Q 01/05

Which 1979 Ridley Scott film's posters warned that in space nobody would be able to hear you scream?

A) Outland

B) Alien

C) Saturn 3

D) Moonraker

Answer · why

B) Alien

Alien put a hen's egg on its poster rather than the creature's egg seen in the film, and that image became the emblem of the whole franchise.

Q 02/05

Which 1978 Roy Scheider film's posters teased swimmers who had only just decided the water was safe again?

A) Piranha

B) Orca

C) The Deep

D) Jaws 2

Answer · why

D) Jaws 2

Jaws 2 owes the line to trailer maker Andrew J. Kuehn, and it became one of the most famous in film history. The 1996 film Flipper parodied it by prom...

Q 03/05

Which blockbuster, backed by licensing deals with over 100 companies, joked that it had taken 65 million years to make?

A) Jurassic Park

B) The Land Before Time

C) The Flintstones

D) The Good Dinosaur

Answer · why

A) Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park matched the number on its posters with a $65 million marketing campaign, which Universal had spent the film's long pre-production planni...

Q 04/05

Which David Fincher film's poster claimed nobody reaches 500 million friends without making a few enemies?

A) Pirates of Silicon Valley

B) The Fifth Estate

C) The Social Network

D) The Internship

Answer · why

C) The Social Network

The Social Network's poster designer, Neil Kellerhouse, first wrote the line with 300 million friends. He raised the figure because Facebook was expec...

Q 05/05

Which 1995 Ron Howard film took its poster line from an astronaut's report of a problem to Houston?

A) The Right Stuff

B) Apollo 13

C) Marooned

D) Space Cowboys

Answer · why

B) Apollo 13

Apollo 13 changed the tense of the real transmission: mission recordings have Jack Swigert reporting the trouble as already past, before Jim Lovell re...