Nerdy Trivia: April 3, 2026

The strings in "Psycho," the two-note crawl of "Jaws," and the flute in "Titanic" did more emotional work than most of the dialogue in those films. The director gets the retrospective, the actors get the legacy interviews, and the composer gets quietly streamed by people who sometimes don't even know their name.

Which of these films was NOT scored by composer John Williams?

You hear "Gene Wilder" and your brain goes straight to "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein," "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." The man did show up on television as early as 1961, but nobody ever considered him a TV actor. Which sitcom earned him his only Primetime Emmy Award?

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58 years ago TODAY, Charlton Heston found out sci-fi could bite back when "Planet of the Apes" was released in 1968!

Franklin J. Schaffner turned Pierre Boulle’s premise into one of the great “wait, WHAT?” endings in movie history, with Heston’s Taylor crashing into an ape-run world and Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter giving the whole thing way more soul than a monkey movie was supposed to have.

How many films were in the original franchise?

Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley is the kind of street cop who can talk his way out of anything and charm his way into places he definitely shouldn't be. When he leaves Detroit for Beverly Hills in 1984's "Beverly Hills Cop" to investigate his friend's murder, the buttoned-up local police assign two detectives to babysit him and keep him out of trouble. What does Axel stuff into the police car's tailpipe so that he can actually go do some investigating?

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