| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $400: 1995 epic about a fight for freedom! Braveheart |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $800: Keira Knightley kicks it in this soccer film Bend It Like Beckham |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Frankie Laine sang the title tune of this Mel Brooks Western Blazing Saddles |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $1600: It was subtitled "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" Birdman |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $2000: This Terry Gilliam fantasy features a futuristic bureaucracy Brazil |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $400: 35 years after this film, Harrison Ford reprised his role as Rick Deckard in a sequel set in 2049 Blade Runner |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $800: Ice Cube inherits this title business & grows into his role as a mainstay of the community in the sequels Barbershop |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz did plenty of swearing on the job when she was supposed to be instructing students in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1600: A homeless teen becomes a star football player after he's taken in by Sandra Bullock in this film based on a true story The Blind Side |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $2000: Charlize Theron played Megyn Kelly in this 2019 film about a group of women who take on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Bombshell |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $400: "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Mary Poppins |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $400: Kristen Wiig is Maya Rudolph's maid of honor Bridesmaids |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $800: From 1984--a Motor City policeman comes to the 90210 Beverly Hills Cop |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $1200: A washed-up superhero actor plots a stage comeback in this 2014 film Birdman |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $1600: Someone sinister is creating clones of Hitler The Boys from Brazil |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $2000: In the 41st century, Jane Fonda fondly seeks out Durand Durand & his positronic ray Barbarella |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | A BUCKET LIST $1000: 1959's "A Bucket of Blood" was one of the movies that made this B-movie director "King of the Drive-Ins" Roger Corman |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $1600: In the movie "300" King Leonidas & his forces fight the Persians at this fateful battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | LETTER PERFECT $800: A book about these movies is subtitled "An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget film, 1933-1945" B-movies |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | "A" & "B" MOVIES $400: A popular game inspired the new movie about this title group, starring Jason Sudeikis as Red
"Beak! Wing! Tail!
Ribs! Giblets!
Ugh. Pluck my life." Angry Birds |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | "A" & "B" MOVIES $800: This Christopher Nolan film told the origin story of the Caped Crusader Batman Begins |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | "A" & "B" MOVIES $1200: This Steve Carell film explores the housing bubble collapse of 2007-08 The Big Short |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | "A" & "B" MOVIES $1600: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", says Robert Duvall in this film set during the Vietnam War Apocalypse Now |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | "A" & "B" MOVIES $2000: This sci-fi film was based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Blade Runner |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $2000: Manohla Dargis titled the review of this 2011 drama "Finding the Humanity in the F.B.I.'s Feared Enforcer" J. Edgar |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | MOVIES BY INITIALS $1600: 2007, actually about religion & oil: "T.W.B.B." There Will Be Blood |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | ROBOTS & ANDROIDS $2000: This series featured 2 robots & one human making sarcastic comments while watching B movies Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $400: Over a 20-year period, he played vigilante Paul Kersey in 5 "Death Wish" movies Charles Bronson |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $200: 1968:
Steve McQueen fires on all cylinders as a San Francisco cop in search of a killer mobster Bullitt |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $400: 1991:
Ice Cube co-starred in this saga about a group of friends chillin' out in an L.A. ghetto Boyz n the Hood |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $600: 1986:
Creepy thriller in which Dennis Hopper swears by "Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!" Blue Velvet |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1972:
Bitten by a vampire centuries before, a bloodthirsty African prince feeds on a modern city Blacula |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $1000: 1948:
In a classic of Italian Neorealism, a father & son search for a stolen vehicle The Bicycle Thief |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | WORLD WAR II MOVIES $2000: 1990:
The crew of a B-17 bomber has to make one final bombing raid over Europe & then can return home Memphis Belle |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | WELL, I'LL "B" $1000: Several James Bond movies feature this diabolical leader of SPECTRE caressing a white Persian cat Blofeld |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $100: A marriage-minded monster awaits this title creation in a 1935 horror classic starring Elsa Lanchester The Bride of Frankenstein |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $200: A dimwitted shut-in becomes the toast of Washington, D.C. society in this comedy starring Peter Sellers Being There |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $300: As Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck sets out to breed a new race of Hitlers in this thriller The Boys from Brazil |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $400: Bogie stars as Philip Marlowe in this 1946 film noir classic based on Raymond Chandler's first novel The Big Sleep |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $500: Stanley Kubrick's directorial style in this 1975 movie mimicked the detached manner of 18th century English painters Barry Lyndon |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | MOVIES OF THE "YEAR" $200: 6 words: Raquel Welch in a fur bikini One Million Years B.C. |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | AT THE MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Nathan Lane, hold it down!) I was the voice of Snowball the Cat in this 1999 film based on an E.B. White book Stuart Little |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | CIRCUS CIRCUS $500: This 1952 Cecil B. DeMille production was the "Greatest" of circus movies The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | "B" MOVIES $200: Oddly, Hal David & Burt Bacharach composed the title song of this 1958 Steve McQueen sci-fi classic The Blob |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | "B" MOVIES $400: Jane Fonda is a futuristic sex kitten in this campy space classic Barbarella |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | "B" MOVIES $800: This Roger Corman classic finds gun-toting "Mama" Angie Dickinson involved with William Shatner Big Bad Mama |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | "B" MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): What a pain in the neck! An African prince is turned into a vampire in this 1972 blaxploitation film Blacula |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | "B" MOVIES $1000: This 1970 Russ Meyer movie about an all-girl rock trio was a sequel in name only Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | THE MOVIES $200: It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Twin Dragons" Jackie Chan |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $200: The "Errol Flynn of B Movies" Ronald Reagan |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | ABBREV. $100: When referring to old movies, B&W indicates this black & white |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $200: Peter Boyle played the monster assembled by Gene Wilder in this Mel Brooks B&W classic Young Frankenstein |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $400: Premiere magazine called this 1994 B&W film "the story of a transvestite schlockmeister" Ed Wood |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | MOVIES IN BLACK & WHITE $800: In Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", these creatures saw the world in B&W angels |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | UNUSUAL BOOKS $200: Jewel Shepard's "Invasion of the B-Girls" is a collection of interviews with girls who appear in these B-movies |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $200: Tom Hanks plays a 12-year-old in a grown- up body in this film co-written by Steven Spielberg's sister Big |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $400: This Mel Brooks comedy has been called "the ultimate Western spoof" Blazing Saddles |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $600: The National Society of Film Critics named this David Lynch film the Best Picture of 1986 Blue Velvet |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $800: Matthew Broderick heads south for basic training in this film based on a Neil Simon play Biloxi Blues |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $1000: A bewitching Kim Novak puts a love spell on James Stewart in this 1958 film Bell, Book and Candle |
| #1969, aired 1993-03-11 | "GOOD" MOVIES $400: Louis B. Mayer allegedly said of this 1937 film, "Who wants to see a picture about Chinese farmers?" The Good Earth |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | "B" MOVIES $200: Gene Kelly goes to Scotland to hunt for grouse but finds Cyd Charisse instead in this Lerner & Loewe musical Brigadoon |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | "B" MOVIES $400: In 1992 this animated film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical or Comedy; its score won, too Beauty and the Beast |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | "B" MOVIES $600: Leonard Maltin said of this John Huston religious epic, "You should read the book instead" the Bible |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | "B" MOVIES $800: This Carroll Baker film with an "infantile" title was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency Baby Doll |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | "B" MOVIES $1000: This "colorful" Shirley Temple film was based on a 1909 play by Maurice Maeterlinck The Blue Bird |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | SILENT MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1916's "Joan the Woman" is considered this director's first historical epic Cecil B. DeMille |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | THE MOVIES $100: The film that inspired the 1991 headline "'Lambs' Chops Competition at B.O." The Slence of the Lambs |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | B MOVIES $200: This 1982 low-budget movie set in Florida in 1954 is known for its locker-room humor Porky's |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | B MOVIES $400: Director who made his feature debut in 1978 with "Eraserhead"; he went on to "Blue Velvet" David Lynch |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | B MOVIES $600: 1990 saw George Romero remaking this 1968 zombie classic of his Night of the Living Dead |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | B MOVIES $800: From her ability to yell out in terror in horror films, Brinke Stevens has this nearly rhyming title scream queen |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | B MOVIES $1000: The weapon wielded by Leatherface a chainsaw |
| #1214, aired 1989-12-07 | LETTER PERFECT $400: Film reviewer Joe Bob Briggs says Linnea Quigley & Michelle Bauer are queens of these movies B |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | "B" MOVIES $100: Movie in which Harrison Ford sets out to track down "Replicants" in 21st century Los Angeles Blade Runner |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | "B" MOVIES $200: Music heard when Bo was seen in "10", it became a movie title for her 5 years later "Bolero" |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | "B" MOVIES $300: This 1983 film had an appropriate title, since Richard Gere was running from the law Breathless |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | "B" MOVIES $400: 1952 movie in which a brainy chimp leads a college football team to victory--without Ronnie's help Bonzo Goes to College |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | "B" MOVIES $500: Word in movie titles that precedes
"Narcissus",
"Orchid" &
"Rose" Black |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $200: In 1987, Blake Edwards set Kim Basinger up for one of these Blind Date |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $400: Victor Herbert operetta that featured Laurel & Hardy in 1934, it was remade in 1961 Babes in Toyland |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $600: 1984 Tom Hanks film featuring a fiance's final fling Bachelor Party |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $800: Abbott & Costello accidentally enlisted in this 1941 film Buck Privates |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $1000: 1 of 2 movie series titles that could be followed by "of 1936" or "of 1938" The Big Broadcast (or The Broadway Melody) |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | MOVIES $300: Producer-director who said, "Give me a couple of pages of the Bible, & I'll give you a picture" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | "B" MOVIES $100: This 1984 film left "Mutiny on" off the title The Bounty |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | "B" MOVIES $200: After losing in '76, they broke training in '77 & went to Japan in '78 The Bad News Bears |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | "B" MOVIES $300: 1938 movie whose title precedes what happens before boy loses girl Boy Meets Girl |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | "B" MOVIES $400: In 1985 version, Richard Pryor had to spend $29 mil. more than Dennis O'Keefe had to spend in 1945 Brewster's Millions |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | MOVIES $200: Film featuring Raquel Welch in a prehistoric bikini 1,000,000 Years B.C. |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "B" MOVIES $200: In this 1951 film, Ronald Reagan "fathers" a chimp Bedtime for Bonzo |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "B" MOVIES $400: The record for most Oscars won, 11, is still held by this 1959 movie Ben-Hur |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "B" MOVIES $600: Bo Derek may be a 10, but many critics gave this 1984 film of hers a 1 Bolero |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "B" MOVIES $800: Tom Laughlin's failed remake of "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" Billy Jack |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "B" MOVIES $1000: Cycle saga that won an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1979 Breaking Away |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | "B" MOVIES $200: '83 film that knocked the wind out of Richard Gere Breathless |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | "B" MOVIES $400: This '70 sequel sank lower than "The Planet of the Apes" Beneath The Planet Of The Apes |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | "B" MOVIES $600: This '83 college reunion was up for Best Picture The Big Chill |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | "B" MOVIES $800: In this '68 film, women got all choked up over Tony Curtis playing Albert de Salvo The Boston Strangler |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | "B" MOVIES $1000: Before the "Bridge on the River Kwai", William Holden bombed these in '54 The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | "B" MOVIES $100: In '61 movie, Audrey Hepburn's alternative to brunch in bed Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | "B" MOVIES $200: Burt Lancaster film in which his only friends were feathered Birdman of Alcatraz |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | "B" MOVIES $300: Poignant movie in which Peter Sellers turned on the TV & tuned out the world Being There |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | "B" MOVIES $400: This title describes Carroll Baker's thumb-sucking character & nightie she wore Baby Doll |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | "B" MOVIES $500: Sensitive Mart Crowley treatment of gays marching to a different drummer The Boys in the Band |
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