Trivia Quiz on 1920s Cinema

1. In which Fritz Lang film of 1926 do impoverished workers live beneath a city

A) The Spiders

B) Die Nibelungen

C) The Woman in the Moon

D) Metropolis

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2. What was the name of the first 'talking movie'

A) Metropolis

B) Don Juan

C) The jazz singer

D) Lights of New York

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3. Name Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film as director

A) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

B) The Pleasure Garden

C) Blackmail

D) The Man Who Knew Too Much

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4. What was the first motion picture to have a synchronized musical score?

A) Don Juan

B) The Jazz Singer

C) Steamboat Willie

D) The Great Train Robbery

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5. Who was the first woman to win an Academy Award

A) Marlene Dietrich

B) Greta Garbo

C) Janet Gaynor 1929

D) Lillian Gish

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6. What was Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film

A) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

B) Blackmail

C) The Ring

D) The Manxman

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7. Who played the title role in the 1921 film 'The Sheik'

A) Douglas Fairbanks

B) Rudolf valentino

C) Buster Keaton

D) Harold Lloyd

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8. Who was the original Hollywood 'it' girl

A) Mae West

B) Greta Garbo

C) Clara Bow

D) Jean Harlow

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9. Off the coast of southern California, around 200 __________ still roam in Catalina Island's hinterlands, descendants of a few brought there in the 1920s for a movie and left there.

A) Buffalo

B) Bison

C) Elk

D) Goat

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10. This was the first cartoon talking picture.

A) Gertie the Dinosaur

B) Felix the Cat

C) The Adventures of Prince Achmed

D) Steamboat Willie

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11. What was the first cartoon to feature sound?

A) Gertie the Dinosaur

B) Steamboat Willie

C) Dinner Time

D) The Band Concert

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12. What was the first cartoon to feature sound

A) The Jazz Singer

B) Steamboat willy

C) Flowers and Trees

D) Three Little Pigs

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