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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 2:34pm ET 5/6/26
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  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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This week marks the return of Miranda Priestly and Andy Sachs to the big screen with the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2.



It’s been 20 years since Meryl Streep first educated all of us on how Anne Hathaway’s sweater was cerulean, not just blue.

The sequel is one of many second installments that have taken 20 years or more to come to fruition. Let’s see how patient you’ve been!

POP CULTURE Q1. Flying Films: Filmgoers were originally only supposed to have to wait 33 years for its release, but production delays and, you know, a global pandemic meant that it was 36 years between installments of what naval aviation franchise?



POP CULTURE Q2. Pugilistic Professions: Unsurprisingly the second one didn’t live up to Russell Crowe battling Joaquin Phoenix in the Colosseum. However, Ridley Scott and company did pick up a cool $462 Million at the box office for a 2024 film that also follows a man in what title profession?



FINE ARTS Q3. Southern Stories: In 2015, HarperCollins originally promoted Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” as a sequel to what YA classic published in 1960? It is now widely accepted that it was actually a first draft of the original.



FINE ARTS Q4. Changing Contexts: “For a long time we were moving away from Gilead. Then we started going back towards it.” That’s why Margaret Atwood felt compelled to compose 2019’s “The Testaments,” a follow-up to what 1985 classic that explores powerless women in a patriarchal society?



POP CULTURE Q5. Computery Cinema: From Jeff Bridges getting sucked into his own arcade game in 1982 to nobody getting sucked into theaters by Jared Leto and a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack in 2025, what CGI franchise has spawned only three big screen entries in 44 years?



FINE ARTS Q6. Sticky Situations: You probably haven’t heard of the 1994 sequel “Closing Time” unless we mention the 1961 World War II novel it’s following up. But if we mention the title of that novel, we give away the answer. That’s a tricky situation that’s almost defined by what Joseph Heller title?



POP CULTURE Q7. Ford Films: Usually filmmakers pick a simple number like “2” to inform patrons that a movie is a sequel. But in 2017, Denis Villeneuve added “2049” to the title of what 1982 Harrison Ford dystopia classic to let patrons know that it was a separate movie?



FINE ARTS Q8. Novel Names: Here’s one you should give a damn about! Margaret Mitchell, herself, only wrote a single novel published during her lifetime, “Gone With The Wind” published in 1936. Her estate was opposed to sequels for decades before they finally selected Alexandra Ripley to write a 1991 book with what first name as its title?



POP CULTURE Q9. Anticipated Albums : The concept of sequels doesn’t usually apply to albums, but the closest we get for this round is Neil Young releasing “Harvest” in 1972 before using most of the same backing musicians for “Harvest ______” in 1992. What heavenly body fills in the blank?



POP CULTURE Q10. Cruise Cinema: Turns out Tom Cruise may have a thing for this stuff, as he plays Vincent Lauria in a 1986 sports drama sequel to a 1961 film, both starring Paul Newman. Name either film or what sport is featured in them.



TIEBREAKER Barely Budget: “The Devil Wears Prada” stylist Patricia Field reckons over 100 designers were represented in the first film's wardrobe. However, most outfits and accessories were borrowed since she was only given a budget of how many dollars to outfit the characters?

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