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Film History Multiple Choice

How much do you know about film history?
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Last updated: September 28, 2019
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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?
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon
Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
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)?
Louis Armstrong
Salvador Dalí
T.S. Eliot
Sigmund Freud
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Nosferatu
Blade
Edward Cullen
Vlad Tepes
6. Which movie is said to have started the modern blockbuster era?
Titanic
Jaws
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001: A Space Odyssey
7. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) is a remake of which film?
The Seven Musketeers
The Seven Pirates
The Seven Monks
The Seven Samurai
8. Who directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in "Citizen Kane" (1941)?
George Orwell
Orson Welles
H.G. Wells
9. Which Hitchcock movie is about a wheelchair-bound man who may or may not be witnessing a murder?
Psycho
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Vertigo
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Jean Reno
Jean Dujardin
Alain Delon
Gérard Depardieu
11. Who is the literary character most adapted to film?
Sherlock Holmes
Elizabeth Bennet
Tarzan
Frankenstein's Monster
12. Which is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time?
Marvel Cinematic Universe
James Bond
Star Wars
Harry Potter
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?
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
Luc Besson
Walter Hill
14. "The Wizard of Oz" quote: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in ___ anymore."
New Jersey
Kansas
Texas
Georgia
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Level 42
Mar 23, 2023
small nitpick, but it's just "Seven Samurai," not "The Seven Samurai"