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1.	In Any Given Sunday, which actor played the quarterback who was replaced in the Sharks' lineup by Jamie Foxx's Willie "Steamin'" Beamen?
		Dennis Quaid
		LL Cool J
		Aaron Eckhart
		James Woods

2.	A whipped cream bikini was employed by a seduction-minded cheerleader in which high school football film?
		Remember the Titans
		Varsity Blues
		All the Right Moves
		Wildcats
		*By way of explanation.....* Nobody gets this question wrong

3.	Which of the following current/former wrestlers/football players did not appear as a guard in the remake of The Longest Yard?
		Bill Romanowski
		Steve Austin
		Triple H
		Brian Bosworth

4.	"Since 1975, no other Notre Dame football player has ever been carried off the field." Who was the last person to be carried off?
		George Gipp
		Casey Sinclair
		Daniel Ruettiger
		Joe Theismann

5.	"Didn't anybody have anything better to do that day?" During what bowl game did Shane Falco have a disastrous performance?
		Sugar Bowl
		Cotton Bowl
		Orange Bowl
		Peach Bowl

6.	Cuba Gooding, Jr. began his run of sterling film roles with his Oscar-winning performance as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. Tidwell played for the:
		Saints
		Cardinals
		Colts
		Cowboys

7.	During training camp, Herman Boone led his team on a middle-of-the night run to which unlikely location?
		A hospital
		An orphanage
		A bowling alley
		A Civil War battleground site

8.	Mary Jensen/Matthews's statement: "What did I tell you the first time we met? I'm a Niners fan!" was an indirect diss of what real-life NFL player?
		John Elway
		Warren Moon
		Brett Favre
		Joe Namath

9.	Which football movie featured a controversial scene, duplicated by teenagers in real life with tragic results, in which teammates lie down on the line separating lanes of traffic as cars pass by them?
		All the Right Moves
		Radio
		Lucas
		The Program
		*By way of explanation.....* The scene was cut from later releases of the film

10.	Which journalist's attempt to join the 1963 Detroit Lions' training camp was recounted in the film Paper Lion?
		Frank DeFord
		Tony Kornheiser
		Dick Schaap
		George Plimpton

11.	The team central to which football film was called the Armadillos?
		Air Bud: Golden Receiver
		Leatherheads
		Necessary Roughness
		The Waterboy

12.	What NFL great played film characters,with such colorful names as Geronimo, Montezuma, Fireball and Slaughter, but probably did his best work in a 1967 film playing a man named Robert?
		O.J. Simpson
		Jim Brown
		Bubba Smith
		Merlin Olsen
		*By way of explanation.....* We're referring to Brown's role as Robert Jefferson in The Dirty Dozen

13.	If you're like us, when you think of football, your mind automatically goes to Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider. Which is not one of the unusually high number of football flicks that Rob has appeared in?
		The Program
		The Waterboy
		The Longest Yard (2004)
		Necessary Roughness

14.	Having been altered slightly so as to not give away the answer, this: is part of the poster from which football flick?
		Rudy
		Any Given Sunday
		Invincible
		Gridiron Gang

15.	Which of the following football films did not center around a team located in Texas?
		Friday Night Lights
		North Dallas Forty
		Leatherheads
		Necessary Roughness

16.	High school running back phenom James Miles was better known by what nickname?
		Crazy Legs
		Peaches
		Boobie
		Sweet Baby
		*By way of explanation.....* Derek Luke was stellar as Boobie Miles in Friday Night Lights

17.	The ESPN production The Junction Boys is an account of Bear Bryant's time as head coach at which university?
		Alabama
		Texas A&M
		SMU
		Penn State

18.	What were the primary colors of the football jerseys of the team in Lucas?
		Blue and red
		Green and yellow
		Black and white
		Red and white

19.	Billy Cole's last words, after scoring a touchdown and before shooting himself dead, were:
		Touchdown, suckers
		Ain't life a bitch
		Act like you've been there before
		Good game, ref
		*By way of explanation.....* From the movie The Last Boy Scout

20.	Which does not correctly match the football movie to the decade in which it was set?
		We Are Marshall - 1950s
		Brian's Song - 1960s
		Leatherheads - 1920s
		Invincible - 1970s
		*By way of explanation.....* The action in We Are Marshall took place following the 1970 plane crash

21.	Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait featured a fictitious Superbowl matchup between the teams that actually met in which real-life Superbowl?
		XXV (Giants vs Bills)
		XI (Raiders vs Vikings)
		XII (Broncos vs Cowboys)
		XIV (Rams vs Steelers)

22.	Invincible depicted the struggles facing Vince Papale as he tried to make an NFL team which is currently in the:
		AFC South
		AFC West
		NFC East
		NFC North

23.	Which does not correctly match the actor who played a quarterback to the actor who played his coach in the same film?
		Craig Sheffer - James Caan
		Wesley Snipes - Goldie Hawn
		Kip Pardue - Denzel Washington
		Keanu Reeves - Gene Hackman
		*By way of explanation.....* The quarterback in Wildcasts was played by Mykelti Williamson, not by Snipes

24.	Which film dealt with a player who had the nickname The Grey Ghost?
		Gridiron Gang
		Paper Lion
		Everybody's All-American
		Semi-Tough

25.	Which future sitcom actress starred as the title character in the 1983 film Quarterback Princess?
		Julia Louis-Dreyfus
		Helen Hunt
		Sarah Jessica Parker
		Laura San Giacomo