Q 01/05

In The Cutting Edge, which risky, illegal throw wins Kate and Doug their Olympic gold medal?

A) The Iron Lotus

B) The Death Spiral

C) The Pamchenko

D) The Biellmann

Answer · why

C) The Pamchenko

The Pamchenko is named for the coach who invents it, and no pair could do it in one go: the film stitched the move together from three separate stunts...

Q 02/05

The Cutting Edge made a catchphrase of which jagged part of a figure skate that hockey skates lack?

A) Toe pick

B) Heel plate

C) Blade guard

D) Rocker

Answer · why

A) Toe pick

Toe pick is the name for the jagged teeth at the front of a figure-skate blade, used for jumps and spins. In the film Kate turns the term into a taunt...

Q 03/05

In The Cutting Edge, Kate and Doug win gold at the 1992 Winter Olympics, held in which French town?

A) Grenoble

B) Albertville

C) Aix-les-Bains

D) Chamonix

Answer · why

B) Albertville

Albertville hosted the 1992 Games, the last Winter Olympics staged in the same year as a Summer Games. The film opened in US cinemas about a month aft...

Q 04/05

In The Cutting Edge, which lasting injury ends Olympic hockey player Doug Dorsey's NHL dream?

A) A shattered kneecap

B) A badly shattered collarbone

C) A torn Achilles tendon

D) Damaged peripheral vision

Answer · why

D) Damaged peripheral vision

Damaged peripheral vision leaves Doug medically unfit to play after a blow to the head at the 1988 Games. Two years later he is playing amateur hockey...

Q 05/05

The Cutting Edge director Paul Michael Glaser played a detective in which 1970s buddy-cop TV series?

A) Starsky & Hutch

B) The Rookies

C) Police Story

D) The Rockford Files

Answer · why

A) Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch made Glaser famous as Detective Dave Starsky, and he also wrote and directed episodes of it. That work behind the camera led to featur...