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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jonpaul Guinn
Edited by Eli Robinson

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  • Submit your answers by 11:23am ET 5/25/26
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  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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Memorial Day is the traditional start of the summer blockbuster season. Get ready for explosions, sequels, prequels, threequels, and IP overload.

We love taglines; the cheesier, the better. 1994’s “Speed” had the iconic “Get ready for rush hour.” “Rush Hour” used the less memorable “"The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West”.



We’re going to quiz you on taglines from some big summer blockbusters. Just name the movies and/or franchises.

POP CULTURE Q1. Water Wariness: “You’ll never go in the water again!” So went the ominous tagline of what 1975 blockbuster that kinda created the concept of summer blockbusters?



POP CULTURE Q2. Thai Travel: The 2009 original’s tagline was “Some guys just can’t handle Vegas." Its 2011 sequel used, “"The Wolfpack Is Back. Bangkok Has Them Now." What’s that woozy film series?



POP CULTURE Q3. Flying Fighters: The summer of 1986 was ruled by what franchise starter with the tagline "Up there with the best of the best”? We wouldn’t revisit the Navy Fighter Weapons School until its sequel in 2022.



POP CULTURE Q4. Carrie Cinema: Keep calm. “Carrie On” promoted the 2010 return of Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte, and, of course, Carrie in what sequel? This time the carnality moves to Abu Dhabi!



POP CULTURE Q5. Pubescent Pugilism: We could wax on all day about a better tag line than "He taught him the secret to [redacted] lies in the mind and heart. Not in the hands” for what 1984 high school martial arts drama? Like an out of control bonsai, it branched off into three sequels, a TV show, a movie reboot, and a semi-retconned sequel bringing almost all of it together.



POP CULTURE Q6. Houston Hanks: There weren’t twelve movies preceding what 1995 Tom Hanks historical drama with the tagline “Houston, we have a problem”?



POP CULTURE Q7. Detailing Democracy: “The temperature when freedom burns!” Astonishingly the ninth highest-grossing domestic movie of 2004 was what Michael Moore documentary?



POP CULTURE Q8. Shyamalan Shockers: Since being released, a certain declaration regarding anomalous optical detection has been most closely associated with the film. However "There are ghosts walking among us, looking for help...They have found it," was the tagline for what 1999 Shyamalan shocker with a big ol’ twist? TBH, we should’ve seen it coming. It’s all right there.



POP CULTURE Q9. Cinema Chatter: It also would work to promote pretty much any serial killer movie: "Meet the little voices inside your head” was used for what 2015 Pixar film? Some of that internal chatter came from Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Bill Hader, Richard Kind, and Mindy Kaling.



POP CULTURE Q10. Reddit Rage: D’oh! Classicists on Reddit are annoyed by “Defy the Gods” being used for what 2026 epic from Christopher Nolan?



TIEBREAKER Space Sagas: Since school’s still in session, studios were wary of big Memorial Day openings in 1977. They decided to trot out “Star Wars” on Wednesday to how many screens nationwide? They quickly added ten more before the end of the weekend.

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 5/25/26