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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 10:30 AM Aug 2014

Can you identify these cars from film and TV?

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20131030-can-you-guess-the-star-cars
(Scroll over each photo to see the answer)

I had to manually tally my score -- out of 77 total, I only got 52...I did blank on 4-5 obvious ones I already knew, about 5 of them were kind of ambiguous, and the rest weren't on my pop culture radar...

So how many can YOU get??
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Can you identify these cars from film and TV? (Original Post) Blue_Tires Aug 2014 OP
15 cyberswede Aug 2014 #1
My most embarrassing misses: Blue_Tires Aug 2014 #3
I had 42. Xyzse Aug 2014 #2
I wish they had used actual photos OriginalGeek Aug 2014 #4

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
1. 15
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 10:46 AM
Aug 2014

but I don't watch a lot of tv.

I got:
Dukes of Hazard
Ghostbusters
Scooby Doo
Cars
Star Wars
Starsky & Hutch
Bullitt
The Love Bug
Speed
The Blues Brothers
Arrested Development
Batman (1989)
Little Miss Sunshine
Austin Powers
Batman (1966)

I should have gotten:
Christine
That 70s Show
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. My most embarrassing misses:
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 11:37 AM
Aug 2014

1. The Spy Who Loved Me -- My brain went on vacation for a split second, because no way should I have ever missed that one...I must not have looked at it long enough, because at first glance I didn't recognize it at all...

2. Gone in 60 Seconds -- For some reason I envisioned that car as a different color

3. Speed -- I was thinking that bus was too old a model to be used in a 1994 movie...I actually had to look up some movie stills to compare -- And yes, it was accurate...

If I could have seen a larger picture, I get those right easily...Although the small resolution is part of the challenge...



The infuriatingly ambiguous ones:

1. Breaking Bad -- Never seen an episode, so my answer was "About Schmidt"

2. Supernatural -- Never seen an episode, so my answer was "Hawaii 5-0"

3. The Matrix -- Seriously? The 1961-64 triple-black Lincoln Continental has been in dozens of movies/shows, along with the late-60s versions as well...My answer was "Animal House", which still could have been technically correct...

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
4. I wish they had used actual photos
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 11:58 AM
Aug 2014

well, for the real-life cars anyway - Although I have seen a real Speed Racer Mach 5 at a comic-con.

That was a terrible depiction of a DeLorean and yeah - there were a lot of pictures that just could be anything.

And what kind of poll makes you count your own score? They need to learn to poll.

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