COMEDIC FILMS

Use the clue to identify the film title. (e.g., Michael Dorsey adopts a female persona to land a job. Answer: “Tootsie.”)

Freshman level

1. Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) splits with singer Annie (Diane Keaton).

2. Bill Murray is a weatherman who lives the same day over and over.

3. Leslie Nielsen delivers the line, “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”

Graduate level

4. Hiding from the mob, two men take cover in an all-female jazz band.

5. Gene Wilder performs a song-and-dance duo with his monster.

6. Parapsychologists encounter spectral beings in Manhattan.

Ph.D. level

7. Neal and Del try to reach Chicago in time for Thanksgiving Day.

8. A parody of King Arthur’s quest for a grail.

9. Two unemployed actors try to spend a weekend at a country cottage.

Answers: 1. “Annie Hall.” 2. “Groundhog Day.” 3. “Airplane!” 4. “Some Like It Hot.” 5. “Young Frankenstein.” 6. “Ghostbusters.” 7. “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” 8. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” 9. “Withnail and I.”

— North America Syndicate