Q 01/05
A) Meet Me in St. Louis
B) A Star Is Born
C) The Wizard of Oz
D) Easter Parade
Answer · why
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
A) Titanic
B) The Abyss
C) True Lies
D) Avatar
Answer · why
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
A) The Jungle Book
B) The Lion King
C) Robin Hood
D) Hercules
Answer · why
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
A) A Bug's Life
B) Monsters, Inc.
C) Inside Out
D) Finding Nemo
Answer · why
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
A) Home Alone
B) Jingle All the Way
C) The Santa Clause
D) Bad Santa
Answer · why
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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