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This is so egregious that I love it, but in "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" the plot twist hinges on the audience not knowing what the actual capital of Brazil is. I mean, I guess it still kind of worked, because when I saw the movie, knowing the real capital didn't make me figure things out, I just went "Wow, the filmmakers are really lazy. They didn't even bother checking this."

I might be misremembering details, but what I believe happens is that the main characters think they are calling into a radio trivia contest, where in order to win a Caribbean vacation they have to name the capital of Brazil. They answer Rio de Janeiro, which is wrong, but are told but are told that they are the winners, and the killer somehow sets up the trip anyway. It turns out that this was all some elaborate scheme to get them trapped on a tropical island, and Jennifer Love Hewitt figures it out because she sees a globe/atlas while running from the killer and sees that Brasilia is the actual capital of Brazil. I might be making that last part up/I might have dreamed it, but I love it so much that I hope that's how it really gets revealed.

Edit: I don't want to come across like I'm saying there's anything wrong with not knowing the capital of Brazil. I just think it's silly that the filmmakers apparently thought that it was some obscure piece of trivia that no one could possibly be expected to know.