Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They lost. When not enough attention was being paid to Harris by the matchmakers at Madison Square Garden, they sent a man around in a gorilla suit. Their boxing backgrounds before 1976: as a child Rappaport was aced out for the boxing category on The $64,000 Question TV quiz show by Psychologist Joyce Brothers, who had memorized the Ring record book; and Jones is a former champion of Camp Chicapee in Penn sylvania. This is a funny business...
College Bowl--nationally organized as the "varsity sport of the mind" by the Association of College Unions-International--was a popular Sunday afternoon TV trivia quiz show years ago, pitting teams of three students against each other for the academic honor of their school...
...tries desperately to comprehend his passion for music and his rage for order-"How could you file my James Brown record under J?" Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) is ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing the sensitive stud and limping through life with one foot in the underworld. Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is beyond marriage: proto-hip and self-destructive, he seems to be waiting for the '60s to explode around him. Billy...
...seems to be Eddie (Steve Guttenberg); a smiling, easy-going Baltimore Colts fan. He has decided to tie the knot, but, in a hilarious bit of Americana (which rings amazingly true), agrees to marry the woman in question only if she can pass a mammoth 100-question football trivia quiz, with questions like what the team colors were of teams before the formation of the National Football League. He says the test is to insure that they'll have something to talk about when they're married, but it appears more like a matter of entering a frightening stage...
...whole point of growing up, and by the end of the movie you get the firm impression that there's a lot less getting by the guys. In the final scene, when Eddie and his girlfriend finally do get married, owing to her prodigious performance on the football trivia quiz, the bridal bouquet falls on the table where the guys are sitting. The ending is just the right bit upbeat. These guys are going to grow up; they'll somehow make it out of this world all right. Just look at what happened to Barry Levinson...