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Movie First Lines Audio

20 dialogue clips from movies, each one being the very first words spoken in a film. Teams were expected to name the film, provide the LAST line spoken in the same film, and also give the character who said both lines of dialogue.

Scores were depressed a bit by the 80 pieces of information sought, and because judge Levine was, in his own words, "a hard-ass." He doesn't think anyone got an 8 or above on ANY of his three boni during Genitals. This was perhaps due in part to his particular scoring system, which he has explained here. Jared's self-described formula was as follows:

"Each of the items per question was assigned a value of 1-4 points. The things in my opinion that should have been gotten without a second's hesitation by anyone with a pulse valued a 1. And then ranged up from there to the really tough shit being rated a 4.

Then, on that scale (I don't remember what the max. was, or the individual scorings) I broke that up into ranges of what totals (rather hard-and-fast) would align themselves with the scale of 1-10. There was an immensely small window of scores that would enable a 10. I think you could only miss a total of 10 or 15 "points" to get it. Maybe. And a barely larger window for each of 9 and 8, I think.

Not really convoluted, just mean, as I recall it."

The audio bonus scores illustrate how nearly to Levine's standards the 5/92 trivial community was able to quest:
1 point-- Manhattan Skyliners; Smells Like Yo Mama; Telescopes;
2 points-- 8 Foot of Watusi; Unadulterated Mayhem; Team Broxta;
3 points-- Phasers: TNG; Barnyard.
4 points--
5 points--
6-10 points-- >>cue sound of crickets chirping....<<

  1. "She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt you?"

  2. "What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett, the war is gonna start any day now, so it won't affect college anyhow."

  3. "With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, towards the freedom of the Americas."

  4. "Do you think they'll come sir?"

  5. "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only."

  6. "Whoa, there!" [clip-clopping of coconut shells before and after]

  7. "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country."

  8. "Hello, is that the clinic?"

  9. "Here you are sir, Main Level D."

  10. "The Hovitos are near."

  11. "Here chicky chicky chicky, hey Jet boy (whistles)."

  12. "The hills..." (sung; cut off very early because immensely well-known music in background gives it away, without even getting to these words.]

  13. "Europe, 1936, Nazi troops annex the Rhineland without a shot being fired."

  14. "Come on, boys!"

  15. "My father's family name being Pirrip..." [cut off early due to excessively long line, and easy nature of quote]

  16. "...the nature of the high trendex meaning a rise in the sales curve..."

  17. "Saigon."

  18. "Rosebud."

  19. "I owe everything to George Bailey."

  20. "You've got them mixed up!"