

Although Famke Janssen appeared in Pierce Brosnan's first James Bond film, "Goldeneye", she played one of the antagonists, Xenia Onatopp. When she jumps down on Bond from a helicopter protecting the cradle in Cuba, he ends up killing her by strapping her into a parachute and crushing her against a tree (quipping 'she always liked a good squeeze'). Halle Berry played Jinx in the twentieth Bond film, "Die Another Day", Jane Seymour was in "Live and Let Die" as Solitaire, and Olga Kurylenko teamed up with Bond in the 2008 film "Quantum of Solace". Notably, Olga Kurylenko was the first Bond girl to not have a sexual relationship with the titular secret agent.

Answer: Swimfan

Focused on Jesse Bradford as a young athlete trying to hit it big and go to the Olympics, "Swimfan" was released in 2002. When a girl, Erika Christensen, seduces him upon her arrival at his school, he soon comes to realize that she wants more than just a one-night stand. Of course, she wants to be with him and he's more than worried about her stalking him.

When it turns out that she's willing to kill those who get in the way, he needs to find a way to sop her from being his obsessed swimfan. "Swimfan" reached #1 in the box office grossing nearly thirty million. John Polson, the director of "Swimfan", also directed "Hide and Seek".

Answer: Restaurant

In this 2001 adaptation of a Helen Fielding novel (based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"), Hugh Grant cheats and lies while Colin Firth feels repulsed by Renee Zellweger's poor choices during the film, but she effectively grows on both. This comes to a head during Bridget's birthday party when Darcy (played by Firth) helps out in making dinner and Daniel (played by Grant) ends up stopping by. Soon, their fight heads outside and (to Geri Halliwell's cover of "It's Raining Men") and they fight their way through a Greek restaurant before crashing through the front window. Inevitably, Jones chooses Darcy...and then Darcy chooses Jones...and then there's leopard print underwear. Sometimes leaving your lover doesn't mean they've left forever.

Answer: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Released in 2003, this romantic comedy was the first collaboration between Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. In this movie, Hudson plays a magazine reporter who sets out to create the article 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'. Unfortunately for her, things don't really work out as planned.

She falls for the guy, he falls for her, and she realizes that sometimes you can't please everyone. She still writes the article and the two go off at each other during a diamond showing, but in the end, they still get together, after a momentous chase across the city. The film grossed one hundred seventy-seven million in the box office and took #1 in the box office.

The two later teamed up again to film "Fools Gold" in 2008. It didn't turn out as well.

Answer: Yes

Thurman's character is left in a coma, following her horrible encounter with ex-lover and the father of her child, Bill. She awakens without her daughter and vows revenge on the members of Bill's assassination squad (played by Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, and Michael Madsen). Sometimes, there's not really a clean getaway, but when Bill (David Carradine) simply makes matters worse for his 'Black Mamba', it hits the fan. "Kill Bill Vol. 1" and "Kill Bill Vol. 2) (2003 and 2004, respectively) followed The Bride's journey around the world to kill those responsible, and yes, she does get her just revenge in the end. Combined, these two Quentin Tarantino films grossed over $300,000,000 in the international box office. Both films reached #1.

Answer: Kate's friends

Released in 1999, "Deuce Bigalow" starred Rob Schneider in the role of Deuce, a fish tank cleaner who gets a job taking care of a rather rare fish for a man who, as it turns out, is a famous male gigolo. When the man goes out for a business trip to Europe, Deuce is asked to stay and look after the fish.

But when he ends up destroying a rather large fish tank fixture, he takes it upon himself to become a gigolo with help of his client's friend and pimp, TJ. Through all of the dates he takes, he ends up falling in love with a one-legged woman, Kate, who later discovers the truth behind the matter from the friends who hired Deuce in the first place. Eventually, the two get married. Kate does not return for the critically-panned sequel, "European Gigolo".

Answer: Leslie Nielsen

Released in 1998, this parody film takes shots at a number of recent (at the time) action films, particularly "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford. Leslie Nielsen's character, Ryan Harrison, ends up in the midst of a horrible affair with Lauren Goodhue, a woman who decides to kill her husband in order to start a terrorist assassination against the Secretary General of the UN. Soon, love triangles, one-armed-one-legged-one-eyed men, low-flying remote control planes, and similar oddities get in the way. I guess murder may not be the most successful means of ridding yourself of a lover, but hey, we warned you.