Category: Quiz

Child’s Play 3 Quiz

Hmmmm, maybe I’ll try and learn about voodoo? I don’t know. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) Let’s keep it simple. Prior to the reboot, how many Child’s Play movies were released?

2) In the entire original run Brad Dourif (of BMT fame) voiced Chucky. In the reboot film though, he was voiced by a very famous voice actor (and very famous actor, although he’s mostly famous for a single series of live-action films). Who?

3) The director of Child’s Play 3 has become a huge television director in recent years. Including what Stephen King adaptation based on a trilogy of books about a retired police detective?

4) Child’s Play 3 was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Annual Chainsaw Awards by what famous horror-themed magazine?

5) Matthew J. Costello wrote the novelization of the second and third movies. He also wrote the novelization of what 1993 FMV puzzle adventure game produced by Trilobyte?

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: On October 1, 1992, just in time for spooky October movies, Child’s Play 3 premiered on Showtime. At 6:30 on TMC that same day this film played:

What is that film?

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Spawn Quiz

I wonder exactly how many demon questions I can do in this quiz … Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) Todd McFarlane is famous for writing many comics including Spawn. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he also was at one point a co-owner of a hockey team, but not the Calgary Flames. What team did he co-own?

2) You couldn’t possibly make a Spawn film without a song by The Prodigy. Name either of their UK number-one singles.

3) The Violator is plagued by John Leguizamo in the film. Famously he classed with Steven Seagal in what film, a rare example of Seagal dying on film?

4) In the beginning of the film Al Simmons is sent on a mission to destroy a biochemical weapons plant in North Korea. Now … remember the Korean War, and MacArthur. I shall return, all that. What kind of pipe did MacArthur very famously pose with in many photos?

5) It has  something to do with this movie, tangentially, but what is Tel Megiddo / why is it famous?

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: A BMT oversight that is kind of unimaginable:

Can you name the film?

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Major League: Back to the Minors Quiz

Oh man, I guess I’m going to have to learn about minor league baseball … that sounds like no fun if I’m being honest. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) The film’s finale takes place in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. For whom was Hubert Humphrey vice-president?

2) The first film was written by David S. Ward, and he is still talking about making a proper third film and banishing this one to the Phantom Zone. Ward was nominated for two films. One, a caper film from 1973, and the other a romantic comedy from 1993. Name either.

3) Minor League baseball. We’ve seen a film about Minor League Baseball (kind of, Summer League Baseball really). Summer Catch with Freddie Prinze Jr. What league did they play in in that film?

4) The song Turning Japanese by the Vapors featured heavily in the film. It also features in another film starring Chris Farely. Can you name that film?

5) Walter Goggins played Billy ‘Downtown’ Anderson in the film. He has also been nominated for two Emmys. One for Justified. And another more recently for a popular television show based on a video game. Name that show/video game.

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Going up against Back to the Minors’ primetime debut was this sequel. The original, in a funny connection, starred Tom Berenger. What is the original film called?

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Major League II Quiz

Sports right? I’m definitely going to learn about sports. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) Well, we’ll get to sports. First, in a fun reference there is a business in the film called Emilio’s [BLANK] Service, named after an Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton movie. What word fills in the blank?

2) Alex Cox directed Repo Man, and also the film Walker about William Walker, the famous … filibuster? Turns out that is a name given to people during the Manifest Destiny era of the United States who went into neighboring countries and established colonies in preparation for annexation. Walker was notably the president of what country for a brief time?

3) Wild Thing was listed as number 257 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. Who performed the most famous rendition of this song?

4) The Cleveland Indians are now the Cleveland Guardians. What are they named after?

5) And further, the Cleveland Guardians were originally the Grand Rapids Rustlers. Between 1900 and 1914 the team was the Cleveland [BLANK], name any one of the four other names (not Indians or Guardians) the team took on during that period.

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: On March 4th, 1995, Major League II premiered primetime on HBO. At the same time, on channel 55, this film played:

What is that film?

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Borderlands Quiz

I genuinely have to wonder … what can I learn from the experience or watching Borderlands? Maybe something about video games? Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) The eeeeeevil corporation in Borderlands is called Atlas. Atlas was a Titan who fought against the Gods of Olympus and was condemned to hold up the sky//Earth/whatever. What was the Titan v. God battle officially called in mythology?

2) Absolutely classic movie song in this one with Ace of Spades. Who sang Ace of Spades?

3) A new Borderlands game is actually coming up this year (2025), which is crazy. But … what number game is that? We are talking about the main series only.

4) Cate Blanchet has been nominated five separate times for Best Actress. Screw it, name all of the films.

5) Kevin Hart’s character’s name is Roland. We’ve seen a character named Roland in the Stephen King adaptation, The Dark Tower. Rowland of the Dark Tower though was originally coined in what Shakespeare play?

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Obviously this film couldn’t have been on television in the 90s. Cate Blanchett even is barely in any films which could have played then. One of the two films though was Oscar and Lucinda which debuted on January 8th, 1999, going up against this BMT classic:

What is this film?

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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas Quiz

Well, I did kind of ask about a dinosaur in the last quiz. What are the chances I’ll ask about Las Vegas this time? Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot

1) The Song Viva Las Vegas was originally sung by Elvis, but is what his co-star in the film that sung the song on the soundtrack. Who was that actress?

2) Jane Krakowski is one of those people who seem like they are in a ton of random stuff. National Lampoon’s Vacation for example. She introduced a question about Viva Rock Vegas on an episode of Jeopardy! On that she was introduced as Jane Krakowski from BLANK. What television show fills in the blank?

3) Kristen Johnston plays Wilma in the movie. She won two Primetime Emmys for what television series?

4) We’ve almost completed the 2000 Razzie Worst Razzie slate. Battlefield Earth, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and Little Nicky are three of the four other nominees. The fourth is a romantic comedy called The Next Best Thing starring which singer who is not unfamiliar with Worst Actress nominations?

5) We are now half way through Las Vegas films. The biggest outstanding one stars Elizabeth Berkley. What is that film?

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Viva Rock Vegas couldn’t have played on television, but Viva Las Vegas could. It played at 10PM on August 13, 1992. You could have watched this BMT Friend earlier that night:

What is this film?

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The Flintstones Quiz

What do you think the chances are I ask a question about dinosaurs in this quiz. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot

1) In the film there is a children’s playground called Jurassic Park. In the Lost World novel, the first sequel Crichton wrote, which character did Crichton “resurrect”, in reference to Sherlock Holmes, who had died in the original novel?

2) The best bit from the soundtrack is that the band The B-52s (as the BC-52s) perform the theme song. The B-52s are famously from Athens, GA, which is the same hometown as what other incredibly famous 80s/90s band?

3) I guess this could be a tough one. Elizabeth Taylor’s final theatrical performance is in The Flintstones as Wilma’s mother. She was famously married 8 times to 7 men. Besides Richard Burton can you name any of those men?

4) The Flintstones is famously a primetime animated sitcom, much like the Simpsons. After the Simpsons premiered to gangbuster ratings, other animated sitcoms followed. Can you name the one season wonder animated sitcom involving rodents who live under the White House? This is rather obscure.

5) John Goodman didn’t want to play Fred, but felt like he had to because otherwise the movie wouldn’t have been made. It was during a table read for what 1989 Spielberg film that Spielberg himself announced that he wanted Goodman to play Fred (much to Goodman’s chagrin)?

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: The Flintstones had its primetime premiere on February 21st, 1997 (yeah, it must have been doing great home video sales to take over two years to premiere). Naturally, TMC brought out the big guns. Name this Kurt Russell classic:

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Indecent Proposal Quiz

Hmmmm, should we learn about extramarital affairs? Naw. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot

1) In the movie they play Craps to win most of their money (and then lose it in Roulette). What is is called when you roll a 7 or 11 on the come-out roll?

2) The director Adrian Lyne was nominated for an Oscar for a true blue (and some would say original and best) erotic thriller. What is the name of this affair-from-hell film?

3) No one knows how to play baccarat right? In the game face cards are worth nothing and aces are worth 1. The player is initially given two cards face up and the total is modulo 10. What do the two cards have to add up to for the game to immediately end?

4) Indecent Proposal has been spoofed a bunch across movies and television. The funniest one I think is in a 1994 episode of a television show based on a movie in which Lisa offers Gary a million “game tokens” in exchange for spending the night with her. What is that television show?

5) In the film there is a song called Help Me Make It Through the Night that is sung by an actor/singer who was in many films. One in particular is one of four versions of the film. Name the singer and film.

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: I’m going to have to ask for an exact title for this one. This is upcoming and the title here is quite generic:

What is that television film?

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Sleepwalkers Quiz

Oh wow, I guess I’ll learn about monsters. And cats. Although, surprisingly, probably not about cat monsters. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) The soundtrack features Boadicea by Enya. Enya had a single number one single in the UK, Orinoco Flow. The Orinoco River in South America discharges near what nation of the Lesser Antilles?

2) In the movie the villains are, implicitly at least, energy vampires. Energy vampires feed on the lifeforce of others. Elsewhere is popular culture, the character of Colin Robinson is also an energy vampire in what television show?

3) The beginning of the film takes place in Bodega Bay, California. A famous thriller from 1963 also took place in Bodega Bay (although it starts at a pet store in San Francisco). Which film?

4) Somehow the character of Tanya has her own wikipedia page (the character!). In it she is described as a classic Damsel in Distress. We’ve seen one of the original DiDs in the classic BMT film Clash of the Titans. She was to be sacrificed to the Kraken to appease the Gods … what was her name?

5) You know, there was apparently a sequel in development at one point written by King’s wife. It involved a women’s basketball team somehow. Can you know both the first (1982) and most recent (2024) NCAA Division 1 Women’s Basketball champions?

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Is this a tough one? Maybe, but I bet Jamie could get it.

What is the film?

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Assassins Quiz

Assssssasssssssins. Assssasssssins. I wonder if there is a famous assssssasssssin I should learn about. Let’s go!

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

1) Like a Rolling Stone (by The Rolling Stones) was on the soundtrack for Assassins. They had many hits over the years, but this 1968 song that hit number three on the Billboard Top 100 charts shares a name with a Whoopi Goldberg film. What is it?

2) They also play an opera from Puccini, in particular a song from Gianni Schicchi. His four most well-known operas are Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (1924) and a 1986 opera that was later (roughly) adapted into a hugely successful Broadway musical. Name both.

3) Speaking of Assassins, there are many in the long history of the United States. Carl Weiss was the assassin of this Governor of Louisiana who was the templates for the character of Willie Stark in the book All the King’s Men. Name that political figure.

4) The film partially takes place in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico became U.S. territory in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. As part of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 Spain made Cuba a protectorate of the U.S., and ceded Puerto Rico and what two other territories?

5) Sylvester Stallone has been nominated for three Academy Awards in his long career (he didn’t win any of them). Name the movies and awards he was nominated for.

Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: On October 12, 1996 Assassins played Primetime on HBO and was one of the highlighted programs of the New York Times listings. It would go head to head with this film on TMC (hint: It’s a western):

What is the film?

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