Filmsite's Test your knowledge of Movie Trivia |
1. What was the name of the evil corporation in the Resident Evil series of films?
2. In Jurassic Park (1993), the theme park was located on the secluded island of Isla Nubar in which country?
3. Which of the following performers gained the most weight for a film role?
4. Actor Jack Lemmon won his sole Best Actor Oscar for which film?
5. In the classic King Kong (1933) adventure film, what was it that killed the ape-beast - according to the film's last line?
6. The Underworld series of franchise films (beginning in 2003) told about the age-old battle between vampires and what other creatures?
7. Which director has accumulated the most acting awards (not counting Honorary Oscars awards) among his films?
8. What was the only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Academy Award?
9. What was the only Marx Brothers film to receive a nomination for a competitive Academy Award?
10. What was the only performance in a Stanley Kubrick-directed film to win an Oscar?
11. Which of the following was the only acting performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar?
12. Which of the following non-speaking, silent (or mute) performances in a post silent-era film did NOT win a competitive Oscar?
13. Which film won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award even though the screenplay consisted of extremely sparse dialogue?
14. What was director Alfred Hitchcock's first feature film in Technicolor?
15. What Barbra Streisand-directed film was nominated as Best Picture?
16. Which famous director was known for personally making elaborate, large-scale paintings as storyboards for his films?
17. In director Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon (1957), what musical instrument did Ariane Chavasse (Audrey Hepburn) play?
18. Who sang "We're in the Money" in the opening sequence of the musical Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)?
19. Director John Ford's dramatic comedy Mister Roberts (1955) marked the last feature film performance of which actor?
20. Which musical has the most Academy Award Oscar wins?
21. What did the feathers symbolize in the two The Four Feathers films in 1939 and 2002?
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Quiz # 38: Answers |
1. Answer: Umbrella Corporation 2. Answer: Costa Rica 3. Answer: Vincent D'Onofrio
for Full Metal Jacket 4. Answer: Save the Tiger (1973) 5. Answer: Beauty 6. Answer: Lycans
(Werewolves) 7. Answer: William Wyler 8. Answer: Midnight
Cowboy (1969) 9. Answer: A
Day at the Races (1937) 10. Answer: Peter Ustinov in Spartacus
(1960) 11. Answer: Joan
Fontaine in Suspicion (1941) 12. Answer: Alan Arkin in The Heart
is a Lonely Hunter (1968) 13. Answer: The
Red Balloon (1956) 14. Answer: Rope 15. Answer: The Prince of Tides
(1991) 16. Answer: Akira
Kurosawa 17. Answer: Cello 18. Answer: Ginger
Rogers 19. Answer: William
Powell 20. Answer: West Side Story (1961) 21. Answer: Cowardice |