Contents

Acknowledgments
How to Play the Games

GAME TOPICS

1. Award Winners 2. Horror Movies 3. Westerns 4. GRAB BAG 5. Love Stories 6. The Classics 7. Musicals 8. GRAB BAG 9. The Directors 10. War Films 11. Sports Films 12. GRAB BAG 13. Prison Films 14. Foreign Films 15. School Days 16. GRAB BAG 17. Swashbucklers 18. Animated Features 19. Extraterrestrials, UFOs & Aliens 20. GRAB BAG 21. Kings and Queens 22. Locations, Locations, Locations 23. Working Women 24. GRAB BAG 25. Prequels and Sequels 26. Spies and Assassins 27. Mr. President 28. GRAB BAG 29. Film Firsts 30. Film Noir 31. Documentaries 32. GRAB BAG 33. Disaster Movies 34. Alfred Hitchcock 35. The Bible 36. GRAB BAG 37. Coming-of-Age 38. Martin Scorsese 39. Teen Comedies 40. GRAB BAG

41. Remakes 42. God and the Devil 43. Shall We Dance? 44. GRAB BAG 45. Cinema at Sea 46. Literature and the Movies 47. Breakout Roles 48. GRAB BAG 49. More Horror Movies 50. From Comic Book to Silver Screen 51. Wedding Movies 52. GRAB BAG 53. Star Wars 54. Woody Allen 55. More Foreign Films 56. GRAB BAG 57. More Westerns 58. Romantic Comedies 59. Political Paranoia Movies 60. GRAB BAG 61. Family Flicks 62. Ghosts and the Paranormal 63. Costume Dramas 64. GRAB BAG 65. More Locations, Locations, Locations 66. More Directors 67. Historical Epics 68. GRAB BAG 69. Movies about Writers 70. Orson Welles 71. Animal Flicks 72. GRAB BAG 73. Movie “Packs”--Rat, Brat, & Frat 74. Movies by the Numbers, 184 75. Cameo Corner 76. GRAB BAG 77. Cult Classics 78. More Extraterrestrials, UFOs & Aliens 79. All about ME--Fred Willard 80. GRAB BAG

Introduction

How to Play the Games
Welcome, friends. Are you ready to put your knowledge of movie facts and details to the test? My trivia book is built to challenge, while providing endless hours of fun and enjoyment. The games in this book have been designed in a way that allows you, the reader, to play either alone or with others. In most trivia books, when looking up the answer to a question, the reader is able to see the answers to other questions at the same time. This book doesn’t allow that to happen, but you must first understand how to play the games. Ready?

The Basics
There are eighty games in this book, each with a dozen questions. Every game is also numbered and has been given a title that reflects the basic category of its questions, such as “The Classics,” “Award Winners,” “Romantic Comedies,” “Breakout Roles,” and “Film Firsts.” Throughout, you’ll also find a number of games titled “Grab Bag,” which include a mix and match of questions from various categories.

The Page Setup
Each page holds four frames that are situated from the top of the page to the bottom (as seen in the example on the next page). Each frame is divided in half. The left half contains a question. The right half contains the answer to the question from a previous page. (Seem a little confusing? Not to worry--it actually sounds more complicated than it really is.) Stay with me... Questions are always on the left side of each frame. Answers (to questions from previous pages) are always on the right side of each frame.

Playing the Game
The most important point to keep in mind is that the twelve questions for each game are not read from the top of the page to the bottom. Rather, they are found on the same frame level on succeeding pages. Let me help make this clearer with an example and some accompanying graphics.

Let’s start with Game #1, which begins in the top frame of page 1--a right-hand page. Here, you will find the name and number of the game you are about to play.

Game #1 begins in the top frame of page 1 (a right-hand page). Turn the page and look at the next right-hand page (page 3) for the game’s first question, which is located on the left side of the top frame. First question is on left side of top frame. The first question of Game #1 appears on the next right-hand page (page 3). It is found on the left side of the top frame.

So where’s the answer to this question? Turn the page again and continue to look at the top frame of the next right-hand page (page 5). The answer is located on the right side of the frame. On the left side of this frame, you’ll find the second question of Game #1.

The answer to the first question of Game #1 is on the following right-hand page--located on the right side of the top frame. The left side of the top frame has the Game’s next question.

And that’s how you continue--turning the page for each new question (Q), and finding its answer (A) on the following right-hand page. Individual games are always played on the same frame level.

Progression of Questions and Answers
So there you have it. Beginning with the top frame (and staying in that top frame), play the games, which flow from one right-hand page to the next until you have reached the last page. Then you simply make a U-turn and continue playing the games--still in the top frame--from the back of the book to the front. While going in this direction, the answers to the questions will be found on consecutive left-hand pages.

Once you’ve completed the games in the top frame from the front of the book to the back, and then from the back to the front again, you’ll find yourself back on page 1. Simply drop down one level to the next frame and begin playing the games found on this new level. Again, questions and answers will flow from one right-hand page to the next. Just be sure to stay on the same frame level.

There’s Help on Every Page...
To be absolutely sure there’s no confusion while playing the games, helpful instructions are provided on each and every page. I promise you, once you get the hang of it, you’re going to love it. So kick back and get ready to be entertained, amused, and enlightened by the challenging questions you’re about to face and their fascinating fact-filled answers.

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