• 1. 
    Which classic film noir is considered the definitive Rita Hayworth film?

  • Charlie Chan in Egypt
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • Gilda
  • The Lady from Shanghai
  • 2. 
    Whose novel Strangers on a Train did Alfred Hitchcock adapt for film?

  • Daphne du Maurier’s
  • Graham Greene’s
  • Patricia Highsmith’s
  • Jules Feiffer’s
  • 3. 
    Whose stories inspired the film Cabaret (1972)?

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann’s
  • Sir Stephen Spender’s
  • Christopher Isherwood’s
  • 4. 
    What is the name of the 1922 film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, made by F.W. Murnau?

  • Nosferatu
  • The Last Laugh
  • Sunrise
  • 4 Devils
  • 5. 
    Which actress portrayed Lola Lola, the sultry and world-weary female lead in Germany’s first talking film?

  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Louise Brooks
  • Greta Garbo
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • 6. 
    Which screen actor once muttered the words “Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!”?

  • W.C. Fields
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Buster Keaton
  • Edgar Bergen
  • 7. 
    In which film was the character of Charlie Chaplin’s alter ego, “the Little Tramp,” born?

  • The Kid
  • Kid Auto Races at Venice
  • The Tramp
  • The Pilgrim
  • 8. 
    Which of the Marx Brothers was the straight man but dropped out of the act after the team’s first five films?

  • Groucho
  • Harpo
  • Chico
  • Zeppo
  • 9. 
    Which actor, born Archibald Leach, did some of his best work with director Alfred Hitchcock?

  • James Stewart
  • Cary Grant
  • Henry Fonda
  • Robert Mitchum
  • 10. 
    Which of the following dancers is regarded as a pioneer in the serious presentation of dance on film?

  • Fred Astaire
  • Clayton (”Peg Leg”) Bates
  • Arthur Murray
  • Vaslav Nijinsky
  • 11. 
    What chorus girl turned actress tutored actor William Holden in his first movie, Golden Boy (1939)?

  • Angela Lansbury
  • Gloria Swanson
  • Bette Davis
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • 12. 
    Which role nearly lured actress Greta Garbo out of retirement?

  • the role of writer George Sand
  • the role of Colette
  • the role of Hedda Gabler
  • the role of painter Rosa Bonheur
  • 13. 
    Which composer of several American popular standards also found success as a character actor, notably in the movie To Have and Have Not (1944)?

  • Walter Brennan
  • Hoagy Carmichael
  • Tommy Dorsey
  • Roy Rogers
  • 14. 
    Who created the Keystone Kops and is considered to be the father of American slapstick comedy in motion pictures?

  • Buster Keaton
  • Mack Sennett
  • Billy Rose
  • Harold Lloyd
  • 15. 
    Which actor was the first to receive two consecutive Academy Awards for best actor?

  • Kirk Douglas
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Clark Gable
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • 16. 
    Which movie is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?

  • West Side Story
  • My Fair Lady
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • The Sound of Music
  • 17. 
    Which was Elizabeth Taylor’s debut film?

  • Father of the Bride
  • National Velvet
  • There’s One Born Every Minute
  • Lassie Come Home
  • 18. 
    What high-school dropout became a noted author, director, and photographer?

  • Harry Belafonte
  • Huddie Ledbetter
  • Gordon Parks
  • James VanDerZee
  • 19. 
    Which English critic and motion picture director coined the term Free Cinema?

  • Henry Holland
  • John Dryden
  • Ellen Terry
  • Lindsay Anderson
  • 20. 
    Which American movie studio introduced sound films?

  • 20th Century Fox
  • Columbia Pictures
  • Warner Brothers
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • 21. 
    Who is Allen Stewart Konigsberg better known as?

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Junot Díaz
  • Bob Dylan
  • Woody Allen
  • 22. 
    What was the first film directed by Alfred Hitchcock?

  • The Lodger
  • Sabotage
  • The Pleasure Garden
  • Blackmail
  • 23. 
    Which American actress established herself as a major star in the Broadway musical Funny Girl (1964)?

  • Lena Horne
  • Sophie Tucker
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Mary Martin
  • 24. 
    Who directed the film Last Tango in Paris?

  • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Kurosawa Akira
  • Francis Ford Coppola
  • 25. 
    What film director founded the Théâtre-Libre in Paris?

  • Federico Fellini
  • André Antoine
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Marcel Carné
  • 26. 
    Which film director-actor is regarded as the pioneer of American cinema verité?

  • John Cassavetes
  • Clint Eastwood
  • George Stevens
  • Roger Corman
  • 27. 
    Who first added animation to films?

  • Edwin Porter
  • Walt Disney
  • Gustav Ucicky
  • J. Stuart Blackton
  • 28. 
    Which American film actor was known as the “Man of a Thousand Faces”?

  • John Carradine
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Lon Chaney
  • Charles Laughton
  • 29. 
    What was the first film not in English to be awarded the Oscar for best picture?

  • Z
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • Parasite
  • Roma
  • 30. 
    Who was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for best actress?

  • Lena Horne
  • Ethel Waters
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Dorothy Dandridge
  • 31. 
    What director is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s about the Nazi movement?

  • Margarethe von Trotta
  • Brigitte Helm
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Lina Wertmüller
  • 32. 
    Computers from which company were used in the making of Toy Story, the first entirely computer-generated feature-length animated movie?

  • SGI
  • DreamWorks
  • Apple Computer, Inc.
  • Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • 33. 
    Which actress played two of American film’s most notorious Southern belles, Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois?

  • Maureen O’Sullivan
  • Sarah Siddons
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Julie Andrews
  • 34. 
    For what film did the English actress Julie Andrews win an Academy Award?

  • Victor/Victoria
  • The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
  • Darling Lili
  • Mary Poppins
  • 35. 
    For which film did Sean Connery win the Oscar for best supporting actor in 1988?

  • From Russia with Love
  • The Name of the Rose
  • Never Say Never Again
  • The Untouchables
  • 36. 
    Who won an Academy Award in 1957 and played the role of Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)?

  • Alec Guinness
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Sean Connery
  • Omar Sharif
  • 37. 
    Who was the founder of the British documentary film movement?

  • Dziga Vertov
  • Louis de Rochemont
  • John Grierson
  • Robert Flaherty
  • 38. 
    Which musician is featured in D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary Don’t Look Back?

  • Bob Dylan
  • Jim Morrison
  • Rod Stewart
  • Eddie Van Halen
  • 39. 
    What is the name of Robert Flaherty’s first film, a dramatic interpretation of the Eskimo way of life?

  • Moana
  • Man of Aran
  • Nanook of the North
  • Tabu
  • 40. 
    Who made the films Swept Away and Seven Beauties?

  • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Lina Wertmüller
  • Kurosawa Akira
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