BEFORE & AFTER
AMERICAN MOVIE REMAKES
MISNOMERS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
SHORT ANSWERS
200
'The Wicked Witch of the West's skywritten demand of the 1976 ladies' Olympic figure skating champion'
Surrender, Dorothy Hamill!
200
'"The Seven Samurai"'
The Magnificent Seven
200
'The Pennsylvania Dutch weren't Dutch immigrants, they were of this background'
German
200
'An 1845 Wagner opera is titled
A. "Blechtrommel"
B. "Tannhauser"
C. "Doppelganger"
D. "Schweinhund"'
B. Tannhauser
200
'When you convert a pair of jeans into shorts, by definition you've made a pair of these'
cut-offs
400
''50s pop duo Phil & Don who also collected classic fairy tales'
The Everly Brothers Grimm
400
'"Trois Hommes et un Couffin"'
Three Men and a Baby
400
'This old corset-stiffening substance is actually baleen'
whalebone
400
'This word isn't in the Constitution's First Amendment:
A. press
B. redress
C. compress
D. establishment'
C. compress
400
'Title undies of a San Francisco Film Society program that featured Charlie Chaplin in "The Champion" & "The Knockout"'
"Boxer Shorts"
600
'Beatles tune that's "dying to take you away" to a European bike race begun in 1903'
The Magical Mystery Tour de France
600
'"La Cage aux Folles"'
The Birdcage
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates) Milk, seltzer & chocolate syrup combine to make this drink'
egg cream
600
'6' 7" NFL linebacker Ted Hendricks was known as
A. "The Mad Crow"
B. "The Mad Heron"
C. "The Mad Stork"
D. "The Mad Cow"'
C. "The Mad Stork"
600
'The "Who Wears Short Shorts?" commercials plugged this hair remover'
Nair
800
'Haley Joel Osment "dead people" flick that featured Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood'
The Sixth Sense and Sensibility
800
'"Abre los Ojos"'
Vanilla Sky
800
'What's called India ink didn't come from India, but from this country'
China
800
'The element with atomic number 34 is
A. Solarium
B. Sphagnum
C. Substratum
D. Selenium'
D. Selenium
800
'Shorter than Bermudas, these shorts were named for an island far southwest of Bermuda'
Jamaica shorts
1000
'Proverb about repeating a task until it becomes flawless that turns into a Bronson Pinchot sitcom'
Practice makes Perfect Strangers
1000
'"Le Retour de Martin Guerre"'
Sommersby
1000
'Properly, it's the cavy; it's not from the place & not related to the animal in this other name'
Guinea pig
1000
'Paris' Pompidou Center was designed by
A. Angelo Viola
B. Renzo Piano
C. Tonio Piccolo
D. Gianni Tuba'
B. Renzo Piano
1000
'Bicycle shorts often come in this spandex fiber, a DuPont trademark introduced in 1958'
lycra
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