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Final Jeopardy
100

In The Office the main characters work for this paper company.

What is Dunder-Mifflin?

100

In the Indiana Jones series, this MacGuffin is responsible for melting the faces off the villains before finding its way into one of the most famous storage facilities in all of film.

What is The Ark of the Covenant?

100

Elsa learns to 'Let It Go' in this snowy kids film.

What is Frozen?

100

The three criteria for a full sized planet are:

1. It is in orbit around the Sun.
2. It has sufficient mass to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium.
3. It has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit.

This number is the criteria that Pluto did not clear, causing its downgrade to Dwarf status.

What is #3?

Pluto's orbital neighborhood shares its space with a few other celestial objects, and its orbit meets and crosses that of Neptune's for 20 years out of every 248. For that time it is technically the 8th planet from the sun!

200

A few of the Friends characters worked at this coffee house, but it was heavily featured as the character's favorite meeting spot.

What is Central Perk?

200

The events in Titanic are only known because Brock Lovett and his team are searching for this MacGuffin in the wreckage.

What is The Heart of the Ocean?

200

In this thriller, Jack Torrance holes up for the winter with his wife and son in the Overlook Hotel.

What is The Shining?

200

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300

Wile E. Coyote always orders his gadgets and explosives from this fictional manufacturing company.

What is ACME Inc.?

300

In The Evil Dead franchise this book, bound in human flesh and inked in blood, can unleash untold horror upon humanity if read.

What is The Necronomicon?

300

In this multi-language thriller, humanity's last survivors all live aboard a train that constantly cuts through the endless tundra outside.

What is Snowpiercer?

400

Don Draper eventually becomes partner at this advertising firm in Mad Men.

What is the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency?

400

In Pulp Fiction this MacGuffin sets the film's events in motion, changes hands multiple times, and the contents are never revealed, leaving the audience to wonder.

What is The Briefcase?

400

This 1995 classic features a murder investigation, lots of snow, and some unforgettable Midwest dialects.

What is Fargo?

500

Featured in the Portal and Half-Life series, this company is responsible for inventing the Portal Gun, GLaDOS the advanced AI, and many other wacky inventions.

What is Aperture Science Labratories?

500

In the Avatar film series, this MacGuffin motivated humanity's mining on Pandora.

What is Unobtanium?

500

This film begins with Norwegians shooting at a sled dog in the Antarctic, but the main characters do no head their shouted warnings due to the language barrier.

What is The Thing?