Q 01/05

Sarah Jessica Parker, television's Carrie Bradshaw, played witch Sarah Sanderson in which 1993 film with Bette Midler?

A) Hocus Pocus

B) Death Becomes Her

C) Practical Magic

D) The Craft

Answer · why

A) Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus drew only average reviews in 1993 but became a cult favorite through home video and television, and Parker returned for a sequel in 2022.

Q 02/05

Sarah Michelle Gellar, television's Buffy Summers, married which actor she met filming I Know What You Did Last Summer?

A) Ryan Phillippe

B) Freddie Prinze Jr.

C) Chad Michael Murray

D) David Boreanaz

Answer · why

B) Freddie Prinze Jr.

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Gellar married in 2002, the same year they played Fred and Daphne in the live-action Scooby-Doo.

Q 03/05

Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate in 2008, was impersonated on Saturday Night Live by which Emmy-winning comedian?

A) Amy Poehler

B) Rachel Dratch

C) Tina Fey

D) Maya Rudolph

Answer · why

C) Tina Fey

Tina Fey had already left the cast and came back as a guest to play Palin. On one October 2008 show the real Sarah Palin appeared alongside her.

Q 04/05

Sarah Connor, a waitress hunted by a cyborg from the future, was played in the first two Terminator films by whom?

A) Linda Hamilton

B) Sigourney Weaver

C) Jamie Lee Curtis

D) Geena Davis

Answer · why

A) Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton came back to the part 28 years later in Terminator: Dark Fate. She was once married to James Cameron, who directed her in the first two...

Q 05/05

In Genesis, which son is born to Sarah in old age after she laughs at the promise of a child?

A) Jacob

B) Ishmael

C) Joseph

D) Isaac

Answer · why

D) Isaac

Isaac means he laughs in Hebrew, echoing the laughter of Abraham and Sarah at the news. Ishmael, Abraham's elder son, was born to Sarah's servant Haga...

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