Sunday, January 29, 2012

The "Super Bowl" of Puzzles

Since our favorite teams -  Broncos, the Cowboys, and the Saints -  all missed out on the Super Bowl, there's not a lot of anticipation for the big game at our house.  Instead, we'll be posting three football-related puzzles. We're starting with a toughie - only the most fanatic sports-movie watchers will get all of them.  You may want to print out the lists to choices to make things easier on yourself. 

Below are fifteen stars and their corresponding roles from football-related movies.  Can you match the actor's picture with his real name, his character name, and the title of the movie?


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Character:
a.  Dodge Connelly
b.  Marvin "Shake" Tiller
c.  George Gipp
d.  Michael Oher
e.  Paul Crews
f.  Paul Blake
g.  Phillip Elliott
h. Jim Thorpe
i.  Rod Tidwell
j.  Daniel E. Reuttiger
k.  Brian Piccolo
l.  George Plimpton
m. Joe Kingman
n.  Jack "Cap" Rooney
o.  Bobby Boucher


Movie:
A.  Paper Lion
B.  Any Given Sunday
C.  Jerry Maguire
D.  The Game Plan
E.  The Longest Yard
F.  Necessary Roughness
G.  Semi-Tough
H.  Knute Rockne: All American
I.   Brian's Song
J.  North Dallas Forty
K.  The Blind Side
L.  The Waterboy
M.  Rudy
N.  Leatherheads
O.  Jim Thorpe: All American


Actor:
16.  Nick Nolte
17.  Ronald Reagan
18.  Adam Sandler
19.  Burt Lancaster
20.  James Caan
21.  Cuba Gooding, Jr. 
22.  Dennis Quade
23.  George Clooney
24.  Scott Bakula
25.  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
26.  Quinton Aaron
27.  Sean Astin
28.  Burt Reynolds
29.  Alan Alda
30.  Kris Kristofferson

2 comments:

  1. No, Tami. No I cannot! I'm confident I have the actors correct. Beyond that, its a crap shoot...

    #1 = ?, J & 24
    #2 = o, L & 18
    #3 = ?, N & 23
    #4 = h, O & 19
    #5 = i, C & 21
    #6 = ?, G & 29
    #7 = ?, A & 30
    #8 = ?, D & 22
    #9 = k, I & 20
    #10 = ?, F & 25
    #11 = ?, M & 27
    #12 = ?, E & 28
    #13 = d, K & 26
    #14 = ?, B & 16
    #15 = c, H & 17

    Go PATS!!!

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    1. Way to go! That's 30 correct out of 45. You are a true football movie fan!

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