Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 6 | Minute No. 126 | June 25, 2010

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  Virgil Thomson is the only composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music for a film score.  What was the film?

Louisiana Story, Robert Flaherty’s 1948 film about cajun life and the discovery of oil on the bayou.

2.  Dennis Hopper never won an Oscar but he was nominated twice.  Name the two films for which he earned his nominations.

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Easy Rider (1969), for original screenplay
The American Friend (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Hoosiers (1986), for Best Supporting Actor
Red Rock West (1993)

3.  John Wayne starred in five films directed by Howard Hawks.  Name the one film of Wayne’s from the list below that was not directed by Hawks.

Red River (1948)
Rio Grande (1950), directed by John Ford
Rio Bravo (1959)
Hatari! (1962)
El Dorado (1966)
Rio Lobo (1970)

4.  Three about Toy Story 3! 

a.  When his toy friends reset his mode at Sunnyside Daycare, Buzz Lightyear begins speaking …Russian?  …Spanish?  …Hindi?
b.  Lotso assigns Buzz and his friends to …the Butterfly Room?  …the Silkworm Room?  …the Caterpillar Room?
c.  The animated short film playing in theaters before Toy Story 3 is called …Black and White?  …Day and Night?  …Merry and Bright?

Based on early box office receipts, many more people will be seeing the Pixar short than the answer to number 5.

5.  The promotional artwork (below) for a picture opening this week fails to show the faces of the two megastars appearing in the movie.  That’s odd, to say the least, considering the many millions of dollars the producers spent on casting those two so they’d attract people to theaters.  Name the movie and the two stars.

The movie is Knight and Day.  The stars are Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.