Trivia Quiz on 1930s Cinema

1. In which film did Groucho Marx play the veterinary doctor Hugo Z. Hackenbush'

A) Horse Feathers

B) A Day at the Races

C) A Night at the Opera

D) Duck Soup

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2. Who was the title star of Meet the Veep

A) George Burns

B) Alben w barkley

C) Mae West

D) Clark Gable

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3. Who played ashley wilkes in gone with the wind

A) Clark Gable

B) Olivia de Havilland

C) Vivien Leigh

D) Leslie howard

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4. Who starred in Ceiling Zero as a pilot

A) Clark Gable

B) Humphrey Bogart

C) Gary Cooper

D) James Cagney

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5. The song "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" appears in which Laurel and Hardy film

A) The Music Box

B) Way out west

C) The Flying Deuces

D) Babes in Toyland

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6. For which film did James Cagney win an oscar

A) Public Enemy

B) Angels with Dirty Faces

C) Yankee doodle dandy

D) White Heat

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7. Name Disney's first film to win an Academy Award

A) Flowers and Trees

B) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

C) Pinocchio

D) Three Little Pigs

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8. Mickey Rooney made a series of films based on what family

A) The Jones family

B) The Smith family

C) Hardy family

D) The Brady family

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9. Who Was The Very First Actor To Win 2 Consecutive Best Actor Oscars

A) Jack Nicholson

B) Daniel Day-Lewis

C) Spencer Tracy

D) Tom Hanks

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10. Who played Beau Geste in the 1939 film

A) Clark Gable

B) James Stewart

C) Gary Cooper

D) Errol Flynn

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11. The film 'The Wizard of Oz' was released in which year

A) 1939

B) 1938

C) 1940

D) 1945

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12. William Powell and which actress played the sleuthing couple in the "Thin Man' series of films 1934 and 1947

A) Myrna Loy

B) Barbara Stanwyck

C) Claudette Colbert

D) Greta Garbo

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13. In the 1938 film 'Bringing Up Baby', what was Baby

A) Cheetah

B) Leopard

C) Tiger

D) Puma

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14. Name the first film to have its sequel released in the same year

A) King Kong - Son of Kong

B) Frankenstein - The Bride of Frankenstein

C) Jaws - Jaws 2

D) The Godfather - Part II

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15. From which Marx Brothers film comes the line 'Either he's dead, or my watch has stopped

A) A day at the races

B) Duck Soup

C) Horse Feathers

D) A Night at the Opera

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16. Wife Beware in 1933 was the first film shown where

A) An ordinary indoor cinema

B) An open-air theatre

C) A rooftop cinema

D) A Drive in theatre

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17. What French actors catch phrase Come with me to the Casbah

A) Louis Jourdan – in Gigi

B) Jean Gabin – in The Grand Illusion

C) Charles Boyer – in Algiers

D) Alain Delon – in Le Samouraï

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18. What was the first movie to have a sequel - 1933

A) Frankenstein (1931) - Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

B) King Kong - Son of Kong

C) The Invisible Man (1933) - The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

D) The Mummy (1932) - The Mummy's Hand (1940)

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19. Who is the only director to win 3 Oscars within five years in 30s

A) John Ford 1934 1936 1938

B) Alfred Hitchcock 1934 1936 1938

C) Victor Fleming 1934 1936 1938

D) Frank Capra 1934 1936 1938

E) Billy Wilder 1934 1936 1938

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20. Joan Peters became famous as who

A) Carol Lombard

B) Mae West

C) Rita Hayworth

D) Judy Garland

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21. Who first played Flash Gordon on film

A) Tom Mix

B) Buster Crabbe

C) Sam J. Jones

D) Adam West

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22. In The 1933 Film Which Actress Is Held Aloft By King Kong

A) Naomi Watts

B) Jessica Lange

C) Fay Wray

D) Elizabeth Taylor

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23. Which Movies Star Was Famous For The Phrase 'You Dirty Rat''

A) Al Pacino

B) Clint Eastwood

C) James Cagney

D) Humphrey Bogart

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24. In the film "Bright Eyes", Shirley Temple sang about this boat.

A) The Baby Boat

B) The Rainbow Rover

C) The Good Ship Lollipop

D) The Merry Mermaid

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25. This is a classic film about a huge gorilla.

A) Gorilla at Large

B) King Kong vs Godzilla

C) Gorgo

D) King Kong

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26. Charles Laughton played Quasimodo in this epic film.

A) The Phantom of the Opera

B) Ben-Hur

C) Hunchback of Notre Dame

D) King of Kings

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27. What was Dorothy's last name in "The Wizard of Oz"?

A) Dorothy Gray

B) Dorothy Gates

C) Gale

D) Dorothy Green

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28. Who played Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"?

A) Liza Minnelli

B) Margaret Hamilton

C) Angela Lansbury

D) Judy Garland

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