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Heist_films.sPubDate = "6/5/2007 10:50:20 PM GMT";
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Heist_films.appDeck = new Array("“Ocean’s Thirteen” reunites director Steven Soderbergh with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and the other actors who populated his previous two caper movies “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Ocean’s Twelve.” It also helps keep alive the grand tradition of the heist, or caper, movie, a narrow but persistently engaging subset of crime movies in which a group of criminals get together to plan and pull off a seemingly impossible robbery. The heist film covers a wide range of moods, from some of the darkest film noirs (“The Asphalt Jungle”) to lighthearted comic romps (“The Pink Panther”). How well do you know the genre? Take our quiz and find out.","");
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Heist_films[1] = new Array();
Heist_films[1][0] = new Array("The original “Ocean’s Eleven” starred Frank Sinatra and his close friends Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford, the core members of the group famously known as the Rat Pack. Who originally founded the Rat Pack?");
Heist_films[1].answer = "The correct answer is D, Humphrey Bogart. Bogey originally coined the name “Holmby Hills Rat Pack” for a group of his drinking buddies, including Sinatra, who later came to lead the group.";
Heist_films[1][1] = new Array("A. Frank Sinatra",'',0);
Heist_films[1][2] = new Array("B. Sammy Davis",'',0);
Heist_films[1][3] = new Array("C. Dean Martin",'',0);
Heist_films[1][4] = new Array("D. Humphrey Bogart",'',1);
Heist_films[2] = new Array();
Heist_films[2][0] = new Array("Which member of the new “Ocean’s Eleven” cast previously played a member of the Rat Pack?");
Heist_films[2].answer = "The correct answer is B, Don Cheadle, who played Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1998 TV movie \"The Rat Pack.\"";
Heist_films[2][1] = new Array("A. George Clooney",'',0);
Heist_films[2][2] = new Array("B. Don Cheadle",'',1);
Heist_films[2][3] = new Array("C. Elliott Gould",'',0);
Heist_films[2][4] = new Array("D. Matt Damon",'',0);
Heist_films[3] = new Array();
Heist_films[3][0] = new Array("In the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake, when Brad Pitt’s character is first told about George Clooney’s plan, what does Pitt say they’ll need to pull it off?");
Heist_films[3].answer = "The correct answer is D. The names are oblique code phrases for characters we’ll meet and events we’ll see later in the movie. Answer C is actually Elliott Gould’s response when he first hears about the plan.";
Heist_films[3][1] = new Array("A. “The Rat Pack — except we could skip Peter Lawford this time.”",'',0);
Heist_films[3][2] = new Array("B. “Weapons, lots and lots of weapons.”",'',0);
Heist_films[3][3] = new Array("C. “You gotta be nuts. And you’re gonna need a crew as nuts as you are.”",'',0);
Heist_films[3][4] = new Array("D. “A Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, a couple of Jethros and a Leon Spinks. Not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever.”",'',1);
Heist_films[4] = new Array();
Heist_films[4][0] = new Array("The new villain in “Ocean’s Thirteen” is Willie Bank, a tough casino owner played by Al Pacino. And Pacino ought to know how to play one of those guys, because he did so previously in which film?");
Heist_films[4].answer = "The correct answer is B, “The Godfather Part II.” Pacino’s Michael Corleone runs into trouble when he tries to expand his criminal empire which includes some Las Vegas casinos.";
Heist_films[4][1] = new Array("A. “Casino”",'',0);
Heist_films[4][2] = new Array("B. “The Godfather Part II”",'',1);
Heist_films[4][3] = new Array("C. “Scarface”",'',0);
Heist_films[4][4] = new Array("D. “Donnie Brasco”",'',0);
Heist_films[5] = new Array();
Heist_films[5][0] = new Array("In “Rififi,” the thieves must break into a jewelry store by drilling a hole through the ceiling via the apartment above. But if any of the plaster hits the floor of the store, the alarms will go off. What common object do they use to get around this?");
Heist_films[5].answer = "The correct answer is C, an umbrella. First, they carefully make a small hole in the ceiling, and then slide the umbrella though upside-down and open it. As the chunks of plaster are caught by the umbrella, they’re removed and discarded safely.";
Heist_films[5][1] = new Array("A. A plastic toy bucket",'',0);
Heist_films[5][2] = new Array("B. A vacuum cleaner",'',0);
Heist_films[5][3] = new Array("C. An umbrella",'',1);
Heist_films[5][4] = new Array("D. A trampoline",'',0);
Heist_films[6] = new Array();
Heist_films[6][0] = new Array("“Rififi” director Jules Dassin returned to the heist genre again in 1964 with another classic, “Topkapi.” This time, instead of Paris, the robbery takes place in what exotic locale? ");
Heist_films[6].answer = "The correct answer is C, Istanbul.";
Heist_films[6][1] = new Array("A. Zanzibar",'',0);
Heist_films[6][2] = new Array("B. Hong Kong",'',0);
Heist_films[6][3] = new Array("C. Istanbul",'',1);
Heist_films[6][4] = new Array("D. Newark",'',0);
Heist_films[7] = new Array();
Heist_films[7][0] = new Array("Frenchman Jean-Pierre Melville directed several classic crime thrillers, including the 1970 heist film “Le Cercle Rouge.” The title, which means “The Red Circle” in English, is supposedly taken from a saying by what famous person?");
Heist_films[7].answer = "The correct answer is A, Buddha. Actually, it was an invention of Melville’s, done to foreground the film’s theme of inevitable destiny at the beginning of the film in a way more elegant than simply appearing on camera and saying, “Hi, my name is Jean-Pierre Melville and this is my heist movie about inevitable destiny.”";
Heist_films[7][1] = new Array("A. Buddha",'',1);
Heist_films[7][2] = new Array("B. Albert Einstein",'',0);
Heist_films[7][3] = new Array("C. Al Capone",'',0);
Heist_films[7][4] = new Array("D. Dwight D. Eisenhower",'',0);
Heist_films[8] = new Array();
Heist_films[8][0] = new Array("“Le Cercle Rouge” star Gian Maria Volonte also played a master thief in the Clint Eastwood Western, “For A Few Dollars More.” In that film, he and his gang steal thousands of dollars stored in the vault at the Bank of El Paso. How does he get past the seemingly impregnable vault?");
Heist_films[8].answer = "The correct answer is D; he steals the hidden safe where the money is actually being stored. Volonte’s character had been cellmates with the man who built the wooden cabinet that has disguised the safe.";
Heist_films[8][1] = new Array("A. He doesn’t — the robbery fails",'',0);
Heist_films[8][2] = new Array("B. He kidnaps the daughter of the bank manager and holds her for ransom in exchange for the vault combination",'',0);
Heist_films[8][3] = new Array("C. He uses a fistful of dynamite",'',0);
Heist_films[8][4] = new Array("D. He steals the hidden safe where the money is actually being stored",'',1);
Heist_films[9] = new Array();
Heist_films[9][0] = new Array("One standard trope of heist movies is the criminal who’s planning to pull off “one last job” before going straight. All but one of the following films features this plot device. Which is the odd man out?");
Heist_films[9].answer = "The correct answer is E, “A Fish Called Wanda.” Robert De Niro has retired in “The Score” but is talked out of it by the promise of a big job. Gene Hackman has also retired in “Heist” because his face has been captured by a video-surveillance camera, but is blackmailed into working again. Sterling Hayden intends to buy back his family farm with the proceeds from the job in “Asphalt Jungle.” The heist is almost an afterthought in “Sexy Beast,” in which the most memorable dramatic conflict revolves around Ben Kingsley’s unremitting pressure on Ray Winstone’s character to come out of retirement and do one last safecracking job.";
Heist_films[9][1] = new Array("A. “The Score”",'',0);
Heist_films[9][2] = new Array("B. “Sexy Beast”",'',0);
Heist_films[9][3] = new Array("C. “The Asphalt Jungle”",'',0);
Heist_films[9][4] = new Array("D. “Heist”",'',0);
Heist_films[9][5] = new Array("E. “A Fish Called Wanda”",'',1);
Heist_films[9][6] = new Array("F. “Bob le Flambeur”",'',0);
Heist_films[10] = new Array();
Heist_films[10][0] = new Array("Clooney and Soderbergh first teamed up on another crime film, 1998’s “Out Of Sight.” In that film, Michael Keaton makes an appearance playing the same character he did in another crime film made the previous year. Which film?");
Heist_films[10].answer = "The correct answer is A, “Jackie Brown.” Directed by Quentin Tarantino and otherwise featuring a completely different set of characters, “Brown” links with “Out Of Sight” because they were both originally novels by Elmore Leonard. In addition, Clooney’s mug shot in “Out Of Sight” is the same one used in another Tarantino film, “From Dusk Till Dawn.”";
Heist_films[10][1] = new Array("A. “Jackie Brown”",'',1);
Heist_films[10][2] = new Array("B. “Pulp Fiction”",'',0);
Heist_films[10][3] = new Array("C. “Gigli”",'',0);
Heist_films[10][4] = new Array("D. “Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels”",'',0);
Heist_films[11] = new Array();
Heist_films[11][0] = new Array("The competent but perennially unlucky thieves led by Robert Redford in “The Hot Rock,” based on the Donald E. Westlake comic novel, find themselves placed in what humiliating circumstance?");
Heist_films[11].answer = "The correct answer is A; they have to keep stealing the same object over and over again. “The Hot Rock” is the first novel in Westlake’s series about career thief John Dortmunder, and all the other responses are situations from subsequent Dortmunder books. Westlake originally intended this plot for his other series character, the hards-as-nails Parker, but quickly realized that Parker would never put up with the indignity, and invented a new hero. Answer B is the plotline of the Martin Lawrence movie “What’s the Worst That Could Happen,” and answer D of the Gary Coleman movie “Jimmy The Kid.” You’re better off with the books in both cases.";
Heist_films[11][1] = new Array("A. They have to keep stealing the same object over and over again.",'',1);
Heist_films[11][2] = new Array("B. The rich owner of the building they’ve broken into turns the tables and robs them instead",'',0);
Heist_films[11][3] = new Array("C. They’re blackmailed by an order of nuns ",'',0);
Heist_films[11][4] = new Array("D. Using a crime novel as inspiration for their own plan to kidnap a rich child turns out to be a bad idea when reality and fiction don’t converge well.",'',0);
Heist_films[12] = new Array();
Heist_films[12][0] = new Array("In the original 1963 “The Pink Panther,” what are competing jewel thieves David Niven and Robert Wagner both wearing when they open the safe where the priceless diamond is stored?");
Heist_films[12].answer = "The correct answer is B, gorilla suits. Peter Sellers, who makes his debut as Inspector Clouseau in this film, is the one dressed in medieval armor. Why gorilla suits? It’s a long story; let’s just say it’s a bunch of monkey business.";
Heist_films[12][1] = new Array("A. Tuxedos",'',0);
Heist_films[12][2] = new Array("B. Gorilla suits",'',1);
Heist_films[12][3] = new Array("C. Voluminous black cloaks",'',0);
Heist_films[12][4] = new Array("D. Medieval armor",'',0);
Heist_films[13] = new Array();
Heist_films[13][0] = new Array("Alfred Hitchcock was famous for making a cameo appearance in nearly all of his films. When does he show up in 1955’s thriller “To Catch A Thief,” in which Cary Grant tries to prove he’s not a notorious jewel thief?");
Heist_films[13].answer = "The correct answer is A, sitting on a bus. The others are his cameos in, respectively, “North By Northwest,” “Strangers On A Train” and “Lifeboat.”";
Heist_films[13][1] = new Array("A. He’s sitting on a bus next to Cary Grant",'',1);
Heist_films[13][2] = new Array("B. He misses the bus",'',0);
Heist_films[13][3] = new Array("C. He struggles to board a train while carrying a large bass fiddle.",'',0);
Heist_films[13][4] = new Array("D. He appears in the “before” and “after” photos for a weight-loss advertisement.",'',0);
Heist_films[14] = new Array();
Heist_films[14][0] = new Array("In one episode of the “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” TV series, a group of desperate, hardened criminals gather at their hideout to hear their boss tell them the complex details of his audacious scheme to ... do what?");
Heist_films[14].answer = "The correct answer is B, buy a watch. “We never break the bloody law!” complains one of the would-be thieves, who then grumbles that their last “crime” involved going into a bank wearing a mask and withdrawing 15 pounds from his savings account.";
Heist_films[14][1] = new Array("A. Steal the crown jewels of England",'',0);
Heist_films[14][2] = new Array("B. Buy a watch",'',1);
Heist_films[14][3] = new Array("C. Break into the Louvre",'',0);
Heist_films[14][4] = new Array("D. Hijack an armored car",'',0);
Heist_films[15] = new Array();
Heist_films[15][0] = new Array("The criminals in the following movies all steal the same thing — except one film, in which the target of the theft is different. Which one?");
Heist_films[15].answer = "The correct answer is B, “Charley Varrick,” in which Walter Matthau robs a bank only to discover that the money he stole belonged to the Mafia, who will use deadly force to get it back. The others all involve thefts of jewels or jewel-encrusted items.";
Heist_films[15][1] = new Array("A. “The Asphalt Jungle”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][2] = new Array("B. “Charley Varrick”",'',1);
Heist_films[15][3] = new Array("C. “The Pink Panther”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][4] = new Array("D. “City of Industry”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][5] = new Array("E. “The Hot Rock”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][6] = new Array("F. “Topkapi”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][7] = new Array("G. “Snatch”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][8] = new Array("H. “Rififi”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][9] = new Array("I. “The Score”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][10] = new Array("J. “The Great Muppet Caper”",'',0);
Heist_films[15][11] = new Array("K. “Le Cercle Rouge”",'',0);
Heist_films[16] = new Array();
Heist_films[16][0] = new Array("A criminal enterprise is a fragile thing — a lot can go wrong, and when it does it often goes spectacularly wrong. All but one of the following movies are largely concerned with the messy (and often bloody) aftermath of a job gone terribly wrong. Which one doesn’t fit this pattern?");
Heist_films[16].answer = "The correct answer is G, “The Sting.” A purist might say it’s more of a con-artist movie than a heist movie, but the detailed planning that goes into the caper fits the genre. Unlike the others, though, the criminals led by Robert Redford and Paul Newman are still working on the job into the film’s last scene.";
Heist_films[16][1] = new Array("A. “Reservoir Dogs”",'',0);
Heist_films[16][2] = new Array("B. “The Usual Suspects”",'',0);
Heist_films[16][3] = new Array("C. “The Getaway”",'',0);
Heist_films[16][4] = new Array("D. “Point Blank”",'',0);
Heist_films[16][5] = new Array("E. “Dog Day Afternoon”",'',0);
Heist_films[16][6] = new Array("F. “The Split”",'',0);
Heist_films[16][7] = new Array("G. “The Sting”",'',1);
Heist_films[17] = new Array();
Heist_films[17][0] = new Array("In both the 1955 version of “The Ladykillers” starring Alec Guiness and the Coen Brothers’ 2004 remake, a criminal gang hide out in an old woman’s house after their heist by pretending to be what?");
Heist_films[17].answer = "The correct answer is B, musicians.";
Heist_films[17][1] = new Array("A. A group of Swiss tourists",'',0);
Heist_films[17][2] = new Array("B. Musicians",'',1);
Heist_films[17][3] = new Array("C. Her nephews",'',0);
Heist_films[17][4] = new Array("D. A criminal gang (on the theory that it’s so obvious she’ll never suspect anything)",'',0);
Heist_films[18] = new Array();
Heist_films[18][0] = new Array("Alec Guinness made several classic comedies for Britains Ealing Studios, including a couple of heist movies — “The Ladykillers,” referenced in the question above, and “The Lavender Hill Mob,” in which he plays a mild-mannered clerk for the Bank of England who has worked out a seemingly foolproof plan to rob his employer. Who, surprisingly, suggested the scheme to the film’s scriptwriters?");
Heist_films[18].answer = "The correct answer is A, the Bank of England. The bank decided it wouldn’t mind the publicity, and that it could fix the holes in its security that it was revealing before the movie was released.";
Heist_films[18][1] = new Array("A. The Bank of England",'',1);
Heist_films[18][2] = new Array("B. Alec Guinness",'',0);
Heist_films[18][3] = new Array("C. John Dillinger",'',0);
Heist_films[18][4] = new Array("D. Queen Elizabeth",'',0);
Heist_films[19] = new Array();
Heist_films[19][0] = new Array("Both the Michael Caine-led 1969 original version of the caper film “The Italian Job” and its 2003 Mark Wahlberg remake feature prominent appearances by what kind of car?");
Heist_films[19].answer = "The correct answer is C, Mini Cooper. The original filmmakers were offered free Fiat 500s by that Italian automaker, but chose to go with British-made Minis given the essential Englishness of the movie.";
Heist_films[19][1] = new Array("A. Volkswagen Beetle",'',0);
Heist_films[19][2] = new Array("B. Lamborghini Countach",'',0);
Heist_films[19][3] = new Array("C. Mini Cooper",'',1);
Heist_films[19][4] = new Array("D. Toyota Corolla",'',0);
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Heist_films[20][0] = new Array("In 1999, George Clooney starred in another heist film, “Three Kings,” in which he plays an American major during the first Iraq War who leads a crew of U.S. soldiers in an extralegal liberation of Kuwaiti gold. This plotline is most similar to which previous crime film?");
Heist_films[20].answer = "The correct answer is D. In “Kelly’s Heroes,” Clint Eastwood plays a lieutenant in World War II who steals a fortune in gold from a Nazi bank.";
Heist_films[20][1] = new Array("A. “The Lavender Hill Mob”",'',0);
Heist_films[20][2] = new Array("B. “Gone In 60 Seconds”",'',0);
Heist_films[20][3] = new Array("C. “The Italian Job”",'',0);
Heist_films[20][4] = new Array("D. “Kelly’s Heroes”",'',1);
Heist_films[21] = new Array();
Heist_films[21][0] = new Array("In “Point Break,” Patrick Swayze’s gang robs banks while disguised as who?");
Heist_films[21].answer = "The correct answer is A, former U.S. presidents. Carter, Reagan, Johnson, and Nixon, to be precise.";
Heist_films[21][1] = new Array("A. Former U.S. presidents",'',1);
Heist_films[21][2] = new Array("B. Bank guards",'',0);
Heist_films[21][3] = new Array("C. Mummies",'',0);
Heist_films[21][4] = new Array("D. Elves",'',0);
Heist_films[22] = new Array();
Heist_films[22][0] = new Array("The thieves in Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 classic “The Killing” also wear themed masks when pulling off the racetrack knock over at the heart of the film. What are they disguised as?");
Heist_films[22].answer = "The correct answer is B, clowns. It was a motif Kubrick returned to later in “A Clockwork Orange.”";
Heist_films[22][1] = new Array("A. Horses",'',0);
Heist_films[22][2] = new Array("B. Clowns",'',1);
Heist_films[22][3] = new Array("C. Monks",'',0);
Heist_films[22][4] = new Array("D. Policemen",'',0);
Heist_films[23] = new Array();
Heist_films[23][0] = new Array("Danny De Vito’s character in the David Mamet film “Heist” uttered which of the following pithy statements?");
Heist_films[23].answer = "The correct answer is D, “Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money!” The other quotes come from “The Asphalt Jungle,” “Croupier,” and “Le Cercle Rouge.”";
Heist_films[23][1] = new Array("A. “One way or another, we all work for our vice.”",'',0);
Heist_films[23][2] = new Array("B. “Gambling's not about money. Gambling's about not facing reality.”",'',0);
Heist_films[23][3] = new Array("C. “All men are guilty. They're born innocent, but it doesn't last.”",'',0);
Heist_films[23][4] = new Array("D. “Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money!”",'',1);
Heist_films.profiles = new Array();var i=0;
Heist_films.profiles[i++]= new Array(97,100,"All correct. Remind me never to tell you where I keep my $10 million in uncut diamonds. ");
Heist_films.profiles[i++]= new Array(71,96,"Mostly correct. Your high score has stolen our hearts. ");
Heist_films.profiles[i++]= new Array(31,70,"So-so. What the heck are you, some kind of honest citizen? ");
Heist_films.profiles[i++]= new Array(4,30,"Not Very Good. Better stay on the lam so that the trivia police don’t find you. ");
Heist_films.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,3,"Terrible. Go directly to jail. You’ll find a DVD player there with a stack of Jean-Pierre Melville movies. Stay in prison until you’ve watched them all. ");
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