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1. The shower scene in 'Psycho' uses no actual nudity. What surprising ingredient was used on screen as a stand-in for blood?
Answer: Chocolate syrup. Because Psycho was shot in black-and-white, Hitchcock used Hershey's chocolate syrup for blood, which photographed with the right dark tones.
2. Which director appears on screen as a corpse being wheeled out of a building in 'The Silence of the Lambs'?
Answer: Jonathan Demme. Director Jonathan Demme made a cameo as a corpse being removed from a building early in the film.
3. What is the name of the fictional language invented for the 1985 film 'Enemy Mine'?
Answer: Drac. The alien Drac species in 'Enemy Mine' speak a language simply referred to as Drac, constructed specifically for the film.
4. In 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939), what color were Dorothy's slippers in the original L. Frank Baum novel?
Answer: Silver. In Baum's novel the slippers were silver; MGM changed them to ruby red to exploit the new Technicolor process.
5. Marlon Brando received his Oscar for 'The Godfather' but famously refused it. Who accepted on his behalf?
Answer: Sacheen Littlefeather. Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather appeared on stage to decline Brando's Best Actor Oscar in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Indigenous peoples.
6. Before being cast in 'Star Wars,' Harrison Ford was doing what on the studio lot when George Lucas spotted him?
Answer: Carpentry work. Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter, installing a door at the Goldwyn Studios, when George Lucas saw him and offered him the role of Han Solo.
7. Which animated Disney film features a villain whose name is an anagram of the word 'DEVIL' with an extra letter?
Answer: Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians. Cruella De Vil's surname 'De Vil' is a deliberate play on 'devil,' making her name a direct linguistic signal of her villainous nature.
8. In 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' Indiana Jones' fear of snakes is established early. What specific phobia term describes this fear?
Answer: Ophidiophobia. Ophidiophobia is the specific clinical term for an extreme fear of snakes, which Indiana Jones dramatically suffers throughout the franchise.
9. Which actress played the same character in both 'Aliens' and 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' decades apart?
Answer: Jenette Goldstein. Jenette Goldstein played Pvt. Vasquez in 'Aliens' (1986) and a Vuvalini member in 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015).
10. The famous line 'I'm the king of the world!' in 'Titanic' was improvised by Leonardo DiCaprio. What does Jack actually yell just before it?
Answer: Nothing — he just spreads his arms first. DiCaprio improvised the line spontaneously; he simply spread his arms at the bow before shouting it, with no scripted preceding dialogue in that moment.
11. In '2001: A Space Odyssey,' HAL 9000's name is one alphabetical step ahead of which real-world corporation's acronym?
Answer: IBM. H-A-L each precede I-B-M by one letter in the alphabet, though Kubrick and Clarke always denied this was intentional.
12. Which actor played the title role in David Fincher's 'Se7en' — the serial killer John Doe — with only a late-film appearance?
Answer: Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey insisted his name be kept off promotional materials so his appearance as John Doe would surprise audiences; he appears only in the final act.
13. In Pixar's 'Toy Story,' what brand of batteries does Buzz Lightyear's spaceship toy run on, as shown on his packaging?
Answer: No brand is shown — packaging is generic. Pixar deliberately avoided product placement by using a generic, unnamed battery brand on Buzz's packaging in 'Toy Story.'
14. The line 'If you build it, he will come' from 'Field of Dreams' is famously misquoted — what word is actually used instead of 'he'?
Answer: they. The actual whispered line in the 1989 film is 'If you build it, they will come,' though popular culture almost universally misremembers it as 'he will come.'
15. In 'Pulp Fiction,' what is the brand name of the fictional burger that Vincent Vega enthusiastically describes to Jules?
Answer: Big Kahuna Burger. Vincent and Jules eat Big Kahuna Burgers before their hit; Jules famously recites Ezekiel 25:17 before the shooting, not during the burger scene, but Big Kahuna is the fictional brand Tarantino created.
16. In the original 'Alien' (1979), which crew member is revealed to be an android working for 'the company'?
Answer: Ash. Ash, played by Ian Holm, is revealed mid-film to be a synthetic android secretly tasked by Weyland-Yutani to bring the xenomorph back at any cost.
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