Recipes for Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Avatar

"Avatar" is a 2009 blockbuster directed by James Cameron. The film is set in the future and is about 2 hours and 40 minutes long. The story revolves around a disabled solider, Jake Sully, who gets the chance to go to the world of Pandora to operate a hybrid "avatar" which resembles the new world's native people, the Na'vi. Humans traveled to Pandora to obtain its valuable mineral, unobtanium.

The native Na'vi worship a god that they call Eywa. The Tree of Souls is a network where the Na'vi can communicate with one another. Sigourney Weaver plays Grace Augustine, a scientist who is the leader of the program involving the avatars.

Answer: Inception

"Inception" is a 2010 movie directed by Christopher Nolan. The film revolves around Dom Cobb, who is a "spy" who invades a person's subconscious while he or she is dreaming. Cobb creates a team to help a powerful business man invade and place an idea in the head of a business competitor. Marion Cotillard plays Mal, Cobb's dead wife, who interferes with Cobb's work through his own subconscious. During the film, Cobb uses a spinning top as a totem, which is a device to help him determine if he is in reality or in a dream.

A train is an important part of Cobb's and Mal's past and also interferes with his work in the present.

Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is a 2003 movie directed by Peter Jackson. This is the final film of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. This film has many different components, ultimately revolving around a hobbit, Frodo Baggins, who is on a quest to destroy the all-powerful Ring. Frodo Baggins is traveling to Mount Doom, a volcano is the land of Mordor. In this film, he is accompanied on his quest by his childhood friend, Sam, and a creature who is showing him the way to Mount Doom. This creature is named Smeagol, but the power of the Ring has turned him into Gollum. Another component of this film revolves around another character, named Aragorn, who finally becomes the King of Gondor.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture.

Answer: Up

"Up" is a 2009 Disney/Pixar computer-animated film. The film revolves around an elderly man, named Carl, who is attempting to move his house to his childhood fantasy location, Paradise Falls. Early in the film, we discover Carl wants to go to Paradise Falls to honor his late wife, Ellie.

He moves his house by using many bright, colorful balloons. He is unwillingly accompanied on this quest by a young boy named Russell. Russell is a scout-like member of a group called the Wilderness Explorers. During the film, the two find a dog named Doug that has a collar with a talking device and a flightless bird that Russell names Kevin, although it is later discovered to be female. During the movie, Carl views Ellie's scrapbook of their life together.

Answer: The Social Network

"The Social Network" is a 2010 movie directed by David Fincher. The film revolves a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, and how he and his fellow partners created the social networking website, Facebook. During the beginning of the film, Mark Zuckerberg meets Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their partner for an idea for a website for Harvard students. Both Winklevoss characters are played by a single actor, Armie Hammer.

The two Winklevoss characters are part of a prestigious final club, and are part of Harvard's rowing team. Mark Zuckerburg decides to instead partner with his friend, Eduardo, to make a social website. Eduardo helps Mark write an algorithm to make the website functional.

At the end of the film, we discover (if we didn't know already) that the Facebook website is worth millions of dollars.

Answer: Star Trek

"Star Trek" is a 2009 movie directed by J.J. Abrams. The film revolves around James T. Kirk, who is the son of an infamous captain, and his entry aboard the starship, the USS Enterprise. Upon the starship, James meets Spock, who is played by Zachary Quinto. Spock is a member of the starship who is half-human, half Vulcan. Together with the rest of the starship, they try to defeat Nero, a villainous Romulan, who is destroying numerous planets.

Answer: Catch Me If You Can

"Catch Me If You Can" is a 2002 movie directed by Steven Spielberg. The film revolves a teenaged boy named Frank Abagnale, Jr., who successfully forges checks to make millions of dollars. He poses as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, all around the United States. All the while, he is being investigated and chased by the FBI. One particular FBI agent who chases Frank is Carl Hanratty, who specializes in check fraud. Carl is played in the movie by Tom Hanks. During the movie, Frank Abagnale, Sr., Frank's father, tells Frank a story about two mice. The story is a symbolism of how valuable hard work can be.

Below is the direct quote from the movie:
"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out."

Answer: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" is a 2004 comedy starring Will Ferrell. The film revolves around Ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell, a popular anchorman for the Channel 4 Evening News team in San Diego, and the teams' reaction to a female joining them.

The other members of Ron's news team include Brian Fontana, "Champ" Kind, and Brick Tamland. Brian is played by Paul Rudd and Brick is played by Steve Carell. During the film, Ron tries to impress the new female news anchor, Veronica, by beautifully playing the jazz flute.

When the news team is divided later in the film, an important news event, a panda about to give birth, brings the team back together again.

Answer: The Hangover

"The Hangover" is a 2009 comedy starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis. The film revolves around a group of guys, Phil, Stu, and Alan (played by Bradley, Ed and Zach respectively), who decide to go Las Vegas for a bachelor party for their friend, Doug.

However, their plans are in disarray when the three guys wake up and can not find Doug and have no memory of the bachelor party. Upon waking up with no memory, Stu, who works as a dentist, discovers his tooth is missing and Alan finds a tiger in their hotel room bathroom.

While trying to piece together they discover they stole a police car, and took money (specifically 80,000 dollars worth of poker chips) from Leslie Chow, a gangster.

Answer: Madagascar

"Madagascar" is a 2005 Dreamworks computer-animated movie. The films revolves around four zoo animals from the Central Park Zoo, which include Gloria the hippo, Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, and Melman the giraffe. After hearing about an escape plan from some penguins, Marty and his crew decide to escape from the zoo, but end up getting captured.

They are all scheduled to be shipped back to their native land of Africa, but each of their crates fall off the boat and they end up on the Madagascar.

The movie follows the four animals as they try to return home to New York.

Answer: V for Vendetta

"V for Vendetta" is a 2006 film starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman. The film revolves around a vigilante fighter named V who resorts to terrorism to fight a totalitarian regime. While trying to escape from the police, Evey Hammond is rescued by V and eventually becomes his ally in defeating the dystopian society lead by the High Chancellor Adam Sutler. V is played by Hugo Weaving. Throughout the movie, V wears a Guy Fawkes mask and long hair.

He is believed to prefer knives in battle over guns, and carries many on his person. Evey is played by Natalie Portman. Toward the end of the film, although V dies, his schemes to upset the society still uphold, and famous landmarks in London, including the Parliament and Big Ben, are destroyed.

Answer: Night at the Museum

"Night at the Museum" is a 2006 film starring Ben Stiller. The film revolves around Larry Daley, played by Ben Stiller, as a guy who gets a new job at the Museum of Natural History as a night watchman. While there, he soon discovers that everything in the museum comes to life at night.

He comes across many interesting things and people, including a dinosaur skeleton named Rexy, a monkey named Dexter, and cowboy named Jedediah from a miniature civilization diorama. Other things he comes across include Theodore Roosevelt, Sacajawea, an Easter Island head, and Attila the Hun. Larry later discovers everything comes to life in the museum due to a Egyptian tablet that once belonged to a Pharoah named Akhmenrah.

Answer: The Departed

"The Departed" is a 2006 Oscar-winning movie directed by Martin Scorsese. The film revolves around a mob boss named Frank Costello who has a informant in the police department, but doesn't know he has an undercover cop posing as a member in his crew. The informant and the undercover cop soon discover the situation that has evolved and try to identity the other man's identity before he gets himself caught. Both sides are trying to find a "rat" in their respective groups. Frank is played by Jack Nicholson, the undercover cop, William Costigan, is played by Leonardo Dicaprio, and the informant police officer, Colin Sullivan, is played by Matt Damon.

At the beginning of the film, William Costigan, who is trying to become a police officer, is asked by Sergeant Sean Dignam to go undercover. Sergeant Dignam is played by Mark Wahlberg. Towards the end of the movie, William finally gets relieved from his undercover identity, but Colin erases his police file. William gets revenge on Colin by sending recordings of his alliance with Frank to Colin's wife, who leaves him.

Answer: 300

"300" is a 2007 action film starring Gerard Butler. The film, set in 480 B.C., revolves around King Leonidas, played by Gerard Butler, as he leads 300 men to battle against over 1,000,000 Persian soldiers lead by Xerxes. The movie is based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller, also called "300".

Answer: The Bourne Identity

"The Bourne Identity" is a 2002 action movie. The film stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man with amnesia who is trying to figure out who he is while trying to escape from assassins who are out to get him. At the beginning of the film, we first meet Bourne as he is found unconscious by a crew on a fishing boat near France.

He is returned to a hospital, where he begins his quest to find out who he is. Upon finding out the truth, he finds a safety deposit box that is supposedly his. Inside the box is a gun, a lot of money of different currencies, and a numerous amount of passports, all with different names. Later, he discovers that he is stuck in a conspiracy with the CIA.