MOVIE QUIZ
Many things, like the changing of the seasons, have had minimal impact in 2020, but it’s still worth noting that Monday will be the first day of what looks to be long, dark winter.
Let’s focus on the bright side, then – the bright light of the movie screen, that is. This week’s quiz celebrates those frigid flicks that have the word “winter” right there in their titles.
1. In 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” one scene shows a jar of Newman’s Own Spaghetti Sauce inside a character’s refrigerator, while another reveals a copy of the book “All the President’s Men” on a shelf in Captain America’s apartment. Using those two clues, what actor played the sauceloving character?
2. Katharine Hepburn won the third of her four Oscars, and Peter O’toole received the third of his eight Academy Award nominations, for 1968’s “The Lion in Winter.” True or false: It was the second time each had played their respective, real-life, royal characters, Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, on the big screen?
3. The 2009 fact-based crime drama “Winter of Frozen Dreams” starring Thora Birch and Keith Carradine was set in Madison, Wis., but was filmed in what Capital Region community?
4. Many “winter” movies have been adapted from acclaimed novels of the same name. Match up the frigid films below with the authors of the original source material books.
I. “Chilly Scenes of Winter” (1979) “Winter’s Tale” (2014) III. “Winter’s Bone” (2010) IV. “Winter Kills” (1979)
A. Mark Helprin B. Richard Condon C. Ann Beattie D. Daniel Woodrell
5. Of stars Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain, which one can claim the 19 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes for 2016’s “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” as their career worst?
6. In the little-seen 2005 dramedy “Winter Passing,” Zooey Deschanel once again works with Will Ferrell, two years after they teamed up for “Elf.” She also plays the daughter of Ed Harris, playing a reclusive author much like
II.
J.D. Salinger (“The Catcher in the Rye”), while her mother, actress Mary Jo Deschanel, had played the wife of Harris’ John Glenn in 1983’s “The Right Stuff.” What’s one more connection between Zooey Deschanel and Salinger?
7. “The Winter Guest,” starring Emma Thompson and her real-life mom Phyllida Law as daughter and mother, was the 1997 directorial debut of what actor, who six years later would play Thompson’s husband in a holiday favorite, and two years earlier had played a part in a film she wrote?
8. Norwegian skating star turned actress Sonja Henie fulfilled her long-term contract with 20th Century Fox in 1943’s “Wintertime,” only making two more feature films before retiring from the screen in 1948. Prior to her movie career, what was Henie’s biggest claim to fame?
9. 1966’s “Wild Wild Winter” was the fourth and final movie in the “beach party ” genre to use a winter setting, in this case the mountains of Lake Tahoe. It starred American actor Dave Clarke – no connection to the British invasion group the Dave Clark Five – and featured the only movie appearances for two homegrown musical groups popular in the mid-60s. Which one of these acts was NOT in the film: The Electric Prunes (“I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”), the Beau Brummels (“Laugh, Laugh”) or Jay and the Americans (“Come a Little Bit Closer”)?
10. What legendary director said of his own 1963 film, “I think I have made just one picture that I really like, and that is ‘ Winter Light’ ”?