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1.	If you either like Tom Cruise, or like seeing Tom Cruise get the snot kicked out of him over and over and over and over, then this was the film for you:
		Edge of Tomorrow
		Devil's Due
		3 Days to Kill
		Sabotage

2.	The name of this season figures into a comic-to-film movie title that earned hundreds of millions of dollars:
		Spring
		Summer
		Autumn
		Winter

3.	Batman, Shaquille O'Neal, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and Han Solo all make an appearance in this film:
		Winter's Tale
		Muppets Most Wanted
		The LEGO Movie
		A Haunted House 2
		*By way of explanation.....* Also: Wonder Woman, Michelangelo and Gandalf and/or Dumbledore

4.	Each of the following films had a sequel released in 2014, except for:
		21 Jump Street
		Rise of the Guardians
		Rio
		300

5.	Indeed, the sequel to 300 was released this year. Its subtitle promised a __________ of an Empire:
		Fall
		Rise
		Revenge
		Return

6.	Well now God seen some sinnin' and it caused Him pain. And He said, "Stand back, I'm going to make it rain!" He said, "Hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do, build me a floating zoo, and take some of them green alligators and long-necked geese...." Anyway, who played Noah on screen this year?
		Russell Crowe
		Pierce Brosnan
		Mel Gibson
		Hugh Jackman

7.	Which actor rode along in Ride Along?
		Chris Rock
		Martin Lawrence
		Liam Neeson
		Kevin Hart

8.	High school sucks. Especially when, like Rose, Lissa and Dimitri, you're stuck in this sort of Academy:
		Pretentious Citizens
		Wayward Orphan
		Pimp
		Vampire

9.	This 2014 release finished the first half of the year with the greatest worldwide box office, barely ahead of the #2 grosser:
		Maleficent
		X-Men: Days of Future Past
		The Amazing Spider-Man 2
		Godzilla
		*By way of explanation.....* DOFP brought in less than $2 million more than second-place Captain America: The Winter Soldier

10.	Meanwhile, shockingly, this release not only brought in more than a quarter billion dollars worldwide, but also was in the Top 10 box office earners for most of the first half of the year:
		The Nut Job
		Mr. Peabody & Sherman
		The Signal
		Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
		*By way of explanation.....* Quiet, you.

11.	Speaking of Paranormal Activity, while most films in the series have made major mint being released around Halloween, The Marked Ones was strangely set loose on the movie-going public around this holiday:
		New Year's Day
		Valentine's Day
		Memorial Day
		Easter
		*By way of explanation.....* Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones bombed (relatively speaking) upon entering theaters on January 3rd

12.	Kevin Costner was at your local multiplex a lot during the first part of 2014, but you likely didn't care. Which of the following is not a film that featured Costner (and did so-so at best at the box office)?
		3 Days to Kill
		Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
		About Last Night
		Draft Day

13.	Wes Anderson enjoyed the most successful film (profit-wise, at least) of his career with a tale concerning a grand hotel in this European city:
		Sofia
		Kraków
		Brussels
		Budapest

14.	Speaking of Draft Day, this NFL team is front and center in Costner's latest attempt at a sports film:
		Dallas Cowboys
		Cleveland Browns
		Miami Dolphins
		Buffalo Bills
		*By way of explanation.....* If basing a sports film on the Cleveland Browns is wrong, I.....don't want to see that sports film

15.	If you're up on your stage-to-screen projects, you would know that this director filmed an adaptation of the play concerning Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons:
		Bill Condon
		Richard Curtis
		Peter Jackson
		Clint Eastwood

16.	In only one 2014 film - we haven't checked exhaustively, but we're pretty darned sure this is true - would you find a villainous frog named Constantine. And that film is:
		The LEGO Movie
		God's Not Dead
		Better Living Through Chemistry
		Muppets Most Wanted

17.	Kit Harington, who you may or may not know as Jon Snow from this hit TV show, starred as Milo in Pompeii:
		NCIS: Los Angeles
		Game of Thrones
		Parks and Recreation
		Grey's Anatomy
		*By way of explanation.....* No, seriously. The hero's name is......Milo

18.	After this quiz has been published, Dwayne Johnson will appear in the title role of Hercules. Can you name the actor who played the same in January's The Legend of Hercules? You can't, can you?
		Wrong! It was Josh Duhamel
		Wrong! It was Kellan Lutz
		Wrong! It was Nicholas Hoult
		Right
		*By way of explanation.....* We give you bonus points for honesty if you chose option 4.

19.	Angelina Jolie - perhaps you have heard of her - played the title role in the very successful Maleficent. Feel bad about yourself if you can't tell us that the film was a spin on this classic Disney work:
		Cinderella
		Beauty and the Beast
		Snow White
		Sleeping Beauty

20.	Phil Lord and Chris Miller have proven to be quite the versatile team. Not only did they direct The LEGO Movie, but they also helmed this other 2014 hit:
		RoboCop
		The Signal
		Chef
		22 Jump Street

21.	We've reached the point in the quiz when we'll force ourselves to say nice things about Transformers: Age of Extinction. Each of the following is true about Trans4mers, except that:
		Like the other films in the series, it is directed by Michael Bay
		Shia LaBeouf did not return as the star
		It features dinosaur-like robots called Raptorbots
		Its opening weekend brought in more than $300 million worldwide
		*By way of explanation.....* The dinosaur-like robots are called Dinobots.

22.	Thanks to everyday people ponying up a quarter here, twenty bucks there, this film was successfully Kickstarter'd and made its way to theaters in 2014:
		The Amazing Spider-Man 2
		Veronica Mars
		Son of God
		Million Dollar Arm

23.	If you are up on your Young Adult fiction, then it should come as no surprise that this film broke Fandango's record for pre-sales for romantic dramas:
		Blended
		The Fault in Our Stars
		Endless Love
		That Awkward Moment

24.	The Fault in Our Stars, the correct answer of the previous question, featured star-on-the-rise Shailene Woodley, who earlier in the year also headlined this film:
		The Raid 2
		Jacky in Women's Kingdom
		Neighbors
		Divergent

25.	In closing, there are how many Ways to Die in the West?
		Dozens
		A Thousand
		A Hundred
		A Million

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