Movies from 1979 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Alien

"Alien" is a futuristic sci-fi horror film about a mining ship on its way back to Earth that picks up a signal from a nearby planet. While checking out the planet, one of the crew is attacked by a life form that attaches itself to its victim and lays an egg inside the victim's body.

The egg inside the crew member develops into a monstrous creature that breaks out of the crew member's stomach and wreaks havoc on the ship.

Answer: The Jerk

"The Jerk" is a comedy starring Steve Martin as a dopey white guy who, as a baby, was left on the doorstep of a poor rural black family that raises him as one of their own. Navin (Steve Martin) leaves his family when he becomes an adult so that he can see what life is like in the outside world. Navin becomes a millionaire by inventing glasses holders called the Opti-Grab and then loses his fortune when a class action law suit is brought against him.

After losing all his money, Navin, and his new wife, move back to Navin's black family's house to live.

Answer: Meatballs

"Meatballs" is a comedy about a meek and mild young teenager who goes to a youth camp for the summer. Camp counselor Tripper (Bill Murray) takes a liking to the nerdy Rudy (Chris Makepeace) and helps him through his awkwardness.

Answer: The Warriors

"The Warriors" is an action thriller about a street gang that gets blamed for the killing of a New York gang war lord named Cyrus. When the Warriors go to an assembly of all the street gangs, the leader of a gang called the Rouges kills Cyrus and then blames the Warriors. The Warriors now have to fight their way back to their home turf in Coney Island.

Answer: Tourist Trap

"Tourist Trap" is a horror film about a group of travelers who get trapped at a desert tourist trap run by a an outwardly nice man. This nice man's tourist trap is actually a house of horrors filled with strange mannequins. He begins killing off the tourists one by one.

Answer: Phantasm

"Phantasm" is a horror film about a tall eerie looking town mortician who takes dead bodies, reanimates them, and sends them to his home planet to become slaves. Before sending the re-animated corpses to his planet, he must shrink the bodies so that they can withstand the planet's massive gravity.

Answer: The Electric Horseman

"The Electric Horseman" is a modern day western romance film about an ex-rodeo star named Norman "Sonny" Steele (Robert Redford) who endorses food products. When he finds out that one of the food company's prize horses is suffering and being drugged in order to do commercials, Sonny decides to steal the horse, mend it, and then release it into the wild.

Answer: Breaking Away

"Breaking Away" is a comedy drama about four teens who have just graduated high school and are living the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. The four are always put down by the well to do college kids. One of the four, Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher), is obsessed with competitive bicycle racing and he and his three friends get invited to race in the Indiana University Little 500 bicycle race.

Answer: The Black Hole

"The Black Hole" is a Disney sci-fi drama about a team of space explorers who discover a black hole and a space ship near the event horizon. The team finds that a renowned scientist named Hans Reinhardt (Maximillian Schell) is in command of the ship. Reinhardt, who has gone mad, intends to take his ship into the black hole in hopes of finding the source of the universe's energy.

Answer: Star Trek: The Motion Picture

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is a sci-fi movie and the first of the "Star Trek" franchise movies. The movie is somewhat based on the TV episode called "The Changeling". In the movie, a NASA Voyager probe that was presumed lost comes back with immense power looking for its creator and exterminating anything in its path. The Enterprise is sent to intercept and stop the probe.