Filmsite's Test your knowledge of Movie Trivia |
1. In the surprise hit cult film The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), what object fell from the sky onto a stunned group of primitive Kalahari bushmen?
2. Which character did not exist in real-life, in director Arthur Penn’s crime film Bonnie and Clyde (1967)?
3. In which swashbuckler film did Errol Flynn first star opposite leading lady Olivia de Havilland?
4. Which film was Charlie Chaplin's biggest box-office hit?
5. Famous gangster John Dillinger was gunned down by G-men outside a downtown Chicago movie theatre after watching which 1934 film?
6. In which Hitchcock film was actress Ingrid Bergman first paired up with Cary Grant?
7. What was the Marlon Brando character (washed-up boxer Terry Malloy) raising on his roof-top in director Elia Kazan's Oscar-winning On the Waterfront (1954) about mob corruption?
8. In the Howard Hawks western Rio Bravo (1959), which actor portrayed the jailed murder suspect Joe Burdette, who caused a town-wide siege of hired guns trying to release him?
9. Cinema's first custard-pie-in-the-face was in which 1913 silent film comedy?
10. For which film did Charlie Chaplin win his sole competitive Academy Award?
11. Who was the first film actress to appear on the cover of Time Magazine?
12. Which of the following 1937 films was the debut film (with a speaking role) for 16 year-old Lana Turner, who became known ever after as "the sweater girl"?
13. Which of the following cult films is usually considered as the first 'official' cult film to generate the "midnight movie" craze?
14. What was the first of many controversial vigilante films beginning in the 1970s starring Charles Bronson as an obsessive, vengeful killer seeking justice?
15. Who was the first American actress under 21 years of age to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination?
16. In the musical On the Town (1949), what was the occupation of the Betty Garrett’s character Hildy Esterhazy?
17. Which young singing star reportedly saved Universal Studios from bankruptcy in the mid-1930s?
18. What was the occupation of Bill Murray in the modern romantic comedy Groundhog Day (1993)?
19. In which of these films from John Waters was there a "Filthiest Person Alive" contest?
20. Which fictionalized city of the future was overridden with crime and violence in director Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop (1987)?
21. In the classic MGM musical Singin’ in the Rain (1952), during which song did actor Donald O’Connor (as Cosmo Brown) run up a wall and complete a somersault?
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Quiz # 19: Answers |
1. Answer: Coke bottle 2. Answer: C.W. Moss 3. Answer: Captain Blood 4. Answer: The Great
Dictator (1940) 5. Answer: Manhattan Melodrama 6. Answer: Notorious 7. Answer: Pigeons 8. Answer: Claude Akins 9. Answer: A Noise
From the Deep 10. Answer: Limelight (1952) 11. Answer: Ethel Barrymore 12. Answer: They Won't Forget 13. Answer: El Topo 14. Answer: Death Wish 15. Answer: Jennifer Lawrence 16. Answer: Taxi driver 17. Answer: Deanna Durbin 18. Answer: TV meteorologist 19. Answer: Pink Flamingos (1972) 20. Answer: Detroit 21. Answer: Make 'Em Laugh |