X Marks the Movie Trivia Quiz

Answer: Prague

Prague has been a very popular location for filming motion pictures in recent years. Among the movies filmed (though not always set) in Prague are "Mission Impossible", "Blade 2", "From Hell", "Shanghai Knights", "The Bourne Identity", "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "Amadeus".

The climax of "XXX" takes place at the Charles Bridge, which is probably the city's most famous landmark and was the same bridge where the opening sequences of "Mission Impossible" took place.

Answer: Rob Bowman

Bowman had been a prolific television director for a number of years and had directed a number of "X Files" episodes, but the movie version of "X Files" was his first significant feature film. Since then, he has also directed the 2002 horror film "Reign of Fire". Rob Marshall received an Oscar nomination in his movie debut as director of "Chicago". Rob Cohen's best known films were "XXX" and "The Fast and the Furious", both starring Vin Diesel. Rob Reiner, who became famous as Meathead on "All in the Family", has directed and acted in many movies over the past thirty years.

Answer: Best Costume Design

Ruth Carter, who designed the costumes for many Spike Lee films, received her first Oscar nomination for "Malcolm X". Lee, who had received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay for "Do the Right Thing", did not get another nomination until 1998, when he was nominated for the documentary "4 Little Girls".

Answer: Chimpanzee

The chimpanzees were being trained as pilots in flight simulators, but the experiment was really designed to expose them to lethal doses of radiation to see how how that might affect the performance of human pilots under similar circumstances. When Broderick and co-star Helen Hunt, who played the chimpanzee trainer, discovered what was really happening, they tried to rescue one chimp named Virgil.

Answer: She didn't exist.

This drama centered on a bitter feud between two backwoods families of moonshiners: the Feathers, headed by Rod Steiger, and the Gutshalls, led by Robert Ryan. As a joke, one of the Gutshalls mailed a postcard to the Feather home, allegedly signed by "Lolly Madonna", indicating she was in love with one of the Feather sons.

The joke turned sour when the Feather clan kidnapped an innocent woman (Season Hubley) passing through town, thinking she was the nonexistent Lolly Madonna. The movie was notable for giving some well known actors (including Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson, Gary Busey and Randy Quaid) one of their earliest significant roles.

The film was based on an early novel by Sue Grafton, who has become much better known since that time as the author of the Kinsey Millhone mystery novels.

Answer: Michael Caine

Taylor played a bitter, angry woman in a very dysfunctional relationship with Caine. When he began an affair with Susannah York, Liz was outraged and reacted by trying to seduce York herself. If you guessed Laurence Harvey as the answer for this one, don't feel too bad. One year later, Harvey did costar with Liz in his last film, "Night Watch".

Answer: Her son

Many critics feel this was Turner's best performance, and it was undoubtedly the last good role she had. She played a woman who was forced to leave her husband and infant son after she was involved in a scandal. When she returned, years later, she wound up on trial for killing a would-be blackmailer who recognized her.

Her public defender attorney was her now-adult son (Keir Dullea). To prevent her son from realizing who she was, Lana refused to reveal her identity and called herself Madame X.

Answer: Ray Milland

Although Ray Milland was one of Hollywood's top leading men in the 1940's and won an Oscar for his performance as an alcoholic in "The Lost Weekend", his career declined considerably in the 1950's and he wound up starring in a number of low budget science fiction and horror movies, including "The Premature Burial", "Panic in Year Zero" and "X".

Although dismissed by critics at the time, "X" has since gained in stature and is now considered one of the better horror films of its time and one of Roger Corman's few quality films. One of the co-stars in the movie was Don Rickles, who was perfectly cast as a carnival barker who wound up employing Milland, who was able to use his extraordinary visual powers to pose as a sideshow psychic.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Bogie played an executed murderer who was brought back to life after receiving a transfusion of artificial blood. However, in order to stay alive, he needed a very rare type of real blood, so he started killing people and draining their bodies of blood.

This was the first horror movie Warner Brothers had made in three years and the only horror film Bogie ever made. Hollywood legend has it that Jack Warner forced Bogart, who was under contract to Warner Brothers at the time, to take the role as punishment for demanding a raise.

The movie certainly featured the most bizarre looking Bogart ever on screen, as he had a very pale white face and a white streak in the middle of his hair. In addition, he carried a pet rabbit around for most of the movie.

The film was supposedly a sequel to a superior 1932 horror movie, "Doctor X", but had nothing in common with the earlier film other than its title.

Answer: Merle Oberon

Although Olivier and Oberon would team up again a year later in the much better known "Wuthering Heights", they made a charming romantic couple in this comedy of mistaken identity that has been called an English version of "It Happened One Night". This was one of Olivier's few comedies, but he proved as adept at humor as at tragedy. Olivier's lifelong friend Ralph Richardson played the client who hired Laurence to obtain a divorce, which Olivier mistakenly believed was from Oberon. Richardson's actual wife in the movie was played by Binnie Barnes, who would go on the next year to play her most famous role of Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz".