# General movie trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090 "2001-04-15T22:13:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/61 "2001-05-03T22:13:41Z")
1. In _Spaceballs,_ what power does Mel Brooks’ character seek/use? 2. What 1990s movie told the story of the game-show scandals of the 50s? 3. Ref. #75: What was the name of the real-life contestant who blew the whistle, and what game show was he on? 4. In _Moby Dick,_ what is unusual about the pulpit in Father Mapple’s church? 5. In _Man of a Thousand Faces,_ what final thing does Lon Chaney (James Cagney) do on his deathbed, with his family around him? (Very sentimental act.) 6. In the last game shown in _Kid from Left Field_ (with Dan Dailey, about 1953), where does the ace pitcher go while Dailey’s other pitcher pitches to one batter? 7. True or false: Joe E. Brown played a train conductor in _Around the World in 80 Days._ 8. In _The Incredible Shrinking Woman,_ starring Lily Tomlin, when the family thinks Tomlin was ground up in the garbage disposal, what do they put in a matchbox as a memorial to her? 9. In _The Guns of Navarone,_ what mechanism is shown in the suspenseful final scene (apparently when the Nazis’ guns were about to be blown up)? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/62 "2001-05-03T22:37:36Z")
**75. What 1990s movie told the story of the game-show scandals of the 50s?** Quiz Show **76. Ref. #75: What was the name of the real-life contestant who blew the whistle, and what game show was he on?** Last name was Stempel, the show was “21” **80. True or false: Joe E. Brown played a train conductor in _Around the World in 80 Days._** False (I think) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/63 "2001-05-03T23:04:20Z")
#74 : The Schwartz #77 : It was built as the prow of a ship with a rope ladder that he climbed and then pulled up after him. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/64 "2001-05-03T23:05:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > **74. In _Spaceballs,_ what power does Mel Brooks’ character seek/use?** The power of the Schwartz. #74A. How many characters did Mel play in that movie? > [@](#): > > **77. In _Moby Dick,_ what is unusual about the pulpit in Father Mapple’s church?** It’s the bow of a whaling ship. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/65 "2001-05-03T23:06:53Z")
Great minds think alike! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/66 "2001-05-03T23:15:51Z")
To Crunchy Frog: You’re right. He was a stationmaster. Buster Keaton played the conductor. To Eutychus: According to _Mad_–I don’t know whether this was in Melville’s book or not–Father Mapple was a sea captain who turned preacher when his ship rammed through the wall of a church. (When I saw this movie in the theater, I didn’t listen to Mapple’s lines, and I thought the bow-sprit was there because he was talking only to seafaring people. Hey, I was only eight!) A few more: 81. In _Pollyana,_ what happens when the minister’s speech, during his sermons, gets really agitated? 82. In _The Parent Trap_ (Hayley Mills in a dual role), what embarrassing trick does one twin sister pull on the other? 83. In _The Fall of the House of Usher,_ how many characters are there in the story besides Madeleine Usher, her brother Roderick, and her fiancé Philip Winthrop? 84. In _Mighty Joe Young_ (1949), what happens to Joe in the nightclub to make him run amok? ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/67 "2001-05-04T08:43:55Z")
#78 - He writes the word “Junior” next to his name on his make-up kit. #82 - In “The Parent Trap” one twin cuts off the back of the other twin’s skirt. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/68 "2001-05-05T21:16:39Z")
> [@](#): > > #78 - He writes the word “Junior” next to his name on his make-up kit. Thanks, Kawliga. 🙂 I was beginning to wonder whether anyone other than me had ever seen that movie–anyone I could still comment to about it. I only saw it the one time–and it really made me cry… ☹ > [@](#): > > #82 - In “The Parent Trap” one twin cuts off the back of the other twin’s skirt. Is _that_ what you saw? I didn’t get to see the movie, but in a TV ad for it it looked to me like one cut the other’s _panties_ off–ummmmmmm! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/69 "2001-05-07T02:35:33Z")
#82 (Navarone version) It’s the bottom roller guide of the elevator, repeatedly almost reaching the detonator wires. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/70 "2001-05-07T04:23:42Z")
In the “I Can Stump You!” thread ([here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=69506)), we’ve gone through 100 posts but still have no answer to the movie question I dropped, so I’m providing a link here for those interested in an extra-hard challenge… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/71 "2001-05-07T04:24:22Z")
1. In Pollyanna _(corrected sp)_, what happens when the minister’s speech, during his sermons, gets really agitated? * * * –The chandelier quivers. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/72 "2001-05-07T19:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > > > [@](#): > > > > #82 - In “The Parent Trap” one twin cuts off the back of the other twin’s skirt. > > Is _that_ what you saw? I didn’t get to see the movie, but in a TV ad for it it looked to me like one cut the other’s _panties_ off–ummmmmmm! :eek: **dougie,** aren’t you supposed to be asking questions about movies you HAVE seen, questions whose answers you already know? Aren’t you supposed to be testing us for our knowledge? This isn’t **GQ** , you know. Besides, do you think a movie produced by Walt Disney (and I mean the man himself, not the company that bears his name) would even show someone wearing panties, let alone a scene where they get cut off? While Walt was alive, every Disney movie made after the rating system was implemented received a “G” rating. Every single one. Which inspires me to ask the next questions: "What was the first Disney movie to be rated “PG”? “What was the first Disney movie to show adult nudity?” (It was NOT _Splash_.) "What was the first Disney movie to be rated “R”? (Touchstone Pictures is owned by Disney.) What number are we up to? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/73 "2001-05-07T22:21:51Z")
> [@](#): > > **dougie,** aren’t you supposed to be asking questions about movies you HAVE seen, questions whose answers you already know? Aren’t you supposed to be testing us for our knowledge? This isn’t GQ, you know. > Besides, do you think a movie produced by Walt Disney (and I mean the man himself, not the company that bears his name) would even show someone wearing panties, let alone a scene where they get cut off? While Walt was alive, every Disney movie made after the rating system was implemented received a “G” rating. Every single one. To make this a little plainer, Jab1…well, you are correct, for the most part. However, there are instances, such as the question about a Jerry Lewis movie, above, in which I did not know this information (the movie’s title); so, what’s wrong with me asking a question now and then in this thread, for knowledge I don’t have at all? I think that’s the general spirit of the SDMB, anyway…🙂 As for Walt Disney and the ratings, I was a high school senior when he died in December 1966. Wasn’t the rating system–then with G, M, R, and X–implemented around early 1969? (I have not seen very many Disney movies at all; wwhether that is good or bad depends on the opinion of my putative audience.) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/74 "2001-05-07T22:31:46Z")
The Jerry Lewis question was #63, above. As for Walt Disney and panties–well, perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me after 40 years, especially since I didn’t get to see the actual movie. It’s possible the TV ad was misleading–maybe on purpose. To be totally honest, however, I did get a comic-book version of the movie (showing, among other things, Maureen O’Hara giving a mighty slap to Brian Keith’s face), in which one twin does indeed cut the back of the other’s skirt off, up to the waist. You can guess the rest. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/75 "2001-05-08T18:35:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > **84. In _Mighty Joe Young_ (1949), what happens to Joe in the nightclub to make him run amok?** IIRC, a bunch of drunks gave Joe some liquor and got HIM drunk. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/76 "2001-05-11T17:49:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*(85)"What was the first Disney movie to be rated “PG”? > > (86)“What was the first Disney movie to show adult nudity?” (It was NOT _Splash_.) > > (87)"What was the first Disney movie to be rated “R”?\*\* (85)_The Black Hole_, 1979, for language (“hell” and “damn” were said a few times). (86)_Dragonslayer_, 1981, which was a Paramount-Disney co-production. In one scene, Galen and Valerian go swimming in the nude. Up to this point, Galen (and the audience) believed Valerian was a boy. An underwater shot proved otherwise. (Valerian was seen from behind and to her left, but it was enough.) (87)_Ruthless People_, 1986. As for the ratings awarded to movies pproduced personally by Walt Disney himself, it’s true that he died in 1966 before the MPAA rating system was instituted in 1968. However, many of Walt’s films were rated when they were re-released. Every one of Walt’s films got a “G”, though _Treasure Island_, 1950, had one scene shortened to get the “G”, a scene where Jim Hawkins shoots a menacing pirate in the face. As long as I’m here: #88: What was the first feature-length movie to use computer-generated imagery? (It wasn’t _Tron_. It wasn’t _2001: A Space Odyssey_; all the computer graphics seen in _2001_ were cel animation.) ---
**Author:** ![\_shaolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_shaolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_shaolin)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/77 "2001-05-11T18:47:00Z")
#8 I believe Buster Keaton never threw a custard/cream pie. I _think_ the same is true of Charlie Chaplin. However, I confess to being fallible on occasion. ---
**Author:** ![YoungGotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c2a13f/32.png) [@YoungGotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoungGotti)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/78 "2001-05-11T20:52:09Z")
#61 - Trick question. The first time Fox’s character (Marty McFly) is confronted by the Libyan terrorists it is at **Twin Pines Mall**. The second time he is at the mall is upon returning from the future a little early. He watches himself in the previous confrontation from a distance. And the name of the mall is now **Lone Pine Mall** - presumably because he ran over one of the pine trees in an escape from the farmer in the past. Whew! Gotti ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/79 "2001-05-12T20:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > quote: > Originally posted by dougie\_monty > 84. In Mighty Joe Young (1949), what happens to Joe in the nightclub to make him run amok? > IIRC, a bunch of drunks gave Joe some liquor and got HIM drunk. That’s not all. When Joe pleaded with them for more booze, the fat bald drunk leaned forward and touched the lighted tip of his cigarette to Joe’s bare skin. (In the court proceedings following the rampage, the court ruled Joe would have to be shot. I think the judge should have order that the fat bald drunk be shot, too–especially if any people were killed or maimed in Joe’s runken rampage.) :mad: #89. What was the name of the actress in _Psycho_ who found Mrs. Bates’ dressed-up skeleton in the basement? #90. In _Son of Frankenstein,_ what was unusual about the right arm of a policeman who fights the monster at the end? #91. What real-life ocean liner was used in _The Last Voyage?_ #92. What legitimate occupation was Al Pacino in, in the first _Godfather_ movie? #93. What old western song did Laurel & Hardy sing in _Way Out West?_ (bonus sub-question: What happenes to Stan [and his voice] while he sings?) #94. What menace does the hero fight in the climactic scene in _The Andromeda Strain?_ #95. How does the heroic pig (in _Babe)_ make his point to the uncooperative sheep in the competition (where he competes with sheepdogs)? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-movie-trivia/62090/80 "2001-05-12T20:20:47Z")
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