The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show
TV & Film
It’s all about supportive partners on this week’s new episode! Newcomers Chris and Karenna square off against season three returner Paul. Round one will test our players’ knowledge of which actors have been onscreen-married to other actors, while round two asks about the cast that supported several Best Supporting Actor contenders to their Oscar wins. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to making the right choices in the lightning round!
NOTES
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💣 Don't tell Taylor, but bomb fuses can go off underwater.
🐀 In The Abyss, the rat really was breathing oxygenated fluid (and was fine), but Ed Harris wasn't.
🎭 John Kani had a fairly small role as T'Chaka, T'Challa's father in the MCU, but he's mostly a high end Shakesperean actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company
☄️ The movie Armageddon does, in fact, end in Liv Tyler getting married to Ben Affleck.
🕵️♂️ The Morse Code Scorebreak. Morse Code: dash dash/ dash dash dash/ dot dash dot/ dot dot dot/dot [That spells Morse, in homage to Inspector Morse]
🪄 The Prestige was two years earlier than The Dark Knight, in 2006.
👓 Charles Martin Smith is a "that guy!" supporting actor with a very distinctive look.
🦋 According to IMDB, Don Ameche is actually the lead role in "Cocoon," but the Academy disagreed.
🤷♀️ It's time for the "I'm not really sure how to do a scorebreak sponsorship." I'm not really sure how to do a scorebreak sponsorship. I just answered the riddle for fun and never expected to win" scorebreak.
🤔 QUIZ PEEPS UNITE! Check out Paul's quiz outfit Quizfix.
🩸 Donate blood, you got lots.
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