Trivia Time Wannabe: Disaster Movie Edition!

While Paul and JoAnn take care of family business, I thought I'd post a trivia quiz in their honor. It won't be as good--nor as challenging, of course. But it may be enough to satiate the Cafe's trivia fans until the real quiz masters are back.

1. What classic film actress played herself in a 1970s disaster movie? Name to the film, too!

2. This Hammer film star played a character who died performing a heroic act in another 1970s disaster flick. Name the performer and the movie?

3. What's the connection between these three films:  Earthquake, Rollercoaster, and Midway.

4. What former football player was a security guard in a disaster film? Yes, you gotta name the film, too.

5. Airplane! has a funny a scene where a flight attendant borrows a guitar from a nun and sings to an ill little girl. Name the movie where a similar scene actually occurred, who played the nun, and who played the little girl. As a bonus, name the signature pop song that the "nun" turned into a culural anthem.

6. What two Oscar-winning songs were from disaster movies of the 1970s? Names the films and who sang the songs on the soundtracks.

7. Which song in #6 became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart? Who lip-sync'ed the song in the movie?

8. This disaster film featured pilots who starred in different TV series executive produced by the same person. Name the film, the actors, the TV series, and the executive producer of those TV series?

9. This British actor starred in two disaster films. One generated a lot of buzz, but was a boxoffice bust. The other was a sequel to a much more successful film. Name the actor and both movies.

10. What 1976 film about a nuclear-powered vehicle named Cyclops spoofed the disaster film genre?