We Describe the Movie...You Name It! (Holiday Edition)

Here are the rules to this quiz: Name each film below based on our vague description. All these movies either take place around Christmas or feature a key scene during the yuletide season. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer more than three questions daily so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description. Most of these should be pretty easy. Happy holidays!

1. Man uses old injury to manipulate friend.

2. The U.S. Postal Service helps save the day.

3. Wanted: Cook, baby, husband.

4. A never-ending supply of sherry.

5. Hee haw.

6. That Girl meets Frank Capra.

7. John-Boy (looking for the movie!).

8. Singin' happy birthday to baby Jesus.

9. Nun plays tennis.

10. Woman kills husband on New Year's Eve.

11. Attorney and criminal fall in love.

12. An Egyptian mummy for a Christmas gift?

13. Drunken actor recounts A Christmas Carol to greedy family.

14. Almost the entire film takes place in a bank being robbed.

15. "Mommy's little piggy!"

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

Here are the rules to this quiz: Name each film below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer more than three questions daily so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description.

1. Two real-life brothers play detective brothers.

2. A guy has a crush on a girl and names a plant after her.

3. The answer can be found in the connection between a baby and an old man.

4. A wealthy man with a reckless past becomes a brain surgeon.

5. A woman pays $630 to put her name on a billboard for three months.

6. A man is murdered at the Lost Caverns Resort Hotel and the house detective and bellboy try to find the culprit.

7. It's Going My Way except it's about doctors instead of priests.

8. A famous actress starred in this film about a trogolodyte. (Bet you learned a new word today! Who said the Cafe isn't educational?)

9. A man dances with a mouse and a cat.

10. Unfortunately, a man who has just consumed a huge meal relents when his waiter insists on a small after-dinner mint.

11. A fight ensues over a soda pop bottle--well, the fight isn't really about the bottle. But if it wasn't for the soda pop bottle, there wouldn't have been a fight that day.

12. The title of the film has nothing to do with an insect nor the devil.

13. His best friend is a skunk.

14. His best friend is a rat.

15. The president is kidnapped on a golf course.

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

This is our 7th edition of our most popular quiz. The rules are easy: Name each film below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description.

1. All the suspects are guilty in this "moving" mystery.

2. Two biographical films about this classic-era star were made in the same year with the same title.

3. A librarian fights censorship in the 1950s.

4. There's a mutiny en route to Skull Island.

5. The star of this film is a formal coat.

6. Cowboy has a bell on his saddle...which plays an important role in the climax.

7. Baseball pitcher rubs his catcher's hair--but it's not for luck.

8. Woman gives away gold to save the man she loves.

9. A dog has the better-known animal part in it, but there's a tarantula, too, in at least one of the adaptations.

10. It's about a black sheep. Literally.

11. The title lyrics call it a lonely train and implies that the sound of its wheels are like a sad sigh.

12. A portrait of a man and his best friend causes family discord.

13. A pair of glasses and a lighter. Those are the only clues for this movie.

14. A man on a train tries to avoid receiving a piece of paper.

15. As it turns out, he hated his wife (who is dead).

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

This is our 6th edition of our most popular quiz. The rules are easy: Name each film below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description.

1. An ambitious young man finds love with the woman of his dreams. Too bad his ex-girlfriend is pregnant.

2. A man wins a valuable prize--that's promptly stolen by his no-good brother.

3. Some Earthlings apparently descended from grasshopper-like aliens.

4. A man gets called a "kitty cat." As if that's not bad enough, he gets his nose cut.

5. A submarine fends off an attack from a giant octopus. Repeat: giant octopus.

6. Man cheats to win toy train race by buttering his competitor's tracks.

7. People from the future send a cyborg back in time to change the future. By the way, this movie was made in the 1960s!

8. Poison is placed in the wrong kind of drinking vessel. Hilarity ensues.

9. Amnesiac names himself after an airplane and a beverage.

10. In the opening scene, a man arrives at a country house he knows from a dream. In the closing scene, a man arrives at a country house he knows from a dream.

11. He becomes a track star for her. She become a biker chick for him. It's a rock'n'roll version of "The Gift of the Magi."

12. His companions are aghast when they learn he designs toy airplanes. That's right, toy airplanes!

13. Like in a Mission: Impossible episode, a captured intelligence officer during World War II is led to believe he has recovered from amnesia and the war is over.

14. The scheme is not to steal the gold, but to make it radioactive.

15. Man meets woman of his dreams at a traveling carnival. They fall in love...and become criminals.

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

This is our 5th edition of this type of quiz. The rules are easy: Name each film below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description.

1. A guy trying to make it as a tobacco farmer romances three women.

2. Two guys dress up like girls and lip sync to a record to buy some time.

3. Honeymoon couple unwisely accepts an invitation to a masquerade ball.

4. Sort of a predecessor to Kramer vs. Kramer--and the lead only sings the theme song.

5. A mermaid and a sweet girl are both attracted to a bone-headed guy.

6. In this 1960 film, a woman goes to a hotel and vanishes. Her sibling investigates. Oh, and it's not Psycho.

7. A renegade cop and a tough prostitute borrow a bus.

8. A clergyman and a former swimmer are among the attendees at a big New Year's Eve bash.

9. The first of four films about homicidal fruit.

10. Misinterpretation of a dying man's words highlights the importance of punctuation and shows why homonyms can be challenging.

11. A World War II vet suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome is happily reunited with a young girl named Kathie.

12. A 1970s family musical set in England that features a Broadway star, kids, songs, and animated animals. There are no nuns, nor actresses who played nuns, though people do fly.

13. In the original version of this film, a little girl is spanked in a scene tacked on after the ending.

14. Woman "tames" husband by treating him like a dog.

15. Interesting mystery that opens with a man being murdered after a game of poker. Did I mention this movie's a Western?

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

This is our 6th edition of this type of quiz. The rules are easy: Name each film below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description.

1. Two females have a disagreement about shoes.

2. Guys argue about who has the coolest scars.

3. A woman dresses up like a dead woman, changes back to herself, dresses up like the dead woman again, and then dies.

4. One of the characters is apparently crazy about kitten whiskers. Go figure!

5. Turtles named after clothing accessories. Now, that's original!

6. Plastic.

7. Pacific All Risk Insurance Company.

8. Alleged criminal enters a contest to impress a pretty girl.

9. Just prior to this film's infamous climax, one character says to two of his cohorts: "Let's go." One of them replies: "Why not?"

10. When she first makes her appearance in this film, you just know that Kathie is a bad girl...

11. Is that clown a killer?

12. When you get down to it, the main character is the house.

13. In my favorite segment of this film, a woman saves her marriage by flying kites.

14. Woman destroys monster by spending the night with it.

15. One character suffers from crocodyliphobia--and with good reason.

We Describe the Spy Movie (in 3 Words or Less)...You Name It!

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For this quiz, we've shorted the movie descriptions to three words or less. Your mission--should you decide to accept it--is to name the films. Each answer is a spy flick made prior to 1970. A few of them are easy, but  three of them are pretty difficult. Please include the question number with your answer and limit your responses to no more than three--so other people can play, too. Good luck!

The phone in #4.

1. Bowler hat.

2. Rusted nail.

3. Chocolate.

4. Distinctive phone ring.

5. Wine.

The "bed-slide" in #7.

6. Oven.

7. Bed-slide into bubbles.

8. Code name "L".

9. Anti-gravity device.

10. Volcano.

We Describe the TV Series...You Name It!

The rules are the same as the movie edition of this game: Name each TV series below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one TV show that is the single, best answer to each description. 

1. Pediatrician quits practice due to circumstances surrounding family tragedy.

2. Young man, who lives with uncle, aspires to be a film director for Mammoth Pictures.

3. Man gets his sword broken in half--in the opening credits of every episode!

4. Two bachelors live in a train caboose.

5. Architect encounters trouble after late-night stop for coffee.

6. Rigid rules of a "retirement" community don't appeal to new independent-minded member.

7. Two astronauts land "in the strangest place."

8. Young teacher solves problems at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles.

9. Two guys in a Corvette.

10. Man interested in jewelry becomes bodyguard.

11. Mother has gas...all the time!

12. Supervisor worked for five bosses during the nine-year run of this show. Only one regular employee worked for the supervisor during that span.

13. The premise of this sitcom starring a famous young actress is genetically impossible.

14. Good thing the lead character never had rhinoplasty!

15. The lead character was supposed to be a male, but was played by a female named Susie.

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

This is our 4th edition of this type of quiz. The rules are easy: Name each film below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single best answer to each description.

1. Young man falls in love with his aunt (!)...but he doesn't trust her.

2. At the snap of one's fingers, a klutz becomes a master swordsman.

3. Newlyweds have trouble leaving town; the groom shoots people at the climax.

4. Young girl displays unique talent of spinning her head 180 degrees.

5. Compelling evidence that the 1968 Mustang had good shock absorbers.

6. Newlywed can't get along with the head of the housekeeping staff.

7. A bottle of 1934 Pommard.

8. Woman learns about men by reading a dog training book.

9. Don't take that brain!

10. That lovely green dress...kinda looks like your old curtains!

11. The only film in cinema history featuring a mermaid and a motorcycle gang.

12. Guy tells girlfriend not to fall asleep, but then she does and he gets really upset!

13. Milady Soap: "The soap that sanctifies."

14. Happy Soap. (Two soap questions...what a squeaky clean quiz!)

15. And in a powerful scene, a man tries to pawn his typewriter.

What's the Movie? We Describe It...You Name It!

This is our 3rd edition of this type of quiz, so you probably know the drill. If not, well, the rules are easy: Name each film below based on our (rather) vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single, best answer to each description.

1. Hitchhikers make good use of bed linens.

2. Man visits his best friend, Morgan, every night--but Morgan won't let the guy in the house.

3. Why is that glass of milk glowing?

4. Seawater ruins healthy plants.

5. Cake raffle goes all wrong!

6. Guys kidnap women--everyone falls in love.

7. Vip!

8. Don't belittle Raquel Welch in this movie.

9. Ah, the old postmaster-who's-a-homicidal-master-of-disguises trick!

10. Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

11. Dead man swimmingly narrates the film.

12. Young, single woman moves in with seven guys.

13. You can do more with mashed potatoes than just eat them!

14. On the one hand, there's love...

15. Irresistible impulse.

What's the Movie? (We describe it...you name it!)

Last December, we posted our first quiz of this type (only it was longer). It turned out to be fun and generated a lot of positive feedback. We like reinforcement at the Cafe! We hope this edition turns out to be equally entertaining. The rules are easy: Name each film below based on our (rather) vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one film that is the single, best answer to each description.

1. You can glimpse Philip Marlowe in a mirror.

2. There's a lot of confusion about the location of a pill containing poison.

3. He hid it in the clock!

4. Dog howls when owner is mistakenly murdered.

5. Bond won't talk; villain wants him to die!

6. Bob Hope's kids look like Bing Crosby.

7. Father kills son with a cane; son is grateful.

8. Ex-convict governess cares for pyromaniac.

9. Accused firestarter woos woman at her father's request.

10. President is kidnapped during a game of golf.

11. John Kennedy thwarts Lincoln's assassination.

12. House guest gives kid diamonds in exchange for a few bucks.

13. It's a sled!

14. Man's scheme revealed because he can't spell "memento."

15. Man lives in doll house.