Guinness World Records - about things onscreen
This movie was the first Hollywood feature film to show a toilet onscreen.
What is Psycho?
(1960, Alfred Hitchcock.)
(Psycho also holds the world record for the most referenced movie—580 other movies pay homage to it in some way or another.)
This movie holds the world record for the most individuals named in the credits.
What is Avengers: Infinity War?
(2018. There are over 5000 cast and crew members named in the end-credits, which take 10 minutes to play. Over half of them are on the visual effects team.)
The breakfast food that Donkey wants to make with Shrek in Shrek.
What is "waffles"?
The movie source of the line "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
What is The Godfather?
The name of the movie whose lead song is by Kendrick Lamar and SZA.
What is Black Panther?
This movie holds the world record for the largest film stunt explosion.
What is Spectre?
(2015 James Bond movie. Filmmakers detonated nearly 2224 gallons of kerosene and nearly 73 pounds of powder explosives. The roughly 7.5-second explosion took place in the Moroccan Sahara.)
This movie was the first film to have an official soundtrack.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
(1937. This was also Disney's the studio’s first fully animated feature film.)
The real name of "Neo" (Matrix movies).
What is "Thomas Anderson"?
(Also the name of my favorite cousin!)
The movie that has this exchange: "No more rhymes, I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?"
What is The Princess Bride?
The movie that includes "Don't You Forget about Me" by Simple Minds.
What is The Breakfast Club?
Clips from this film have been re-used in more other movies than any other film.
What is Night of the Living Dead?
(1968, Dir. George Romero. There are clips from it in 129 other films, to be exact. It is popular to sample partly because it’s a classic, but also because the distributor didn’t properly copyright the film, so it’s in the public domain.)
The most commonly used movie title (in English).
What is Broken?
(Used 34 times as of Jan 2024)
The company that manufactures the replicants in BladeRunner.
What is the "Tyrell Corporation"
The horror movie that contains the line: "Sometimes, dead is better."
What is Pet Sematary?
The film with "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" as the lead track on the soundtrack.
What is Pulp Fiction?
It is the heaviest costume ever worn by an actor in a film.
(Help: choose from:
* Wookie costume for Chewbacca, 1977
* Wedding dress for Marie Antoinette, 1938
* Scarlett O'Hara's dress made from curtains, 1939
* the Apocalypse costume in X-Men: Apocalypse, 2016
What is "Marie Antoinette's wedding dress, 1938"?
(110 pounds. The dress featured 500 yards of fabric (enough to cover a basketball court), plus a steel-frame crinoline and 10 petticoats that are included in the total weight.)
(Apocalypse: 40 lb. Chewy: 8 lb. Scarlett: approx 12 lb (of which approx 3 may have been arsenic!)
This movie holds the world record for the longest time gap between trailer and movie release.
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
(Trailer: 2000. Film premiere: 2009
Director Spike Jonze had envisioned a live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book, that relied on practical effects; and Universal Studios ultimately decided to abandon the project rather than footing the bill for that. Warner Bros. rescued the project.)
The name of Holly Golightly's cat in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
What is "Cat"?
The movie source of the line: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
What is Casablanca?
The artist who did the soundtrack for the 1989 Batman movie.
Who is Prince?
This prop holds the world record for most re-uses in film and television (over 10,000).
(Hint: it's more specific than "a chair" and less specific than "my grandma's chair")
What is "The Recurring Newspaper"?
(Since the 1960s, Los Angeles props house The Earl Hays Press has sold a fake newspaper known as The Recurring Newspaper, which has featured in everything from The Silence of the Lambs to Modern Family. The paper has an empty front page for productions to customize, and the inside is mostly placeholder text and vague headlines like “Upper House Committee Opens Debate.”)
This actor holds the world record for the most deaths onscreen. (That is, they die onscreen.)
(The characters are main roles, not extras.)
Who is Christopher Lee?
(He perished in “at least 61” movies. Most common cause = stabbing, but his characters have also been “hanged, defenestrated, struck by lightning, staked … shot, burned, electrocuted, dissolved, crushed, blown up, beheaded, bitten by a snake and crashed into the Moon.”
Runners-up include Vincent Price and Dennis Hopper (tied at 48), Sean Bean, John Hurt, Boris Karloff, Danny Trejo, and Mark Hamill.
The name of the firm Jordan Belfort works for in The Wolf of Wallstreet.
What is "L.F. Rothschild"?
The movie in which the grand prize question is "Who is the third musketeer?"
What is Slumdog Millionnaire?
The movie that did a Chinese language cover of ColdPlay's song "Yellow."
What is Crazy Rich Asians?