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| 1. | What actor is famous for the ad-libbing the phrase "You're gonna need a bigger boat"? |
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Roy Scheider (Jaws - 1975) | |
| 2. | Starring Matt Damon in 2016, what is the title of the fifth film in the Bourne series? |
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Jason Bourne | |
| 3. | From Monsters, Inc., voiced by Billy Crystal, what is the first name of this short, green, one-eyed monster? |
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Mike (Mike Wazowski) | |
| 4. | What three words were written on Joker's helmet, as depicted on promotional posters for Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket? |
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Born to Kill | |
| 5. | What 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Ralph Fiennes in 1996? |
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The English Patient | |
| 6. | Which famous comedy sketch features a "Norwegian Blue"? |
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Dead Parrot Sketch (Monty Python) | |
| 7. | What is awarded annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for excellence in film and television? |
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Golden Globe | |
| 8. | Who plays Brian Cohen of Nazareth, Biggus Dickus, and the 2nd wise man in Monty Python's Life of Brian? |
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Graham Chapman | |
| 9. | What 1995 film starred Denzel Washington as Lt. Commander Ron Hunter and Gene Hackman as Capt. Frank Ramsey? |
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Crimson Tide | |
| 10. | First aired in 2011, name this American remake of a cult British TV comedy drama. |
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Shameless | |
| 11. | The title of a BBC TV sitcom first aired in three series between 1964 and 1966, by what name were Terry Collier and Bob Ferris collectively known? |
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The Likely Lads | |
| 12. | Complete the title of this 2008 comedy film starring Seth Rogan and James Franco: _________ Express. |
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Pineapple | |
| 13. | Who is the only actor to appear in every episode of Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 2010? |
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Peter Sallis (as Norman "Cleggy" Clegg) | |
| 14. | Brainwashing, sleeper agents, a communist plot, and Angela Lansbury all feature in what 1962 thriller film? |
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The Manchurian Candidate | |
| 15. | First aired in 1978, what American TV sitcom followed the misadventures of the staff at a struggling radio station in Ohio? |
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WKRP in Cincinnati | |
| 16. | What actress stars in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964)? |
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Tippi Hedren | |
| 17. | Who plays the title role in the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid? |
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Steve McQueen (as Eric "The Kid" Stoner) | |
| 18. | What 1979 film earned Academy Awards for Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor) and Meryl Streep (Best Supporting Actress)? |
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Kramer vs. Kramer | |
| 19. | What was the surname of the leading family in the 1960s TV series Bonanza? |
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Cartwright | |
| 20. | What is the title of the 2010 animated film loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel"? |
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Tangled | |
| 21. | Who plays the title role in the 2016 American superhero film Doctor Strange? |
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Benedict Cumberbatch | |
| 22. | Name this 2003 film. |
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Lost in Translation (Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson) | |
| 23. | Who plays the title role in the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and its 2005 sequel Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo? |
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Rob Schneider | |
| 24. | What animated Disney film features the song Give a Little Whistle? |
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Pinocchio (1940) | |
| 25. | On TV and film, who is the younger sister of Patricia and Selma Bouvier? |
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Marge Simpson | |
| 26. | Who replaced Charlie Sheen in 2011 as the owner of the beachfront Malibu house featured in the long-running TV series Two and a Half Men? |
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Ashton Kutcher | |
| 27. | Creighton-Ward is the surname of which Thunderbirds character? |
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Lady Penelope | |
| 28. | Which TV series, first aired in 2007, is this?
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The Big Bang Theory (2007-present) | |
| 29. | Which 1983 film saw the return of Sean Connery as James Bond? |
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Never Say Never Again | |
| 30. | What TV series ran from 1995 to 2001 with Lucy Lawless in the title role? |
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Xena: Warrior Princess | |
| 31. | Sadly now defunct, HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison in 1978 to finance the making of what 1979 film? |
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Life of Brian | |
| 32. | What is the surname of the fictional family in Sesame Street headed by husband Gordon, a schoolteacher, and his wife Susan, a nurse? |
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Robinson | |
| 33. | Who played Sid Vicious in the 1986 biopic film Sid and Nancy? |
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Gary Oldman | |
| 34. | Who played cat burglar Harry Dean in the 1966 film Gambit? |
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Michael Caine | |
| 35. | Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006)? |
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Forest Whitaker | |
| 36. | Kenneth Branagh is set to direct, and star as Hercule Poirot, in what film due for release in November 2017? |
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Murder on the Orient Express | |
| 37. | What was John Cleese's father's surname before he changed it by deed poll in 1923? |
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Cheese (Reg Cheese) | |
| 38. | Martin Landau won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing which horror movie star in the 1994 film Ed Wood? |
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Bela Lugosi | |
| 39. | What Dutch model and actress is best remembered as the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films? |
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Sylvia Kristel | |
| 40. | Codename Villanelle is a 2018 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings. A compilation of four serial e-book novellas published between 2014 and 2016, what 2018 TV series is based upon it? |
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Killing Eve | |
| 41. | In the TV series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., what is name of the organisation Napoleon Solo fought against? |
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T.H.R.U.S.H. (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity) | |
| 42. | What U.S. city is the main setting for the TV series Breaking Bad and its prequel Better Call Saul? |
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Albuquerque (New Mexico) | |
| 43. | What 1960s American sitcom stars Sally Field as Sister Bertrille? |
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The Flying Nun | |
| 44. | Name this 2008 film and the actress speaking.
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Iron Man - Gwyneth Paltrow (& Robert Downey, Jr.) | |
| 45. | Martin Scorsese won his only Academy Award for Best Director to date for what 2006 film? |
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The Departed | |
| 46. | Who played the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? |
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Robert Redford | |
| 47. | Who played Jim Rockford in TV's The Rockford Files? |
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James Garner | |
| 48. | Complete the names of these four Transformers sequels: Revenge of the _____ (2009), Dark of the _____ (2011), Age of _____ (2014), The Last _____ (2017). |
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Fallen, Moon, Extinction, Knight | |
| 49. | Who played Edina's (Jennifer Saunder's) sarcastic and thieving mother in the TV sitcom Absolutely Fabulous? |
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June Whitfield | |
| 50. | Name this TV series from the late 70s and early 80s.
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Quincy, M.E. (1976-1983) | |
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