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Cryptic Film Titles Quiz

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  • 23-12-2009 11:07am
    #1
    Naz_st
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭


    This is an amalgamation of two rounds of a quiz I put together once a year, thought it might be of interest here. I'm sure there's a few slow work days out there today!

    Cryptic Film Titles Quiz

    e.g. "Spanish White House?" = Casa Blanca

    1) Sorcerer Down Under?
    2) Sight, Smell, Touch, Sound, Taste, this?
    3) What a drenched pop star might be doing?
    4) A few want chillis?
    5) Returning to Tomorrow
    6) Tom Cruise vs Alpha Centauri?
    7) 8 years ago, a long story about mostly nothing?
    8) Bird of Prey from Mediterranean Island
    9) Armageddon is here!
    10) To Execute a sarcastic fowl?
    11) Small sheep stay quiet
    12) Does the Foxtrot with a football club
    13) Granite-like?
    14) A dozen Gordon Ramseys?
    15) Why Fawlty Towers isn't as funny in German?
    16) The unlit chess piece?
    17) Decent Blokes?
    18) All Iron Evening wear?
    19) Looking out for part of the brides dress
    20) Suggests Lucifer is Fashionable?
    21) Ah, one of them probably did it!
    22) After Wall D?
    23) What the shoe polisher does?
    24) Permanent light in an immaculate brain?
    25) What Houdini is most famous for?
    26) What the lion and the tin man together lacked?
    27) A nation geared towards teenagers?
    28) ...definitely during a transfusion!
    29) Expensive Progeny?
    30) Has been blown away?
    31) Tracking down charity?
    32) The Majestic Feline
    33) As such, has no alibi?
    34) Maybe between about 8 and 9, or 5 and 6 perhaps?
    35) ...no man really knows
    36) Perfection
    37) Not as cold as snow man?
    38) The gymnast without peer in his event?
    39) A very long tour of Hollywood?
    40) Surplus water Dalmatians?


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    folan
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    1) wizard of oz?
    2) Sixth Sense?
    5) back to the future?
    10) to kill a mocking bird?
    11) silence of the lambs?
    16) the dark knight?
    17) a few good men?
    20) the devil wears prada?
    21) the usual suspects
    22) Wall-E
    34) Se7en
    35) what a woman wants


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    #3
    folan
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    12) Dances with wolves


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    #4
    Naz_st
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭Naz_st


    folan wrote: »
    1) wizard of oz?
    2) Sixth Sense?
    5) back to the future?
    10) to kill a mocking bird?
    11) silence of the lambs?
    16) the dark knight?
    17) a few good men?
    20) the devil wears prada?
    21) the usual suspects
    22) Wall-E
    34) Se7en
    35) what a woman wants

    17 is not the answer I had in mind, but good enough.

    34 is wrong, the rest correct.


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    5) Returning to Tomorrow = Back to the future
    7) 8 years ago, a long story about mostly nothing = 2001: A space odyssey
    8) Bird of Prey from Mediterranean Island = Maltese falcon
    9) Armageddon is here! = End of days
    13) Granite-like? = Rocky
    14) A dozen Gordon Ramseys? = 12 angry men
    15) Why Fawlty Towers isn't as funny in German? = Lost in translation
    18) All Iron Evening wear? = Full metal jacket
    23) What the shoe polisher does? = Shine
    24) Permanent light in an immaculate brain? = Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
    25) What Houdini is most famous for? = the great escape?


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    Naz_st
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭Naz_st


    Deleted User wrote: »
    5) Returning to Tomorrow = Back to the future
    7) 8 years ago, a long story about mostly nothing = 2001: A space odyssey
    8) Bird of Prey from Mediterranean Island = Maltese falcon
    9) Armageddon is here! = End of days
    13) Granite-like? = Rocky
    14) A dozen Gordon Ramseys? = 12 angry men
    15) Why Fawlty Towers isn't as funny in German? = Lost in translation
    18) All Iron Evening wear? = Full metal jacket
    23) What the shoe polisher does? = Shine
    24) Permanent light in an immaculate brain? = Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
    25) What Houdini is most famous for? = the great escape?

    9 & 23 aren't what I had, but seem as good to me (there were a couple of different answers on the quiz night also - interesting to see other answers that work...)

    The rest are right also.


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