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1. In "Lethal Weapon" (1987), we learn that LAPD officer Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) has a dog. What's the dog's name?
2. Riggs isn't the only character in the "Lethal Weapon" series to have a pet -- Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and his family have a cat. What is the cat's name?
3. The dog in "Poltergeist" (1982) has a rather unusual name -- an initial followed by a one-syllable word. What's the first letter (the initial) of this dog's name?
4. In "Romancing the Stone" (1984), Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) has a cat. What is this cat's name?
5. In the first two films of the "Alien" series, Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has a cat. This cat's name seems to be a variation of a common American surname. What is it?
6. In 1974's "Jaws," an early sign that a shark is cruising the beachgoer-filled waters of Amity Island is evident when a young man's dog, who has been fetching a stick for him in the shallows, is suddenly nowhere to be seen. The young man calls for his dog repeatedly, but the black Labrador Retriever is never to be seen again. What is this dog's name?
7. In "Short Cuts" (1993), LAPD officer Gene Shepard (Tim Robbins) spends most of the film loathing the family dog, and he eventually abandons it many miles away from the family home (only to retrieve it later). This dog is a male, but it has a female's name. What is the dog's name?
8. Here's an easy one, if you've seen the film. We learn at the very end of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) that, as a boy, Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) had a beloved dog as a child. What was this dog's name?
9. In the John Grisham courtroom drama "A Time To Kill" (1996), Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) has a dog. Jake fears that his dog might have died in the Ku Klux Klan-engineered destruction of his house, but his prized pet shows up hale and hearty after all. What is the dog's name?
10. In "Back To the Future" (1985), Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) uses his dog as a "test pilot" for his time machine. What is this dog's name?
11. Also in "Back To the Future," when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) visits 1955, he learns that the "younger" Dr. Brown has a puppy. What is this puppy's name?
12. In "Rocky" (1976), Adrian (Talia Shire) gives Robert "Rocky" Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) a bulldog. After what football legend is this dog named?
13. In "Star Trek: Generations" (1994), Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) weeps with joy when he learns that his cat has survived the crash of the saucer section of the USS ENTERPRISE. What is Data's cat's name?
14. In "Strange Brew" (1983), Bob McKenzie (Rick Moranis) and his brother Doug (Dave Thomas) have a dog with an unusual name. What body part is a part of their dog's name?
15. In "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon and Danny Elfman) has a ghostly dog whose name is actually a number. What is the number?
16. The T-800 Model 101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991) tricks the T-1000 (Robert Patrick) into revealing that it has killed the Voights, foster parents of John Connor (Edward Furlong), by deliberately calling the Voights' dog by the wrong name during a telephone call. By what *incorrect* name did the T-800 call the family dog?
17. Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), in "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (1961), has a cat that she rejects in a tantrum, but then chases in the rain at the very end of the film. What was the cat's name?
18. During his travels, Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin), in 1979's "The Jerk," comes across a stray dog whom he eventually takes in as a pet. The name that the dog bears throughout most of the film is not printable at this site, but that's irrelevant for the purposes of this question. Navin's *original* idea for this dog's name is identical to that of a certain food item. What is it?
19. A cat with an important collar plays an integral role in "Men In Black" (1997). What is this cat's name?
20. The four boys featured in "Stand By Me" (1986) are terrified of a dog guarding a local junkyard. What is this dog's name?
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