<section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which element of this Ace Ventura montage is the least plausible?</h3><p><p>Ace is on the hunt for a Super Bowl ring that’s missing one jewel. Which of these stunts could absolutely not play out the way it does in the movie?</p></p><ul><li>Ace spots the gem on a ring through binoculars from a moving vehicle</li><li>Ace jumps on a man’s back and takes him down with a chloroform-soaked rag</li><li>Ace hides in a mailbox and examines a guy’s hand by candle light</li><li>Ace gets thrown across the room in an arm wrestling match</li><li>Ace loudly whips a guy with a towel in the shower</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which sound effect is the most true-to-life?</h3><p><p>A foley artist’s job is to replicate reality as faithfully as possible… for the most part. There are plenty of times when they just give us what we <em>want </em>to hear. Which one of these productions’ signature sounds was based on reality?</p></p><ul><li>SHWING! Sword unsheathing in Game of Thrones</li><li>FWIP! Gun silencers in 'The Boondock Saints'</li><li>roooarrr–BOOM! Space explosions in Star Wars</li><li>THUD-TUNK-SLAP! Frogs falling from the sky in 'Magnolia'</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which grenade trope is true to the physics of a real grenade?</h3><p><p>The enemy is closing in. You’ve got a machine gun in one hand, and a grenade in the other. Your only way out of this mess is to lob that bad boy and let physics handle the rest. So you:</p></p><ul><li>Pull the pin with your teeth, and chuck it.</li><li>It explodes in a huge fireball,</li><li>Blasting the enemy across the room.</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Are chalk outlines for real?</h3><p><p>A hard boiled detective arrives at the scene of the crime, and starts taking in every minute detail. He can’t make heads or tails of it – until he turns a corner and sees that ghastly reminder of where a corpse once lay. Did people ever really draw a chalk outline, or is this completely fictional?</p></p><ul><li>Real!</li><li>Fake!</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which stunt from a Jackie Chan film is physically impossible in real life?</h3><p><p>Jackie Chan put his life on the line countless times for our entertainment – but some stunts are just too outside the realm of possibility to pull off IRL. Which of the following simply would not fly?</p></p><ul><li>'Police Story': the pole slide</li><li>'Rob B Hood': using a car battery to jumpstart a heart</li><li>'Drunken Master II': crawling on hot coals</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which movie showed the most accurate portrayal of a biometric scanner?</h3><p><p>The only way into the compound, or the safe, or the spaceship – save for a poorly placed air vent – is to borrow someone’s severed body part to get past a biometric scanner. Which movie portrayed this technology in the most realistic way?</p></p><ul><li>'Angels & Demons': a detached eyeball gets the bad guy past a retina scanner</li><li>'Back to the Future Part II': the headline “Thumb Bandit Strikes Again” implies someone is severing thumbs to gain access to people’s bank accounts</li><li>'District 9': humans try to use disembodied Prawn arms to operate the alien weapons (to no avail)</li><li>'National Treasure': Gates lifts a thumbprint off a wine glass, and imprints it onto his own hand to get past the fingerprint scanner</li></ul></section><section data-block="Order"><h3>Order these tropes from the Meet the Parents franchise from most to least believable:</h3><p><p>Obviously, we’re suspending our disbelief whenever we sit down to see what ol’ Focker’s gotten himself into this time. But we have to draw a line somewhere.</p></p><ul><li>Greg gets tased, but remains completely conscious, and his father is able to touch him without getting zapped</li><li>Jack uses MySpace to do his sleuthing (in 2010)</li><li>Greg is injected with sodium thiopental and starts telling everyone what he really thinks</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>What’s the truth about quicksand?</h3><p><p>It’s likely you haven’t had to deal with quicksand as often as movies like <em>The Neverending Story</em> had you believe. But why exactly <em>isn’t </em>quicksand a big deal?</p></p><ul><li>The human body is too buoyant to sink in dense sludge</li><li>There are breathable pockets of air at the bottom</li><li>Quicksand doesn’t exist</li><li>Quicksand only exists at the bottom of large bodies of water</li></ul></section>
