Trivia Quiz on 1960s Cinema

1. Who directed the film of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

A) Peter Jackson

B) Ridley Scott

C) Stanley Kubrick

D) Francois Trufeau

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2. Which film won the best story and best song Oscars in 1969

A) Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

B) The Sound of Music

C) Oliver!

D) Midnight Cowboy

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3. Who won Best Actress for her role in Hud

A) Audrey Hepburn

B) Elizabeth Taylor

C) Meryl Streep

D) Patricia Neal

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4. Who was the female star of 'The Graduate'

A) Meryl Streep

B) Diane Keaton

C) Anne bancroft

D) Katharine Ross

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5. Which actor has played Fagin on both the stage and in the 1968 film Oliver!

A) Ian McKellen

B) Ron Moody

C) John Lithgow

D) Peter O'Toole

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6. In the film 'the lovebug', what number was painted on the side of 'herbie' the vw bug

A) Forty two

B) Fifty four

C) Fifty three

D) Seventy seven

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7. Who played the forger in the film The Great Escape

A) Donald pleasance

B) Peter O'Toole

C) Charles Bronson

D) Sean Connery

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8. Who was the Bad in the spaghetti westerns

A) Clint Eastwood

B) Gian Maria Volonté

C) Lee van Cleef

D) Eli Wallach

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9. In which film were the entire cast nominated for oscars

A) The Godfather

B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

C) Gone with the Wind

D) Lawrence of Arabia

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10. Who played Commissioner Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films

A) Peter Sellers

B) John Cleese

C) David Niven

D) Herbert Lom

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11. Who was the female star of the film 'Barefoot in the Park'

A) Elizabeth Taylor

B) Diane Keaton

C) Shirley MacLaine

D) Jane fonda

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12. The assassin in The Man With the Golden Gun was played by who

A) Sean Connery

B) Christopher

C) Roger Moore

D) George Lazenby

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13. What 1960 movie inspired the rash of beach party movies

A) Where the boys are

B) Gidget

C) A Summer Place

D) Beach Party

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14. What X rated movie won an Oscar

A) The Godfather

B) Jaws

C) Midnight Cowboy

D) The Exorcist

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15. Wrestling who was the girl in peter sellers' soup

A) Goldie hawn

B) Diane Keaton

C) Barbra Streisand

D) Shirley MacLaine

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16. What Movie Earned Composer "John Williams" His First Oscar For Best Muiscal Score

A) Star Wars

B) Fiddler On The Roof

C) Jaws

D) Schindler's List

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17. Which 1963 Film Musical Was Inspired By The Hysteria Of Elvis Fans Following His Induction Into The Army

A) The Music Man

B) Irma La Douce

C) Bye Bye Birdie

D) West Side Story

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18. In which movie, in 1962, did Muhammad Ali appear

A) The Manchurian Candidate

B) To Kill a Mockingbird

C) Lawrence of Arabia

D) Requiem for heavyweight

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19. Who Was Ian Flemming's Top Choice To Play James Bond Before "Sean Connery" Eventually Got The Part

A) Cary Grant

B) David Niven

C) Roger Moore

D) Peter Sellers

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20. What actor played seven roles in no way to treat a lady

A) Peter Sellers

B) David Niven

C) Rod steiger

D) Orson Welles

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21. What was the setting for walk, don't run

A) Paris Olympics

B) London Olympics

C) New York City

D) Tokyo olympics

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22. The film Cleopatra was banned in Egypt in 1963 why

A) The film was banned due to accusations of anti-Egyptian propaganda.

B) Elizabeth Taylor's ties to Judaism caused controversy in the press.

C) Liz Taylor Jewish convert

D) It faced copyright disputes with the studio over rights.

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23. Which Beatle wrote the score for the 1966 film The Family Way

A) Paul mccartney

B) John Lennon

C) George Harrison

D) Ringo Starr

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24. Estelle Parsons best supporting actress Oscar what 1967 film

A) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

B) Bonnie and Clyde

C) The Graduate

D) In Cold Blood

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25. Who won an Academy Award in 1968 as Director of Midnight Cowboy

A) Stanley Kubrick

B) Francis Ford Coppola

C) John schlesinger

D) Roman Polanski

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26. In what film does Steve McQueen get to race a Mustang round the streets of San Francisco

A) The Thomas Crown Affair

B) Le Mans

C) Bullitt

D) The Great Escape

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27. What two Julies won best actress Oscars for 1964 and 1965

A) Christie and Andrews

B) Julie Christie and Julie Walters

C) Julie Andrews and Meryl Streep

D) Andrews and

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28. Although He Never Set Foot Here What Elvis Presley Movie Is Actually Set In England

A) Double Trouble

B) G.I. Blues

C) Harum Scarum

D) Fun in Acapulco

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29. Which film ends with the line, 'What we have here is a failure to communicate'

A) The Godfather

B) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

C) Pulp Fiction

D) Cool hand luke

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30. Who played the male starring role in 'The Graduate'

A) Dustin Hoffman

B) Paul Newman

C) Robert Redford

D) Michael Caine

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31. Which film had song Springtime for Hitler

A) The Great Dictator

B) Young Frankenstein

C) The Sound of Music

D) The Producers

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32. The first spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood was made in what year

A) 1963

B) 1964

C) 1965

D) 1967

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33. Who did Michael Caine play in the Ipcress File (both names)

A) Peter Palmer

B) Harry Palmer

C) George Smiley

D) Harry Parlow

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34. What was the title of polanski's horror spoof

A) Dance of the vampires

B) Rosemary's Baby

C) The Ninth Gate

D) Love and Death

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35. What was the name of the Monkeys only film made in 1969

A) Moonlight Monkees

B) Head

C) 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee

D) Monkee at the Opera

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36. In what Elvis film did he play a double role

A) Jailhouse Rock

B) Kissing Cousins

C) Blue Hawaii

D) Love Me Tender

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37. Which actor took the male lead in the Hitchcock thriller The Birds

A) James Stewart

B) Suzanne Pleshette

C) Rod taylor

D) Kim Novak

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38. Who played the girl on the motorcycle in a film of same name

A) Brigitte Bardot

B) Marianne Faithful

C) Jane Fonda

D) Ursula Andress

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39. ELVIS: What was the actual running time of the film "Wild in the Country"

A) 112 minutes

B) 90 minutes

C) 127 minutes

D) 114 minutes

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40. What actor links Von Ryan's Express - Magnificent Seven

A) Steve McQueen

B) James Coburn

C) Brad Dexter

D) Charles Bronson

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41. The Windmills of your Mind was a theme song in what film

A) The Thomas Crown Affair

B) The Godfather

C) Goldfinger

D) The Pink Panther

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42. What was the first film to team jack lemmon and walter matthau

A) The Odd Couple

B) Fortune

C) Grumpy Old Men

D) Out to Sea

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43. Film The Dead Heat Merry go Round 60s what stars first 1 line

A) Paul Newman

B) Sean Connery

C) Clark Gable

D) Harrison Ford

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44. Name the superspy man from Z.O.W.I.E. played James Coburn

A) Austin Powers

B) James Bond

C) Our Man Flint

D) Harry Palmer

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45. Although He Never Set Foot Here Which Elvis Presley Movie Is Actually Set In England

A) Girls! Girls! Girls!

B) Viva Las Vegas

C) Blue Hawaii

D) Double Trouble

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46. Who played juliet in zeffirelli's romeo and juliet

A) Claire Danes

B) Olivia Hussey

C) Natalie Portman

D) Portia de Rossi

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47. 1961 who was first actress to win Oscar for a non English film

A) Anna Magnani

B) Sophia Loren

C) Ingrid Bergman

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48. Which Clint Eastwood film has the most killings (65)

A) Dirty Harry

B) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

C) Escape from Alcatraz

D) Where Eagles Dare

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49. Ill Never Forget Whatshisname 1968 film first said fuck – who

A) Marianne Faithful

B) Brigitte Bardot

C) Jane Birkin

D) Julie Christie

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50. In Goldfinger name the actress painted gold

A) Shirley Eaton

B) Ursula Andress

C) Honor Blackman

D) Diana Rigg

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