Q 01/05
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
Joe E. Brown's millionaire Osgood shrugs it off, and the line closed a film Billy Wilder co-wrote, produced and directed in 1959.
Q 02/05
A) Geraldine and Dolores
B) Josephine and Daphne
C) Marilyn and Sugar
D) Roberta and Louise
Answer · why
Lemmon's character was supposed to be Geraldine but blurts out Daphne instead, and later ends up engaged to a millionaire.
Q 03/05
A) The High and the Mighty
B) Airport
C) Flight to Nowhere
D) Zero Hour!
Answer · why
The Zuckers and Jim Abrahams bought the rights so they could lift its plot and dialogue almost intact, then played it straight.
Q 04/05
A) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
B) Wilt Chamberlain
C) Julius Erving
D) Bill Walton
Answer · why
The gag pays off when he finally snaps at the kid about dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
Q 05/05
A) Dr. Stryker
B) Dr. Rumack
C) Dr. Kramer
D) Dr. Oveur
Answer · why
The role relaunched Nielsen, until then a dramatic actor, as a comic star and led straight to Police Squad! and The Naked Gun.
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