Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 15 | March 25, 2011

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  Name the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers starring in each of these concert and documentary films.

Dont Look Back (1967) — Bob Dylan
I’m Going to Tell You a Secret (2005) — Madonna
Live at Red Rocks (1984) — U2
Shine a Light (2008) — The Rolling Stones
Stop Making Sense (1984) — Talking Heads
This Is It (2009) — Michael Jackson

2.  Name four of the seven Rock and Roll Hall of Famers to date who have won an Oscar for original song or original score.

3.  Well more than 100 movies have opened since the beginning of 2011.  Before this weekend, how many of those films have grossed more than $100 million at the domestic box office?

None.  Including grosses from this weekend, two films have now hit the $100 million mark:  Rango ($106 million) and Just Go With It ($100 million).

4.  The baseball season usually brings with it another baseball movie or two.  This year’s most anticipated film about the sport is Moneyball, the adaptation of the book by Michael Lewis (The Blind Side), due to open in September.  The central character is Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s, who used computer analysis and sabermetrics to field a competitive team.  Who plays Billy Beane onscreen?

Brad Pitt

5.  Match each of the following Elizabeth Taylor movies with the role that she played.

Father of the Bride (1950) — Kay Banks
A Place in the Sun (1951) — Angela Vickers
Giant (1956) — Leslie Benedict
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) — Maggie Pollitt
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) — Catherine Holly
BUtterfield 8 (1960) — Gloria Wandrous