In-Flight Movies
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15 questions · Published September 12, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which airplane-set thriller features the infamous exclamation "Get off my plane!"?
In "Air Force One" (1997), President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) kicks a Russian terrorist off the titular plane while shouting the film's most oft-quoted line: "Get off my plane!"
- Multiple Choice
2. What actor earned an Oscar nomination for playing a heroic pilot with a substance abuse problem in 2012's "Flight?"
Loosely inspired by the 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, "Flight" (2012) stars Denzel Washington as "Whip" Whitaker, a pilot who saves almost all of the passengers on his flight following a mechanical malfunction, but is then subjected to an investigation regarding his drinking and drug use.
- Multiple Choice
3. "The Langoliers," about a plane that flies through a rip in space-time and travels to the recent past, is based on a novella by _____________.
"The Langoliers," a two-part miniseries that aired in 1995, is based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King. It appears as the first tale in his 1990 collection "Four Past Midnight."
- Multiple Choice
4. What mile-high thriller's central plot was directly lifted for the parody classic "Airplane!"?
"Airplane!" (1980) writer-directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker lifted the plot, along with some of the dialogue, for their comedy classic from the 1957 flick "Zero Hour!" As an example:
"Zero Hour!": "Our survival hinges on one thing -- finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner."
"Airplane!": "The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing -- finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner."
- Multiple Choice
5. What horror film franchise's central premise of cheating Death kicks off with a teenager's premonition of a fatal plane crash?
FUN FACT
"Final Destination" (2000), which sees Death returning for those who got off the plane, began as a spec script written for the TV show "The X-Files."
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