OK, so technically only a couple of the pics here have people with snaky eyes. But they all have strange eyes. Which seemed like a good enough idea for a quiz.

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You can take this week’s quiz as a PSA. Smoking is bad for your health. Just look at this poor guy. And he’s still a young fellow! Would you give him a light?

Another double-your-fun special this week, including several entries from a certain famous film detective series. And that’s all the help you’re going to get.

See also: Quiz the fifty-seventh: Got a light? (Part one), Quiz the one hundred-and-seventh: Got a light? (Part two).

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Part of being a responsible gun owner is putting in time at the firing range. It’s also useful practice for cops and soldiers. You may not fall into any of these categories, but this week’s quiz will give you some movie targets to blast away at.

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I was recently reading a collection of essays by Umberto Eco where he talks (complains, really) about how wristwatches have been replaced by cell phones. Why has this happened? “Technology had invented the wristwatch so human beings didn’t have to carry a pendulum clock around their neck or pull a pocket watch out of their waistcoat pocket every few minutes, and now my friend [with a phone] has to walk around, whatever he’s doing, with one hand perennially busy. Humanity is losing the use of one of its limbs . . . ”

But enough complaining from grumpy old men! Here’s a line-up of watches for you to examine in one of our more challenging quizzes.

See also: Quiz the twenty-seventh: Keeping time (Part one), Quiz the one hundred-and-twenty-fifth: Keeping time (Part two).

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Back to (film) school for all of you this week! Let’s draw up something on the chalkboard, for all you people out there who still remember what chalkboards were.

See also: Quiz the sixty-third: Chalk talk (Part one).

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Enough with the movies! Time to crack open a good book. Books in movies, that is.

See also: Quiz the twenty-third: By the book (Part one), Quiz the seventy-third: By the book (Part two), Quiz the one hundred-and fifteenth: By the book (Part three).

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We’ve traveled by bus and subway in these quizzes, but haven’t got on a proper train yet. Not until now that is! All aboard!

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Don’t worry, Chucky! If you’ve lost your hand you should have no problem finding a new one in this week’s quiz. There are a lot of them lying around . . .

See also: Quiz the sixth: Hand/off (Part one), Quiz the fortieth: Hand/off (Part two).

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Have a seat! There are plenty of nice benches to park yourselves on in this week’s quiz.

See also: Quiz the forty-seventh: Benched (Part one), Quiz the ninety-first: Benched (Part two).

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I hope to have a quiz coming up on just what it is all these people are looking at. But for now we’re still looking at them, and trying to identify what movies they appear in.

See also: Quiz the thirty-sixth: Pass me the binoculars (Part one), Quiz the seventy-ninth: Pass me the binoculars (Part two), Quiz the one hundred-and-eighteenth: Pass me the binoculars (Part three).

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