Nov 22 2024 16 mins 1
In today's episode, I interview Neal Fischer, author of two new movie trivia books, The Rom-Com Ultimate Movie Trivia Book and the Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book. He also hosts two podcasts, Triviality and Curated by Chance.
Listen to hear about what goes into creating trivia questions for books like these, a bit about Neal's experience on the FOX game show The Floor, and one of the best arguments related to Die Hard as a Christmas movie you'll ever hear.
Books mentioned in this episode include:
- The Rom-Com Ultimate Movie Trivia Book by Neal Fischer
- Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book by Neal Fischer
- Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time by Neal Fischer
- Being Patrick Swayze: Essential Teachings from the Master of the Mullet by Neal Fischer
- Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Films mentioned in this episode include:
- The Santa Clause directed by John Pasquin
- Home Alone directed by Chris Columbus
- Seinfeld
- Die Hard directed by John McTiernan
- White Christmas directed by Michael Curtiz
- It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra
- Meet Me in St. Louis directed by
- Cinema Paradiso directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
- Oldboy directed by Park Chan-wook
- City of God directed by Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund
- 12 Angry Men directed by Sidney Lumet
- A Few Good Men directed by Rob Reiner
- To Kill a Mockingbird directed by Robert Mulligan
- Ocean's 11 directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Taking of Pelham 123 directed by Joseph Sargent
- Heat and Thief directed by Michael Mann
- The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont
- Back to the Future directed by Robert Zemeckis
- The Fugitive directed by Andrew Davis
- Raiders of the Lost Ark directed by Steven Spielberg
- Pretty Woman directed by Garry Marshall
- Waiting for Guffman directed by Christopher Guest
Follow Neal on Instagram @nealefischer, check out his website nealefischer.com, and pre-order his upcoming books on Mr. Beast, Steph Curry, and
