September 21, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, I spoke with author Gary Wigglesworth about his book "The Movie Lover's Quiz Book". Whether you want to challenge yourself or someone else, The Movie Lover's Quiz Book is perfect for any cinephile. Inside you'll find a fun range of rounds and an eclectic mix of questions, all designed to give you hours of entertainment. Doug Hess is the host! Forgotten Hollywood is on Facebook and the books are on Amazon!
It's out in Great Britain and will be released in the U.S. on Tuesday, October 7th .
It's out in Great Britain and will be released in the U.S. on Tuesday, October 7th .
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition I've Forgotten
in Hollywood. I'm your host, Doug hes. Now, if you're
tuning in Forgotten Hollywood for the first time, what I
do on this podcast is take you on a journey
back in time and share with you pieces of Hollywood
that you may or may not know about. And today
our guest is Gary Wigglesworth, and he is going to
(00:25):
talk about his latest book, The Movie Lover's Quiz Book. Gary,
Welcome to Forgotten Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thank you for having me. Doug is very pleased to
be here.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, thank you for taking some time out of your
busy schedule to be with us for a few minutes.
And you know, Gary, what I always like to do
is open up the conversation with the ability or allow
the author to kind of give the audience a brief
overview of what the book's about in their own words.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, great, thank you very much. Well, yeah, as you say,
it's the Movie Lover's Quiz Book, and there are in
this book there are over nine hundred questions on movies,
movie stars, directors, some of the music from the movies,
all sort of different aspects of the reason why love
why we love movies. There are twenty quizzers, so there's
(01:17):
twenty separate quizzers, including a Christmas one at the end
which you can save for Christmas. And inside you'll find
various rounds, various types of questions, and there's also a
picture around for every quizer as well, which is a
picture clues to a certain movie. Yeah, and I hopefully
there's something for everybody. My only criteria for including a
(01:38):
movie was that I have heard of it, So it's not,
you know, all my favorite films or films. I haven't
left out films I don't like, you know, it's just
hopefully a very eclectic mixture of lots of movies that
hopefully most people have heard of.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Absolutely absolutely. What kind of inspired you to do this
type of book?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, I have already published two quiz books, but those
were on literature on books, so there quiz books about books,
and obviously I really enjoyed doing those. I also do
a live book wquiz every month in London, and then
when I was looking towards doing another book, I just thought,
(02:19):
you know, I wonder if I could do one on movies.
I love obviously I love reading, but I also love movies,
and I believe that movies fit into the style of
my quizzes in a very similar way to books do.
So you've got directors instead of authors, you've got titles,
you've got casts, you've got characters, You've got Actually, a
movie is more things you can ask questions about, because
obviously they're Actually writing is fairly solitary process, but movie
(02:43):
making involves a big team, so you've got more things
you can actually do different angles to ask questions about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yes, absolutely, Now, how difficult was it to write a
book like this?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's an interesting one to me anyway, inasmuch as it
kind of depends on the round, because I have lots
of different types of rounds in this book, and some
of the rounds are quite easy to write. So, for example,
there's a very simple round where you have a missing
word from the title. And I always have a theme.
(03:18):
So basically, if I think of the theme, whether that
be something simple like colors, or something more complicated like
words that can be placed after the word, the words
that can be placed before the word card, so you
can have library card being a card place card. Whether
it's very simple or very complicated, you have got a
set of words, and then you can take that word.
(03:40):
You can go on to IMDb and you can see
if any films called that you recognize. And then other
times you can have a very complicated idea or not
very complicated idea. I could have a more complicated idea,
and then you have to think about that a lot more.
So it really rareies, to be honest, Doug, It really
really varies. Sometimes I sit here scratching my head for
a long time, and sometimes I get two rounds done
(04:02):
in you know, thirty minutes, So.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Right, it's coming give and take in that process. Yeah,
you know, Gary, I had a chance to look through
the book and or your quizes, and it's interesting. There
was some that honestly I knew right away in terms
of that, and then there was others that I was
very tempted to have to google because I'm like, you know,
(04:28):
there's like two question that I could go either way
on an answer. So it's very, i will say, very
challenging if you're really enjoying films. But it's a great
book to really challenge yourself in that process.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Thank you. I mean, the main thing for me is
it's interesting to do that because I like to think
there is a variety of difficulty. So yeah, exactly like
you say, sometimes you can look at that and you're
going to think that straight away that's that's the Blues Brothers,
or that's child Hester, or that's Malton Roe. And then
other times you'd be thinking that, well, that sounds like
(05:09):
a you know, a Hitchcock film, or that could be Eastwood.
But you've got to and you know, obviously you can
just you can quickly a flick to the back of
the quiz and have a look by. You know, you
can make you play and you can decide and you
go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right, yes, and kind of reread yourself and then go
back and look at the and see, you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Know, just like you at school. You know, yeah, it
really wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It was really a and and stuff like that. You
know what challenged you the most or surprised you during
the writing research of this book.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think the main thing for me is just to
try to keep it interesting. So I don't like a
quiz where basically somebody comes out, say, if you're in
a bar, or if you're doing a quiz, or if
you're watching a quiz on on television and somebody comes
out and says, who did this? When was that? How
(06:08):
many of these are in this? And you just think,
because mostly with that sort of question, you either know
it or you don't know it, and I find that
a little bit dull. So what I've tried to do
in my book is even if you if you don't
know it, there's a clue somewhere in the question which
would give you us I thought, I think, oh, well,
it could at least be that. And I think that's
(06:29):
the most challenging thing for me about writing these quiz
books is just trying to always make sure there's some little,
you know, nugget in there which is going to help
people guess. And I think the other thing I actually
I do want to mention because of especially because of
your podcast and the content you make, is I also,
I don't know if you saw in the in the book, Doug,
(06:49):
that there are within the answers there are little footnotes,
a little bits of information which I couldn't squeeze into
a question, but I just felt like I had to share.
I love those, and it was a challenge to not
put in too many.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, I really appreciate that, And actually I was going
to bring that up and talking about that, because it's
just not a here's the answer, but you kind of
give a little footnote if you will, or insight into that,
because sometimes, let's be honest, we get in our heads
that no, the answer really is B or whatever. We
(07:26):
and we got the answer wrong, and it's always nice
to have a little bit of a footnote that you
kind of give a reference, for lack of a better word,
to to help convince us that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We were wrong. I mean there's one in particular, actually
spoiler out of the sorry to everybody who buys the book.
Out of the nine hundred, I'm going to spoil at
least one. Yeah. Now there is a question, and it's
a so what might have been questioned? And there's a question.
It's one of these in every quiz, and it's who
turned down a certain role? And I give it, you know,
(07:59):
options to as to who it might have been, and
one of them is unless you happen to know this
little bit of movie history, it's it seems crazy. But
one of the questions is who's to turned down the
role of of in die Hard Bruce Willis's role in
Dia John McLain, who turned it down and it's is it.
You know, there's some fairly obvious people it might have been.
There's and then there's Frank Sinatra, and you think, oh,
(08:22):
Gary's being funny. There Frank this was made, and when
this was made, he would have been way too old
to do it. But the answer is Frank Sinatra. And
there's a reason. But it's because it's a contractual reason.
He made a film starring the same character as in
the author wrote this character and he used in a
film starring this character. It wasn't called John McLain and
(08:43):
they had to offer it to him. Then he did
turn it down because obviously that I'm too old. But yeah,
so I should say that in all the other ones,
it's perfectly guessable, but in that one, I in the Footnight,
I say, I literally start that footnote with sorry, but
it's explain it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But it's not really a trick question. It was really
meant to be a trick question. But it is kind
of in that sense. Yeah, well then I have to
I have to ask the question. And so it is
Diehard a Christmas movie or not? That's the great debate.
And if it's you know.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Quick that it is the great debate. Isn't it And
it's not, but it's not. But it's not a question
you can ask in a quiz book because there isn't
a deathite asker.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That is so true, that is so true. Right, A
wrong answer on that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
One, right in my opinion. Now, in my opinion, it
is a Christmas movie, but it's it's it's it's more
of a I think it's a brilliant movie. I absolutely
love it, but it's not my favorite Christmas movie. But
it is one of my favorite movies. But it's still
a Christmas movie. So I know I'm really skirting around that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But now, and I just brought that up just because
you brought up obviously the film interest. Yeah, so Gary,
you have nine hundred questions in this, and I'm assuming
that you had another nine hundred questions that you could
have included into this. So what's that process of trying
(10:12):
to whirtle it down to and was there a reason
why you came up with nine hundred?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No, not really, I mean I came up with a
certain number of questions for each quiz, and so we decided,
between myself and the publisher, we decided on twenty quizz
and it came to nine hundred and yeah, I mean
there's certainly more than that written, and I did whittle
it down and some of you discard because you just
(10:39):
they're just not quite interesting enough, but there's certainly more.
I actually did a launch quiz last week at Foils
the bookshop in London, and I also did the movie
Quiz in Leeds, near from where I'm from, and there's
a whole new quiz. There's a whole new quiz and
I sort of very similar theme as in the set
(11:01):
structure of the book, but all new questions. So yeah, yeah,
there's always because that's the thing, you know, you finish
the book. And I finished this about a year ago
because obviously the you know, the publishing process, and since then, yeah,
I've got a whole load of notes in my phone
when I think of something, and and sometimes it's annoying
because there's one of my favorite questions in the book
(11:22):
is based on movie quotes. You know, write out, write
out the quote, and then give more possible options as
to where the quote comes from. And hopefully people notice
as they go through the book that each time I
do that question, the fourth one is is a joke.
So so for example, there's a movie quote from Sorry
I'm spawning another question, but it's the paraphrase. It it's
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you're you're a big man, but you're out of shape.
To me, it's a full time business now now to
sit down or give up or something like that, and
it's is it is it from Taken? Is it from
Get Carter? Is it from Rocky? Or is it from
King Kong? So there there's the joke at the end, basically,
And I thought so many quotes I could have used
(12:09):
in the book since since I finished it, so I
did a whole round of those in the new quiz.
So yeah, so I quite like to quite to do
another one. I sleave this one does well.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Who knows absolutely? I was going to ask is there
a part two to this? And who knows?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So who knows at the moment.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know, it's interesting that you brought up quote and
a lot of movie fans love to quote movies, right,
I mean, that's kind of the and you even see
that within films where character is a big quote in
interims of that. But I have also found that a
lot of people get the quote wrong, and that is
(12:48):
something that you know, probably one of the ones that
jumped up to my mind is in Star Wars where
Dark Beader and you know, he never says Luke, I
am your father another take.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
On that, yeah, and Casa Blanc.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes, which is another great example of terms of that
where we as movie lovers, I'm want to say it
this way, kind of embellish or ad lib to some
movie lines. And there was a few in there that
(13:25):
I don't know if during your research in the writing,
if you were conscious of that, and.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, you got. I mean, obviously you've got to be
careful because you know, obviously like the one you mentioned,
and also you know, it never actually says play it
against some right. You played it for her, you can
play it for me. Play it right, mister Rick. And
he goes play it sound, so he never says play
it again, sound. But then, of course I think it
was already Allen who made the movie where Boga pops
(13:56):
up as a most like a specter, and and that
just carries off that, doesn't it. So you have got
to be really careful. I was thinking of another one
as well, which is involved in them, because I did
last week, which is in Wall Street. You know, he
never says greed is good. Yes, he says greed for
want of a better term is good. I think it
says longer. You know, people just like to make it
sot of and somewhere on the line, I think sometimes
(14:18):
these things come about because they get made. There's like
a famous comedy sketch is done or something like that,
and that's the thing that becomes almost famous. Of course,
going back to even further, you've got, of course some
Cagney and you dirty rat. And I don't think he
ever said you dirty rat.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Right right, and now it's legend or you know. The
other one is Judy, Judy, Judy. I don't think he
ever really said that. Three.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
You know, you know, and how folklore really comes about.
You bring up the movie Wall Street that is one
of my favorite movies of all time, making any seven
Michael Douglas, I mean that to me one of the.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well I did the question in the in the launch
quiz Doug, which isn't in the book, where I said,
what's this? I give three examples, but maybe you might
not need them. I said, what's the sequel called?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Uh, money never sleeps?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
There you go, see, you would you'd have got that fine, Yeah,
because I said, I said, this is the sequel called
Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, Wall Street is Greed Good
or Wall Street The Art of the Deal m And
you would have got it right.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, that's but I will say there's, like most sequens,
there's only a few examples in history that I think
where the sequel is just as good as the original.
And I think in a lot of cases they could
have stopped it just the eighty seven version of Wall
Street and would have been fine. But personally thinking that,
(15:51):
and I get it, a lot of it's about money
and and keeping keeping the franchise alive.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But it's lucky for me they did. They just look
at me. They do make inferious sequels because it makes
for quite a good round, right, yes, well, the you
know it can can you name the sequel basically because
you might You might have loved Islander, but did you
love Highlander to the quickening?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Probably not? Right? Yeah? Absolutely? And uh, you know, there's
a few examples in history.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think probably obviously the guy Father in the other
part two is probably the best example.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I can come up with.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Empire strikes back, and I'm sorry, Empire strikes back. The
Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, yes, I think that's probably my favorite of all
of the nine movies.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
In the Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But yeah, absolutely, A new hope is it's probably a
second to that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
In terms of that, we'll give you a note. We're
getting close here on time. Where can people find a
copy of your book?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, well, you know it's a bit of a cliche,
but all good bookshops and online of course, wherever you
buy your books. I personally, being from a book's background,
I would always advocate the bricks and mortar bookshop whenever
you can support all the shops. It is out now
in England and it is published in the US on
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October the seventh, so.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Just around the corner, but you can't get it in England.
And yeah, believed or not, we have quite a few
listeners overseas. As you know, we're based in the United States,
but we have a lot of listeners overseas. So for
those that are overseas in London and Great Britain, please
go ahead and get a copy of Gary's book, The
Movie Lover's Quiz Book. If you're here in the States.
(17:45):
Pre ordered that book October seventh, and I agree with you, Gary,
anytime you can go to a brick and border shoop.
That's best because I don't know. My wife kind of
hates it when I go in because I go for
one book and I walk out with four.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know your I have them like it. But the bookshop,
the books that I was very happy with you to
very happy.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Indeed, yes, I get It's one of my favorite places
to go because.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, there's just a lot of great books.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It gives me a lot of great ideas and be
able to meet some great authors that shared the love
like I do with films. And I appreciate you coming
on and being a guest with us today.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I appreciate you asking me to come on. Doug and
I've had a I love the time. I believe that's
that's gone really quickly, so you know, I'm shocked. It's
an end.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I know, these these things go great, especially when you
have a great conversation. And to our listeners, please go
out and get a copy of Gary's book, The Movie
Lover's Quiz Book. We just really touched the tip of
the iceberg aga and I think you're going to find,
like any good quiz book, there's going to be something
that you're going to get right away. And there's going
to be some that I think are going to make
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you scratch your head and maybe even question your decision.
But I think that's a sign of some great questions.
If you can kind of have that debate with.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yourself, good, I hope.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So thank you well, thank you, and thank you for
listening to this edition for gott in Hollywood. Join us
next time for another episode of forgott in Hollywood. See
you soon.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition I've Forgotten
in Hollywood. I'm your host, Doug hes. Now, if you're
tuning in Forgotten Hollywood for the first time, what I
do on this podcast is take you on a journey
back in time and share with you pieces of Hollywood
that you may or may not know about. And today
our guest is Gary Wigglesworth, and he is going to
(00:25):
talk about his latest book, The Movie Lover's Quiz Book. Gary,
Welcome to Forgotten Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thank you for having me. Doug is very pleased to
be here.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, thank you for taking some time out of your
busy schedule to be with us for a few minutes.
And you know, Gary, what I always like to do
is open up the conversation with the ability or allow
the author to kind of give the audience a brief
overview of what the book's about in their own words.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, great, thank you very much. Well, yeah, as you say,
it's the Movie Lover's Quiz Book, and there are in
this book there are over nine hundred questions on movies,
movie stars, directors, some of the music from the movies,
all sort of different aspects of the reason why love
why we love movies. There are twenty quizzers, so there's
(01:17):
twenty separate quizzers, including a Christmas one at the end
which you can save for Christmas. And inside you'll find
various rounds, various types of questions, and there's also a
picture around for every quizer as well, which is a
picture clues to a certain movie. Yeah, and I hopefully
there's something for everybody. My only criteria for including a
(01:38):
movie was that I have heard of it, So it's not,
you know, all my favorite films or films. I haven't
left out films I don't like, you know, it's just
hopefully a very eclectic mixture of lots of movies that
hopefully most people have heard of.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Absolutely absolutely. What kind of inspired you to do this
type of book?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, I have already published two quiz books, but those
were on literature on books, so there quiz books about books,
and obviously I really enjoyed doing those. I also do
a live book wquiz every month in London, and then
when I was looking towards doing another book, I just thought,
(02:19):
you know, I wonder if I could do one on movies.
I love obviously I love reading, but I also love movies,
and I believe that movies fit into the style of
my quizzes in a very similar way to books do.
So you've got directors instead of authors, you've got titles,
you've got casts, you've got characters, You've got Actually, a
movie is more things you can ask questions about, because
obviously they're Actually writing is fairly solitary process, but movie
(02:43):
making involves a big team, so you've got more things
you can actually do different angles to ask questions about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yes, absolutely, Now, how difficult was it to write a
book like this?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's an interesting one to me anyway, inasmuch as it
kind of depends on the round, because I have lots
of different types of rounds in this book, and some
of the rounds are quite easy to write. So, for example,
there's a very simple round where you have a missing
word from the title. And I always have a theme.
(03:18):
So basically, if I think of the theme, whether that
be something simple like colors, or something more complicated like
words that can be placed after the word, the words
that can be placed before the word card, so you
can have library card being a card place card. Whether
it's very simple or very complicated, you have got a
set of words, and then you can take that word.
(03:40):
You can go on to IMDb and you can see
if any films called that you recognize. And then other
times you can have a very complicated idea or not
very complicated idea. I could have a more complicated idea,
and then you have to think about that a lot more.
So it really rareies, to be honest, Doug, It really
really varies. Sometimes I sit here scratching my head for
a long time, and sometimes I get two rounds done
(04:02):
in you know, thirty minutes, So.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Right, it's coming give and take in that process. Yeah,
you know, Gary, I had a chance to look through
the book and or your quizes, and it's interesting. There
was some that honestly I knew right away in terms
of that, and then there was others that I was
very tempted to have to google because I'm like, you know,
(04:28):
there's like two question that I could go either way
on an answer. So it's very, i will say, very
challenging if you're really enjoying films. But it's a great
book to really challenge yourself in that process.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Thank you. I mean, the main thing for me is
it's interesting to do that because I like to think
there is a variety of difficulty. So yeah, exactly like
you say, sometimes you can look at that and you're
going to think that straight away that's that's the Blues Brothers,
or that's child Hester, or that's Malton Roe. And then
other times you'd be thinking that, well, that sounds like
(05:09):
a you know, a Hitchcock film, or that could be Eastwood.
But you've got to and you know, obviously you can
just you can quickly a flick to the back of
the quiz and have a look by. You know, you
can make you play and you can decide and you
go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right, yes, and kind of reread yourself and then go
back and look at the and see, you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Know, just like you at school. You know, yeah, it
really wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It was really a and and stuff like that. You
know what challenged you the most or surprised you during
the writing research of this book.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think the main thing for me is just to
try to keep it interesting. So I don't like a
quiz where basically somebody comes out, say, if you're in
a bar, or if you're doing a quiz, or if
you're watching a quiz on on television and somebody comes
out and says, who did this? When was that? How
(06:08):
many of these are in this? And you just think,
because mostly with that sort of question, you either know
it or you don't know it, and I find that
a little bit dull. So what I've tried to do
in my book is even if you if you don't
know it, there's a clue somewhere in the question which
would give you us I thought, I think, oh, well,
it could at least be that. And I think that's
(06:29):
the most challenging thing for me about writing these quiz
books is just trying to always make sure there's some little,
you know, nugget in there which is going to help
people guess. And I think the other thing I actually
I do want to mention because of especially because of
your podcast and the content you make, is I also,
I don't know if you saw in the in the book, Doug,
(06:49):
that there are within the answers there are little footnotes,
a little bits of information which I couldn't squeeze into
a question, but I just felt like I had to share.
I love those, and it was a challenge to not
put in too many.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, I really appreciate that, And actually I was going
to bring that up and talking about that, because it's
just not a here's the answer, but you kind of
give a little footnote if you will, or insight into that,
because sometimes, let's be honest, we get in our heads
that no, the answer really is B or whatever. We
(07:26):
and we got the answer wrong, and it's always nice
to have a little bit of a footnote that you
kind of give a reference, for lack of a better word,
to to help convince us that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We were wrong. I mean there's one in particular, actually
spoiler out of the sorry to everybody who buys the book.
Out of the nine hundred, I'm going to spoil at
least one. Yeah. Now there is a question, and it's
a so what might have been questioned? And there's a question.
It's one of these in every quiz, and it's who
turned down a certain role? And I give it, you know,
(07:59):
options to as to who it might have been, and
one of them is unless you happen to know this
little bit of movie history, it's it seems crazy. But
one of the questions is who's to turned down the
role of of in die Hard Bruce Willis's role in
Dia John McLain, who turned it down and it's is it.
You know, there's some fairly obvious people it might have been.
There's and then there's Frank Sinatra, and you think, oh,
(08:22):
Gary's being funny. There Frank this was made, and when
this was made, he would have been way too old
to do it. But the answer is Frank Sinatra. And
there's a reason. But it's because it's a contractual reason.
He made a film starring the same character as in
the author wrote this character and he used in a
film starring this character. It wasn't called John McLain and
(08:43):
they had to offer it to him. Then he did
turn it down because obviously that I'm too old. But yeah,
so I should say that in all the other ones,
it's perfectly guessable, but in that one, I in the Footnight,
I say, I literally start that footnote with sorry, but
it's explain it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But it's not really a trick question. It was really
meant to be a trick question. But it is kind
of in that sense. Yeah, well then I have to
I have to ask the question. And so it is
Diehard a Christmas movie or not? That's the great debate.
And if it's you know.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Quick that it is the great debate. Isn't it And
it's not, but it's not. But it's not a question
you can ask in a quiz book because there isn't
a deathite asker.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That is so true, that is so true. Right, A
wrong answer on that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
One, right in my opinion. Now, in my opinion, it
is a Christmas movie, but it's it's it's it's more
of a I think it's a brilliant movie. I absolutely
love it, but it's not my favorite Christmas movie. But
it is one of my favorite movies. But it's still
a Christmas movie. So I know I'm really skirting around that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But now, and I just brought that up just because
you brought up obviously the film interest. Yeah, so Gary,
you have nine hundred questions in this, and I'm assuming
that you had another nine hundred questions that you could
have included into this. So what's that process of trying
(10:12):
to whirtle it down to and was there a reason
why you came up with nine hundred?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No, not really, I mean I came up with a
certain number of questions for each quiz, and so we decided,
between myself and the publisher, we decided on twenty quizz
and it came to nine hundred and yeah, I mean
there's certainly more than that written, and I did whittle
it down and some of you discard because you just
(10:39):
they're just not quite interesting enough, but there's certainly more.
I actually did a launch quiz last week at Foils
the bookshop in London, and I also did the movie
Quiz in Leeds, near from where I'm from, and there's
a whole new quiz. There's a whole new quiz and
I sort of very similar theme as in the set
(11:01):
structure of the book, but all new questions. So yeah, yeah,
there's always because that's the thing, you know, you finish
the book. And I finished this about a year ago
because obviously the you know, the publishing process, and since then, yeah,
I've got a whole load of notes in my phone
when I think of something, and and sometimes it's annoying
because there's one of my favorite questions in the book
(11:22):
is based on movie quotes. You know, write out, write
out the quote, and then give more possible options as
to where the quote comes from. And hopefully people notice
as they go through the book that each time I
do that question, the fourth one is is a joke.
So so for example, there's a movie quote from Sorry
I'm spawning another question, but it's the paraphrase. It it's
(11:48):
you're you're a big man, but you're out of shape.
To me, it's a full time business now now to
sit down or give up or something like that, and
it's is it is it from Taken? Is it from
Get Carter? Is it from Rocky? Or is it from
King Kong? So there there's the joke at the end, basically,
And I thought so many quotes I could have used
(12:09):
in the book since since I finished it, so I
did a whole round of those in the new quiz.
So yeah, so I quite like to quite to do
another one. I sleave this one does well.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Who knows absolutely? I was going to ask is there
a part two to this? And who knows?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So who knows at the moment.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know, it's interesting that you brought up quote and
a lot of movie fans love to quote movies, right,
I mean, that's kind of the and you even see
that within films where character is a big quote in
interims of that. But I have also found that a
lot of people get the quote wrong, and that is
(12:48):
something that you know, probably one of the ones that
jumped up to my mind is in Star Wars where
Dark Beader and you know, he never says Luke, I
am your father another take.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
On that, yeah, and Casa Blanc.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes, which is another great example of terms of that
where we as movie lovers, I'm want to say it
this way, kind of embellish or ad lib to some
movie lines. And there was a few in there that
(13:25):
I don't know if during your research in the writing,
if you were conscious of that, and.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, you got. I mean, obviously you've got to be
careful because you know, obviously like the one you mentioned,
and also you know, it never actually says play it
against some right. You played it for her, you can
play it for me. Play it right, mister Rick. And
he goes play it sound, so he never says play
it again, sound. But then, of course I think it
was already Allen who made the movie where Boga pops
(13:56):
up as a most like a specter, and and that
just carries off that, doesn't it. So you have got
to be really careful. I was thinking of another one
as well, which is involved in them, because I did
last week, which is in Wall Street. You know, he
never says greed is good. Yes, he says greed for
want of a better term is good. I think it
says longer. You know, people just like to make it
sot of and somewhere on the line, I think sometimes
(14:18):
these things come about because they get made. There's like
a famous comedy sketch is done or something like that,
and that's the thing that becomes almost famous. Of course,
going back to even further, you've got, of course some
Cagney and you dirty rat. And I don't think he
ever said you dirty rat.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Right right, and now it's legend or you know. The
other one is Judy, Judy, Judy. I don't think he
ever really said that. Three.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
You know, you know, and how folklore really comes about.
You bring up the movie Wall Street that is one
of my favorite movies of all time, making any seven
Michael Douglas, I mean that to me one of the.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well I did the question in the in the launch
quiz Doug, which isn't in the book, where I said,
what's this? I give three examples, but maybe you might
not need them. I said, what's the sequel called?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Uh, money never sleeps?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
There you go, see, you would you'd have got that fine, Yeah,
because I said, I said, this is the sequel called
Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, Wall Street is Greed Good
or Wall Street The Art of the Deal m And
you would have got it right.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, that's but I will say there's, like most sequens,
there's only a few examples in history that I think
where the sequel is just as good as the original.
And I think in a lot of cases they could
have stopped it just the eighty seven version of Wall
Street and would have been fine. But personally thinking that,
(15:51):
and I get it, a lot of it's about money
and and keeping keeping the franchise alive.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But it's lucky for me they did. They just look
at me. They do make inferious sequels because it makes
for quite a good round, right, yes, well, the you
know it can can you name the sequel basically because
you might You might have loved Islander, but did you
love Highlander to the quickening?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Probably not? Right? Yeah? Absolutely? And uh, you know, there's
a few examples in history.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think probably obviously the guy Father in the other
part two is probably the best example.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I can come up with.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Empire strikes back, and I'm sorry, Empire strikes back. The
Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, yes, I think that's probably my favorite of all
of the nine movies.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
In the Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But yeah, absolutely, A new hope is it's probably a
second to that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
In terms of that, we'll give you a note. We're
getting close here on time. Where can people find a
copy of your book?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, well, you know it's a bit of a cliche,
but all good bookshops and online of course, wherever you
buy your books. I personally, being from a book's background,
I would always advocate the bricks and mortar bookshop whenever
you can support all the shops. It is out now
in England and it is published in the US on
(17:20):
October the seventh, so.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Just around the corner, but you can't get it in England.
And yeah, believed or not, we have quite a few
listeners overseas. As you know, we're based in the United States,
but we have a lot of listeners overseas. So for
those that are overseas in London and Great Britain, please
go ahead and get a copy of Gary's book, The
Movie Lover's Quiz Book. If you're here in the States.
(17:45):
Pre ordered that book October seventh, and I agree with you, Gary,
anytime you can go to a brick and border shoop.
That's best because I don't know. My wife kind of
hates it when I go in because I go for
one book and I walk out with four.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know your I have them like it. But the bookshop,
the books that I was very happy with you to
very happy.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Indeed, yes, I get It's one of my favorite places
to go because.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, there's just a lot of great books.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It gives me a lot of great ideas and be
able to meet some great authors that shared the love
like I do with films. And I appreciate you coming
on and being a guest with us today.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I appreciate you asking me to come on. Doug and
I've had a I love the time. I believe that's
that's gone really quickly, so you know, I'm shocked. It's
an end.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I know, these these things go great, especially when you
have a great conversation. And to our listeners, please go
out and get a copy of Gary's book, The Movie
Lover's Quiz Book. We just really touched the tip of
the iceberg aga and I think you're going to find,
like any good quiz book, there's going to be something
that you're going to get right away. And there's going
to be some that I think are going to make
(19:01):
you scratch your head and maybe even question your decision.
But I think that's a sign of some great questions.
If you can kind of have that debate with.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yourself, good, I hope.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So thank you well, thank you, and thank you for
listening to this edition for gott in Hollywood. Join us
next time for another episode of forgott in Hollywood. See
you soon.
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