
MOVIE QUIZ # 1
For something a little different I have compiled the first movie quiz of fifty questions. Whether or not there will be more of these depends entirely on how energetic I become. I have left a sizeable gap between the questions and the answers at the bottom of the page. For what it is worth, my lovely wife (who is not really a movie buff) scored 26/50. Enjoy
Q1 NAME THE 1967 RACIAL DRAMA SET IN THE TOWN OF SPARTA, MISSISSIPPI.
Q2 WHAT WERE THE TWO GIRL’S NAMES OF TONY CURTIS AND JACK LEMMON IN THE 1959 HIT COMEDY ‘SOME LIKE IT HOT’?
Q3 IN WHICH 1995 PERIOD PICTURE WOULD YOU ENCOUNTER THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS? – COLONEL BRANDON, EDWARD FERRARS & JOHN WILOUGHBY?
Q4 CLINT EASTWOOD PLAYS A DESTITUTE KANSAS HOG FARMER NAMED WILLIAM MUNNY IN WHICH OSCAR-WINNING 1992 WESTERN?
Q5 NAME THE MALE AND FEMALE STARS OF ‘HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON’ (1957).
Q6 NAME THE TWO SCREEN BEAUTIES WHO PORTRAYED LENORE AND ALINE DE GAVRILLAC IN THE 1952 SWASHBUCKLER ‘SCARAMOUCHE’.
Q7 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF MICHAEL J. FOX’S CHARACTER IN THE ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ FILMS?
Q8 GIVE THE THREE DARLING CHILDREN’S CHRISTIAN NAMES IN THE 1953 WALT DISNEY CLASSIC ‘PETER PAN’.
Q9 IN WHICH 1977 DISCO MOVIE WOULD YOU FIND THE CHARACTER TONY MANERO?
Q10 NAME THE 1988 ACTION THRILLER IN WHICH CHARACTERS NAMED HOLLY, JOHN AND HANS GRUBER APPEAR.
Q11 IN WHICH 1953 DRAMA DOES JOSEPH COTTEN’S CHARACTER KILL MARILYN MONROE’S CHARACTER?
Q12 IN THE 1979 COMEDY ‘MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN’, WHICH ACTOR SINGS ‘ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE’?
Q13 IN THE 2002 ROMANCE ‘UNFAITHFUL’, WHICH ACTORS PORTRAY EDWARD AND CONNIE SUMNER?
Q14 MEXICAN-BORN KLINTON SPILSBURY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER IN WHICH ABOMINABLE 1981 WESTERN MOVIE?
Q15 WHO PORTRAYED THE LEGENDARY FIGHTER PILOT DOUGLAS BADER IN THE 1956 FILM ‘REACH FOR THE SKY?’
Q16 THE ROLE OF D’ARTAGNAN IN THE 1948 VERSION OF ‘THE THREE MUSKETEERS’ WAS PLAYED BY WHICH AMERICAN DANCER/ACTOR?
Q17 WHO STARRED AS ROY NEARY IN THE 1977 SCI-FI FILM ‘CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND’?
Q18 IN THE ‘TOY STORY’ FILMS, WHO PROVIDES THE VOICE FOR BUZZ LIGHTYEAR?
Q19 ‘SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS’ (1954) IS A MUSICAL SET IN 1850 IN WHICH STATE? IS IT VERMONT, OREGON OR OHIO?
Q20 WHICH BRITISH ACTRESS PLAYS STEVE MCQUEEN’S GIRLFRIEND IN ‘BULLITT’ (1968)?
Q21 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF GLORIA SWANSON’S CHARACTER’S IN 1950’S ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’?
Q22 WHO PLAYED MONA LISA VITO IN THE 1992 COMEDY ‘MY COUSIN VINNY’?
Q23 WHO PLAYED JOHNNY CASTLE IN ‘DIRTY DANCING’ (1987)?
Q24 WHO PLAYED ‘FEATHERS’ IN THE JOHN WAYNE WESTERN TITLED ‘RIO BRAVO’ (1959)?
Q25 WHO BOTH WROTE AND DIRECTED ‘PLATOON’ (1986)?
Q26 WHICH 1981 SPORTING FILM, SET IN 1924, FEATURED THE NAMES HAROLD ABRAHAMS AND ERIC LIDDELL?
Q27 RODDY MCDOWALL AND KIM HUNTER WERE CORNELIUS AND ZIRA IN WHICH 1968 SCI-FI HIT FILM?
Q28 WHO PROVIDED THE VOICE FOR PRINCESS FIONA IN ‘SHREK’ (2001)?
Q29 NAME THE STARS WHO PLAYED SATINE AND CHRISTIAN IN ‘MOULIN ROUGE’ (2001).
Q30 GENE HACKMAN WAS THE STAR OF ‘THE FRENCH CONNECTION’ (1971). WHAT WAS HIS CHARACTER’S NAME?
Q31 RAY LIOTTA WAS HENRY HILL IN WHICH 1990 MOB FILM?
Q32 WHICH TWO TEAMS FOUGHT OUT THE WORLD SERIES IN THE 1992 COMEDY ABOUT WOMEN’S BASEBALL – ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’?
Q33 WHO PLAYED THE TWO LOVERS IN ‘LOVE STORY’ (1970)?
Q34 WHICH 1960 WESTERN FEATURED CHARACTERS NAMED CHRIS ADAMS, VIN TANNER AND CALVERA?
Q35 WHO PORTRAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER IN ‘MRS. MINIVER’ (1942)?
Q36 NAME THE AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS WHO PLAYED QUEEN ELIZABETH 1 IN ‘ELIZABETH’ (1998).
Q37 STEPHEN BOYD AND RAQUEL WELCH (IN A SUBMARINE) ARE INJECTED INTO A MAN’S BLOODSTREAM IN WHICH 1966 SCI-FI FILM?
Q38 WHICH 1989 DISNEY ANIMATED FILM FEATURED A CARIBBEAN CRAB NAMED SEBASTIAN?
Q39 IN WHICH CITY AND COUNTRY IS ‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’ (1965) SET?
Q40 THE ONE-WORD TITLE OF WHICH 1962 ADVENTURE MOVIE MEANS ‘DANGER’ IN SWAHILI?
Q41 THE CHARACTER TERRY MALLOY WAS THE HERO OF WHICH GRITTY 1954 DRAMA?
Q42 FREDDY BENSON AND LAWRENCE JAMIESON, TWO CONMEN IN THE 1988 COMEDY ‘DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, ARE PLAYED BY WHOM?
Q43 NAME THE TWO STARS WHO PLAYED THE LOVERS IN ‘OUT OF AFRICA’ (1985).
Q44 WHO PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER IN ‘SHANE’ (1953)?
Q45 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MISSION DEFENDED BY THE BRITISH SOLDIERS IN THE 1964 FILM ‘ZULU’?
Q46 IN WHICH 1971 FILM DID MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAY A GERMAN MERCENARY CAPTAIN DURING THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR?
Q47 WHO PLAYED THE THREE ASTRONAUTS ABOARD APOLLO 13 IN THE 1995 FILM OF THE SAME NAME?
Q48 WHO PROVIDES THE VOICE FOR SCARLET OVERKILL IN ‘MINIONS’ (2015)?
Q49 WHAT WAS JUDY GARLAND’S CHARACTER’S FULL NAME IN ‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’ (1939)?
Q50 WHO PLAYED MOBSTER DOYLE LONNEGAN IN ‘THE STING’ (1973)?
ANSWERS BELOW:
ANSWERS
Q1 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
Q2 JOSEPHINE & DAPHNE
Q3 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Q4 UNFORGIVEN
Q5 ROBERT MITCHUM & DEBORAH KERR
Q6 ELEANOR PARKER & JANET LEIGH
Q7 MARTY MCFLY
Q8 WENDY, JOHN & MICHAEL
Q9 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Q10 DIE HARD
Q11 NIAGARA
Q12 ERIC IDLE
Q13 RICHARD GERE & DIANE LANE
Q14 THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER
Q15 KENNETH MORE
Q16 GENE KELLY
Q17 RICHARD DREYFUSS
Q18 TIM ALLEN
Q19 OREGON
Q20 JACQUELINE BISSET
Q21 NORMA DESMOND
Q22 MARISA TOMEI
Q23 PATRICK SWAYZE
Q24 ANGIE DICKINSON
Q25 OLIVER STONE
Q26 CHARIOTS OF FIRE
Q27 PLANET OF THE APES
Q28 CAMERON DIAZ
Q29 NICOLE KIDMAN & EWAN MCGREGOR
Q30 ‘POPEYE’ DOYLE
Q31 GOODFELLAS
Q32 THE RACINE BELLES & THE ROCKFORD PEACHES
Q33 ALI MACGRAW & RYAN O’NEAL
Q34 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Q35 GREER GARSON
Q36 CATE BLANCHETT
Q37 FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Q38 THE LITTLE MERMAID
Q39 SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
Q40 HATARI!
Q41 ON THE WATERFRONT
Q42 STEVE MARTIN & MICHAEL CAINE
Q43 MERYL STREEP & ROBERT REDFORD
Q44 ALAN LADD
Q45 RORKE’S DRIFT
Q46 THE LAST VALLEY
Q47 TOM HANKS, BILL PAXTON & KEVIN BACON
Q48 SANDRA BULLOCK
Q49 DOROTHY GALE
Q50 ROBERT SHAW
Pretty rubbish as ever! My movie knowledge is pitiful but I enjoyed the quiz anyway!!!
Ha! The questions are easy, Cat. It’s the ANSWERS that are hard! Helps if you write the questions, of course.