Dr. MIDI's Ultimate Movie Trivia Quiz Answers

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1. "Champagne and Pompano, done up in a brown paper bag."
2. The Spear of Destiny. In Hellboy, we see the spear blade on display at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense in Newark, NJ (which is disquised as the "Squeaky Clean Waste Management Services" building), and is referred to as The Spear of Longinus by Professor Trevor Broom (John Hurt), and in Constantine, the "Spear of Destiny" blade is discovered, wrapped up in a Nazi flag beneath the floor boards at the remains of a ruined church in Mexico. Historically, this spear blade was part of the spear which a Roman Centurion named Gaius Cassius Longinus used to pierce Christ's side at his Crucifixion. It is also known as The Holy Lance and allegedly contains one of the nails from the Crucifixion which is embedded into the blade.
3. Adolf Hitler.
4. Sir Alec Guinness, aka "The Professor."
5. Faye Dunaway.
6. A peace symbol.
7. Darth Vader.
8. A man with only one arm.
9. Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
10. When Johnny Comes Marching Home, with reference to John McClane as being "Johnny."
11. K-19.
12. Philip K. Dick. The books (in that same order) are: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Second Variety, Imposter, The Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly and The Golden Man.
13. Dick York.
14. England.
15. Robert Mitchum. He fell off of his horse during production, and his injury resulted in his becoming the narrator at the opening and close of the movie.
16. Singin' In The Rain. When Malcolm McDowell was asked by Kubrick to improvise with a song and dance routine, Malcolm started singing this song which Kubrick thought was perfect for the scene. He then immediately bought the rights to the song for $10,000. The Gene Kelly version is featured during the end credits of the movie.
17. SPECTRE which stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
18. Henry Fonda.
19. He must bomb New York City to create equal losses, even though he knows the First Lady is presently visiting the City.
20. A nuclear device known as "The Rabbit's Foot."
21. Luther Stickel, played by Ving Rhames.
22. Holly Gennaro.
23. Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman in his first film debut.
24. The "number 6 train."
25. Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown
26. Happydale Sanitarium.
27. Mr. Pink.
28. Hamlet and Henry the V.
29. The color white.
30. Marni Nixon.
31. The fictitious "Typhoon Class Submarine" uses a system called a "caterpillar drive" or "hydrojet system" in the book, but in the movie, it is described as being a "magneto hydrodynamic drive."
32. Harrison Ford.
33. King Mongkut of Siam.
34. A violin case and a lit cigarette in the movie, Spellbound.
35. Salvador Dali.
36. Cornflakes.
37. Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam.
38. A foot chase and gunfight at an airport.
39. Oliver Reed.
40. The exact same teddy bear which belongs to the director.
41. Castle Rock as in Castlerock Entertainment. The trademark lighthouse is also featured in a scene.
42. Tuesday.
43. Rev. John Coffee who taught history classes at Emerson College in Boston until May of 2005.
44. "Old Sparky."
45. OREO cookies.
46. Adam and Eve.
47. Ipana Toothpaste made by Bristol-Myers. He also leaves behind stock certificates with the same company, too.
48. Wyatt Earp, the 5th cousin of the legendary Wyatt Earp.
49. Steve Vai playing the character, Jack Butler.
50. O' Brother, Where Art Thou?
51. I Got You Babe by Sonny Bono and Cher.
52. Mobil Ave.
53. Chicken and fish. Passengers who ate the fish, all got sick.
54. Her umbrella.
55. Sting.
56. The Persians, under the rule of the God Xerxes, fight King Leonidas and his 300 warriors at Thermopylae in 480 BC.
57. The Statue of Liberty.
58. Peter Graves.
59. The loons.
60. Themselves.
61. J.R. KIMBALL and V.F. KAMINSKY who are frozen in cryogenic hyper sleep.
62. Heuristic Algorithmic Computer.
63. The HAL Laboratory in Irvana, Illinois, on January 12, 1992.
64. Daisy Bell, "A Bicycle Built for Two".
65. BBC 12.
66. IBM.
67. "My God, it's full of stars!"
68. "Something wonderful."
69. The piano, played by Dave Grusin.
70. The composer, Antonio Salieri.
71. "Too many notes."
72. John Hurt.
73. Jones or "Jonesy."
74. Artist, H. R. Giger.
75. Mother.
76. Weyland-Yutani.
77. The Tyrell Corporation.
78. Sushi.
79. "In space, no one can hear you scream."
80. Ash.
81. The company's artificial owl.
82. Origami figures.
83. The L.A.P.D. Model 2019 B.R.U. Special Issue Blaster, issued by the Los Angeles Police Department to the Blade Runner Unit in the year, 2019.
84. They all wear a red sash.
85. In vino veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
86. Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini."
87. Weatherman.
88. "Lucia di Lammmermoor" Act 3, Scene 1, "Il dolce suono mi colpi…" by Gaetano Donizetti.
89. The Diva's skin color is blue and her name is the Diva Plavalaguna, of which, plava translates from Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian to mean blue, and laguna means lagoon. Milla Jovovich (Leeloo) was "Lilli" in the movie "Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991).
90. Love. He kisses Leeloo and then she releases the Divine Light which is needed to stop Ultimate Evil from destroying Earth.
91. "Are you German?" But in the German version of the film, he asks them, "Are you from here?"
92. "Never without my permission."
93. Death and taxes.
94. Death Takes A Holiday, (1934).
95. Bob Hope. It was his final appearance in a film.
96. It stands for "See You Next Wednesday", which was the first screenplay he ever wrote as a teenager. It appears on various movie posters in many of his films, but never in the same way.
97. Jupiter. Originally, it was supposed to be Saturn, but the art department had difficulty creating convincing rings of Saturn for the film.
98. A star child and "master of the universe." In the book, by Arthur C. Clarke, the Star Child then approaches Earth and overcomes a futile missile attack from the planet.
99. A poison gas capsule implanted as a tooth in Duke Leto's mouth.
100. The "spice Melange" which is only found on the Planet Arrakis.
101. The Fremen.
102. MaudDib.
103. The 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack.
104. The Empire State Building in NYC.
105. The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
106. The Book of Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses 9 through 21.
107. "Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin. He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin. His head smashed in and heart cut out, and his liver removed, and his bowels unplugged, and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his … Brave Sir Robin ran away, bravely ran away. When Danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes brave Sir Robin turned about, and valiantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat. A brave retreat by brave Sir Robin."
108. The knights killed them and then ate them. And then, there was much rejoicing.
109. Dead fish.
110. "Come-on-I-wanna-lay-ya."
111. "Remember, with great power, comes great responsibility."
112. The Daily Bugle.
113. The Daily Planet.
114. "SPQR" which stands for "Senatus Populusque Romanus" and means "The Senate and People of Rome." This was one of the main slogans and official signature of the Roman government throughout history. Today, it is also the motto of the city of Rome.
115. Boot Hill.
116. Earl Warren.
117. A disposable camera.
118. "U can save her".
119. George Kaplan.
120. He just misses the bus as the doors close in his face.
121. "Playing his golden harp."
122. Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Golden eye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale (2006), and "non-official" films: Casino Royale (1954 and 1967) and Never Say Never Again.
123. Nothing, just like the O. in David O. Selznick's name.
124. "Pay the two dollars."
125. A double bass fiddle.
126. He walks his own two dogs out of the pet shop where Melanie, (Tippi Hedren) worked.
127. Hotdogs with mustard. But she admits to have eaten liverwurst with Dr. Edwardes.
128. Green Manors.
129. William Shatner.
130. Quit drinking, smoking, sniffling glue and taking amphetamines.
131. Teamwork.
132. The back lot at Universal Studios.
133. Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Dopey, and Doc. But, In the original story the dwarfs were never named. Those names were created when Disney made the cartoon version.
134. John Ballentine.
135. He says "Rome" while thinking of his former combat experience in Rome Italy, but Dr. Petersen then asks for tickets for Rome, NY.
136. An egg.
137. The movie was shot in black and white, but two frames were tinted red towards the end of the movie.
138. Q stands for Quartermaster, but is more of a branch or division, rather than a name. He is head of "Q Branch" (later, Q Division), which is the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service. Qs in the series starred Peter Burton, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese and Alec McCowen.
139. An umbrella and a bowler hat, reminiscent of a Rene Magritte figure.
140. Emma Peel's name was taken from the British film industry expression "M-Appeal", or "man-appeal", which is what the show's producers were looking for in her character.
141. Diana Rigg.
142. John Wickham Gascone Berresford Steed.
143. Roger Moore.
144. Val Kilmer.
145. Simon Templar.
146. A stick figure with a halo over his head.
147. Tara.
148. Hushabye Mountain.
149. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
150. Dapper Dan.
151. The window is a depiction of St. Michael Vanquishing Satan (aka "St. Michael Slaying The Dragon"), which was originally painted by Raphael (aka Raffaello Sanzio) in 1518 and currently resides in the Louvre in Paris, France.
152. A "Texas Instruments Speak & Spell."
153. TI Speak & Spell, Ray-O-Vac lantern battery, record player, circular saw blade, fork, string, wooden coat hanger, bobby pins, rubber bands, Reynolds Wrap tin foil, pop-up umbrella, Martinson coffee can, a "fuzz buster", wires, alligator clips, and blender parts.
154. Shia LaBeouf in the movies: The Greatest Game Ever Played, Constantine, Disturbia and Transformers.
155. XM Radio, and a montage of the Batman and Superman logos.
156. "Wilson," named after the soccer ball company.
157. Chopsticks, on a foot piano at F.A.O. Schwartz in New York City. Robert Loggia's character was based on the former CEO of F.A.O. Schwartz, Peter Harris, who invented this piano.
158. He is named after the family dog, Indiana. Indiana is also the name of George Lucas' dog, a Malamute, which also was the inspiration for the character, Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies. In the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), it is revealed by Indiana's father that Indiana is really named Henry Jr., but went by the name of his dog, Indiana.
159. Citizen Kane, (1941).
160. Indiana Smith, however Indiana Jones is also play on Steve McQueen's character name in the 1966 movie, Nevada Smith.
161. R2-D2 and C-3PO from the Star Wars movies.
162. The dome-topped head of R2-D2.
163. 9906753. The full text reads as:
     TOP SECRET
     ARMY INTEL 9906753
     DO NOT OPEN!
     
164. The Sirens from Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey".
165. The Soggy Bottom Boys and the song "Man of Constant Sorrow."
166. Blues man, Robert Johnson.
167. Ulysses Everett McGill. Ulysses is the Latin language form of the name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey.
168. He plays the character Daniel "Big Dan" Teague, a one-eyed Bible salesman representing Polyphemus the Cyclops in The Odyssey.
169. By cooking it. He likes it raw.
170. A vintage 2004 pair of Converse All-Star sneakers.
171. A cat.
172. 2035.
173. Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence.
174. "My logic is undeniable."
175. "Sonny." It really represents that this robot was more like a son to Dr. Lanning, and "Sonny" refers to Dr. Lanning as "Father".
176. Marci.
177. Sweet potato pie.
178. Hansel & Gretel.
179. Superstition by Stevie Wonder and Rescue Me by Aretha Franklin.
180. Detective Del Spooner works for Precinct 28 of the Chicago Police, His badge has the number 4084D and the ID card shows Spooner's ID number as being CP54-4084-D. According to his boss, Lt. John Bergin, somewhere on the badge it supposedly says "Lead by example" but we never see that.
181. Canner. It is the same as the robots who gather trash who are also "canners" as in "trash cans." So, "canner" is Del's slang for "metallic trash," "scrap metal," or, "trash."
182. It is a new class of Robot called the "Nestor Class 5" robot with a new uplink feature to the U.S.Robotics Corp.
183. "Ghosts in the machine."
184. "They may have secrets, and they also might dream."
185. The "dumbest smart person" he's ever met.
186. Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates.
187. "Robo" and "Sushi Express." We also see other store fronts on the same street such as "netel", "Goldies", "CS", and a Tea, Tattoo, and Tarot shop.
188. At the Ovaltine Café.
189. Dr. Alfred Lanning programmed a holographic projector to call him, and then Alfred's hologram answers certain questions from Spooner with limited responses. These are like clues to the puzzle, similar to the bread crumbs left behind in the Hansel & Gretel story. But Del doesn't figure that out until his grandmother, Gigi, suggests that she can always follow Del's "bread crumbs," all the way home. We also see that Del likes to take Gigi's pies with him and eat them while he walks. Thus leaving crumbs along the way.
190. One NS-5 to every 5 humans, or 1:5.
191. A U.S.R. Demolition Robot Series 9-4.
192. Plutonium from some terrorists.
193. "Calvin" as in Calvin Klein, since it is printed on his underwear.
194. Huey Lewis.
195. Roads.
196. The CRM-114. This model number was invented by the director, Stanley Kubrick.
197. Next, starring Nicholas Cage. It is the scene where George C. Scott (Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson) tells President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) that only he is authorized to launch an air strike.
198. A Yamaha HX-1 Electone Keyboard (organ).
199. Anything Goes, sung in Mandarin by Kate Capshaw (Willie) with the club's chorus girls. The Mandarin lyrics go like this: "Yi wang si-i wa ye kan dao, Xin li bian yao la jing bao jin tian zhi Dao, Anything goes." Willie actually sung "Anything Goes" in Cantonese. Cantonese is actually spoken in southern China and in Hong Kong, whereas Shanghai is in northeast China. Mandarin, or at least a northern dialect, should have been used instead.
200. "Club Obi Wan" in Shanghai, China, a reference to the Star Wars character, Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness.
201. "Short Round" because of he is rather short in stature. The term "short round" (in military terms) is an artillery shell that falls short of its target. Oddly enough, the three main characters are named after dogs: Short Round was named after screenwriter Willard Huyck's dog, which was named after the orphan in The Steel Helmet (1951), Willie is named after Steven Spielberg's dog and Indiana is named after George Lucas's dog.
202. An image of a mountain which is reminiscent of the Paramount Pictures logo. A similar mountain is transformed from the Paramount Pictures logo, at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark, into a live shot of a mountain in South America.
203. According to the address on the package he received from Italy, during The Last Crusade, Indy teaches at "Barnett College" in Fairfield, New York.
204. Indy's true name is finally revealed in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Henry Jones, Jr. In the previous two films (and in this film, up until the final minute), he has only been referred to as "Indiana Jones" and variations thereof: "Dr. Jones", "Indy", etc.
205. I Love The Way You're Breaking My Heart from the album Peggy Lee - Rare Gems And Hidden Treasures. Bernard had worked for Peggy Lee prior to being Doris Duke's butler, and the relationship between Doris and Bernard was both heart-breaking and problematic, and yet, quite loving at the same time.
206. "Cobalt thorium G".
207. Merkwurdigliebe, which literally translates from German to English as "Strange love".
208. The Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 77, Movement #3, Vivace Non Troppo (or, Allegro Giocoso, Ma Non Troppo) by Johannes Brahms. Performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Antonio Meneses, with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan (Deutsche Grammophon). The piece provides quite a contrast in comparison to the rest of the film's soundtrack.
     
     Name the music composer for each of the following movies:
     
     
209. Max Steiner.
210. Miklos Rozsa.
211. Bernard Herrmann.
212. John Williams.
213. Bruce Broughton.
214. Leonard Bernstein.
215. Elmer Bernstein.
216. Erich Korngold.
217. James Horner.
218. Alan Silvestri.
219. James Newton Howard.
220. Hans Zimmer.
221. Aaron Zigman.
222. Vangelis.
223. Ennio Morricone.
224. Michael Kamen.
225. Marvin Hamlisch.
226. Jerry Goldsmith.
227. Danny Elfman.
228. Randy Newman.
229. Marco Beltrami.
230. Mark Isham.
231. The Theramin which is a motion-controlled synthesizer. It was used in such films as The Day The Earth Stood Still, Spellbound and many others, and is considered to be accepted as an official orchestral instrument in scores.
232. "The Peoples Court."
233. The Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. They are a secret group of men sworn to protect the Holy Grail and each wear a tattoo in the shape of a red stylized cross on their chests, based on a 13th century design and symbolizing a chalice within a cross.
234. The Jazz Suite, Waltz No. 2, written by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, (aka "Second Waltz"), in 1938. When Stalin announced in 1936 that all artistic and musical work would henceforth be under the control of the Party, Shostakovich had already composed the first Jazz Suite. When he composed the second suite in the autumn of 1938, it was on commission from the newly formed U.S.S.R. State Jazz Band, an ensemble created to control the public's taste in popular music. You can find this piece on André Rieu's Masterpieces CD, as well as the soundtrack for Eyes Wide Shut.
235. That was a trick question, even for Tom Cruise. There is no password for the house.
236. Christopher Lee. As he points to Johnny Depp with this new directive, you can see the dark wings of the eagle behind him, so he appears to look like a dark angel of death.
237. The power of lightning and Frankenstein as an electrical conductor.
238. Her perfume. He can tell she normally wears "L'Air Du Temps by Nina Ricci", even though she hadn't worn any that day. He says to her: "You use Evyan skin cream, and sometimes you wear L'Air du Temps, but not today."
239. His drawing of the Duomo as seen from the Belvedere Castle in Florence, Italy. He drew it from memory. He says, "Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view."
240. He ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti (wine).
241. Dr. Chilton.
242. Manhunter (1986) (aka Red Dragon: the Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter), Red Dragon (2002), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001), and Hannibal Rising (2007).
243. It is a special device used to answer any question by the user, and is called an Alethiometer. Thus, it seeks the truth instead of magnetic North. The name of this device is derived from the Greek word aletheia, meaning "truth" so the alethiometer is a "truth-measuring instrument."
244. 1. The Hunt For Red October
     2. Crimson Tide
     3. Das Boot
     4. K-19: The Widowmaker
     5. U-571
     6. On The Beach
     7. The Abyss
     8. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
     9. Yellow Submarine
     10. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
     11. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
245. 1. The Red October (fictional) and the USS Dallas
     2. USS Alabama
     3. U-96
     4. K-19
     5. U-571 (fictional)
     6. USS Sawfish (fictional)
     7. USS Montana (fictional)
     8. Nautilus (fictional/fantasy)
     9. Yellow Submarine (fantasy)
     10. Cnpym (fictional)
     11. Nautilus (fictional/fantasy)

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Mark Prigoff
Digital Jazz Productions
May, 2008