| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $200: One of the new songs for the live-action remake of this 1989 animated film was "Wild Uncharted Waters", sung by Prince Eric The Little Mermaid |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $400: In "Dumb Money", Paul Dano plays an investor who led a surge in value for this stock, & Anthony Ramos plays an employee there GameStop |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $600: In "The Color Purple", the role of Mary Agnes, known as Squeak was played the singer who goes by this name H.E.R. |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $800: In a 2023 film Jacob Elordi invites Barry Keoghan to his family estate called this; the visit is... unusual Saltburn |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $1000: Adam Driver stars as this title automaker who tries to save his company via the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race across Italy Ferrari |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $800: Edward Yang's 1985 "Taipei Story" was part of a movement in Taiwanese cinema with the same name as this '50s trend the new wave |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $400: "Das Boot" portrayed both boredom & terror aboard one of these German craft during World War II a U-boat |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $800: "The Motorcycle Diaries" dramatized a life-changing road trip by this future ally of Fidel Castro Che Guevara |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1200: Bérénice Bejo played 1920s actress Peppy Miller in this 2011 multi-Oscar winner from France The Artist |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1600: "City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country Brazil |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $2000: The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country Iran |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $400: 2018:
"Wakanda forever!" Black Panther |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1976:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $800: 1989:
"I'll have what she's having" When Harry Met Sally... |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: 1967:
"They call me Mr. Tibbs!" In the Heat of the Night |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SUMMING UP THE SPIELBERG MOVIE $1000: Young cinema lover Sammy represents cinema lover Steven Spielberg The Fabelmans |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE $1200: Before directing blockbusters like "The Professional" & "The Fifth Element", he influenced France's cinema du look era Luc Besson |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE $1600: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" & "Metropolis" were part of the golden age of cinema in this German "Republic" the Weimar Republic |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE $2000: Hollywood star Choi Min-sik cemented his legacy in Korean cinema with this 2003 movie, later remade by Spike Lee Oldboy |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $600: A USC cinema building is named for this director who was rejected 3 times by the school & attended Cal State Long Beach instead (Steven) Spielberg |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world Rashomon |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | RUFF CROWD $200: A Plano, Texas movie theater with this alphanumeric name is famous for letting you bring your dog to the cinema K9 (Cinemas) |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $400: It's the breed of Bruiser, Reese Witherspoon's pet companion in "Legally Blonde" a Chihuahua |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $800: This scientist has a pooch named Einstein who becomes the first time-traveler in "Back to the Future" Doc Brown |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $1200: In a lousy future, this title hard-driving drifter's only friend is an Australian cattle dog Mad Max |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $1600: A Golden Retriever plays basketball & helps a boy rebound from a loss in this film Air Bud |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $2000: It's alive! Tim Burton directed this animated film about a boy's beloved dog brought back to life Frankenweenie |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY OPENING NUMBERS $800: "A Cinema In Buenos Aires; July 26, 1952" Evita |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $2000: Elisa & Giles live above the Orpheum Cinema in this 2017 del Toro Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $200: Emma Stone sews one of these letters to her outfit in a 2010 comedy reworking of a Hawthorne tale an "A" |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $400: At the end of "Logan", Laura turns the cross on Wolverine's grave to make it into one of these letters an "X" |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $600: In a 2006 film Natalie Portman is rescued by Hugo Weaving, who played this mask-wearing character V |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $800: Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, but perhaps is more recognizable as this gadget guy Q |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $1000: Peter Lorre is marked with this letter in a 1931 Fritz Lang classic M |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $1000: French name for a documentary style with handheld camera work & candid, authentic subject matter cinéma vérité |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | CELEBRITY LECTURES $2000: This director & writer of "Do the Right Thing" taught African-American cinema at Harvard (Spike) Lee |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $200: Steve Coogan & John C. Reilly play these 2 film legends in "Stan & Ollie" Laurel and Hardy |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $400: Christian Bale packed on 40 pounds & lost some hair to play this veep in "Vice" Dick Cheney |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $600: In a 2018 film Margot Robbie is Elizabeth I & Saoirse Ronan is this title woman, condemned to imprisonment Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $800: Octavia Spencer was a lady on a mission--help NASA win the space race & bust some societal fences as a math genius in this film Hidden Figures |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $1000: Director Paul Greengrass dramatizes the 2011 attacks that killed 77 in this nation in "22 July" Norway |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $200: Joonas Suotamo stepped into Peter Mayhew's large, large shoes to play this hairy fella in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" Chewbacca |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $400: He decided to accept the very possible mission to play Ethan Hunt & deal with the "Fallout" (Tom) Cruise |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $600: In 2018 Ewan McGregor played this A.A. Milne guy all grown up with grown-up problems Christopher Robin |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $800: Christopher Nolan directed this 2017 film about a dramatic mass rescue in World War II Dunkirk |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: Ryan Gosling played him in "First Man" Armstrong |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $200: White rapper wins contest, yo 8 Mile |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $400: A trio of bachelors cares for a foundling left on their doorstep Three Men and a Baby |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $600: A chaste nerd trades his action figures in for chicks The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $800: A derelict alien spaceship is stalled out over South Africa District 9 |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $1000: A man is sent back in time to try to prevent a plague 12 Monkeys |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | GONE A YEAR ALREADY $800: He brought great cinema & great class to viewers for 23 years as a host on Turner Classic Movies Robert Osborne |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | FRENCH SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $2000: These brothers invented an all-in-one camera & projector called a cinematograph (from which we get the word cinema) the Lumière brothers |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SWORD CINEMA $400: This 2017 title character attends a cocktail party with the god killer sword in her dress Wonder Woman |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SWORD CINEMA $800: Connor MacLeod travels from 16th c. Scotland to 20th c. New York to stop the evil Kurgan with his sword in this film Highlander |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SWORD CINEMA $1200: "The bride" doesn't throw a bouquet, she wields the Hattori Hanzo katana samurai sword in this Tarantino film Kill Bill |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SWORD CINEMA $1600: Kroenen couldn't cut down this big red Guillermo del Toro-directed hero with his swords Hellboy |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SWORD CINEMA $2000: Cryptic inscriptions are etched on the Atlantean sword used by this film character out of pulp stories Conan the Barbarian |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT $1600: In the final scene of this film, Secondo makes a frittata for brother Primo in the Paradise restaurant Big Night |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $2000: The 1961 documentary "Chronicle of a Summer" is said to have originated this 2-word French-named style cinéma vérité |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $200: Another term for trailers in the cinema are these "attractions" coming attractions |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | FISHY CINEMA $400: Joe Alves designed the shark for this 1975 film Jaws |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | FISHY CINEMA $800: Flounder the fish & Sebastian the crab are Ariel's sidekicks in this animated favorite The Little Mermaid |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | FISHY CINEMA $1200: This type of carnivorous fish menaces the folks at Lost River Lake in a 1978 film piranha |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | FISHY CINEMA $1600: Willem Dafoe voiced a Moorish idol fish named Gill in this 2003 animated movie Finding Nemo |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | FISHY CINEMA $2000: Kevin Kline shoves French fries up Michael Palin's nose & eats Palin's beloved tropical fish in this film A Fish Called Wanda |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | THE OCCIDENT EXPRESS $1200: The Flying Scotsman, which ran from Edinburgh to King's Cross in this city, had a cinema car & a hair salon London |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE CINEMA OF BRADLEY COOPER $200: In this 2014 film a doctor tells Cooper's character that "the Navy has credited you with over 160 kills" American Sniper |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE CINEMA OF BRADLEY COOPER $400: This 2009 film about a bachelor party in Las Vegas & its 2 sequels all star Bradley Cooper as Phil The Hangover |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE CINEMA OF BRADLEY COOPER $600: Cooper supplied the voice of Rocket, a gun-toting talking raccoon, in this hit film Guardians of the Galaxy |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE CINEMA OF BRADLEY COOPER $800: Cooper played Face in this 2010 film based on a TV series; the original TV actor, Dirk Benedict, had a bit role in the film The A-Team |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE CINEMA OF BRADLEY COOPER $1000: Bradley said he "fell in love with" the curls he wore in an Oscar-nominated role as FBI agent Richie DiMaso in this fllm American Hustle |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | BRITTANY $800: Built in the Brittany shipyards of Saint Nazaire, this Cunard liner, QM2, has a planetarium & a 3-D cinema the Queen Mary 2 |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA $400: In the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", he mentions the South Atlantic had its first hurricane in 2004 Al Gore |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA $800: A boxer named Adonis follows in his dad's footsteps & has a Rocky road in this 2015 film Creed |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA $1200: In 2005 moviegoers met Emma Thompson in the guise of this magical nanny Nanny McPhee |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA $1600: (New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott gives the clue.) Julia Child could whip up a navarin of lamb for lunch but Meryl Streep eats young actresses for breakfast as she does in this 2009 film co-starring Amy Adams Julie & Julia |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA $2000: Film in which Bruce Willis is sent back in time to be killed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, his younger self Looper |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | BRIT SPEAK $1000: When Brits go to the movie theater, they go to this 6-letter alternate name cinema |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $200: The jacket worn by Tom Hardy to play this title role is a replica of the one worn by Mel Gibson in 3 earlier films Mad Max |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $400: As a tiny superhero, Paul Rudd enlists the aid of his insect allies to defeat Yellow Jacket in this film Ant-Man |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $600: This actress of some repute had the title role in "Ricki and the Flash" (she was not the Flash) Meryl Streep |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $800: This film opens with its 2 heroes, Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin, on opposite sides in the Cold War The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: Seismologist Lucy Jones found fault with this film, saying you can't predict quakes as Paul Giamatti's character does San Andreas |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | ETYMOLOGY $800: This word for a movie hall comes from an 1890s term used by the Lumiere Brothers a cinema |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $200: "The Sheep-Pig" somehow doesn't seem quite as friendly as this title of the cinema version Babe |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | 1980s CINEMA $400 (Daily Double): For the funeral scene in this 1982 biopic the production co. placed ads for 400,000 extras in Delhi newspapers Gandhi |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | 1980s CINEMA $400: It had the tagline "Desperate, he took a female role and became a star. If only he could tell the woman he loves" Tootsie |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | 1980s CINEMA $800: To prepare for his role as an astronaut in this 1983 film, Jack Nicholson met with real astronauts in Houston Terms of Endearment |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | 1980s CINEMA $1200: In "Dirty Dancing" she played Baby, whom nobody puts in a corner Jennifer Grey |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $400: 2008, starring the voice of Jack Black Kung Fu Panda |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $800: 1995, starring Bruce Willis Twelve Monkeys |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $1200: 2007, with Tim Allen & John Travolta Wild Hogs |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $1600: 2009, starring George Clooney (1 of 2) Fantastic Mr. Fox or Men Who Stare At Goats |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $2000: 1988, starring Sigourney Weaver Gorillas in the Mist |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | THE CINEMA OF STEVE McQUEEN $400: The first Steve McQueen played a P.O.W. in this 1963 film in which he led the Nazis on a motorcycle chase The Great Escape |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | THE CINEMA OF STEVE McQUEEN $800: The second Steve McQueen directed Chiwetel Ejiofor in this harrowing 2013 film set in the old south 12 Years a Slave |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | HIPPO CAMPUS $1200: In cinema studies we critique Jada Pinkett Smith's work as Gloria the Hippo in this animated movie series Madagascar |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $400: "Das Boot" portrayed both boredom & terror aboard one of these German craft during World War II a U-boat |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $800: "The Motorcycle Diaries" dramatized a life-changing road trip by this future ally of Fidel Castro Che Guevara |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1200: Berenice Bejo played '20s actress Peppy Miller in this 2011 multi-Oscar winner from France The Artist |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1,600 (Daily Double): "City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country Brazil |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $2000: The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country Iran |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $400 (Daily Double): Leopoldine Konstantin tells Claude Rains, "We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity" in this Hitchcock film Notorious |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $400: The idea for this 1954 Elia Kazan film came from a series of newspaper articles about corruption on the docks On the Waterfront |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $800: William Holden's acceptance speech upon winning the Oscar for playing a P.O.W. in this film was a terse "Thank you" Stalag 17 |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $1200: Steve McQueen's first starring role was in this film about a gelatinous mass from outer space The Blob |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | CINEMA OF MY YOUTH $1600: This actress was a frequent presence in the films of John Ford Maureen O'Hara |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $800: Zizi Jeanmaire played Doro, Danny Kaye's love interest, in a 1952 musical about this Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $1200: Alexander Godunov played Amish farmer Daniel Hochleitner in this 1985 Harrison Ford film Witness |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $1600: He made his feature film debut in 1977's "The Turning Point" & followed it up with a starring role in "White Nights" Baryshnikov |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $2000: This Native American ballerina who died in 2013 played Anna Pavlova in Esther Williams' "Million Dollar Mermaid" Maria Tallchief |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | MIDDLE "C" $1000: The Seven Seas, Steven Spielberg's luxury one of these, includes an infinity pool, a helipad & an indoor cinema a yacht |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FILMMAKING $1000: Documentary film-making with no narration, long takes & minimal editing is known by this "truthful" French term cinema verité |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | LAWRENCE OF ARABIA $800: One of cinema's great entrances is the long shot that introduces Sherif Ali, played by this similarly named man Omar Sharif |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $400: "Thirteen Days", starring Kevin Costner, was based on the events surrounding this 1962 crisis the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $800: George Clooney directed & starred in this 2011 film about presidential primary shenanigans The Ides of March |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic premiered here at Constitution Hall
"It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all!" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $1600: He channeled Bill Clinton when he played Southern governor Jack Stanton in "Primary Colors" John Travolta |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $2000: In this 2007 film Tom Hanks played a Texas congressman who covertly aided Afghan rebels against the Soviets Charlie Wilson's War |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | I GOT 3 LETTERS! $2000: ACE, helping shape movies in the society of American Cinema these Editors |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $600: A Wisconsin course on this in lit & cinema includes viewing "Nosferatu" & reading "The Historian" vampires |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: For this 1948 film Laurence Olivier dyed his brown hair blond to look more Danish Hamlet |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "His whole life was a million-to-one shot" was the tagline for this 1976 Best Picture winner Rocky |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1200: In a 1942 film Greer Garson as this heroic title Mrs. dodged bombs during the Blitz Mrs. Miniver |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $2000: A 1961 Gregory Peck film was shot on Rhodes, but it's about destroying guns on this other Aegean island Navarone |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $5,000 (Daily Double): Originally planned for Charles Laughton & Elsa Lanchester in the 1930s, it was later made with Bogart & Hepburn The African Queen |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | THE JOY OF 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: This French word for "truth" is often found after "cinema" verite |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $200: In this 1993 film, Richard Attenborough thinks, What could possibly go wrong with a dinosaur theme park? Jurassic Park |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $400: This 1937 film tells us, "The Prince, who had searched far and wide, heard of the maiden who slept in the glass coffin" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $600: For "The Wedding Singer", this star wrote 2 songs that he sang in the film, "Grow Old With You" & "Somebody Kill Me" Adam Sandler |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $800: A Jewish musician's skilled fingers help keep him alive in WWII Warsaw in this 2002 film The Pianist |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $1000: This 1985 sequel to "Romancing the Stone" was set in North Africa Jewel of the Nile |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $400: This Chinese action star of films like "Drunken Master" & "Rumble in the Bronx" has broken a number of bones doing stunts Jackie Chan |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $800: As a boy, this star of films like "Fearless" & "Hero" was a martial arts champion Jet Li |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $1200: "Brokeback Mountain" earned this director his first Oscar Ang Lee |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $1600: This Chinese actor starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" & in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" Chow Yun Fat |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $2000: Films like "The Killer" by this director helped establish the modern Hong Kong gangster film John Woo |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $400: Giving the devil his due, Fr. Karras invites the devil inside himself, then exits from the second floor in this 1973 movie The Exorcist |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $800: In this Bruce Willis movie, the villain goes out the window of the Nakatomi building, gun in hand Die Hard |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $1200: Movie in which Axel Foley asks, "where ...you get off arresting me for being thrown out a window?" Beverly Hills Cop |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $2000: In this Coen Brothers movie, Charles Durning jumps out a window during a board meeting The Hudsucker Proxy |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ACTION CINEMA 2010! $200: Rampage was the name of an actor in this film; Faceman was the name of a character The A-Team |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ACTION CINEMA 2010! $400: This character took on "the World"--his new girlfriend's 7 evil ex-boyfriends, to be more specific (Scott) Pilgrim |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ACTION CINEMA 2010! $600: Nicolas Cage was magic as Balthazar, but as this film's title indicates, he needed a little help The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ACTION CINEMA 2010! $800: One line sums up this film: "Release the kraken!" (we certainly saw it enough in the trailers!) Clash of the Titans |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ACTION CINEMA 2010! $1000: Variety said this Sly Stallone pic had enough pyrotechnic displays to alter the planet's orbit The Expendables |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $1000: A battleship in history & cinema was named for this prince, lover of Catherine the Great Potemkin |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | DEATH & CINEMA $400: The murder of Marion Crane in this 1960 film is one of the most famous in film history Psycho |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | DEATH & CINEMA $800: In a 2004 film, he dies via the 5-point palm exploding heart technique; what did you expect in a movie called "Kill" him Bill |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | DEATH & CINEMA $1200: He was killed by his real-life ex-wife in both "Mortal Thoughts" & "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" Bruce Willis |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | DEATH & CINEMA $1600: After trying to steal Frodo's ring he becomes heroic & fights off waves of Orcs before succumbing to arrows Boromir |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | DEATH & CINEMA $2000: Newly transferred policeman Alex Murphy's grisly murder in a 1987 film leads to his "reincarnation" as this title lawman RoboCop |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $400: Daniel Day-Lewis starred in this 2008 Oscar-winning adaptation of an Upton Sinclair novel There Will Be Blood |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $800: Leonardo DiCaprio's African jewel smuggler gains a conscience in this film Blood Diamond |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $1200: Sylvester Stallone played Vietnam vet John Rambo in this 1982 film First Blood |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $1600: The Coen brothers debuted with this murderous Texas noir tale Blood Simple |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $2000: Movie in which Jean-Claude Van Damme wins a secret martial arts tournament Bloodsport |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $200: Southern matron Sandra Bullock takes a future NFL lineman into her home in this film The Blind Side |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $400: This 2008 drama features the line Clint Eastwood was born to say: "Get off my lawn!" Gran Torino |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $600: Kid: "You just killed a helicopter with a car"; John McClane: "I was out of bullets" in this 2007 film with a 5-word title Live Free or Die Hard |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $800: Here's a Rorschach test: Jackie Earle Haley said, "Politicians will... shout 'Save us!' & I'll whisper 'No'" in this film Watchmen |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $1000: Frozone, Bomb Voyage & Edna Mode were characters in this 2004 animated film The Incredibles |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE $1200: The statement that this medium is "truth 24 times a second" is attributed to Jean-Luc Godard cinema (or film) |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM $400: "Cinema Paradiso"
(1989) Italy |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | THE STATE'S POSTAL ABBREVIATION $800: ...precedes Laurentiis & Palma in the names of cinema figures Delaware |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WHO'S THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL? $800: A 2005 "60 Minutes" story said the world's most beautiful woman is Aishwarya Rai, queen of this country's cinema India |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $400: A mech war on the planet Cybertron over the Allspark spills out on Earth in this 2007 film Transformers |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $800: Road & Track magazine reviewed the tech-laden Mach 5 of this film Speed Racer |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $1200: Shia LaBeouf is tracked & controlled with technology of everyday life in this 2008 film Eagle Eye |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $1600: In this Coen Brothers comedy, 2 gym employees find a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent Burn After Reading |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | HIGH-TECH CINEMA $2000: In "Swordfish" John Travolta enlists this Aussie actor to hack billions from the government Hugh Jackman |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | DUMB STUFF I SAW ON THE ROAD $800: A cinema marquee says "The Dark Night", leaving this letter off the Batman title; Seriously? No one notices this? K |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | BUSINESS LETTERS $200: Movie theater chain AMC is "American" this "Cinema"--a prefix often found in front of "plex" Multi |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $200: Batman joins forces with Harvey Dent, Gotham's D.A., to fight the Joker in this 2008 flick The Dark Knight |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $400: This X-Man has adamantium-laced, retractable claws in his forearms Wolverine |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $600: Talk about poor coping skills! In this 2008 action film Edward Norton turns into a monster when he's stressed The Incredible Hulk |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $800: Spider-Man battled this heavily armed villain in "Spider-Man 2" Doc Ock (or Dr. Octopus) |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $1000: Jason Bateman plays P.R. exec Ray Embrey, whose life is saved by the title sardonic superhero in this 2008 film Hancock |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | "MULTI" TASKING $400: A modern cinema with many movie screens a multiplex |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $800: With films like "A Better Tomorrow", John Woo brought attention to the cinema of this place where he grew up Hong Kong |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | "IN" WORDS $600: From the Greek for "motion", it's a theater for motion pictures a cinema |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $400: In an 1898 film by G.A. Smith, this character enters & leaves a room via the chimney Santa Claus |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $800: In "Wonderful Dancing Girls", 2 ballet dancers dance on this, years before Fred Astaire in "Royal Wedding" the ceiling |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $1200: A film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh on August 28, 1899; he was shot in 1901 McKinley |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $1600: 1899's "Frank Melville's Trick" one of these circus animals shows the title creature stepping over 2 ponies an elephant |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $2000: "Casey At The Bat" ends with Casey & his teammates piling onto & pummeling this person at the plate the umpire |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | FAR-OUT CINEMA $400: This lonely title character from a 2008 film is fixated on EVE, an "extraterrestrial vegetation evaluator" WALL·E |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | FAR-OUT CINEMA $800: Tom Cruise dodges nasty looks from Dakota Fanning & towering intergalactic tripods in this 2005 flick War of the Worlds |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | FAR-OUT CINEMA $1200: The disappearance of a $5 billion space probe forces these title simians into action in a 2008 film Space Chimps |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | FAR-OUT CINEMA $1600: Genetic experiment 626, this fuzzy blue guy who crash-landed in Hawaii in a 2002 film looks cute, but he's a weapon Stitch |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | FAR-OUT CINEMA $2000: In this M. Night Shyamalan film, aliens are good at scaring people; not so good with locked pantry doors or water Signs |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | THE "THE" $400: Another name for a cinema a theater |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $400: She almost got the role of Scarlett's sister Carreen in "GWTW" --fate intervened & she went to Oz instead (Judy) Garland |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) "Three Little Pigs", a Disney Silly Symphony of 1933, introduced this song that became an anti-Depression anthem "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): Brian Aherne was doomed to play this emperor in the 1939 film "Juarez" Maximilian |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $1200: Elsa Lanchester played 2 roles in this 1935 sequel: the title mate, &, in an amusing prologue, Mary Shelley The Bride of Frankenstein |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $2000: Cecil Kellaway played the impresario in "Intermezzo" & Mr. Earnshaw (Cathy's father) in this 1939 classic Wuthering Heights |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $200: 1964:
"Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?" My Fair Lady |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $400: 1961:
"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."
"So do you, Fast Eddie" The Hustler |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $600: 1979:
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, Cat" Alien |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $800: 1975:
"I used to hate the water."
"I can't imagine why" Jaws |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $1000: 1968:
"Boys, let's watch the cigarette butts, shall we? This is my house, not a pigsty" The Odd Couple |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | HURRELL'S HOLLYWOOD $400: The daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, she's been called "the First Lady of Cinema" Katharine Hepburn |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | CELEBRITY LIVES $200: In titles of biographies, he's referred to as a "Comic Genius", a "Genius of the Cinema" & a "Tramp" (Charlie) Chaplin |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RECENT CINEMA $400: About this 2008 release, Roger Ebert wrote, "Godzilla meets the Queasy-cam" Cloverfield |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RECENT CINEMA $800: In this Disney comedy, an animated princess played by Amy Adams is banished to a place far, far away...reality Enchanted |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RECENT CINEMA $1200: This actor made his debut as a director with "Gone Baby Gone" which starred his brother Casey Ben Affleck |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RECENT CINEMA $1600: "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" climaxes at this national monument, under which is a fabled city of gold Mount Rushmore |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | RECENT CINEMA $2000: In 2007 Tom Hanks played this Texas congressman who secretly helped supply the Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s Charlie Wilson |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $400: The IMDB says that this Jimmy Stewart movie was banned in fascist states because of fears that it showed democracy works Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $800: This 2005 Samuel L. Jackson film details one man's attempts to teach his players there's more to life than hoops Coach Carter |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $1200: Peter Weir got an Oscar nomination for directing this 1998 film about a man trapped in a real-time 24-hour-a-day documentary The Truman Show |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $1600: In a 1990 movie, Wayne Newton grapples with Andrew Dice Clay, who plays this title character Ford Fairlane |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $2000: Adam Sandler gives "sophomoric" a new meaning when he has 24 weeks to pass 12 years of school in this 1995 comedy Billy Madison |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | MAN-AGRAMS $800: "Match Point"er of the cinema:
YELL AND WOO Woody Allen |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | ACTING THE PART $1600: Yo, he played Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, Ray Tango & 2 iconic roles of American cinema Sylvester Stallone |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $200: Dumbledore's Army is a small group of Hogwarts students who learn to defend against the Dark Arts in this film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $400: In "The Nanny Diaries" she plays Annie Braddock, a college student taking care of a rich family's kid Scarlett Johansson |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $600: Some officials in New Hampshire were unhappy that the title of this action film was a play on the state motto Live Free or Die Hard |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $800: One of the taglines for this movie was "For years, lines have been drawn... and then colored in yellow" The Simpsons Movie |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: She learned that she had been cast as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" while working at a Cold Stone Creamery store Nikki Blonsky |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 1910s CINEMA $1200: Brodsky's movies tour through Japan included footage of these indigenous people seen here Ainu |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 1910s CINEMA $1600: Now home to a theme park & studio, this first "city" dedicated to making movies was built by Carl Laemmle in 1915 Universal City |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 1910s CINEMA $2000: The middle initial of this cowboy star of "Truthful Tulliver" stood for Surrey William S. Hart |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $400: Quick! Name this seasonal 1959 Elizabeth Taylor film based on a Tennessee Williams play Suddenly, Last Summer |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $800: Richard Gere & Winona Ryder have a May-December romance in this weepy 2000 drama Autumn in New York |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $1200: Glenn Close & Patrick Stewart played a battling royal couple in a TV remake of this 1968 film The Lion in Winter |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $1600: It's the English title of Ingmar Bergman's "Jungfrukallan" The Virgin Spring |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $2000: Burgess Meredith re-created his Broadway role in this 1936 film based on a Maxwell Anderson play Winterset |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CINEMA CAFE $200: Morgan Spurlock eats nothing but McDonald's for a month in this documentary Super Size Me |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CINEMA CAFE $400: Catherine Zeta-Jones heats up the screen with sous-chef Aaron Eckhart in this film No Reservations |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CINEMA CAFE $600: A food critic names Adam Sandler "the best chef in the country" in this multicultural film Spanglish |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CINEMA CAFE $800: Tita's desire for Pedro becomes a part of the food she prepares, & people who eat it literally smolder in this film Like Water for Chocolate |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CINEMA CAFE $1000: Tony Shalhoub & Stanley Tucci, Primo & Secondo, try to keep their Italian restaurant cooking in this film Big Night |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | THINK FAST $2000: In cinema slang, they're the first, unedited prints of a movie scene, & they're also called the dailies the rushes |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $400: In 1956 Roger Vadim directed his first film, "And God Created Woman", which starred this actress, his then-wife Brigitte Bardot |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $800: 45 years before Disney, Jean Cocteau made a live-action version of this film with Josette Day as Belle Beauty and The Beast |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $1200: This 2001 title role was meant for Emily Watson, but she didn't speak French; Audrey Tautou got the part Amélie |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $1600: This director, son of a famous impressionist painter, is perhaps best known for his 1937 film 'Grand Illusion" Jean Renoir |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $2000: This star of "Chocolat" & "The English Patient" made her film debut in the 1982 French film "Liberty Belle" (Juliette) Binoche |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $400: Alec Guinness whistled while he worked his way to an Oscar in this 1957 David Lean epic The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $800: Based on Maori writer Witi Ihimaera's novel, this 2002 film details a girl's dream of becoming chief of her tribe The Whale Rider |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $1200: Ewan McGregor's resemblance to a young Albert Finney reportedly helped get him his role in this Tim Burton film Big Fish |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $1600: I know it's confusing, but in this movie sequel, Julia Roberts played Tess, who impersonated Julia Roberts Ocean's Twelve |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $2000: Look at Kate Bosworth, she's Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin's wife, in this crooning biopic Beyond the Sea |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | CINEMA SHORTHAND $400: 1931:
Plug in the lightning rod! It's creation time Frankenstein |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | CINEMA SHORTHAND $800: 1994:
Don't slow down... or else the bomb goes off! Speed |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | CINEMA SHORTHAND $1200: 1977:
Is this the first movie or the fourth? Star Wars |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | CINEMA SHORTHAND $1,500 (Daily Double): 1957:
"Guilty!" "Guilty!",
"Guilty!" "Guilty!",
"Guilty!" "Guilty!",
"Guilty!" "Guilty!",
"Guilty!" "Guilty!",
"Guilty!" "Nope!" 12 Angry Men |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE HEARD $600: James Moorer used 30 voices over 7 measures to create the "Rrrummm" for this cinema sound standard THX |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $400: This Taiwanese director's films include "The Wedding Banquet", "Pushing Hands" & "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (Ang) Lee |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $800: The submarine models for this 1981 German film were also used in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Das Boot |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $1200: In this 1957 Ingmar Bergman film, a knight back from the Crusades challenges Death to a chess game for his life The Seventh Seal |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $1600: Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop Breathless |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $2000: This 1963 Fellini film was the basis for the 1982 Broadway musical "Nine" 8 1/2 |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1930:
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know" Animal Crackers |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $400: 1974:
"Forget it, Jake. It's..." Chinatown |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1975:
"Attica! Attica!" Dog Day Afternoon |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $800: 1990:
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" The Godfather: Part III |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: 1982, to Elliott:
"Be good" E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $400: The 1925 film "Shakhmatnaya Goryachka" centered on an excited participant in a tournament of this game chess |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $800: Many Russians watch the film "Ironiya Sudby", about a group of old friends, every year on this evening New Year's Eve |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $1200: "Russian Ark" follows a man through 300 years of history as he walks through this city's Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $1600: This man directed the classic Russian films "Alexander Nevsky" & "Ivan the Terrible" Sergei Eisenstein |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | RUSSIAN CINEMA $2000: The 1980 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film went to Vladimir Menshov's "Moscow Does Not Believe In" these Tears |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | QUOTATIONS $800: Jean-Luc Godard said, "Photography is truth, and" this "is truth 24 times a second" film (or cinema) |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $400: The title of this film based on a Stephen King novel is a colorful nickname for death row The Green Mile |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $800: She sashayed out of the "Casino" to play a death row inmate in "Last Dance" Sharon Stone |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): The scenes of Perry Smith being interviewed in jail in this 2005 film were shot in Manitoba, not in Kansas Capote |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $1200: Eddie Murphy gets a 2-day parole to help Nick Nolte track down a murderer in this 1982 hit 48 Hours |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $2000: Michelle Pfeiffer was a jailbird--or is that jailflower?--in this "pale" 2002 mother-daughter drama White Oleander |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS $400: Famous for its murder scenes, this 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film featured a mild-mannered mama's boy killer Psycho |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS $800: As Regan in this film, Linda Blair evinced evil trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl The Exorcist |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS $1200: In "2001: A Space Odyssey", this computer is pleasant, logical, calm & deadly! HAL |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS $1600: Their portrayal of the title romantic bank robbers in "Bonnie And Clyde" changed Hollywood forever Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS $2000: Through 8 films, Robert Englund has played this sadistic resurrected child killer Freddy (Krueger) |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $200: Perhaps tiring of all that sand in "Lawrence of Arabia", David Lean was "Russian" to photograph snow in this 1965 epic Doctor Zhivago |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $400: Jack Lemmon has his ups & downs with elevator operator Shirley MacLaine in this Billy Wilder classic The Apartment |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $600: George Hamilton (yes, George Hamilton) played Hank Williams in this 1964 film whose title "will tell on you" Your Cheatin' Heart |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $800: Angela Lansbury & Ginger Rogers each played Mama Jean in competing movie bios about this 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | '60s CINEMA $1000: This freckle-faced blonde singer gets stalked by an eerie voice in the 1960 thriller "Midnight Lace" Doris Day |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | EVERYTHING FRENCH $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.) This "Beauty and the Beast" character has the same name as the brothers who founded French cinema Lumière |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | SAMS OF THE CINEMA $400: This "Law & Order" star played the unsuspecting hubby of a serial killer in "Serial Mom" Sam Waterston |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | SAMS OF THE CINEMA $800: This director of the "Spider-Man" movies has also acted in films like "The Hudsucker Proxy" & "The Flintstones" Sam Raimi |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | SAMS OF THE CINEMA $1200: He fell for Jessica Lange when they co-starred in "Frances" in 1982 Sam Shepard |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | SAMS OF THE CINEMA $1600: The last works he directed weren't Westerns but music videos starring Julian Lennon Sam Peckinpah |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | SAMS OF THE CINEMA $2000: "A Third Face" is the gutsy autobiography of this highly independent director of "The Big Red One" Sam Fuller |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $400: Alfred Hitchcock's first American film was this 1940 classic based on a Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $800: This animated Disney film that featured a forest fire was the No. 1 box-office draw of 1942 Bambi |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $1200: This 1940 "Story" starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn was remade as the musical "High Society" in 1956 The Philadelphia Story |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $1600: Claire Trevor won a 1948 Oscar for her role as a gangster's girlfriend in this Bogart flick set on an island Key Largo |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $2,000 (Daily Double): Marine Ira Hayes, who helped raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi, had a cameo in this 1949 John Wayne film The Sands of Iwo Jima |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA $200: 1979:
"The ____ Horror" Amityville |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA $400: 1957:
"The Spirit of ____" St. Louis |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA $600: 1987:
"Born in ___" East L.A. |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA $800: 1931:
"Sidewalks of ___" New York |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA $1000: 1960:
"Sunrise at ____" Campobello |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $400: 1933:
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" King Kong |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1976:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $800: 1989:
"I'll have what she's having" When Harry Met Sally... |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: 1967:
"They call me Mr. Tibbs!" In the Heat of the Night |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | EGYPTIAN CINEMA $400: In 1934, Claudette Colbert played this Egyptian; in 1963, Elizabeth Taylor did Cleopatra |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | EGYPTIAN CINEMA $800: Indy seeks to solve a biblical mystery in this 1981 film that features a quest from Nepal to Cairo Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | EGYPTIAN CINEMA $1200: Boris Karloff was under wraps as this title Egyptian in a 1932 film the Mummy |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | EGYPTIAN CINEMA $1600: Rita Hayworth makes a short, sultry appearance in the 1935 film about this Asian detective “in Egypt” Charlie Chan |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | EGYPTIAN CINEMA $2000: In this 1994 film, an interstellar-teleportation device found in Egypt leads humans to a distant planet Stargate |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HACKER CINEMA $200: Emilio Estevez accesses an embassy's surveillance system in this 1996 Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HACKER CINEMA $400: Clarence Gilyard Jr. cracks security to open a vault & help take over an office tower in this 1988 film Die Hard |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HACKER CINEMA $600: In this 1999 film a character named for the god of dreams searches for the one who will destroy a computer world The Matrix |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HACKER CINEMA $800: Matthew Broderick almost starts WWIII when he hacks into a military computer in this film WarGames |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HACKER CINEMA $1000: Seth Green invents an algorithm to change the color of traffic lights in this 2003 L.A. heist film The Italian Job |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | LET'S LEARN LATVIAN $600: Kino is this place where you might take a date on a Saturday night cinema |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | IT'S A "CIN" $400: French term for a documentary film style that avoids directorial control over its subject cinéma vérité |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $400: Of "Summer Catch", "Summer Rental" or "Summer Camp Nightmare", the one that's a John Candy comedy Summer Rental |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $800: A 1987 movie comedy was named for this seasonal institution that some kids dread summer school |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $1200: It's the charming 1963 Disney film that features the song heard here Summer Magic |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $1600: Geraldine Page yearned for Laurence Harvey in this 1961 film based on a Tennessee Williams play Summer and Smoke |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $2000: Judy Garland's "Get Happy" number was filmed months after the rest of this movie musical, & she's strikingly thinner in it Summer Stock |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $200: The Bates Motel is the location of the intrigue in this thriller from 1960 Psycho |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $400: In the 1998 movie starring Tobey Maguire, black & white characters begin living very colorful lives Pleasantville |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $600: It's the 1925 black & white classic of Soviet cinema seen here (The Battleship) Potemkin |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $800: This European director sealed his reputation with black & white classics like "Persona" & "The Seventh Seal" (Ingmar) Bergman |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BLACK & WHITE CINEMA $1000: Family name of the creators of the 1895 treasure seen here Lumière |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $400: In 1964 this rock & roll star was a "Roustabout" for carnival owner Barbara Stanwyck Elvis Presley |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $800: In "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man", he played circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade W.C. Fields |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $1200: This 1983 Ray Bradbury film gets its title from the line in "Macbeth" that follows, "By the pricking of my thumbs..." Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $1600: Tyrone Power descends to a job as a carnival geek in this 1947 release Nightmare Alley |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $2000: This 1960 Disney flick starring Kevin Corcoran in the title role was subtitled "Or Ten Weeks with a Circus" Toby Tyler |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | RECENT CINEMA $200: In this 2004 film, Harry Osborn says "Now... let's see who's behind the mask" Spider-Man 2 |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | RECENT CINEMA $400: In a 2004 sequel, this ogre travels to meet his in-laws, King Harold & Queen Lillian Shrek 2 |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | RECENT CINEMA $600: With the help of Christina Applegate & James Gandolfini, Ben Affleck seeks to survive this holiday Christmas |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | RECENT CINEMA $800: This film tells the story of the 1988 championship football season of the Permian High School Panthers Friday Night Lights |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: In "Shark Tale" this famous director provides the voice of Sykes, a puffer fish with eyebrows Martin Scorsese |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | RETITLED CINEMA $200: In this 2000 film, Taiwan saw Tom Hanks "Discover New Meaning of Life after Catastrophe" Cast Away |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | RETITLED CINEMA $400: Fans in Poland weighed the merits of "Fatter and Thinner 2" starring this "Nutty Professor" Eddie Murphy |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | RETITLED CINEMA $600: We're not sure how "Unlucky Son-in-Law (To Be) Meets Tricky Daddy", this Ben Stiller film, fit on Thai marquees Meet the Parents |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | RETITLED CINEMA $800: In Egypt the "2000" sequel to this film started Dan Aykroyd as one of "The Naughty Brothers" Blues Brothers 2000 |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | RETITLED CINEMA $1000: Robin Williams amused Thailand with "Untraditional Doctor, Delighted Patients", known as this in the U.S. Patch Adams |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $400: Harrison Ford famously shot a swordsman in this first Indiana Jones film because he was too ill to do a fight scene Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $800: Battle scenes in this 1995 Mel Gibson epic had to be reshot; some extras were wearing watches & sunglasses Braveheart |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $1200: The voice of Princess Fiona in "Shrek", she broke her nose while surfing in Hawaii on her August 30, 2003 birthday Cameron Diaz |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $1600: Local boys Ben Affleck & Matt Damon were Fenway Park extras in this 1989 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $2000: The real Jim Garrison played Earl Warren in this 1991 film JFK |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $400: Nicole Kidman finds a photo book containing a postmortem image of her current housekeeper in this chiller The Others |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $800: This actor played a medium hired to investigate the Everest of haunted houses in "Legend of Hell House" Roddy McDowall |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $1600: In "The Gift" this Aussie actress plays a psychic who gets some much needed help from her former client Cate Blanchett |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $2000: Rex Harrison is a curmudgeonly sea captain's ghost haunting Gene Tierney's cottage in this 1947 classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | SPIRITED CINEMA $5,000 (Daily Double): David's haunted by the decomposing corpse of his friend Jack after being attacked on the British moors in this 1981 film An American Werewolf in London |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | THE CINEMA $200: 1999 film with the line "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to" The Matrix |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | THE CINEMA $400: The park bench Tom Hanks sat on in much of this 1994 film was in Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia Forrest Gump |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | THE CINEMA $600: The popular soundtrack of this 2000 film includes "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" & "You Are My Sunshine" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | THE CINEMA $800: It was the mythological container sought by Lara Croft in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" Pandora's box |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | THE CINEMA $1000: In this animated film, Henry J. Waternoose says, "Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to" Monsters, Inc. |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | TV-PODGE $400: Moon Unit Zappa & Wallace Langham co-starred on the TV series "Fast Times", based on this classic of teen cinema Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $200: In 1957, "everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to" this title tune "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $400: Sean Penn was in the pen in this 1995 film directed by Tim Robbins Dead Man Walking |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $600: (Hi, I'm Paul McCrane from ER.) I appeared as a prison guard in this Morgan Freeman film based on a story by Stephen King The Shawshank Redemption |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $800: This harrowing 1978 film that made Brad Davis a star wasn't exactly a Turkish delight Midnight Express |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CELL BLOCK CINEMA $1000: Ashley Judd finds out that she can't be convicted twice for killing her husband in this 1999 drama Double Jeopardy |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | RECENT CINEMA $200: This film could have been called "Dream Demon Meets the Hockey-Masked Serial Killer" Freddy vs. Jason |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | RECENT CINEMA $400: In a 2003 release this title "former child star" makes a desperate attempt to land a role in a new movie Dickie Roberts |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | RECENT CINEMA $600: Writer-director Gary Ross had a bit role as a Pimlico Racetrack announcer in this acclaimed summer hit Seabiscuit |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | RECENT CINEMA $800: Paul Walker returned to star in this sequel to "The Fast and the Furious" but Vin Diesel opted out 2 Fast 2 Furious |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: WWF wrestler Chyna really wanted to play T-X in this movie; Kristanna Loken got the part Terminator 3 |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $200: In this 2002 film Jack Nicholson plays a retired actuary for the Woodmen of the World Insurance Company of Omaha About Schmidt |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $400: Debra Winger dated governor Bob Kerrey while in Nebraska filming this 1983 tearjerker with Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $800: Hilary Swank won an Oscar for playing a girl who lives as a guy in small-town Nebraska in this 1999 film Boys Don't Cry |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1000: This "I Am Sam" actor's directing debut was 1991's "The Indian Runner", filmed in Omaha & Plattsmouth Sean Penn |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1,500 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan Boys Town |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) The equipment (film splicer) here was once used in this job that's had its own Academy Award since 1934 editing |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA $800: The genre of "Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor", or what the director says once camera & sound are running action |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew skiing, but not giving the clue) From the French, it's a sequence consisting of a succession of shots used to present an idea montage |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA $1600: A type of adhesive tape is named for this job, the chief electrician on the set gaffer |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) As opposed to backlight or fill light, the main spotlight in a scene is usually called this light key light |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | THE CINEMA $400: In this 1994 film Sally Field tells Tom Hanks, "Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | THE CINEMA $800: A tagline for this Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker sequel exclaimed, "Get ready for a second rush" Rush Hour 2 |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | THE CINEMA $1200: (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin) Despite its title, this film takes place mostly in Minneapolis & Brainerd, Minnesota (you betcha) Fargo |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | THE CINEMA $1600: In "Spy Kids", this "Nash Bridges" co-star helped the kids rescue their kidnapped parents Cheech Marin |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | THE CINEMA $2000: This 1997 Nicolas Cage film featured the hit song "How Do I Live" Con Air |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | INDIAN CINEMA $200: The theme of Raj Kapoor's "Ram Teri Ganga Maili" is the pollution of this river Ganges |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | INDIAN CINEMA $400: "Rajah Harishandra", India's first full-length story film, premiered in 1913 in this city, a future film center Bombay (now Mumbai) |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | INDIAN CINEMA $600: India's 1st talkie, 1931's "Alam Ara", began a pattern of stopping the action for an often irrelevant one of these song |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | INDIAN CINEMA $800: Before he teamed up with Ivory, he directed the Oscar-nominated Indian short "The Creation of a Woman" Ismail Merchant |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | INDIAN CINEMA $1000: This 2001 film is about the chaos surrounding an arranged marriage in the Verma family Monsoon Wedding |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | CHOCOLATE-COVERED CINEMA $400: 1988's "Consuming Passions" featured chocolate that included this special ingredient, also found in soylent green people |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | CHOCOLATE-COVERED CINEMA $800: In this 1962 film, boy with drinking problem, Lemmon, meets girl with chocolate addiction, Remick Days of Wine and Roses |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | CHOCOLATE-COVERED CINEMA $1200: A candy bar that included this color ticket got you in to see "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" golden ticket |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | CHOCOLATE-COVERED CINEMA $1600: She played chocolatiere Vianne Rocher in the 2000 film "Chocolat" Juliette Binoche |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | CHOCOLATE-COVERED CINEMA $2000: Laura Esquivel wrote the screenplay for this 1992 film based on her own novel Like Water for Chocolate |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | YOU KNOW MORE THAN YOU THINK $400: About German cinema:
1930's "The Blue Angel" is considered the country's first film using this innovation sound |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $400: This director spent "Happy Days" studying cinema at USC long before he won an Oscar in 2002 -- what "A Beautiful Mind" Ron Howard |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $400: As a circus owner, she caused her daughter to go "Berserk" in that 1967 film; however, no wire hangers were used Joan Crawford |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $800: In 1936 this detective, then played by Warner Oland, was "at the Circus" Charlie Chan |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $1200: Jimmy Stewart plays Buttons the Clown (a surgeon in disguise!) in this 1952 De Mille circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $1600: In 1956's "Trapeze" this actor played an aerialist vying with Burt Lancaster for the attentions of Gina Lollobrigida Tony Curtis |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | CIRCUS & CARNIVAL CINEMA $2000: This 1932 MGM film was later re-released as "Nature's Mistakes" Freaks |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | ROCK & ROLL CINEMA $200: "The Rose" with Bette Midler was loosely based on the life of this rocker Janis Joplin |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | ROCK & ROLL CINEMA $400: "We Will Rock You" is the title of the 1983 film about this band's live concert in Montreal, Canada Queen |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | ROCK & ROLL CINEMA $600: A high school boy gets a chance to tag along with an up & coming rock band in this 2000 film directed by Cameron Crowe Almost Famous |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | ROCK & ROLL CINEMA $800: As the cross-dressing Dr. Frank N. Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", he led the frivolities Tim Curry |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | ROCK & ROLL CINEMA $1000: This Oscar-winning actor wrote or co-wrote many of the songs in the retro '60s movie "That Thing You Do" Tom Hanks |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | BEASTLY CINEMA $400: 1980:
As John Merrick, John Hurt declares, "I am not an animal!" "The Elephant Man" |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | BEASTLY CINEMA $800: 1962:
Gregory Peck pecks away at Southern injustice "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | BEASTLY CINEMA $1200: 1975:
Al Pacino knocks over a bank to bankroll his lover's sex change "Dog Day Afternoon" |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | BEASTLY CINEMA $1600: 1958:
Pollitt family members claw & scratch each other for Big Daddy's money Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | BEASTLY CINEMA $2000: 1932:
Groucho rides to the rescue as the new president of Huxley College Horse Feathers |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | RECENT CINEMA $400: In 2001 TV Guide featured 4 different covers of characters from this film, including Hagrid & Hermione Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | RECENT CINEMA $800: In this George Clooney remake of a 1960 film, gangsters rob 3 Las Vegas casinos at the same time Ocean's Eleven |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | RECENT CINEMA $1200: Sully, a big blue creature, is the leading scream producer in this animated Pixar release Monsters, Inc. |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | RECENT CINEMA $1600: As astronaut Leo Davidson in this film, Mark Wahlberg utters the line "Never send a monkey to do a man's job" Planet of the Apes |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | RECENT CINEMA $2000: This "Shallow" Jack Black character falls in love with 300-pound Gwyneth Paltrow's inner beauty (Shallow) Hal |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | "EX" RATED? $1600: The great silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" seen here is a prime example of this style of cinema expressionist |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | CROSSWORD CLUES "F" $800: Cynical cinema style of the '40s
(4,4) film noir |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA $200: Sergei's film about one of these labor events juxtaposed shots of workers with slaughterhouse footage strike |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA $400: Sergei ran afoul of Stalin while making a film on the life & times of this brutal czar Ivan the Terrible |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA $800: The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year 1917 |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA $1000: Sponsored by Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein set out to film "Que Viva" this country Mexico |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA $3,800 (Daily Double): Beatrice Vitoldi played "Mother with Baby Carriage" in this film Battleship Potemkin |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | MOVIE MANIA $300: With $106 million, this "menacing" 1999 sci-fi film had the biggest 5-day opening in cinema history The Phantom Menace |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $100: Film in which William Hurt, Glenn Close & friends reminisce about the U. of Michigan in the '60s The Big Chill |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $200: It's the rebellious title of the 1954 flick seen here The Caine Mutiny |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $300: His sex education in "Eyes Wide Shut" was continued from the teen classic "Losin' It" Tom Cruise |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $400: It's the 1970 documentary on The Rolling Stones' notorious Altamont concert Gimme Shelter |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $500: As the title character in this gory 1985 flick, Jeffrey Combs makes a serum that brings the dead to life Re-Animator |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE CINEMA $200: 1 of 4 Olympic medalists who played Tarzan in feature films (1 of) Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris or Johnny Weissmuller |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE CINEMA $400: In 1950 this comic pair were "In The Foreign Legion" Abbott & Costello |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE CINEMA $600: In this film Johnny Depp, as journalist Raoul Duke, goes to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE CINEMA $800: Duchess, voiced by Eva Gabor, was the mother of Berlioz, Marie & Toulouse in this Disney film The Aristocats |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE CINEMA $1000: [Hi, I'm Vince Neil] My debut single "You're Invited But Your Friend Can't Come", appeared in this 1992 Brendan Fraser-Pauly Shore comedy Encino Man |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | THE CINEMA $200: Promoter Carl Denham billed this inhabitant of Skull Island as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" King Kong |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | THE CINEMA $400: In this film Jim Carrey's Stanley Ipkiss transforms into a zoot-suited superdude who acts out his alter ego's fantasies The Mask |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | THE CINEMA $600: Some TV prints of this 1959 film expand to widescreen format for the chariot race only Ben-Hur |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | THE CINEMA $800: This prison film starring Tim Robbins is based on a Stephen King story The Shawshank Redemption |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | THE CINEMA $1000: Country star Clint Black played a "sweet-faced gambler" in this western based on a James Garner TV series Maverick |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $200: Joseph L. Mankiewicz based his screenplay for this film on Mary Orr's story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $400: This Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor film was followed 1 year later with a sequel, "Father's Little Dividend" Father of the Bride |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $600: Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for playing this 1950 title role Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $800: Harry James dubbed the trumpet playing for this actor in "Young Man With A Horn" Kirk Douglas |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $1000: Judy Holliday reprised her stage role as Billie Dawn in this George Cukor-directed comedy classic Born Yesterday |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | GERMAN CINEMA $200: Born in Berlin in 1901, she's the actress seen here Marlene Dietrich |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | GERMAN CINEMA $400 (Daily Double): He acted in 9 German films before playing Ugarte in "Casablanca" & Mr. Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" Peter Lorre |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | GERMAN CINEMA $400: Also a star of "Ewiger Walzer", Gert Frobe played the title "metallic" villain in this 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | GERMAN CINEMA $800: The father of Nastassja, he sank his teeth into the role of "Nosferatu" in 1979 Klaus Kinski |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | GERMAN CINEMA $1000: She starred in many movies before directing "Olympia" & "Triumph of the Will" Leni Riefenstahl |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NICKNAMES $800: Cinema's "Man of A Thousand Faces" Lon Chaney |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $100: 1942:
"Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects." Casablanca |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Gone With the Wind |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $300: 1927:
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!" The Jazz Singer |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: 1939:
"The moors and I wiil never change. Don't you, Cathy" Wuthering Heights |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $500: 1931:
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." Dracula |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $100: Heloise likes to sprinkle taco seasoning or dry salad dressing over this cinema snack Popcorn |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | THE CINEMA $200: Johnny Depp debuted in this 1984 film & made a cameo later in the series in "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | THE CINEMA $400: This martial artist's 1995 film "Hung Fan Kui" was released in the U.S. as "Rumble in the Bronx" Jackie Chan |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | THE CINEMA $600: (Hi, I'm Gil Bellows of Ally McBeal.) In 1994 I was on the wrong side of the law as an inmate in this film that also starred Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman The Shawshank Redemption |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | THE CINEMA $800: She was nominated for an Oscar for playing a role based on herself in Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" Marsha Mason |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | THE CINEMA $1000: This bouncy wirehaired fox terrier shared the spotlight with William Powell & Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man" series Asta |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | SNACKIN' ON $100: The black type of this rubbery cinema treat is flavored with the root of a plant of the same name Licorice |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $200: Hickory, Indiana's basketball team goes all the way to the state championships in this 1986 film Hoosiers |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $400: Small-town lawyer Jimmy Stewart matches wits with prosecutor George C. Scott in this 1959 courtroom classic Anatomy of a Murder |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $600: Aliens inhabit the bodies of the staff of a small-town high school in this 1998 horror flick The Faculty |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $800: A Ted Hughes tale was the basis for this 1999 animated film about a metal man who befriends a boy in a small Maine town The Iron Giant |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $1000: In this 1999 movie, the "Rocky" of hockey, an Alaska town's amateur hockey team takes on the New York Rangers Mystery, Alaska |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE CINEMA $100: Minnie Driver provided the voice of Jane in this 1999 Disney blockbuster Tarzan |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE CINEMA $200: This Eddie Murphy remake of a Jerry Lewis film was the biggest-grossing comedy of the summer in 1996 The Nutty Professor |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE CINEMA $300: She co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Eraser" & sang its theme, "Where Do We Go From Here" Vanessa Williams |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE CINEMA $400: In this 1999 film, Clint Eastwood plays a reporter out to prove the guilt or innocence of a condemned murderer True Crime |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE CINEMA $500: This dancer introduced "Something's Gotta Give" in his 1955 film "Daddy Long Legs" Fred Astaire |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 30 years before "Blair Witch", this Hopper-Fonda biker film was the little movie that shook up Hollywood Easy Rider |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: In the judgment of the Academy, Maximilian Schell was 1961's Best Actor for this film Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Katharine Hepburn appeared in this 1937 theatrical drama & in a later film that added "Canteen" to the title Stage Door |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: This steamy Gregory Peck-Jennifer Jones film was nicknamed "Lust in the Dust" Duel in the Sun |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: This Fritz Lang film portrayed a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress & human despair Metropolis |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $200: In this James Dean film, Buzz dies when his leather jacket catches on his car door handle Rebel Without a Cause |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $400: Title of a 1963 Frankie & Annette movie; the sequel added "Muscle" before it Party |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $600: Dude! His performance as Jeff Spicoli was, like, a highlight of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Sean Penn |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $800: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) I played a weenie in this John Hughes film in which 2 kids create Kelly LeBrock Weird Science |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $1000: Honoring a rock idol of 1959, it's the school John Travolta attends in "Grease" Rydell High |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | THE CINEMA OF JOHNNY DEPP $200: In "Sleepy Hollow", Depp played this crime-solving constable; the character was a teacher in the original story Ichabod Crane |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | THE CINEMA OF JOHNNY DEPP $400: This Depp title character was created by a mad scientist played by Vincent Price Edward Scissorhands |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | THE CINEMA OF JOHNNY DEPP $600: "What's Eating" this character is probably having to live in a small town with his very dysfunctional family Gilbert Grape |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | THE CINEMA OF JOHNNY DEPP $800: In a 1995 film co-starring Marlon Brando, Depp believes he is this legendary lover Don Juan |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | THE CINEMA OF JOHNNY DEPP $1000: Cross-dressing, angora-sweater-wearing director portrayed by Depp in a 1994 film Ed Wood |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $100: He played New York cop James Edwards who became MIB Agent J Will Smith |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $200: According to the title of a 1984 movie musical, they "Take Manhattan" The Muppets |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $300: "Lost in New York" is the subtitle of the 1992 sequel to this film Home Alone |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $400: She played a New York photographer who's a stepmom-to-be in 1998's "Stepmom" Julia Roberts |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $500: Tea Leoni & the Big Apple are destroyed by a tidal wave when a meteor hits the Earth in this 1998 disaster film Deep Impact |
| #3554, aired 2000-02-03 | BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM $300: 1989:
"Cinema Paradiso" Italy |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SLAMMER CINEMA $200: 1957:
Elvis incarcerated Jailhouse Rock |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SLAMMER CINEMA $400: 1979:
Break-out film for Eastwood Escape From Alcatraz |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SLAMMER CINEMA $600: 1978:
Not a Turkish delight for Brad Davis Midnight Express |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SLAMMER CINEMA $800: 1973:
Butterflies aren't free for Dustin Hoffman Papillon |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SLAMMER CINEMA $1000: 1994:
Tim Robbins caged The Shawshank Redemption |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | ITALIAN CINEMA $100: His film "Life is Beautiful" was widely compared to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried" Roberto Benigni |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | ITALIAN CINEMA $200: Literary classics Pasolini adapted for the screen include this one, as "I Racconti di Canterbury" "The Canterbury Tales" |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | ITALIAN CINEMA $300: "Miss Italia" was an early film by this beauty known as "La Lollo" Gina Lollobrigida |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | ITALIAN CINEMA $500: It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation Rome |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | ITALIAN CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): In "La Dolce Vita", Walter Santesso played the photographer who gave his name to this profession Paparazzi (named for Paparazzo) |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | THE CINEMA $100: Scenes in this 1995 Oliver Stone film include the Checkers Speech & the summit in China Nixon |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | THE CINEMA $200: In this 1999 Steve Martin film, Eddie Murphy plays 2 roles: movie star Kit Ramsey & his brother Jiff, a hapless loser Bowfinger |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | THE CINEMA $300: This superstar directs himself as an investigative reporter in the 1999 film "True Crime" Clint Eastwood |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | THE CINEMA $400: The music of Ritchie Valens was performed by Los Lobos in this 1987 biography of the rock star La Bamba |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | THE CINEMA $500: 1972 film that ends with "Here life is beautiful." The girls are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful" Cabaret |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | CINEMA MANIA $200: In this 1965 film, a family on the run from Nazis sings at the Salzburg Music Festival The Sound of Music |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | CINEMA MANIA $400: In "Return of the Jedi", it's the royal title held by Darth Vader's cruel master Palpatine Emperor |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | CINEMA MANIA $800: This 1983 Dirty Harry film contains the line "Go ahead, make my day" Sudden Impact |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | CINEMA MANIA $1000: It's the blockbuster 1991 movie containing the line, "Hasta la vista, baby" Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | CINEMA MANIA $3,500 (Daily Double): It's the better known name of actor Carlos Irwin Estevez Charlie Sheen |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1974:
"See, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that...they're capable of anything" Chinatown |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $400: 1975:
"We are the knights who say Ni!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1986:
"That's not a knife. That's a knife" Crocodile Dundee |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $800: A 1968 George Romero film:
"Kill the brain and you kill the ghoul" Night of the Living Dead |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $1000: A 1987 Glenn Close film:
"I'm not going to be ignored, Dan" Fatal Attraction |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $200: Hitchcock's "Blackmail" of 1929 was Britain's first feature film of this type Talkie |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $400: Of 1885, 1895 or 1905, the year Birt Acres launched the British film industry with his "Kinetic Lantern" 1895 |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $600: 1914's version of this colorful story was the first big screen treatment of a Sherlock Holmes mystery "A Study in Scarlet" |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $800: In 1933 Brit cinema enjoyed a boost with Alexander Korda's film "The Private Life of" this king Henry VIII |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $1000: Britain's most popular silent film star, this woman shares her last name with a 1917 "Declaration" Betty Balfour |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $200: Stallone's 3-movie Vietnam vet Rambo |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $400: This actress gave birth to Robertino Rossellini in 1950 Ingrid Bergman |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $600: "How Green Was My Valley" won a Best Picture Oscar for this year, the same year "Citizen Kane" was released 1941 |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $800: Klaus Kinski played this title sucker in 1979; Max Schreck played him in 1922 Nosferatu |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $1000: Donald Pleasance & Charles Gray have both portrayed this diabolical James Bond nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | DISNEY CINEMA $200: Angela Lansbury provided the voice of Mrs. Potts in this 1991 animated feature Beauty and the Beast |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | DISNEY CINEMA $400: While voicing this animated character, actor Dickie Jones sang "I've Got No Strings" Pinocchio |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | DISNEY CINEMA $600: This cruel, scratchy-voiced diva wants to make fur coats out of Dalmatian puppies Cruella De Vil |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | DISNEY CINEMA $800: In this 1994 film, St. Nick falls off a roof & Tim Allen is forced to take his place The Santa Clause |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | DISNEY CINEMA $1000: In 1961 Hayley Mills had a Top 10 hit with "Let's Get Together" from this Disney film The Parent Trap |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $100: 1961:
"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool" The Hustler |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $200: 1950:
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $300: 1981:
"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?" Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $500: 1974:
"She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister. My daughter... she's my sister and my daughter!" Chinatown |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $600 (Daily Double): 1941:
"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper" Citizen Kane |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $200: Jimmy Stewart played Buttons, the clown with a mysterious past, in this 1952 De Mille drama The Greatest Show On Earth |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $400: Much to his humiliation, this title critter of a 1941 animated classic is forced to join the clown act Dumbo |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $600: This 1991 Bobcat Goldthwait film was hailed as "the 'Citizen Kane' of alcoholic clown movies" Shakes the Clown |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $800: With the Italian documentary "The Clowns", this director explored his fascination with the circus Federico Fellini |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CLOWN CINEMA $1000: In a segment of 1956's "Invitation to the Dance", this dancer plays a clown in love with a circus performer Gene Kelly |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THE CINEMA $100: In 1979 this mother of Wynonna & her 1957 Chevy appeared as extras in "More American Graffiti" Naomi Judd |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THE CINEMA $200: In a 1994 film, it's the alter ego of Jim Carrey's Stanley Ipkiss The Mask |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THE CINEMA $300: In this 1990 Sean Connery film, Alec Baldwin was the first to play CIA man Jack Ryan on screen The Hunt For Red October |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THE CINEMA $500: Played by Harold Sakata, this "Goldfinger" assassin kills his victims with his razor-sharp bowler hat Oddjob |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THE CINEMA $800 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Cheech Marin.) In 1987 I directed & starred in this film whose title was a parody of a Bruce Springsteen hit Born In East L.A. |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | BOX OFFICE BOMBS $200: Playboy worked it out; this Kevin Costner (yes, him again) soggy cinema tale cost $1.3 million a minute to make Waterworld |
| #3276, aired 1998-11-30 | PEOPLE EAT THAT? $100: The book "Fashionable Food" tells how to make a "truly awful" salad with a banana & this cinema snack popcorn |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Jean Rouch's 1961 "Chronicle of a Summer" originated this style, French for "film truth" Cinema Verite |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | '80s CINEMA $200: Michelle Pfeiffer played Stephanie Zinone, one of the Pink Ladies, in this 1982 sequel "Grease 2" |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | '80s CINEMA $400: John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this 1983 movie starring Michael Keaton as a stay-at-home dad "Mr. Mom" |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | '80s CINEMA $600: He's no one-trick pony: he wrote the screenplay & score & starred in "One-Trick Pony" Paul Simon |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | '80s CINEMA $800: John Cusack was devoted to kickboxing & Ione Skye in this 1989 film "Say Anything" |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | '80s CINEMA $1000: Mariel Hemingway was a pentathlete who had a lesbian affair in this 1982 film "Personal Best" |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $200: Pat Carroll gave voice to this deep sea witch in 'The Little Mermaid" Ursula |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $400: In "Hocus Pocus" Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy & she played sibling sorceresses Bette Midler |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $600: It's the bewitching 1958 film seen here:
"I've been either too busy or too careful to get married, well now, all of a sudden, I just can't wait... just can't wait..." Bell, Book & Candle |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $800: In this 1971 Disney film would-be witch Angela Lansbury tries to stop a Nazi invasion Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $1000: In "The Witches" Anjelica Huston was the grand high witch who wanted to turn children into these creatures mice |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $100: In 1935 this little girl starred in "Our Little Girl", "The Little Colonel" & "The Littlest Rebel" Shirley Temple |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: The windbreaker & t-shirt look he popularized in "Rebel Without A Cause" is still fashionable 43 years later James Dean |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $300: He starred as Professor Boyd in "Bedtime for Bonzo" but didn't do the sequel, "Bonzo Goes to College" Ronald Reagan |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400 (Daily Double): This actress seen here emerged as a comic star in 1934's "Twentieth Century" Carole Lombard |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $500: This husband of Jessica Tandy made his screen debut in 1943 in Hitchcock's classic "Shadow Of A Doubt" Hume Cronyn |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $200: In 1965 this pop artist made "Empire", an 8-hour stationary look at the Empire State Building Andy Warhol |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $400: 1977's "Our Hitler" runs over 7 hours, even longer than Abel Gance's 1927 film about this French despot Napoleon |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $600: Burton, Taylor & Roddy McDowall plan to rule Rome in this 4-hour 1963 bun-deadener Cleopatra |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $800: Jack Nicholson played Eugene O'Neill in this 200-minute Warren Beatty epic Reds |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $1000: Despite its title, this Bertolucci film that has 4- & 5-hour versions covers the period of 1901 to 1945 1900 |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HONG KONG CINEMA $200: This "Supercop" actor is notorious for performing his own death-defying stunts Jackie Chan |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HONG KONG CINEMA $400: This "Face/Off" director started the craze for Hong Kong gangster films with 1986's "A Better Tomorrow" John Woo |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HONG KONG CINEMA $600: Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Express" was imported to the U.S. by this "Jackie Brown" director Quentin Tarantino |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HONG KONG CINEMA $800: She's credited as Michelle Khan on her Hong Kong films, but used this name for "Tomorrow Never Dies" Michelle Yeoh |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HONG KONG CINEMA $1000: A familiar face in Hong Kong, this actor made his U.S. debut in the film seen here
("The Replacement Killers") Chow Yun-fat |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRAN CINEMA $600: This 1961 film set in San Francisco's Chinatown features the song heard here
"When I have a brand new hairdo / With my eyelashes all..." Flower Drum Song |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRAN CINEMA $800: The 1984 documentary about "The Times of" this gay city supervisor won an Oscar Harvey Milk |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRAN CINEMA $1000: This actress really brought down the house singing the following in a classic film
"San Francisco / Open your golden gate / You'll let no stranger..." Jeanette McDonald |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $200: Hong Kong director John Woo's 1993 U.S. debut "Hard Target" starred this Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude van Damme |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $400 (Daily Double): "Knife in the Water" was this director's first feature after film school at Lodz Roman Polanski |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $400: "A Fistful of Dollars" was director Sergio Leone's first of these "edible" Westerns Spaghetti Westerns |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $800: This Kurosawa film gives 4 different versions of a single crime Rashomon |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $1000: Simone Signoret plots the death of her schoolmaster lover in this 1955 French classic Diabolique |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $100: When this Mouseketeer starred in "The Monkey's Uncle", she sang the title tune with The Beach Boys Annette Funicello |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $200: Robert Guillaume provided the voice of Rafiki, the wise old baboon, in this 1994 film The Lion King |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $400: It's the island where Fay Wray first encountered King Kong; to think of its name, use your "head" Skull Island |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $500 (Daily Double): This Rene Russo film about an eccentric & her pets is based on a true story; it features the following: Buddy |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA $500: 1968 classic with the ad line "Somewhere in the universe, there must be something better than man!" Planet of the Apes |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $200: Slim Whitman's music saves the world from a Martian invasion in this 1996 Tim Burton film Mars Attacks! |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $400: In a 1964 classic this holiday figure "Conquers the Martians" Santa Claus |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $800: An ancient machine that gives Mars an atmosphere is activated in this Schwarzenegger film of 1990 Total Recall |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $1000: Jimmy Hunt, who played the boy in this 1953 classic, was the police chief in the 1986 remake Invaders From Mars |
| #3022, aired 1997-10-21 | MARTIAN CINEMA $2,500 (Daily Double): He wrote the novel that inspired the film seen here: H.G. Wells |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | GEOGRAPHICAL QUOTES $100: Lillian Gish described this cinema city as "an emotional Detroit" Hollywood |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $100: In 1976 this title character went "ape" for Jessica Lange in her first film King Kong |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $200: This "Seinfeld" actor teamed up with an orangutan in the 1996 comedy "Dunston Checks In" Jason Alexander |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $300: This Frenchman's last film was the 1967 Disney comedy "Monkeys, Go Home!"; thank heaven for little chimps (Maurice) Chevalier |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $400: This star of "The Miracle Worker" was carried off by an ape in the 3-D thriller "Gorilla at Large" Anne Bancroft |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $500: Karl Malden, Bela Lugosi & Jason Robards, Jr. starred in film versions of this Poe story "Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | CINEMA SEQUELS $100: In the 1992 sequel to this 1990 film, Macaulay Culkin was "Lost in New York" Home Alone |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | CINEMA SEQUELS $200: In a 1996 sequel to this film, 2 dogs & a cat are "Lost in San Francisco" Homeward Bound |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | CINEMA SEQUELS $300: We'll be doggone if Charles Grodin didn't return for this 1993 sequel about a St. Bernard Beethoven's 2nd |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | CINEMA SEQUELS $400: This 1993 Whoopi Goldberg sequel was subtitled "Back in the Habit" Sister Act 2 |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | CINEMA SEQUELS $500: The 1993 sequel to this Charlie Sheen comedy was "Part Deux" Hot Shots! |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $100: An Oscar went to Sarandon for playing Helen Prejean, a Louisiana nun, in this film "Dead Man Walking" |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $200: Sarandon provided the voice of a spider in this 1996 animated film based on a Roald Dahl book "James And The Giant Peach" |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $300: This midnight cult film featured Tim Curry as transvestite scientist Frank N. Furter "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $500: Sarandon played Southern attorney Reggie Love in this 1994 film "The Client" (based on the book by John Grisham) |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): Screenwriter Callie Khouri won an Oscar for this 1991 female buddy film "Thelma & Louise" |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $200: One of Gaumont Studio's stockholders was this Paris tower designer (Gustave) Eiffel |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $400: This February 1898 Havana event was recreated by Georges Melies the sinking of the Maine |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $600: A film of Fred Ott's sneeze shown on this man's kinetoscope was copyrighted Jan. 7, 1894 Edison |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $800: In 1896 a Biograph camera filmed this Republican presidential candidate at his Ohio home William McKinley |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $1000: Last name of the French brothers who made their 1st film in 1895; it showed workers leaving their factory Lumière |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $100: The last line in this 1933 film is "Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." King Kong |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $200: A gorilla named Amy is featured in this 1995 movie, filmed in part near our "Jeopardy!" sound stage Congo |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $300: Some of the flying monkeys in this 1939 classic were actors in costumes & some were 6" rubber miniatures The Wizard of Oz |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $400: Sigourney Weaver was nominated for a 1988 Oscar for playing this primatologist in "Gorillas in the Mist" Dian Fossey |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $500: In a 1949 film Terry Moore played the piano while this "mighty" ape held her over his head Mighty Joe Young |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $200: When filming this 1956 motion picture, Cantinflas got many stamps in his "Passepartout" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $400: Gene Barry meets Martians in this 1953 H.G. Wells sci-fi classic "War Of The Worlds" |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $600: This 1992 comedy featuring a Campbell & an Algar won 8 Oscars -- Not! "Wayne's World" |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $800: Author John Irving has a cameo in it as a wrestling referee "The World According To Garp" |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $1000: In this 1960 film, William Holden falls for lady of the evening Nancy Kwan in Hong Kong "The World Of Suzie Wong" |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AUSTRALIAN CINEMA $100: For its U.S. release, quotation marks were added to the word "crocodile" "Crocodile" Dundee |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AUSTRALIAN CINEMA $200: In this 1979 film set in the near future Mel Gibson's voice was dubbed for U.S. release Mad Max |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AUSTRALIAN CINEMA $300: We're serious; Yahoo Serious played this "Young" inventor (Albert) Einstein |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AUSTRALIAN CINEMA $400: This supermodel gained 20 lbs. for "Sirens" & then returned to the weight SI readers are familiar with Elle MacPherson |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AUSTRALIAN CINEMA $500: Director who gave us "The Year of Living Dangerously", "Picnic At Hanging Rock" & "The Last Wave" Peter Weir |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | THE CINEMA $100: This big ape was billed as "The Eighth Wonder of the World" King Kong |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | THE CINEMA $200: In "My Fair Lady", Audrey Hepburn played this Cockney flower-seller who learned to speak like a lady Eliza Doolittle |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | THE CINEMA $300: To play boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull", this actor gained 50 pounds Robert De Niro |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | THE CINEMA $400: In the 1976 film "Two-Minute Warning", this creator of "Jeopardy!" sang the national anthem Merv Griffin |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | THE CINEMA $500: "Fast Times at" this high school was the 1982 feature film debut of director Amy Heckerling Ridgemont High |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | THEATRE $600: Act I of this musical opens at a cinema in Buenos Aires in 1952 Evita |
| #2197, aired 1994-03-08 | KEN-FOLK $800: In the '60s & '70s this director was the enfant terrible of the British cinema Ken Russell |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $100: In "Casablanca" it's the song Bogart is referring to when he says, "If she can stand it, I can!" "As Time Goes By" |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: She asked Cary Grant, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening" Mae West |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $300: Bette Davis played a deranged ex-child star in this 1962 film that co-starred Joan Crawford What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Jeffrey Hunter played this, his most famous role, in the 1961 film "King of Kings" Jesus |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $500: Laurence Olivier dyed his hair blond for this role, which won him an Oscar as the "Best Actor" of 1948 Hamlet |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $200: This producer discovered Sophia Loren in a beauty contest when she was about 14 & later married her Carlo Ponti |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $400: This romantic leading man earned his 1st Oscar nomination in 1962 for "Divorce - Italian Style" Marcello Mastroianni |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $600: Ingrid Bergman's relationship with this "Stromboli" director erupted into romance & they were married in 1950 Rossellini |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $800: The 1976 film "Seven Beauties" is considered this female director's masterpiece Lina Wertmuller |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $1000: The first Shakespearean film this Italian directed was "The Taming of the Shrew" with Burton & Taylor Franco Zeffirelli |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | LE CINEMA STALLONE $100: In "Cobra" Stallone's co-star was this Dane, his wife at the time Brigitte Nielsen |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | LE CINEMA STALLONE $200: Stallone had a bit part in this 1971 Woody Allen farce partly set in Latin America Bananas |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | LE CINEMA STALLONE $300: This 1974 film about a youth gang in 1950s Brooklyn also featured Henry Winkler The Lords of Flatbush |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | LE CINEMA STALLONE $400: It's the sport featured in the 1981 film "Victory" soccer |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | LE CINEMA STALLONE $500: Stallone & Kurt Russell played the title pair in this 1989 film Tango & Cash |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LE CINEMA SCHWARZENEGGER $100: The line "I'll Be Back" came from this 1984 hit The Terminator |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LE CINEMA SCHWARZENEGGER $200: In 1988 Arnold played Julius Benedict, a man separated at birth from his twin, played by this man Danny DeVito |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LE CINEMA SCHWARZENEGGER $300: Once a barbarian, a destroyer & a commando, Arnold turned teacher in this 1990 release Kindergarten Cop |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LE CINEMA SCHWARZENEGGER $400: Before going after Michael Douglas, she tried to kill Arnold in "Total Recall" Sharon Stone |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LE CINEMA SCHWARZENEGGER $500: Arnold played himself in this 1977 documentary that also featured Lou Ferrigno Pumping Iron |
| #1941, aired 1993-02-01 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $200: Her son Carlo Ponti, Jr. played her baby in the 1970 film "Sunflower" Sophia Loren |
| #1941, aired 1993-02-01 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $400: "Tasty" term for the savage sagebrush sagas that were often directed by Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns |
| #1941, aired 1993-02-01 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $600: In 1960 he directed his first international hit, "L'avventura"; "Blow-Up" came 6 years later Antonioni |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $200: 1 of the 2 Bogart movies with "Sierra" in their titles High Sierra & Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $400: This '84 film about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge was finally shown in a Cambodian theater in 1989 The Killing Fields |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $600: The Horse of a Different Color in this film was actually 6 different horses colored with Jell-O powder The Wizard of Oz |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $800: In "The Road to Utopia", Bob Hope acted macho by saying, "I'll take lemonade - - in" one of these a dirty glass |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $1000: Near the end of this 1959 Hitchcock film, Martin Landau falls off Mount Rushmore North By Northwest |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | CINEMA $100: A clause in Orson Welles' RKO contract prevents Ted Turner from colorizing this 1941 film "Citizen Kane" |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | CINEMA $200: It was the 2nd film in the "Star Wars" trilogy "The Empire Strikes Back" |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | CINEMA $300: Vangelis' theme from this 1981 British film took a record 21 weeks on the charts to reach No. 1 "Chariots of Fire" |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | CINEMA $400: Herbert Marshall played this author in "The Moon & Sixpence" & "The Razor's Edge" Somerset Maugham |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | CINEMA $500: It completes the title of the 1973 film "No Sex Please,..." "We're British" |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: The Marx Brothers Meet the Met, so to speak A Night at the Opera |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Cecil B. DeMille's famous Biblical "Exodus", made silently in 1923 & colorfully in 1956 The Ten Commandments |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: "It Happened One Night"; they became the 1st co-stars to win Best Actor & Actress Oscars Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: In this 1941 flick, Bogey gives Greenstreet the bird-- a fake one The Maltese Falcon |
| #1024, aired 1989-02-02 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1,300 (Daily Double): "High Society", starring Kelly, Crosby & Sinatra, was based on this film with Hepburn, Grant & Stewart The Philadelphia Story |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | '87 CINEMA $100: In 1987 titles, this word preceded "Attraction" & "Beauty" Fatal |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | '87 CINEMA $200: The 3rd installment in this horror series was subtitled "Dream Warriors" A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | '87 CINEMA $300: This city was RoboCop's beat Detroit |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | '87 CINEMA $400: Emmanuelle Beart wore 5 sets of wings for this film, each performing a different effect Date with an Angel |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | '87 CINEMA $500: In the hit 1987 comedy, last name of the baby "raised" by Nicholas Cage & Holly Hunter Arizona |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | '87 CINEMA $100: In an '87 film, Elisabeth Shue turned this normal job odd by taking 3 kids on "Adventures" Adventures in Babysitting |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | '87 CINEMA $200: Pizza-the-Hut & the evil Dark Helmet were among the characters in this "Star Wars" parody Spaceballs |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | '87 CINEMA $300: The only 1 of the 3 credited with the story for "Superman IV" who also had a major speaking role in it Christopher Reeve |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | '87 CINEMA $400: He plays the man whose "Innerspace" in invaded by Dennis Quaid Martin Short |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | '87 CINEMA $500: Affliction suffered by "The Lost Boys" they're vampires |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Though it takes place at Christmastime, this 1947 Edmund Gwenn film was released in June Miracle on 34th Street |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: In 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation", Joseph Henabery played this president Abraham Lincoln |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: In '40s films, the "Portrait of Jennie" was of Jennifer Jones & "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was of him Hurd Hatfield |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: Willie Nelson's "Honeysuckle Rose" was based in part on this 1939 film, Ingrid Bergman's 1st Amer. vehicle Intermezzo |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Object in title of a late 1940's DeSica film, it's stolen from a poor Italian a bicycle |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | "LAST" MOVIES $300: Set in a Texas town in 1951, it ends when one of the guys goes off to Korea & the rundown cinema is closed The Last Picture Show |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Versions of it have starred Neil Diamond, Danny Thomas & Al Jolson The Jazz Singer |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: 1945's "The Bells of St. Mary's" was the sequel to this 1944 film Going My Way |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: In "Kind Hearts & Coronets", he played 8 roles, including Lady Agatha Alec Guinness |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Night of the Hunter", Robert Mitchum has these 2 4-letter words tattooed on his fingers love & hate |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Among the films he's directed are 1948's "Oliver Twist" & "A Passage to India" David Lean |
| #574, aired 1987-02-19 | MOVIE TRIVIA $100: At 133', the one at Mercury Cinema in Paris is the world's widest screen |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | FILM FACTS $1000: With about 79.5 million moviegoers daily, this country has largest cinema attendance in world Red China |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | CENSORED CINEMA $200: Signed by MGM after appearing nude in the censored film "Ecstasy", Hedy Keisler was given this name Hedy Lamarr |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | CENSORED CINEMA $400: N.Y. once banned this studio's "The Vanishing Prairie" because it showed the birth of a buffalo calf Disney Studios |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | CENSORED CINEMA $600: Rourke/Basinger film shackled when a bondage scene was snipped from its U.S. version 9½ Weeks |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | CENSORED CINEMA $800: In 1956, Cardinal Spellman warned Catholics to avoid this Elia Kazan film under "pain of sin" Baby Doll |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | CENSORED CINEMA $1000: Its Production Code banned "profane" terms like "hot", "lousy", "cripes", & "hold your hat" Hays code |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ’60s CINEMA $200: Telly Savalas playing murderous "Maggot" was scummiest of this "filthy 12" the Dirty Dozen |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ’60s CINEMA $400: Scary star of Roger Corman Poe series, including "The House of Usher" & "Pendulum" Vincent Price |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ’60s CINEMA $600: Ads asked "How did they ever make a movie out of" this May-December Nabokov romance Lolita |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ’60s CINEMA $800: Not an animal, but a gem with an animal-shaped flaw stolen in this 1st of the series The Pink Panther |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ’60s CINEMA $1000: His last screen role was as Nevada Smith in "The Carpetbaggers" Alan Ladd |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | ’70s CINEMA $100: Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for her film debut in this 1973 picture Paper Moon |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | ’70s CINEMA $200: Movie that spawned the phrase “I'm as mad as hell, & I'm not going to take it anymore” Network |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | ’70s CINEMA $300: Movie that helped launch the careers of Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepherd, & Peter Bogdanovich The Last Picture Show |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | ’70s CINEMA $400: Top grossing film ever with budget under a mil., it gave George Lucas clout to make “Star Wars” American Graffiti |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | ’70s CINEMA $600 (Daily Double): 3 of the 4 actors who sought “Deliverance” in that 1972 film Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox & Ned Beatty |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | A "FAIR" TO REMEMBER $200: Father & son cinema swashbucklers Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Sr. |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Originally planned for Laughton & Lanchester, this film finally featured Bogart & Hepburn The African Queen |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Its title character is a lusty lad who sucks bones with Mrs. Waters in a sexy supper scene Tom Jones |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "It is like writing history with lightning," Wilson said of this first film shown in the White House Birth of a Nation |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Louis B. Mayer offered RKO $842,000 to destroy this controversial '41 picture before its release Citizen Kane |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1,800 (Daily Double): This 1939 classic ran 3 hours & 42 minutes, longer than any before it Gone with the Wind |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 1939 Steinbeck classic in which George tells Lenny about the rabbits Of Mice and Men |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Before winning Best Actress for "Mildred Pierce", she was labeled box office poison Joan Crawford |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: First called "Night Bus", this '34 film drove away with Best Picture, acting, Director & Writing Oscars It Happened One Night |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: Later a TV star, this actor self-destructed as a barrack's spy in "Stalag 17" Peter Graves |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: In '57, this English star cross-examined the "Witness for the Prosecution" Charles Lawton |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: Film in which Brando "could'a been a contender" On The Waterfront |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Kind of accident that caused deaths of both Scarlett O'Hara's father & daughter riding a horse and falling off |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Sydney Greenstreet was 61 when he appeared in this, his 1st movie The Maltese Falcon |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: In this epic, an angry Scarlett sees Rhett Gone with the Wind |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Supposed to have starred Ronald Reagan & Anne Sheridan instead of Bogie & Bergman Casablanca |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Chaplin finds fascism funny The Great Dictator |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: Hitchcock tells Cary Grant where to go North by Northwest |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Often acclaimed as the best American film ever, but lost Oscar in '41 to "How Green Was My Valley" Citizen Kane |
