November 21, 2009



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Quiz: Movies from the 1970s

By Elissa Royal, March-April 2004





1. One of the best car chase scenes ever filmed takes place under the elevated tracks in New York City in what movie?

  Vanishing Point
  Gone in 60 Seconds
  The French Connection
  Westworld

2. "She's got gaps. I got gaps. Together, we fill gaps." The lead character, a tough guy, explains his attraction to a shy woman in:

  Dirty Harry
  New York, New York
  Five Easy Pieces
  Rocky

3. What Steven Spielberg movie from the '70s is one of the all-time internationally top-grossing movies?

  Jaws
  Star Wars
  E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  Raiders of the Lost Ark

4. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Howard Beale (Peter Finch) shouts this in what movie?

  Network
  Dog Day Afternoon
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Coming Home

5. Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) suggests putting out a dish of butter and a nutcracker to frighten a lobster out from behind a refrigerator in what movie?

  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
  Annie Hall
  Interiors
  Manhattan

6. What movie features a detective story about corruption, conspiracy, and water rights?

  Chinatown
  The Parallax View
  Sleuth
  Three Days of the Condor

7. Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) says, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" in what movie?

  The Deer Hunter
  Apocalypse Now
  M*A*S*H
  The China Syndrome

8. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) makes a model of Devils Tower with:

  mashed potatoes
  mud
  shaving cream
  all of the above

9. What film made Americans think twice before driving through a tollbooth?

  Serpico
  The Godfather, Part II
  The Godfather
  Taxi Driver

10. "We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass." These words, part of a motivational speech, are spoken by the lead character in the beginning of what movie?

  North Dallas Forty
  The Sting
  Patton
  The Last Detail