Q 01/05

Who directed A League of Their Own (1992)?

A) Penny Marshall

B) Nora Ephron

C) Barry Levinson

D) Ron Shelton

Answer · why

A) Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall. She had never heard of the women's league until she saw a PBS documentary about it, then teamed up with two producers who already held...

Q 02/05

What does Mae teach her teammate Shirley Baker to do during the Peaches' season on the road?

A) To dance

B) To drive

C) To bunt

D) To read

Answer · why

D) To read

To read. Shirley can't find her own name on the team lists at tryouts, so Mae coaches her through a racy paperback, shooing away a teammate who object...

Q 03/05

Which star of A League of Their Own directed an episode of its short-lived 1993 television spin-off?

A) Geena Davis

B) Madonna

C) Tom Hanks

D) Rosie O'Donnell

Answer · why

C) Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks. He stepped behind the camera for one episode of the CBS sitcom, which kept several of the film's supporting players but was off the air wit...

Q 04/05

How did Jimmy Dugan, the Peaches' hard-drinking manager, wreck the knee that ended his playing career?

A) A bar-room brawl

B) A car crash

C) A slide into second base

D) A fall from a hotel

Answer · why

D) A fall from a hotel

A fall from a hotel. He was escaping a fire that, as the league's owner reminds him, he had started himself, and he takes the women's job only because...

Q 05/05

What is the nickname of Madonna's character, Mae Mordabito?

A) 'Home Run' Mae

B) 'Fast' Mae

C) 'Manhattan' Mae

D) 'All the Way' Mae

Answer · why

D) 'All the Way' Mae

'All the Way' Mae. Early reports had Madonna playing Dottie's sister Kit; she took the brassier supporting part instead, and the ballpark announcer us...