Q 01/05

Which Judy Garland musical has a farm girl kill a woman on arrival, then join three strangers to kill her sister?

A) Meet Me in St. Louis

B) A Star Is Born

C) The Wizard of Oz

D) Easter Parade

Answer · why

C) The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz shot its fantasy land in three-strip Technicolor and its Kansas scenes in sepia-toned black and white. Both deaths are accidents: one...

Q 02/05

Which James Cameron film has an old woman tell a salvage crew a long story, then drop their treasure in the sea?

A) Titanic

B) The Abyss

C) True Lies

D) Avatar

Answer · why

A) Titanic

Titanic was only the second film to receive eleven Academy Awards, after Ben-Hur. The necklace she lets go, the Heart of the Ocean, is the very thing ...

Q 03/05

Which Disney film has a runaway heir loaf about for years until a childhood friend nags him to face his uncle?

A) The Jungle Book

B) The Lion King

C) Robin Hood

D) Hercules

Answer · why

B) The Lion King

The Lion King draws on Shakespeare's Hamlet, another story of a prince whose uncle murders his father to take the throne. Simba spends his exile with ...

Q 04/05

Which Pixar film has a nervous single father cross an ocean with a forgetful stranger to reach a dentist's office?

A) A Bug's Life

B) Monsters, Inc.

C) Inside Out

D) Finding Nemo

Answer · why

D) Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo grew from director Andrew Stanton's childhood trips to the dentist, where he assumed the fish in the waiting-room tank had come from the ...

Q 05/05

Which Christmas comedy has parents fly to Paris minus one son, who spends the holiday injuring two burglars?

A) Home Alone

B) Jingle All the Way

C) The Santa Clause

D) Bad Santa

Answer · why

A) Home Alone

Home Alone made Macaulay Culkin a child star and stayed the highest-grossing live-action comedy for two decades. His eight-year-old hero rigs the whol...

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