| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Man-eating shark terrorizes swimmers in seaside town | Jaws | 93%
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| 2001 | Air attack on Hawaii interrupts quarreling friends in a love triangle | Pearl Harbor | 65%
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| 2002 | Frank Abagnale evades capture by the FBI before working for them | Catch Me If You Can | 62%
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| 1984 | Composer in Vienna meets younger more talented composer; is consumed with jealousy | Amadeus | 61%
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| 2002 | Two military helicopters are shot down in Mogadishu | Black Hawk Down | 55%
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| 1963 | Allied soldiers escape from a German POW camp | The Great Escape | 55%
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| 2017 | Phineas T Barnum invents show business | The Greatest Showman | 53%
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| 1990 | Young man in New York always wanted to be a gangster | Goodfellas | 48%
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| 1993 | Robert E. Lee invades Pennsylvania, leading to a decisive 3-day battle | Gettysburg | 40%
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| 1993 | Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday battle the Cowboy gang in the eponymous town | Tombstone | 40%
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| 1970 | Napoleon battles the Duke of Wellington | Waterloo | 38%
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| 2004 | American hired to modernize Japanese military befriends rebellious warlord | The Last Samurai | 34%
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| 1988 | Youthful outlaws including Billy "the Kid" seek revenge against their mentor's killers | Young Guns | 28%
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| 2015 | American lawyer negotiates prisoner exchange in East Germany | Bridge of Spies | 24%
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| 2009 | Loyal dog patiently waits for his master's train to arrive for over a decade | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | 18%
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| 2005 | French blacksmith in Jerusalem is inexplicably a siege warfare expert | Kingdom of Heaven | 14%
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| 1970 | Yamamoto fears he has awakened a sleeping giant; filling it with a terrible resolve | Tora! Tora! Tora! | 14%
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| 2009 | Hypatia of Alexandria is murdered by 4th Century Christians | Agora | 6%
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| 1993 | Alfred Packer is accused of eating his travel companions | Cannibal! the Musical | 3%
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| 1988 | Japanese Unit 731 vivisects prisoners alive among other horrifying things | Men Behind the Sun | 2%
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