Silly Paragraphs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Marlon Brando

The six movies are "The Men" (Brando plays a paralyzed war veteran in his first movie), "On The Waterfront" (a longshoreman wins his first Oscar), "Streetcar Named Desire" (his southern domineering husband role yelling "Stella!" gave him recognition in the acting profession), "The Young Lions" (he portrays a German officer during WWII), "The Godfather" (his 2nd Oscar as a Mafia boss) and "Sayonara" (a US Major in love with a Japanese girl).

Answer: Joan Crawford

The five movies include "Dancing Lady" (co-starring Clark Gable and Fred Astaire in his first movie role), "Flamingo Road" (another dancer from the wrong side of the tracks), "Mildred Pierce" (Crawford earning her one and only Academy Award), "Female On The Beach" (a drama co-starring Jeff Chandler) and "Bezerk" (a horror movie towards the end of her career).

Answer: Greer Garson

The five movies are "Madame Curie" (with Walter Pidgeon, they portray Pierre and Marie Curie), "Mrs. Miniver" (again with Walter Pidgeon, this takes place in London during WWII), "Adventure" (publicity used the tagline 'Gable's back and Garson's got him'), "Pride And Prejudice" (a fine adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel)and "Blossoms In The Dust" (another Walter Pidgeon duo about Sam & Edna Gladney getting homes for unwanted children).

Answer: Clark Gable

The eight movies contained in the paragraph are "It Happened One Night" (earned him his one and only Oscar), "San Francisco" (this movie culminates with the San Francisco earthquake), "The Misfits" (Marilyn Monroe's last full movie), "Dancing Lady" (with Joan Crawford), "Teacher's Pet" (an aging man with Doris Day), "Mutiny On The Bounty" (a young Fletcher Christian), "Red Dust" (he recreates this role in "Mogombo") and "Boom Town" (a story about oil with Spencer Tracy and Claudette Colbert).

Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

The five movies were "The Cattle Queen Of Montana" (this was one of a series of westerns she did that culminated with the TV series "The Big Valley"), "Executive Suite" (she portrays a strong woman in a man's world of business), "Annie Oakley" (she plays the famous sharpshooter), "Meet John Doe" (she's an ambitious reporter that goes too far) and "Sorry, Wrong Number" (she's an invalid being stalked by a murderer).

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

The six movies contained in the paragraph are "The Prince And The Showgirl" (a silly comedy with the very astute Lawrence Olivier), "Bus Stop" (she plays a honky tonk girl and co-stars with Don Murray), "Niagara" (a murder mystery with Joseph Cotten), "River Of No Return" (another honky tonk role with Robert Mitchum), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (she takes the role of Loreli Lee, Carol Channing's part on Broadway) and "Some Like It Hot" (a delightful Billy Wilder comedy).

Answer: Bette Davis

The seven movies are "In This our Life" (she's the bad sister of Olivia DeHavilland), "Dark Victory" (a good girl who goes blind), "Mr. Skeffington" (Fannie Skeffington is the very vain wife of Claude Rains), "Jezebel" (a bad girl in the very prim South), "The Great Lie" (a good girl in a 4-tissue tear jerker), "Old Acquaintance" (a good girl to Miriam Hopkins' bad one) and "The Virgin Queen" (Elizabeth I, need I say more).

Answer: Gary Cooper

The six movies contained in the paragraph are "10 North Frederick" (one in a series of an aging man in love with a young woman), "The Hanging Tree" (a 1959 western where he plays a doctor), "High Noon", "Sergeant York" (he portrays WWI hero, Alvin York), "Love In The Afternoon" (another aging man-young woman soap opera) and "Lilac Time" (a WWI captain in love with a french girl, Coleen Moore).

Answer: Susan Hayward

The six movies are "The President's Lady" (she portrays Rachael Jackson, President Andrew Jackson's wife), "Smash-Up" (an earlier version of the next movie about a drunk), "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (a biography of Lillian Roth), "I Want To Live" (another biography of convicted felon, Barbara Graham), "With A Song In My Heart" (still another biography of singer Jane Froman) and "Valley Of The Dolls" (a supporting role of an aging performer).

Answer: Kirk Douglas

The six movies were "Seven Days In May" (this was an all-star cast including Burt Lancaster about a possible overthrow of the government), "The Champion" (an ambitious prizefighter), "Once Is Not Enough" (an aging producer with a family problem), "The Bad And The Beautiful" (a violent director), "Lust For Life" (the life of Vincent Van Gogh) and "Young Man With A Horn" (a thin version of the life of trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke).