Q 01/05

What is the final line of Some Like It Hot, after Jack Lemmon's character pulls off his wig?

A) Well, nobody's perfect!

B) Here's looking at you, kid.

C) I'll have what she's having.

D) Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

Answer · why

A) Well, nobody's perfect!

Osgood (Joe E. Brown) answers Daphne's wig-off confession with 'Well, nobody's perfect!', the closing line of the 1959 film Billy Wilder co-wrote, pro...

Q 02/05

In Some Like It Hot, what names do Curtis and Lemmon adopt in the all-female band?

A) Geraldine and Dolores

B) Josephine and Daphne

C) Marilyn and Sugar

D) Roberta and Louise

Answer · why

B) Josephine and Daphne

Curtis becomes Josephine and Lemmon becomes Daphne; Lemmon's character was supposed to be Geraldine but blurts out Daphne, and later ends up engaged t...

Q 03/05

Airplane! (1980) is a scene-for-scene parody of which 1957 Paramount disaster film?

A) The High and the Mighty

B) Airport

C) Flight to Nowhere

D) Zero Hour!

Answer · why

D) Zero Hour!

Zero Hour! (1957) supplied the plot and much of the dialogue; the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams bought its remake rights and played the lines straight for ...

Q 04/05

Which NBA legend plays co-pilot Roger Murdock in Airplane!?

A) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

B) Wilt Chamberlain

C) Julius Erving

D) Bill Walton

Answer · why

A) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finally breaks character to snap at the kid about dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

Q 05/05

In Airplane!, what is the name of Leslie Nielsen's deadpan doctor who does not want to be called Shirley?

A) Dr. Stryker

B) Dr. Rumack

C) Dr. Kramer

D) Dr. Oveur

Answer · why

B) Dr. Rumack

Dr. Rumack ('I am serious, and don't call me Shirley') relaunched Leslie Nielsen, until then a dramatic actor, as a comic star and led to Police Squad...