Movies Trivial Pursuit Game

1. Gabriel Byrne Vanity Fair
2. Marilyn Monroe The Prince and the Showgirl
3. Robert Donat That Night in London
4. Scarlett Johansson Match Point
5. Hugh Grant Love Actually
6. Michael Caine Half Moon Street
7. Bill Murray Scrooged ?
8. Ingrid Bergman Goodbye Again
9. Daniel Craig Enduring Love?
10. Helen Mirren The Queen

spdspk wrote:
I can not name a single one !!

1. Gabriel Byrne Vanity Fair
I didn't know that has set in London, having not seen it or read it. IMBD confirms though. Defence of the Realm or Spider would also have been fine.

2. Marilyn Monroe The Prince and the Showgirl
That's what I was thinking.

3. Robert Donat That Night in London
I've not heard of that, but the title kind of qualifies the film immediately. I was thinking of The Winslow Boy or even The 39 Steps.

4. Scarlett Johansson Match Point
Yes, or Scoop.

5. Hugh Grant Love Actually
Or about another 10.

6. Michael Caine Half Moon Street
Never heard of it, but the plot summary sounds like it's London. He also has done quite a few 'London' movies of which Mona Lisa would be the pick of the bunch.

7. Bill Murray Scrooged ?
No, Scrooged was set in New York, The Man Who Knew Too Little is set in London.

8. Ingrid Bergman Goodbye Again
Is that set in London? Indiscreet and Gaslight are both set in London.

9. Daniel Craig Enduring Love?
Yes EL is ok, as would be Elizabeth or Layer Cake (and maybe some others too).

10. Helen Mirren The Queen
Yes, again quite a few.

Well done.

Staying with geography.

This one should be easy!

Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine appeared in two movies for a legendary director. One in New York and the other in Paris.

One was later made into a Broadway musical and the other was originally a stage musical.

spdspk wrote:
Easy yes! I'm a Billy Wilder fan and have both of these on DVD. Irma la Douce and The Apartment. Though I prefer BW's other collaborations with Jack Lemon, The Fortune Cookie and need-I-say Some Like It Hot. However I also love The Odd Couple, Jack Lemon is amazing in it, and it seems like a Billy Wilder movie, should be a Wilder movie even, but was written by Neil Simon, and directed by Gene Saks, however I consider it an honourary BW movie as it was so heavily influenced by him.

mattstan wrote:

from Babel (2006)

Traveling through time and space in the movies with Charlton Heston:

The Amazon jungle
Hawaii (other than a movie titled Hawaii)
China
Sudan
Italy
Spain
With the circus in the US
Exploring unknown territories in North America
Louisiana
Los Angelos

spdspk wrote:

Tricky, I'll have a go but I'm not a huge CH fan.

The Amazon jungle - ??
Hawaii (other than a movie titled Hawaii) - Midway ??
China - 55 Days at Peking
Sudan - ??
Italy - Ben Hur (Rome) + The Agony and the Ecstasy (Florence)
Spain - El Cid
With the circus in the US - ??
Exploring unknown territories in North America - Planet of the Apes
Louisiana - Major Dundee + probably not Touch of Evil ??
Los Angelos - Airport ??

and my addition... France - The Three Musketeers.

How many did I get?

Tricky, I'll have a go but I'm not a huge CH fan. Not bad for a not-CH fan.

The Amazon jungle - The Naked Jungle (1954)
Hawaii (other than a movie titled Hawaii) - Midway (in preparing for the battle) also Diamond Head (1963)
China - 55 Days at Peking
Sudan - Khartoum (1966)
Italy - Ben Hur (Rome) + The Agony and the Ecstasy (Florence) also The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
Spain - El Cid
With the circus in the US - The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Exploring unknown territories in North America - Planet of the Apes. As William Clark in The Far Horizons (1955)
Louisiana - Major Dundee + probably not Touch of Evil I was thinking of The Buccaneer (1958)
Los Angelos - Airport (Burt Lancaster; Chicago I believe) - Earthquake (1974)

and my addition... France - The Three Musketeers.

How many did I get?

Movie star real names, some easy, some hard:

Alphonso D'Abruzzo - ??
Allen Konigsberg - ??
Betty Perske - ??
Anna-Maria Italiano - ??
Camille Javal - ??
Yul Taidje Kahn - ??
Maurice Micklewhite - ??
Thomas Mapother IV - ??
Bernard Schwartz - ??
Issur Danielovitch - ??
Archibald Leach - ??
Diane Hall - ??
Laszio Lowenstein - ??
Margaret Hyra - ??
Winona Horowitz - ??
Michael Shalhoub - ??
Ruby Stevens - ??
Marion Morrison - ??
Walter Willison - ??
Demetria Guynes - ??

(Hint the final 2 were married, now not).

Very tough as I know little about biographies and names. (Would probably have done much better in character name/actor)

Alphonso D'Abruzzo - ??
Allen Konigsberg - Woody Allen
Betty Perske - Lauren Bacall
Anna-Maria Italiano - ??
Camille Javal - Brigitte Bardot
Yul Taidje Kahn - ??
Maurice Micklewhite - Michael Caine
Thomas Mapother IV - ??
Bernard Schwartz - ??
Issur Danielovitch - Kirk Douglas
Archibald Leach - Cary Grant
Diane Hall - Diane Keaton
Laszio Lowenstein - ??
Margaret Hyra - ??
Winona Horowitz - Winona Ryder
Michael Shalhoub - ??
Ruby Stevens - ??
Marion Morrison - John Wayne
Walter Willison - ??
Demetria Guynes - Demi Moore - no idea who she was married

Not bad 10/20 and there are some hard ones in there. I'll leave the ones you got in bold and add the others without.

Alphonso D'Abruzzo - Alan Alda
Allen Konigsberg - Woody Allen
Betty Perske - Lauren Bacall
Anna-Maria Italiano - Anne Bancroft
Camille Javal - Brigitte Bardot
Yul Taidje Kahn - Yul Brynner
Maurice Micklewhite - Michael Caine
Thomas Mapother IV - Tom Cruise
Bernard Schwartz - Tony Curtis
Issur Danielovitch - Kirk Douglas
Archibald Leach - Cary Grant
Diane Hall - Diane Keaton
Laszio Lowenstein - Peter Lorre
Margaret Hyra - Meg Ryan
Winona Horowitz - Winona Ryder
Michael Shalhoub - Omar Sharif
Ruby Stevens - Barbara Stanwyck
Marion Morrison - John Wayne
Walter Willison - Bruce Willis
Demetria Guynes - Demi Moore - no idea who she was married

Who would have thought Tony Curtis was really a Bernard, Bruce Willis a Walter, or Omar Sharif the very un-exotic Michael Shalhoub.

Your turn...

Quoting the Godfather "we go to the mattresses" was the advice given our heroine to prepare for war in a relatively recent romantic comedy (1998).

Name the film.

spdspk wrote:
No idea, sorry. I like the way a 1998 film is classified as 'recent'. It is 2007 you know !!

mattstan wrote:

Hint 2 Relatively recent compared to the original Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart film the title of which is used in the remake but not in the title.

Does this make any sense?