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#15 Week 4

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Sigrun Sørumgård
January 21, 2025

From blockbuster hits to cult classics, see how much you know about the iconic films that defined a decade.

  1. In Back to the Future (1985), what is the name of Doc Brown’s dog?

  2. In what kind of building do the Ghostbusters set up their headquarters?

  3. What is the name of the villain in Die Hard (1988)?

  4. In Labyrinth (1986), what is the name of the goblin king, played by David Bowie

  5. Who produced and directed the movie The Shining?

  6. Footloose is a song from the 1984 film of the same name (the other one being I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)). Who wrote and recorded the song?

  7. Who plays Gertie in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?

  8. In which country did Tony Montana in Scarface (1983) grow up?

  9. What's Maverick's real name in Top Gun from 1986?

  10. In what year is the movie Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) set?

The Wonder Wall

  • The yellow classic automobile that Daniel polishes in the famous "wax-on/wax-off" scene in The Karate Kid (1984) was actually given to Ralph Macchio by the producer, and he still owns it. The car is a 1948 Ford Super De Luxe.

  • Actors considered for the role of Indiana Jones included Nick Nolte, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Jack Nicholson, and Tom Selleck. Harrison Ford was cast less than three weeks before principal photography began for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

  • One afternoon during a break from filming The Terminator (1984), Arnold Schwarzenegger went into a restaurant in downtown L.A. to get some lunch and realized all too late that he was still in terminator make-up: with a missing eye, burned flesh, and exposed jawbone.

Yesterday´s Answers

  1. Switzerland-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the only 3-time recipient of the Nobel Prize.

  2. Physic, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economic Science and Peace.

  3. 1901

  4. It was the day Alfred Nobel passed away.

  5. Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes (Physics 1903 and Chemistry 1911), she shared the physics prize with her husband Pierre Curie. Their daughter Irène Joliot-Curie was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, she also shared the prize with her husband Frédéric Joliot.

  6. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Winston Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".

  7. Jean-Paul Sartre

  8. The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The origami crane has become symbolic to their fight to abolish nuclear weapons.

  9. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frédéric Passy (France).

  10. United State of America, with 380 winners.