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Historical Figures in Movies #2

Can you answer 50 questions about historical figures that were portrayed in movies?
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1. Angelina Jolie portrayed Gia Carangi in 1998 movie Gia. What was her occupation?
Singer
Model
Actress
Tennis player
2. In which TV series did Wagner Moura appeared as Pablo Escobar?
Narcos
The Wire
Money Heist
Breaking Bad
3. Which astronaut did Ryan Gosling play in the movie First Man?
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Scott Glenn
Jim Lovell
4. What is the title of the movie for which Renee Zellweger won Academy Award while playing Judy Garland?
Judy
A Star is Born
I Could Go On Singing
Summer Stock
5. Who portrayed Elton John in the movie Rocketman?
Colin Firth
Richard Madden
Taron Egerton
Jamie Bell
6. Which Formula One driver did Chris Hemsworth play in the movie Rush?
Juan Manuel Fangio
Jim Clark
James Hunt
Niki Lauda
7. Which singer did Chadwick Boseman play in 2014 movie Get On Up?
Stevie Wonder
Barry White
Nat King Cole
James Brown
8. Who portrayed Eva Perón in 1996 movie Evita?
Cher
Laura Linney
Maura Tierney
Madonna
9. Jesse Eisenberg portrayed an entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. What network did he build?
Facebook
MySpace
Twitter
Pinterest
10. John Goodman portrayed Babe Ruth in 1992 movie The Babe. What sport did he play?
Cricket
Golf
Rugby
Baseball
11. Who portrayed British archaeologist and army officer known as Lawrence of Arabia?
Omar Sharif
Richard Harris
Alec Guinness
Peter O'Toole
12. What is the title of the movie from 2002 in which Nicole Kidman played the English writer Virginia Woolf?
The Waves
To the Lighthouse
The Hours
Who's Afraid of V. Woolf?
13. Who did Colin Firth play in The King's Speech?
King Charles
King George VI
King Edward VIII
King William III
14. What is the title of the movie from 2001 in which Will Smith played as boxer champion Muhammad Ali?
Freedom Road
Ali
Ali, the Fighter
Facing Ali
15. What is the title of the movie in which Jim Carrey appeared as entertainer Andy Kaufman?
Bruce Almighty
Man on the Moon
The Truman Show
Yes Man
16. What is the title of the movie in which Ralph Fiennes portrayed Charles Dickens?
The Invisible Woman
Oliver
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
17. Who portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story?
Tiffani Thiessen
Teri Hatcher
Sherilyn Fenn
Amanda Peet
18. What is the title of the movie in which Stephen Fry played Oscar Wilde?
A Good Woman
An Ideal Husband
Wilde
Dorian Gray
19. In Walk the Line Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash were portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix and...
Reese Witherspoon
Anna Paquin
Kate Hudson
Jennifer Aniston
20. Jared Leto appeared as criminal Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. Who did he murder?
Gianni Versace
Tupac Shakur
Notorious B.I.G.
John Lennon
21. Michelle Williams portrayed Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. How did Marilyn die in 1962?
Heart attack
Overdose
Murder
Car crash
22. Hannah Taylor-Gordon played Anne Frank in 2001 TV mini-series. How did Anne die at age of 15?
Lung cancer
Starvation
Typhus fever
Execution
23. What is the title of the movie in which Benicio Del Toro portrayed Che Guevara?
Che: parts I and II
Evita
Che: Rise & Fall
The Motorcycle Diaries
24. Which actor played Andy Warhol in 2006 movie Factory Girl?
Brad Pitt
Hayden Christensen
Guy Pearce
Matt Damon
25. Philip Seymour Hoffman portrayed Truman Capote in Capote. What was his profession?
Novelist
Politician
Lawyer
Doctor
26. Audrey Tautou appeared as Coco Chanel in the movie Coco Before Chanel. What was her occupation?
Actress
Fashion designer
Ballerina
Pop singer
27. Hilary Swank appeared as Amelia Earhart in Amelia. What was her occupation?
Mechanic
Aviator
Golfer
Racing driver
28. Who portrayed Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers?
Robert Redford
Paul Newman
Roger Moore
Geoffrey Rush
29. In 2001 movie James Franco played James Dean. How did James die in age of 24?
Drugs
Murder
Suicide
Car crash
30. Which male singer did Cate Blanchett play in the movie I’m Not There?
Steven Tyler
Jim Morrison
Billy Gibbons
Bob Dylan
31. Which actress won Academy Award for playing American serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster?
Charlize Theron
Cameron Diaz
Naomi Watts
Nicole Kidman
32. Which actor played physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything?
Adam Driver
Timothée Chalamet
Eddie Redmayne
Jesse Eisenberg
33. In 2008 movie Milk Sean Penn portrayed American gay rights activist and politician Milk. What was his first name?
Marcus
Josh
Harvey
Jason
34. In 2002 movie Frida Salma Hayek portrayed Frida Kahlo. What was her occupation?
Painter
Politician
Musician
Nurse
35. Which actor portrayed Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock?
Sean Connery
Ben Kingsley
Anthony Hopkins
Patrick Stewart
36. Which actress portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen?
Judi Dench
Helen Mirren
Meryl Streep
Olivia Colman
37. Which punk rock band's singer did Gary Oldman play in Sid and Nancy movie?
The Offspring
Sex Pistols
Green Day
The Clash
38. What is the title of the movie in which Meryl Streep appeared as Margaret Thatcher?
The Iron Lady
The Falklands Play
The Final Days
The Forecaster
39. What is the title of the movie in which Adrien Brody appeared as Salvador Dali?
Midnight in Madrid
Midnight in Barcelona
Midnight in London
Midnight in Paris
40. What was the cause of death of singer Selena Quintanilla who was played by Jennifer Lopez?
Suicide
Murder
Car crash
Heart attack
41. Which rock singer did Andre Benjamin play in the movie All Is by My Side?
Prince
Jimi Hendrix
Little Richard
Otis Redding
42. What is the title of the movie in which Morgan Freeman appeared as South African leader Nelson Mandella?
Goodbye Bafana
Free at Last!
Mandela
Invictus
43. Which actor played human rights activist Malcolm X in 1992 movie?
Will Smith
Denzel Washington
Eddie Murphy
Samuel L. Jackson
44. Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for portraying which American president?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
45. Which actor portrayed Ray Charles in the 2004 movie Ray?
Don Cheadle
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Jamie Foxx
Chris Rock
46. In 2013 Ashton Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the movie Jobs. Which company's CEO was he?
Microsoft
Samsung
Apple
Google
47. Val Kilmer was portraying singer Jim Morrison in 1991 movie. What rock band was that story about?
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floys
The Doors
The Animals
48. What is the title of the movie in which Bruno Ganz portrayed Adolf Hitler?
The Bunker
The Great Dictator
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Downfall
49. Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for playing Mahatma Gandhi. Who directed that movie?
Richard Attenborough
Ridley Scott
Oliver Stone
Stanley Kubrick
50. Who played Charlie Chaplin in 1992 movie?
Matt Dillon
Robert Downey Jr.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
John Cusack
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