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Film History Multiple Choice

How much do you know about film history?
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1. Which genre are John Ford, Roy Rogers and Ennio Morricone most associated with?
Western
Musical
Science fiction
2. Who played Bonnie and Clyde?
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen
3. What is "The Jazz Singer" notable for?
Being the longest motion picture, at 857 hours
Winning the most Oscars
Introducing sound to film
4. With whom did Luis Buñuel collaborate on "An Andalusian Dog" (1929)?
Salvador Dalí
Sigmund Freud
T.S. Eliot
Louis Armstrong
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Edward Cullen
Nosferatu
Vlad Tepes
Blade
6. Which movie is said to have started the modern blockbuster era?
Jaws
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Titanic
2001: A Space Odyssey
7. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) is a remake of which film?
The Seven Monks
The Seven Musketeers
The Seven Samurai
The Seven Pirates
8. Who directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in "Citizen Kane" (1941)?
George Orwell
H.G. Wells
Orson Welles
9. Which Hitchcock movie is about a wheelchair-bound man who may or may not be witnessing a murder?
North by Northwest
Psycho
Vertigo
Rear Window
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Jean Dujardin
Alain Delon
Jean Reno
Gérard Depardieu
11. Who is the literary character most adapted to film?
Tarzan
Sherlock Holmes
Elizabeth Bennet
Frankenstein's Monster
12. Which is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time?
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Harry Potter
Star Wars
James Bond
13. An outsider comes to a small town to play off two rivalling gangs against each other. Which director did NOT make a version of this story, based on a Dashiell Hammett novel?
Walter Hill
Sergio Leone
Luc Besson
Akira Kurosawa
14. "The Wizard of Oz" quote: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in ___ anymore."
Georgia
New Jersey
Texas
Kansas
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Level 43
Mar 23, 2023
small nitpick, but it's just "Seven Samurai," not "The Seven Samurai"