Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 10 | October 29, 2010

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  Béla or Boris?  Which icon of classic Hollywood horror starred in the movies below, Béla Lugosi or Boris Karloff?

Dracula (1931) — Béla
Frankenstein (1931) — Boris
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) — Béla
White Zombie (1932) — Béla
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) — Boris
The Mummy (1932) — Boris
Island of Lost Souls (1932) — Béla
The Black Room (1935) — Boris
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) — Boris
Murder By Television (1935) — Béla

2.  Match these movies based on works of Stephen King with the director of the film.

Carrie (1976) — Brian De Palma
The Shining (1980) — Stanley Kubrick
The Dead Zone (1983) — David Cronenberg
Misery (1990) — Rob Reiner
Dolores Claiborne (1995) — Taylor Hackford
Apt Pupil (1998) — Bryan Singer
Dreamcatcher (2003) — Lawrence Kasdan
The Mist (2007) — Frank Darabont

3.  Let’s play “I Am Not a Witch.”  Name the movie witches who speak the lines below.

a.  “Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”  (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
          The Queen
b.  “Just try and stay out of my way.  Just try!  I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!”  (The Wizard of Oz)
          The Wicked Witch of the West
c.  “Rock-a-bye rabbit, in the hot oven, into my mouth for dinner I’ll shoven…” (Bewitched Bunny, animated short, sung to Bugs Bunny)
          Witch Hazel
d.  “Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare.  ‘It’s deadly fun, but will sulk in the sun!’  That’s it!  Devil’s Snare hates sunlight!  Lumos Solem!” (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
          Hermione Granger
e.  “Now I am the ruler of all the ocean!  The waves obey my every whim!” (The Little Mermaid)
          Ursula the Sea Witch

 4.  The following ghost stories appear in alphabetical order.  Place the films in order of their release.

Topper (1937)
Blithe Spirit (1945)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
The Haunting (1963)
Poltergeist (1982)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Field of Dreams (1989)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Ring (2002)

5.  Saving the scariest for last, a quiz on elections!  Name the office for which the candidate ran in the following films.

Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) in Citizen Kane — governor
Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) in Election — high school student body president
Bill McKay (Robert Redford) in The Candidate — senator
Jack Stanton (John Travolta) in Primary Colors — president
Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) in Bulworth — senator
John Iselin (James Gregory) in The Manchurian Candidate — vice-president