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Movies Stuck in One Place — Daily trivia Thursday, October 15, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Cast Away paused a year so Tom Hanks could lose weight. What's his volleyball called?
- ASpalding
- BWilson
- CRawlings
- DMikasa
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Wilson
Wilson. Director Robert Zemeckis used the year-long break to shoot a whole other film, What Lies Beneath.
Q 02Five students from different cliques spend a Saturday detention in their school library in which John Hughes film?
- ASixteen Candles
- BPretty in Pink
- CThe Breakfast Club
- DFerris Bueller's Day Off
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The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club. Its library was a set, built inside the gym of a closed Illinois high school.
Q 03Two strangers wake up chained to pipes in a filthy bathroom in which horror film?
- ASaw
- BHostel
- CThe Ring
- DScream
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Saw
Saw. The body lying between the two men all along turns out to be the killer, Jigsaw, and the whole film was shot in 18 days.
Q 04After Kurt Russell smashed a museum's antique guitar while filming The Hateful Eight, what did the museum stop doing?
- ALetting visitors hold guitars
- BDisplaying its oldest guitars
- CSelling guitar replicas
- DLending guitars to movies
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Lending guitars to movies
Lending guitars to movies. The sound mixer says a replica was meant to be swapped in, but nobody told Russell.
Q 05Hitchcock shot Dial M for Murder in 3-D, yet most cinemas showed it flat. Why?
- AThe 3-D craze had faded
- BIts 3-D reels were lost
- CCensors banned the 3-D
- DGrace Kelly vetoed the 3-D
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The 3-D craze had faded
The 3-D craze had faded. When crowds stayed away from its Philadelphia opening, the cinema switched to a flat print after one day.
Q 06Sidney Lumet slowly lowered his camera as 12 Angry Men went on. Why?
- ATo make it feel hotter
- BTo show time passing
- CTo make the room close in
- DTo hide a smaller set
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To make the room close in
To make the room close in. By the last third the camera sits below eye level, and Lumet said he wanted a nearly palpable claustrophobia.
Q 07What stumped Alfred Hitchcock and Larry Cohen about a thriller set entirely inside one phone booth?
- AHow to light the booth
- BWhere the camera goes
- CWhat the caller wants
- DWhy he doesn't just leave
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Why he doesn't just leave
Why he doesn't just leave. Decades later Cohen cracked it: a sniper keeps the man prisoner, and it became Phone Booth.
Q 08Nicole Kidman left Panic Room with a knee injury. How does she still appear in it?
- AIn a framed photo
- BAs an off-screen voice
- CAs a TV newsreader
- DAs a passing neighbor
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As an off-screen voice
As an off-screen voice. Uncredited, she voices the model girlfriend of the heroine's ex-husband, after Jodie Foster replaced her in the lead.
Q 09Das Boot rarely leaves its U-boat. Which Harrison Ford film borrowed that sub?
- APatriot Games
- BIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- CRaiders of the Lost Ark
- DAir Force One
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy stows away aboard it, in scenes shot at the real WWII German U-boat pens in La Rochelle, France.
Q 10Hitchcock's Lifeboat never leaves one small boat. Where is his usual cameo?
- AOn a passing ship
- BIn a newspaper ad
- CIn a wallet photo
- DOn a magazine cover
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In a newspaper ad
In a newspaper ad. His before-and-after photos sell a fake diet drug, Reduco, and he said readers wrote asking where to buy it.
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