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Could you make a special effects-filled popcorn blockbuster? Test your knowledge of movie effects.

Question 1

Notorious hemophobe Alfred Hitchcock used what substance to represent blood in the shower scene in Psycho?





Question 2

What was used for the tornado in The Wizard of Oz?





Question 3

Cecil B. Demille produced two versions of The Ten Commandments and thus two versions of the Red Sea parting. Which of the following techniques did he not use?





Question 4

The things some people will do for the perfect shot. Jim Henson was placed in a watertight tank and immersed in a swamp to control a puppet in a scene from what film?





Question 5

Frank Capra was recognized for creating a new technique for mimicking snow in It's a Wonderful Life. What had filmmakers used before?





Question 6

What 1985 movie was the first to feature a completely CGI character?





Question 7

What movie won the 1994 Oscar for Visual Effects?





Question 8

2004's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow made headlines for using CGI and archive footage to feature a deceased actor in a brand new role, a strategy that would also be used with Marlon Brando in Superman Returns. Who was the actor from Sky Captain?





Question 9

What was the first animated Disney movie to incorporate computer technology as a supplement to the traditional hand-drawn animation?





Question 10

With the advent of CGI, the traditional animation strategy of stop-motion has gone out of style, but it hasn't been buried yet. Two of these movies used stop motion; which one didn't?