In Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller *Psycho*, the infamous shower scene shows blood swirling down the drain. The movie was shot in black and white. What did the crew actually use for that "blood"? Red food coloring and water Hershey's chocolate syrup Watered-down ketchup Real animal blood from a butcher None Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" famously has no chorus, runs almost six minutes, and lurches from piano ballad to full opera and back. That huge "choir" you hear in the operatic middle section — how was it actually created? A 40-person professional choir was hired An early synthesizer faked the voices Just three band members, layered roughly 180 times A sample of an existing church recording None In 1998, Pixar nearly lost the entire movie *Toy Story 2* — about 90% of it vanished off their servers in seconds. What ultimately saved the film? An intern found a forgotten backup tape in a closet The studio simply re-rendered everything from scratch A staffer on maternity leave had a copy on her home computer Disney had an emergency duplicate stored offsite None There's a single recorded human scream that's been reused in *Star Wars*, every Indiana Jones film, Disney movies, Pixar films, and hundreds of other movies for over 70 years. Sound nerds have a name for it. What's it called? The Howie scream The Wilhelm scream The Goofy holler The Mockingbird cry None The *Seinfeld* theme — that slap-bass, finger-snap, mouth-pop thing — sounds the same every week but actually isn't. What was unusual about how composer Jonathan Wolff handled it? He re-recorded a unique version for all ~180 episodes It was actually played live during each taping It contains a hidden voice saying "Seinfeld" The bass was a real upright, not a sample None Lou Bega's inescapable 1999 smash "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" — the "a little bit of Monica in my life" one — wasn't really an original. Its main musical hook was lifted straight from an instrumental recorded 50 years earlier. From when, and by whom? A 1960s James Bond film score A 1949 mambo instrumental by Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado A 1970s disco B-side A traditional folk tune with no known author None Time's up
