Think Different 317 - Movie Mania (FINAL RESULTS POSTED!)

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Think Different 317 - Movie Mania (FINAL RESULTS POSTED!)

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Welcome to TD 317 – Movie Mania!

The goal is to give a correct answer that is given by the fewest other players. You will receive one point for each person who gives the same answer as you, including yourself. Scoring is additive, and low score wins. Incorrect responses will receive the sheep (most popular) answer +5. Ties will be broken by earliest submission.

As always, no cheating. No looking up any answers or visiting your psychic for help; all answers must come from your own brain.

There are two helps available to you:
-- You may use FREE ADMISSION for one question and receive zero points for that question – please use your drop as there is no benefit in not doing so.
-- You may also choose BLOCKBUSTER for one question; if used, you will receive the same amount of points on that question as the sheep response.

If there are any questions or clarifications, please either post in this thread or PM me if you think your comment could spoil a question for someone else.

Please submit your answers through THIS FORM. Deadline for entering is Monday, October 24, at 9:00 PM CDT.

Enjoy!

ENTIRES (39):
Spoiler
MarkBarrett
ElendilPickle
vepa1943
jev15
lindap
oduguy22
quarterrican
Tybalteon
1stlvlthinker
Mike Breen

Magna
waterloo_guy
Peachbox
teapot37
mystcmage
badgerfellow
macrae1234
BulgarianBeast
Woppy T
Ultraman

mitchparov
dott888
Ryno
Vintsanity
pauerpoint
goforthetie
alamble
Blue Lion
OSXpert
totebags

RandyG
Bamaman
Category 13
AleBelly
Caboom
econgator
cbec
9021amyers
xxaaaxx
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THE QUESTIONS:

1. Lights, Camera, Action: Choose a letter below and name the director of the two films listed. Please remember to include your letter choice with your response (15 possible answers).
Spoiler
A. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
B. Pearl Harbor (2001); Transformers (2007)
C. The Weight of Water (2000); The Hurt Locker (2008)
D. The Terminator (1984); Avatar (2009)
E. Cleopatra (1934); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
F. Mystic River (2003); Jersey Boys (2014)
G. To Catch a Thief (1955); Frenzy (1972)
H. A Beautiful Mind (2001); Frost/Nixon (2008)
I. The Frighteners (1996); King Kong (2005)
J. Paths of Glory (1957); Full Metal Jacket (1987)
K. Big (1988); A League of Their Own (1992)
L. Memento (2000); Inception (2010)
M. Thelma & Louise (1991); The Martian (2015)
N. Stalag 17 (1953); The Apartment (1960)
O. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988); The Walk (2015)
2. Best of the Best: Name an actress that has had multiple Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress (22 possible answers).

3. A Disastrous Presidency: For one of the disaster movies listed below, name the actor who played the POTUS (9 possible answers).
Spoiler
A. 2012
B. Independence Day
C. The Day After Tomorrow
D. Armageddon
E. Pixels
F. Deep Impact
G. Meteor
H. Mars Attacks!
4. Top Movie Quotes: Name one of the top 20 movie quotes according to AFI (The American Film Institute). For help, I have listed the movie’s title and year (20 possible answers).

Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Godfather (1972)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Casablanca (1942) – two quotes (#5 and #20)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Star Wars (1977(
All About Eve (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Love Story (1970)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Citizen Kane (1941)
White Heat (1949)
Network (1976)

5. Tiny Titles: For years 2010-2016 (meaning movies released 2009-2015), name a one-word Academy Award nominee for best picture (18 possible answers). No articles or other words, so The Revenant and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) would not be correct answers. (26 possible answers).

6. From Page to Screen: Name the author of one of these mystery novels that was adapted into a movie. Please remember to include your letter choice with your response (12 possible answers).
Spoiler
A. Gone Girl
B. The Girl on the Train
C. The Third Man
D. The Lovely Bones
E. Gone, Baby, Gone
F. Blood Work
G. Along Came a Spider
H. One for the Money
I. A Walk Among the Tombstones
J. Murder on the Orient Express
K. Don’t Say a Word
L. The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. More Literary Adaptations: Speaking of novels being turned into movies, and in tribute to the recent Final Jeopardy, name a Stephen King novel that has been made into a theatrically released movie (novels only; no novellas or short stories) (15 possible answers):

8. Let’s Hear It!: There are ten musicals that have won Best Picture Oscars. Name one of them (10 possible answers).

9. Legal Films: I am a librarian at a Texas law school, and during my tenure, I have curated a large collection of law-related films. For this question, give me the title of one of the legal movies for which I have provided a brief plot synopsis. For extra help, I have included the year of the film’s release (15 possible answers).
Spoiler
A. A small-town attorney in Depression-era Alabama defends a crippled black man falsely accused of rape (1962).
B. A chronicle of the hostile deliberations of a jury in a death penalty case in which a lone juror expresses his doubts about what seems at first to be an open-and-shut prosecution (1957).
C. A brash Brooklyn lawyer (who finally passes the bar exam on his sixth try) represents two California-bound college students arrested for capital murder after a short stop at a convenience store in rural Alabama (1992).
D. A realistic study of an Army lieutenant accused of murdering a bartender who allegedly raped his wife (1959).
E. A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor (1973).
F. An attorney who specializes in whistle blower cases finds himself going up against his estranged daughter in a case involving a defective automobile (1991).
G. The story of three Australian soldiers who fight for the British Empire in the colonial Boer War in South Africa and are tried and convicted of war crimes (1980).
H. Sex comes to the Supreme Court in this dramatization of the famed First Amendment case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1996).
I. A law school student writes a legal brief speculating that two environmentalist Supreme Court justices were assassinated by a rich oil tycoon who planned to drill on marshland in Louisiana (1993).
J. A washed-up, alcoholic lawyer gets handed a medical-malpractice case and sees it as one last chance to get his career right (1982).
K. In 1924 Chicago, two wealthy law school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case (1959).
L. Charges are brought against four German judges accused of allowing their courts to become accomplices to Nazi atrocities (1961).
M. Sir Thomas More is caught in the political struggle involving Henry VIII’s decision to defy the Roman Catholic Church and divorce his wife to wed Anne Boleyn (1966).
N. Two low-ranking Marines from the Guantanamo Bay naval base are court-martialed for the death of another, allegedly part of an unofficial punishment known as a “code red” (1992).
O. A legal look at the heated issues of office politics, sexual harassment and whether a double standard exists when such allegations are levied by a man or woman (1994).
10. Military Movies: When not working (and sometimes when I am), I spend a lot of time watching, writing about, and presenting on women in the military on film. For this question, name a movie released 2010-present that features at least one woman in the military with a speaking role (27 possible answers at least). Note: not all possible answers are American films. CLARIFICATION: I am looking for women who are actually in the military in these films - not militia, paramilitary, or the like; in all the movies on my list, the woman is in an organized military, even if that military is non-U.S. That said, as with the quotes questions, I tend to be fairly lenient, so if your response is not on my list, I'll check it out and try and give points.
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Clarifications/Corrections:

I have changed choice I on the first question to correct an error.

Clarification for #10: I am looking for women who are actually in the military in these films - not militia, paramilitary, or the like; in all the movies on my list, the woman is in an organized military, even if that military is non-U.S.
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Will you be GENEROUS with movie quotes? :D
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Armandillo wrote:Will you be GENEROUS with movie quotes? :D
Same thought. Many quotes have come to be known by various very similar versions. Will "close enough" to the original be "good enough?"
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I think we should at least be required to come up with the exact quote for The Wizard of Ox.
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OSXpert wrote:I think we should at least be required to come up with the exact quote for The Wizard of Ox.
The Wizard of Ox-Bow Incident
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RandyG wrote:
Armandillo wrote:Will you be GENEROUS with movie quotes? :D
Same thought. Many quotes have come to be known by various very similar versions. Will "close enough" to the original be "good enough?"
It will be on a case-by-case basis, but, yes, I will be generous.
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RandyG wrote:
OSXpert wrote:I think we should at least be required to come up with the exact quote for The Wizard of Ox.
The Wizard of Ox-Bow Incident
Typo fixed, along with the other one MarkBarrett pointed out.
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I'm in. Thanks for using the Google Form so I can play since I can't quite send PMs yet.
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I hope unlike last baseball one this pm made it through
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macrae1234 wrote:I hope unlike last baseball one this pm made it through
It worked - and although I do have a Google form link for submitting, I'll input this for you. Thanks for entering!
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Mid week bump - up to 19 entries. Let's get those entries in!
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Getting near the bottom of the page, so BUMP!
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29 hours to go, and we're up to thirty entries. Get yours in before it's too late!
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20 minutes left to get your responses in!
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And we're closed with 40 entries. Reveal will begin shortly.
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1. Name the director of the two films listed.
Spoiler
A. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
B. Pearl Harbor (2001); Transformers (2007)
C. The Weight of Water (2000); The Hurt Locker (2008)
D. The Terminator (1984); Avatar (2009)
E. Cleopatra (1934); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
F. Mystic River (2003); Jersey Boys (2014)
G. To Catch a Thief (1955); Frenzy (1972)
H. A Beautiful Mind (2001); Frost/Nixon (2008)
I. The Frighteners (1996); King Kong (2005)
J. Paths of Glory (1957); Full Metal Jacket (1987)
K. Big (1988); A League of Their Own (1992)
L. Memento (2000); Inception (2010)
M. Thelma & Louise (1991); The Martian (2015)
N. Stalag 17 (1953); The Apartment (1960)
O. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988); The Walk (2015)
Not what I would have pegged as the sheep, but isn't that just the nature of these things.

N. Billy Wilder (8)
lindap
waterloo_guy
MarkBarrett
jev15
teapot
Ultraman
Magna
BulgarianBeast

K. Penny Marshall (5)
totebags
Bamaman
econgator
9021amyers
Blue Lion

C. Kathryn Bigelow (4)
macrae1234
badgerfellow
OSXpert
mitchparov

O. Robert Zemeckis (4)
Ryno
quarterrican
goforthetie
alamble

H. Ron Howard (3)
Mike Breen
Woppy T
pauerpoint

D. James Cameron (2)
AleBelly
vepa1943

A. Wes Anderson (2);
dott888
barandall800

E. Cecil B. DeMille (2)
RandyG
mystcmage

F. Clint Eastwood (2)
Tybalteon
Category 13

G. Alfred Hitchcock (2)
Peachbox
cbec

I. Peter Jackson (2)
ElendilPickle
xxaaaxx

L. Christopher Nolan (2)
1stlvlthinker
Caboom

SINGLETONS:
Vintsanity - B. Michael Bay
oduguy22 - J. Stanley Kubrick

No free admission or blockbusters used.

Unused:
M. Ridley Scott
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2. Name an actress that has had multiple Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Okay - let's try this again. Sorry for that fiasco - I was right in that something got misaligned somehow in Excel, so everything was off. Should be fine now.

Meryl Streep (5)
oduguy22
Tybalteon
dott888
Caboom
barandall800

BLOCKBUSTER (5)
BulgarianBeast

Amy Adams (4)
ElendilPickle
Mike Breen
badgerfellow
alamble

Marisa Tomei (4)
MarkBarrett
teapot
totebags
econgator

Thelma Ritter (3)
jev15
lindap
macrae1234

Singletons:
cbec - Angela Lansbury
Magna - Judi Dench
Category13 - Diane Ladd
quarterrican - Jacki Weaver
xxaaaxx - Julia Roberts
mitchparov - Julianne Moore
goforthetie - Catherine Keener
9021amyers - Maggie Smith
RandyG - Mercedes McCambridge
Ultraman - Shelly Winters
Peachbox - Teresa Wright
pauerpoint - Vanessa Redgrave
Bamaman - Dianne Weist

FREE ADMISSION (0)
1stlvlthinker
mystcmage
Vintsanity
OSXpert
AleBelly

Incorrect (10)
waterloo_guy - Jane Fonda (only one)
Blue Lion - Jennifer Lawrence (only one)
vepa1943 - Jodie Foster (only one)
Woppy T - Talia Shire (only one)
Ryno - Tallulah Bankhead (none)

Unused answers - many. Here's the link for the entire list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_A ... ng_Actress.
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I hate to raise my own score, but I said Marisa Tomei, not Dianne Weist.
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