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Sissy To Spacek Trivia Quiz

What a great and unusual actress she is! Not exactly a classic beauty, I suppose, but she has held her own for decades now. Here's a 'Degrees Of Separation' assembly about her.

A multiple-choice quiz by gatsby722. Estimated time: 7 mins.

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gatsby722

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7 mins

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201,193

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. In 1976, Miss Spacek made quite a splash in the film "Carrie". Carrie had a rough way of it in high school, but which one of these horrors DID NOT befall poor Ms. White in that movie? Hint

Unlucky, Carrie had a horrific incident in the gym's shower. No one helped her - the other girls just laughed.

She had a bucket of pig's blood dumped on her head! This was the final straw and she got all peeved, to say the least.

Her prom date was electrocuted by a runaway wire, right after the gymnasium caught fire.

Her mother was a lunatic, just your basic Bible-thumping madwoman. She did, at least once, like the scent of whiskey though.

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Question 2 of 10

2. John Travolta and Nancy Allen, who played young devils up to no good in the movie "Carrie", co-starred again in 1981's "Blow Out". Travolta played a soundman who inadvertantly caught some evidence that a car mishap was in fact murder.

What was Travolta's character's name in that thriller? Hint

Joey

Jack

Jason

Jeremy

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Question 3 of 10

3. John Travolta played a rather special fellow in "Michael" in 1996. He wasn't even real - just a totally individual angel sort of guy. He was being pursued by a small group of journalists. Who played one of them? Hint

William Hurt

John Mahoney

Jean Stapleton

Kevin Kline

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Question 4 of 10

4. I'm a big fan of Jean Stapleton, who was in the film "Michael". Her portrayal of Edith Bunker was nothing short of classic in the sitcom "All In The Family" (1971-1979). Poor Edith died in that series, but in this film, Jean just thought she might die. Name the movie! Hint

Matrons In Trouble

Up In Smoke

Cold Turkey

The Lottery

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Question 5 of 10

5. Vincent Gardenia, who passed away in 1992, was a most reliable character actor in both film and TV. He scored two Oscar nominations - one being for "Moonstruck" in 1988. In his first nominated role who was his co-star in 1973? Hint

Jeremy Irons

Robert Duvall

Robert DeNiro

Jack Lemmon

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Question 6 of 10

6. The now classic "Raging Bull", made in 1980, covered the significantly brutal life of Jake La Motta. In life he was a boxer and a complete character, movie aside. Who played Jake's younger brother in this biopic? Hint

Andy Garcia

Ray Liotta

Harvey Keitel

Joe Pesci

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Question 7 of 10

7. People just can't can't get enough of boxing movies, can they? I guess knocking the daylights out of someone else's head is fun to watch but I never found it that. Unless, naturally, it is done right. This past year (2004) a movie did it very well. Hilary Swank has been Oscar nominated for playing the boxer in "Million Dollar Baby". She's had a most interesting career. Which is true about her acting history? Hint

Her now husband, actor and producer Chad Lowe, gave some of his friends the nudge when he first met her and got her a one episode part on "The X-Files". She played a shape shifting vampiress.

She was fired from "Beverley Hills 90210", that pop TV sensation. Tori Spelling stayed and Hilary got the boot. Go figure.

Hilary's first real job was on an 'Afterschool Special' on television. She played a pregnant teen hooked on diet pills.

Swank had a teeny part in "Melrose Place", that racy TV soaper. While filming her assignment as a girl selling cosmetics she fell off the platform and broke her ankle.

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Question 8 of 10

8. Morgan Freeman (also in "Million Dollar Baby" to great effect) almost never misses. He's been Oscar nominated as Best Actor twice so far and is now up again for his supporting role in "Baby". He was, however, a nominee for Best Supporting Actor once before - his first nomination. For what film? Hint

Se7en

Brubaker

Eyewitness

Street Smart

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Question 9 of 10

9. People on the street in movies - there are so many! From "The Grapes Of Wrath" to "Pretty Woman" lots of folks get cast adrift and survive it one way or another. Some don't, though. Dustin Hoffman's 'Ratso Rizzo' in "Midnight Cowboy" didn't make it until the end of that film. Where did Ratso die? Hint

On a bus going to Florida. He was lucky to have made it as far as he did.

On 5th Avenue - he was run down by a speeding taxi cab.

In an abandoned building where he was living in NYC. He froze to death.

He crashed a drug party and was beaten to death by those who didn't want him there.

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Question 10 of 10

10. Dustin Hoffman's big break came in "The Graduate" in 1967. A rather dud of a fellow he ended up seduced and complicated by the now famous Mrs. Robinson. Anne Bancroft played her. Who played her suicidal daughter in "'Night Mother" in 1986?

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In 1976, Miss Spacek made quite a splash in the film "Carrie". Carrie had a rough way of it in high school, but which one of these horrors DID NOT befall poor Ms. White in that movie?

Answer: Her prom date was electrocuted by a runaway wire, right after the gymnasium caught fire.

William Katt played Tommy, the King to Carrie's Queen at the prom (even though the whole thing was rigged, but he didn't know that) that fateful night. He did kick the bucket at the dance or, more accurately, the bucket kicked him. Right onto his head it fell, just after all the pig's blood dropped, and he was knocked out by it. Tommy was never visibly electrocuted. Spacek got her first Oscar nomination for this unexpectedly memorable film. To note: Katt is the son of Barbara Hale, better known as Della Street of "Perry Mason" fame on 50s TV.

2. John Travolta and Nancy Allen, who played young devils up to no good in the movie "Carrie", co-starred again in 1981's "Blow Out". Travolta played a soundman who inadvertantly caught some evidence that a car mishap was in fact murder. What was Travolta's character's name in that thriller?

Answer: Jack

How trivial was that, eh? "Blow Out" wasn't really a bad film but it's also not a movie that people remember much. Brian De Palma had a string of very good unexceptional scary ones in the years at that time - "Dressed To Kill" (once again with Allen) in 1980 comes to mind as one of the best of them. Nancy Allen became Mrs. De Palma, though. Her career has fluttered out of sight now.

Answer: William Hurt

Hurt won his Oscar playing Molina in 1985's "Kiss Of The Spider Woman". Pretty risky for him to even take on that part! Actually, his whole career has been built on playing men being on the edge of things. An emasculated druggie in "The Big Chill" (1983), a grieving father involved with a kooky dog walker in "The Accidental Tourist" (1988), an offbeat scientist who gets carried away with isolation in "Altered States" in 1980, etc...

The list is long. In "Michael" he played it pretty straight. He was just a cynical reporter in search of a story about this mysterious angel. I liked the movie! I might be one of the few who did. My feathers remained attached throughout it. I kept checking.

Note: As Michael weakened his feathers fell off; just to make that reference understandable.

Answer: Cold Turkey

What a strange movie! An entire town was asked to quit smoking (for some lofty prize money if they did it). Needless to say, the 'nervousness level' became huge. This 1970 oddity also featured Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott and Vincent Gardenia. [I'm sitting here trying to imagine Edith Bunker in a Cheech and Chong movie like "Up In Smoke". Stranger things have happened, though, I guess...].

Answer: Robert DeNiro

DeNiro played a baseballer who, with his pal Michael Morrissey, had to deal with the onslaught of leukemia in this weeper "Bang The Drum Slowly". Gardenia was nominated for playing the coach here. Vincent was another of those lesser knowns who never messed up in a movie. If the movie wasn't the greatest he just made it better.

Answer: Joe Pesci

At the age of 37, "Raging Bull" was only Pesci's second movie. It got him a wide amount of attention, though, even earning him his first Oscar nomination. He won one the next time he was up, for "Goodfellas" in 1990. Robert DeNiro, of course, made cinematic history by playing Mr. La Motta - the weight gain alone was startling. Just a tidbit: in the black and white boxing scenes, which somehow made it all look even more horrible, the punches were sounded by technicians squashing melons and tomatoes. Martin Scorcese, who always manages to get straight to the bottom of things without a bit of sentimentality, directed this masterpiece.

Answer: She was fired from "Beverley Hills 90210", that pop TV sensation. Tori Spelling stayed and Hilary got the boot. Go figure.

Swank played a single Mom in "90210". None of the parts there were all that good and hers was especially tricky because she and Steve (Ian Zimmerling) didn't stand a chance in their romance at the point she showed up so she/her character got canned, but that's OK.

Her film work has become awesome. Her boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, is a complete front runner in this Oscar race now. Fired TV actress and now looking at two Academy Awards (her first was for "Boys Don't Cry" in 1999), I think Miss Swank proved who was right where.

Answer: Street Smart

He played quite the scoundrel in "Street Smart" in 1987. A silver-tongued pimp who had a grand time messing with journalist Christopher Reeve's head. He didn't win his Oscar but he certainly stole the whole movie right out from under "Superman". Soon after he was applauded for his roles as Hoke in "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Red" in "The Shawshank Redemption" (among others) but his part in "Street Smart", playing 'Fast Black', wasn't even closely as sympathetic as those were.

Answer: On a bus going to Florida. He was lucky to have made it as far as he did.

"Midnight Cowboy" (1969) was adventurous, scary and ultimately brilliant. When I first saw it I just couldn't imagine that people actually live that way. I've come to learn that some do. Hoffman's, Rizzo could have been a cartoon in lesser hands and Joe Buck, played by Jon Voight, was easily one of the most clumsy and oafish hustlers ever given on screen. Anyway, Ratso wanted to get to Florida where the weather was warm and he might find some comfort.

He perished en route.

Answer: Sissy Spacek

Bancroft was not even close to being a seductive mother, age-wise, in "The Graduate" (she was only 6 years older than he, after all, in real life). But she pulled it off. In the movie "'Night Mother", she played the Mom struggling with that her daughter (Jessie) was giving it up. Jessie was played by our star here Sissy Spacek. It all ends up at the beginning, I guess.

Hope you had a little fun with this. It may be more difficult than I meant it to be.

Source: Author gatsby722

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