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!

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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)

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 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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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2. Pocketful of Miracles

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

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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/