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1.	It your 2014 moviegoing introduced you to a delightful fellow Baymax ("hairrrrry baby!"), then you wisely decided to pony up for tickets to:
		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
		Guardians of the Galaxy
		The Book of Life
		Big Hero Six

2.	If anyone tries to tell you that the following is a Guardian of the Galaxy, then they are a big fat liar:
		Raven Darkholme
		Drax the Destroyer
		Groot
		Rocket

3.	The best thing that we can say about Blended was that its release was not responsible for Russian incursion into Ukraine. Oh, and also that it reunited the stars of this earlier hit:
		Never Been Kissed
		The Wedding Singer
		Charlie's Angels
		Billy Madison

4.	The Green Lantern, Abraham Lincoln, Lando Calrissian and a 1980-something space guy named Benny all appear in:
		The Imitation Game
		The Lego Movie
		Exodus: Gods and Kings
		The Theory of Everything

5.	Let's check the Movies Where They Don't Belong file: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones broke with franchise pattern of Halloween release dates, instead opened closest to which holiday?
		New Year's Day
		Labor Day
		Valentine's Day
		Thanksgiving
		*By way of explanation.....* PA5 opened on January 3

6.	Meanwhile, Pierce Brosnan's The November Man opened with a thud upon its release not in November - nay! - but in this month:
		July
		August
		May
		March

7.	Depending on the extent to which she was paying attention during shooting, Megan Fox may or may not be able to tell you that he is not one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
		Leonardo
		Raphael
		Giuseppe
		Donatello

8.	The vividly animated The Book of Life is heavily influenced by the culture of this country:
		Russia
		Mexico
		Brazil
		Cuba

9.	He played The Equalizer in The Equalizer:
		Denzel Washington
		Chiwetel Ejiofor
		Laurence Fishburne
		Zach Galifianakis

10.	He played the "I" in I, Frankenstein (for that matter, we guess he also played the "Frankenstein" in I, Frankenstein):
		Mark Ruffalo
		Jake Gyllenhaal
		Johnny Depp
		Aaron Eckhart

11.	They both played Hercules in a title role in 2014:
		Kit Harrington and Alex Pettyfer
		Dwayne Johnson and Kellan Lutz
		Dwayne Johnson and Kit Harrington
		Alex Pettyfer and Kellan Lutz

12.	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb will be remembered as the final film appearance of both Robin Williams and this star, both of whom died in 2014:
		Dick van Dyke
		Alan Arkin
		Mickey Rooney
		Carl Reiner

13.	When the curtain falls on When Marnie Was There, we might have seen the very last film for this studio, which probably ceased production during 2014:
		Sony Pictures Classic
		Studio Ghibli
		Miramax
		Tri-Star

14.	Eva Green, who we are told is mildly attractive, is what kind of dame in the Sin City sequel?
		A Dame to Kill For
		The Last True Dame
		Stark Raving Dame
		A Dame to Die For

15.	Get on Up told audiences the story of this righteous music star:
		Little Richard
		Jimi Hendrix
		Mick Jagger
		James Brown

16.	The third installment of The Expendables includes in its cast this kick-ass female:
		Ronda Rousey
		Michelle Rodriguez
		Danica Patrick
		Gina Carano

17.	Viewers returned to scenic Berk in this sequel:
		Transformers: Age of Extinction
		X-Men: Days of Future Past
		How to Train Your Dragon 2
		Rio 2

18.	We'd ask you who played Maleficent in Maleficent, but this would be waaaayyyy to easy. (It was ~~Charlize Theron~~ Angelina Jolie). Instead, we'll ask you who played Princess Aurora:
		Chloe Grace Moretz
		Saoirse Ronan
		Mary Elizabeth Winstead
		Elle Fanning

19.	If you always thought that this book of the Bible deserved its very own movie, well then, 2014 was your year!
		Exodus
		Genesis
		Leviticus
		Acts

20.	Now at age 105, Clint Eastwood works harder than men three times his junior. In 2014, Eastwood directed a movie about this singer:
		Ricky Nelson
		Frankie Valli
		Bobby Darin
		Bobby Vinton

21.	Holy smokes. As of December 1, of the top 10 movies in worldwide box office for 2014, this many are Marvel properties:
		3
		4
		6
		5
		*By way of explanation.....* Let's count: Guardians of the Galaxy (#2, $770m); X-Men: Days of Future Past (#4, $746m); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (#5, $714m); The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (#6, $708m)

22.	Who or what the heck is this?
		It's Echo
		It's a Boxtroll
		It's Annabelle
		It's the Babadook

23.	And who or what the heck is this?
		It's Echo
		It's a Boxtroll
		It's Annabelle
		It's the Babadook

24.	...which of course means that this is.....
		Echo
		A Boxtroll
		Annabelle
		The Babadook

25.	....and therefore, by process of elimination, we're looking here at:
		Echo
		A Boxtroll
		Annabelle
		The Babdook