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Dogs
100

DAILY DOUBLE Freddy Krueger is the antagonist of this 1984 Wes Craven classic slasher film starring Robert Englund. 

What is A Nightmare on Elm Street?

100

This restaurant franchise had a TV Commercial that included the phrase "Where's the beef?"

What is Wendy's?

100

Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street.  When they meet online, however, they begin an intense and anonymous internet romance, oblivious of each other's true identity.

What is You've Got Mail?

100

Chicago male nurse and chronic under-achiever Greg Focker meets his charming teacher girlfriend Pam Byrnes' parents Jack and Dina before proposing, but suspicious Jack is an overprotective former CIA agent- every date's worst nightmare.  Stars:  Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Teri Polo

What is Meet the Parents?

100

DAILY DOUBLE  "Hurry up Louise.  We have to go to Yorktown, Virginia.  Your parents are expecting us."

Who is Aunt Mary?

100

This dog was featured in a movie where his family named him after a famous composer.

What is "Beethoven"?  (That is the name of the dog (main character) and the movie.)

200

Bruce Willis righty becamse known as an action hero folllowing his performance in this 1988 action film as Detective John Mclane. Many sequels followed but this remains the best.

What is Die Hard?

200

DAILY DOUBLE  "Ho-Jo's" has used several well-known slogans thoughout its history, including "The Landmark for Hungry Americans, "The Host of the Highways", and "Under the Orange Roof'. In recent years, the brand has also used "Go Happy, Go Ho Jo's".

What is Howard Johnson's?

200

This actress made her big screen debut in the Jim Carrey flick The Mask.  She also starred in a personal favorite of this writer; Bad Teacher.

Who is Cameron Diaz?

200

DAILY DOUBLE After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.  Stars;  Jack Black, Mike White and Joan Cusack.

What is School of Rock?

200

DAILY DOUBLE  "Don't forget to say your prayers."

Who is Aunt Virginia?

200

DAILY DOUBLE  Snoopy from the Peanuts Franchise is this breed of dog.

What is a beagle?

300

This is about a pair of platonic friends desperately trying to disprove the theory that men and women can't ever be just friends.  After meeting on a long car journey as graduates, the film tracks their friendship over the course of more than a decade, as they date other people, deny their feelings, and forge a really great friendship.

What is When Harry Met Sally?

300
"Best eatin' in town, up and down... all round". This was the tagline in 1970's and 1980's.  in 1973 Mama Cass Elliot in a notable commercial sang "Hurry on down to H _ _ _ _ _ 's."

What is Hardee's?

300

DAILY DOUBLE Travolta introduced the world to the term “royale with cheese” in this cult classic film

What is Pulp Fiction?

300

DAILY DOUBLE A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.

Stars:  Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and Vince Vaughn.

What is Dodgeball:  A True Underdog Story?

300

DAILY DOUBLE    "You're not dressed warm enough."

Who is Aunt Sophie?

300

This breed is the famous movie dog Lassie. 

What is a rough collie?  

400

Melanie Griffith stars as an underestimated secretary from Staten Island who gets swindled out of a promotion by her male boss.  Technically a romantic comedy, it also puts the disparaging inequalitities of man vs. woman in the workplace on full display and elevates the genre with an all-star cast including Harrison Ford, Joan Cusack, and Sigourney Weaver.

What is Working Girl?

400

"We have the meats."  This campaign has been in use for a significant period and emphasizes their focus on meat-focused sandwiches. 

What is Arby's?

400

This Sci-Fi movie trilogy stars  Keanu Reeves.  In one of the films,  he must select between a blue pill or red pill?

What is  The Matrix?

400

DAILY DOUBLE   Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing.  They must make their way around the city in order to find their friend in time for his wedding.  Stars:  Zack Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha.

What is The Hangover?

400

DAILY DOUBLE. "Would you like another steak?  Some Anitpasta Some more chicken? More dessert?"

Who is Aunt Mary, Aunt Virginia and Aunt Sophie?

400

DAILY DOUBLE This animated TV show about a dog was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976.  It is about a talking Great Dane and 4 teenagers who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps while traveling on a brighty colored van called the "Mystery Machine." 

Who is Scooby-Doo?

500

In this movie, young Josh Baskin wishes he were big, and thus his wish is granted causing big Josh Baskin, played by a brilliant Tom Hanks, to move to New York City, get a job and find Zoltar to fix this mess.

What is Big?

500

"Have it your Way"

What is McDonald's?

500

DAILY DOUBLE   Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco are just a few of the actors in this movie about the Mob. This film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia asociate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

What is Goodfellas?

500

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.  Stars:  Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear.

What is Little Miss Sunshine?

500

DAILY DOUBLE   "You don't eat enough."

Who is Aunt Sophie?

500

This is the tallest dog breed.

What is a Great Dane?  (Some reach over 30 inches tall at the shoulder.)