Film Tournament
Packet Four
Questions by Mike Cheyne
One character in this movie coined the phrase “the breakfast with the built-in bounce,” while
another incorrectly remembers the title of a film he saw called The Amazing Mrs. Bainbridge. That
character claims he never sweats, but does eventually admit that no one wears eyeglasses to bed. One
man in this film roots for the Baltimore Orioles and is mocked by a Yankees fan, who eventually gets
sick of the talking because he has baseball tickets in his pocket. In one scene in this film, the entire cast
turns their backs to a character making a racist rant about “these people” and their violence. It ends with a
Lee J. Cobb played character tearing up a picture of his son as he finally agrees with Henry Fonda’s
character to vote “not guilty.” For 10 points, name this film showing the heated jury deliberations in a
murder trial.
ANSWER: 12 Angry Men
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In this film, characters discuss paying 27 dollars to a Circle A clerk for an issue of Italian Vogue. A
free lap dance is won by a character who calls someone “Butterfly” and recites the poem “Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” This film’s protagonists play a game of “Ship’s Mast” and later,
after brutally beating the villain, jump up for a freeze-framed high five as “The End” appears on the
screen. The antagonist kills DJ Jungle Julia, but cannot be arrested by Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. In
the climax of this movie, Zoe rides on the hood of a white Dodge Challenger during a high speed car chase.
This film’s antagonist is the crazed “Stuntman” Mike, who drives a car rigged with a safety cage inside.
For 10 points, name this Quentin Tarantino film, originally released with Planet Terror as part of the
Grindhouse double bill.
ANSWER: Death Proof [prompt on Grindhouse until mentioned]
This director ended one film by having Fred note his wife has “been a long way away” and thanks
her for coming back to him. Another of his films climaxes with the shell-shocked Major Doryan
setting off explosives he was led to by the Irish village idiot, Michael. One of this man’s films uses the
musical motif of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in telling the story of housewife Laura and
physician Alec, who are married to others yet poignantly consider an affair. This director of Brief
Encounter got his start adapting such literary works as Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. He
directed a film in which the English protagonist, Colonel Allenby, and Prince Faisal seize Damascus, while
another of this director’s films features the Omar Sharif played title character and his mistress, Lara. For 10
points, name this director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.
ANSWER: Sir David Lean
3.
While the star of this film didn’t like it, as the credits play in this film, a humorous outtake shows the
protagonist on a gurney trying to remember a message a street punk gave him. The protagonist’s
homily about growth having four seasons is mistaken for a profound statement about “the seasons of
our economy.” This movie ends with a character musing that “life is a state of mind,” while the
protagonist walks with his umbrella literally across water. The main character becomes a celebrity for
his “simple brand of wisdom,” says the misinterpreted phrase “I like to watch,” and has his name mistaken
as “Chauncey Gardiner.” At the end of this film, the protagonist is considered as the next president, even
though he only knows what he has seen on television. For 10 points, name this film adapted from a Jerzy
Kosinski novella, which stars Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener.
ANSWER: Being There
4.
5.
This figure was played by future Paramount Pictures head Robert Evans in a biography of Lon
Chaney titled Man of a Thousand Faces. First working as a secretary to Universal head Carl
Laemmle, he, along with Sol Wurtzel and E.H. Allen, drafted the document that became known as
the Hays Production Code. After the film Merry-Go-Round went far over budget, this man
controversially fired director Erich von Stroheim. In 1927, he married actress Norma Shearer, with
Louis B. Mayer serving as the best man. Dying of pneumonia at the age of 37, this man was
fictionalized as Monroe Stahr in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel The Last Tycoon. For 10
points, name this legendary producer for MGM, who is memorialized by a lifetime achievement award
handed out by the Motion Picture Academy.
ANSWER: Irving Grant Thalberg
In one of this actress’ roles, she ends a movie by watching the wedding of her daughter Laurel while
looking through a window on a city street. She is not Dyan Cannon, but she played a magazine writer
forced to entertain veteran Jefferson Jones for Christmas at her non-existent Connecticut farmhouse.
In one role, this actress tells a man the speed limit is forty-five, beginning a rapid-fire bit of flirting in
which the man tells her to “get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.” This star of Stella
Dallas appeared in a film as con woman Jean Harrington, who entrances an idiotic snake expert
played by Henry Fonda. She played the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson, who seduces insurance salesman
Walter Neff into killing her husband. For 10 points, name this actress who starred in The Lady Eve and
Double Indemnity.
ANSWER: Barbara Stanwyck [accept Ruby Catherine Stevens]
6.
7.
In one appearance, this character is accidentally shot by his nemesis during a game of Russian
Roulette begun after the two lose a mayoral campaign to a literal dark horse. In that appearance, this
figure uses a piano set to explode during the playing of “Those Endearing Young Charms.” In
another appearance, he unsuccessfully tries many times to make his enemy replace Fearless Freep in
a high-diving act. This character bears some resemblance to his creator, Fritz Freleng. In one
appearance, he steals the Singing Sword, but is ultimately blasted off to the moon when his dragon sneezes
in an explosives room. This character first appears in Hare Trigger and appears as a Roman centurion in
Roman Legion-Hare and as the Black Knight in Knighty Knight Bugs. For 10 points, name this shorttempered, red-haired gunslinger who frequently contends with the “varmint,” Bugs Bunny.
ANSWER: Yosemite Sam [accept either]
This film’s protagonist writes a play called Popularity, which completely flops. The star would later
reprise his Oscar-winning role in the Bob Hope film The Seven Little Foys. At the beginning of this
movie, the main character is starring in I’d Rather Be Right, where he portrays the figure he later
tells his biography to. The protagonist’s trademark speech includes the lines “My mother thanks you,
my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you.” This film begins with the protagonist
visiting the White House to tell his life story to Franklin Roosevelt, beginning with his birth on the
Fourth of July. In the final scene, the main character encounters a group of soldiers singing “Over There,”
unaware that they are talking to the song’s author. For 10 points, name this film in which Jimmy Cagney
plays Broadway star George M. Cohan.
ANSWER: Yankee Doodle Dandy
8.
One character in this movie calls himself “the terror of Gimbel’s basement” and uses olives for dice
in a bar-top craps game. Another character is assigned the name “Lorene” out of a perfume ad
because it sounds French. In this film’s final scene, a prostitute named Alma falsely claims one
character was a Silver Star winning bomber pilot as she holds his bugle mouthpiece. That character
refuses to join a boxing club because he once blinded Dixie Wells in the ring. In this film, the death of
Maggio at the hands of “Fatso” Judson is avenged by Private Prewitt, who is ultimately accidentally killed
by a sentry during a sneak attack. Its most famous scene features characters played by Deborah Kerr and
Burt Lancaster making love on the beach as the waves at Halona Cove roll up and cover them. For 10
points, name this adaptation of a James Jones novel set in Hawaii prior to Pearl Harbor.
ANSWER: From Here to Eternity
9.
10. This actor is caricatured as Casper the Caveman in the cartoon Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur. In one
of his roles, he played a musician named Athanael, who dreams he’s an angel assigned to blow the
“Last Trumpet” to destroy the Earth. This actor frequently joked about that film, The Horn Blows at
Midnight. He’s not Mel Brooks, but this man played a performer who is distressed when a pilot walks
out during a performance of Hamlet’s soliloquy. His most famous film featured him portraying “that
great, great actor,” a Polish star named Joseph Tura who disguises himself as “Concentration Camp”
Ehrhardt. This star of 1942’s To Be or Not to Be made several films with rival comic Fred Allen and
sidekick Eddie “Rochester” Anderson. For 10 points, name this radio comedian, noted for his persona as a
miser who plays the violin badly.
ANSWER: Jack Benny [accept Benjamin Kubelsky]
11. In on early scene in this movie, the protagonist uses a shotgun to destroy a couch while saying he’s
the “party pooper.” A minor antagonist in this film runs over Phoebe O’Hara with her car, although
O’Hara recovers to knock that villainess out with a baseball bat while saying “You’re not so tough
without your car, are you?” The main villain, the ponytailed Cullen Crisp, is shot immediately after
the protagonist’s ferret bites him. One character in this film says his father is a gynecologist who looks at
vaginas, a statement that comes during the game “Who is your daddy and what does he do?” The
protagonist, Detective John Kimble, shouts “There is no bathroom!” and “It’s not a tumor!” to a bunch of
children. For 10 points, name this film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cop who poses as a school
teacher.
ANSWER: Kindergarten Cop
12. In one of this actor’s films, he smashes glasses and a mirror in a bar as the song “One for My Baby”
plays. In another film, this man played a fashion photographer based on Richard Avedon, who takes
pictures of an Audrey Hepburn played would-be philosopher. With a younger co-star, this actor
appeared in a film where he sings about a “Babbitt” and a “Bromide” who vacuously talk to each
other, even when they are in Heaven. Besides that and several other bits in the film Ziegfeld Follies,
this man starred in Royal Wedding, in which he famously walks on the walls and ceilings of his room,
and in another scene, performs “Sunday Jumps” with a hatstand. He is best known for teaming with a
female star in such films as Swing Time and Top Hat. For 10 points, name this dancer, who famously
partnered in ten films with Ginger Rogers.
ANSWER: Fred Astaire [accept Frederick Austerlitz]
13. One character in this film loves the actress Myrna Loy and has a bluebird tattooed on his chest. The
protagonists capture and handcuff Frank Hamer, and take pictures with him, while earlier they
photographed one another, with one character wearing a black beret. A Bosley Crowther review of
this movie which called it “a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick” led to his ousting at the New York
Times. One character in this film writes poems with lines like “They’ll bury them side by side—to
few, it’ll be grief, to the law, a relief.” The protagonists are aided by the Gene Hackman played Buck, his
wife Blanche, and a dimwitted gas station attendant named C.W. Moss. This film ends with the title
characters’ bodies writhing as they are riddled with bullets fired by the Texas Rangers. For 10 points, name
this movie starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as the title pair of bank robbers.
ANSWER: Bonnie and Clyde
14. In one scene in this movie, the protagonist watches Polaroids develop to slowly reveal a woman
attached to a series of feeding tubes. The first scene shows the protagonist smoking and playing
pinball while at a pub one morning. The main character of this movie quotes Galatians and says “if
we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves—and act with justice.” It ends
with the protagonist drinking coffee, ignoring the phone calls from Laura, the woman who was
employed to spy on him. One character in this movie, the James Mason played Ed Concannon, is
described as the “Prince of fucking Darkness.” The protagonist, Frank Galvin, triumphs over the
Archdiocese of Boston, who ran a hospital where a woman was given the wrong anesthetic. For 10 points,
name this Sidney Lumet film starring Paul Newman as an alcoholic lawyer who wins a major malpractice
case.
ANSWER: The Verdict
15. At the end of this movie, the villain repeatedly calls the protagonist “Soldier” and offers to give the
hero money as he hides in a ship hold. One character is berated for her poor singing of the song
“Moanin’ Low” and is the alcoholic Gaye Dawn. This movie’s antagonist fumes over being deported
as an “undesirable alien” like he was a “dirty Red” and commands a gang which includes Ralph,
Curly, and Toots. While holding the Temples hostage, the villain tricks the Sheriff into killing the
Osceola brothers. This film ends on a boat to Cuba, where Frank McCloud manages to kill his
captors and the villain, Johnny Rocco. For 10 points, name this film adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson
play, starring Humphrey Bogart as a man who contends with an Edward G. Robinson played gangster, who
has taken over a Florida hotel.
ANSWER: Key Largo
16. This character says he passes on grass during an awkward conversation about the song “Puff the
Magic Dragon.” He mentions his “kung-fu grip” and says “step off, bitch,” while trying to store a
bag in an airplane compartment. While saying grace at dinner, this man ends up reciting lyrics from
the Godspell song “Day by Day.” When this character notes you can “milk just about anything with
nipples,” he is asked if he could milk a human. In later appearances, he is suspected to be the father of
Jorge with the family housekeeper and is seduced by a female co-worker named Andi Garcia. A male
nurse, he is the son of a sex therapist played by Barbra Streisand and continually annoys his father-in-law, a
retired CIA agent played by Robert De Niro. For 10 points, name this Ben Stiller played character with an
embarrassing name, the protagonist of the Meet the Parents series.
ANSWER: Gaylord “Greg” Focker [accept any of these parts, accept Gay]
17. This director made a film in which the protagonist is chased by a vigilante mob, including a woman
named Gail, who drives a Mister Softee truck. That movie by this man ends with the main character
encased in a sculpture and stolen by burglars played by Cheech and Chong. In one of his movies, a
man named Dogs has his head put in a vise and has his eye popped out until he gives up the name
“Charlie M.” This director of After Hours began one film with a figure moving in slow motion as the
Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana plays. One of his films features a scene where “Ace” Rothstein’s
associate, Nicky Santoro, is brutally beaten with a shovel and buried alive outside Las Vegas. This man
directed Robert De Niro in an Oscar-winning performance as boxer Jake La Motta. For 10 points, name this
director of Casino and Raging Bull.
ANSWER: Martin Charles Scorsese
18. In one movie this man directed and starred in, the protagonist quits his job while saying he’s seen the
future and “it’s a bald-headed man from New York.” In that film, his character begs a Las Vegas
casino manager to give him his money back after his wife loses his nest egg playing roulette. Another
of this actor’s characters wants “10,000 tough guys” and “10,000 soft guys” to make the tough guys
look tougher. That character convinces President Schwarzenegger to pick option four. In one recent
role, this man played the crooked business partner of Nino, who kills garage owner Shannon and is
ultimately stabbed to death by the unnamed Ryan Gosling protagonist. This director of Lost in America
played insane EPA chief Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie. For 10 points, name this director and actor
who recently played mobster Bernie Rose in Drive and who voiced Marlin in Finding Nemo.
ANSWER: Albert Lawrence Brooks [accept Albert Lawrence Einstein]
19. This character defends the behavior of an associate by saying certain women have a virus-like power,
“as real as typhus.” He orders the death of a civil engineer from the University of Milan, but takes
her advice after killing her. This man asks “Are these the eyes of a rat?” as he talks to his secretary,
Helen, but instead of kissing her, he calls her a bitch and beats her. He is last seen smoothing back his
hair, as a soldier fails several times in kicking away the stool this figure is standing on for his
execution. This character says “I pardon you” to his reflection in a mirror and briefly is convinced that
true power is resisting the justification to kill. However, this man quickly reverts to his old behavior and
uses a sniper rifle to shoot a child at the Plaszow camp. For 10 points, name this Nazi commandant, a real
figure played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List.
ANSWER: Amon Goeth [accept either]
20. One character in this film, Graham, poses as a National Public Survey pollster, seeking to the find
the typical American family. The two main characters are both first seen lying fully dressed in a bed,
one smoking a cigar in a rooming house, the other in her home, thinking about how nothing happens.
A villain in this movie makes a speech about “horrible, fat, greedy women,” but the protagonist
points out “they’re human beings.” One character loves reading pulp murder mysteries and jokingly
plots with the protagonist’s father about the perfect way to commit a murder. Near the end of this
film, a shot of couples dancing the “Merry Widow Waltz” immediately follows a scene where the
antagonist is hit by a train while throwing to throw his niece onto the tracks. For 10 points, name this
Alfred Hitchcock movie in which a girl named Charlie realizes her Uncle Charlie is actually a serial killer.
ANSWER: Shadow of a Doubt