• 1. 
    What was the name of the dog who starred in the Thin Man series alongside William Powell and Myrna Loy?

  • Toto
  • Rin Tin Tin
  • Ace
  • Asta
  • 2. 
    Who played the starring role in the 1934 film Cleopatra, directed by Cecil B. DeMille?

  • Bette Davis
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • 3. 
    What was the first feature film made in three-strip Technicolor to be released?

  • Gone with the Wind
  • Becky Sharp
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • 4. 
    Who directed the 1931 film Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff?

  • Victor Fleming
  • Ray Harryhausen
  • James Whale
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • 5. 
    Released in 1930, what was Greta Garbo’s first sound film?

  • Anna Christie
  • The Long Voyage Home
  • Strange Interlude
  • The Iceman Cometh
  • 6. 
    In 1935 who played the lead in the swashbuckling adventure film Captain Blood, portraying the leader of a band of pirates?

  • Clark Gable
  • John Gilbert
  • John Barrymore
  • Errol Flynn
  • 7. 
    In 1939 who portrayed Quasimodo, the bell ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

  • Lon Chaney
  • Robert Donat
  • Boris Karloff
  • Charles Laughton
  • 8. 
    Which director made a series of films in the 1930s with Marlene Dietrich, including The Blue Angel and Morocco?

  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Karl Freund
  • Erich von Stroheim 
  • Douglas Sirk
  • 9. 
    In 1932 which actor portrayed the arrogant and vain gangster Tony Camonte in Scarface: The Shame of a Nation?

  • James Cagney
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Jack Holt
  • Paul Muni
  • 10. 
    Who directed All Quiet on the Western Front, which is still considered one of the most eloquent of anti-war films?

  • John Cromwell
  • Norman Z. McLeod
  • Frank Borzage
  • Lewis Milestone
  • 11. 
    In 1933 who directed 42nd Street, which the director followed with other musical extravaganzas?

  • Irving Berlin
  • Busby Berkeley
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Stanley Donen
  • 12. 
    The 1931 crime film The Maltese Falcon, also called Dangerous Female due to later adaptations of the same text, was based on a novel of the same name by which famous crime writer?

  • Dashiell Hammett
  • Horace McCoy
  • William Lindsay Gresham
  • James M. Cain
  • 13. 
    Who directed the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races?

  • Sam Wood
  • Billy Wilder
  • Gregg Toland
  • Sidney Franklin
  • 14. 
    Wallace Beery and which actress starred in Tugboat Annie (1933), playing a comically quarrelsome married couple operating a tugboat?

  • Marie Dressler
  • Irene Dunne
  • Norma Shearer
  • Jean Arthur
  • 15. 
    Who was the writing partner of Charles MacArthur for the The Front Page (1931), which was directed by Lewis Milestone?

  • Norman Krasna
  • Philip Dunne
  • Ben Hecht
  • Richard Maibaum
  • 16. 
    Which actor played Heathcliff in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights, which was directed by William Wyler?

  • Laurence Olivier
  • Tony Curtis
  • Charles Laughton
  • Clark Gable
  • 17. 
    Who was the first African American actor to win an Academy Award, winning Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Gone with the Wind?

  • Marilyn Horne
  • Dorothy Dandridge
  • Josephine Baker
  • Hattie McDaniel
  • 18. 
    Who played the heroine in the 1933 film King Kong, one of the finest examples of stop-motion animation ever produced? 

  • Naomi Watts
  • Clara Bow
  • Jessica Lange
  • Fay Wray
  • 19. 
    Which actress played Glinda the Good Witch, who instructs Dorothy to follow the yellow brick road that runs to the Emerald City in the movie musical The Wizard of Oz?

  • Billie Burke
  • Margaret Hamilton
  • Margaret Sullavan
  • Kay Francis
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