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| 1. | Let's start with an easy one. Up until January 1, 2000, which film held the record for biggest weekend opening? | ||
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | |||
| Jurassic Park | |||
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The Lost World | ||
| Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace | |||
| 2. | Which release earned more in its first day in theaters ($72.7 million) than The Lost World's (did you get it right?) pre-2000 opening weekend record of $72.1 million? | ||
| The Dark Knight | |||
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | |||
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New Moon | ||
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | |||
| 3. | The next several questions are going to be straightforward. Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2000? | ||
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas/Cast Away | |||
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas/How the Grinch Stole Christmas | |||
| Mission: Impossible 2/Cast Away | |||
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Mission: Impossible 2/How the Grinch Stole Christmas | ||
| 4. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2001? | ||
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | ||
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |||
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Shrek | |||
| Planet of the Apes/Shrek | |||
| 5. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2002? | ||
| Spider-Man/The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |||
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Spider-Man/Spider-Man | ||
| Spider-Man/Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | |||
| Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones/Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | |||
| 6. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2003? | ||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |||
| The Matrix Reloaded/Finding Nemo | |||
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The Matrix Reloaded/The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | ||
| X2: X-Men United/The Matrix Reloaded | |||
| 7. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2004? | ||
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/Spider-Man 2 | |||
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Shrek 2/Shrek 2 | ||
| Spider-Man 2/Shrek 2 | |||
| Spider-Man 2/Spider-Man 2 | |||
| 8. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2005? | ||
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/War of the Worlds | |||
| Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |||
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith/Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | ||
| War of the Worlds/Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | |||
| 9. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2006? | ||
| Night at the Museum/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | |||
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | ||
| X-Men: The Last Stand/Night at the Museum | |||
| X-Men: The Last Stand/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | |||
| 10. | Which of these films had the biggest opening weekend/final domestic box office of 2007? | ||
| Shrek the Third/Transformers | |||
| Shrek the Third/Spider-Man 3 | |||
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Spider-Man 3/Spider-Man 3 | ||
| Spider-Man 3/Shrek the Third | |||
| 11. | Other than The Dark Knight (you didn't expect a gimme here, did you?), which of these films had the biggest final domestic take? | ||
| Hancock | |||
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | |||
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Iron Man | ||
| Twilight | |||
| 12. | Let's examine the progression in mega-openers this decade. Prior to 2000, only nine films had earned $50+ million in a single weekend. How many films accomplished this feat from 2000 until now? | ||
| 52 | |||
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77 | ||
| 83 | |||
| 108 | |||
| 13. | Prior to 2000, only two (!) films had opened to $60+ million in a single weekend. How many films accomplished this feat from 2000 until now? | ||
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58 | ||
| 74 | |||
| 86 | |||
| 98 | |||
| 14. | Prior to 2000, as hard as this is to believe, only one film had opened to $70+ million in a single weekend. How many films accomplished this feat from 2000 until now? | ||
| 27 | |||
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36 | ||
| 51 | |||
| 93 | |||
| 15. | We previously established that prior to 2000, only one film opened over $70 million in its debut weekend. Which of the following films made more than $70 million in its *second* weekend? | ||
| The Dark Knight | |||
| Shrek 2 | |||
| Spider-Man | |||
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All of the above | ||
| 16. | How many films this decade have opened over the magical $100 million mark? | ||
| 9 | |||
| 11 | |||
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14 | ||
| 19 | |||
| 17. | $60 million was the line of demarcation for a mega-blockbuster in the 1990s. How many films in the 2000s have opened at double that level, $120+ million? | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
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5 | ||
| 7 | |||
| 18. | Titanic is still the all-time record holder in terms of worldwide revenue. Which film has the best worldwide performance in the 2000s? | ||
| The Dark Knight | |||
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | |||
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | ||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | |||
| 19. | Only one film prior to 2000 had earned a billion dollars in worldwide box office. Three films accomplished this all but impossible feat in the 2000s. Which of these films did not quite make it? | ||
| The Dark Knight | |||
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | ||
| The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | |||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | |||
| 20. | Excluding the films that finished in first place for their year of release, which of these titles was the overall best performance in terms of final domestic take? | ||
| Finding Nemo | |||
| Iron Man | |||
| The Passion of the Christ | |||
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Spider-Man 2 | ||
| 21. | Titanic was in the weekend box office top twenty for 35 consecutive weeks. How many times in a row did My Big Fat Greek Wedding make the top twenty? | ||
| 29 | |||
| 34 | |||
| 36 | |||
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43 | ||
| 22. | In which weekend My Big Fat Greek Wedding finally make the top five? | ||
| #7 | |||
| #13 | |||
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#19 | ||
| It never did. | |||
| 23. | Which film became the first to break $100 million in two days? | ||
| The Dark Knight | |||
| New Moon | |||
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | ||
| Spider-Man 3 | |||
| 24. | The Dark Knight made a famous run at Titanic's final box office tally. How close did it get to the record? | ||
| $34 million | |||
| $45 million | |||
| $56 million | |||
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$67 million | ||
| 25. | Which of these franchises' first two films earned the most in combined domestic box office? | ||
| Batman Begins/The Dark Knight | |||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl/Dead Man's Chest | |||
| Shrek/Shrek 2 | |||
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Spider-Man/Spider-Man 2 | ||
| 26. | Out of the current list of top 25 domestic performers of all-time (not adjusting for inflation), how many were released in the 2000s? | ||
| 12 | |||
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18 | ||
| 21 | |||
| 24 | |||
| 27. | Out of the nine $400+ million domestic performers in box office history, how many were released in the 2000s? | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
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5 | ||
| All but Titanic and Star Wars | |||
| 28. | If The Lost World had been released in 2009, where would its $72.1 million opening fall in the top 10 biggest debuts of the year? | ||
| #2 | |||
| #4 | |||
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#6 | ||
| #8 | |||
| 29. | How many of the twelve months of the year saw a monthly record-setting opening weekend occur in the 2000s? | ||
| 7 | |||
| 9 | |||
| 11 | |||
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All of them | ||
| 30. | How many of the 50 biggest single days of box office occurred in the 2000s? | ||
| 42 | |||
| 46 | |||
| 49 | |||
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All of them | ||
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