Alright, better late than never. Here’s another round of Geeks Who Drink-esque trivia. Answer these questions about people from the 80s who are now in their eighties.
- In a 1986 Saturday Night Live parody, what T.J. Hooker star found time to chat with his partners, write a letter, and get some sleep even as he continued to “cling on” to the hood of perp’s car for more than two days?
- Strange Brew was a 1983 Canadian comedy featuring Max von Sydow as the Elsinore Brewery’s evil Brewmeister Smith. On what Shakespearean tragedy was Strange Brew very loosely based?
- Julie Andrews plays both title characters in what 1982 Blake Edwards musical comedy? In broad outline, the plot of the film is a woman pretends to be a man who pretends to be a woman.
- On Ray Charles’ 1984 album Friendship, he teamed up with Willie Nelson for what song about a celestial septet from south of the border?
- This former governor of Massachusetts was the unsuccessful democratic nominee for President in 1988. His cousin Olympia must have used up all the family luck, as she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress earlier that year for her role in Moonstruck.
- Toni Morrison won her 1988 Pulitzer prize for what much adored novel about a haunted escaped slave named Sethe?
- James Earl Jones is the easy one. Name either of the other two actors to play Anakin Skywalker in films during the eighties. Original recipe only please; later editions don’t count.
- In Never Say Never Again, Sean Connery’s aging James Bond finds himself at a health clinic after failing a training exercise. There he foils an attempt on his life, eventually getting the upper hand over the would be assassin by throwing a liquid in his face. What was the liquid?
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- William Shatner
- Hamlet
- Victor/Victoria
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Michael Dukakis
- Beloved
- David Prowse, Sebastian Shaw
- (Bond’s own) urine
