Trivia Quiz on Cinema History

1. What word appears in more film titles than any other

A) Love

B) The

C) Life

D) Girl

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2. Peter Lorre was born in what year

A) 1903

B) 1905

C) 1908

D) 1904

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3. Lewis Wilson was the first actor to play which character

A) The Shadow

B) Batman

C) Robin

D) Superman

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4. Which sport is featured in the film "Raging Bull"

A) Basketball

B) Boxing

C) Wrestling

D) Soccer

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5. Lucille Langhanke born 1906 won an Oscar as who in 1941

A) Bette Davis

B) Katharine Hepburn

C) Mary Astor

D) Ingrid Bergman

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6. The film 'the wizard of ______'

A) Oz

B) The Wizard of Id

C) The Wizard of Earthsea

D) The Wizard of Wall Street

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7. What was used for blood in the film 'psycho'

A) Karo syrup

B) Chocolate syrup

C) Strawberry jam

D) Tomato ketchup

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8. The worlds first opened in Los Angles April 2nd 1902 - what

A) The Nickelodeon

B) The Electric Theatre

C) Motion picture theatre

D) The Grand Opera House

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9. Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheri - who

A) Herbert Lom

B) Peter Sellers

C) Laurence Olivier

D) Boris Karloff

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10. What nationality was actress Greta Garbo

A) Norwegian

B) Swedish

C) Danish

D) Finnish

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11. What year was Walt Disney born

A) 1899

B) 1903

C) 1901

D) 1910

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12. How many stars are on the paramount film studio logo

A) 22

B) 24

C) 20

D) 26

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13. Whose biography is entitled 'the dark side of genius'

A) Stanley Kubrick

B) Isaac Newton

C) Alfred hitchcock

D) Winston Churchill

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14. Which film is the first of the spaghetti westerns

A) A fistful of Dollars

B) For a Few Dollars More

C) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

D) Once Upon a Time in the West

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15. Anna Maria Louisa Italiano changed her name to what

A) Anna Maria Italiano

B) Anna Maria Ricci

C) Anne Bancroft

D) Anna Maria Lombardo

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16. In The Film Saving Private Ryan What Was Private Ryan's First Name?

A) Robert

B) James

C) John

D) Thomas

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17. Terrence Nezman became more famous as who

A) Stanley Kubrick

B) Steven Spielberg

C) Martin Scorsese

D) Francis Ford Coppola

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18. The golden lion is awarded at which film festival

A) Cannes Film Festival

B) Berlin International Film Festival

C) Sundance Film Festival

D) Venice

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19. Rudolph Valentinos movie premiere was in which year

A) 1919

B) 1920

C) 1921

D) 1923

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20. Stanley Kubrick Started It In The Early 1970's & Steven Spielberg Finished It In 2001 Name The Movie

A) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

B) 2001: A Space Odyssey

C) A.I

D) Jurassic Park

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21. Who sang the theme to The Spy who Loved Me

A) Shirley Bassey

B) Paul McCartney & Wings

C) Carly Simon

D) Duran Duran

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22. What was steven spielberg's first film

A) The duel

B) The Sugarland Express

C) Jaws

D) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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23. "Night of he Hunter' was the only film directed by which actor

A) Orson Welles

B) Alfred Hitchcock

C) Laurence Olivier

D) Charles Laughton

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24. A mountain is the symbol of which film company

A) Paramount

B) Columbia Pictures

C) Warner Bros

D) Universal Pictures

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25. What Film Was Advertised With The Slogan "Don't Give Away The Ending It's The Only One We Have"

A) The Godfather

B) Jaws

C) Psycho

D) The Shining

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26. Alfred Hitchcock admitted to being terrified of what

A) Public speaking

B) Clowns

C) Heights

D) Policeman

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27. Norma Talmage in 1927 made the first - the first what

A) a talking picture

B) the first color feature

C) Footprints concrete Grumman theatre

D) the first film with synchronized sound in a commercial theatre

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28. In 1927, the first words spoken in a film were "Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Which five words followed

A) You ain't heard nothing yet

B) There's something in the air

C) Why don't you tell me

D) I think it's all over

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29. Who was the director of the cult film 'Casablanca'?

A) Frank Capra

B) Victor Fleming

C) Howard Hawks

D) Michael Curtiz

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30. Which comic actor who died in 1977 entered a competition to find his look alike, anonymously, and only came third

A) Charlie Chaplin

B) Stan Laurel

C) Harold Lloyd

D) Peter Sellers

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31. Atlanta burned in Gone With the Wind was what old film set

A) The Wizard of Oz set

B) King Kong it needed clearing

C) The Birth of a Nation set

D) The Ten Commandments set

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32. Paramount Pictures logo has 22 what

A) Stars

B) Peaks

C) Circles

D) Letters

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33. Which actor has been portrayed most on screen by other actors

A) Charlie Chaplain

B) Marlon Brando

C) Clark Gable

D) Humphrey Bogart

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34. Ennio Morricone wrote the music for what film series

A) Star Wars saga

B) James Bond films

C) The Godfather trilogy

D) Good bad ugly etc Spaghetti westerns

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35. 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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36. Storm Warning the only film in which this Actress killed who

A) Joan Crawford

B) Rita Hayworth

C) Betty Grable

D) Doris Day

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37. Who played selena in the film 'selena'

A) Scarlett Johansson

B) Jennifer lopez

C) Salma Hayek

D) Selena Gomez

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38. Name first monochrome film converted electronically to colour

A) Casablanca

B) Metropolis

C) Yankee Doodle Dandy

D) It's a Wonderful Life

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39. What actress's legs were insured for one million dollars

A) Greta garbo

B) Betty Grable

C) Marilyn Monroe

D) Audrey Hepburn

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40. Name The Composer Who Supplied The Music To The Hitchcock Movies Psycho, North By Northwest & Vertigo

A) John Williams

B) Hans Zimmer

C) Bernard Hermann

D) Ennio Morricone

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41. 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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42. Which Was The First Ever Bond Movie?

A) Dr No

B) Goldfinger

C) From Russia with Love

D) Thunderball

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43. John Books was the final role of which actor

A) Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales

B) Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen

C) John Wayne in The Shootist

D) Gary Cooper in High Noon

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44. Who Opened The First Cinema In Paris In 1895

A) Thomas Edison

B) The Lumiere Brothers

C) George Méliès

D) Louis Le Prince

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45. Godzilla first made his mark so to say in 1954. What do the Japanese call Godzilla ?

A) Gojira

B) Gamera

C) King Ghidorah

D) Mothra

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46. Which Actor Of The Silent Era Was Known As 'The Man Of A Thousand Faces'

A) Charlie Chaplin

B) Lon Chaney

C) Buster Keaton

D) Harold Lloyd

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47. Which famous actor is honored in a statue in Leicester Square?

A) Buster Keaton

B) Charlie Chaplin

C) Laurence Olivier

D) Humphrey Bogart

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48. How Many Films Were Made In The Jaws Series

A) 3

B) 5

C) 4 (Jaws 1,2,3 & Jaws The Revenge)

D) 6

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49. "Which Oscar Winning Actor Played Scrooge In ""The Muppet Christmas Carol"""

A) Al Pacino

B) Tom Hanks

C) Bill Murray

D) Michael Caine

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50. Who Directed The 1968 Classic Horror Movie 'Rosemary's Baby''

A) Alfred Hitchcock

B) Roman Polanski

C) Stanley Kubrick

D) Dario Argento

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