Arnold Schwarzenegger
Happy Madison
Films About Writers
Happy New Year! Movie Edition
Presidential Firsts
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In 2011, a museum dedicated to Arnold's life opened in Thal, his childhood home in this country.
What is Austria?
600
The name of Adam Sandler's production company, Happy Madison, comes from the titles of these 2 movies he starred in.
What are "Happy Gilmore" & "Billy Madison"?
600
Johnny Depp played James Barrie in the 2004 movie title "Finding" this place.
What is "Neverland"?
600
Welcoming the New Year, this title woman "decided to take control of my life & start a diary to tell the truth about" herself.
600
Reaching the mark of 2024, he was the president to live to be 100.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
1200
Going undercover as an elementary school teacher in this film, Arnold has a headache but tells the kids, "It's not a tumor!"
What is "Kindergarten Cop"?
1200
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Drew Barrymore has problems remembering the name of this 2004 movie she & Adam Sandler starred in that's set in Hawaii.
What is "First 50 Dates"?
1200
"Sylvia" finds Gwyneth Paltrow starring as Mrs. Plath & Daniel Craig playing this poet, her hubby.
Who is Ted Hughes?
1200
In "Waiting to Exhale", this late, great diva & 3 pals listen to a New Year's Eve countdown & sing along to Roberta Flack.
Who is Whitney Houston?
1200
James Madison was the first president to ask Congress for a declaration of war, for this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
1800
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Sharon Stone kicks Arnold in this film & says, "That's for making me come to Mars!"
What is "Total Recall"?
1800
In the 2008 Adam Sandler movie "You Don't Mess with the Zohan", he played an intelligence agent from this country founded in 1948 who fakes his death to be a hairdresser.
What is Israel?
1800
"Goodbye Christopher Robin" had Domhnall Gleeson playing this man, first name Alan.
Who is Alan A. Milne?
1800
Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy wish the Duke Brothers a happy New Year as business closes in this film, but the Dukes are not happy at all.
1800
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Calvin Coolidge was the first & so far only president born on this date; 3 have died on it.
What is July 4th?
2400
The indispensable Arnold has played Trench in the first 3 films in this recent series.
What is "The Expendables"?
2400
They produced this 2006 baseball bully revenge movie that starred Adam Sandler's friends Rob Schneider, David Spade & Jon Heder.
What is "The Bench warmers"?
2400
In "Kill Your Darlings", Ben Foster played this author of "Naked Lunch".
Who is William S. Burroughs?
2400
In "The Holdovers", a teacher played by this man decides on the perfect place for New Year's Eve fireworks -- the kitchen.
Who is Paul Giamatti?
2400
For helping end the Russo-Japanese War, he was the first president & the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
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The movie "Simon Birch" was adapted for John Irving's novel "A Prayer for" him.
Who is Owen Meany?
3000
Happy Madison's first feature film was this 1999 comedy that saw Rob Schneider go out on a date with a harcolptic girl.
What is "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo"?
3000
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In "Only Lovers Left Alone", John Hurt is this poet/dramatist, really a vampire, who gives his work to an "Illterate" Shakespeare.
Who is Marlowe?
3000
It's a tough New Year's for this brother when Michael says, "I know it was you... You broke my heart."
Who is Fredo? (The Godfather Part II)
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He was the first president who had never been elected president or vice president.
Who is Gerald Ford?