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  1. Harrison Ford plays the role made famous by David Jansen in the original television series.
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  2. He played convincingly the role of Mahatma Ghandi in a 1982 epic film.
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  3. She was Oda Mae Brown, the psychic medium between Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
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  4. Name the four Ghostbusters.
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  5. This movie with Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Matthew Broderick, chronicled the role of the 54th Massachusettes Volunteer Infantry in the US Civil War.
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  6. One of the funniest movies of all time, set in the Kalahari Desert, it stars N!xau as a Bushman, Marius Weyers as a biologist studying rhinos feeding habits, and Sandra Prinsloo, as an office worker turned village schoolteacher.
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  7. In this movie, Ronin Williams does a stint in Southeast Asia, mostly on the radio.
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  8. She plays Gorilla researcher Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist.
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  9. William Hurt plays a Moscow detective trying to solve a grisly murder, in a movie based on Martin Cruz Smith's novel.
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  10. Things seem to keep repeating themselves in this 1993 movie about a TV news weatherman. Name the movie, actor, and setting.
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  11. He is assigned to guard Shirley Maclaine in Guarding Tess.
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  12. His films include Silent Movie, High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein.
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  13. He was left Home Alone.
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  14. This actor played Wayne Szalinski, who shrunk his kids in one movie, and blew one up in another.
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  15. You can see him in Moonstruck, The Rock, Raising Arizona, and Honeymoon in Vegas.
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  16. This 1992 Merchant-Ivory film was based on an E.M. Forster novel, with a cast that included Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson, and Helena Bonham Carter.
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  17. He was the first one to play CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a screen adaptation of a Tom Clancy Film. Name the Actor and Movie.
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  18. Clint Eastwood starred in this 1993 film about an ageing Secret Service operative.
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  19. The Mother of all shark movies.
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  20. This movie, based on a 1989 Amy Tan novel, looks back on the histories of a group of Chinese women in the 1930's and 40's, and at their present day relationships with each other and with their daughters.
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  21. Tne Mother of all dinosaur movies.
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  22. This 1984 movie starring Sam Waterson and Dr. Haing S. Ngor brought the horrors of Cambodia to the screen with a haunting soundtrack by Michael Oldfield.
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  23. He taught kindergarden in a 1990 Ivan Reitman comedy/action film.
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  24. This 1983 movie has a sound track by Philip Glass, but no actors and no narration. It was subtitled "Life out of Balance."
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  25. She played Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues.
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  26. What country is the setting for the 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film, The Last Emperor?
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  27. He was Hawkeye, The Last of the Mohicans, with Madeline Stowe as Cora in a 1992 film.
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  28. She directed A League of Their Own about a team in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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  29. She is a computer operator in the Currency Transactions department, who gets involved in rescuing a British spy trapped in eastern europe, in Jumping Jack Flash.
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  30. She wrote and he directed the 1993 Mexican film Like Water for Chocolate.
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  31. In this movie Dustin Hoffman is a Cheyanne indian, who tells his tale of survival to a reporter at age 121.
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  32. He played James and she played Mollie in Look Who's Talking.
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  33. She played Bella, in the 1993 screen adaptation of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.
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  34. This 1994 western included Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, and James Coburn.
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  35. In this movie based on a Stephen King novel, James Caan suffers severely at the hands of his number one fan, Kathy Bates.
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  36. In this movie, Robin Williams role was compared to the role Dustin Hoffman played in Tootsie.
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  37. In this 1987 Norman Jewison love story set in New York, the characters include Loretta Castorini, Johnny and Ronny Cammareri, Rose and Cosmo Castorini, and Rita and Raymond Cappomaggi.
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  38. Maria Conchita Alonza plays an Italian immigrant sales clerk who helps Robin defect in Bloomingdales department store in this Paul Mazursky film.
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  39. Denzel Washington is Prince Aragon, Emma Thompson is Beatrice, and Kenneth Branaugh is Benedick in this 1993 film of one of Shakespeare's comedies.
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  40. He plays Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Perot in the 1974 movie,Murder on the Orient Express.
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  41. She was Mona Lisa Vito opposite Joe Pesci's Vinny Gambini, in My Cousin Vinny.
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  42. In My Favorite Year, Benjy Stone, played by Mark Linn-Baker, must get swashbuckling Alan Swann, played by this actor, to appear on King Kaiser's Komedy Hour.
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  43. In this 1986 movie, Sean Connery plays detective/scholar/monk William of Baskerville, who investigates a series of murders at a medeival monastery.
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  44. In what movie about college fraternity life would you find Otter, Flounder, Pinto, Bluto, Dean Wormer, and Neidermeier?
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  45. Saturday Night alumni Aykroyd and Belushi starred in this warped tale of life in the suburbs gone wrong.
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  46. Sean Connery made this movie when he decided he wanted to be James Bond again after all.
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  47. He played Winston Smith in the 1984 movie version of George Orwell's book, 1984.
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  48. These three actresses played office workers fed-up with their overbearing boss Dabney Coleman, in Nine to Five.
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  49. She was in Soapdish, Norma Rae, and Places in the Heart.
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  50. He played the Allmighty opposite John Denver's grocery store manager in Carl Reiner's Oh, God!
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  51. Who played Patton, in the 1970 film biography of the same name?
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  52. He prosecutes Tom Hanks' former law firm in Philadelphia.
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  53. She wrote and directed the 1993 movie, The Piano.
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  54. They had a real love/hate relationship as travelling companions in Planes Trains, and Automobiles.
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  55. He was Popeye and she was Olive Oyl in this eerily precise 1980 Robert Altman film version of Popeye.
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  56. She acted in Star Wars and The Blues Brothers, and wrote Postcards from the Edge.
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  57. He was Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.
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  58. She Enlisted as Private Benjamin.
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  59. She played Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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  60. Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter play a childless couple who borrow a quintuplet in this stylish film by the Coen brothers with a yodeling soundtrack.
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  61. He played John Glenn in The Right Stuff.
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  62. He was Buckaroo Bonzai and Robocop.
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  63. She played Adrian opposite Rock Balboa in a series of Severter Stallone movies.
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  64. Their films include A Room with a View, A Passage to India, and Howard's End.
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  65. He gave a powerful performance as Lt. Col. Frank Slade, retired, in Scent of a Woman.
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  66. She has been a Serial Mom, been Peggy Sue, V.I., and lived the Blues.
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  67. She played American Joy Gresham opposite Anthony Hopkins' C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands.
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  68. He played the title role in the 1971 film Shaft.
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  69. He played The Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 screen adaptation of Batman.
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  70. She Played Catwoman and he played Max von Shreck in Batman Returns.
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  71. He played the title character - a ghost with the funny name and she played a misanthropic teen in this 1988 Tim Burton film which include an instruction manual for the 'newly dead'. Name the actor and movie.
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  72. He played Axel foley in a series of movies about a Detroit policeman's adventures in southern California.
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  73. His films include Prizzi's Honor, Chinatown, Batman, and The Shining.
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  74. In this Walt Disney animated film, Rod Taylor provided the voice for Pongo.
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  75. Paul Simon plays an anachronistic folk singer in this 1980 film.
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  76. He played Larry the Liquidator in Other People's Money.
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  77. She 'once had a farm in Africa' in Sydney Pollack's screen adaptation of an Isak Dinesin novel. Name the actress and film.
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  78. Name the ultimate cult movie which introduced us to a dance called the 'Time Warp'?
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  79. He played Godbole in the Merchant-Ivory production of E.M. Forester's A Passage to India.
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  80. He played Jack Ryan in Patriot Games and A Clear and Present Danger.
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  81. Name the actress who played The Widow (Bond), and the actors who played The Son(Gillam), The Doctor, The Sherrif, and The Undertaker in The Shootist, a 1976 John Wayne film about an ageing gunfighter set in Carson City in 1901.
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  82. Warren Beatty and Annette Benning starred in this story of gangster Benjaman Siegel and the rise of casino gambling in Las Vegas.
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  83. Susan Sarandon plays a worshiper at the Church of Baseball in this 1988 movie about North Carolina's minor league, which also starred Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins.
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  84. Who played Dr. Hannibal Lector opposite Jodie Foster's character Clarice Starling in the 1991 movie Silence of the Lambs?
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  85. Bruce Dern starred along with his three robot buddies, Huey, Louie, and Dewey in this 1972 science fiction movie as an ecologist who skyjacks an orbiting greenhouse scheduled for destruction.
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  86. Name three westerns with actor Kevin Kostner.
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  87. His classic 1973 futuristic comedy Sleeper, he and Dianne Keaton join the underground and kidnap the Leader's nose.
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  88. This 1993 Nora Ephron film tells the story of a single woman and a widowed father on opposite sides of the country who are drawn together after the man's son calls in to a radio talk show for help in getting his father remarried. Name the movie, the actor, and the actress.
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  89. She Was Princess Leia, in the Star Wars movies.
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  90. She ends up as the de facto bus driver in the 1994 movie Speed.
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  91. She played russian Agent XXX opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1977 movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.
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  92. He played Khan and she plated Lt Saavik in the second Star Trek movie.
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  93. She was Julia Roberts' mother in the 1989 film, Steel Magnolias.
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  94. He played Checkov in the Star Trek movies and TV series.
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  95. She played Lois Lane in the 1978 Superman movie opposite Christopher Reeve.
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  96. So he Married an Ax Murderer in 1993.
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  97. What character was played by Mark Lenard on the Star Trek TV series, and in the movies?
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  98. She played the Swamp Thing's girlfriend.
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  99. He was The Tall Guy, an American actor in London, in a 1990 movie.
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  100. She was Dudley Moore's wife in 10.
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  101. The lengthy cast of this 1991 movie spoofing daytime soap operas included Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg, Elizabeth Shue, Carrie Fisher, Gary Marshall, and Teri Hatcher.
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  102. Who played Uhura, in the Star Trek movies and TV series?
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  103. She starred opposite Arnold in the Terminator movies.
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  104. She was Aurora Greenway, living next door to ageing astronaut Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment.
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  105. Two Arkansas women go on a spree of sorts in a 1956 T-bird in the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise. Name the two lead actresses.
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  106. Kurt Russel starred in one of the ultimate monster movies, John Carpenter's 1982 version of the classic John Campbell story, Who Goes There?
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  107. He playe Gino the cobbler in the 1988 David Mamet film Things Change.
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  108. They were the three men, in Three Men and a Baby.
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  109. This 1993 animated film by Tim Burton featured Jack Skellington.
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  110. She starred opposite Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
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  111. He played Tron in the 1982 movie.
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  112. They were Twins in the 1988 movie.
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  113. He was Dr. Heywood Floyd and she was Russian commander Kirbuk in the film version of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010.
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  114. He played lawyer Frank Gavin in The Verdict.
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  115. They were a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses.
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  116. They played reluctant future spouses in When Harry Met Sally.
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  117. This Robert Zemekis film starred Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, and a bunch of Toons.
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  118. He was Willie Wonka in a 1971 movie.
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  119. She starred as an Amish widow opposite Harrison Ford in Witness.
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  120. She starred as Dorothy and he starred as the Scarecrow in a hip 1978 remake of The Wizard of Oz.
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  121. She was Melanie Griffith's boss in Working Girl.
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  122. She was Robin Williams'mother in The World According to Garp.
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  123. What was Marty Feldman's character, in Young Frankenstein.
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  124. Instead of playing a gunslinger, he played director and producer for this 1988 biography of jazz musician Charlie Parker. Name the director and the movie.
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