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Movie Plots, Explained Badly Trivia Quiz
Famous movie plots explained very, very badly. Name the film anyway.
192 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Movie Plots, Explained Badly Trivia Quiz has 192 questions: 68 easy, 76 medium and 48 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
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20 of the 192 Movie Plots, Explained Badly questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Explained badly: a delivery company boss gets so lonely on a desert island that his best friend becomes a volleyball.
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Cast Away
He never opens one parcel with wings painted on it, and at the end he delivers it to the sender's door.
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Explained badly: a man starts to wonder about his life when a studio light drops out of a clear sky and the radio describes his drive to work.
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The Truman Show
A TV studio adopted him at birth, and his whole town is a giant set filmed for a live show.
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Explained badly: a team breaks into a rich heir's dreams just to talk him into breaking up his dad's company, and the ending hangs on a spinning toy.
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Inception
The target, Robert Fischer, wakes up thinking the idea to break up the business came from his dying father.
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Explained badly: a nurse meets his girlfriend's parents for the first time, and her dad, who claims he used to be a florist, gives him a lie detector test.
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Meet the Parents
The florist story is a cover: her dad is really a retired CIA agent.
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Explained badly: a TV reporter moans about his life so much that God hands him the job for a week, and he says yes to every single prayer.
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Bruce Almighty
Everyone who prayed to win the lottery wins, so thousands of winners get just a few dollars each and riot.
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Explained badly: three friends wake up in Las Vegas with a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the cupboard, a missing tooth and no groom.
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The Hangover
The groom had been on the hotel roof the whole time, taken up there as a joke and forgotten.
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Explained badly: an overprotective retired spy lets his teenage daughter go on a trip to Paris, and it goes so wrong he has to go and fetch her himself.
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Taken
Liam Neeson expected it to go straight to video, but it made him an action star.
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Explained badly: a tea boy from Mumbai goes on a quiz show and knows every answer, so the police think he must be cheating.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Each answer comes from a moment in his own life, and he only went on the show to find his lost love, Latika.
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Explained badly: a child doctor tries to help a boy who sees ghosts, without noticing that nobody else ever talks to him either.
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The Sixth Sense
The twist: the doctor himself had been a ghost since the attack in the opening scene.
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Explained badly: a bunny cop and a con-artist fox crack a missing-animals case, but first they have to get through a government office run by sloths.
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Zootopia
The villain is the sweet sheep assistant mayor, who was secretly turning predators wild to grab power.
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Explained badly: a busy dad gets a magic TV remote that fast-forwards the boring bits of life, then it starts skipping whole years by itself.
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Click
The remote learns his choices, so it keeps skipping ahead, and he misses most of his kids growing up.
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Explained badly: a college student is dumped, builds a website out of spite, and ends up sued by his best friend and two twins who row.
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The Social Network
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Oscar for its moody electronic score.
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Explained badly: a man is born looking 80 and grows younger every year, so he ends up a baby while the love of his life grows old.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
He was left on the steps of a care home as a baby, and grew up there among people as old as he looked.
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Explained badly: two rival magicians ruin each other's lives over one trick, and one of them was secretly a pair of twins all along.
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The Prestige
The other magician's version used a machine built by Nikola Tesla that made a copy of him every night.
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Explained badly: a man lives in a New York airport for months because his country stopped existing while his plane was in the air.
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The Terminal
He only came to New York to get the last autograph his late dad wanted, from a jazz saxophonist.
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Explained badly: a girl's parents eat a buffet without asking and turn into pigs, so she gets a job at a bathhouse for gods to save them.
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Spirited Away
The witch who runs the bathhouse takes part of her name and calls her Sen, which is how she keeps her workers trapped.
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Explained badly: a broke dad lugs a heavy medical scanner everywhere, takes an unpaid internship, and spends a night with his son in a train station toilet.
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The Pursuit of Happyness
He is one of 20 unpaid interns all chasing a single paid stockbroker job, and he gets it.
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Explained badly: a toy made from a spork and a pipe cleaner keeps throwing himself in the bin because he is sure he is rubbish.
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Toy Story 4
By the end, Woody chooses to stay with Bo Peep as a lost toy instead of going home with the gang.
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Explained badly: a man meets his wife's parents for the first time, and her dad secretly hires a cat with a sword to get rid of him.
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Shrek 2
The Fairy Godmother wanted her own son, Prince Charming, to marry the princess instead.
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Explained badly: four teens in detention get sucked into an old video game and wake up as adults, so the shy nerd becomes a huge muscly explorer.
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Each player gets three lives, shown as marks on their arm, and they fear losing all three is for real.
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How many questions are in the Movie Plots, Explained Badly Trivia Quiz?
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