STACK Quiz - June - Win $500 JB Hi-Fi Voucher - answer questions

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Stack Quiz June 2011



Can YOU handle the Bafflers? There were no 100% correct entries received for the April edition of the STACK Quiz, so this issue the usual $250 JB Hi-Fi voucher prize jackpots to a super sweet $500 JB Hi-Fi voucher! Test your knowledge and answer Bob J.'s Film Buff Bafflers in this issue's STACK Quiz for your chance to win!

A $500 voucher from JB Hi-Fi

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Entries Close: 30 Jun 2011
Winner Announced: 07 Jul 2011


Complete & submit the following for your chance to win!

 1. "How did the Swedes know I was here?" "Because you've lost your edge, Jack." Dialogue from what movie?*

Answer: The American


 2. What was the first movie to use the title "Godfather" when referring to a mob boss?*

Answer: Frank Capra – Pocketful of Miracles (1961)


 3. Who was said to have caused his own death by losing too much weight to play the lead role in his last movie?*

Answer: Clark Gable


 4. Which actor, following the separation from his actress wife, stated: "I could not compete with my mother-in-law"?*

Answer: Don Johnson???


 5. What episodic film was linked by the ramblings of a member of a gentlemen's club?*

Answer: Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)


 6. Which character made his "talkie" debut in a film where he rescues a girl's uncle who is held prisoner in an asylum?*

Answer: Ronald Colman as Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond in Bulldog Drummond (1929)


 7. Which comedian singer/actor ran the antique and gift shop next to the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood?*

Answer: Eddie Cantor


 8. Who was said to have been discovered whilst playing saxophone in a Broadway musical?*

Answer: Sid Caesar???


 9. Which prolific novelist played a cameo role as a vicar in a 1935 Hollywood movie?*

Answer: Hugh Walpole in David Copperfield (1935 film)


 10. Name the WWII movie where, in the final scenes, most of the platoon perish attempting to clear a minefield:*

Answer: The Red Beret (1953)

[JRN]

 1.    "How did the Swedes know I was here?" "Because you've lost your edge, Jack." Dialogue from what movie?*

It appears to be "THE AMERCIAN", can anyone confirm?

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 7. Which comedian singer/actor ran the antique and gift shop next to the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood?*

Eddie Cantor

from the caption in the photo from this source: http://martinturnbull.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-brown-derby-restaurants/

[helga22]

9. Hugh Walpole in David Copperfield (1935 film)

Hugh Walpole, the screenplay writer, has a cameo role as the vicar. Arthur Treacher, after whom Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips is named, has a cameo as the man with the donkey who steals young David's money, forcing him to walk from London to Dover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_%281935_film%29

[helga22]

1. The American

97 JACK is on the phone.
JACK: The Swedes found me.
A beat.
PAVEL:*Stay put. Finish the job.
JACK: How did they know I was here?
PAVEL: *Because you’ve lost your edge, *Jack.

"The American"June 21st, 2010 page 60.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/53695329/The-American-Screenplay

[helga22]

3. Humphrey Bogart???

Death

By the mid-1950s, Bogart's health was failing. Once, after signing a long-term deal with Warner Bros., Bogart predicted with glee that his teeth and hair would fall out before the contract ended. That sent a fuming Jack Warner to his lawyers.[citation needed] Bogart had formed a new production company and had plans for a new film Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., in which he would play a general and Bacall a press magnate. His persistent cough and difficulty eating became too serious to ignore and he dropped the project. The film was re-named Top Secret Affair and made with Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward.[120]

Bogart, a heavy smoker and drinker, contracted cancer of the esophagus. He almost never spoke of his failing health and refused to see a doctor until January 1956. A diagnosis was made several weeks later and by then removal of his esophagus, two lymph nodes and a rib on March 1, 1956 was too late to halt the disease, even with chemotherapy.[121] He underwent corrective surgery in November 1956 after the cancer had spread.[48]

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy came to see him. Frank Sinatra was also a frequent visitor. Bogart was too weak to walk up and down stairs. He valiantly fought the pain and tried to joke about his immobility: "Put me in the dumbwaiter and I'll ride down to the first floor in style." Which is what happened; the dumbwaiter was altered to accommodate his wheelchair.[122] Hepburn, in an interview, described the last time she and Spencer Tracy saw Bogart (the night before he died):

    Spence patted him on the shoulder and said, "Goodnight, Bogie." Bogie turned his eyes to Spence very quietly and with a sweet smile covered Spence's hand with his own and said, "Goodbye, Spence." Spence's heart stood still. He understood.[123]

Bogart had just turned 57 and weighed 80 pounds (36 kg) when he died on January 14, 1957 after falling into a coma. He died at 2:25 a.m. at his home at 232 Mapleton Drive in Holmby Hills, California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart

[helga22]

2. Could it be the first movie of "The Godfather" (1972) Trilogy?

The Godfather is a crime novel written by Italian-American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City (and Long Beach, New York) and headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

The book introduced Italian criminal terms like consigliere, caporegime, Cosa Nostra, and omertà to an English-speaking audience.

It formed the basis for a 1972 film of the same name. Two film sequels, including new contributions by Puzo himself, were made in 1974 and 1990. The first and second films are widely considered to be two of the greatest films of all time.[1][2]

Title

Much controversy surrounds the title of the book and its underworld implications. Although it is widely reported that Puzo was inspired to use "Godfather" as a designator for a Mafia leader from his experience as a reporter, the term The Godfather was first used in connection with the Mafia during Joe Valachi's testimony during a 1963 United States congressional hearing on organized crime.[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_%28novel%29

[JRN]

3. Clark Gable?



Others have blamed Gable's crash diet before filming began. The 6'1" (185 cm) Gable weighed about 190 pounds (86.2 kg) at the time of Gone with the Wind, but by his late 50s, he weighed 230 pounds (104.3 kg). To get in shape for The Misfits, he dropped to 195 lbs (88 kg). In addition, Gable was in poor health from years of heavy smoking (three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day over thirty years, as well as cigars and at least two bowlfuls of pipe tobacco a day).[citation needed]

Gable is interred in The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California beside his wife, Carole Lombard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable

[JRN]

2. Pocketful of Miracles

I have seen this suggested as an answer, no valid source yet

[helga22]

2. Frank Capra – Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

This film contains perhaps the earliest Hollywood use of “godfather” as a synonym for mob boss. Some experts cite Joe Valachi as the originator of the term in the popular vernacular, but “Pocketful of Miracles” predates his 1963 congressional testimony by a couple of years.

This film was a remake of Lady for a Day (1933), also directed by Frank Capra.

http://www.classicscn.com/frank-capra-pocketful-of-miracles-1961/

[JRN]

6. Bulldog Drummond

. The 1929 film was the first Bulldog Drummond movie with sound, and was also Ronald Colman's first talkie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_Drummond_%281929_film%29

category: Drama  by MGM
A bored ex-British Army officer comes to the rescue of a wealthy American whose uncle is being held captive in an asylum by a sadistic doctor.

http://www.watchmojo.com/tv/Hulu/MGM/50004451/

[helga22]

6. Bulldog Drummond

. The 1929 film was the first Bulldog Drummond movie with sound, and was also Ronald Colman's first talkie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_Drummond_%281929_film%29

category: Drama  by MGM
A bored ex-British Army officer comes to the rescue of a wealthy American whose uncle is being held captive in an asylum by a sadistic doctor.

http://www.watchmojo.com/tv/Hulu/MGM/50004451/

The following description makes it clearer:

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him. Written by Alfred Jingle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019735/plotsummary

[JRN]

4 Rod Cameron perhaps??


Cameron's private life was colorful; in a highly publicized marital scrap, he divorced his wife to marry her mother. Hence his former director, William Witney, publicly acclaimed Cameron as the bravest man he had ever seen.[citation needed]

Cameron died in Gainesville, Georgia, aged 73. The location of his ashes is unknown. He was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Cameron

[helga22]

8. Sid Caesar???

At fourteen, Caesar went to the Catskills as a saxophonist with Mike Cifichello's Swingtime Six and would also occasionally perform in sketches. When he graduated from high school, he left home, intent on a musical career. He arrived in New York City penniless and tried to join the musician's union (later he attended classes at the famed Juilliard School of Music). He found work at the Vacationland Hotel in Swan Lake in the Catskills. Under the tutelage of Don Appel, the resort's social director, Caesar played in the band and learned to perform comedy, doing three shows a week. In 1939, when World War II was just starting, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, and was assigned to play in military revues and shows in Brooklyn, New York.[4] Vernon Duke, the famous composer of Autumn in New York, April in Paris, and Taking a Chance on Love, was also at the same base and collaborated with Caesar in musical revues.

During the summer of 1942, Caesar met his future wife Florence Levy at the Avon Lodge. After joining the musician's union, he briefly played with Shep Fields, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Spivak, and even Benny Goodman.[5] Caesar's comedy, however, got bigger applause than the musical numbers, and the show's producer asked him to do stand-up between his numbers. While still in the service, Caesar was ordered to Palm Beach, Florida, where Vernon Duke and Howard Dietz were putting together a service revue, Tars and Spars. There he met the civilian director of the show Max Liebman, later the producer of his first hit television series. Tars and Spars toured nationally, and then a film version was made at Columbia Pictures. He also got a part in The Guilt of Janet Ames. He married Florence Levy on July 17, 1943, and had three children, Michelle, Rick and Karen. Florence Caesar passed away in April 2010.

Career

After the war, Caesar and his wife stayed in Hollywood, but despite a few offers to play sidekick roles, Caesar decided to go back to New York, where he got a club date as the opening act for Joe E. Lewis at the Copacabana nightclub. He reunited with Max Liebman, who guided his stage material and presentation. That appearance led to a contract with the William Morris Agency and a nationwide tour. Caesar also performed in a Broadway revue Make Mine Manhattan, which featured The Five Dollar Date, one of his first original pieces in which he sang, acted, double-talked, pantomimed, and wrote the music.

Caesar began his television career when he made an appearance on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater. In early 1949, Sid and Max met with Pat Weaver, vice president of television at NBC (and father of Sigourney Weaver), which led to Caesar's appearance in his first series The Admiral Broadway Revue with Imogene Coca. The Friday show, simultaneously broadcast on NBC and the DuMont network (in order for the show to be carried on the only TV station then operating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- DuMont's WDTV- the sponsor had to agree to a simulcast) was an immediate success, but its sponsor, Admiral, an appliance company, could not keep up with the demand for its new television sets, so the show was cancelled after 26 weeks on account of its runaway success. According to Sid, an Admiral executive later told him the company had the choice of building a new factory or continuing their sponsorship of the Revue for another season.

On February 23, 1950, Caesar appeared in the first episode of Your Show of Shows, a Saturday night 90-minute variety program produced by Max Liebman (who had previously produced The Admiral Broadway Revue). The premier featured Burgess Meredith as guest host, and other musical guests Gertrude Lawrence, Lily Pons, and Robert Merrill. The show launched Caesar into instant stardom and was a mix of scripted and improvised comedy, movie and television satires, Caesar's inimitable double-talk monologues, top musical guests, and large production numbers. The impressive guest list included: Jackie Cooper, Robert Preston, Rex Harrison, Eddie Albert, Michael Redgrave, Basil Rathbone, Charlton Heston, Geraldine Page, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Pearl Bailey, Fred Allen, Benny Goodman, Lena Horne and many other big stars of the time. It was also responsible for bringing together one of the best comedy teams in television history: Sid, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Imogene Coca. Many prominent writers, denizens of the famed Writer's Room, also got their start creating the show's madcap sketches, including Lucille Kallen, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin, Sheldon Keller and Larry Gelbart. Sid Caesar won his first Emmy in 1952. In 1951 and 1952, he was voted the United States' Best Comedian by Motion Picture Daily's TV poll. The show ended after 160 episodes on June 5, 1954. The movie, My Favorite Year was a fictional comedic account of a show similar to "Your Show of Shows" -- and the favorite year was 1954.

Just a few months later, Sid Caesar returned with Caesar's Hour, a one-hour sketch/variety show with Morris, Reiner, a young Bea Arthur, and much of the seasoned crew. Nanette Fabray replaced Imogene Coca who left to star in her own short-lived series. Ultimate creative and technical control was now totally in Caesar's hands. The show moved to the larger Century Theater, which allowed longer, more sophisticated productions and the weekly budget doubled to $125,000. The premier on September 27, 1954 featured Gina Lollobrigida.

Contemporary movies, foreign movies, theater, television shows and even opera all became targets of satire by the writing team, whose frenetic and competitive spirit produced some of the best comedy in television history. Often the publicity generated by the sketches boosted the box office of the original productions. Some notable sketches included: From Here to Obscurity (From Here to Eternity), Aggravation Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard), Hat Basterson (Bat Masterson), and No West For the Wicked (Stagecoach). Even silent movies were parodied, which showed off the impressive pantomime skills of the entire ensemble. They also performed some recurring sketches. "The Hickenloopers" were television's first bickering couple, predating The Honeymooners. As "The Professor", Caesar was the daffy expert who bluffed his way through his interviews with earnest roving reporter Carl Reiner. In its various incarnations, "The Professor" could be Gut von Fraidykat (mountain-climbing expert), Ludwig von Spacebrain (space expert), or Ludwig von Henpecked (marriage expert). Later, "The Professor" evolved into Mel Brooks' famous "The Two Thousand Year Old Man". The most prominent recurring sketch on the show was "The Commuters", featuring Caesar, Reiner and Morris involved with everyday working and suburban life situations. Years later the sketch "Sneaking through the Sound Barrier", a spoof of the British film, The Sound Barrier, was run continuously as part of a display on supersonic flight at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Everything was performed live, including the commercials, which only took up seven minutes of the one-hour show, as compared to today's shows, which average about 22 minutes of commercials per hour. Famous Hollywood movie stars (or their agents) clamored to be on the show, but in reality doing a sketch in one shot with no cue cards and minimal rehearsal time was a challenge for many of the famous stars used to languid preparation and numerous retakes.

In his book Caesar's Hours, Caesar describes the essence of his comedy as 'working both sides of the street', the deliberate blending of comedy and pathos in the tradition of the great comedians of the 1920s and 1930s—his idols Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, and W. C. Fields. His sympathetic portrayal of the follies and foibles of his characters resonated with a weekly live audience of over 60 million Americans. He was a master of impeccable timing, careful preparation, and quick-witted flexibility, relying heavily on an endless variety of rapidly changing facial expressions and a strong physical presence. Though by nature shy, Caesar reveled in his characters. The most difficult moment of the show for Caesar was the opening, when he had to say 'good evening ladies and gentlemen'.

Caesar's Hour was followed by Sid Caesar Invites You, briefly reuniting Caesar and Coca in 1958, and in 1963 with several As Caesar Sees It specials, which evolved into the 1963-'64 Sid Caesar Show, which alternated with Edie Adams in Here's Edie. Caesar also teamed up with Edie Adams in the Broadway show Little Me, a successful Neil Simon play, with choreography by Bob Fosse and music by Cy Coleman in which Sid played eight parts with 32 costume changes. Caesar and Edie Adams played a husband and wife drawn into a mad race to find buried money in the mega-movie-comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Caesar

[helga22]

4 Rod Cameron perhaps??


Cameron's private life was colorful; in a highly publicized marital scrap, he divorced his wife to marry her mother. Hence his former director, William Witney, publicly acclaimed Cameron as the bravest man he had ever seen.[citation needed]

Cameron died in Gainesville, Georgia, aged 73. The location of his ashes is unknown. He was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Cameron

I don't think it is Rod Cameron. It does not make any sense to me. The quote says: "I could not compete with my mother-in-law". So why would he marry her?

[helga22]

10. The Heroes of Telemark??? Please confirm!

I am still looking for a description of the final minefield scene...

[JRN]

5. Around the World in Eighty Days????

Apparently it starts in a gentlemen's club, but is the film NARRATED?  It is years since I watched it

[helga22]

5. Around the World in Eighty Days????

Apparently it starts in a gentlemen's club, but is the film NARRATED?  It is years since I watched it

Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)

The film begins with a special onscreen prologue introduced by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow. and featuring footage of an early science fiction/fantasy film by Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon (1902), which is based loosely on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.[3] Included also is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.

Around 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager (equal to £1,324,289 today) with several skeptical fellow members of the Reform Club, that he can arrive back within 80 days before exactly 8:45 pm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_80_Days_%281956_film%29

The Reform Club is a gentlemen's club on the south side of Pall Mall, in central London. Originally for men only, it pioneered the admission of women in 1981.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Club

[helga22]

10. Saving Private Ryan (1998) ???

[exerewards101]

10. Saving Private Ryan (1998) ???

In final scenes of Saving Private Ryan most of the platoon do perish but they're trying to hold a bridge not clearing a minefield

[helga22]

It looks like this quiz is just too hard - again.

I guess the prize money will be $750 next time because they will not find anyone to answer all questions correct. 

[exerewards101]

10. Name the WWII movie where, in the final scenes, most of the platoon perish attempting to clear a minefield:*

I've been googling my little heart out, and best I can come up with is The Red Beret (1953)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Beret

According to a helpful soul over at IMDB:

I just watched The Red Beret aka Paratrooper in the U.S. and the final scenes do involve the unit about to be annihilated in a mine field

[helga22]

 4. Which actor, following the separation from his actress wife, stated: "I could not compete with my mother-in-law"?*

Arnold Schwarzenegger???

[pingli]

"I could not compete with my mother-in-law"

What does this mean exactly?

• Mother-in-law was meddling?
• Mother-in-law had a lifestyle his paycheck couldn't match?
• Mother-in-law's celebrity status was shadowing his?

[Arran]

I have looked at every search engine possible with no success.  I have a feeling it is an older actor because no one bad-mouths an ex nowadays.  I am looking for a mother-in-law who was either so glamorous or well-known he couldn't compete or his ex-wife was so close to her mother that he didn't get a look in.  The only bites I have had are from the other comping sites where I don't have access, so I can't see if the answers are there.  Would be nice if a compingclub person won it. 

[dejae]

could number 4 answer be

DANNI MINOGUE

[JRN]

"I could not compete with my mother-in-law"

What does this mean exactly?

• Mother-in-law was meddling?
• Mother-in-law had a lifestyle his paycheck couldn't match?
• Mother-in-law's celebrity status was shadowing his?

I lean towards the FAMOUS ACTOR, married to FAMOUS ACTRESS who has a FAMOUS MOTHER.

Someone like Liza Minelli/Judy Garland or Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds, but the husbands don't fit

[helga22]

could number 4 answer be

DANNI MINOGUE

It has to be a male... "Which actor, following the separation from his actress wife..."

[Arran]

It has to be an older actor from way back as there is just no current info on the phrase at all!  I have tried everything but will have another go!

[JRN]

Don Johnson married and divorced Melanie Griffith whose mother Tippi Hedren starred in a film with Don Johnson "The Harrad Experiment" (and was in Hitchcok's "The Birds")

Fits the FAMOUS ACTOR - FAMOUS WIFE, FAMOUS MIL bill.  Dont know about the quote though, but it may have been difficult to compete as an ACTOR with his MIL who starred in The Birds perhaps??


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Griffith


Other possible candidates here:

http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/celebrity/becksmith.jsp?p=bsf_momdaughters

[evooo]

I think the answer to question four is Willard Mack. What do you guys and gals think?

ref: http://www.lipstickalley.com/f15/old-old-hollywood-gossip-230212/index89.html

evooo

[pingli]

I think the answer to question four is Willard Mack. What do you guys and gals think?

ref: http://www.lipstickalley.com/f15/old-old-hollywood-gossip-230212/index89.html

evooo

That is the best lead I've seen yet. Although Willard Mack has more writing credits than acting, it still fits the clues.

[JRN]

ANSWERS to the June Stack Quiz FROM THE JULY STACK MAG:

1 The American
2 Pocketful of Miracles
3 Laird Cregar
4 Lew Ayres - he was referring to his soon to be divorced wife Ginger Rogers' mother, the formidable Lela McMath
5 Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
6 Bulldog Drummond
7 Eddie Cantor
8 Fred MacMurray
9 Hugh Walpole
10 Paratroop Command (1955)