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  1. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, what is the name of Discovery One's onboard computer?

    HAL 9000

    HAL 9000 runs every system aboard Discovery One on its voyage to Jupiter, and turns on the crew when its orders collide with the mission.

    Easy · Also offered: MU-TH-UR 6000, AUTO, Joshua · Source: Wikipedia, 2001 Space Odyssey Computer

  2. Which film includes the line "You can't handle the truth!"?

    A Few Good Men

    Colonel Jessup shouts this line during the courtroom climax of A Few Good Men.

    Easy · Also offered: The Firm, The Verdict, Erin Brockovich · Source: A Few Good Men screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

  3. Which horror franchise features a dream-stalking killer with a bladed glove?

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    Wes Craven wrote and directed the 1984 original. Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger, the burned killer with the signature clawed glove, across the franchise's original run through 2003.

    Easy · Also offered: Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films

  4. What brand supplies Wile E. Coyote's gadgets?

    ACME

    ACME is the recurring fictional supplier of Wile E. Coyote's gadgets.

    Easy · Also offered: Duff, Wayne Enterprises, Soylent · Source: Warner Bros. official Looney Tunes character profile

  5. What relic does Indiana Jones seek in his debut adventure?

    Ark of the Covenant

    The Ark of the Covenant is the relic Indiana Jones seeks in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    Easy · Also offered: Holy Grail, Cross of Coronado, Crystal Skull of Akator · Source: Paramount Pictures, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

  6. Who directed the film Avatar?

    James Cameron

    James Cameron wrote an early treatment for the story in 1994. He then waited over a decade for CGI and 3D camera technology to catch up before filming and releasing it in December 2009.

    Easy · Also offered: Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, Ridley Scott · Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

  7. What is Batman's real name?

    Bruce Wayne

    Batman is the crime-fighting identity of Bruce Wayne, the wealthy Gotham City businessman behind the mask.

    Easy · Also offered: Clark Kent, Oliver Queen, Barry Allen · Source: DC, Batman | Official DC Character

  8. What breed is Snoopy?

    Beagle

    Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle.

    Easy · Also offered: Dachshund, Dalmatian, Cocker Spaniel · Source: Peanuts official Snoopy character profile

  9. Which animated Disney film won the Oscar for Best Original Song for its title song?

    Beauty and the Beast

    The title song from Beauty and the Beast won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

    Easy · Also offered: The Lion King, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Little Mermaid · Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Best Original Song

  10. What is the name of the fictional African kingdom in Black Panther?

    Wakanda

    Wakanda is the technologically advanced fictional kingdom ruled by T'Challa. Its hidden wealth and technology are linked to the fictional metal vibranium.

    Easy · Also offered: Genosha, Latveria, Zamunda · Source: Wikipedia, Black Panther Kingdom

  11. Which television series features Walter White and Jesse Pinkman?

    Breaking Bad

    Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are the central characters of Breaking Bad.

    Easy · Also offered: Better Call Saul, Ozark, Narcos · Source: AMC official series page

  12. What is the Hulk's civilian name?

    Bruce Banner

    The Hulk is the powerful alter ego of Bruce Banner.

    Easy · Also offered: Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Reed Richards · Source: Marvel.com Hulk character profile

  13. In film and TV, what is a cameo?

    A brief appearance by a well-known person

    A cameo is a very short on-screen appearance by someone the audience will recognize, often a famous actor, the director, or the author of the book being adapted. Many are uncredited and last only seconds.

    Easy · Also offered: A body double who stands in for the star, A voice-only credit at the end of a film, A small role that returns across many episodes · Source: Cambridge Dictionary, cameo

  14. Who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy?

    Carrie Fisher

    Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia throughout the original trilogy.

    Easy · Also offered: Karen Allen, Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange · Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films

  15. What vegetable is Bugs Bunny famous for eating?

    Carrot

    Bugs Bunny is famously depicted eating carrots.

    Easy · Also offered: Celery, Radish, Turnip · Source: Warner Bros. official Looney Tunes character profile

  16. Which film features the line "Here's looking at you, kid"?

    Casablanca

    Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine says it to Ilsa four times in Casablanca, most famously as they part on the airfield at the end.

    Easy · Also offered: Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, The Maltese Falcon · Source: Casablanca screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch

  17. Which horror franchise centers on a murderous Good Guy doll?

    Child's Play

    Child's Play introduced Chucky, a murderous doll inhabiting a Good Guy toy.

    Easy · Also offered: Puppet Master, Annabelle, The Conjuring · Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films

  18. Who directed Citizen Kane?

    Orson Welles

    Orson Welles directed and starred in Citizen Kane.

    Easy · Also offered: Billy Wilder, John Ford, David Lean · Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

  19. In filmmaking, what does CGI stand for?

    Computer-generated imagery

    Computer-generated imagery covers anything drawn by a computer rather than filmed, from a whole creature to a removed wire.

    Easy · Also offered: Computer graphics interface, Computerised graphic integration, Cinematic graphics imaging · Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  20. Which British network has broadcast Coronation Street since its debut?

    ITV

    Writer Tony Warren originally titled the show Florizel Street. As the story goes, a cleaner at Granada Studios complained it sounded like a disinfectant, so it was renamed before the first episode aired.

    Easy · Also offered: BBC, Channel 4, Sky · Source: ITV, Coronation Street

  21. Which publisher publishes Batman?

    DC Comics

    Batman is a flagship character of DC Comics.

    Easy · Also offered: Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics · Source: DC.com Batman character page

  22. Which superhero team counts Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman among its members?

    The Justice League

    The Justice League first assembled in 1960 and brings DC's biggest names together, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Aquaman.

    Easy · Also offered: The Avengers, The Teen Titans, The Fantastic Four · Source: DC.com Justice League team page

  23. What is Wonder Woman's secret identity?

    Diana Prince

    Wonder Woman commonly uses the civilian identity Diana Prince.

    Easy · Also offered: Lois Lane, Carol Danvers, Barbara Gordon · Source: DC.com Wonder Woman character profile

  24. Which film was Disney’s first full-length animated feature?

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first full-length animated feature, released in 1937. Its success helped establish animated films as a major form of cinema.

    Easy · Also offered: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Sword in the Stone, The Three Caballeros · Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

  25. What is the Doctor's time machine called in Doctor Who?

    TARDIS

    The Doctor travels through time and space in a TARDIS.

    Easy · Also offered: DeLorean, Enterprise, Nostromo · Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

  26. Which TV series follows advertising executive Don Draper?

    Mad Men

    Mad Men follows Don Draper and his colleagues at a 1960s Madison Avenue advertising agency. The title refers to the nickname for advertising executives working on Madison Avenue.

    Easy · Also offered: The Newsroom, Billions, The Americans · Source: Wikipedia, Don Draper Series

  27. Which film introduced "Bond, James Bond"?

    Dr. No

    James Bond first introduces himself with this line in Dr. No.

    Easy · Also offered: Goldfinger, Skyfall, From Russia with Love · Source: Dr. No screenplay and Eon Productions film records

  28. Which 1931 Universal horror film stars Bela Lugosi as a vampire count?

    Dracula

    Dracula is the 1931 Universal film starring Bela Lugosi in the title role.

    Easy · Also offered: Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man · Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films

  29. Which TV sitcom features the fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin?

    The Office

    Dunder Mifflin is the paper company at the center of the American version of The Office. Most of the series takes place in its Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch.

    Easy · Also offered: 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Superstore · Source: Wikipedia, Dunder Mifflin Series

  30. Who played the title character in Edward Scissorhands?

    Johnny Depp

    Johnny Depp played Edward, an artificial man with scissors for hands, in Tim Burton's 1990 fantasy film. The role began Depp's long creative collaboration with Burton.

    Easy · Also offered: Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Bill Pullman · Source: Wikipedia, Edward Scissorhands Actor

  31. Ethan Hunt is the central character in which film franchise?

    The Mission: Impossible franchise

    Tom Cruise performs many of the series' biggest stunts himself, including a real climb up the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol and an actual HALO parachute jump in Fallout. Hunt first appeared on screen in 1996, decades after the franchise's roots in a 1966 TV series led by a different IMF agent, Jim Phelps.

    Easy · Also offered: The Bourne franchise, The James Bond franchise, The Jack Ryan franchise · Source: Wikipedia, Ethan Hunt Franchise

  32. Which film was the first feature to include sequences of synchronized spoken dialogue?

    The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was mostly a silent picture with title cards, but its Vitaphone sequences carried Jolson's songs and a few lines of spoken dialogue, and its success pushed Hollywood into sound within two years.

    Easy · Also offered: Lights of New York, The Phantom of the Opera, The Singing Fool · Source: Wikipedia, First Synchronized Dialogue Film

  33. What device enables time travel in Back to the Future?

    Flux Capacitor

    The Flux Capacitor makes time travel possible in Doc Brown's DeLorean.

    Easy · Also offered: TARDIS, Time Turner, Quantum Leap Accelerator · Source: Universal Pictures, Back to the Future (1985)

  34. Who played the title character in Forrest Gump?

    Tom Hanks

    Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, his second Oscar in a row after winning for Philadelphia the previous year.

    Easy · Also offered: Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Kevin Costner · Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

  35. Which film includes the line 'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates'?

    Forrest Gump

    Forrest repeats his mother's saying while waiting on a bus-stop bench in Forrest Gump, and it became the film's signature line.

    Easy · Also offered: The Green Mile, Big Fish, The Shawshank Redemption · Source: Forrest Gump screenplay by Eric Roth

  36. Which 1931 film made Boris Karloff's reanimated creature iconic?

    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein introduced Boris Karloff's iconic reanimated creature in 1931.

    Easy · Also offered: Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf Man · Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films

  37. Which horror franchise is set around Camp Crystal Lake?

    Friday the 13th

    Friday the 13th introduced the Camp Crystal Lake setting and Jason Voorhees.

    Easy · Also offered: Halloween, Child's Play, Scream · Source: AFI Catalog of Feature Films

  38. What is the name of the coffee shop frequently visited by the friends in Friends?

    Central Perk

    Central Perk is the fictional coffee shop where the Friends characters regularly meet. Its orange couch became one of the sitcom's most recognizable set pieces.

    Easy · Also offered: Monk's Café, Luke's Diner, Café Nervosa · Source: Wikipedia, Friends Coffee Shop

  39. What is the name of the kingdom ruled by Elsa and Anna in Frozen?

    Arendelle

    Elsa and Anna are princesses of Arendelle, the fictional Scandinavian-inspired kingdom in Frozen. Elsa becomes its queen at the start of the story.

    Easy · Also offered: Corona, DunBroch, Atlantica · Source: Wikipedia, Frozen Kingdom

  40. What is SpongeBob's job at the Krusty Krab?

    Fry cook

    SpongeBob works as the Krusty Krab's fry cook.

    Easy · Also offered: Cashier, Manager, Delivery driver · Source: Nickelodeon official SpongeBob SquarePants character profile

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