War Movie Trivia

1. What film was adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, switching the Congo for the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia?
2. Vincent D'Onofrio stars as the tragic Leonard Lawrence in what disturbing 1987 film directed by Stanley Kubrick?
3. What Ang Lee film was based in part on the real story of the freed black slave John Noland (Jeffrey Wright in the film) who rode with the Confederate raider William Quantrill during the Civil War?
4. The literal German to English transalation of this best-selling book and Oscar-Winning film is "Nothing new in the west"...but we came to know it as?
5. What film starred Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould as medical personnel stationed at a Medical Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War?
6. Despite it's gross inaccuracies, this 2000 film starring a fresh-faced Heath Ledger :( is by far the highest-grossing picture to date about the Revolutionary War.
7. This WWII film classic is helped along by a memorable score and an iconic motorcycle-riding Steve McQueen.
8. In 2006, Clint Eastwood hit us with a WWII double whammy that included "Flags of our Fathers" and what instant classic?
9. Daniel Day-Lewis starred as Hawkeye/Nathanial Poe, a white man adopted by an Native American father during the French and Indian War, in this 1992 Michael Mann film.
10. Three US Soldiers try to steal seized Kuwaiti gold bullion from Iraqi bunkers following the Persian Gulf War in this 1999 action/comedy/drama war film.

Answers...Noble Peace

1. The Vietnam Peace Accord
2. Mother Teresa
3. Jimmy Carter
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Martin Luther King, Jr
6. The Marshall Plan
7. Desmond Tutu
8. Al Gore
9. Albert Schweitzer
10.Amnesty International

Nobel Peace Prize

1. In 1973 Le Duc Tho (who declined the honors) and Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize awarded for what?
2. In 1979, she received the Noble Peace Prize for her work with poverty awareness and her service to humanity.
3. This former U.S. President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts."
4. In 1906, he became the first American (and first U. S. President) to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
5. As the Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and campaigner for civil rights, he won the Noble Peace Price in 1964.
6. George Catlett Marshall took home the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his participation in what?
7. This South African took home the prize in 1984 for his role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid.
8. This former U.S. Vice President shared the Nobel Peace Prize honors with the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.
9. For his philosophy on "reverance for life" and for his founding of the Lambarene Hospital, this humanitarian won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
10. In 1977, this Non-Profit, interest group recieved the Noble Peace Prize for it's campaign against torture.

Answers

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Collatoral
3. Repo Man
4. Clueless
5. The Player
6. Beverly Hills Cop
7. Boyz in the Hood
8. Jackie Brown
9. Boogie Nights
10.L.A. Confidential

Trivia of the Day

1. Coming in at #10 of Best Movies about LA culture, this film centered around a slacker mistaken for a millionaire.

2. Michael Mann directed this film coming in at #9 about a cab driver having the worst night of his life.

3. Emilio Estevez stars as Otto, a guy who joins the Helping Hand Acceptance Coorporation after he finds out his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist in this #8 film on the list.

4. The #7 film on the list is an updated version of Jane Austin's Emma.

5. Robert Altman directed this Hollywood insider film about a studio executive who is being blackmailed by an anonymous scriptwriter.

6. Number 5 on the list is a fish out of water movie that deals with a Detroit cop on the streets of L.A. trying to track down his friend's murderer.

7. These friends are trying to survive in the ghetto of LA in this Oscar nominated picture that fits into the #4 slot.

8. The #3 movie is an Elmore Leonard novel titled "Rum Punch", the film was called this...?

9. The #2 film follows the path of a young man by the name Eddie Adams (he later changes his name to something more "catchy") and his adventures in the 1970's and 80's in L.A.

10. The L.A. Times named this film the #1 top movie about Los Angeles perhaps due complex and confusing storyline involving corupt cops, sleazy journalists and prostitutes who look like movie stars.

Answers...SNL

1. Da Bears
2. Barbra Streisand
3. Dana Carvey
4. Cheri Oteri and Will Ferrell
5. Jeopardy
6. A
7. Gilda Radner
8. David Spade
9. Wayne's World
10. Steve Martin

1. The superfans of this sportsteam always meet at the bar Ditka's.
2. Which singer/actress/director suprised Mike Myers, Madonna and Roseanne on the skit "Coffee Talk with Linda Richmann"
3. This SNL regular created the character of Enid Strict "The Church Lady".
4. These two SNL cast members starred in the popular Spartan Cheerleader sketches.
5.. "Colors that end in urple." or "Food that ends in amburger."...You would find these categories on this SNL skit.
6. Which of the following cast members did not have their brother also as a cast member?
A. Chevy Chase
B. Dan Akroyd
C. Bill Murray
D. John Belushi
7. This female comedian was the first cast member hired of the original SNL "Not Ready For Prime Time Players".
8. This SNL member was notably absent from Chirs Farley's funeral in 1997 saying that he did not attend cause he "could not be in a room where Chris was in a box."
9. With a box office gross of $121,697,323 this film was by far the most successful of all the SNL skits to screen spinoffs.
10. This actor has hosted SNL the most times with a whopping 14 appearances.