Answers and scoring at bottom of post.
- The hero and his less macho sidekick are about to take an alcoholic drink. How will the sidekick react?
- Twelve men and a woman are walking through a desert. Who is about to be attacked by a snake?
- What do people in the movies almost never do, even though they eat and drink frequently?
- If the front door to a restaurant can’t be used due to the appearance of thugs, what is the hero guaranteed to find in the restroom?
- What do you see when you look through binoculars in the movies?
- A painting of a remote relative of the hero or heroine is hanging on the wall. Who does the picture resemble?
- If there are twins separated at birth in a movie, what’s odd about the long-lost twin?
- When a human has sex with an alien from another planet what is almost guaranteed to take place?
- What is strange about newborn babies in the movies?
- What do female characters in the movies never, ever do?
- In the movies, villains always make bombs that have what?
- What happens when words appear on a computer screen?
- In the movies, what should you always do if something is about to explode?
- What is always available in New York, even in the middle of a thunderstorm?
- A car has fallen off a cliff. What will happen before it hits bottom?
- If you see two men carrying a large sheet of glass in a movie, what kind of scene is taking place and what is about to happen?
- During a chase scene, what kind of truck is inevitably going to appear and what is going to happen as a result.
- A movie is taking place in the 1950s. What’s unusual about all the vintage cars in the scene?
- A man and woman are running away from a villain. What is about to happen?
- A woman wearing high heels is running away from a villain. What will she never do?
- Somebody is being chased past a bunch of trashcans. What is the proper thing to do?
- The hero needs a change of clothes so he knocks out somebody to steal their outfit. What’s peculiar about the result?
- What is peculiar about the letters that appear on a computer screen in the movies?
- A computer is about to fail. What will happen when it does?
- How long does it take a hacker to break into the most secure computer in the world?
- In a war movie, what is going to happen to the guy who shows his buddy a picture of his sweetheart back home?
- You are in a hotel in Paris. What can you see out the window?
- You are in a cave in the movies. What’s unusual about this cave?
- If there is a candelabra in a sword fighting scene, what is going to happen?
- If there is a stairway in a sword fighting scene, what is going to happen?
- During a sword fight, the hero has jumped onto a table. What is about to happen?
- If there is chandelier in a sword fight scene what will happen?
- When a house is haunted by ghosts or murders what do the people inside never do?
- A character has just become aware that there is an intruder in the house. What is about to happen?
- The hero has just been worked over by a couple of thugs. What will never happen?
- A character has just been shot. What never happens?
- What is odd about movie children relative to their parents?
- A girl can’t find a date to the prom. What’s unusual about the girl?
- Medieval peasants in the movies have filthy hair, dirty faces, ragged clothing and perfect what?
- A character in a musical has begun playing the guitar. What’s interesting about the sound?
- A phone number is dialed during a movie. What are the first three digits?
- The hero has just killed lots of bad guys. What will the police never do?
- What is never needed after sex in a movie?
- A couple in the movies has just had sex. How will the bedsheets be arranged?
- Somebody is carrying a bag of groceries. What can you see out the top?
- If a spaceship is pummeled almost to the point of compete destruction, what component never fails?
- At a critical moment, what is almost guaranteed to happen to the warp drive or hyper drive?
- Two spaceships are battling each other. What has to be true before they can fire any weapons at one another?
- A movie teenager always has what outside his or her window?
- The hero has just killed a powerful and scary villain and is now comforting the distraught female. What is about to happen?
- In war movies, what always happens to new replacements before you can get to know their names?
- A soldier is looking at a travel brochure of beautiful Europe. What scene is about to be shown?
- In a western characters are hiding behind a wagon while being shot. What will not happen?
- What never happens to gunfighters?
- What do cavewomen never have?
- The female lead is watching, wide-eyed, hand-to-mouth, as the villain beats up the hero. What will she never do?
- A blind character regains his eyesight. What will happen before the end of the movie?
- If a woman is pregnant, what is almost guaranteed to happen before the end of the movie?
- He will cough and have to be patted on the back.
- The woman.
- Use the toilet.
- An open window big enough to squeeze through.
- Two joined circles instead of one.
- The hero or heroine.
- He/she is evil.
- The female will become pregnant.
- They look like 6 month-old infants.
- Menstruate.
- Blinking displays saying how long until they explode.
- You hear the noise of a 1975 teletype machine.
- Run away from it, so that when it explodes, you can be propelled to safety in slow motion.
- A cab.
- It will explode.
- It’s a chase scene and a car is about to go through the glass.
- A semi-trailer truck will appear resulting in the death of an expendable character.
- They are all in absolutely mint condition.
- She will fall; he will go back to help her up and then half-carry her, even though this causes them to go slower than if they both started running again.
- Kick off her high heels and run in her bare feet.
- Roll the trashcans at the chaser, even though they are easily avoided by leaping over them.
- The clothes fit perfectly.
- They are generally one inch high.
- It will explode into a shower of sparks.
- Less than thirty seconds.
- He will be killed.
- The Eiffel tower.
- The floor is flat and there is plenty of light.
- The candles will be sliced off in a way that shows the skill of the swordsmen?
- The hero will be backed up the stairway and have to leap, or swing, to the floor.
- The villain will swipe at his feet, but the hero will easily jump so that the swipe misses.
- It will get cut down so that it falls on the villain’s henchmen.
- Leave the house.
- The character is about to be frightened by the cat.
- He will not have to recover from any injuries.
- The character never goes into shock.
- The children are always smarter.
- She’s unbelievably attractive but nobody seems to notice or care.
- Teeth.
- It eventually sounds like an orchestra.
- 555.
- Question him.
- A Kleenex.
- It will cover him to the waist and her to the neck.
- French bread or carrot tops.
- The artificial gravity.
- It will fail.
- They need to be in visual range.
- A drainpipe that is specially reinforced so that it can be used for exit and entry.
- The villain will come back to life.
- They get killed.
- A blown-up countryside.
- They will not get shot in the legs.
- Their guns never jam.
- Hairy armpits and legs.
- Call the police, run for help or hit the villain with something. She may jump on the villain’s back and get thrown to the floor, though.
- The character will become blind again.
- She will have the baby.
SCORING BELOW
SCORING:
Score 1 for each correct answer.
- Less than 35: Where have you been the past 80 years?
- 36 to 49: You are an experienced cliche-spotter.
- More than 50: You are watching too many bad movies.