The Silver Screen
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The Silver Screen: Random
The Silver Screen: Halloween
True or False
100

Jacob Black transforms into this animal in the popular book series, "Twilight." 

a wolf! 

100

Kaa in "The Jungle Book" persists the myth that this animal is capable of hypnotizing its prey. 

Snakes
100

In a recent version of this popular movie, a man sees a 100 ft. tall gorilla and says "Is that a monkey?" 

King Kong

Bonus Point: Are gorillas monkeys? 

100

The first book (and eventual movie) written by Bram Stoker that unfortunately tied the public's perception of bats to vampires. 

Dracula

100

The Coke commercial that shows a penguin handing a coke to a polar bear could never happen in the wild. 

True - these animals don't drink Coke AND don't live in the same hemispheres.

200

This movie title includes an animal that was long persecuted in America and follows the career of NYC stockbroker Jordan Belfort.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" 

200

This famous director has expressed regret over the impact his popular movie had on the perception of sharks as man-eaters.

Steven Spielberg

200

Rough Collies are known for their protective temperaments, seen especially in this famous collie who performs heroic acts in service of others.

Lassie

200

Indiana Jones has ophidiophobia, or a fear of what? 

snakes

200

Cats are generally what humans refer to as lactose intolerant and should not be fed milk.

True

300

About a dog who thinks he possesses superpowers, Bolt in the movie "Bolt" is voiced by this actor who formally sang on the bleachers at Rydell High. 

John Travolta

300

Not all big cats can roar. Lions can, but the famous MGM movie intro. of a lion roaring is actually a recording of this other big cat. 

Tiger

300

The name of Elle Woods's chihuahua who accompanies her to Harvard Law School.

Bruiser

300

Rats became a scapegoat for spreading the Black Death in the 1300s, but this rat fed thousands of happy French customers with his food in the Disney movie, Ratatouille. 

Remy

300

Touching a toad or frog will give you warts.

False

400

Good at recycling human food waste, chickens are the focus of this claymation movie where they are desperate to escape the factory where they are waiting to be turned into chicken pie.

Chicken Run 

400

The mythical and venomous yellow-spotted lizards in "Holes" were played by this real-life lizard in the movie adaptation.

bearded dragons

400

This movie follows three rodents on their journey through adoption and new-found stardom as a singing group. 

Alvin and the Chipmunks

400

In Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," crows play the villain. A group of crows has a similarly notorious name. What are they called?

a murder

400

All bats have rabies. 

False - according to the CDC, only 5-6% of bats captured for testing have rabies. 

500

One of Alfred Hitchcock's blonde heroines, she actually opened her own big cat sanctuary in California after producing a movie about them. 

Tippi Hedren

500

Despite the popular phrase, there are no species of this nocturnal mammal that are in fact, blind. 

bats

500

Name one of the trio of animals who were looking for their way home in the movie "Homeward Bound."

Chance, Shadow, or Sassy

500

Countering the Halloween-esque myth that black cats are bad luck, this black cat is responsible for giving Sabrina the Teenage witch good life advice with a side of sass.

Salem

500

Sharks can smell blood from a mile away. 

False - and they won't hunt you down either! 

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