A hand-crafted quiz, mixed up just for you! Each answer is a blend of a famous film and a popular cocktail/drink – sometimes shaken, sometimes stirred, but always mixed up.
Example:
“A wealthy Southern family throws a Hail Mary and consumes a large glass of Cognac, Cointreau, and lemon juice.”
Answer: The Blind Sidecar
I’ll admit that was not my best clue. But you get it, right? Well, go on! Get started. And get the answers by clicking the link at the bottom of the post. Have fun!
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- A brilliant yet delusional mathematician hallucinates pretty much everything, and not just because he’s drinking Kahlua, lemon-lime soda, and vodka. Served with a Nobel Prize.
- When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery, he decides to seek revenge – fueled by rum, passion fruit, orange, lime, simple syrup, and grenadine. Drinking and driving apparently wasn’t an issue in the days of chariot racing.
- Thinking of running away from your Southern husband and reinventing yourself in NYC? Work up your nerve with this mixture of vodka, Southern Comfort, amaretto, sloe gin and OJ.
- You had me at rum, eggs, sugar, brandy, and milk.
- Death takes the form of Guinness layered on top of Bass Ale.
- High school newspaper reporter interviews a new student and accidentally knocks over his whiskey and ginger ale. He then spends the rest of his day trying to avoid a late afternoon bar fight.
- Two detectives hunt a serial killer who leaves a distinctive calling card at every murder scene. Come on, what’s in the box? Whiskey and lemon-lime soda, of course.
- A couple of pot-smoking idiots are jailed as international terrorists after trying to board a plane to Amsterdam while carrying a refreshing blend of vodka, cranberry juice, and pineapple juice.
- A beautiful princess passes out after eating an apple washed down with vodka, Kahlua and cream. Can only be awoken by a handsome Dude.
- Walt Disney would not approve, but if you left some tequila, lime juice and sour mix out in the snow, you might end up with a new drink that could make you very animated.
- Shaking up a White Russian might earn you a lifetime stint on The Rock, but at least you can pass the time by raising sparrows in your cell.
- Remember the Rum! And don’t forget the mint, lime juice, and sugar, either.
- A Luddite British writer follows an American teen heartthrob to his home in Massapequa NY, intoxicated by the boy’s youthful beauty and odd scent of triple sec, rum, gin, vodka, tequila, sour mix, and Coke.
- A strangely dark Adam Sandler film, served in a giant bowl of unfunny.
- I like them French fried potaters, and maybe some gin, cherry brandy, lemon juice, sugar and club soder.
- Creme de Noyaux plus Creme de Cacao and heavy cream will have you exclaiming, “His name is Blane? That’s a major appliance, that’s not a name!”
- Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star in this green and minty cinematic classic.
- A childhood imaginary friend reappears to wreak havoc in the life of a depressed woman, and the only way to make him disappear is a green pill served with a vodka, lemon juice and sugar chaser.
- Annette and Frankie sing and dance their way through a not-so-wholesome seaside concoction of vodka, peach schnapps, creme de cassis, and orange & cranberry juice.
- The first rule of this nonalcoholic drink? Don’t talk about it. The second rule? All it needs is a wedge.
- An intoxicating British cocktail of gin, sweet vermouth, and orange juice is at the root of youth violence in a futuristic dystopia.
- Two musicians witness a mob hit, don some women’s clothes, and sugary-sweet talk an all-female band into letting them hide out with them on the road and drink warm greasy beverages.
- Sad-sack bank robbers plan their getaway over vodka and grapefruit juice served in brackish highball glasses.
- You’ll need a few shots of top-shelf French liquor just to get through this new S&M erotic romance, coming in 2014. So to speak.
- A spoonful of sugar does not help the tomato juice and vodka go down.
- A young bride-to-be wonders which of three men could be her father. So she makes them each a drink of Kahlua, rum, coconut liqueur, lemon, and pineapple juice. Whichever man swallows the ridiculously contrived premise is her real father, and the winner takes it all.
- A young boy travels the world, viewing the scenery through his fuzzy navel.
- Tomorrow is another day to enjoy Amaretto, pineapple juice, and orange juice over ice, if you give a damn.
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