This week’s Invisible Movie is a 1987 classic that has spawned merchandise, two sequels, four television series, video games and two comic book adaptations. The movie features the character Alex J. Murphy, a Detroit police officer who, after he dies, is turned into the title character.
Simply identify the movie and turn it in with your first answer at Trivia for five bonus points.
At last, here’s another Great Openings podcast. All of the featured songs share a common theme in their titles. Can you identify his number one hits after hearing only the opening notes? The songs and clues are from our live Music and Entertainment Trivia shows. And as always I pass along some trivia about each of our featured classics; nuggets of information about how they came to be written or recorded, about the artist or something unusual that you’re sure to find interesting.
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It’s been a few weeks since I posted a Friday Fun Site, but I’m making up for it with this cool little game.
You just have to play around a bit to enjoy all its dynamics. Experiment with the various materials, and use them in combination. For instance, lay down some gunpowder, the light it with the torch. Have fun.
I just posted our newest episode of the newThe Trivia Guys Podcast. I’m joined each week by Mike, our trivia boss, and Jason Barnes for a roundtable discussion of pop culture, current events, sports, entertainment and all things trivia. In our latest episode we talk about back-to-back World Series wins, the Rolling Stones 500 songs of all time, 70’s hits, the Shining’s hotel, Kanye West, and more. You can see more at The Trivia Guys Podcast homepage or click the player below to listen.
I stumbled upon the blog Instant Shift which has compiled pictures of 84 bizarre and unique buildings around the world. Some are clever and others just plane strange. Pictured above is the Crooked House of Sopot, Poland.
Here’s the link to see the other 83
Let’s face it. Sometimes it seems like there’s a McDonalds on just about every corner. A fellow named Stephen Von Worley created this incredible map of the USA showing where McDonalds outlets are. In fact, you have to go to South Dakota to get 100 miles away from a McDonalds.
We’ve started a new podcast called The Trivia Guys. I’m joined each week by Mike, our trivia boss, and Jason Barnes for a roundtable discussion of pop culture, current events, sports, entertainment and all things trivia. In our latest episode we talk about best selling movies, gender testing, Monday Night Football, great catches in sports and more. You can see more at The Trivia Guys Podcast homepage or click the player below to listen.
We just finished recording the newest episode tonight and I’ll get it edited and posted in the next couple days.
This week’s invisible movie was a hugely successful film last year that was based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. It also won Best Movie at last year’s MTV Movie Awards and Best Drama at the Teen Choice Awards.
Simply identify the movie and turn it in with your first answer at Trivia for five bonus points.
Installment 9 in Todd Machen’s delightful cartoon strip “PAWS.”
This week’s Ivisible Movie is a 2005 family comedy-fantasy, which was directed by Nora Ephron, that was based on a 1960’s TV series of the same name. The movie version has different character names than the TV show, but the spirit of the original is still there.
The origianl TV series ran for eight seasons from 1964-1972, and has a lot of trivia associated with it. Most of the action took place in the family home at 1164 Morning Glory Circle, which was in either New York State or Westport, Connecticut, depending on which dialogue and car license plates you want to believe.
ANother interesting piece of trivia about the original TV show is that two actors played the role of the husband. Both were named Dick.
That should give you enough to go on to get this week’s movie. Simply identify the movie and turn it in with your first answer at Trivia for five bonus points.
