This week, we welcome Josh, Tripp, and Erica to the show for trivia about dual performances and ambient electronica: a classic pairing of topics if there ever was one. We’re seeing double in round one, when we talk movies and TV where one actor played multiple roles. After that, we welcome special guest Vangelis, the Academy Award-winning electronic composer to the show. He has reworked other Oscar-winning scores into his signature style, providing the basis for the today’s round two. And as always, we close out with a rousing lightning round.
Contestants
Quizzes Played
Prom And Circumstance
Who would make the best prom date?
Twinning The Day
Name the TV show or movie in which an actor played multiple roles.
Vanjealousy
Listen to the Vangelis-style take on Oscar-winning original scores and name the movie.
Filing A Motion Picture
Questions about pop culture lawyers.
I Know Exactly Who This Is
Questions about the four regular panelists on the US version of The Masked Singer.
Branching Out
Questions about notable trees in pop culture.
The Riddle
As a follow-up series, I'm considered much lesser,
I kicked off with Joan Crawford - a real snappy dresser.
I continued some trends, with more fantasy, less suspense,
In syndication I was mixed up with The Sixth Sense.
Answer
Night Gallery, regarded as a lesser follow-up series to The Twilight Zone, focused more on supernatural and fantasy stories, from authors like HP Lovecraft, than the sci-fi that had been the staple of Twilight Zone. Joan Crawford, in one of her last performances, played a wealthy blind woman in the pilot, in a segment directed by Steven Spielberg. To fill out enough episodes to meet the demands of syndication, episodes were cut to 30 minutes, with other stories padded out. That still wasn't enough, so segments from an unrelated show The Sixth Sense were added in. Episodes were also severely cut down, so Rod Serling introductions were added to fill in backstory, and make them seem more like Night Gallery episodes.
Match Results
Episode Notes
"Nefertiri" from The Mummy Returns should not be confused with "Nefertari" from the Bible, Moses movies, and history or the historical "Nefertiti," for that matter.
In Round two, we included a Vangelisized version of Howard Shore's score to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. While we said the year of the movie for the answer was 2003, meaning the answer was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. We will note that the musical motif in our example also appears in Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring. But because we specified the year 2003, the correct answer is Return of the King.
The "Asking for A Friend" Scorebreak: Asking for a friend -- will you be my friend?
It's time for the "time that they brought out past acting winners to make appreciative speeches about each of that year's acting nominees at the Oscars" scorebreak. The time that they brought out past acting winners to make appreciative speeches about each of that year's acting nominees at the Oscars: can we do that again?