Q 01/05

Which Newspeak word from Nineteen Eighty-Four means holding two conflicting beliefs as true at once?

A) Doublethink

B) Thoughtcrime

C) Groupthink

D) Crimestop

Answer · why

A) Doublethink

Doublethink is Oceania's discipline of simultaneously accepting two conflicting beliefs, summed up in the Party slogans 'War is Peace, Freedom is Slav...

Q 02/05

Which playground game, overseen by a giant doll named Young-hee, opens the deadly contest in Squid Game?

A) Ring Around the Rosie

B) Red Light, Green Light

C) Duck, Duck, Goose

D) Hide-and-Seek

Answer · why

B) Red Light, Green Light

Red Light, Green Light opens the games; the giant doll was modelled on Young-hee, a character from the covers of the South Korean textbooks Chul-soo a...

Q 03/05

Which effect did The Matrix popularise, freezing the action while the camera appears to swing around it?

A) Slow motion

B) Bullet time

C) Time-lapse

D) Morphing

Answer · why

B) Bullet time

Bullet time represents a character's heightened perception by letting a shot play in slow motion while the camera appears to move through it at normal...

Q 04/05

In which 1997 film does Ethan Hawke's Vincent borrow Jude Law's blood, urine and hair to pass as genetically 'valid'?

A) Dark City

B) Code 46

C) Equilibrium

D) Gattaca

Answer · why

D) Gattaca

Gattaca is built from G, A, T and C, the letters of guanine, adenine, thymine and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA. Ethan Hawke's Vincent passes ...

Q 05/05

Which 2006 Alfonso Cuarón film, from a P. D. James novel, is set in a 2027 Britain after 18 years of infertility?

A) 28 Days Later

B) Sunshine

C) Children of Men

D) Oblivion

Answer · why

C) Children of Men

Children of Men adapts P. D. James's 1992 novel; Clive Owen's reluctant escort protects Kee, the first pregnant woman in eighteen years, as infertilit...