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