That's So Cliché Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jurassic World

Clare Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the operations manager of a park called Jurassic World. When one of the dinosaurs escapes, Claire and Owen (Chris Pratt) spend the movie chasing dinosaurs and running away from dinosaurs.


In an interview for "The Daily Beast", Bryce said it was "a feminist statement to run around in high heels. The thing that would have been considered the biggest handicap for her ultimately ends up being her strength. And that's those heels. I really liked that." As for fighting in high heels, Florence Pugh said that's one of the things an audience would never see her doing.

Answer: Rocky IV

The montage in "Rocky IV" was seven minutes and forty-one seconds long. In fact, 31.9% of "Rocky IV" consists of different montages. The montage showed Rocky training for his boxing match with Ivan Drago by training outside in Russia while Ivan Drago trained inside using high tech equipment. The song "Up the Mountain" was overlaid on the Rocky/Drago montage scene.


The word "montage" is a French word meaning assembly or editing. The first reported movie montage was in the 1925 movie "The Battleship Potemkin".

Answer: Pancakes

Kiki (Julia Roberts) is stuffing forkfuls of pancake into her mouth while telling Lee (Billy Crystal) what its like working for Gwen (Catherine Zeta Jones). Lee even comments about looking for the buffet and finding it at Kiki's table.


In an interview for "America's Sweeethearts", Julia Roberts said she was on a carbo high from eating so many pancakes during the takes they had to do of the "pancake scene".

Answer: Martin Riggs

A storyline that has carried over from the first "Lethal Weapon" movie is the death of Victoria Riggs. In "Lethal Weapon 2", Martin discussed his wife's death while fixing dinner at the Murtaugh's house and in the same movie learned who killed her. In "Lethal Weapon 4" while contemplating marriage with his new girlfriend, Martin goes to visit Vicky's grave. While there, Martin gets the page that his girlfriend is in labor.


Popular filming locations for graveyard scenes:
Green-Wood Cemetery in New York ("The Departed" and "Law & Order")
Bonaventure Cemetery in Georgia ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil")
Mount Hope Cemetery in Maine ("Pet Sematary")
Laurel Hill in Pennsylvania ("Rocky")

Answer: Star Wars

The Wilhelm Scream was used in the first "Star Wars" movie when Luke shot a stormtrooper and the stormtrooper fell into the Death Star chasm uttering the scream as he fell.

The Wilhelm Scream was voiced by Sheb Wooley in the 1951 movie "Distant Drum", who had an uncredited part as Private Jessup. The scream occurred when a soldier was crossing a river on foot and was dragged under water by an alligator. The scream was given the name from the character of Private Wilhelm in the 1953 western "The Charge at Feather River".

Answer: The Holiday

After Iris (Kate Winslet) picked up her elderly neighbor Arthur (Eli Wallach), he explained to her the origins of a meet-cute since he considered their meet cute to be so interesting.

The term was first used by a German American film director Ernst Lubitsch when he was describing how Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper met in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife".

Answer: Avengers

In the first of the "Avengers" movie, Scarlett Johansson is Black Widow, the only woman in the group of men consisting of Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Steve Rodgers, Tony Stark, and Thor. It wasn't until "Avengers: Age of Ultron" that Elizabeth Olson is brought on as the second woman in the "Avengers".

The Smurfette principle was created by Katha Pollitt in 1991 when she realized how many movies and TV series had a group of men to one woman. The phrase comes from the cartoon series "The Smurfs" where the only female Smurf in the group was named Smurfette.

Answer: Inigo Montoya

Inigo (Mandy Patinkin) is searching for the six fingered man who killed his father. Inigo spouts 'You killed my father!' multiple times in the movie before killing the six fingered man who actually did kill his father.

"You killed my father" is an often used cliche to begin a revenge laden movie. Marvel used the premise for "Daredevil" and "Electra". In "Peppermint", Jennifer Garner sought revenge when a drive by shooting killed her husband and daughter while leaving a carnival.

Answer: Train

The plot of the car chase was Popeye Doyle chasing Pierre Nicoli who had evaded Popeye by taking a train hostage. The car chase that ensued was not properly permitted. Off duty NYPD officers helped with traffic in some areas, but other areas that were used weren't prepared for a car chase. Bill Hickman and Gene Hackman shared the driving in the car chase scene with a camera in the backseat filming.

The first movie to have a car chase scene was 1903 "Runaway Match". The movie was five minutes long, with the car chase taking most of the movie.

Answer: Free Guy

Guy was a non player video game character who realized one day he wanted to do more than be a bank teller. The one thing Guy didn't know was that he and his friends were part of a video game. When he found out from the creator of the video game that he wasn't real, Guy helped her save the video game and the non-players in it.


There are very few movies that have the villain winning in the end. Three of those movies are:
"Arlington Road"--Tim Robbins/Joan Cusak as the villains
"Gone Girl"--Rosamunde Pike as the villain
"The Usual Suspects"--Kevin Spacey as the villain