# Movie-Music -- Guess where -- a quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172 "2014-10-22T18:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/21 "2014-10-22T22:32:01Z")
How rude of me. I was supposed to leave [something](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDyYpeEsLc) for you to ponder. Don’t look at the screen–big hint comes at 1:30, and if you don’t get it by 2:10, you will. ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/22 "2014-10-22T22:33:43Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Name the John Hughes movie and scene the first 36 seconds of this song was used in: > > [sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O74zc9aIe4o) **Planes, Trains and Automobiles** , during the chasing-a-cab scene (featuring Kevin Bacon) near the beginning of the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/23 "2014-10-22T22:38:39Z")
Name the movie that featured the music that [this guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2-bggpQVjI) is doing a cover of (a somewhat labored, sloppy cover of, I might add; but certainly better than I can do). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/24 "2014-10-22T22:44:49Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > How rude of me. I was supposed to leave [something](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDyYpeEsLc) for you to ponder. Don’t look at the screen–big hint comes at 1:30, and if you don’t get it by 2:10, you will. I was all over the map trying to guess even the genre! I finally had a big suspicion (kept my eyes closed throughout) when that familiar theme came up, but I’ve heard it in similar tricky circumstances and wasn’t sure. Good one! Here’s one where you need to avoid looking (and hope some goddamn commercial doesn’t get in the way first) but it ought to become clear if you’ve seen any parts of the movie: [I just love this piece!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIDEvrt6CTU&list=FLr5Z9EbNm-xwrQfLOvIzt1A&index=45) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/25 "2014-10-22T23:01:07Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Here’s one where you need to avoid looking (and hope some goddamn commercial doesn’t get in the way first) but it ought to become clear if you’ve seen any parts of the movie: [I just love this piece!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIDEvrt6CTU&list=FLr5Z9EbNm-xwrQfLOvIzt1A&index=45) Nice piece of music! [This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsV7TuNMr5M) is either painfully obvious, or you’ll never get it in a million years–composer or movie. Again, avoid your screen. The previous piece (from post #21) was Jaws 2 - John Williams ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/26 "2014-10-22T23:02:31Z")
Here’s one more where the title comes up straightaway, so blind yourself: https://www.youtube.com/embed/GF_zq9vwojU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=FLr5Z9EbNm-xwrQfLOvIzt1A This is amazing music! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/27 "2014-10-22T23:22:27Z")
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDHXZ5RFNiA) should be an easy one. The video won’t give it away, but what’s written below will. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/28 "2014-10-22T23:22:37Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Nice piece of music! > > [This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsV7TuNMr5M) is either painfully obvious, or you’ll never get it in a million years–composer or movie. Again, avoid your screen. > > The previous piece (from post #21) was Jaws 2 - John Williams Fantastic! Again I was all the way from cavalry to Great Escape to Vikings to some Taras Bulba thing but I would have never figured on My Main Man Mancini! Great find. Never saw the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/29 "2014-10-22T23:24:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDHXZ5RFNiA) should be an easy one. The video won’t give it away, but what’s written below will. Very moody and I did see the movie – a long while back. Didn’t have a clue! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/30 "2014-10-22T23:44:16Z")
I hang my head in shame: I have never seen The Conversation all the way through! There have been some excellent pieces in this thread. One more and then I gotta go feed critters: Same composer as the above spoiler, but [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kYR3lxQti4) is one of my favorite films–could watch it a bazillion times. Post #28 was Lifeforce - Henry Mancini Once more, smash that screen! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/31 "2014-10-23T00:34:33Z")
> [@Eddie\_F](#): > > **Planes, Trains and Automobiles** , during the chasing-a-cab scene (featuring Kevin Bacon) near the beginning of the movie? Right movie! Different scene. When they entered the motel room and discovered it had only one bed. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/32 "2014-10-23T17:02:23Z")
By the way, the classical piece I posted…I was looking for _Excalibur_ as the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/33 "2014-10-23T17:03:16Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Some time ago we had a similar thread on movie music of note and somebody posted [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80xrXMmprWc) (please do what you have to not to see the title on the clip.) I had not seen the movie at that time, but HAD to after hearing this music. > > Recognize it? The musicians? My curiosity got the better of me so I tracked down that old thread: [Favorite Movie Music – with audio](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=510396) which had 39 posts from 03-15-2009, 10:51 AM through 03-26-2009, 05:14 PM See [this post for the clip in question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10940732&postcount=14) and its poster. \<\<\< NB: the link in that post is dead! \>\>\> Sorry if some of the links that thread are dead now. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172/34 "2014-10-23T17:22:13Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > By the way, the classical piece I posted…I was looking for _Excalibur_ as the answer. Just now seeing this. Yet to see the movie. Good sounds, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-guess-where-a-quiz/702172.md?page=1)