I’ll take this one without going to imdb so it may be a little vague.
In the movie Houseguest, the guy pretending to be Goldie Hawn’s father indignantly asks Steve Martin’s boss a similar question.
The father character was doing a whacky recounting of a battle situation on the ship that the two had supposedly served on, Steve Martin’s boss indicates that nothing of the sort happened leading up to an exchange along the lines of: “Whose side were you on? Who won the ‘xx World Series?” and then Goldie steps in and explains how her dad had lost his marbles in the big one.
Ken Burn’s Baseball mini-series featured a clip from the 1949 film Battleground which included some baseball trivia as a password answer at a U.S. checkpoint.
Is that a reference to John Birmingham’s Weapons of Choice?
Anhow, here’s an interesting question… what would be the current equivalent of the baseball question? Something that Americans pretty much all know, but non-Americans don’t?
Actually, I meant that you could catch spies this way because only an infiltrator would know the correct answer.
But yeah, I had to do a little check to make I knew the first verse. I remembered it, but bits of Frank Dreben’s mangled version from Naked Gun kept trying to creep in (“and the rocket’s red glare / bunch’a… bombs in the air!/ gave proof, through the night / that we… still had out flag”)
Yes. The first two episodes of Season IV that finally did away with the Temporal Cold War of the Bergama.
Who won NFL MVP last year? would be a good question.
…Instead of a baseball question, it is standard operating procedure that if someone tells you that it is “raining dogs and cats,” it is perfectly fine to kill them and anyone in the general vicinity.
Yes, I know that one of the baddies was also wearing his dead partner’s badge…
If you’re referring to the same movie I think you are, one of the other baddies in that scene also called the elevator the “lift,” IIRC, so it’s not just that.
