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The apropos Third Man and Private Ryan (of Saving fame) are human examples of what trope with a name popularized by Alfred Hitchcock? According to him, the term ostensibly derives from a device used to catch lions on the Scottish Highland.

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MacGuffin

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The Overlook Film Festival, held at Oregon’s Timberline Lodge, screens movies in what genre?

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Horror. The Timberline Lodge was the setting for Kubrick’s The Shining.

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What film appeared on network television for the first time in November 1976, becoming the highest-rated television program ever (and still today highest rated movie ever), thirty-seven years after becoming the highest-grossing film of all time?

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Gone With The Wind

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F. Murray Abraham’s credits include teaching at Brooklyn College and winning an Oscar for his portrayal of Salieri in this film.

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Amadeus

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The week after one of his feature-length releases won the Academy Award for Best Picture, which director sold Rolling Thunder, an 11-minute film of a dead horse, to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam? The short film was released six years before the Oscar winner.

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Steve McQueen

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A landmark in non-narrative cinema, which Maya Deren film, noted for its influence on the work of David Lynch, was named the 40th greatest American movie ever made in a BBC list?

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Meshes of the Afternoon

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With almost its entire 28-minute running time consisting of still pictures, which Chris Marker film is the only film shorter than an hour in the top 50 of the most recent Sight & Sound critics poll? It was later adapted into the feature-length film 12 Monkeys.

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La Jetée

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On the American Film Institute’s 2003 list of the fifty greatest movie villains of all time, there are two different characters that have flesh and blood, but no bones. Who are they?

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Terminator, Jaws

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Laura and Angus, Lydia and Bernard, Carrie and Hamish, Henrietta and Charles (but notably never Carrie and Charles), and Gareth: This is the inventory of the title of what film?

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Four Weddings and a Funeral

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Among the voluminous bounty of historical inaccuracies in what film is the title itself, which in fact was actually a nickname given to Robert the Bruce?

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Braveheart

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Which actor became the first to be nominated posthumously for an Academy Award as Best Actor after his death in 1955?

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James Dean

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The Academy has assembled what three legendary directors (two of whom were nominees that year) as award presenters?

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Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, John Huston

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68 people have won the Academy Award for Best Director. 67 of them were men; who is the sole woman to have been so honored?

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Kathryn Bigelow

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The Golden Raspberry Awards, celebrating the worst in Hollywood film, were created by publicist John Wilson after inspiration struck following a double bill of what two musically inclined and disco era films. Name one of the two.

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Can’t Stop The Music, Xanadu

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What was the only X-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?

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Midnight Cowboy

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If a movie (or any work of fiction) features a scene in which two female characters talk about something other than a male, it is said to pass this test named after an American cartoonist.

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Bechdel Test

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In 1989, an Oscar was given to this film manufacturer in honor of its 100 years in the industry.

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Kodak

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This Czech director’s films include One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus and The People vs. Larry Flynt.

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Milos Forman

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“Zip A Dee Doo Dah” was first performed in what Disney movie?

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Song of the South

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What director was the first African American to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director?

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John Singleton (Boyz N The Hood)

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This man who was in “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” is the only living actor in six or more films on AFI’s list of 100 Years/100 Movies.

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Robert Duvall

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Meryl Streep has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress 17 times (including for 2017’s The Post) and has won the award twice. Name any one of the five actresses who have been nominated for that award exactly two times and won it twice.

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  • Sally Field
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Frances McDormand
  • Luise Rainer
  • Hilary Swank
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Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this movie based on a TV series that premiered in 1963.

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The Fugitive

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Despite all the love being sent to him from there, James Bond spends very little time visiting the country. Name the film where Bond appears in (and then promptly destroys) a Russian city for the first time.

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Goldeneye

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The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place.

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Casablanca

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This city, also the title of a film that won 2 Oscars, was named for a businessman known for 19th century transportation.

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Fargo

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What supernatural being first appeared in the folklore of plantation slaves on Saint-Domingue, and arrived in US horror films via a 1932 Bela Lugosi movie? Thirty-four years later, a different movie cemented the modern version of this creature in American pop culture, leaving behind any traces of its Caribbean origins.

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Zombie

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The actor who portrayed fictional mercenary leader Barney Ross in a three-film series during the 2010s has portrayed two other characters in successful multi-film franchises with at least three installments. Give the name of either of these other two characters.

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Rocky, Rambo

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Name all five films from the Dirty Harry series in order.

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  1. Dirty Harry
  2. Magnum Force
  3. The Enforcer
  4. Sudden Impact
  5. The Dead Pool
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Identify both Maryland film legends pictured here.

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Divine, John Waters

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Meaning “yellow” in Italian, this is the genre name of Italian horror or thriller films that include mystery elements and often contain slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements.

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Giallo

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This Italian director is best known for his work in the horror genre (which includes films Suspiria and Inferno) as well as his screenwriting (which includes a collaboration with Bernardo Bertolucci on Once Upon A Time In The West).

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Dario Argento

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What country banned Brad Pitt from visiting for nearly twenty years?

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China (for Seven Years In Tibet)

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What moviemaking term was borrowed from the world of jewelry, where it’s an engraving method similar to intaglio?

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Intaglio is a positive carving technique, so the image is raised above the surface stone. When the image is negative, etched into the background stone, that’s a cameo.

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His seven nominations included ones for “Equus” & “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

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Richard Burton

36
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Chocolate syrup, casaba melon and Playboy model Marli Renfro were enlisted to create an iconic scene in this film.

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Psycho

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Bernard Lee, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, and Robert Brown have all portrayed what character?

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M

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Born Issur Danielovitch, this thespian was nominated for an Academy Award three times, in 1949’s Champion, 1952’s The Bad and the Beautiful, and 1956’s Lust for Life. A much more iconic role in 1960 went un-nominated, although the film itself garnered 4 wins from 6 nominations.

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Kirk Douglas

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As of 2018, she is the only person to win Best Actress for her performance in a Disney movie.

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Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)

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This was the first Pixar movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

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Up

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Before she was 25, she became the youngest performer to receive a second Best Actress nomination..

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Jennifer Lawrence

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This French director is best known for Leon: The Professional (1994) and The Fifth Element (1997).

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Luc Besson

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This is a quote from what movie?

“Let me finish, Dmitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri? Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello? … Well, of courseI like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello! Not now, but any time, Dmitri. I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened.”

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Dr. Strangelove

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Since “The Godfather Part II”, this film has been the only sequel to win Best Picture.

(As of February 7th, 2019)

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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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Name the anime and film character who is known, among other things, for her mastery of the ancient cyborg martial art Panzer Kunst, and for her superior skills in the sport of motorball.

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Alita

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Denzel Washington has been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor) a total of eight times. Name either of the two films for which he has won the award.

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Glory, Training Day

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Sunrise, Sunset, and Midnight—These are three half-titles of films directed and co-written by Richard Linklater. What word completes the titles of these three films?

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Before

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What legendary French New Wave director graced the first cover of Andy Warhol’s magazine Interview? When introducing the director to the star of her next movie, Warhol said, “You should work with her. She made a film called Cléo from 5 to 7. It’s a beautiful film… If I had made this film, we would have shot from five to seven.”

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Agnes Varda

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One was a serial killer. The other was a “Godkiller.” Name the respective main characters in director Patty Jenkins’s two feature films to date.

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Aileen Wuornos, Wonder Woman

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He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time.

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Laurence Olivier

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Films that were banned in what country after earning the ire of the military government include Luc Besson’s The Lady, a biopic starring Michelle Yeoh as a then-globally-renowned figure, and Rambo, starring Sylvester Stallone as a dude who kills a bunch of other dudes with a bow and arrow against the backdrop of the Saffron Revolution?

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Myanmar

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What word appears in the titles of a 1972 Charles Grodin film and a 2007 Ben Stiller remake (they’re each the titular Kid) and in the title of a 1986 Clint Eastwood film (he fought on the Ridge)?

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Heartbreak

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What were the last names of producer Arthur and Jules, who formed a studio in 1960 and went on to produce a dozen stop-motion holiday specials?

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Rudolph, Frosty, and all the rest were brought to you by Rankin/Bass Productions, founded by Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass.

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These two foreign-born directors have each won two Best Director Oscars but none of their films has won Best Picture.

(Card created on January 10th, 2020)

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Alfonso Cuaron, Ang Lee

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The Motion Picture, The Wrath of X, The Search for Y, The Voyage Home—what two words have been replaced by ‘X’ and ‘Y’ in this sequence?

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Khan, Spock

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The president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in the 1920s and 30s gave his name to the code of practice adopted in 1930 to control movie content, particularly as it related to sexual morality. What was the name of this code?

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Hays Code

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Born in Puerto Rico, he is remembered as a pathbreaker and humanitarian, among other distinctions cofounding the Hispanic Association of Latin Actors. Although he earned four Tony and two Golden Globe nominations in the 1970s and 1980s, far larger audiences saw him in two Saturn-nominated roles in the 1990s, one a comic patriarch and the other (his final theatrical role) as a video-game villain opposite Jean-Claude van Damme. Name the actor.

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Raul Julia

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In 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the Devil has made a diabolical bet with the title character. The actor who portrays “Mr. Nick” wrote the music for the 1990 Faustian theatrical musical The Black Rider. Who is this multitalented singer trying to drag souls way down in the hole? His acting credits also include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mystery Men, and Down by Law.

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Tom Waits

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What blockbuster film presents lengthy scenes featuring a bookish ichthyologist, a survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and a New York police chief?

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Jaws

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In what film does a startled Lydia ask her father Daniel, “Who did this?”, to which Daniel replies, “Uncle Frank and Aunt Jack. And this is just a body suit; I didn’t have any surgery”?

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Mrs. Doubtfire

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During Hollywood’s studio system era (1920s–1940s), a group of vertically integrated studios—combining production, distribution, and exhibition—were known as the “Big 5” and included MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers. A separate “Little 3” were major studios that were not fully integrated (not owning their own theaters), and consisted of United Artists, Universal, and what third?

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Columbia

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Six films are estimated to have cost $300 million or more to make, four of which are superhero movies (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Justice League). The other two films, released in 2007 and 2011, respectively, are the 3rd and 4th installments of what film franchise?

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Pirates Of The Caribbean

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Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Nicolas Cage, Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, and Donald Faison were among the up-and-coming (or still unknown) actors who appeared in films by what director?

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Amy Heckerling

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Bill Murray has collaborated with director Ivan Reitman numerous times over the years (e.g., Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters), but his first big film break was a Reitman-directed movie named after what food item?

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Meatballs

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A 1954 drama film gave its name to a specialty food store in East Hampton, New York, that was purchased in 1978 by White House Office of Management and Budget staffer Ina Garten. What is the name of that film?

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The Barefoot Contessa

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This is the French name for a documentary style with handheld camera work and candid, authentic subject matter.

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Cinéma vérité

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While it had only two female speaking roles in the entire film, both minor (plus numerous non-speaking women, mostly billed as “stewardesses”), this film’s most prominent speaking role—a non-human—was reportedly in early drafts named Athena and had a woman’s voice. What is this movie?

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2001: A Space Odyssey

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What character, who has appeared in major Hollywood films in 1998, 2014, 2019, and 2021, made its American debut in a 1956 movie co-directed by Terry O. Morse and Ishirō Honda and starring Raymond Burr?

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Godzilla (in Godzilla, King of the Monsters)

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The fictional small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, is the primary setting for what film series, which kicked off in 1978, and whose convoluted course of sequels continued in 2021 and is scheduled to end in 2022?

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Halloween

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