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Coming Never to a Theater Near YouAn unusually moronic movie trivia slide show.

By Robert Leighton and Cate Plys
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at 3:48 PM ET

Click to see a slide show.Is conversation dead? It must be, when people can't even talk before a movie because they're too busy staring at those cretinous trivia slide shows. Here's one that'll stop any conversation dead in its tracks.

Click here to open Slate's movie trivia slide show.

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Robert Leighton, a New Yorker cartoonist and puzzle-writer, most recently co-authored The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games. Cate Plys, a Chicago journalist and playwright, is most recently the co-author of White Hot Black Comedy.
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