SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: MUST-SEE FILMS

You are provided with excerpts from Jeremy Arnold’s “The Essential 52 Must-See Movies,” including the year of the film. Identify the film. (e.g., “Three American servicemen face difficulties readjusting to civilian life,” 1946. Answer: “The Best Years of Our Lives.”)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. “A spoiled Southern belle fights to save her Georgian plantation,” 1939. Answer________

2. “A movie director captures a gigantic ape,” 1933. Answer________

3. “A reporter attempts to determine the meaning of a oncepowerful newspaper tycoon’s dying words,” 1941. Answer________

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. “An American nightclub owner is torn between love and duty when his former flame re-enters his life,” 1942. Answer________

5. “A white lawyer in a small Alabama town defends a Black man,” 1962. Answer________

6. “British army officer ... helps lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks,” 1962. Answer________

PH.D. LEVEL

7. “A photographer with a broken leg spies on his neighbor,” 1954. Answer________

8. “A longshoreman faces pressure to testify against a powerful corrupt union boss,” 1954. Answer________

9. “A family in 1903 St. Louis faces the possibility of a move to New York,” 1944. Answer________

SCORING:

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?