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Answers:
| 1. | Complete Jimmy Dugan's signature line: "There's no ________ in baseball!" | ||
|
Crying | ||
| Time-outs | |||
| Girls | |||
| Drugs | |||
| 2. | For which film did Hanks win his first Oscar? | ||
| Big | |||
| The Ladykillers | |||
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|
Philadelphia | ||
| Saving Private Ryan | |||
| 3. | Chuck Noland's volleyball companion in Cast Away bore the name of the sporting goods manufacturer? | ||
| Nike | |||
| Spalding | |||
| Rawlings | |||
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|
Wilson | ||
| 4. | Follow us on this: Which actor played the man that Tom Hank's Carl Hanratty wanted to catch, if he could, in Catch Me If You Can? | ||
| Mark Wahlberg | |||
| Danny DeVito | |||
| Mark Ruffalo | |||
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|
Leonardo DiCaprio | ||
| 5. | Which of the following characters that Hanks portrayed was based on a real-life person? | ||
| Robert Langdon | |||
| Sam Baldwin | |||
|
|
Jim Lovell | ||
| Sherman McCoy | |||
| 6. | What was the name of the fortune telling machine that transforms Josh Baskin into a man in Big? | ||
| Zeno | |||
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|
Zoltar | ||
| Zoltan | |||
| Xenops | |||
| 7. | Tom and his wife Rita Wilson were credited as either producers or executive producers for which pair of surprisingly successful films? | ||
| The Passion of the Christ and Once | |||
| Slumdog Millionaire and The Pianist | |||
| Memento and The Blair Witch Project | |||
|
|
Mamma Mia! and My Big Fat Greek Wedding | ||
| 8. | Ron Howard has directed Tom Hanks a number of times. Which of the follwing was not a Howard/Hanks joint? | ||
| Splash | |||
| The DaVinci Code | |||
|
|
The 'Burbs | ||
| Apollo 13 | |||
| 9. | Just prior before his big break into films, Tom appeared in a handful of Family Ties episodes as Elyse Keaton's brother Ned. What affliction beset Ned? | ||
| He was dying of cancer | |||
| He had incurable insomnia | |||
|
|
He was an alcoholic | ||
| He was a kleptomaniac | |||
| 10. | Big was the first film of Hanks' to gross more than $100 million. What was the second? | ||
| Joe Versus the Volcano | |||
| Forrest Gump | |||
|
|
A League of Their Own | ||
| Toy Story | |||
| 11. | Highjinx ensued when Richard Drew had to wear one business shoe along with one tennis shoe of which color? | ||
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|
Red | ||
| Green | |||
| Yellow | |||
| Blue | |||
| 12. | In That Thing You Do, Mr. White worked for what record label? | ||
| A&G | |||
| StarMaker | |||
| Sunset 45 | |||
|
|
Play-Tone | ||
| 13. | Which of these figures was not seen in archival footage in Forrest Gump? | ||
| Richard Nixon | |||
|
|
Jimi Hendrix | ||
| Elvis Presley | |||
| John Lennon | |||
| 14. | Tom Hanks met future wife Rita Wilson when they worked together for the first time on which film? | ||
|
|
Volunteers | ||
| The Money Pit | |||
| Bachelor Party | |||
| Dragnet | |||
| 15. | Which two HBO series credited Hanks and Steven Spielberg as executive producer? | ||
| From the Earth to the Moon and The Wire | |||
|
|
Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon | ||
| Six Feet Under and Band of Brothers | |||
| The Larry Sanders Show and Race for the Pennant | |||
| 16. | Which tune did Tom Hanks play with Robert Loggia on the floor keyboard in Big? | ||
| Shave and a Haircut | |||
|
|
Heart and Soul | ||
| Ave Maria | |||
| Moonlight Sonata | |||
| 17. | In Bosom Buddies, why did Kip and Henry, portrayed by Hanks and Peter Scolari, masquerade as Buffy and Hildegarde? | ||
| For a job | |||
|
|
For living accommodations | ||
| To fulfill a wager | |||
| To avoid the draft | |||
| 18. | The men in Captain Miller's unit in Saving Private Ryan have a betting pool regarding Miller's occupation back home. To defuse a particularly tense confrontation between the men, Miller revealed he is a teacher. What does he teach? | ||
| French literature | |||
| Geography | |||
| Chemistry and phys ed | |||
|
|
English composition | ||
| 19. | Tom played a variety of roles in the Robert Zemeckis version of The Polar Express. Which of the following was not among them? | ||
| Train Conductor | |||
| Hobo | |||
|
|
Polar bear | ||
| Santa Claus | |||
| 20. | In Nothing in Common, Hanks shared the lead with which Tony winner, in what turned out to be his last film role? | ||
| Hal Holbrook | |||
|
|
Jackie Gleason | ||
| Paul Scofield | |||
| Peter O'Toole | |||
| 21. | Which Hanks character could tell you the most about mass-marketing paperback books? | ||
| Carl Hanratty | |||
|
|
Joe Fox | ||
| Scott Turner | |||
| Andrew Beckett | |||
| 22. | Of the following, which actress has not played the cinematic wife/romantic interest of a Tom Hanks character? | ||
|
|
Susan Sarandon | ||
| Helen Hunt | |||
| Kathleen Quinlan | |||
| Bonnie Hunt | |||
| 23. | The climax to Sleepless in Seattle drew parallels to which Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr film? | ||
|
|
An Affair to Remember | ||
| Woman of the Year | |||
| The Philadelphia Story | |||
| From Here to Eternity | |||
| 24. | Which of the following authors did not write a book that was adapted into a movie in which Hanks starred? | ||
| Stephen King | |||
| Tom Wolfe | |||
| Dan Brown | |||
|
|
Henry Fielding | ||
| 25. | Forrest Gump played football at what university? | ||
|
|
Alabama | ||
| Florida | |||
| Tennessee | |||
| Michigan | |||
| 26. | What was the name of the fictional island on which the volcano stood in Joe vs the Volcano? | ||
| Epelsteinia | |||
| Vinsingard | |||
|
|
Waponi Woo | ||
| Kalahaha | |||
| 27. | Which airport was the setting for The Terminal? | ||
|
|
JFK | ||
| Dulles | |||
| O'Hare | |||
| Baltimore-Washington | |||
| 28. | In Bachelor Party, Hanks played Rick Gassko who was about to marry his girlfriend Debbie Thompson. What 1980s vixen played Debbie? | ||
|
|
Tawny Kitaen | ||
| Kelly LeBrock | |||
| Christie Brinkley | |||
| Shannon Tweed | |||
| 29. | When we think of comedy, our mind springs automatically to this woman, who shared the lead with Tom in Punchline: | ||
| Meryl Streep | |||
| Katharine Hepburn | |||
| Geraldine Page | |||
|
|
Sally Field | ||
| 30. | What two colors are Woody's vest in Toy Story? | ||
| Red and black | |||
| Brown and black | |||
| Red and blue | |||
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|
Black and white | ||
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