Round 1 Theme: Guess Who's Coming to Trivia? Trivia about the Movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1. In the movie "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", the role of Joanna Drayton is played by Katharine Houghton, which was one of her firt major roles in a movie. How did she get the part? A. She slept with the director B. She slept with the producer C. She slept with Spencer Tracy and is responsible for why he died 17 days after completing filming his part D. She is the niece of Katharine Hepburn, who recommended her for the part thinking her family resemblance would work in the role as Hepburn's daughter Stanley Kramer was both the Director and the Producer Hepburn significantly helped cast her niece, Katharine Houghton, for the role of Joey Drayton. Concerning this, Hepburn stated: "There was a lovely part for Kathy [Houghton], my niece [...] She would play Spencer's and my daughter. I loved that. She's beautiful and she definitely had a family resemblance. It was my idea."[17] According to Hepburn, the role of Joey Drayton was one of Houghton's first major roles as a young actress. "The part of my daughter," Kate said, "was a difficult one. A young unknown actress needs more opportunity to win the sympathy of the audience. Otherwise, too much has to depend on her youth, innocence, and beauty. She had one good speech to win the audience, but it was cut. Instead she only talks with her father about the differences between the principles he taught her and the way he's behaving." 2. In the movie "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", there is a scene where the daughter Joanna Drayton says to Tillie, the housekeeper: "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Now?". Millie's sarcastic response to Joey's question was edited out of the movie shortly after its release, but was subsequently added back to later releases about a year or so later. What was Tillie's sarcastic response? Bonus - Why was it cut? A. "Muhammad Ali - the greatest boxer of all times?" B. "The Reverend Martin Luther King?" C. "Malcolm X?" D. "Alabama Governor George Wallace?" The original version of the film that played in theaters in 1968 contained a moment in which Tillie responds to the question "Guess who's coming to dinner now?" with the sarcastic one-liner: "The Reverend Martin Luther King?" After King's assassination on April 4, 1968, this line was removed from the film, so by August 1968, almost all theaters' showings of this film had this line omitted. As early as 1969, the line was restored to many but not all prints, and the line was preserved in the VHS and DVD versions of the film, as well. 3. Katharine Hepburn played Christina Drayton, the mother of Joanna Drayton in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Katharine Hepburn's real mother was Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (1878-1951). What is she famous for? A. She was co-founder of the Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt Publishing Co. B. She tied herself to a lamppost in support of women's right to vote C. She co-founder of the American Birth Control League (which would become Planned Parenthood) D. She was the first woman to drive solo across the US from NYC to SF CA. Alongside fellow feminist Margaret Sanger, Hepburn co-founded the organization that would become Planned Parenthood (American Birth Control League). Katherine Martha Houghton Hepburn's father committed suicide in 1892 and her mother died in 1894 from stomach cancer. 4. True or False Katharine Hepburn's grandfather and brother both commited suicide? In March 1921, Hepburn, 13, and her 16-year-old brother Tom were visiting New York, staying with a friend of their mother's in Greenwich Village over the Easter break. On March 30, Hepburn discovered the body of her adored older brother dead from an apparent suicide.[17] He had tied a curtain tie around a beam and hanged himself.[18] The Hepburn family denied it was suicide and maintained that Tom's death must have been an experiment that had gone wrong.[19] The incident made the teenage Hepburn nervous, moody, and suspicious of people.[20] She shied away from other children, dropped out of Oxford School, and was tutored privately.[21] For many years she used Tom's birthday (November 8) as her own. It was not until her 1991 autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, that Hepburn revealed her true birth date. 5. True or False, Katharine Hepburn is related to the founder of the Corning Glass Co.? Katherine Martha Houghton Hepburn's uncle was Amory Houghton Jr. (1837–1909), president of Corning Glass (son of the founder of Corning Glass, Amory Houghton Sr. (1812–1882)) 6. In the long-running television series M*A*S*H, Corporal Max Klinger tried numerous times to get discharged from the Army on the grounds of being mentally unfit. This was referred to as a Section 8. Who from the cast of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" was in real life actually discharged from the Army on a Section 8? A. Spencer Tracy as Matt Drayton B. Sidney Poitier as Dr. John Wade Prentice C. Cecil Kellaway as Monsignor Mike Ryan D. Roy E. Glenn Sr. as Mr. John Prentice Sr. At age fifteen, in 1942, he was sent to Miami to live with his brother's large family, but Poitier found it impossible to adjust to the racism in Jim Crow era Florida. At sixteen, he moved to New York City, looking to become an actor, holding a string of jobs as a dishwasher in the meantime. After failing his first audition with the American Negro Theatre due to his inability to fluently read the script, an elderly Jewish waiter sat with him every night for several weeks, helping him to improve his reading by using the newspaper. During World War II, in November 1943, he lied about his age (he was only 16 at the time) and enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to a Veteran's Administration hospital in Northport, New York, and was trained to work with psychiatric patients. Poitier became upset with how the hospital treated its patients and feigned mental illness to obtain a discharge. Poitier confessed to a psychiatrist that he was faking his condition, but the doctor was sympathetic and granted his discharge under Section VIII of Army regulation 615–360 in December 1944. 7. True or False, when Guess Who's Coming To Dinner was released (Dec 1967), interracial marriage was still illegal in 17 states? The film was one of the few films of the time to depict an interracial marriage in a positive light, as interracial marriage historically had been illegal in many states of the United States. It was still illegal in 17 states, until June 12, 1967, six months before the film was released, and scenes were filmed just before anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. 8.T or F, Spencer Tracy died before the final audio editing was able to be completed so the producer hired voice actor Mel Blanc to dub the dialog for Tracy's famous speach at the end of the movie. 9. T or F, Sammy Davis Jr. was originally cast to play the role of Dr. John Prentice. However, his real-life inter-racial marriage to Swedish actress May Britt was falling apart at the time and complicated his ability to play such a role. 10. T or F, another famous quote that Isabel Sanford's character Tillie mutters in the movie is "This house has sho' gone crazy!" Dudley Henry Dickerson Jr. (November 27, 1906 – September 23, 1968) was an American film actor. Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, he appeared in nearly 160 films between 1932 and 1952, and is best remembered for his roles in several Three Stooges films. Career Given the era in which Dickerson performed, he was usually cast in stereotypical roles that were common in films of the time. His boundless energy can be seen in what are rather restrictive roles, and was a master at what has become known as "scared reaction" comedy.[1] One of his early screen credits was the Our Gang comedy Spooky Hooky (1936), as a bemused caretaker. Dickerson also appeared in Soundies musical films with Dorothy Dandridge and Meade Lux Lewis; Big Joe Turner had recorded three numbers for Soundies but was not present for the filming, so Dickerson stood in for him and lip-synced his vocals.[2] Modern viewers will remember Dudley Dickerson for his portrayals of startled cooks, quizzical orderlies, frightened porters, and apprehensive watchmen in such Three Stooges films as They Stooge to Conga, A Gem of a Jam, and Hold That Lion! In Hold that Lion, he played a lovable train conductor who memorably bugged out his eyes and shrieked, "He'p, he'p, ah'm losin' mah mahnd!" when a lion attacked him and ripped the seat of his pants while he was shining a pair of shoes. This gag had been used by Moe in a previous short, but Dickerson's portrayal of the scene was so funny that the crew (and Dickerson himself) could hardly contain their laughter, as one can hear in the final release. Probably Dickerson's most memorable role was that of the hapless chef in the Stooges' A Plumbing We Will Go, in which he uttered in bewilderment, "This house has sho' gone crazy!" He was also able to show the range of his acting talent in this role, able to raise a laugh from the audience by just giving a suspicious, sideways look to a kitchen appliance that had previously acted up. The footage would be recycled twice more in future Stooge comedies: 1949's Vagabond Loafers and 1956's Scheming Schemers. Both films included a newly filmed scene of a raincoat-clad Dickerson informing guests that "dinner's postponed on account of rain" (a turn of phrase usually used to describe the cancellation of a baseball game due to inclement weather).[1] Round 2: Best Snack in Every State 1.Smoked salmon spread a. Alabama b. Alaska x c. Rhode Island d. Indiana 2. Cactus Candy a. Texas b. Maine c. Arizona x d. Wyoming 3. Ham Biscuits a. Pennsylvania b. Massachusetts c. Virginia x d. New York 4. Jerky a. Montana x b. North Dakota c. Utah d. Oregon 5.Bourbon balls a. Kentucky x b. Louisiana c. Tennesee d. Ohio 6. Fried Clams a. Maryland b. South Carolina c. Neww Mexico d. Massachusetts x 7. Guacamole a. Florida b. California x c. Nebraska d. South Dakota 8. Salt Water Taffy a. Washington b. New Jersey x c. North Carolina d. Florida 9. Spam musubi a. Georgia b. Delaware c. Wisconsin d. Hawaii x 10. Buckeyes a. Washington b. Pennsylvania c. West Virginia d. Ohio x 11. Soft Pretzels a. Colorado b. Pennsylvania x c. Texas d. Alaska 12. Maple sugar on snow a. South Carolina b. Vermont x c. New York d. West Virginia Round 2 Theme: Periodic Table of the States A Venn diagram of the two-letter abbreviations for the elements in the periodic table partially overlap with the abbreviations of the states. You have 5 minutes to list as many tow-letter abbreviations that match both a state and an element. One point for each correct entry. Subtract one point for each one listed that is incorrect. There are at least 10 states/elements that match. Cast Spencer Tracy as Matt Drayton Sidney Poitier as Dr. John Wade Prentice Katharine Hepburn as Christina Drayton Katharine Houghton as Joanna "Joey" Drayton Cecil Kellaway as Monsignor Mike Ryan Beah Richards as Mrs. Mary Prentice Roy E. Glenn Sr. as Mr. John Prentice Sr. Isabel Sanford as Matilda "Tillie" Binx Virginia Christine as Hilary St. George Alexandra Hay as Carhop Barbara Randolph as Dorothy D'Urville Martin as Frankie Tom Heaton as Peter Grace Gaynor as Judith Skip Martin as Delivery Boy John Hudkins as Cab Driver Jacqueline Fontaine as Singer In Japanese Cocktail Lounge Who was granted US Patent #US90646A "Improvement in electrographic vote-recorder" in 1869? Department of the U.S. Navy (1937–1940) On January 18, 1937, President Roosevelt appointed Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Secretary on January 2, 1940, Claude A. Swanson having died several months previously. Edison himself only kept the job until June 24, resigning to run for Governor of New Jersey. During his time in the Navy department, he advocated construction of the large Iowa-class battleships, and that one of them be built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which secured votes for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1940 presidential election; in return, Roosevelt had BB-62 named the USS New Jersey.