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Mrs. Skinner's Movie Trivia Hunt

For each of the movie trivia questions below, find the answers using any of the following movie review sites. Give the name of the site you used for each question for full credit!

Question 1:
What was the name of Stanley Ipkiss' dog in Jim Carrey's The Mask?


Hint: Use Webcrawler to search for Jim Carrey. Find a synopsis of the film.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9090/themask.htm
ANS: MILO

Question 2:
Who is Nikko in the Wizard of Oz?


Hint: Search for Wizard of Oz and find information about the film.

http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/faq09b.html#ozq9.9
ANS: The chief of the Witch's winged monkeys, who is always hanging around while the Witch is checking things out in her crystal ball.

Question 3:
In the movie, Titanic, who said, "It is unsinkable. God himself couldn't sink this ship"?


Hint: Search the IMDB for the answer in the quotes section.

http://us.imdb.com/More?quotes+Titanic+(1997)
ANS: Cal

Question 4:
Who played C3P0 in Star Wars?


Hint: Search for the cast of Star Wars.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?Star+Wars+(1977)
ANS: Anthony Daniels

Question 5:
Who does Leslie Neilson play in Spy Hard the movie?


Hint: Search for Spy Hard.

http://www.discribe.ca/vidpix/spyhard.htm
ANS: Agent WD-40

Question 6:
Who provides the voice for Mr. Potato Head in the movie Toy Story?


Hint: Search for Toy Story summaries.

http://www.discribe.ca/vidpix/toystory.htm
ANS: Don Rickles

Question 7:
Who played Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996?


Hint: Search the Internet Movie Database or MovieWeb.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Winslet,+Kate
ANS: Kate Winslet

Question 8:
What film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994?


Hint: Search the Oscars on the Internet Movie Database

http://us.imdb.com/Oscars/1980_Picture
ANS: Forrest Gump

Question 9:
Who plays the Beaver in the 1997 movie release of Leave it to Beaver?


Hint: Search MovieWeb for the movie.

http://movieweb.com/movie/beaver/index.html
ANS: Cameron Finley

Question 10:
About how many years were Austin Powers and Dr. Evil frozen cryogenically in the movie Austin Power: International Man of Mystery?


Hint: Search for a plot summary of the movie.

http://movieweb.com/movie/austinpowers/index.html
ANS: 30 years

Question 11:
What movie did former Silver Spoons star Ricky Schroder star in during 1995?


Hint: Search the Hollywood Online Movie People Database for Ricky Schroder.

http://207.240.151.160/people.html?P_ID=P|63859
ANS: Crimson Tide

Question 12:
What was Tiffani-Amber Thiessen's first movie?


Hint: Search Hollywood Online

http://207.240.151.160/people.html?P_ID=P|70509
ANS: Stranger Among Friends (1991)--though some sources say it was 1992 OR Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style (1992)

Question 13:
How many stars did movie critic Robert Ebert give the first Jurassic Park movie?


Hint: Search Ebert's movie reviews.

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebertser.html
ANS: 3 stars

Question 14:
In what year did the movie Mary Poppins first appear on the big screen?


Hint: Search the IMDb or MovieWeb

http://us.imdb.com/Title?Mary+Poppins+(1964)
ANS: 1964

Question 15:
Who played Gilbert Grape in the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape?


Hint: Search the Internet Movie Database or MovieWeb.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?What%27s+Eating+Gilbert+Grape+(1993)
ANS: Johnny Depp

***BONUS***
In what film was Leonardo DiCaprio's first movie appearance? When?


Hint: Search the Internet Movie Database

http://us.imdb.com/Name?DiCaprio,+Leonardo
ANS: Josh in Critters 3 (1991)

****FOR MOVIE INFORMATION, you may wish to use the Internet Movie Database at http://us.imdb.com/search.html which allows you to search movies by title, cast members, characters, and keywords or MovieWeb at http://movieweb.com/movie/movie.html. Both are excellent movie review and research sites.

Other movie sites:

Roger Ebert's Movie Reviews: http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/
Microsoft Cinemania: http://cinemania.msn.com/Default/Home
Hollywood Online: http://www.hollywood.com/
Empire Magazine: http://www.erack.com/empire/
Entertainment Weekly Online: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/ew/
E! Online http://www.eonline.com/


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