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How Well Do You Know: 2017: The Year in Movies, Part 3
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1. If you're a film franchise that had more than one film released in 2017, please step forward. Not so fast there....
LEGO
Despicable Me
DC Extended Universe
Marvel Cinematic Universe
 
2. If you looked realllllly closely, you might have recognized this famous pair in a cameo as stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Game of Thrones' Kitt Harrington and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill
Princes Harry and William
 
3. The subtitle of December's update of Jumanji shares its name with a song made famous by this band:
The Ramones
AC/DC
Guns n Roses
Pearl Jam
 
4. Everybody, revise your Asian Civ. textbooks. We learned this year that the Great Wall of China had as its primary purpose a defense against:
A maniacal river
Aliens
Monsters
The Dutch
 
5. In this film, the Gunslinger doesn't kill with his gun, but kills with his heart.
Blade Runner 2049
Thor: Ragnarok
The Dark Tower
Underworld: Blood Wars
 
6. What's in a name? This word is repeated to make up the entire title of a 2017 film:
Everything
Nowhere
Sometime
Always
 
7. Sure to go down in cinema lore several times over, this man was on stage when the wrong film was read as the Best Picture winner at the 2017 Oscars:
Jack Nicholson
Warren Beatty
Michael Douglas
Michael Caine
 
8. Deciding that snuggling up to his typewriter at night wasn't enough, this screenwriter picked up a camera also, making his directorial debut:
Avika Goldsman
Mark Boal
Charlie Kaufman
Aaron Sorkin
 
9. Trying to shake a family curse, the Logan family decides to rob this type of sports venue in Logan Lucky:
A football stadium
A horse racetrack
A car racetrack
A cricket......wherever they play cricket
 
10. Disney Nature treated viewers to footage of adorable and entertaining animals "Born in" this place:
Hawaii
China
Japan
Norway
 
11. This studio did *not* have a film finish in the top 10 earners in worldwide box office:
Disney
20th Century Fox
Universal
Warner Bros.
 
12. And it should not come as a surprise this studio continues to become a behemoth, accounting for 5 of the top 10 box office earners for 2017:
Disney
Warner Bros.
Universal
20th Century Fox
 
13. It spent the entirety of the 2017 in which it appeared as a baby:
Bob the Minion
Groot
Papa Smurf
King Kong
 
14. Aside from the fact, one supposes, that the cafeteria food sucks, what exactly is wrong with My Entire High School?
It's been Taken Over by Ugly Aliens
It's Being Invaded by Republicans
It's Sinking into the Sea
It is Feeding on the Souls of the Innocent
 
15. This heroic profession is depicted in Only the Brave:
Emergency room nurses
Fire fighters
Policemen
Bomb squad technicians
 
16. Speaking of unusual things at school, through the power of hypnosis, the school official is transformed into the comic book hero known as Captain Underpants:
The gym teacher
The janitor
The bus driver
The principal
 
17. If you paid to see Justice League in the theaters, 1) DC thanks you very, very much for taking one for the team and 2) you hopefully remember which of these B-level heroes appeared on screen:
Cyborg
Atom
Martian Manhunter
Hawkman
 
18. The happy-go-lucky days of the Iran/Contra scandal serve as the backdrop for the climax of this film:
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Thank You For Your Service
The Mountain Between Us
American Made
 
19. A man only referred to as The Colonel is its main protagonist:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
John Wick: Chapter 2
War for the Planet of the Apes
Rock Dog
 
20. And you think *your* traffic is bad. Luc Besson's Valerian movie seems to think there are this many planets in a single city:
A Thousand
Five Hundred
Twenty Three
A Million
 




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