Extreme Trivia #68
June 14, 2007 at 12:04 pm
First, last week’s trivia answer …
“When I lead this country, the secretary of defense is going to have to make the choices, between how we keep, how we protect the survivability of our nuclear deployment on the Midgetman missile, or on the Minuteman, whatever it is. We’re going to have to—the MX. We’re going to have to do that. It’s Christmas.”
… and the winning question from Peter Roff:
In the first Bush/Dukakis presidential debate, how did Vice President George Bush answer this question posed by the Atlanta Journal_constitution’s John Mashek: “Mr. Vice President, the governor has suggested that you’ve never met a weapons system that you didn’t like or want. Are you prepared to tell the voters one system in this time of tight budgetary restraints and problems at the Pentagon that you’d be willing to cut or even eliminate that wouldn’t endanger national security?”
Now, this week’s Extreme Trivia answer: The military connection between “Top Gun” and “Broadcast News.” What’s the question?
Reagan's Ghost said,
June 14, 2007 @ 1:16 pm
Tom Cruise Missile hollers “I’m mad as hell and I won’t take it no more” as he fires rockets from his jet? Wait: that’s “Network”, not “Broadcast News”.
Never mind:
http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/tv_pix/nbc/saturday_night_live_episode_photos/_group_photos/gilda_radner71.jpg
rcgeist said,
June 15, 2007 @ 10:22 am
What is the F-14 Tomcat.
In Top Gun, Tom Cruise’s Maverick flew an F-14 throughout the film and made use of the venerable dogfighter to make three kills of MiG-28 (actually F-5 Freedom Fighters painted black) at the end of the film.
In Broadcast News, William Hurt’s anchorman character interviewed a Navy aviator about flying a F-14 in combat in response to a Libyan attack on an American air base in the Mediterrean while offscreen, Albert Brooks coaches Hurt’s character via phone thru the producer played by Holly Hunter.
Peter Roff said,
June 15, 2007 @ 4:26 pm
Both films involve, as a siginficant plot device, U.S. military air action in the “Med” off the coast of Libya.
Reter Poff said,
June 17, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
I always win: why enter?
But the answer/question is: “Why is Tom Cruiser Such A Scientologist Homo?”
Uh, oh, now you’ve done it, Extreme: look for the Scumtologists to come after you. They make Ron Paul’seople small….
Dr Wong said,
June 18, 2007 @ 8:15 pm
Ditto to rcgeist