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1.	Hollywood keeps on sequel-ing. Which film did not see a sequel get released in the first half of 2016?
		Ride Along
		Fifty Shades of Grey
		Kung Fu Panda
		Divergent

2.	Break out your Secret Soldiers of Benghazi countin' fingers: This number of hours figure into the title of Michael Bay's 2016 film:
		21
		18
		13
		25

3.	One of the more pleasant surprises from the first half of the year was Eddie the Eagle, which told of Michael Edwards' pursuit of Olympic glory in this winter sport:
		Speed skating
		Ski jumping
		Bobsled
		Downhill skiing

4.	However many years ago, the White House fell in Olympus Has Fallen. In 2016, the "Has Fallen" plague hit this international city in the second film of the franchise:
		Rio
		Moscow
		Berlin
		London

5.	From the Off to the Races file, this studio enjoyed a blistering start to the year, setting the record for the fastest to ever rake in $1 billion at the US box office. Reaching that mark on the 128th day of 2016 was:
		Marvel
		Paramount
		Sony
		Disney

6.	More box office records, hell yeah! Finding Dory took the animated movie opening weekend record to the woodshed upon its release. Which film's record did it shatter?
		Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
		Shrek the Third
		Monsters, Inc.
		Toy Story 3

7.	In The Boss, Melissa McCarthy's Michelle Darnell becomes the boss of a:
		Dog-walking business
		Scout troop
		YMCA
		Babysitting club

8.	So, there you have it. Entertainment icon Garry Marshall's final directorial effort was the entirely forgettable Mother's Day. She played one of the mothers:
		Meryl Streep
		Julia Roberts
		Meg Ryan
		Emma Stone

9.	This director led a team that did rather remarkable CGI in digitally rendering an incredible world of vegetation, landscapes and animals in The Jungle Book:
		Kenneth Branagh
		Guy Ritchie
		David Yates
		Jon Favreau

10.	The Angry Birds movie featured more voice actors than you could catapult a stone at. Of those listed, which one voiced one of the villainous pigs?
		Bill Hader
		Danny McBride
		Peter Dinklage
		Josh Gad

11.	For a long time, we were eagerly waiting for Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping. All too soon after its release, the Never Stopping had already stopped. Nonethless, please identify the name of the film's main character
		ConnerIZLife
		ConnerBFresh
		Conner4Real
		ConnerFtotheMFH

12.	The Warrens were back for more of their wacky hijinx in this 2016 sequel:
		Now You See Me 2
		Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
		Independence Day: Resurgence
		The Conjuring 2

13.	More about sequels? OK. The rather disastrous Independence Day 2 went kablooey at the box office perhaps, in part, because of the absence of this actor from the original film:
		Bill Pullman
		Will Smith
		Brent Spiner
		Jeff Goldblum

14.	Most of this film takes place in a cozy underground bunker:
		How to Be Single
		10 Cloverfield Lane
		Grimsby
		Hardcore Henry

15.	This film's tag line contains the wonderful pun "A Little Hart and a Big Johnson":
		Ride Along 2
		Keanu
		Me Before You
		Central Intelligence

16.	The original title of the project that eventually became __________________ was, ironically, In the Deep:
		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
		The Shallows
		Finding Dory
		Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

17.	The failure of Winter's War, the follow-up to 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman, to do much business can't be blamed on the attractiveness of its cast. The following Rather Good Looking People all starred in the film, except for:
		Charlize Theron
		Emily Blunt
		Anne Hathaway
		Jessica Chastain

18.	Things go very, very wrong for members of a ______________ in the horror thriller Green Room:
		Punk rock band
		Circus troupe
		Improv troupe
		Family of singers

19.	One of the final versions of the trailer for Captain America: Civil War let audiences in on the fact that the Marvelicious film would include Spider-Man. Name the actor who played your friendly neighborhood webslinger:
		Max Martini
		Tom Holland
		Jamie Bell
		Jeremy Slate

20.	The undead crossed paths with ye olde literary characters in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an update a classic from this author:
		Charlotte Bronte
		Jane Austen
		Thomas Hardy
		Samuel Butler

21.	The Finest Hours chronicled some of the finest hours performed by this organization
		The Secret Service
		The US Coast Guard
		The US Marines
		The FBI

22.	And speaking of the finest, the hero of Zootopia is one of that city's finest, an officer named Judy. Judy is a:
		Parakeet
		Squirrel
		Dachshund
		Rabbit

23.	Think back. No, farther. Wait, that's too far. February's Oscars ceremony brought an acting Academy Award to the talent behind each of the following characters, except for:
		Hugh Glass
		Joy Newsome
		Rudolf Abel
		Daisy Domergue
		*By way of explanation.....* Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson and Mark Rylance all won; also winning was Alicia Vikander for her role as Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl

24.	If you emerged from a theater enjoying a film that concerned the kidnapping of a movie star, then you just took in this film:
		Hail, Caesar!
		Florence Foster Jenkins
		Midnight Special
		Dirty Grandpa

25.	The film Race is centered around a trailblazing athlete in this sport:
		Baseball
		Track and field
		Football
		Soccer

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