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The mechanical shark prop used in the filming of Jaws was known by what name among the crew?
Alfred
Dumdum
Bruce
Munchies
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The Searchers is a classic western that is headlined by what cowboy hero also known for his starring role in True Grit?
John Wayne
Paul Newman
Sam Elliott
Clint Eastwood
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In Star Wars, what is the name of the mystical energy that binds all living things together?
The Space
The Star
The Force
The Sight
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The legendary movie monster Godzilla is known for terrorizing what city that is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo
Sapporo
Nagoya
Kyoto
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What is the name of the murderer from the famous horror film Halloween?
Chucky
Michael Myers
Freddy Krueger
Jason Voorhees
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The impetus for the plot of The Big Lebowski is the soiling of what item owned by the main character The Dude?
His self-portrait
His good slacks
His rug
His golf cart
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The war drama Come and See captures the horrors of what war from the perspective of a Belarusian youth?
World War Two
World War One
The Crimean War
The Russo-Japanese War
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The film Dead Poets Society ends with students honoring their professor by quoting what poem by Walt Whitman?
"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
"O Captain, My Captain"
"Song of Myself"
"A Dash of Rain"
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In The Wizard of Oz, the titular magician lives in what city?
The Golden City
The Purple Spiral City
The Emerald City
The Candy Stripe City
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What 1962 film has the peculiar distinction of being 218 minutes long yet not having a single woman in it?
Lawrence of Arabia
The Maltese Falcon
The Night of the Hunter
The Shawshank Redemption
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What is the name of the rival archaeologist and villain who opposed Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Patrick Onderson
Minniver Kostas
Rene Belloq
Alex Frost
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In the comedy The Producers, what is the name of the musical that the main characters put on?
The Unsung Hero
The Truth of the Third Reich
Springtime for Hitler
Maybe It Wasn't So Bad
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In The Godfather, receiving a fish means which of the following?
You have been challenged to a duel.
You are being watched by the police.
You are no longer in the mob.
Someone close to you is dead.
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In The Silence of the Lambs, what is the name of the serial killer that the heroes are hunting?
Mister Hexus
Buffalo Bill
The Butterfly Killer
Solomon Kane
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In Saving Private Ryan, what actor played the titular Private Ryan?
Mark Wahlberg
Tom Cruise
Paul Stryke
Matt Damon
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What Universal monster's curse is revealed by the mark of a pentagram upon them?
The Invisible Man
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Wolf Man
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What Coen Brothers' film features a serial killer who decides a person's fate based on a coin flip?
Hail, Caesar!
A Serious Man
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
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What is the name of the fictional California town that we see the past and present of in Back to the Future?
Kirkland
Mountain Vale
Hill Valley
Bedford Falls
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What was the first feature film released by Dreamworks Animation Studio?
The Prince of Egypt
Shark Tale
Antz
Shrek
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In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, what sort of animals are stuffed and positioned menacingly within the office of Norman Bates?
Birds of prey
Big cats
Wolves
Bears
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Gone with the Wind is set against the backdrop of the start of what war?
The American Revolutionary War
World War One
The American Civil War
The Scottish War of Independence
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In Apocalypse Now, Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore says that he loves the smell of what in the morning?
Death
Napalm
Gunpowder
Coffee
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What filmmaker has directed such varied films as Thelma and Louise, Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator?
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Ridley Scott
David Lynch
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What series of comedies is known for starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as they traveled to various locations around the world?
The Road To series
The Vacation series
The Modern Times series
The Good Days series
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There Will Be Blood has its final confrontation take place in what kind of a room?
A bathroom
A bowling alley
A kitchen
A sauna
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What cartoon was the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
The Lion King
Coco
Beauty and the Beast
Toy Story
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It's a Wonderful Life takes place across years in what fictional town?
Hume
Cullen's Pass
Ridgemont
Bedford Falls
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A Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood is a western adaptation of what famous samurai movie by Akria Kurosawa about a samurai bodyguard who plays two criminal gangs against one another?
The Hidden Fortress
The Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Ran
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The Shawshank Redemption is based upon a story written by what famous horror author?
Robert E. Howard
Stephen King
H. P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allen Poe
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What 1941 Disney film was a series of shorts set to classical music and featured a final segment showing monstrous entities rising to the tune of Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"?
The Sword in the Stone
Fantasia
Sleeping Beauty
Song of the South
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Andrew Nicholas is a passionate reader and writer on the subjects of history and mankind. He is a published author, critic, and poet who grew up in the friendly scenery of rural Ohio. He is a graduate of Wright State University and a regular student of historical curiosities.