Movies Doing it "Right" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aeronautics

The movie was based on Tom Wolfe's book about test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base and the seven astronauts selected to be part of Project Mercury. The movie was nominated for eight Oscars and won four. United Artists was originally supposed to finance the film in 1980, but pulled out after the disaster "Heaven's Gate."

Answer: Spike Lee

Spike Lee's film of the racial tension in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn earned the movie two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Danny Aiello) and Best Screenplay. The movie was culturally significant enough to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 1999.

Answer: Los Angeles

Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play a married couple whose children were conceived with the same sperm donor. The children look to find their birth father. The film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Annette Benning), Best Supporting Actress (Mark Ruffalo), and Best Screenplay (Stuart Blumberg and director Lisa Chodolenko), but came up empty at the Oscars.

The movie was filmed in Los Angeles, including Occidental College, and some of its suburbs.

Answer: Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise played a Serbian-American high school football player looking to escape his poverty-stricken Pennsylvania town whose main employer was a victim of the economic recession. Craig T. Nelson played his coach and Lea Thompson was a student. Lucille Ball and husband Gary Morton produced the film.

Answer: Brendan Fraser

Fraser plays the Canadian mountie with Sarah Jessica Parker as his girlfriend and Alfred Molina as the villain Snidely Whiplash. Fraser also played the title character in 1997's "George of the Jungle," another Jay Ward creation.

Answer: Los Angeles

Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack play a couple through a hectic day that includes reports of a number of dirty bombs detonated in Los Angeles. The film won Tom Richmond a Cinematography Award at Sundance. Lionsgate bought the international distribution rights.

Answer: Sean Connery

Connery played reporter Patrick Hale in a future where television news is reduced to tabloid material and violence is a national sport. The movie was released in the UK under the title "The Man with the Dirty Lens."

Answer: Sweden

The romantic horror film centers around a bullied 12-year-old boy and his friendship with a vampire child in a Stockholm suburb in the early 1980s. The movie was widely praised for casting young actors in leading roles and earned a number of honors at Swedish and international film festivals such as Tribeca. The film won a Saturn Award, which honors films in horror and science fiction.

Answer: Writer

In the film, he is a divorced underachiever with an unsuccessful writing career who is reduced to being a dishwasher. He falls in love with a woman on her wedding day. His personal life became the subject of scorn thanks to his ex-wife's blog and her bestseller.

Answer: False

It was The Who featured through live performances and personal interviews. The last live performance of Keith Moon was also shown. Moon died eight months before the film's release at Cannes.