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      John Huston's first film, which stars Humphrey Bogart, revolves around this MacGuffin:
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      • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

      • The Maltese Falcon

      • The African Queen

      • The Barefoot Contessa

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      1. John Huston's first film, which stars Humphrey Bogart, revolves around this MacGuffin:
        1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
        2. The Maltese Falcon
        3. The African Queen
        4. The Barefoot Contessa

        1. The Maltese Falcon is the best example of a MacGuffin on this list, due to the mystery surrounding the statuette and the surprise ending of the film. It could definitely be argued that the gold in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is also a MacGuffin.

      2. What was in the wine bottles in Hitchcock's "Notorious"?
        1. uranium
        2. gold
        3. wine
        4. dirt

        1. While "uranium" is the correct answer, any of these substances could have been in the wine bottles, since it doesn't actually matter to the plot.

      3. "Mission Impossible III" has a central MacGuffin. What does it do? No one knows. Name it!
        1. the Rabbit
        2. Bugs Bunny
        3. Thumper
        4. the Rabbit's Foot

        1. Is the Rabbit's Foot a nuke? A biological weapon? Does it even really exist? Time to rent the movie and find out!

      4. The Transformers fight to recover this MacGuffin, but its function is never revealed.
        1. AllSpice
        2. AllState
        3. AllSpark
        4. AllStark

        1. The AllSpark is a battery or a Star Trek Genesis device or a super bomb. Doesn't matter: it's a MacGuffin!

      5. All of the following are MacGuffins, except: (picture may be unrelated to the answer!)
        1. the Ark in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
        2. the money in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
        3. the six-fingered man in "The Princess Bride"
        4. the Holy Grail in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

        1. Although the six-fingered man does serve as a motivating force, his literal existence makes him the worst candidate on this list. Similarly, it could be argued that Private Ryan acts much like a MacGuffin, but not in any classical sense of the word.

      6. The MacGuffin in each of these movies is never revealed, except for: (pic maybe unrelated)
        1. the contents of the trunk in Hitchcock's "Rope"
        2. the contents of the trunk of the car in "Repo Man"
        3. the contents of the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction"
        4. the contents of the briefcase in "Ronin"

        1. The contents of the trunk in Rope is never a secret, but the other objects in the other three movies are absolutely classic, archetypical examples of mysterious MacGuffins.

      7. Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" has two MacGuffins:
        1. Secret Agent George Kaplan and the information in his head
        2. Double Agent Eve Kendall and the secret documents she has
        3. Vandamm and a pre-Columbian Tarascan statuette
        4. Humphrey Bogart and a Maltese Falcon

        1. Does super spy George Kaplan even exist? What top secret information does he possess? Do we ever find out? Does it matter? Nope: they're classic Hitchcockian MacGuffins.

      8. George Lucas says that this is a MacGuffin in "Star Wars": (pic may be unrelated)
        1. wamp rats (we never see one!)
        2. R2-D2 (and the secret plans of the Death Star)
        3. the Force (what the heck is it?)
        4. MacGuffin, the alien in the Cantina

        1. George Lucas says that R2-D2 and the Death Star plans are the central motivation in Star Wars. Good vs. Evil or Rebel vs. Emprire are more compelling themes, in my opinion, making R2 a poor example of a MacGuffin, but a good trivia question!

      9. The best example of a MacGuffin in "Back to the Future" is:
        1. Mr. Fusion
        2. the flux capacitor
        3. the Delorian
        4. the old clock tower

        1. The flux capacitor is not a great example of a MacGuffin, but, like the AllSpark in the Transformers movie, SciFi plots often revolve around undefined critical technologies.

      10. Which of these 2008 Summer Blockbusters is LEAST likely to contain a MacGuffin:
        1. Get Smart
        2. Hellboy II
        3. The Dark Knight
        4. Sex and the City

        1. I don't even know anything about these movies yet (May 2008), but I bet the action flicks all contain a MacGuffin of one sort or another. Maybe Mr. Big counts as a MacGuffin in Sex and the City?

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