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No one guessed the answer to the last quiz. That’s not surprising; it was pretty out there.

Here’s the question again:

Name the movie in which an actor whose birthday is at the end of this month (September) wears a wig made of his own hair.

The answer:

Eric Stoltz, whose birthday is September 30, wore a wig made of his own hair in The Butterfly Effect. Personally, that would creep me out. But no one is paying me millions of dollars to act in movies; maybe the money helps make it less gross.

Here’s the next question:

As an homage to Patrick Swayze, this week’s question is about one of his best movies (IMHO):

Name the real-life doctor who was offered a role in Dirty Dancing but turned it down.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The doctor’s name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT October 9, 2009.

Good luck!

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See all the other Stump the Lambs movie trivia quizzes.

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Four people guessed the answer to the last quiz. There may even be a fifth person, because it seems to me I received another response. But I couldn’t find it, so either I was hallucinating or I accidentally deleted it. If you submitted that missing answer, please let me know and I’ll add your link to this page. (9/14/09 update: The mystery LAMB has been identified as Kirby Holt and his link has been added below.)

Here’s the question again:

Name the movie that lists Melinda Dillon’s name correctly in the opening credits but incorrectly in the ending credits, where she’s listed as “Melinda Dillion.”

The answer:

The movie is A Christmas Story. (It’s never too early to start thinking about holiday movies!) I though it was interesting that the plot points about the tongue sticking to the flagpole and eating Christmas dinner in a Chinese restaurant were taken from A Christmas Story writer Jean Shepherd’s book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, which was compiled from short stories he wrote for Playboy in the 1960s.

Here are the LAMBs who got it right:

Kirby Holt from Movie Dearest

T.L. Bug from The Lightning Bug’s Lair

Fitz from Nevermind Pop Film

Rachel from Rachel’s Reel Reviews

General Disdain from The Critical Critics

And a special thanks to Mike Everleth of www.badlit.com, www.ufilmguide.com and www.ufilmguidetv.com for contributing additional information about this question.

Here’s the next question:

Name the movie in which an actor whose birthday is at the end of this month (September) wears a wig made of his own hair.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The movie name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT September 25, 2009.

Good luck!

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See all the other Stump the Lambs movie trivia quizzes.

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Three people guessed the answer to the last quiz. One even bested me by naming another movie that also qualifies. So, one up, one down: I lost but I learned something.

Here’s the question again:

Name the movie that featured Steven Spielberg’s real-life dog.

The answer:

The movie I had in mind was Jaws but it turns out that Close Encounters of the Third Kind also qualifies. Spielberg’s dog Elmer was Brody’s pet in Jaws and was also seen during the release of the humans from the mother ship in Close Encounters.

Here are the LAMBs who got it right:

Jess from Insight into Entertainment (Jess gets extra credit for pointing out that Elmer was also in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.)

Fearless Leader Dylan from Blog Cabins

General Disdain from The Critical Critics

Here’s the next question:

Name the horror film that features two characters who have the same names as characters from two different Alfred Hitchcock movies.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The movie name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT August 28, 2009.

Good luck!

Comments will be closed to prevent inadvertent posting of the answer.

See all the other Stump the Lambs movie trivia quizzes.

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We have another stumper. But I’m not surprised; it was a pretty darn hard question.

Here’s the question again:

What physical location do 1983’s Flashdance and 1986’s Back to School have in common? (I’m looking something more specific than the city or state.)

The answer:

Back to School’s Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) takes a three-hour oral exam in the same room that Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) made her dance audition in Flashdance.

Back to School also has some other interesting trivia associated with it: The song playing at Chaz’s fraternity party is Everybody’s Crazy, which was sung by Michael Bolton’s during his days as a metal singer. I was fascinated by that, because I have a hard time picturing Michael Bolton singing heavy metal. Also, a shot of Rodney Dangerfield golfing in the opening montage was taken directly from Caddyshack footage.

Here’s the next question:

Name the movie that featured Steven Spielberg’s real-life dog.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The movie name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT August 14, 2009.

Good luck!

Comments will be closed to prevent inadvertent posting of the answer.

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A lone LAMB got the answer to the last question. I’m amazed anyone got it, considering the age of the movie.

Here’s the question again:

Name the movie that had one cameraman die when a barge capsized during filming and also had two other crew members nearly killed because the ship they were on while shooting was lost at sea for two days.

The answer:

A barge with 55 crew and staff members capsized while shooting exterior scenes for the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, killing second-unit assistant cameraman Glenn Strong. Tragedy struck again when an 18-foot replica of the Bounty sailing ship carrying two crew members somehow got away from its tow and floated at sea for two days until a search party found it.

One a lighter note, Jimmy Cagney happened to be sailing his boat around California’s Catalina Island while Bounty was being shot. He asked his friend and the movie’s director Frank Lloyd if he could be in the film, so Lloyd had Cagney don a sailor’s uniform so he could spend the day as an uncredited extra. David Niven also played an extra in the movie.

Here’s the winning LAMB:

General Disdain of The Critical Critics

Here’s the next question:

What physical location do 1983’s Flashdance and 1986’s Back to School have in common? (I’m looking something more specific than the city or state.)

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The location’s name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT July 31, 2009.

Good luck!

Comments will be closed to prevent inadvertent posting of the answer.

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Two LAMBs got the answer to the last question, which tells me they must be fans of ’80s movies, teenage movies or both.

Here’s the question again:

Name the movie in which Agnes Belushi (John and Jim Belushi’s mother) plays an uncredited extra in a wedding scene.

The answer:

The answer is one of my favorite teen movies, 16 Candles, starring Molly Ringwald. Agnes Belushi is the woman Ginny Baker (played by the coincidentally named Blanche Baker) tries to sit next to while she’s walking down the aisle at her wedding, stoned on tranquilizers.

This movie really captures the vulnerability of a teenage girl who already feels like a dork but is then thrown into abject insecurity when her parents forget her birthday. But it also has a happy ending, which involves the cutest guy in school. So our inner teenagers feel vindicated by the time the movie’s over!

Here are the winning LAMBs:

Jigsaw of Jigsaws Lair

Dylan of Blog Cabins

Here’s the next question:

Name the movie that had one cameraman die when a barge capsized during filming and also had two other crew members nearly killed because the ship they were on while shooting was lost at sea for two days.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The movie name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT July 17, 2009.

Good luck!

Comments will be closed to prevent inadvertent posting of the answer.

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I must admit, female LAMBs probably had the advantage with the last question because the movies in questions were chick flicks. But the question was pretty difficult, so no one got the answer — male or female.

Here’s the question again:

Name the two post-1980 films that take place at least in part at the same fictional advertising agency.

The answer:

The Sloane Curtis Advertising Agency was featured in What Women Want (2000) and Baby Boom (1987). Nancy Meyers was the common denominator between the two, because she directed What Women Want and wrote Baby Boom.

I don’t know if you have to be a woman to love both these movies but it probably helps. I enjoyed that both touched on the vulnerabilities and strengths of businesswomen in a meaningful way while still managing to be funny. The transformation of Diane Keaton’s character in Baby Boom was particularly poignant and timely, given the era it was released. Women were just beginning to find their power as more than subordinates in the business world, so balancing having a baby and a high-powered career was a relatively new concept.

Here’s the next question:

Name the movie in which Agnes Belushi (John and Jim Belushi’s mother) plays an uncredited extra in a wedding scene.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The movie name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT July 3, 2009.

Good luck!

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Two people answered the last quiz correctly and our fearless leader Fletch came close with an answer that may or may not be correct. I couldn’t find any evidence to support his answer online but that doesn’t necessarily mean it isn’t true.

Here’s the question again:

On April 12 I posed a question about a female hoofer who danced in a back brace. This time I’d like to know the name of the male dancer who broke a rib while filming a dance scene but didn’t stop dancing until he knew the scene was in the can.

The answer:

James Cagney was the die-hard dancer who kept on shooting the all-American, flag waving movie Yankee Doodle Dandy, even though he had a broken rib.

Here are the LAMBs who knew the answer:

Phil Concannon of Phil on Film

Matt Small of screen / slant

Fletch thought the answer was Patrick Swayze. I found information about Patrick Swayze giving up his dance career because of a knee injury but I couldn’t find a reference to a broken rib. He might have had one of those, too; it just might not have been covered widely.

Here’s the next question:

Name the two post-1980 films that take place at least in part at the same fictional advertising agency.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. Both film names
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT June 19, 2009.

Good luck!

Comments will be closed to prevent inadvertent posting of the answer.

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Thanks to my brother Steve for the last question, which no one got right. Had I left it in the form he sent it — it indicated that the movies were from 2007 — I’m sure at least some people would have guessed the answer. But that would have been too easy, so I removed that minor point!

Here’s the question again:

Which two actors played sheriffs together in one movie and ex-Army buddies in another? (Hint: The movies were released in the same year.)

The answer:

The actors are Barry Corbin and Tommy Lee Jones.

In 2007’s No Country for Old Men, Barry Corbin played Tommy Lee Jones’ father. His character had also been sheriff before Jones’ character held that job. Additionally, Corbin played Jones’ Army buddy in In the Valley of Elah.

Here’s the next question:

On April 12 I posed a question about a female hoofer who danced in a back brace. This time I’d like to know the name of the male dancer who broke a rib while filming a dance scene but didn’t stop dancing until he knew the scene was in the can.

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The actor’s name
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT June 5, 2009.

Good luck!

Comments will be closed to prevent inadvertent posting of the answer.

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No one got the answer to the last question correct. It was a hard one, so I’m not surprised.

Here’s the question again:

Name the movie that features cameos by two actors who play in different versions of the same-titled TV show. (Hint: The TV shows are completely unrelated to the movie.)

The answer:

For Your Consideration

The two actors are Ricky Gervais of the BBC version of The Office and John Krasinksi of the NBC version of the series by the same name. Gervais played a smarmy film exec in For Your Consideration and Krasinski played the “paper badge officer.”

I was inspired to come up with a question for this funny movie because of all the For Your Consideration ads flying about the LAMB because of LAMMY season. This Christopher Guest movie didn’t get as many good reviews as some of his other works but I thought it was hilarious. Catherine O’Hara in particular was amazing.

Here’s the next question:

Which two actors played sheriffs together in one movie and ex-Army buddies in another? (Hint: The movies were released in the same year.)

Please include the following information in your response:

1. The actor’s names
2. Your name
3. Your blog name
4. Your blog URL

Send your submission to Carla of Tricky Movie Trivia at info[@]trickymovietrivia.com by midnight EDT May 22, 2009.

Good luck!

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Oh and here’s some shameless last-minute LAMMY promotion: