1. | Hollywood keeps on sequel-ing. Which film did not see a sequel get released in the first half of 2016? | ||
Ride Along | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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? | ||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Will Smith | ||
Brent Spiner | |||
Jeff Goldblum | |||
14. | Most of this film takes place in a cozy underground bunker: | ||
How to Be Single | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Anne Hathaway | ||
Jessica Chastain | |||
18. | Things go very, very wrong for members of a ______________ in the horror thriller Green Room: | ||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Jane Austen | ||
Thomas Hardy | |||
Samuel Butler | |||
21. | The Finest Hours chronicled some of the finest hours performed by this organization | ||
The Secret Service | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 |
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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: | ||
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Hail, Caesar! | ||
Florence Foster Jenkins | |||
Midnight Special | |||
Dirty Grandpa | |||
25. | The film Race is centered around a trailblazing athlete in this sport: | ||
Baseball | |||
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Track and field | ||
Football | |||
Soccer | |||