The internet is a wonderful repository of errors. Mistakes, misstatements and misunderstandings live on in archives, abandoned blogs and Darwin Award pages.

Case in point: the “Goofs” section of IMDb, a wonderfully entertaining storehouse of slip-ups. Whether you’re looking for Hummers in the background of fantasy movies or cigarettes that lengthen and contract like a concertina, IMDb has you covered.

Here’s a little quiz to see if you can recognize movies by their errors, as reported in IMDb. Each item below is a mistake from a film. To make things a little tougher, I’ve replaced the names of characters with the names of heavy metal and hard rock superstars. How many movies can you name?

1. Early on in this movie, high-schooler Peter Criss first shows his fake ID to his pals Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and there’s no magnetic strip on the back. Later on, when the police check out the ID, it has a magnetic strip.

2. In this tween-favorite film, when Sammy Hagar tells his beloved David Lee Roth, “You better hold on tight, spider monkey,” Sammy’s climbing harness is visibly pulling up his shirt.

3. The kids at the pinball machines in this film’s quintessential ’80s arcade, “Ronnie James Dio’s,” aren’t actually playing pinball. In fact, the machines aren’t even switched on.

4. The French restaurant where much of this movie takes place is called “Lemmy’s.” French doesn’t use an apostrophe-s for possessives; the place should be called “Le restaurant de Lemmy.”

5. In this blockbuster sequel, when Robert Plant has emerged from the bathwater after listening to the egg and is sitting with Jimmy Page, his hair varies from smooth to slightly mussed on his right side, depending on the shot.

6. In this movie, set in Canada, Ozzy Osbourne grabs a caramel macchiato from Second Cup. The problem is, Second Cup doesn’t sell caramel macchiatos, it serves caramel cornettos.

7. In this web-savvy biopic, Bon Scott uses a Samsung SyncMaster 941BW, which is pretty impressive considering the scene is set in 2003, so the monitor won’t be available for at least three years.

8. James Hetfield, the main character of this historical drama, pulls an umbrella out of a box after an unsuccessful bust. At first, the umbrella has packing straw clinging to it. A brief moment later, the straw is gone.

9. In this long-awaited sequel, Doro Pesch crushes an ant between her legs, squirting red innards onto her pants. A short while later, the pants have been mysteriously cleaned of insect gore.

10. In this testosterone-laden movie, Klaus Meine throws his spear, then pulls out his sword to fight on. After he survives an assault by enemy bowmen, he knocks the arrows from his shield — with a spear.

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