MOVIE QUIZ
With the release this weekend of the romantic drama “Monday” — starring Sebastian Stan (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”), Denise Gough (“The Kid Who Would Be King”) and gorgeous Greek Islands scenery — it put us in a “days of the week” kind of mood.
Take our latest movie quiz about, you guessed it, movies with a day of the week in the title.
1. Out of the films “First Monday in May” and “First Monday in October,” which one is a documentary about the most attended fashion exhibit in history, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
2. In 1969’s European travelogue comedy “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium,” one character admires the slogan written on another’s motorcycle: “Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came.” True or false: The following year, costars Suzanne Pleshette and Pamela Britton appeared together again in a movie with that slogan as its title?
3. “Any Wednesday” and “Ash Wednesday”: Which one involves a young Jane Fonda having an affair with an older man, and which one depicts a middle-aged Elizabeth Taylor having one with a younger man?
4. The 1998 crime comedy “Thursday” is not just the film that proved that Aaron Eckhart and Thomas Jane were not, in fact, the same person. It also co-stars what Oscar-nominated, Schenectady-born actor?
5. Ice Cube and Regina King co-starred in 1995’s “Friday,” but what influential, Oscar-nominated 1991 film featured both of their theatrical movie debuts?
6. Jodie Foster, the star of the original 1976 “Freaky Friday,” came back for a cameo in the 2003 remake with Lindsay Lohan. True or false?
7. In which of these movies did the director NOT also star? A. “Uptown Saturday Night” B. “Saturday the 14th” C. “Mr. Saturday Night”
8. What famed film critic called “Saturday Night Fever” his favorite movie and in 1978 bought the white polyester suit worn by John Travolta’s character for $2,000 (selling it years later for $145,000)?
9. Choose the correct title for the 1971 documentary on motorcycle racing that includes Steve Mcqueen A. “Any Given Sunday” B. “Never on Sunday” C. “Never on a Sunday” D. “On Any Sunday”
10. The 1988 crime drama “Stormy Monday” starred Tommy Lee Jones and Melanie Griffith, but also had in it cast what musician-actor who later had hit songs titled “Seven Days” and “Brand New Day”?
—C.J. Lais Jr.
Here are the answers to the Movie Quiz on page 2.
1. “First Monday in May”
2. True
3. “Any Wednesday” — Jane Fonda; “Ash Wednesday” — Elizabeth Taylor
4. Mickey Rourke
5. “Boyz n the Hood”
6. False. She was offered the mother role eventually played by Jamie Lee Curtis, but declined.
7. B
8. Gene Siskel
9. D
10. Sting