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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.
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