If you live in the United States, the 2008 presidential election and 2009 inauguration that will install our new president are probably at least peripherally on your mind. So, what better time to feature a movie trivia quiz on election movies?

I’ve found that many election movies are comedies. Could it be because the political process, although unintentionally so, is a bit funny? With all the mud-slinging that has become part of the process, real life sometimes can sometimes be comical — in a tragic sort of way.

The following movies are not necessarily about presidential elections, so keep that in mind when answering the questions:

1. Aaron Sorkin and James Toback worked without credit on the script of which election movie?

2. Name the movie this quote came from: “I’m not sure you can get AIDS by burning down your house, but I get your point.”

3. Allison Janney was offered the role of C.J. Cregg on The West Wing after Aaron Sorkin saw her in which election film?

4. Howard Stern was initially offered the lead role in a big-budget election movie but turned it down. What is the name of that movie?

5. In which election-themed movie did Thora Birch leave filming on her third day because of disagreements with the director?

6. Which movie featured Monty Python’s famous argument sketch as part of its presidential debate?

7. An election-themed movie featured Albanians as fictional enemies of the United States. What is the name of the movie?

8. Which movie features a small-time con man who gets elected to Congress because he has the same name as a congressman who just died?

9. Which satirical election movie was inspired by a Saturday Night Live sketch?

10. Which election movie featured two actors who both had played DC Comics superheroes in other movies?

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1. Aaron Sorkin and James Toback worked without credit on Warren Beatty’s Bulworth.

2. “I’m not sure you can get AIDS by burning down your house, but I get your point.” was said by Bulworth’s title character played by Warren Beatty.

3. Aaron Sorkin gave Allison Janney the role of CJ Cregg in The West Wing after seeing her play the minor role of Miss Walsh in Primary Colors.

4. Howard Stern turned down the lead role in Man of the Year because he already had a prior commitment to his satellite radio show. Robin Williams got the part instead.

5. Thora Birch walked off the set of Election, which starred Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.

6. Monty Python’s argument sketch was featured as part of the presidential debate in Head of State, starring Chris Rock and Bernie Mac.

7. Wag the Dog, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Dinero, featured Albanians as fictional enemies of America.

8. In The Distinguished Gentleman, Eddie Murphy stars as Thomas Jefferson Johnson, which is also the name of a fictional recently-deceased congressman.

9. Bob Roberts, starring Tim Robbins, was inspired by a Saturday Night Live sketch.

10. Speechless featured Christopher Reeve and Michael Keaton, who have both played superheroes. Christopher Reeve played Superman in multiple films and Michael Keaton played Batman in two movies.

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In the Good Old Summertime
1949
Starring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Spring Byington and Buster Keaton
102 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Psychologically, I’m very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.”

Summer School
1987
Starring Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley and Courtney Thorne-Smith
97 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“We just got lapped by an old lady in a walker.”

Summer of ’42
1971
Starring Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser
103 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Nothing from that first day I saw her, and nothing that has happened to me since, has ever been as frightening and as confusing. For no person I’ve ever known has ever done more to make me feel more sure, more insecure, more important, and less significant.”

Summer Lovers
1982
Starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen
98 minutes

Image via WikipediaMemorable quote from the movie:
“Jealousy doesn’t show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.”

One Crazy Summer
1986
Starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Curtis Armstrong and Bob Goldthwait
89 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
(Reading the obituaries) “Hey, Hoops, you ever notice how people die in alphabetical order?”

My Summer of Love
2004
Starring Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt
86 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“I’m gonna get a job in an abattoir, work really hard, get a boyfriend who’s like… a bastard, and churn out all these kids, right, with mental problems. And then I’m gonna wait for the menopause… or cancer.”

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We honored Mom last month, now it’s time to send some appreciation in Dad’s direction for Fathers Day. The following tricky movie trivia questions will challenge your knowledge about dad movies, old and new. See how many you can get right!

1. Cary Grant turned down a starring role in what blockbuster 1964 movie so he could star in Father Goose?

2. Which famous comedian wanted the lead role of Stanley T. Banks in 1950′s Father of the Bride but was thought to be unsuitable by studio executives?

3. In 1991′s Father of the Bride, Steve Martin’s character George Banks says he doesn’t want his daughter’s wedding to bankrupt him and cause him to wander the streets in a bathrobe. That actually happens to a character Steve Martin played in another movie. What was that movie?

4. In which 2003 dad-related movie did the following exchange take place? (Big hint: It starred Eddie Murphy.)
Character #1: “Today we need some organization and planned activities.”
Character #2: “No. We need Ritalin and leashes, that’s what we need.”

5. Big Daddy (1991) features an action figure doll that was made up by Adam Sandler and modeled after a real action figure he had as a boy, named Diver Dan . What was the name of the fictional doll in the movie?

6. A major diaper company paid $50,000 to have their products mentioned in 3 Men and a Baby. What is the name of that company?

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1. Cary Grant turned down the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady to star in Father Goose. He wanted Audrey Hepburn to play Catherine Freneau opposite him in Father Goose, but she was already committed to starring in My Fair Lady, so the part went to Leslie Caron.

2. Jack Benny wanted the lead role in the 1950 version of Father of the Bride, but the role went to Spencer Tracy instead.

3. Steve Martin wandered the streets in his bathrobe in 1979′s The Jerk.

4. That exchange was between the characters played by Eddie Murphy and Phil Garlin in Daddy Daycare.

5. Diver Dan’s fictional knock-off action figure was Scuba Steve.

6. Pampers paid $50,000 to have their diapers mentioned in 3 Men and a Baby.

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Many movies have chronicled the joy and pain of being a mom — and often both extremes are portrayed in the same movie. The following selection of movies are perfect for Mother’s Day: They’ll take you up, then down and back up again, and with any luck, they’ll leave you with a renewed appreciation for the institution of motherhood.

Baby Boom
1987
Starring Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard
110 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“I can’t have a baby because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting.”

Terms of Endearment
1983
Starring Shirley McLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
132 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“You don’t know how lucky you are, you know. Everybody wants to go to Des Moines. People come from all over the world just to get one look at Des Moines before they die.”

Mother
1996
Starring Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds
104 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
After eating very old orange sherbet from his mother’s freezer: “Blaaah! Oh God, this is horribly old! This tastes like an orange foot!”

The Joy Luck Club
1993
Starring Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Ming-Na Wen, Lauren Tom
139 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“That bad crab, only you tried to take it. Everybody else want best quality. You, your thinking different. Waverly took best-quality crab. You took worst, because you have best-quality heart. You have style no one can teach. Must be born this way.”

Erin Brockovich
2000
Starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney
130 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Are you going to be something else that I have to survive? Because, to tell you the truth, I’m not up to it.”

Stepmom
1998
Staring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris
Rated PG-13 for language and thematic elements
124 min

Memorable quote from the movie:
“You didn’t asked me if I wanted a new mother. You didn’t even asked me if I liked her!”

Parenthood
1989
Starring Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Harley Jane Kozak
124 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“I wouldn’t live with you if the world were flooded with piss and you lived in a tree!”

Hope Floats
1998
Starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands
114 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Once upon a time your mama knew what it meant to shine.”

Steel Magnolias
1989
Starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard, Dylan McDermott
117 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“Well, you know what they say: if you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!”

The Goodbye Girl
1977
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
111 minutes

Memorable quote from the movie:
“If you were a Broadway musical, people would be humming your face.”

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_When it comes to spring movie trivia questions, films about teenagers and spring break are no-brainers. Not all movies with spring themes are that obvious, however. Admittedly, we’ve gone for a few easy shots here by including some spring break movies. But there also are a few you might not have thought of that feature spring as their main theme.

So spring into action and see how many answers you can get right on this tricky movie trivia quiz about spring movies:

1. When the famous politically incorrect song Springtime for Hitler was sung in the 1968 rendition of The Producers, the singing voice was dubbed. Whose voice was heard singing the song in the film?

2. Mel Brooks had another name in mind for The Producers but the studio wouldn’t let him use it. What was that name?

3. Name the famous English actress whose character in Enchanted April said, “In my day husbands and beds were very seldom mentioned in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin.”

4. Elizabeth von Arnim wrote the novel Enchanted April, on which the movie was based. What other famous movie was made from one of her novels? (Hint: It was released in 1944.)

5. In the Secret Garden, which celebrates the renewal brought by spring, main character Mary’s parents passed on. How did they die?

6. What is the name of the Secret Garden character played by Andrew Knott who said, “The animals tell me all their secrets.”

7. The quintessential spring break movie Where the Boys Are marked the movie debut of which female actress who also was in What’s New Pussycat and the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives?

8. In the Elvis spring break movie Girl Happy, some of the Fort Lauderdale beach crowd scenes were borrowed from which other spring break movie that was released in 1960?

9. Elvis’ co-star in Girl Happy is the only woman who was Elvis’ love interest in three different films. What is her name?

10. A famous porn star was featured in Lauderdale. What is his name?

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1. Mel Brooks sang Springtime for Hitler in the original version of The Producers.

2. Springtime for Hitler was the name Brooks wanted to use. For obvious reasons, MGM frowned on that idea. Even with the watered-down title, The Producers didn’t play in Germany until it was included in a film festival featuring the works of Jewish filmmakers.

3. Joan Plowright (as Mrs. Fisher) spoke the lines, “In my day husbands and beds were very seldom mentioned in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin.” Joan Plowright became Lady Olivier in 1961, after Sir Laurence Olivier divorced Vivien Leigh and married her. They became Baron and Baroness Olivier in 1970.

4. Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel Mrs. Skeffington was made into a 1944 movie of the same name that starred Bette Davis and Claude Rains. It was Bette Davis’ final Oscar-nominated performance while she was under contract to Warner Bros.

5. Mary’s parents died in an earthquake in India, leaving her to be shipped off to England to live with her reclusive uncle and discover the secret garden where magic was commonplace.

6. The character who said “The animals tell me all their secrets” was Dickon, played by Andrew Knott. The Secret Garden was Knott’s first film. He has since been active in British television.

7. Paula Prentiss is the actress who had her film debut in 1960′s Where the Boys Are. She continues to act in movies and has been married to director Richard Benjamin since 1961.

8. Some of the Fort Lauderdale beach crowd scenes Girl Happy were lifted from Where the Boys Are.

9. Shelley Fabares, whose real name is Michele Marie Fabares, is the only woman who was Elvis’ love interest in three different films.

10. Porn veteran Ron Jeremy was featured in Lauderdale, which is a double-spring movie because it also goes by the names Spring Break USA and Spring Fever USA!

We hope you enjoyed answering these spring trivia questions!