Wishful Drinking Trivia Quiz

Answer: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

The "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" was the first film released in the "Star Wars" saga. This film was about a Rebel Alliance trying to destroy a space station belonging to the Galactic Empire. A droid named R2-D2 had stolen technical details of the space station in its memory.

Early in the film, the characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, C-3PO and R2-D2 were looking for a transport to the planet of Alderaan. The characters wanted to deliver R2-D2's data to the Rebel Alliance on Alderaan. The characters met smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca at the Chalmun's Cantina in Mos Eisley. Solo and Chewbacca agreed to provide the other characters a transport to Alderaan.

Answer: Road House

The 1989 movie "Road House" starred Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott and Ben Gazzara. The Jeff Healey Band starred as the house band for the Double Deuce bar.

The Double Deuce bar owner, Frank Tilghman, hired James Dalton to clean up the place. Every night the bar entertained unruly patrons, corrupt bar employees and employees of the evil local businessman Brad Wesley. Eventually, Dalton succeeded in getting rid of Brad Wesley and the other troublemakers. The Double Deuce became a respectable bar.

Answer: National Lampoon's Animal House

The 1978 film "National Lampoon's Animal House" was about the misfit Delta Tau Chi fraternity at a fictional Faber College feuding the school's administration. During the movie, the school's administration wanted to kick the Delta Tau Chi fraternity off campus.

After the fraternity threw a wild toga party, the school's administration revoked the fraternity's charter and removed them from the campus. That night, four members of the fraternity took a road trip to the fictional bar called the Dexter Lake Club to see their favorite band perform. The band, Otis Day and the Knights, performed a song titled "Shama Lama Ding Dong". Eventually, the fraternity members became intimidated by the other patrons in the bar and fled the scene. After the trip to the bar, the fraternity ruined the school's homecoming parade.

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

The 1981 film "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey and John Rhys-Davies. In the movie, the Nazi Party desired the Ark of the Covenant, believing that this artifact would make their armies invincible. Standing in their way was an archaeology professor named Indiana Jones.

The beginning of the adventure saw members of the Nazi Party go to a fictional bar called the Raven to locate a valuable artifact from the daughter of an archaeologist. Indiana Jones arrived at the bar to help the daughter and the artifact escape the Nazis. Eventually, the Ark of the Covenant was found. Once opened, the Ark destroyed the members of the Nazi Party but not Indiana Jones. Jones took the Ark back to the United States where it was put in a government warehouse.

Answer: It's a Wonderful Life

The 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life" starred James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers and Thomas Mitchell. The movie's main character, George Bailey, wished he hadn't been born and considered suicide on Christmas Eve. George's guardian angel, Clarence Odbody, showed George what life would be like without him. George's hometown changed its name from Bedford Falls to Pottersville.

The name of town's bar was changed from Martini's to Nick's. Eventually, George Bailey saw how he had touched the lives of the people he knew and decided to continue living.

Answer: Casablanca

The 1943 film "Casablanca" starred Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. The film centered around a fictional nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco called Rick's Café Américain, at the beginning of World War II. In the movie, the nightclub's owner, Rick Blaine, became reconnected with a former girlfriend named Ilsa Lund. Ilsa Lund brought her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, to the nightclub to retrieve some letters of transit from Rick.

After some resistance, Rick gives the letters to Ilsa Lund's husband allowing him to travel to the United States of America.

Answer: Police Academy

The 1984 movie "Police Academy" was the first in a series of seven movies released between 1984 and 1994. The film series revolved around several misfits who enlisted in a police academy and eventually had a unusual but successful career as police officers.

One of the recurring gags in this series was the Blue Oyster Bar scenes. The Blue Oyster Bar was a fictional rowdy bar found in a back alley of the city. The bar consisted of males dressed in leather clothing, police officer outfits or sailor outfits. In the film series, an unpopular cadet or instructor of the academy was sent to the Blue Oyster Bar as a prank.

Answer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was a live action film, with animation, starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd and the voices of Charles Fleischer and Kathleen Turner. The movie was about solving the murder of cartoon businessman Marvin Acme. Cartoon character Roger Rabbit was framed for the murder. Private Investigators went to the fictional Ink & Paint Club to investigate Roger Rabbit's wife Jessica about her relationship with Marvin Acme.

Roger Rabbit turned to private investigator Eddie Valiant to solve the murder and prove the cartoon's innocence.

Answer: Urban Cowboy

The 1980 film "Urban Cowboy" starred John Travolta, Barry Corbin, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn and Madolyn Smith. The movie was filmed in a bar owned by country singer Mickey Gilley.

A youngster named Bud Davis moved to Houston, Texas to earn money. Bud's uncle took him to a honky tonk bar named Gilley's Club. Bud met a woman named Sissy at the bar and the two eventually got married. Bud started a rivalry with a bar employee named Wes Hightower over Sissy. Bud defeated Wes in a mechanical bull riding contest. Bud won Sissy's heart back.

Answer: Goodfellas

The 1990 film "Goodfellas" was based on the life of the Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill. The movie starred Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino and Ray Liotta. This movie was about the life of the Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill.

In the movie, the crime family socialized at the Bamboo Lounge and went on civilized dates at the Copacabana nightclub.

Answer: A Clockwork Orange

The 1971 film "A Clockwork Orange" was directed by Stanley Kubrick and starred Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri and Miriam Karlin. The movie centered around a gang of teenage males, called the "droogs". The gang went to the Korova Milk Bar for drug intoxication. Once intoxicated, the gang went around the city performing sociopathic and criminal acts. The acts included attacks, fighting, rape and theft.

The leader of the "droogs", Alex, was jailed for burglary assaulting an elderly lady. While in prison, Alex was used as a guinea pig for some new experimental behavioral modifying technique. Alex felt that his rights had been violated. Due to his change of behavior, Alex could not continue his sociopathic behavior once out of jail. Thus Alex attempted suicide.

During Alex's recovery from the failed suicide, the government was exposed for their inhuman experimental behavioral modifying techniques. The behavioral modifying technique was reversed on Alex.

Answer: The Shining

The 1980 film "The Shining" was directed by Stanley Kubrick and starred Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. In the movie, author Jack Torrance took a job as a winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel so he could write his next novel. Jack Torrance drank bourbon in the hotel's bar called the Gold Room.

The hotel had a strange clairvoyant and telepathic imprints, especially in room 237. After experiencing cabin fever from being stuck in the hotel because of a snowstorm, Torrance visited a haunted room in the hotel and saw ghosts. The Torrance family fled the Overlook Hotel, but Jack froze in the maze, where he had been chasing his son, and died.

Answer: The "Harry Potter" series

The "Harry Potter" film series consisted of eight films released between 2001 and 2011. The "Harry Potter" series was about a young wizard who attended the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and battled the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.

The Three Broomsticks was a fictional bar owned Madam Rosmerta. The Three Broomsticks appeared in the 2004 film "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". Hogsmeade Village is another fictional bar which appeared in the 2004 film "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". The fictional bar The Hog's Head was owned by Aberforth Dumbledore and appeared in the 2007 film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".

Answer: The Blues Brothers

The 1980 film "The Blues Brothers" starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd with an ensemble cast. The Blues Brothers band had to play several gigs to raise money to save their former orphanage from foreclosure. The group stole a gig at Bob's Country Bunker from another band.

After raising five thousand dollars from playing several gigs, the Blues Brother band members were able to deliver the money to the Cook County Assessor to save the orphanage.

Answer: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

The 2015 blockbuster film "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" was the seventh film released in the "Star Wars" saga. The film revolved around two groups trying to locate Jedi Luke Skywalker. The Resistance wanted Luke Skywalker's help while the First Order wanted to destroy Luke.

A Resistance droid named BB-8 contained a missing piece of a map containing the location of Luke Skywalker. Smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca took Rey, Finn and BB-8 to Maz Kanata's cantina on the planet Takodana. Han hoped Maz would be able to help Rey, Finn and BB-8 get to the Resistance's home base. Eventually Rey became an ally of the Resistance and located Luke Skywalker.