Sunday, July 19, 2009

The Monday Quiz LXXXI


The Monday Quiz goes to the Movies -- in the year 2002!

2002! A delightful year of overwrought patriotism and paranoia! Here we have scenes from some of its hit films. Identify the movies.

1. (be specific!)



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5.


Submit your answers in the comments.

24 comments:

Elaine said...

1. Lord of the Rings, but I don't know the subtitle..?Return of the King?
2. About a Boy
3. Oh, dear. Mel Gibson off the deep end again...but it can't be the one where he was in cryonic deep freeze...
4. Ice Age (?)
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

I only guessed on three!

Yankee in England said...

Finally one I know the answers to.

1. Lord of the Rings the Two Towers. How empty my Christmas days seemed after the three years I went to see this mov

2. About a Boy

3. Signs

4. Ice Age (The first on I believe by the year)

5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

fingerstothebone said...

Hmmm, given how many movies we see, I don't seem to remember 2002 terribly well.

1. (I looked.)
2. (I looked here too.)
3. (And yup, here too.)
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Rebel said...

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. About a Boy
3. Signs (?) Mel Gibson has *never* had any appeal to me whatsoever.
4. Ice Age... one of them anyway.
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - AWESOME movie btw.

The Calico Cat said...

Lord of the rings (I can't be more specific)
skip
skip
Ice Age
My Big Fat Greek Wedding

snowgirl said...

1. Lord of the Rings Two Towers
2. About a Boy
3. Hmmm, idk
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Elizabeth said...

1. LOTR - Two Towers. My gosh, has it been 7 years since that came out?
2. I have not seen this, but this might be "About A Boy".
3. I have not seen this, but I'm calling it "The Hershey Kiss Family Reads Bedtime Stories".
4. I have not seen this, but I think it's called "Ice Age".
5. I have not seen this, but it has to be "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".

Eversaved said...

1. Lord of the Rings-(Return of the King?)
2. About a Boy
3. Signs
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Cartophiliac said...

1. Return of the King
2. About a Boy
3. Signs
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Karin said...

1. LOTR--dreck
2. About a Boy--pure genius
3. Signs--M. Knight Shayamalan is the Man!
4. Ice Age
5. MBFGW

Could not possibly have been 7 years ago. Surely, you jest.

Laura said...

1. Lord of the Rings 2?
2. Oh! I read that book... it's a Nick Hornsby book. Um... shit. OH!!! About a Boy.
3. Mel Gibson still makes movies?
4. Uh... Shrek?
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

I've seen 2 out of 5 of these! Not bad.

PB said...

Wow... it appears I actually watched movies that year.

1. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. About a Boy
3. Signs
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

chuckdaddy said...

1. Lord of the Rings
2. About a Boy
3. Signs
4. Some stupid animated movie
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Elaine said...

Can I get Partial Credit for getting LOTR? That would bring my GPA up to at least passing!

In my defense, I fell asleep on ALL THREE of the movies and it would be just so, so unfair for me to be held to account for not recognizing 'significant scenes.'

I mean, even Cartophiliac had the same wrong answer, and you know how famous he is!!!

Kritkrat said...

1. LOTR: Two Towers (Best of the 3 movies!!)
2. About a Boy
3. Skip (and who the hell cares? I hate mel...)
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Ben said...

1. The Two Towers--part II of Lord of the Rings.
2. No idea.
3. No idea, part II.
4. Ice Age.
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

mrs.5000 said...

man, I'm gonna stink this one up...

1 Lord of the Rings...and it should be the second one, The Two Towers, though who knows if it really is since they divided the movies in weird places...
2 I think that's the movie where Hugh Grant is not the prime minister and not entangled with Julia Roberts...so, About A Boy
3 Yeah, yeah, the aliens are in the cornfields...but I have no idea what the title is...maybe it's Aliens in the Corn
4 Ratz
5 Dressed to Kill

Christine M. said...

1. LOTR 2 Towers
2. About a Boy
3. The Hershey Kiss hat Movie
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

mhwitt said...

Seems easy... for once. I've even seen four out of five of them.

1. The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers
2. About a Boy
3. Signs
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

d said...

The two towers lotr 2
about a boy
signs
Ice age
my big fat Greek wedding

Michael5000 said...

Here, have some answers:

1. The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers
2. About a Boy
3. Signs
4. Ice Age
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Michael5000 said...

...meaning that the MQLXXXI EP winners are cinema enthusiasts Yankee in England, Rebel, PB, mhwitt, and d!

Michael5000 said...

@Elaine: Mel Gibson was only in cryonic deep freeze in Hamlet.

@Yank: The Two Towers ruined Christmas for you? How the hell did THAT work? Also, is "(The first on I believe by the year)" some sort of crazy BritSpeak?

@snowgirl: Hi, snowgirl!

@Elizabeth: I can see where you would have got this image confused with the other 2002 Mel Gibson hit, "The Hershey Kiss Family Reads Bedtime Stories." I hope you don't think I was tricksy for picking an image that could have gone either way.

@Karin: "LOTR dreck"? I'm curious as to why you thought so -- even noted curmudgeons like myself tended to allow that the LOTR movies were not nearly as bad as might have been expected.

@Elaine: Pull yourself together, Elaine! It's unseemly to grovel!

@Mrs.5000: "Ratz." Nice.

Rebel said...

w00t!