Statistics for Film History

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1997	This movie about a sunken ship grosses 1 billion US-$	Titanic	98%
1975	This thriller featuring a shark is said to be the first blockbuster	Jaws	96%
1959	"Ben-Hur" is the first film to win 11 of these awards	Oscars	96%
2001	J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic is made into three films	The Lord of the Rings	96%
1977	This space opera franchise starts	Star Wars	90%
2014	This actor ("Dead Poets Society") dies	Robin Williams	89%
1994	He directs, writes and stars in "Pulp Fiction"	Quentin Tarantino	88%
1941	Citizen Kane was directed by this 26-year old	Orson Welles	86%
1922	"Nosferatu" is what kind of horror creature?	vampire	86%
2011	"The Artist" is the first Best Picture winner from this country	France	76%
1927	"The Jazz Singer" is the first film featuring sound (colloquial term)	talkie	69%
1939	This British actress becomes the star of "Gone with the Wind"	Vivien Leigh	67%
1914	Charlie Chaplin's iconic character appears first	The Tramp	65%
2009	"Avatar" reintroduces this way of film presentation	3-D	62%
1892	These French brothers patent the cinematograph	Lumière	59%
1954	Remade into "The Magnificent Seven", what is the original's name?	Seven Samurai	58%
1902	"The Great Train Robbery" is the first entry into this genre	Western	41%
1968	This sci-fi author contributes to "2001: A Space Odyssey"	Arthur C. Clarke	40%
1912	Carl Laemmle founds this major Studio	Universal	38%
1967	This New Wave of Hollywood lasts until 1976	New Hollywood	11%