Hey Pally, Got a Match? Trivia Quiz

Answer: W.C. Fields

"My Little Chickadee" was a 1940 movie starring W.C. fields as Cuthbert J. Twillie (Fields enjoyed coming up with outrageous names) and Mae West as Flower Belle Lee. Twillie, a con man, was conned into becoming the sheriff of an Old West U.S. town. Named by Belle as the "Masked Bandit"he was about to be lynched when he said this quote and she realized her mistake.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Everybody went to Rick's Cafe Americain, or at least they did in "Casablanca" (1942). Bogie, as Rick Blaine, just wanted to run his nightclub in Morocco and keep his head down, but refugees, Nazis, grifters and crooked policemen kept getting in the way. Two people, including Ilsa Lund (Bergman), Rick's former lover, and her husband came through Casablanca trying escape the Nazis. Rick said this to her as he made her get on a plane out of there with her husband.

It was something he had previously said to her in Paris.

Answer: Walter Matthau

1976's "Bad News Bears" starred Walter Matthau as the baseball coach of a team of the most unwanted and talentless kids in the region (kind of like the "Peanuts" team without Snoopy) trying to make good in an overly-competitive little league. Though hardly a paragon of excellence himself, Coach Buttermaker dispensed some wisdom to the team.

Answer: Gene Hackman

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle was played by Gene Hackman in "The French Connection" (1971), a movie about New York City narcotics detectives. The quote was said to a suspected heroin user whom Doyle wanted to put in jail and thought was injecting himself between his toes so it wouldn't be so readily seen. The movie also had a memorable car chase under an NYC elevated railway.

Answer: Al Pacino

Al Pacino is at his ranting best as lawyer Arthur Kirkland in "...And Justice For All" (1979). Through a series of events Kirkland becomes the defense lawyer for a judge he loathes, and the feeling is mutual. In the big courtroom scene, Kirkland loses what little composure he possesses and tells the jury and the courtroom spectators that his client is guilty and should go to jail.

Answer: Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman played Clyde Barrow's brother Buck in "Bonnie and Clyde", a 1967 semi-comedy about two notorious American bank robbers in the 1930s. The movie is credited with making sex and violence regular elements in movies. The quote comes from a rambling monologue Buck made about how a boy got his mother to take her medicine by putting it in milk to which he had added some brandy.

Answer: W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields quoting the bible? Verily, in "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" (1941). Fields wrote the screenplay (using the name Otis Criblecoblis) about himself trying to sell a movie script. In one scene he hears a secretary on the phone to her boyfriend, telling him that someday he would drown in a vat of whiskey. Fields mused on the possibility.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart as hardboiled detective Sam Spade quoting Shakespeare? Verily, in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). Bogart is on the trail of the falcon, a priceless jewel-encrusted statuette. Having a fake one in his room, another character asks Spade what it is, to which he is given the evasive answer.

Answer: Walter Matthau

On a snowy morning, Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) greeted his neighbor, John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) with these pleasantries. The two lived next door to each other for years and had stopped being friends years ago. A new neighbor (Ann Margaret) upsets the whole neighborhood and challenges the men's boring lives.

Answer: Al Pacino

"Dog Day Afternoon" (1975) was based on a true story of two amateurs trying to rob a bank. Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik, and John Cazale as "Sal" Naturale attempt to rob a bank in Brooklyn, New York to get money for Wortzik's lover's operation. The plan quickly goes awry, the police arrive and seal off the building and a media circus erupts.

While waiting for a demanded limousine to take him, Sal and some hostages to the airport, Wortzik works up the gathered spectators by shouting about a recent prison riot in Attica, New York.