Battle of The Silver Screen Sexes

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Now we're going to crown this week's grand champion. Let's bring back from "It's All Swedish To Me," Barbara Kay.

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EISENBERG: "Retro Is The New Retro," Bill Rosenblatt.

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EISENBERG: "Instrument Man," Colin Thibadeau.

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EISENBERG: And "Disconsolate Consonants," Katelyn Meehan.

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EISENBERG: They'll be playing our ASK ME ONE MORE final-round. And our puzzle guru Art Chung is going to take us out with a game called Battle Of The Silver Screen Sexes.

ART CHUNG, BYLINE: Contestants, in this round, each answer is a feature film containing either the word man or woman in the title. So for example, if I said Al Pacino won an Oscar for starring in this film as a blind man with a lot of hooah, you would say "Scent Of A Woman." We're going to play this spelling bee style, so one wrong answer and you're out. You only have a few seconds. The last person standing is our ASK ME ANOTHER grand winner and will go home with a signed copy of Gail's book, "Talking With My Mouth Full." And that "Top Chef Duels" she wants out of her house.

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CHUNG: Here we go. Barbara, this best picture winner features Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman as brothers on a road trip.

BARBARA KAY: "Rain Man."

CHUNG: You got it.

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CHUNG: Bill, this 2002 superhero movie starring Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst was rebooted just 10 years later.

BILL ROSENBLATT: "Superman"? No.

CHUNG: No, that's not the one we're looking for. Colin, do you know the answer?

COLIN THIBADEAU: "Spiderman."

CHUNG: "Spiderman" is correct. Thank you, Bill, for playing. Katelyn is up. Julia Roberts stars as a courtesan with a heart of gold who wins over Richard Gere.

KATELYN MEEHAN: "Pretty Woman"?

CHUNG: That's right.

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CHUNG: We're back to Barbara. It's a 2009 bromantic comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.

KAY: "I Love You, Man."

CHUNG: Thank you.

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CHUNG: Colin, Halle Berry won a Worst Actress Razzie Award for this not very good action flick.

THIBADEAU: "Catwoman"?

CHUNG: That is correct.

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CHUNG: Katelyn, Jim Carrey literally agrees to everything in this 2008 comedy.

MEEHAN: "Yes Man"?

CHUNG: Yes, ma'am.

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CHUNG: See what I did there?

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JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: It was good.

CHUNG: Barbara, Kevin Costner plays Superman's adoptive dad in this 2013 summer blockbuster.

KAY: "Invisible Man"?

CHUNG: No, I'm sorry. Colin? Kevin Costner plays Superman's adoptive dad in this 2013 summer blockbuster.

THIBADEAU: "Man Of Steel"?

CHUNG: That is correct. Thank you, Barbara, for playing.

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CHUNG: We are down to two players - Katelyn and Colin. Katelyn, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon both received Oscar nominations for this 1995 death row drama. Katelyn shakes her head.

MEEHAN: I don't know.

CHUNG: OK. Colin, if you know the answer, you're our grand winner.

THIBADEAU: "Dead Man Walking"?

CHUNG: You've got it.

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EISENBERG: Congratulations, Colin. You are our big ASK ME ANOTHER winner. Enjoy your pillow - yes, sleep easy tonight. Well done, my friend. And how about one last hand for our VIP Gail Simmons.

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EISENBERG: And that's our show. Thanks for listening. If you would like to be a contestant on our show, find us on Facebook or Twitter, just look around for NPR Ask Me Another. And you can be a puzzle player any time, any place by downloading our podcast from iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn. ASK ME ANOTHER's puzzle guru is Art Chung.

CHUNG: Hey, my name anagrams to Narc Thug.

EISENBERG: Our house musician is Jonathan Coulton.

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EISENBERG: Additional editing by senior writer Dan Schofield and puzzle writing by Matt Foster, Adam Markowitz (ph), Greg Pliska, Mary Tobler, and Greg Volk. ASK ME ANOTHER is produced by Jessie Baker, Josh Roguson (ph), Eleanor Kagan and Jess Miller, along with Portia Robertson Migas (ph) and Eric Newsome (ph). We are recorded by Damon Whitmore (ph), Kristen Molar (ph) and David Hurtkin (ph). We'd like to thank our home in Brooklyn, New York, The Bell House.

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