Tuesday Trivia Game

Okay, I have like no time today. Should have prepared this yesterday. So today, we’re posting trivia questions in a round robin.

If you answer a question, you can post a question. Here’s the twist: Every movie must have a place name in the title. I’ll start:

Based on a true story, which became a fictional play, which became a movie with one or two songs (but not really a musical), which became a musical play, which became a musical movie.

80 comments

  1. Roberta says:

    It absolutely qualifies as a place. Deb never said city or even geographical location.

  2. Melville says:

    Yes, Cinema Paradiso is a place. But that’s not the movie I’m thinking of.

    She was closer (sooooo close) when she said Fellini’s Roma.

  3. jhupp says:

    Yeah, sorry about the outburst. I was just oh so excited to be right about that. Alas, not.

  4. Melville says:

    Come on, folks. If you don’t guess it in 5 minutes, you’ll have to wait until 6:00 (it’s a looong commute) for me to confirm it.

    Anyone??

  5. Melville says:

    George! You got it!!

  6. George says:

    Ah, I got back from lunch in the nick of time. And, Melville, it seems we have the same taste in foreign films.

  7. Melville says:

    Fellini, Ozu, yes indeed.

  8. George says:

    This film features a future star in his first film appearance. He has recently finished shooting a film that ends with the same word as this first film.

  9. Roberta says:

    Seeking clarification–the last word in the title of the new film is the one-word title of his first?

  10. George says:

    Both his first film and the soon-to-be released film have the same last word, not necessarily the same number of words. Sorry. Neither is a single word title.

  11. Roberta says:

    And what was that word?

    (just kidding.)

  12. George says:

    Do people need a clue, or is no one out there?

    Turns out, if IMDB and my counting can be trusted, that this actor has been in 11 films with a proper noun place name and another 3 with a place in their titles.

  13. jhupp says:

    I’m going with A Nightmare on Elm Street.

  14. George says:

    Yep, it’s Depp! First film: Nightmare on Elm Street, in post-production Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

  15. jhupp says:

    It’s an acronym for a suburban place where standing still can get you killed.

  16. George says:

    L.I.E.? I mean, you’d get run over. Not that that seems to be part of the film….

  17. jhupp says:

    nevertheless, correct.

  18. George says:

    Voyeurism and lemons.

  19. Melville says:

    Atlantic City

  20. Simbaud says:

    Melville, you bastid. That’s what I get for taking those extra seconds to add HTML code.

  21. Melville says:

    Hee! That’s okay. You can take the next question, I can’t think of a good one.

  22. Simbaud says:

    Semi-documentary thriller about corruption in Alabama. The title may seem to contain a misspelled word, but it actually doesn’t.

  23. George says:

    I do have to comment how AC can get reduced to those two words and be instantly recognizable.

  24. George says:

    Simbaud, is it The Phenix City Story?

  25. George says:

    This romantic comedy manages to also feature a secondary character who attempts suicide and is played by an actor most famous for his appearance in a different film with a place in the title.

  26. George says:

    If anyone’s out there, I’m going home and won’t see this for awhile….

  27. witless chum says:

    That looked like fun.