Movie Quiz
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1 - This is a scene from what movie?
2 - Can you name the show and those pictured?
3 - Who is this handsome leading man?
4 - One of the best thriller movies ever made. Name it!!!
5 - This great performer had a "classic" first name and a "game" last name.
6 - The young star of this classic was not a builder of dams.
7 - Some called him "Duke".
8 - Were these two really "Strangers"?
9 -This incredible talent had a cameo role in "Back to the Future".
10 - A futuristic show that was narrated by Rod Serling.
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1 - The Bridge on the River Kwai was a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction that uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942-1943.
2 - I Love Lucy was a landmark television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957. It followed the life of Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), a middle-class housewife in 1950s New York City, who either concocted plans with her best friends, Fred & Ethyl Mertz (William Frawley & Vivian Vance) to appear alongside her bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo in his nightclub, or tried numerous schemes to mingle with, or be a part of the upper class.
3 - James Stewart was an actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis.
4 - Rear Window was a 1954 Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest films ever made. Starring...yes, James Stewart. The starring female was the great Grace Kelly.
5 - Fats Domino was a pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 hits.
6 - Leave It to Beaver was a television sitcom about an inquisitive and often naive boy, Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver (portrayed by Jerry Mathers), and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. Also starring were Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver), Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver), Tony Dow (Wally Cleaver) and Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell).
7 - John Wayne nicknamed "The Duke", was an actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/bio
8 - Strangers on a Train was a 1951 psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The story concerns two strangers who meet on a train, a young tennis player (Farley Grainger) and a charming psychopath (Robert Walker).
9 - Chuck Berry was a singer, songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive.
9a. Back to the future
10 - The Twilight Zone was a science fiction horror fantasy anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Each episode presents a standalone story in which characters find themselves dealing often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone," often ending with a surprise ending and a moral.
