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When we think of movies, our minds immediately flash to the talented men and women, both on screen and behind the camera, who have communicated to us on a personal, deeply human level.

But all too rarely do we pay proper attention to the unsung hero of cinema: the inanimate object.

NO MORE! The following list is a series of items. Each comes from a specific movie. Each is absolutely critical to a memorable scene, a story twist, or in some cases, the entire plot of the film. Please provide the PRECISE weight of each object, in both ounces and kilograms.

Or, failing that, just write down which movie each thing comes from.

  1. A single rancid turnip.
    Gone with the Wind

  2. A sparking rose, suspended in midair, under a glass container.
    Beauty and the Beast

  3. A penny floating in midair.
    Ghost

  4. The Green Destiny sword.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  5. A boombox playing Public Enemy.
    Do the Right Thing

  6. Zoltar, the fortune telling machine.
    Big

  7. A kiosk with a secret passage leading to the sewer.
    The Third Man

  8. A cross, used to jam the handles of two doors.
    The Graduate

  9. Lightbulbs, chewing gum, and kumquats.
    It's a Gift

  10. A magic helmet that controls the weather.
    What's Opera, Doc?

  11. A machine gun that shoots wet glop.
    Bugsy Malone.

  12. A chess set with 33 hollow pieces.
    Stalag 17

  13. Acherontia styx.
    Silence of the Lambs

  14. The "Good Golly Miss Molly" 45 single (flip side: "Hey Hey Hey Hey").
    Diner

  15. Khartoum's head.
    The Godfather

  16. Four trees shaped like a big "W."
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

  17. A plastic bag blowing around.
    American Beauty

  18. A CGI feather blowing around.
    Forrest Gump

  19. A safe deposit box key inside an aquarium treasure chest.
    A Fish Called Wanda

  20. Two switchblade knives with identically-carved ivory handles.
    12 Angry Men

  21. Gray's Sports Almanac.
    Back to the Future II

  22. A large clock on the side of a 12-story building.
    Safety Last

  23. One cooked boot.
    The Gold Rush

  24. Floating petals on a German lake.
    Frankenstein

  25. Half a grapefruit / unwelcome facial.
    The Public Enemy

  26. A .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world.
    Dirty Harry

  27. A discarded sheriff's badge.
    High Noon

  28. Ominous bundles of sticks.
    The Blair Witch Project

  29. A pirate radio transmitter rigged on a jeep.
    Pump Up the Volume

  30. A shattered snow globe.
    Citizen Kane

  31. The pod bay door.
    2001: A Space Odyssey

  32. The Heart of the Ocean.
    Titanic

  33. A bass viola with a row of bullet holes across it.
    Some Like It Hot

  34. A pair of bulldozers with keys in their ignitions.
    Pirates of Silicon Valley

  35. A 1966 John Deere tractor.
    The Straight Story

  36. A smoldering copy of "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care."
    Raising Arizona

  37. A penis scupture and a harlequin mask.
    A Clockwork Orange

  38. A statue of Christ, suspended from a helicopter.
    8 1/2

  39. The letters of transit.
    Casablanca

  40. Collapsed scaffolding on a golf course.
    Happy Gilmore

  41. The intercostal clavicle.
    Bringing Up Baby

  42. A book of e.e. cummings poetry, with special emphasis on "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" (pg. 112).
    Hannah and Her Sisters

  43. A bottle of Dom Perignon buried at a precise location on the Mexico-U.S. border.
    Fandango

  44. A building's detached front facing, with one center window near the top.
    Steamboat Bill Jr.

  45. A portable nitrous oxide facemask.
    Blue Velvet

  46. Waterlogged Fed Ex packages.
    Cast Away

  47. Crates of 24K gold miniature Eiffel Towers.
    The Lavender Hill Mob

  48. Santa Claus' walking stick, in the corner of an empty house.
    Miracle on 34th St

  49. The quick fuse.
    The Producers

  50. An inadvertantly electrified road guard rail.
    The Ice Storm

  51. An intentionally electrified hat.
    Goldfinger

  52. A videotape containing outtakes of a TV interview with a rape victim.
    Broadcast News

  53. A Coca-Cola machine blasted apart by a machine gun.
    Dr. Strangelove

  54. A wet towel used as a turban.
    Total Recall

  55. A bloody wood chipper.
    Fargo

  56. A Jewish child's red coat.
    Schindler's List

  57. Two twin ivory elephants, one with a broken trunk.
    The Secret Garden

  58. A very old copy of "The Wizard of Oz".
    Zardoz

  59. Pulsating red crystals, permanently attached.
    Logan's Run

  60. A bag of "chocolate"-covered pretzels.
    Mall Rats

  61. A broomstick with most of the bristles burned off.
    The Wizard of Oz

  62. A desk that gets pulled back and forth through a wall.
    Brazil

  63. A flute/sexual aid.
    American Pie

  64. A bronze nozzle designed to spray kerosene.
    Fahrenheit 451

  65. A bag containing 100,000 Deutsche marks.
    Run Lola Run

  66. A bloody euphonium.
    Brassed Off

  67. A Bren gun.
    Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

  68. A crucifix full of cocaine.
    Cruel Intentions

  69. Two crumpled student government ballots.
    Election

  70. A pinecone left on a chair.
    The Sound of Music

  71. A chicken-pie-making machine.
    Chicken Run

  72. Impossibly souped-up PowerBooks.
    Mission: Impossible

  73. A carbon-fibre-reinforced briefcase.
    The Thomas Crowne Affair

  74. An insanity-producing hurdy-gurdy.
    City of Lost Children

  75. A bar of soap that's not just a bar of soap.
    Fight Club

  76. Golden Nautical Safety Bars.
    Heist

  77. The best bicycle in the world.
    Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

  78. A falling Coke bottle.
    The Gods Must Be Crazy

  79. A child's drawing, on the wall of a police station.
    Bowling for Columbine

  80. A baby carriage rolling down a flight of steps.
    Battleship Potemkin

  81. A 200-year-old Volkswagon.
    Sleeper

  82. A tennis racket/spaghetti strainer.
    The Apartment

  83. A blank book that mysteriously writes in itself.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  84. A large wall covered by someone else's family photographs.
    One Hour Photo

  85. A talking plaster statuette of the Virgin Mary.
    Pecker

  86. Excalibur, the guitar.
    Wayne's World

  87. An extremely overvalued Ferrari.
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  88. The salmon mousse.
    Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

  89. A small shard of a bedroom door.
    Monsters, Inc.

  90. A candy that makes noise when you blow through it.
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

  91. A ham costume.
    To Kill a Mockingbird

  92. A potted palm tree secured by a chain.
    Mister Roberts

  93. A cup of mare's sweat.
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

  94. A pair of positively enormous door-knockers.
    Young Frankenstein

  95. A Christmas goose as big as a boy.
    A Christmas Carol

  96. A puce lollipop.
    Santa Claus: The Movie

  97. Sixteen million dollars of Nazi gold.
    Kelly's Heroes

  98. A transsexual stripper's suitcase full of $200,000.
    Dude, Where's My Car?

  99. $8,000 in cash, wrapped in a newspaper.
    It's a Wonderful Life

  100. A briefcase whose contents include 50 gold sovereigns.
    From Russia with Love

  101. 50,000 cases of Scotch.
    Whisky Galore

  102. Intercom switches hidden under a table in a police interrogation room.
    LA Confidential

  103. Dad's gas card.
    Reality Bites

  104. An unconscious woman's Maryland driver's licence.
    Boys

  105. A milkman's uniform, borrowed in a lobby.
    The 39 Steps

  106. One of the last surviving komodo dragons, well lit.
    The Freshman

  107. Pocket watches placed under car wheels.
    Chinatown

  108. A smoking, old-fashioned fireman's helmet.
    Backdraft

  109. A Voice-O-Graph record, used as a suicide note.
    Badlands

  110. Red, white, and blue Mini Coopers.
    The Italian Job

  111. A ski pole rigged to fire bullets.
    The Spy Who Loved Me

  112. A half-submerged gas cylinder filled with blasting gelatin.
    The African Queen

  113. A basket and rope, used as an elevator for a small dog.
    Rear Window

  114. Coffins filled with brand-new repeater rifles.
    Breakheart Pass

  115. A case full of red Airborne berets.
    A Bridge Too Far

  116. A British destroyer refitted to look like a German one.
    The Gift Horse

  117. An American submarine refitted to look like a German one.
    U-571

  118. Crates full of rubber anvils.
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

  119. A Yangzte River gunboat's steam engine.
    The Sand Pebbles

  120. Breadfruit plants.
    Mutiny on the Bounty

  121. Ball bearings, rolled in a man's hand.
    The Caine Mutiny

  122. A tide table covering the Frisian (NW German) coast.
    Riddle of the Sands

  123. A white synthetic-fibre suit that will never fall apart.
    The Man in the White Suit

  124. A giant comb carried by two men.
    Spaceballs

  125. A box full of big green, orange-spotted leaves, and nothing else.
    The Relic

  126. A harmonica inserted into a dying man's mouth.
    Once Upon a Time in the West

  127. A roll of film ejected by a reconnaissance satellite.
    Ice Station Zebra

  128. A huge stained-glass window on a fire station.
    State and Main

  129. A stolen electromagnetic-pulse generator.
    Ocean's Eleven

  130. Three million pounds sterling, dipped in urea nitrate.
    The World Is Not Enough

  131. One copy of the "Cadogan Guide to Bali."
    Notting Hill

  132. An origami unicorn.
    Blade Runner

  133. A gold bracelet lying in a mined road.
    The English Patient

  134. A wallet embroidered with the words "Bad Motherfucker."
    Pulp Fiction

  135. Globes of nerve gas in a "string of pearls" configuration.
    The Rock

  136. Blue soup.
    Bridget Jones' Diary

  137. Six empty cages, next to six tiny graves.
    Fierce Creatures

  138. A vial of monkey-serum to save the day.
    Outbreak

  139. Broomsticks with hands.
    Fantasia

  140. Two tennis balls numbered "1" and "2," and a length of rope.
    Poltergeist

  141. An earwax candle.
    Shrek

  142. A vial of a potion that is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly into liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.
    The Princess Bride

  143. Fop hair pomade.
    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  144. Half of the Statue of Liberty.
    Planet of the Apes

  145. A table full of water glasses, emptied at the last minute.
    Miss Congeniality

  146. A black box that breaks codes.
    Sneakers

  147. A clock radio with a fondness for Sonny and Cher.
    Groundhog Day

  148. A jar of deadly nightshade.
    The Nightmare Before Christmas

  149. A lucky piece of string.
    Mouse Hunt

  150. A key, dropped from the heavens.
    Life is Beautiful

  151. Mother's balalika, passed down over the years.
    Dr Zhivago

  152. A Ford Pinto, falling off of an exit ramp.
    The Blues Brothers

  153. Green envelopes containing pop-up puzzles.
    Batman Forever

  154. A signal light in an unfinished subway tunnel.
    Speed

  155. A tape measure, and a basketball hoop exactly 10 feet high.
    Hoosiers

  156. Reggie Jackson's mind-controlling wristwatch.
    The Naked Gun

  157. A metal prosthetic arm holding a wedding ring.
    The Best Years of Our Lives

  158. A pulp magazine celebrating the Duke of Death.
    Unforgiven

  159. Broadway's award for Best Newcomer, and the dress of its winner.
    All About Eve

  160. A sign for Athena College.
    The Human Stain