… was England still on the Julian calendar? Because otherwise I don’t get it.
Who wrote a stage musical based on Phantom of the Opera?
Who directed the 1980s film The Last Emperor about the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China?
Bernardo Bertolucci and Li-Han Hsiang
In what 1984 fantastic adventure film does heroine Kate Capeshaw watch the villain reach into his victim’s chest with his bare hand and pull out the victim’s beating heart, yet leaves the victim alive?
In what 1988 comedy does the villain get run over by a steamroller, yet survives?
Bonus: There’s another 1988 film in which the villain gets run over by a steamroller, but, since he’s already dead, he doesn’t get a chance to survive.
What well known person died in New York City on September 11, 2001?
A three-fer
What movie ends with heroine Jennifer Connelly at the end of a long pier in broad daylight?
[spoiler] Dark City (1998) , Requiem for a Dream (2000) , and House of Sand and Fog (2003)
https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/339019-jennifer-connelly-piers-ocean.html [/spoiler]France does.
You got it. England didn’t switch to the Gregorian Calendar until 1752.
And the full explanation, for anyone interested. (I mean, Colibri answers it completely, but if anyone desires more context, see above.)
The “same war” one was easy, the “separate war” was hard since you can eliminate Western Europe since they haven’t had a war in their own country since WW2, and can eliminate the rest of Europe since they’ve never been hit by ballistic missiles.
Which leaves the Middle East and I couldn’t think of a capital that had been hit by both until I researched the common type of ballistic missile in the area and learned who had them and used them.
And closer to home (for Americans, anyway), there are parts of Minnesota due N of Ontario.
Check the last post of page 3 and you will find that I pointed out those islands are not directly north of the US, or for that matter, Canada.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is one of the first two… The Naked Gun is the one where a dead guy gets steamrollered.
If anybody wondered, in November of 1987, Tiffany hit #1 with a remake of Tommy James & the Shondells’ “I Think We’re Alone Now” and the next week, Billy Idol hit #1 with his cover of “Mony Mony.”
Which future American President is depicted in this famous painting?
Very good. Now you need the other one where he survives…
If you go with just “north of the United States”, you could add a fourth country, Russia, which is directly north of the Aleutian Islands.
And if you want to go with “north of United States territory” you can add the United Kingdom. The British Virgin Islands are directly north of the American Virgin Islands.
What 1987 action movie featured two actors who would be elected governors several years later?
Bonus question: Which third actor who appeared in one of the films ran for governor, but was defeated?
Sonny Landham.
Julian vs. Gregorian calendars? Not sure which date these are in in the first place though.
Edit: phone slow to load, the replies didn’t load yet when I started.
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