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• 3. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt Ben's dream in the movie 21 is to transfer to this school. Berkeley Law School Stanford School of Medicine Yale Law School Harvard School of Medicine
• 6. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt What is the competition Ben and his friends are planning for? The MIT Annual Science Competition  2.0.9 Competition  The Test  Brilliant Challenges for Brilliant Minds
• 7. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt Ben is asked to join the card counting group and immediately agrees. True False
• 8. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt What numbers go with each of the following: Sweet, Eggs 16, 12 18, 16 12, 18 16, 18
• 10. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt What happens to Ben when he returns to MIT after getting caught by the Head of Security? He finds out his winnings are gone from his room.  He finds a note telling him he can't graduate.  He offers Rosa to join the team for a final hit in Vegas. All of these 
• 11. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt The movie 21 is based on true events. True False
• 12. Multiple Choice Edit 30 seconds 1 pt Is Card Counting illegal? Yes Only in Vegas No it is frowned upon.

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21 ( 2008 )

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Directed by: Robert Luketic

Starring: Kevin Spacey , Kate Bosworth , Jim Sturgess , Aaron Yoo

Genres: Crime , Drama

Question : When Cole Williams catches Ben counting, him and his assistant drag him down a hotel's basement. He mentions that Micky Rosa stole seven figures from his casino. The most from a counter in just one night, At the time, he was attending his father's funeral in Barlow. Now with all those cameras (probably way before facial recognition but still real humans watching those tables) in his casino, how could Micky Rosa get away with that much money?

Question : When Prof. Rosa asks Ben to answer a "quiz-question" in college about 3 doors of which only one has a brand new car behind it, he explains he has a chance of 33.3% of choosing the correct door. However, when Prof. Rosa opens one door and leaves Ben a new chance to choose he claims that his chances of choosing correctly have increased from 33.3% to 66.7%, but as he already knows what is behind one of the doors, the car must be behind one of the other doors. Shouldn't his chances now be 50% in stead of 66.7%?

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Chosen answer: No, the 66.7% (2/3) chance, while counter-intuitive, is correct. See here for a much more detailed and thorough explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem.

Question : If the 21 game is still played in casinos, there could be hundreds of geniuses who can count and cheat the system as shown in the film. Is this a possibility, or have casinos adopted extra security measures or something?

Answer: Casinos have always looked out for people counting cards, even before the real events that inspired this movie.

Answer: Yes, most casinos have now upgraded to the automated card shufflers, which constantly shuffle the cards after each deal, so there is no way that counting cards would be possible.

Question : How do the players beat the house?

Answer: They were card counting, specifically group card counting, which betters the odds of them winning. You can learn more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting.

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Answer: In addition to counting cards, their surreptitious or conniving behavior - in other words, their "underhanded" techniques (pun intended).

Question : I was under the impression, although I may be wrong, that winnings in Vegas are taxed over a certain amount, and that this is done in the casino when cashing out. At the end of the film, Lawrence Fishburn says that the IRS will be wanting to speak to Kevin Spacey , but how were they able to cash out the amounts they won whilst using fake id's? It doesn't mention it in the book either - I know for the purposes of the film this is soemthing they can gloss over, but I was wondering if it would be possible to win the amounts they are talking about and simply walk out with the cash? I know in one part they cash it in in smaller amounts, but surely the casino would be aware of a huge win on one of the tables, and would be expecting a big cash out?

Answer: Gambling winnings are taxable, but using fake IDs was one way of getting around the IRS. It was also mentioned in the book that the team would keep chips until their next Vegas trip to avoid cashing out. They would also exchange money with each other so everyone would come under the $10K limit before the casino had to file a Currency Transaction Report. Also, there is no reason not to assume they would place some of their winnings as "credit" for their next visit.

Question : What was the club they went to in the middle of the movie? Not the strip club, it was a dance club. The entry was a long hallway with red lights inside, then it opened up to the big dance area. Does anyone know? Thx.

Answer: That was filmed at Cherry at the Red Rock Casino Resort.

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Continuity mistake : When Prof. Rosa calls Cole, Terry answers the phone and places Rosa on hold. However, when Cole takes the phone from Terry, he does not take Rosa off of hold and proceeds to talk to him.

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Kianna: Everybody knows to split eights. My grandmother splits eights.

Trivia : When Cole is beating up Ben for counting cards, before it changes to the next scene, you can see Cole's arm stop for a brief second, which gives away that there is more to that scene.

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• What is Lt.Bradley Bradshaw's (Miles Teller) call sign in “Top Gun: Maverick"? Answer: Rooster
• In what movie did actor Tom Hanks make his directorial debut? Answer: “That Thing You Do”
• What 1980s TV show did actor Tom Hanks star as Buffy Wilson? Answer: “Bosom Buddies”
• In what 1988 movie did Tom Hanks play a young teen who wakes up a grown man after making a wish on a fortune-telling machine? Answer: “Big”
• What TV sitcom launched the career of "Big” director Penny Marshall? Answer: “Laverne & Shirley”
• After “Big,” Tom Hanks and Penny Marshall teamed up for which popular baseball movie? Answer: “A League of Their Own”
• What year was the first “Star Wars” released? Answer: 1977
• Which Star Wars actor required plastic surgery to rebuild his face after a 1977 car accident? Answer: Mark Hamill 
• Who plays the voice of Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” franchise? Answer: James Earl Jones
• In “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones suffers from ophidiophobia, which is a fear of what? Answer: Snakes
• Based on the Broadway musical by the same name, what 1978 movie features two star-crossed high schoolers who fall in love? Answer: “Grease”
• What’s the name of the high school that Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson attend in “Grease”? Answer: Rydell High
• Danny Zuko, Kenickie, Sonny and Putzie are all members of what gang in “Grease”? Answer: The T-Birds
• “Grease” received one Oscar nomination for best original song. Which song was it? Answer: “Hopelessly Devoted to You”
• What’s the name of the T-Birds’ rival gang in “Grease”? Answer: The Scorpions
• Prior to “Star Wars”, what film did Harrison Ford and George Lucas work on together? Answer: “American Graffiti” 
• In “The Empire Strikes Back,” what does Han Solo memorably say to Princess Leia after she confesses to love him? Answer: “I know.”
• What year was the film “Gone with the Wind” released? Answer: 1939
• What actor played Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind”?  Answer: Vivien Leigh
• Where does the film “Avatar” take place? Answer: Pandora
• What famous theater-writing duo wrote “The Sound of Music”? Answer: Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Who played the title character of Maria in “The Sound of Music”? Answer: Julie Andrews
• What instrument did Julie Andrews learn to play for her role as Maria in “The Sound of Music”? Answer: The guitar
• Which young actor auditioned for a role in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 horror film “Poltergeist” and ended up getting a leading role in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” instead? Answer: Drew Barrymore
• What phrase does E.T. famously say? Answer: “E.T. phone home”
• The role of Dr. Ellie Sattler in “Jurassic Park,” is played by what actor? Answer: Laura Dern
• What kind of container does Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) use to hide stolen dinosaur embryos in “Jurassic Park”? Answer: A can of Barbasol shaving cream
• Who wrote the book that inspired the film “Jurassic Park”? Answer: Michael Creighton
• What is the occupation of Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) in “Jurassic Park”? Answer: Paleontologist
• Which 1975 film is considered to be the very first summer blockbuster? Answer: “Jaws”
• In the movie “Jaws,” the fictional Amity Island is actually what real-life Massachusetts island? Answer: Martha’s Vineyard
• What iconic “Jaws” movie quote spoken by Chief Martin Brody was ad-libbed by actor Roy Scheider? Answer: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
• In “The Lord of the Rings,” how many Rings of Power are there in total? Answer: 20
• What memorable nickname does Gollum (originally Sméagol) give to the One Ring in “Lord of the Rings”? Answer: My Precious
• Actor Bill Pullman notably plays President Thomas Whitmore in what 1996 summer blockbuster? Answer: “Independence Day”
• The movie “The Shawshank Redemption” is based on a short story written by which horror writer? Answer: Stephen King
• In “The Shawshank Redemption,” what is inmate Andy Dufresne’s (Tim Robbins) occupation? Answer: A banker
• Who plays the role of Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding in “The Shawshank Redemption”? Answer: Morgan Freeman
• In 2005, Morgan Freeman won an Oscar for best actor for his role as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris in what film? Answer: “Million Dollar Baby”

'80s and '90s movie trivia

• In the 1995 movie "While You Were Sleeping," Sandra Bullock portrays a ticket booth operator in what city? Answer: Chicago
• In what 1981 movie did Tom Cruise make his film debut?  Answer: “Endless Love”
• In what 1983 movie does actor Tom Cruise dance in his underwear to the song “Old Time Rock & Roll”? Answer: “Risky Business”
• What song do Meg Ryan and Anthony Edwards sing together in “Top Gun?” Answer: “Great Balls of Fire”
• What is the name of the 1989 baseball movie starring James Earl Jones and Kevin Costner? Answer: “Field of Dreams”
• What's the name of the priceless necklace Rose throws at the end of "Titanic"? Answer: Heart of the Ocean
• Only one of the movies from the Indiana Jones movie series has been nominated for best picture at the Oscars. Which one? Answer: “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
• Which legendary director and producer teamed up to make “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? Answer: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas
• In “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” which archeological treasure are Indiana Jones and his father trying to find? Answer: The Holy Grail
• Which child actor from “The Temple of Doom” won a Golden Globe for his role in the 2022 film “Everything Everywhere All at Once”? Answer: Ke Huy Quan
• Who recorded the song “Danger Zone” from “Top Gun”? Answer: Kenny Loggins
• The “Top Gun” song “Take My Breath Away” won an Oscar for best original song in 1987. Who recorded the song? Answer: Berlin
• Which Michael Myers and Dana Carvey sketch from SNL was turned into a successful movie and sequel? Answer: “Wayne’s World”
• In “Wayne’s World,” what Queen song do Wayne and Garth rock out to while driving in their car? Answer: “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• Aside from “Titanic,” what other film do Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio notably share the screen? Answer: “Revolutionary Road”
• In the movie “Dirty Dancing,” what is Baby’s real first name? Answer: Frances
• What’s the name of the Catskills resort where Baby Houseman and her family stay for the summer in “Dirty Dancing”? Answer: Kellerman’s Mountain House
• Jerry Orbach, who played Baby’s father in “Dirty Dancing,” starred in what popular crime TV series? Answer: “Law & Order”
• In what movie does “Dirty Dancing” star Patrick Swayze, play a bouncer at a bar? Answer: “Road House”
• “Dirty Dancing” took home an Oscar in 1988 in what category? Answer: Best Original Song, “(I’ve Had) The Time of my Life”
• Which 1990 movie did Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore star in? Answer: “Ghost”
• Which “Ghost” actor won an Oscar for best supporting actress in the film? Answer: Whoopi Goldberg
• In the movie “Indecent Proposal,” how much money does John offer Diana Murphy to spend one night with him? Answer: $1 million
• In which 1988 movie did Julia Roberts play Daisy, a waitress at a pizza shop? Answer: “Mystic Pizza”
• Julia Roberts received her first Oscar nomination for her role in what 1989 movie? Answer: “Steel Magnolias”
• Which country music legend stars alongside Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts in “Steel Magnolias”? Answer: Dolly Parton
• What’s the name of the beauty parlor in “Steel Magnolias”? Answer: Truvy’s salon
• What 1980 movie does Dolly Parton star in with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, as well as sing the Oscar-nominated title song for? Answer: “9 to 5”
• What two movies do Richard Gere and Julia Roberts star in together? Answer: “Pretty Woman” and “Runaway Bride”
• What Prince song does Vivian (Julia Roberts) sing while taking a bath in “Pretty Woman”? Answer: “Kiss”
• How much money does Edward Lewis pay Vivian to spend the week with him in “Pretty Woman”? Answer: $3,000
• In what 1972 film does Marlon Brando utter "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse?" Answer: "The Godfather"
• What author wrote the book "The Godfather," in which the movie is based? Answer: Mario Puzo
• In "The Godfather," who is killed by a car bomb intended for Michael Corleone? Answer: His wife, Apollonia
• What 1984 Oscar-winning movie also features a character named Apollonia? Answer: "Purple Rain"
• Where does the movie "Purple Rain" take place? Answer: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• The recipient of a Best Music Oscar for "Purple Rain," what is Prince's full name? Answer: Prince Rogers Nelson

2000s movie trivia

• In which street-racing movie did Gal Gadot make her film debut? Answer: “Fast & Furious”
• Gal Gadot played “Wonder Woman” on the big screen, but which actor played the DC Comics superhero on television from 1975 to 1979? Answer: Lynda Carter
• How many Infinity Stones are there in “Avengers: Endgame”? Answer: Six
• What colors are the Infinity Stones from “Avengers” Endgame?” Answer: Blue, yellow, red, purple, green and orange
• In the Marvel movies, what do the letters of the law-enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for? Answer: Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division
• Which vampire movie did Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart star in? Answer: “Twilight”
• As a child, Kristen Stewart starred in a thriller with Jodie Foster. Which one? Answer: “Panic Room”
• What town does “Twilight” take place in? Answer: Forks, Washington
• In “Twilight,” Bella moves to Washington from which state? Answer: Arizona
• What sport do the vampires in “Twilight” enjoy playing? Answer: Baseball
• What actor plays Lt. James Gordon in "The Dark Knight"? Answer: Gary Oldman
• Russell Crowe plays a captive Roman General who must battle opponents to the death in what Oscar-winning film? Answer: "Gladiator"
• What 2008 movie revolves around a Mumbai orphan who's accused of cheating on a television trivia show? Answer: "Slumdog Millionaire"
• In the film "There Will Be Blood," what actor portrays greedy oilman, Daniel Plainview? Answer: Daniel Day Lewis
• "A Beautiful Mind" chronicles the life of what real-life mathematician? Answer: John Nash
• What is the name of the dog in the animated movie "Up"? Answer: Dug
• What actor won an Oscar for his portrayal of a Polish classical pianist desperate to survive during WWII? Answer: Adrien Brody
• Kate Hudson stars as a magazine writer who tries to ditch her new flame through a series of zany stunts in what 2003 rom-com? Answer: "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"
• What is the name of the whisky Bill Murray is promoting as a washed up movie star in the movie "Lost in Translation"? Answer: Suntory
• Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line" chronicles the life of what country singer? Answer: Johnny Cash
• What movie starring George Clooney and John Turturro as prison escapees spawned a chart-topping soundtrack by the same name? Answer: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• What song does Olive (Abigail Breslin) dance to in the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant? Answer: "Super Freak"
• Denzel Washington plays a high school football coach in what inspiring football movie? Answer: "Remember the Titans"
• What are the names of the star-crossed lovers played by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in "The Notebook"? Answer: Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton
• Kirsten Dunst stars as a high school cheerleader in what 2000 movie? Answer: "Bring It On"
• The song "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" is from what 2002 movie starring Britney Spears? Answer: "Crossroads"
• America Ferrera stars in this 2005 film about best friends based on the young-adult book by the same name. Answer: "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
• Inspired by real life, what actor plays Vince Papale, a teacher who becomes a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles in the movie "Invincible"? Answer: Mark Wahlberg

Disney movie trivia

• What are the names of the meerkat and the warthog in “The Lion King”? Answer: Timon and Pumbaa
• In the animated film “Sleeping Beauty,” what does Princess Aurora prick her finger on? Answer: A spinning wheel
• In the 1964 movie “Mary Poppins,” what helps make the “medicine go down?” Answer: A spoonful of sugar
• What are the names of Cinderella’s two stepsisters? Answer: Drizella and Anastasia
• What “Murder She Wrote” actor plays the voice of Mrs. Potts in “Beauty and the Beast”? Answer: Angela Lansbury
• Anika Noni Rose is the voice of Tiana in which animated Disney film? Answer: “The Princess and the Frog”
• The movie “The Mighty Ducks” is about what kind of sports team? Answer: Hockey
• In “Freaky Friday,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, what food item causes the mother and daughter to switch bodies? Answer: A fortune cookie
• Which rock guitarist does Johnny Depp say inspired his portrayal of Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean”? Answer: Keith Richards
• What blockbuster sci-fi movie did Keira Knightley appear in prior to “Pirates of the Caribbean”? Answer: “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace”
• In “Pirates of the Caribbean,” what’s the name of Captain Barbossa’s monkey? Answer: Jack
• Shia LaBeouf and Sigourney Weaver star in what 2003 movie about a boy sentenced to work at a desert camp? Answer: “Holes”
• Who plays the voice of Dory, a memory-challenged fish in “Finding Nemo?” Answer: Ellen Degeneres
• What is the name of the snowman in “Frozen”? Answer: Olaf
• The movie “Frozen” is based on the book “The Snow Queen” written by what Danish author known for penning fairy tales? Answer: Hans Christian Andersen
• What is Helen’s superpower in the movie “The Incredibles”? Answer: She’s Elastigirl
• Who plays Fairy Godmother in the 1997 live-action TV movie “Cinderella”? Answer: Whitney Houston
• What is the name of Jafar’s parrot in the 1992 animated feature “Aladdin”? Answer: lago
• What 1996 Disney movie won an Oscar for the original song “Colors of the Wind”? Answer: “Pocahontas”
• What utensil does Ariel use to comb her long red hair in 1989 animated movie “The Little Mermaid”? Answer: A fork
• What actor voices the wisecracking dragon, Mushu, in the 1998 movie “Mulan”? Answer: Eddie Murphy
• Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana star in what 2014 intergalactic Disney movie? Answer: “Guardians of the Galaxy”
• Peter, Lucy, Susan and Edmund Pevensie crawl through a wardrobe and find what magical land on the other side? Answer: Narnia
• Kuzco, Pacha, Yzma and Kronk are all characters in what 2000 animated feature? Answer: “The Emperor’s New Groove”
• Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox star in this 2002 Disney movie about baseball. What is it? Answer: “The Rookie”

Harry Potter movie trivia

• What are the names of Ron Weasley’s twin brothers in the "Harry Potter" series? Answer: Fred and George
• What animal is Harry Potter’s Patronus? Answer: A stag
• Which British actress plays the role of Bellatrix Lestrange in the "Harry Potter" movies? Answer: Helena Bonham Carter
• Who does Kenneth Branagh play in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”? Answer: Gilderoy Lockhart
• In “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” what’s the name of the potion that turns Harry and Ron into Crabbe and Goyle? Answer: Polyjuice Potion
• What does the Hogwarts’ motto “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus” mean? Answer: Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
• What’s the name of Argus Filch’s cat from the "Harry Potter" movies? Answer: Mrs. Norris
• Actor Ralph Fiennes plays what role in the Harry Potter movie franchise? Answer: Voldemort
• What is the name of the bothersome ghost who haunts the girls' bathroom at Hogwarts? Answer: Moaning Myrtle
• Which Harry Potter candy comes in spinach, liver and booger among other flavors? Answer: Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
• What actor played the role of Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Answer: Richard Harris
• What is the name of Draco Malfoy's father? Answer: Lucius
• What are the four houses at Hogwarts? Answer: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin
• Before “Twilight,” Robert Pattinson appeared in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” as what character? Answer: Cedric Diggory
• Professor Severus Snape was fueled by his unrequited love for who? Answer: Lily Potter (Harry's mother)
• What position does Harry Potter play in Quidditch? Answer: Seeker
• Actor Imelda Staunton plays what smug villain in Harry Potter? Answer: Dolores Umbridge
• What is the name of Ron Weasley's rat? Answer: Scabbers
• Which aunt does Harry Potter turn into a balloon? Answer: Aunt Marge
• Which American composer and conductor composed "Hedwig's Theme," otherwise known as the "Harry Potter Theme"? Answer: John Williams
• In "The Goblet of Fire," what Olympics-style competition is Harry Potter competing in? Answer: The Triwizard Tournament

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1. What film was released in 2021 and was directed by Denis Villeneuve ?

Dune: Part One

2. Who directed the 2023 film Poor Things ?

Yorgos Lanthimos

3. What film is a biopic of the Von Erich family released in 2023?

The Iron Claw

4. Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film There Will Be Blood ?

Daniel Day-Lewis

5. What year was the movie Gone With The Wind released?

6. What A24 film was released in 2022 and won Best Picture at the Academy Awards?

Everything Everywhere All At Once

7. What is the name of the serial killer in the film The Silence of The Lambs?

Buffalo Bill

8. Who is the lead actress in the film Killers of The Flower Moon?

Lily Gladstone

9. In the movie The Matrix , what is Neo's real name?

Thomas Anderson

10. What 2006 fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro features a faun as a central character?

Pan's Labyrinth

11. Which classic film ends with the line, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"?

12. who directed the 2017 film get out.

Jordan Peele

13. What is the name of the fictional African country in the movie Black Panther ?

14. in the film blade runner, what is the name of the company that created the replicants.

Tyrell Corporation

15. What 1990 movie starred Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg?

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James Franco

18. What are the names of the two main characters in La La Land?

Mia and Sebastian

19. Who directed the 1994 film Pulp Fiction ?

Quentin Tarantino

20. Who voiced Mushu in Mulan ?

Eddie Murphy

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A necklace.

24. What famous star produced Barbie?

Margot Robbie

25. What score does Elle get on her LSAT exam in Legally Blonde ?

26. Who is the director of Oppenheimer?

Christopher Nolan

27. What is the name of the 1992 movie starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis?

A League of Their Own

28. What breakfast food does Donkey want to make with Shrek in Shrek ?

29. which one of voldemort's horcruxes was destroyed last in harry potter and the deathly hallows — part 2.

Nagini the snake

30. In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , who is the first kid the Oompa Loompas sing about?

Augustus Gloop

31. What color did Frenchy dye her hair in Grease?

32. who voiced coraline in coraline.

Dakota Fanning

33. Where do Kat and Patrick first kiss in 10 Things I Hate About You?

A paintball arena

34. Who voiced Jessie in Toy Story 2?

Joan Cusack

35. In Breakfast At Tiffany's , what is the name of Holly Golightly's cat?

36. Black Panther made history as the first superhero film nominated for what award?

Best Picture Oscar

37. What film was Kate Winslet's first movie?

Heavenly Creatures

38. In The Lion King , Mufasa dies from being trampled by a pack of:

Wildebeests

39. Adjusted for inflation, which movie has made more money in the domestic box office: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Sound of Music, or Gone with the Wind?

Gone with the Wind

40. Jordan Belfort works for which firm in The Wolf of Wall Street ?

L.F. Rothschild

41. What iconic line does Miranda Priestly say when dismissing Andy in The Devil Wears Prada ?

“That's all.”

42. What film was Keanu Reeves' movie debut?

43. who does patrick swayze pick up in an iconic lift in dirty dancing.

Jennifer Grey

44. In Inception , how many dream levels does the crew enter?

45. which song does jenna rink perform to in 13 going on 30 .

46. What is the movie in which Jim Carrey discovers that his everyday life is really a TV show about him?

The Truman Show

47. What was Emma Stone's character named in Crazy, Stupid Love?

48. where does sex and the city 2 take place, 49. who plays bob woodward in all the president's men .

Robert Redford

50. What are the five student stereotypes in Breakfast Club ?

"A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse."

51. Which literary icon reviews Gil Pender's manuscript in Midnight in Paris ?

Gertrude Stein

52. What was the first James Bond movie ever made?

53. where do noah calhoun and allie hamilton meet in the notebook , 54. 'the matrix' code in the matrix came from recipes for which kind of food, 55. what's the last word in this famous toy story quote: "to infinity and ____".

56. What is the name of the fictional kingdom where Frozen takes place?

57. what was the name of the movie created in bowfinger .

"Chubby Rain"

58. When did Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere?

59. which animal is killed in fatal attraction , 60. which holiday do meg ryan and billy crystal celebrate at the end of when harry met sally .

New Year's Eve

61. Which of the following is NOT true about Star Wars: A New Hope: almost every studio passed on making it, George Lucas gave up an extra directing fee in exchange for the merchandising and sequel rights, or the film won the Best Picture Oscar at the 1978 Academy Awards?

NOT TRUE: The film won the Best Picture Oscar at the 1978 Academy Awards

62. True or false: Janet Jackson turned down the role of Lisa McDowell in The Nightmare Before Christmas ?

63. what was scream originally called.

It was originally called  Scary Movie.

64. Which of these facts is true about The Departed: Martin Scorsese had been wanting to make it since the early '90s; it is a remake of a Hong Kong film; or Robert Redford was everyone's first choice to play Frank Costello?

TRUE: It is a remake of a Hong Kong film.

65. In The Matrix , what color are the two pills that Morpheus gives Neo to choose between?

Red and blue

66. Which horror movie is this quote from: "Sometimes, dead is better"?

Pet Sematary 

67. What was the name of the fashion line named after Derek Zoolander in Zoolander ?

"Derelicte"

68. What's the last word of this famous Mean Girls quote: "You don't even go ____!"

69. where do ferris and his friends not go to in ferris bueller's day off : the top of the sears tower, a chicago bears game, or the art institute of chicago.

They don't go to a Chicago Bears game.

70. Which famous British comedian voiced Zazu in The Lion King (1994)?

Rowan Atkinson

71. Where does Hugh Grant's character work in Notting Hill?

A travel bookshop

72. True or false: Amy Heckerling — who wrote and directed Clueless — originally pitched the movie as a TV series for Fox.

73. what's the last word in this famous quote: "i'm going to make him an offer he can't ________.", 74. in avengers: infinity war , what planet does thor travel to to create stormbreaker, 75. which movie is this the poster for.

Silence of the Lambs

76. Who is the youngest Oscar winner of all time?

Tatum O'Neal

77. Who directed Us ?

78. how many pixar animated films have been released, 79. who directed kill bill , 80. what did regina george's shirt say in this scene.

"A Little Bit Dramatic"

81. What language is the movie Pan's Labyrinth in?

82. which final destination movie has a number of deaths that take place on a roller coaster.

Final Destination 3

83. What did Zach Galifianakis call the baby in The Hangover ?

84. what year did bring it on come out, 85. who played elliot page's love interest in the movie juno .

Michael Cera

86. Which child from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory found the first Golden Ticket?

87. what was in the box in se7en .

Mills's (Brad Pitt) wife's head

88. Which of these movies did Meryl Streep NOT win an Oscar for: Kramer vs. Kramer , Doubt , The Iron Lady , or Sophie's Choice ?

She didn't win an Oscar for  Doubt.

89. Which actor — in one of their first roles — played a young Wendy Darling in Hook ?

Gwyneth Paltrow

90. Who does Oprah Winfrey play in A Wrinkle in Time ?

91. Which actor did Steven Spielberg originally want for the role of Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park ?

Harrison Ford

92. What was the first movie to feature a toilet flushing?

93. what was the first animated movie to be nominated for best picture at the oscars.

Beauty and the Beast

94. Which celebrity's face is the Michael Myers mask in Halloween a replica of?

William Shatner

95. Which of these is not one of the Seven Dwarfs: Bashful, Angry, Dopey, Doc?

Angry is not one of the Seven Dwarfs

96. What kind of pet did Norma Desmond have in Sunset Boulevard ?

A chimpanzee

97. Which of these nominated musicals won the Oscar for Best Picture: The Wizard of Oz, La La Land , Cabaret , or West Side Story (1961)?

West Side Story

98. Which actor was originally cast as Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet : Kate Winslet, Liv Tyler, or Natalie Portman?

Natalie Portman

99. Who starred as Arnold Schwarzenegger's twin in the 1988 movie Twins ?

Danny DeVito

100. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off , who does Ferris claim to be at the door of the restaurant?

Abe Froman, Sausage King of Chicago

101. In Citizen Kane , what was "Rosebud" a reference to?

His childhood sled

102. What live animal came out of Tony Todd's mouth in the infamous Candyman scene?

103. the character ellen ripley is from which movie or series, 104. what movie is this sidney poitier quote from "they call me mister tibbs".

In the Heat of the Night

105. What makes the Parks come home early from vacation in the movie Parasite ?

A thunderstorm

106. What comes out of Paddy's mouth when he dies in The Blue Lagoon ?

107. what's the last word in this famous jaws quote: "you're gonna need a bigger _____.", 108. what brand of underwear does marty wear in back to the future .

Calvin Klein

109. What's the name of the magazine Jenna edits in 13 Going On 30 ?

110. in bambi , what is the name of bambi's skunk friend.

111. Which actor was cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future before he was let go and replaced by Michael J. Fox: Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, or Eric Stoltz?

Eric Stoltz

112. In Coming to America , what does Semmi install in the cheap apartment that he and Prince Akeem rent?

113. which of these disney movies was released first: pocahontas , mulan , the lion king , or toy story .

The Lion King

114. In Clueless , how does Cher choose her outfits?

With a computer program

115. Which movie is this screencap from?

Mad Max: Fury Road

116. In The Naked Gun , what two valuable items does Lieutenant Drebin manage to destroy at once?

A fish and a pen

117. Which designer made a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada : Valentino, Ralph Lauren, or Calvin Klein?

118. in avengers: infinity war , what does thanos say to thor after he stabs him in the chest with stormbreaker.

"You should have gone for the head."

119. Why does Elle's deceitful boyfriend break up with her at the beginning of Legally Blonde ?

He wants to be a politician.

120. Phil, Stu, and Alan spend all of The Hangover looking for their friend Doug. Where do they eventually find him?

On the roof

121. What's the last word in this Gone With the Wind quote: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a _______."

122. what was brad pitt's first movie.

The Dark Side of the Sun

123. Including the 2018 film, how many versions of A Star Is Born are there?

124. in look who's talking , what does john travolta's character do for a living.

He's a taxi driver.

125. What was Meg Ryan's username in You've Got Mail ?

126. In Elvira, Mistress of the Dark , what does Elvira drive into the head of the villain who attacks her in the cemetery?

Her stiletto heel

127. Who played Bruce Wayne in The Batman (2022)?

Robert Pattinson

128. What's the name of Chris Pratt's character in Jurassic World ?

129. in what year did keanu reeves make his movie debut, 130. where does the help take place.

Jackson, Mississippi

131. In Easy A , what’s the name of Olive’s high school?

Ojai North High School

132. Who played Adam Reed in The Adam Project ?

Ryan Reynolds

133. What does Charlie use to write a letter to a friend in the opening scene of The Perks of Being a Wallflower ?

A pencil and paper

134. In Mean Girls , what's the name of the restaurant to which Cady receives gift certificates when she wins Spring Fling Queen?

Walker Brothers Pancake House

135. Finish this quote from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring : "One does not simply walk into ____."

136. What was Chadwick Boseman's first movie?

The Express

137. In Shrek , what does Shrek compare ogres to?

138. in mean girls , what does gretchen claim her father invented.

Toaster Strudels

139. Who plays Jackson Briggs in Dog ?

Channing Tatum

140. In Rear Window (1954), what is Jeff Jefferies recovering from when he thinks he witnesses a murder across the courtyard?

A broken leg

141. Which actor played adult Simba in the 2019 version of The Lion King ?

Donald Glover

142. What novel does Rusty give to his girlfriend Kate in Stuck in Love ?

It by Stephen King

143. Who plays Madea in Madea Homecoming ?

Tyler Perry

144. In Ice Age , which character is a saber-toothed tiger?

145. which song does joanna sing at the holiday concert in love actually .

"All I Want for Christmas Is You"

146. What was the name of Reese Witherspoon's first movie?

The Man in the Moon

147. In Frozen , is Kristoff raised by mountain lions, villagers, or trolls?

148. according to forrest's mom, what is life like in forrest gump .

A box of chocolates

149. Which mixed martial arts legend appeared in Furious 7 ?

Ronda Rousey

150. What is Edward's last name in Twilight ?

151. Who plays Zoey Baker in Cheaper by the Dozen (2022)?

Gabrielle Union

152. In The Hunger Games , who does Katniss volunteer to replace after their name is drawn from the reaping bowl?

153. which of these characters is not in 2012's the avengers: hulk, thor, spider-man, or hawkeye, 154. in titanic , what is the name of rose's necklace.

The Heart of the Ocean

155. In Slumdog Millionaire , what is the grand prize question Jamal is asked?

"Who is the third musketeer?"

156. In The Wedding Planner , Mary's heel gets stuck in a manhole cover when what starts racing toward her?

A runaway dumpster

157. Who plays Jodi Kreyman in Tall Girl ?

Ava Michelle

158. What is the name of the Princess who Lord Farquaad wants to marry in Shrek ?

159. in toy story , which of these is not one of buzz lightyear's features: a space helmet, lasers, wings, or a grappling hook.

A grappling hook

160. Finish the lyric to Frozen II 's hit song "Into the Unknown": "Everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls, _________________________."

"I'm sorry, secret siren, but I'm blocking out your calls."

161. In which decade did Halle Berry make her movie debut?

162. what is the name of the superweapon that lord business steals in the lego movie , 163. in paddington , where does montgomery clyde find paddington's aunt and uncle, 164. in the movie babe , what is babe's role on the farm.

Sheep herding

165. Which Las Vegas hotel is the main target of Danny Ocean and his team in Ocean's Eleven ?

The Bellagio

166. What is the name of Hiccup's village in the How to Train Your Dragon series?

167. what is lightning mcqueen's number in cars , 168. after the great pyramid of giza gets stolen, what does gru plan on stealing in despicable me , 169. where's the college that aimee ends up attending in the spectacular now .

Philadelphia

170. According to The Princess Diaries , what fruit is Genovia famous for?

171. Who killed Manny's family in Ice Age ?

172. according to diary of a wimpy kid , what automatically makes you an outcast.

The Cheese Touch

173. In which decade did Kate Winslet make her movie debut?

174. in the to all the boys i’ve loved before movie, where does lara jean and peter’s first ~high school~ kiss take place.

On the school running track

175. What does Mia mistakenly snort and overdose on in Pulp Fiction ?

176. What’s the name of Hazel’s favorite author in The Fault in Our Stars ?

Peter Van Houten

177. In The Kissing Booth , what's the theme of the senior prom?

178. in avengers: endgame , who are the first heroes to come out of a portal to help during the final battle with thanos.

Black Panther, Okoye, and Shuri

179. In Aladdin , what does Aladdin gets chased through the town for stealing?

A loaf of bread

180. In The Truman Show , why is Truman afraid of water?

There was an accident involving his father.

181. In Avatar , what's the name of the alien world that humans are visiting in their "avatar" form?

182. in titanic , as rose begins to share her titanic experience, how long does she say has passed, 183. which of these is not one of billy batson's shazam powers: super strength, invisibility, or flight.

Invisibility

184. What are the first words spoken in Star Wars: The Force Awakens ?

"This will begin to make things right."

185. In Crazy Rich Asians , what country do Rachel and Nick travel to to attend a wedding?

186. What is Andy Dufresne's first assignment when he gets to prison in The Shawshank Redemption ?

Prison laundry

187. In Spider-Man: Homecoming , Peter Parker's main nemesis goes by what name?

188. the original blade runner movie takes place in what year, 189. what is the name of roger rabbit's wife in who framed roger rabbit , 190. in dead poets society , what does john keating teach.

191. Which house wins the Quidditch game in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ?

192. in men in black , will smith's character is known as agent..., 193. in raiders of the lost ark , what is the name of indiana jones's rival who also hunts for the ark of the covenant.

René Belloq

194. Which museum does Night at the Museum take place at?

The Museum of Natural History in New York City

195. In Get Out , what is Chris Washington's job?

Photographer

196. What do the kids nickname Mr. Mertle's dog in The Sandlot ?

197. how many exes does scott pilgrim fight in scott pilgrim vs. the world , 198. what team does pat's dad bet on in silver linings playbook .

The Philadelphia Eagles

199. Where is Kevin McAllister's family when they realize they forgot Kevin in Home Alone ?

200. in the terminator , which character is the terminator sent to kill.

Sarah Connor

201. What is the name of Vito's youngest son in The Godfather ?

202. what is the name of the main antagonist in saw , 203. what is the name of humphrey bogart's character in the african queen .

Charlie Allnut

204. In Girls Trip , why does the group of friends travel to New Orleans?

To attend Essence Fest.

205. Who is the first person to die in A Nightmare on Elm Street ?

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Ultimate Movie Trivia: 200 Mind-Blowing Questions and Answers

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200 Best Movie Trivia Questions and Answers

What is the highest-grossing holiday movie of all time?

Answer: The Grinch (followed by Home Alone ).

Which Marvel supervillain is the sworn enemy of Professor X, known for his purple garb and metal helmet?

Answer: Magneto.

What planet is Luke Skywalker from?

Answer: Tatooine.

The post-credit sequence of The Eternals introduces Harry Styles as Thanos’s brother Starfox, also known by the name of what Greek god?

Answer: Eros.

Which of these Disney movies was released first: Pocahontas, Tarzan, The Lion King, or Toy Story ?

Answer: The Lion King (1994).

The villains in the 2007 version of the movie Transformers are known as what?

Answer: Decepticons.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is based on whose story idea?

Answer: George Lucas.

Get Out, Us, and Nope were all directed by who?

Answer: Jordan Peele.

Who is the actor that plays Aquaman?

Answer: Jason Momoa.

Which actor hit the red carpet at a 2014 Berlin movie premier with a paper bag on his head that said “I am not famous anymore”?

Answer: Shia LaBeouf.

What did Ron Burgundy call his trusted sidekick dog in the Anchorman movies–Bixby, Baxter, or Buster?

Answer: Baxter.

Which of these is not the name of a Disney princess’ animal friend–Gus, Pascal, Remy, or Mushu?

Answer: Remy.

The famous quote “on Wednesdays we wear pink” comes from which movie?

Answer: Mean Girls .

How many Harry Potter movies were there in total?

What feline breed is Mr. Bigglesworth, the hairless cat of Dr. Evil, in the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember ?

Answer: Hairless Sphynx cat.

In which 2012 film was James Bond believed to have died while trying to retrieve a stolen disc containing the identity of MI6 agents?

Answer: Skyfall .

In which 2010 psychological thriller does Leonardo DiCaprio hack into people’s minds to steal secrets and plant ideas?

Answer: Inception . 

Which actress lends her voice to Samanta, the computer ‘girlfriend’ of Theodore Twombly in the 2013 movie Her ?

Answer: Scarlett Johansson.

Which actor created, produced, and narrated the 2007 documentary The 11th Hour , about our impact on Earth’s ecosystems?

Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio (more than 50 scientists, politicians, and activists participated in it).

What are the two highest-grossing films of all time?

Answer: Avatar and Avengers: End Game .

Which former politician narrated the Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth , which warns about climate change?

Answer: Al Gore.

Which 2014 film features Matthew McConaughey traveling through a wormhole to find a new home for Earth’s endangered population?

Answer: Interstellar .

What 2014 blockbuster begins ten years after the Simian Flu wiped out most humans?

Answer: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes .

In what 2012 time-travel thriller, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, are mob targets disposed of 30 years in the past?

Answer: Looper .

What film was Leonardo DiCaprio’s first—and only—Oscar for Best Actor (Motion Picture Drama) at the 2016 Academy Awards for?

Answer: The Revenant .

What name did Elle Woods give her Chihuahua in Legally Blonde ?

Answer: Bruiser.

What 1978 zombie film was set in a shopping mall in Pittsburgh?

Answer: Dawn of the Dead .

Which actor paired up with Tom Cruise as his stunt double “Tom Crooze” in a short film at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards show?

Answer: Ben Stiller.

What country is the scene of the high-stakes card game in the 2006 film Casino Royale ? Answer: Montenegro.

Which Oscar-winning Martin Scorsese film was a remake of a 2002 Hong Kong crime drama called Infernal Affairs?

Answer: The Departed .

For which film did Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep share the Silver Bear award at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival?

Answer: The Hours .

Which animated character celebrated its 42nd birthday in 2006 with a new film starring Steve Martin as a French detective who doesn’t have a clue?

Answer: The Pink Panther .

Which actor played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows ?

Answer: Ralph Fiennes.

In which 2012 movie does plantation owner Calvin Candie, who doesn’t know a word of French, insist on being called “Monsieur”?

Answer: Django Unchained .

What is the real name of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Answer: Smeagol.

What character is responsible for the death of Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ?

Answer: Leia.

Which 2015 Rebel Wilson sequel begins with a humiliating wardrobe malfunction witnessed by the US president and first lady?

Answer: Pitch Perfect 2 .

What futuristic desert thriller, rebooted in 2015 after 30 years, is the first in the franchise to not star Mel Gibson in the role of the title character?

Answer: Mad Max: Fury Road (Tom Hardy is the lead role).

Which actor plays Mike in Magic Mike XXL ?

Answer: Channing Tatum.

In which post-apocalyptic 2009 film does Woody Harrelson play a man on a mission to find a Twinkie?

Answer: Zombieland .

Which British ruler is the king in The King’s Speech , which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2011?

Answer: George VI.

Who directed Kill Bill ?

Answer: Quentin Tarantino.

Who played Penguin in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns ?

Answer: Danny DeVito.

In Shrek , who is the short and evil antagonist’s name?

Answer: Lord Maximus Farquaad.

What is the name of the snowman in Frozen ?

Answer: Olaf.

What language is the movie Pan’s Labyrinth in?

Answer: Spanish.

Which actor played adult Simba in the 2019 version of The Lion King ?

Answer: Donald Glover.

What is the name of the actor that played Jacob in the Twilight series?

Answer: Taylor Lautner.

What X-Men character did Halle Berry play?

Answer: Storm.

Who directed Midnight In Paris ?

Answer: Woody Allen.

Who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network ?

Answer: Jesse Eisenberg.

In Nacho Libre , what are the names of the two main characters played by Jack Black and Hector Jimenez?

Answer: Ignacio (Nacho) and Esqueleto.

What is the name of the English bulldog at 221B Baker Street in the Robert Downey, Jr. film Sherlock Holmes –is it Churchill, Gladstone, or Thatcher?

Answer: Gladstone.

What role did Margot Robbie play in Batman ?

Answer: Harley Quinn.

What role did John Cena play in Suicide Squad ?

Answer: Peacemaker.

What type of metal are Wolverine’s claws made of?

Answer: Adamantium.

What is the material used in making Captain America’s shield?

Answer: Vibranium.

Who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas ?

Answer: Henry Selick.

What did Zach Galifianakis call the baby in The Hangover ?

Answer: Carlos.

Phil, Stu, and Alan spend all of The Hangover looking for their friend Doug. Where do they eventually find him?

Answer: On the roof.

What are the names of the Star Wars films released in the ’80s?

Answer: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi .

What’s the last word in this Gone With the Wind quote: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a _______.”

Answer: Damn.

What is the last word in this quote from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring : “One does not simply walk into ____.”

Answer: Mordor.

In Citizen Kane , what was “Rosebud” a reference to?

Answer: His childhood sled.

On the rating of a movie, the ‘R’ stands for what?

Answer: Restricted.

What is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s name in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw ?

Answer: Luke Hobbs.

What are the names of the Weasley twins in Harry Potter?

Answer: Fred and George.

Who played the lead female role in Thor: Love And Thunder ?

Answer: Natalie Portman.

Who is the director of Saw, Aquaman, and Furious 7 ?

Answer: James Wan.

What movie is The Disaster Artist based on?

Answer: The Room. 

Who directed Citizen Kane , a 1941 American drama film?

Answer: Orson Welles.

Who founded the first film production company in France, which created more than 400 films from 1896 to 1913 — was it Pierre Étaix, August Lumiere, or Georges Méliès?

Answer: Georges Méliès.

Who currently holds the most Academy Awards?

Answer: Walt Disney with 22 awards.

What 2002 prize-winning novel by British write Ian McEwan was made into an Oscar-nominated film with Keira Knightly and James McAvoy?

Answer: Atonement .

What animal is named Richard Parker in The Life of Pi , a novel that was eventually made into a 2012 film?

Answer: Tiger.

What city is the post-apocalyptic setting for the three Divergent novels that star Shailene Woodley in the film adaptations?

Answer: Chicago.

Which child from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory found the first Golden Ticket?

Answer: Agustus Gloop.

What is Edward’s last name in Twilight ?

Answer: Cullen.

What 1982 film was the highest-grossing film of the 1980s at the U.S. box office?

Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial .

What three-word book sums up the 2010 Julia Roberts film about traveling to Italy, India, and Bali to find oneself?

Answer: Eat Pray Love .

At the end of Annie Hall , what actress plays Woody Allen’s girlfriend?

Answer: Sigourney Weaver.

What R&B musician created the title track for the movie Ghostbusters ?

Answer: Ray Parker Jr.

“A Spoonful of Sugar” is a song from what movie?

Answer: Mary Poppins .

What is the first CGI lead character in a feature-length film?

Answer: Casper the ghost. 

Name the actress that appears in all of the following movies: Mean Girls, About Time, Sherlock Holmes, and Wedding Crashers .

Answer: Rachel McAdams.

What Pulp Fiction actor was George Lucas’ second choice to play Han Solo and would have taken the role had Harrison Ford declined it?

Answer: Christopher Walken.

What 1986 movie is this quote from: “I feel the need… the need for speed!”

Answer: Top Gun .

In the iconic film The Wizard of Oz, what did the Scarecrow want to get from the Wizard?

Answer: A brain.

Who played the lead role in the first installment of Indiana Jones ?

Answer: Harrison Ford.

Which movie’s tagline is “They’re young, they’re in love, and they kill people.”

Answer: Bonnie and Clyde .

Who is the director of the Indiana Jones series?

Answer: Steven Spielberg.

The song “Eye of the Tiger” was originally released on the soundtrack of the third film in what famous franchise?

Answer: Rocky .

What is the only international movie that has received the Best Picture Oscar?

Answer: Parasite in 2019. 

Which Las Vegas hotel is the main target of Danny Ocean and his team in Ocean’s Eleven?

Answer: The Bellagio.

What is the first animated movie that was made entirely by CGI?

Answer: Toy Story . 

Who played the main character in Joker ?

Answer: Joaquin Phoenix.

Who is the voice of Alex, the Lion in Madagascar ?

In which 2001 movie did Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson play the character of the Scorpion King?

Answer: The Mummy Returns .

Which museum does Night at the Museum take place at?

Answer: The Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Who plays Paul Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop?

Answer: Kevin James.

Which actor did Steven Spielberg originally want for the role of Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park ?

In The Princess Diaries , what fruit is Genovia famous for?

Answer: Pears.

Who is Professor Snape played by in the Harry Potter movie series?

Answer: Alan Rickman.

Which movie was the first film to cost $200 million and earned more than $1 billion worldwide?

Answer: James Cameron’s Titanic .

What is the name of the department store in the movie Elf that is modeled after the real-life Macy’s in New York City?

Answer: Gimbels.

Name the actress that’s featured in the following movies: Mad Max: Fury Road, The Fate of the Furious, Hancock, and The Old Guard .

Answer: Charlize Theron.

Who is the director of Big Fish, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and Dumbo ?

Answer: Tim Burton.

Name the actor that’s appeared in all of the following movies: Collateral, White House Down, Miami Vice, and Jarhead .

Answer: Jamie Foxx.

What film beat out Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to win the Best Picture Oscar in 2009?

Answer: Slumdog Millionaire.

Who is Helena Bonham Carter married to?

Who said, “Ohana means family, and family means nobody is left behind or forgotten” and in what movie?

Answer: Nani in Lilo & Stitch .

What American filmmaker directed The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel ?

Answer: Wes Anderson.

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , what magical country does the White Witch put a spell on so that it is always winter but never Christmas?

Answer: Narnia.

What was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars?

Answer: Beauty and the Beast .

In which horror film was someone killed by forcing them to consume a lot of food?

Answer: Se7en .

In The Big Lebowski, The Dude is played by ___. Answer: Jeff Bridges.

What star of Creed and Black Panther did People magazine choose as its Sexiest Man Alive for 2020?

Answer: Michael B Jordan.

Known for her performances in The Farewell, Ocean’s Eight, and Crazy Rich Asians , actress and comedian Nora Lum is better known by what name?

Answer: Awkwafina.

What famously violent barber character was first introduced in “The String of Pearls” Victorian serial in 1846? The character was also featured in a Tony Award-winning musical and a 2007 film rendition.

Answer: Sweeney Todd.

Kristoff, Hans, and Oaken are all characters in what Disney movie?

Answer: Frozen .

Where is Kevin McAllister’s family off to when they realize they forgot Kevin in Home Alone ?

Answer: Paris.

What is the name of one of the most acclaimed international directors that directed Snowpiercer , Okja and Parasite ?

Answer: Bong Joon Ho.

In the classic children’s book and movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas , what is the name of the town the Grinch steals holiday presents and decorations from?

Answer: Whoville.

Donkey, Pinocchio, and Gingerbread Man are all characters of what movie?

Answer: Shrek .

What is Napoleon Dynamite’s best friend’s name?

Answer: Pedro

Cobb, Eames, Saito, Ariadne, and Arther are all characters of what Christopher Nolan movie?

Answer: Inception .

In Pulp Fiction , what are the names of Uma Thurman and John Travolta’s characters?

Answer: Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega.

In what country was The Lord of the Rings trilogy shot?

Answer: New Zealand.

Who is the director of Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto ?

Answer: Mel Gibson.

Which horror film was the first of its genre to earn an Oscar Best Picture nomination?

Answer: The Exorcist.

Name the actress that appears in all of the following movies: Lost in Translation, Marriage Story, Match Point, and He’s Just Not That Into You .

Actor Taron Egerton won a Golden Globe for his singing-and-dancing portrayal of Elton John in what 2019 film?

Answer: Rocketman .

What 1993 film starring Robin Williams takes place in San Francisco?

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire .

Who played the main character in the movie Clueless ?

Answer: Alicia Silverstone.

What is the title of Celine Dion’s song used as the soundtrack in Titanic ?

Answer: “My Heart Will Go On”.

Disney’s official princesses include two redheads–who are they?

Answer: Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Merida from Brave .

Who directed the movie Beetlejuice in 1998?

In Elf , what are the four main food groups of elves?

Answer: Candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.

What 2018 thriller stars John Krasinski and Emily Blunt as a couple leading their family through an apocalypse where humans are hunted by alien creatures who react to sound?

Answer: A Quiet Place .

Who is the lead actor in Shaun of the Dead ?

Answer: Simon Pegg.

Dickie Greenleaf was a character in which film?

Answer: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).

What is the title of the 1997 movie featuring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and John Malkovich as costars?

Answer: Con Air .

What 2020 movie features James Marsden teaming up with a SEGA video game character to save the day and go up against Jim Carrey?

Answer: Sonic The Hedgehog .

In Thor: Love and Thunder , what is the name of Thor’s new axe called?

Answer: Stormbreaker.

Who said, “I see dead people” and in what movie?

Answer: Cole in The Sixth Sense .

Cindy Lou Who, Martha May Whovier, Mayor Augustus Maywho and Max are all characters in what movie?

Answer: How The Grinch Stole Christmas .

What movie is this famous quote from: “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”

Answer: Dead Poets Society , 1989.

What movie is this famous quote from: “It’s alive! It’s alive!”

Answer: Frankenstein , 1931.

What movie is this famous quote from: “A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

Answer: Goldfinger , 1964.

What movie is this famous quote from: “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

Answer: The Godfather Part II, 1974.

What movie is this famous quote from:  “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”

Answer: The Help , 2011

What movie is this famous quote from: “You’re killin’ me, Smalls.”

Answer: The Sandlot , 1993.

In Forgetting Sarah Marshall , British pop star Aldous Snow is shown singing about what?

Answer: Global warming.

In which horror film does the serial killer dress as William Shatner?

Answer: Halloween .

Which Tropic Thunder character was based on the combination of Russel Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis and Colin Farrell?

Answer: Kirk Lazarus, who was portrayed by Robert Downey Jr.

In all four Toy Story films, comedian Don Rickles provided the voice for what classic toy first introduced in 1952?

Answer: Mr. Potato Head.

The Penguin, Colonel Mustard, Colonel Klink, and Mr. Peanut are all fictional characters that have what in common?

Answer: They all wear a monocle.

Forrest Gump sported a red, white, and blue pair of what classic Nike model first trotted out at the ’72 Olympics?

Answer: Cortez.

Buddy of the movie Elf is arguably Ferrell’s best role to date, but who did the writers initially want for the part?

Answer: Jim Carrey.

In the film Cast Away , Chuck Noland reaches an uninhabited island after a plane crashes into which ocean?

Answer: The Pacific Ocean.

Good Night, and Good Luck, The Ides of March, and The Monuments Men are among the movies that have been directed by what man, who is better known as an actor?

Answer: George Clooney.

English actress Sophie Turner played both Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones and the title character of what 2019 X-Men movie?

Answer: Dark Phoenix .

In which movie did Kirsten Dunst play a young vampire?

Answer: Interview With A Vampire .

What Marvel character was introduced to MCU audiences and played by Simu Liu in a 2021 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton?

Answer: Shang-Chi.

Who is the singer of ‘Shallow’ who received a Golden Globe nod for Best Actress in 2018 on top of their musical accolades?

Answer: Lady Gaga.

What 1984 Wolfgang Peterson fantasy film is about Bastian getting sucked into the land of Fantasia while reading a book about it?

Answer: The Neverending Story .

“Goose,” “Jester,” “Hollywood,” and “Wolfman” are nicknames of some military guys in what 1986 movie?

Which British actor took home the 2011 Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of a stutter-plagued monarch in The King’s Speech ?

Answer: Colin Firth.

Who accepted the Razzie for Worst Actress in 2010, one day before accepting the Oscar for Best Actress for a different film?

Answer: Sandra Bullock (Razzie was for All About Steve , Oscar was for The Blind Side ).

Who played Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek series?

Answer: William Shatner.

What comic did director Gus Van Sant want to play Harvey Milk in 1992, 16 years before his biopic was finally made in 2008 with Sean Penn?

Answer: Robin Williams.

Which British prime minister, known as the Iron Lady, was the subject of a 2011 film starring Meryl Streep?

Answer: Margaret Thatcher.

Which quirky director teamed up with Johnny Depp to make the 2012 film Dark Shadows , about an old vampire living with his descendants?

There was a boom in sales of frill-necked lizards as domesticated pets after the release of what 1993 film featuring a similar, very extinct critter?

Answer: Jurassic Park .

What tune written by Neil Diamond was sung by Smash Mouth in the 2001 movie Shrek?

Answer: “I’m a Believer”

In The Devil Wears Prada , what is the name of the fashion magazine run by Meryl Streep’s character, Miranda Priestly?

Answer: Runway.

What multi-part Quentin Tarantino saga features characters with the code names Black Mamba, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, and Sidewinder?

Answer: Kill Bill .

Who made history in 2010 as the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director for her nail-biting Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker ?

Answer: Kathryn Bigelow.

Which director of comedy films is credited with discovering Seth Rogen? He directed the likes of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up .

Answer: Judd Apatow.

What horror film with fast-running zombies that are able to ladder on top of each other to climb walls is based on a book by Max Brooks?

Answer: World War Z .

The Norwegian city of Arendal claims to be the inspiration for the name of the fictional kingdom in what Disney film?

What hotel is Jack hired as caretaker of (and later possesses him) in Stephen King’s The Shining ?

Answer: The Overlook Hotel.

Which inventor also produced the first Frankenstein film–was it Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, or Nikola Tesla?

Answer: Thomas Edison.

Which famous Chinese actor’s original name is Chan Kong-sang?

Answer: Jackie Chan.

Dr. Ian Malcolm, the gifted mathematician who specializes in chaos theory in Jurassic Park , is played by which actor?

Answer: Jeff Goldblum.

What day was Damien born in the film Omen ?

Answer: The 6th of June.

What 2007 British movie about two cops in the quaint, bloodthirsty village of Sanford reunites the stars of Shaun of the Dead ?

Answer: Hot Fuzz (starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost).

Which Friends With Benefits actress, who became engaged to Ashton Kutcher in 2014, was born in Ukraine in 1983?

Answer: Mila Kunis.

Which actor, whose name means “cool breezes over the mountains” in Hawaiian, was born in Beirut, Lebanon and stars in The Lake House (2006)?

Answer: Keanu Reeves.

In which 2013 movie does Tim Lake keep traveling back in time until he does all the right things to get the girl, played by Rachel McAdams?

Answer: About Time .

What gossipy 2010 book about the 2008 presidential election became an HBO movie starring Julianne Moore?

Answer: Game Change .

Who starred in the 2000 film Cast Away , about a FedEx exec stranded on an island with a volleyball named Wilson?

Answer: Tom Hanks. 

What role in The Lord of the Rings trilogy did Sean Connery turn down because he didn’t understand the script?

Answer: Gandalf.

Who was the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar, when he snagged a win for his hitman role in No Country for Old Men ?

Answer: Javier Bardem.

Which city was the setting for the 2012 film Spring Breakers , starring James Franco–St. Petersburg, Miami, or Key West?

Answer: St. Petersburg.

Which 2010 James Franco movie featured the rocky landscape of Utah’s Canyonlands National Park?

Answer: 127 Hours .

In what 2015 Amy Schumer film does LeBron James play an exaggerated version of himself as Bill Hader’s best friend?

Answer: Trainwreck .

Which Oscar-nominated 2000 film stars Juliette Binoche as a mysterious woman who opens up a confectionery shop in a small town in France?

Answer: Chocolat .

What 2014 Jon Favreau indie flick features a chef and his ex-wife, played by Sofia Vergara, cooking up a storm in a Miami food truck?

Answer: Chef .

What horror movie was filmed with a home video camera, shot in the director’s house, and made over $100 million at the box office?

Answer: Paranormal Activity .

Who stars in the 2006 comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby as a NASCAR racer trying to regain his lost glory?

Answer: Will Farrell.

In which upbeat, coming-of-age 2002 British film does a character named Jess defy her parents to follow her dream of becoming a soccer player?

Answer: Bend It Like Beckham .

What 2004 documentary by Morgan Spurlock illustrated the popularity of McDonald’s selling bigger portions for just a little more money?

Answer: Super Size Me .

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The Monumental 2021 Movies Quiz

2021 Year-End Round-Up Trivia : 21 Carefully picked questions on movies and films from our daily and weekly news quizzes . Which record did Anthony Hopkins break at the 2021 Oscars? In which movies does Adam Driver sing? And which comedy films feature Leonardo Dicaprio? Take the 2021 Movies Quiz, and find out!

2021 Movies Round-Up Quiz

2021 Quizzes : 21 general knowledge multiple-choice questions about the movies of 2021. Click "start quiz."

1. Which character appeared first on the big screen: Godzilla or King Kong?

King Kong ( initially appeared in a 1933 movie ) and Godzilla ( originally from a Japanese 1954 film ) made their first cinematic standoff in 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong that hit theaters and HBO Max simultaneously on Mar. 26.

2. Who was the most nominated actor in the 2021 Golden Globe Awards?

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Sacha Baron Cohen was the only actor to land two acting nominations in the 2021 Golden Globe Awards . He won the best actor in a comedy or musical award for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm . He was  nominated (but didn't win) for best supporting  actor for his performance in The Trial of the Chicago 7 . The awards ceremony aired on Feb. 28.

3. How many of the 87-person 2021 Hollywood Foreign Press Association voting body members were Black?

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The Los Angeles Times revealed that no Black members were in the 87-person voting body of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association  and that there hasn’t been one in at least twenty years. 

What’s new:

Within the first half-hour of the 2021 Golden Globes telecast, three members of the HFPA appeared on stage to pledge change . “We recognize we have our work to do,” said vice president Helen Hoehne. “ We must have Black journalists in our organization .”

4. How many British Academy Film Awards did Nomadland receive?

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Nomadland won four awards At the 2021 British Academy Film Awards , including Best Film . Watch the film's trailer .

5. What record did China-born Chloé Zhao break at the 2021 Oscars?

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Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win the best director at the 2021 Academy Awards . She is also the youngest woman to win the award and the second woman to receive it in Oscars history.

Who was the youngest person to win the best director at the Oscars?

The youngest director to receive the Oscar for best director was Damien Chazelle in 2017 for La La Land.

Who was the first Asian to win the best director?

The first Asian to win the best director at the Oscars was Ang Lee for 2005's Brokeback Mountain, making him the first person of color to win the award.

Who was the first woman to win the Oscar for best director?

Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to have won the Academy Award for best director for 2009's The Hurt Locker.

6. How many Academy Awards did Glenn Close receive over the years?

Glenn Close was nominated for 8 Oscars over the years, including 2021's "Hillbilly Elegy," but won none . She shares the record with Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia).

7. Which record did Anthony Hopkins break at the 2021 Oscars?

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Anthony Hopkins won the best actor Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards Sunday, April 25, 2021. Hopkins, 83, became the oldest ever acting Oscar winner . The honor was previously held by the late Christopher Plummer, 82 when he won for Beginners in 2011.

What role did Hopkins win the Oscar for in 2021?

Anthony Hopkins won for his performance as an elderly man with dementia in "The Father ," directed by French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller.

What was Hopkins's previous Oscar win?

Anthony Hopkins won the best actor Oscar in 1994 for his role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."

8. Director and Best Original Screenplay 2021 Oscar winner Emerald Fennell portrayed a British royal in the Netflix series The Crown. Which royal was it?

Emerald Fennell portrayed Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall , in the Netflix series The Crown. She then wrote and directed  the comedy thriller film Promising Young Woman and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at Sunday's April 25, 2021, ceremony.

The second writing award of the evening went to Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, who took Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Father .”

9. What’s missing from Emma Stone’s depiction of Disney villain Cruella de Vil in the 2021 Movie Cruella?

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While Cruella de Vil's original attire includes all of the above, the 2021 Cruella lacks the iconic cigarette holder featured in the original animated version of the beloved villain. “We are not allowed to smoke onscreen in a Disney film," Stone explained in a New York Times interview.

10. Which of these superstars appeared in multiple Fast and Furious films?

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Michelle Rodriguez, Gal Gadot, and Eva Mendes all appeared in multiple Fast and Furious franchise movies.

Fast and Furious news fact:

In an interview with AP Thursday, June 10, 2021, Fast and Furious star Vin Diesel said that the saga would conclude after two more films following the upcoming ninth installment, “F9,” which hit theaters June 25. The actor said the final two films could potentially release in 2023, then 2024 .

11. Lin-Manuel Miranda apologized in response to criticism regarding his movie “In The Heights.” Why?

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Lin-Manuel Miranda apologized Monday, June 14, 2021, in response to criticism that Afro-Latinos were underrepresented in his new film In The Heights . The film depicts a community with Dominican, Panamanian, Cuban, and Puerto Rican ancestry, many of whom have darker skin.  " I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy ," Miranda wrote. He added, "I'm learning from the feedback, and I thank you for raising it, and I'm listening. I'm trying to hold space for both the incredible pride in the movie we made and be accountable for our shortcomings."

12. How many full-featured films did Quentin Tarantino direct up until 2021?

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Counting from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio), Quentin Tarantino directed nine full-featured films .

Fun fact:   Tarantino confirmed he plans to retire after making one more film - his tenth - while promoting his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novel on “Real Time With Bill Maher” on Friday. June 25, 2021.

13. What is the name of the character Scarlett Johanson portrays in Black Widow?

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Natasha Romanoff is the fictional character portrayed by Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel Universe film franchise — known by her alter ego, Black Widow.

Black Widow 2021

Directed by Cate Shortland, the 2021 film Black Widow sees Johansson's character return to Eastern Europe to reunite with former spies she believed were her relatives. The film opened in cinemas on July 7, 2021, and two days later on Disney+ .

14. Which of his movies see Adam Driver sing?

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While viewers heard Adam Driver’s singing voice in one of 2013’s “Inside Llewyn Davis” movie songs, 2021’s Annette -  a fantastical musical starring Driver and Marion Cotillard - sees the actor in a full-fledged musical for the first time. Check out this official Annette movie clip - with Driver singing .

Annette News Fact

The 74th Cannes International Film Festival opened Tuesday, July 6 , 2021, with “Annette” as the opening film . After the movie ended, the standing ovation went into its fifth minute , when Driver and his director, Leos Carax, both lit up cigarettes inside the theater, filled with maskless attendees . The 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled due to covid-19 restrictions.

15. The 2021 movie ”Jungle Cruise” is based on what?

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The 2021 movie Jungle Cruise is based on a Disneyland riverboat attraction that opened in 1955 and is now located at four Disney theme parks worldwide: Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, and Hong Kong Disneyland. Starring Dwayne Johnson as a riverboat captain and Emily Blunt as a scientist, "Jungle Cruise" opened on July 30, 2021, simultaneously in theaters and Disney+ .

Jungle Cruise Fun Fact

The Jungle Cruise attraction was inspired by a 1955 Disney documentary, "The African Lion," about a pride of lions, and the film The African Queen, which inspired the ride's vehicles .

16. In which city does the '80s movie hit Ghostbusters take place?

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1984's movie Ghostbusters takes place in New York City , AKA The Big Apple.

Ghostbusters 2021

Sony Pictures' trailer for "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" was released on July 27, 2021 . Starring Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Carrie Coon, and Paul Rudd, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" was released on Nov. 11. The film's director, and co-writer, is Jason Reitman (Juno), son of the original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman . Watch the trailer .

17. Who is this “Free Guy”?

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“Free Guy” is an action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a background character in a GTA-like videogame . The movie, released Aug. 13, 2021, opened better than expected over the weekend, collecting an estimated $28.4 million in ticket sales . On Saturday, Aug. 14, Reynolds announced that Disney (which owns 20th Century Studios) already wants a sequel . Watch the trailer.

18. Which character does Alfred Molina play on Spiderman: No Way Home?

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Alfred Molina plays the evil Dr. Octopus in 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home" — the third Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man film led by Tom Holland .

Dr. Otto Octavius Fact:

Alfred Molina first appeared as Dr. Otto Octavius In "Spider-Man 2," 17 years before "Spider-Man: No Way Home ," as a mentor to Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker. A lab accident turns him into the murderous Doctor Octopus .

19. Which movie is the first to have its premiere on the Paramount+ streaming service?

PAW Patrol: The Movie is the first to premiere on Paramount+ streaming service while simultaneously being released in theatres .

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PAW Patrol news facts:

Paramount backed the release of PAW Patrol: The Movie by an “eight-figure” marketing blitz. It involved partnerships with almost 200 companies - from Kellogg’s cereal to Best Western hotels - on purchase opportunities for toys and other products, many of which come with a free trial of Paramount+ . The film was released Friday, Aug. 27, 2021.

20. Who scripted the 2021 film Spencer, starring Kristen Stuart as Princess Diana?

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Steven Knight wrote the 2021 film Spencer , starring Kristen Stuart as Princess Diana. He is also one of three creators of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" . Knight also scripted such films as  Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things and David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises.

Is Kirsten Dunst nominated for an Oscar for Spencer?

On Feb. 9, 2022, Kristen Stewart received her first Oscar nomination for Princess Diana in "Spencer."

What is Spencer about?

The first trailer for Spencer was released just days before its premiere at the Venice film festival, Sep. 3, 2021. The film concentrates on three days over the 1991 Christmas period, where Diana chose to end her marriage to Charles . It's directed by Pablo Larraín (Jacky). Watch the trailer .

21. What is the only comedy feature film Leonardo DiCaprio took part in as an actor before 2021?

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The only comedy feature film with Leonardo DiCaprio was 1998’s Woody Allen movie Celebrity. That is, until 2021.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Comedy News Fact

Netflix’s upcoming Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers), features Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as low-level astronomers. They discover a comet on a collision course with Earth , but no one seems to believe them. The cast includes Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill as the US President and her son , alongside Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, and others. The movie streams on Netflix starting December 24th, 2021, after premiering in select theaters on December 10th. Watch the trailer .

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Who doesn't like a bit of movie trivia? It's always fun to learn novel movie facts, or use trivia questions as a way to test one's cinematic knowledge. The only people who might not be crazy about movie trivia are literal know-it-alls who already know it all, but since it's impossible to know everything there is to know about every single movie ever, it's safe to assume trivia has even more mass appeal than the MCU pre-Phase 4 .

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25 What movie has the highest on-screen body count of all time?

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Some people might not love the idea of a Lord of the Rings movie being the highest when it comes to on-screen body counts, considering many of the casualties are orcs, and not just humans. But they are essentially humanoid, and of the 836 deaths in the movie , plenty are literal humans.

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It's fitting, considering it's the third movie in an epic action/adventure/fantasy trilogy, and therefore has saved its biggest battle scenes for last. And for anyone who would rather know the highest body count for a movie where all the deaths were literal humans, the 2005 action epic Kingdom of Heaven comes in second place, with 610 on-screen deaths.

24 Which iconic movie franchise has been around for even longer than James Bond?

Godzilla . The King of the Monsters is indeed one of cinema's longest-reigning kings, too. The famed monster debuted in 1954 with a chilling horror/sci-fi classic where he stood in for the destruction wrought by atomic weapons, namely those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Close to 40 sequels/spin-offs/reboots have followed in the ensuing decades, with both Japanese and American films being produced, and some even being animated. Bond might be a little more popular in the West, but Godzilla predates 007 by close to a decade, and has been in more movies than the famed British secret agent.

23 What’s the longest non-experimental movie filmed in a single take?

Victoria (2015). This German crime/thriller movie is the longest narrative feature film to unfold in one unbroken take. The idea of a one-take movie has become popular in recent years, with some of the most acclaimed examples - like 1917 and Birdman - being constructed of numerous long takes edited together to look like just one.

But Victoria doesn't hide any edits, and still tells one continuous story about a bank robbery gone wrong with just a single take, leaving the crew and cast no room to make any mistakes for its entire runtime of 138 minutes. If experimental films are included, however, there are titles like 2016's Immortality (145 minutes) and 2016's Paint Drying (607 minutes) - and yes, the latter is exactly what you'd expect it to be, based on the title.

22 Which movie had the first post-credits scene of all time?

The Silencers (1966). This 1960s comedic spy movie isn't particularly well-known nowadays, besides the fact it helped establish the concept of a post-credits scene . Broadly speaking, a post-credits scene is a bonus scene - usually brief - that plays after a movie's end credits, and can be something like a deleted scene, a bonus gag, or a scene that teases an upcoming sequel.

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In The Silencers , the scene is mostly used as a gag, spoofing the way James Bond movies would end with a message saying that 007 would return. Nowadays, of course, the post-credits scene is most commonly associated with blockbuster action/superhero movies, especially those belonging to the MCU .

21 Which feature film holds the record for most F-bombs?

Swearnet: The Movie (2014). It's naturally fitting that a movie with the word "Swear" in its title can claim to be the most profane movie of all time . Swearnet: The Movie reaches almost 1000 uses of the F-word in its 112-minute runtime, with a total of 935 uses of the word .

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It's a comedic movie featuring the stars of the TV show Trailer Park Boys , and revolves around the creation of an uncensored (and very profane) internet network. It may well have been made just so that the record for most F-bombs in a movie could be broken, as before 2014, the record was held by a 2005 documentary about the word, which was simply called F★CK (857 uses).

20 Which movie holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest stunt explosion in cinema history?

Spectre (2015). While it’s probably not anyone’s favorite James Bond movie, 2015’s Spectre has the distinction of being arguably its most explosive. The fourth film featuring Daniel Craig as 007 had an explosion that was the equivalent of 68 tonnes of TNT , and was done to destroy the lead villain’s base of operations in a fiery and dramatic fashion.

RELATED: Best James Bond Gadgets, Ranked This record has one notable critic , however, as famed lover of all things explosive-related Michael Bay claims that Spectre doesn’t deserve this particular title, and that his 2001 war film, Pearl Harbor , actually holds the record for the single biggest film explosion. Therefore, it’s safe to say that as a result, Bay likely harbors a grudge against the James Bond series.

19 What’s the longest director's cut of all time?

Until the End of the World (1991). Most director's cuts can be expected to add considerably more minutes to a film's runtime, but few take things as far as Wim Wenders's epic Until the End of the World . The superior version of this film - its director's cut - runs for a staggering 287 minutes , which adds more than two hours to its already lengthy theatrical cut length of 158 minutes.

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It's a forward-thinking sci-fi/romance/adventure/road movie epic , and is an overall remarkable watch for those who can find the time. Granted, hours don't grow on trees, so it's understandable that something which runs for nearly five might not be the easiest film to sell to people.

18 What’s the least expensive movie to earn over $1 billion globally?

Joker (2019). This origin story for Batman's most famous villain was a huge success when released in 2019, being generally well-reviewed critically, and loved by general audiences as well as the Oscars. It being profitable wasn't a surprise, but it being as profitable as it was did end up being surprising.

It ended up earning over $1 billion globally well before 2019 was over, and was notable for being the first-ever R-rated movie to do so. Also noteworthy was the fact that it was the least expensive movie of all time to earn more than $1 billion, as its budget was approximately $62 million (much lower than the average comic book movie nowadays costs).

17 Which Shakespeare play has the most movie adaptations?

Hamlet . It's got some serious competition, considering how many Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth movies there are out there, but Hamlet takes the cake for most film adaptations of a Shakespeare play . It is arguably his strongest and most well-rounded tragedy, and one with seemingly universal appeal.

It's also an exceptionally long play, which means that certain parts are either focused on or removed, depending on the adaptation. Further, its wide appeal and applicability mean there are plenty of movies that take influence from Hamlet without retelling the story directly; even The Lion King could be considered partially adapted from - or inspired by - Hamlet , for example.

16 What is the most expensive blockbuster of all time?

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Blockbusters aren't cheap, and that's a fact that's certainly appreciated by the people who produced the seventh movie in the Star Wars series. 2015's The Force Awakens cost an enormous amount of money to make, with an estimated budget of $533.2 million by Forbes .

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It had tons of special effects, marketing, and some huge stars appearing in it, all ensuring its final cost was gargantuan. At least it paid off for Disney, who'd already spent a considerable amount of money buying Lucasfilm , as The Force Awakens went on to earn just over $2 billion at the global box office .

15 Which Quentin Tarantino movie has the fewest deaths?

Tie between Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Quentin Tarantino movies are well-known for being bloody and violent , with high body counts being present in many of them. However, the second volume of Kill Bill and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are a little more subdued, and only feature three deaths each.

Both of these films are dialogue-heavy, and feature only brief bursts of (still quite graphic) violence. In the case of Kill Bill , most of the killing was done in the more action-packed Vol. 1 , and in the case of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , the film was more about hanging out with characters in an idyllic version of 1960s L.A., with the deaths only occurring in a memorably bloody climax that dramatically altered real-life historical events.

14 Which now-classic Hollywood movie was seen as nothing special by those who made it?

Casablanca (1942). It might be strange to think about now, but movies were churned out in Hollywood back in the 1940s to such an extent that those who worked on Casablanca reportedly thought it was "just" another movie. It was seen as borderline accidentally perfect , with behind-the-scenes troubles and a speedy shoot suggesting many who worked on it were unhappy at worst, and apathetic at best.

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But nowadays? You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't think Casablanca is one of the best romance films of all time . It's seen as a classic of the 1940s, with strong characters, a fast pace, witty dialogue, and an emotional ending, and all of these elements ultimately ensuring the film's status as an iconic and essential one.

13 Which legendary director’s first movie stands as their highest-rated on Rotten Tomatoes?

Orson Welles – Citizen Kane (1941). Filmmaker/actor Orson Welles was just 26 years old when he directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane . The film was praised—albeit controversial —upon release (and a box-office flop thanks to William Randolph Hearst's vindictiveness) , with its reputation only growing in the years following 1941, with it nowadays being considered an all-time great film.

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It's arguable that he peaked early, given no other film he directed is quite as well-known or critically acclaimed as Citizen Kane , which was his first feature film. Still, by no means does this mean Citizen Kane is the only Orson Welles film worth checking out, as he starred in and directed countless other highly-regarded movies .

12 Who’s the oldest first-time Oscar nominee of all time?

Gloria Stuart - Titanic (1997). Gloria Stuart played the older version of Rose in Titanic , with her retelling of her time on the ill-fated voyage being shown in flashbacks with Kate Winslet playing the younger version of the character. Stuart was 86 when she appeared in the film , and received her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for her performance.

This made her the oldest first-time nominee in an acting category, and the character of Rose was even older, being 100 in the film's non-flashback scenes. Stuart herself ended up living to 100, passing away in 2010, and being remembered mostly for Titanic , and also starring in the 1932 horror film The Old Dark House and 1933's The Invisible Man .

11 Who’s had the most MCU movie appearances (besides Stan Lee)?

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Samuel L. Jackson has been a part of the MCU since the very start, showing up in a post-credits scene way back in 2008's Iron Man . His character, Nick Fury, is a key supporting character within the cinematic universe, and has appeared in 11 of its many films , and most recently has been the lead character in 2023's TV series Secret Invasion .

Of course, no actors have topped the number of appearances the late Stan Lee racked up, considering the tradition of giving him a cameo appearance in every MCU movie made during his lifetime. He ended up having cameos in 22 of them, with his passing in 2018 ensuring that's where the number will remain.

10 Which superhero movie was the first to have a female protagonist?

Supergirl (1984). While it's not a particularly good movie by any means, Supergirl is significant for being the first superhero movie to feature a female protagonist. The title character got her own film after the first three Superman movies were generally successful, with Supergirl being an attempt to give the series a spin-off of sorts.

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Unfortunately, the movie itself left a good deal to be desired, and did not end up getting sequels the same way the original Superman from 1978 did. But Supergirl perhaps paved the way for later, better female-led superhero movies to eventually come out, including Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel .

9 What’s the longest theatrically released Western of all time?

Heaven's Gate (1980). Criticized upon release, though it has since been critically reevaluated, Heaven's Gate is a tremendously long film. It clocks in at 219 minutes, which is enough to make it the longest theatrically released Western of all time , topping the comparably long Western (of sorts) Sholay by 15 minutes.

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If Lonesome Dove —a 1989 miniseries—is watched all in one go, or otherwise considered a film (it certainly has some movie-level talent in its cast), it would rank as an even longer one. But Heaven's Gate is inarguably a movie, was theatrically released, and is the closest to four hours a Western of its kind has ever gotten to.

8 Which actor has been nominated for the most Oscars without ever winning?

Tie between Glenn Close and Peter O’Toole . With eight acting nominations at the Academy Awards to each of their names, Glenn Close and Peter O'Toole are tied for the most nominations without ever winning. O'Toole passed away in 2013, meaning he never won a competitive Oscar (he did receive an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 2002), though Close is still acting, and could potentially get a win one day.

It's got to sting a little having that many nominations without a win, but at the end of the day, both Close and O'Toole are widely recognized for being fantastic actors. Wins aren't everything, and nominations also aren't nothing, meaning that no one can deny the two are powerhouses when it comes to their craft.

7 Which classic American horror movie had a Spanish-language version filmed and produced at the same time?

Dracula (1931). Most people are familiar with 1931's Dracula , which still stands as one of the best feature films to have the titular vampire, with it also being well-known for having Bela Lugosi in the lead role. It was simultaneously filmed alongside another edit of essentially the same film; one done in Spanish, and featuring a Spanish cast.

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Both were released in the same year , and both have the same title, which can potentially cause confusion. It is undeniably interesting that they were both made this way and at the same time, which stands to this day as a novel way to approach the idea of making/editing the same movie for two different audiences.

6 What movie holds the record for most retakes of a single scene?

The Shining (1980). Stanley Kubrick was a filmmaker who had a reputation for being something of a perfectionist, and he took it to new heights with his classic horror movie, The Shining . One scene in the movie holds the world record for the most takes of a single scene with dialogue, as it was filmed 148 times .

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The scene involves Danny Torrance learning about his titular "shining" ability from Dick Hallorann, who works at The Overlook Hotel and senses that Danny has the same strange power as him. For whatever reason, Kubrick felt the need to film the scene almost 150 times, with actor Scatman Crothers reportedly struggling with how often Kubrick would demand retakes.

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287 Movie Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)

• Starring Michael Keaton as titular business mogul Ray Kroc, the 2016 film "The Founder" portrays the origin story of what golden-arches fast-food chain? Answer: McDonald's
• You can "Circle" back if this one is too hard, but take "pride" if you know it right away. What animated movie's opening scene features a rising sun, an array of wildlife, and a song with the Zulu lyrics: "Nants ingonyama bagithi baba?" Answer: The Lion King
• At the 2010 Academy Awards, the winning film for Best Animated Feature was a Disney-Pixar film featuring Kevin, Charles Muntz, Carl, Russell, and a dog named Dug. What is this helium-inflated film? Answer: Up
• In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented what keyboard additions for cell phones that would eventually replace emoticons and even get their own movie? Answer: Emojis
• What 2018 Star Wars film focuses on the early adventures of Chewbacca and the character who was portrayed by Harrison Ford in "A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back," and "Return of the Jedi?" Answer: Solo
• A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg? Answer: The Polar Express
• The pre-production name of "Gutsy Aorta" didn't make the cut, so the name of the movie featuring Mel Gibson as William Wallace was instead named what? Answer: Braveheart
• "Goose," "Jester," "Hollywood," and "Wolfman" are nicknames of some flying military bros in what 1986 movie? Answer: Top Gun
• In what 1987 movie does Baby Houseman fall in love with her dance instructor? We're looking for a two-word answer here. Answer: Dirty Dancing
• In a 1965 TV cartoon special for what comic strip character does he get small Christmas tree with almost no leaves on it? Answer: Charlie Brown Christmas Special
• The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters during Memorial Day Weekend in 1980. That same week, an iconic horror film opened but had a relatively weak opening box office because it was counter-programmed against the Star Wars installment. What was this Jack Nicholson-starring horror film? Answer: The Shining
• With what two-word phrase did the media refer to the five main actors of "The Breakfast Club?" The nickname was one letter off the moniker of a 1960s film group. Answer: Brat Pack
• Chadwick Boseman starred in what 2018 Marvel film directed by Ryan Coogler? Answer: Black Panther
• The 2019 film "Just Mercy" starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx was based on a the memoir of young defense attorney Bryan Stevenson. The book and movie focus on what two-word place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution? Answer: Death Row
• What is this, a trivia quiz for ants? Which 2001 satire was directed by and starred Ben Stiller as Derek, a self-involved and totally clueless supermodel? Answer: Zoolander
• Outflix is an annual festival in Memphis that celebrates and features what medium of art? Answer: Film
• Also known for playing Thanos in the Avengers movies, what actor played President George W. Bush in the 2008 film "W.?" Answer: Josh Brolin
• After Tony Stark buys her some in Iron Man 2, Pepper Potts reveals that she is allergic to what fruit? Answer: Strawberries
• Star Wars fan Mike J. Nichols released a fan edit of "Episode I – The Phantom Menace" entitled "The Phantom Edit" in which, along with other smaller changes, he almost entirely removed which controversial character voiced by Ahmed Best? Answer: Jar Jar Binks
• In the movie “Castaway,” what specific type of sports ball is Wilson who serves as the companion of Tom Hanks’ character Chuck Noland? Answer: Volleyball
• In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," what magical country does the White Witch put a spell on so that it is always winter but never Christmas? Answer: Narnia
• According to the tagline of the 1979 sci-fi/horror classic Alien, "In space, no one can hear you" do what? Answer: Scream
• One of the biggest box-office draws of 2022 thus far has been the animated origin-story prequel called "Minions: The Rise of" WHO? Answer: Gru
• The movie includes a titular track from Kenny Loggins, Kevin Bacon performs much of his character's dancing, and John Lithgow leads the charge to ban dancing. All of this occurs in what 1984 film? Answer: Footloose
• Named for a landmark in San Antonio, what theater chain that famously doesn't allow talking or texting during movies was founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas? Answer: Alamo Drafthouse
• Alden Ehrenreich played what occasionally smug but generally well intentioned Star Wars character in a 2018 spin-off prequel movie? He is known for wearing a vest and for being called scruffy looking. Answer: Han Solo
• What actor starred in the DC "Batman" movies of the 80s and early 90s, but also went on to play a villain in Sony's "Spider-Man: Homecoming," which is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Answer: Michael Keaton
• James Earl Jones said he only made $7,000 for his role as which character in “Star Wars: A New Hope?” Answer: Darth Vader
• George Lucas is on record saying that its shape was inspired by a hamburger, how is the light freighter YT-1300 492727ZED better known? Answer: The Millennium Falcon
• In which 1989 movie does English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, urge his students to “seize the day?” Answer: Dead Poets Society
• What 2019 movie based on a long-running musical received overwhelmingly negative reviews from both critics and the public despite its all-star cast, which includes Dame Judi Dench, Idris Elba, and Jennifer Hudson? Answer: Cats
• In the movie "Legally Blonde," protagonist Elle Woods wins the case for her client by pointing out a flaw in the story of a perjuring witness. What hairstyle fills in the blank of Elle's famous following quote: "Isn't the first cardinal rule of ______ maintenance that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours...at the risk of deactivating the immonium thygocolate?" Answer: Perm
• After hoofing it through a couple of "Step Up" movies, Costa Rican-American actor Harry Shum Jr. got to exercise his pipes as Mike Chang on what choral Fox show set at William McKinley High? Answer: Glee
• T'Challa is a Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. T'Challa is most often known by the name of his alter ego. What is this alter ego? Answer: Black Panther
• Tom Hanks suited up as astronaut Jim Lovell for what award-winning 1995 Ron Howard film about an ill-fated moon mission? Answer: Apollo 13
• Originally intended as a morality tale warning against the dangers of cannabis, what 1936 film, sometimes called one of the worst movies ever made, has become a cult hit with marijuana users? Answer: Reefer Madness
• What starfighter used by the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars films has four laser cannons and two proton torpedo launchers? It gets its name because the way it extends has a distinct shape that resembles a letter. Answer: X-Wing Starfighter
• As shown in detail in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”, Han Solo made a legendary accomplishment when he raced across what dangerous space “Run” in a record 12 parsecs? Answer: Kessel Run
• Daisy Ridley made her first appearance as Rey in which 3-word Star Wars film? Answer: The Force Awakens
• Jabba The Hut’s pet/sidekick in "Return Of The Jedi", a noisy little rodent, is named Salacious ______. Fill in the one word “C” blank, also a term for a small fragment of bread. Answer: Salacious Crumb
• In “Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones”, Anakin Skywalker tells Padme Amidala that he doesn’t like what 4-letter yellow biproduct of rock erosion, claiming “it’s course and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere?” Answer: Sand
• Willis Tower in Chicago is home to what 103 story high observation tower with clear boxes, as seen in movies such as “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?” Its name kind of sounds like it’s part of an aerial patio. Answer: Skydeck
• The 1993 film "Philadelphia" was one of the first mainstream movies from Hollywood to directly acknowledge HIV/AIDS and homophobia. Which of the movie's actors won an Oscar for their performance in this film? Answer: Tom Hanks
• Famed American author Louisa May Alcott lived in Boston for much of her life, but based her most famous novel on events from her childhood in Concord, MA. This novel about the March sisters had its eighth film rendition released in December 2019. What is this novel? Answer: Little Women
• Among the characters in 2018’s Star Wars prequel “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is L3-37, Lando Calrissian’s navigator droid, voiced by Phoebe Waller-______. Fill in the blank of the last name of the creator and star of “Fleabag”, also a device used to connect two piece of land over a body of water. Answer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
• Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt star as tornado chasers in the 1996 film "Twister", set in what state known, also called the "Sooner State"? Answer: Oklahoma
• Which comedy set in Mexico stars Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short as a trio of friends? Answer: Three Amigos
• Which 1983 film (based on the book of the same name by S.E. Hinton) about rival gangs in Oklahoma in the ‘60s was chock full of young stars including Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, and Emilio Estevez? Answer: The Outsiders
• What is the four-letter title of Jordan Peele's latest movie, which was released on July 22, 2022 and follows eerie happenings at a California ranch? Answer: Nope
• 1428 is the street number for a famous fictional house in Springwood, Ohio that was the home Nancy Thompson and her mother in a 1984 horror movie. What is the street on which this house (1428) is located? Answer: Elm Street (Nightmare on Elm Street)
• In the film “Halloween,” the mask worn by Michael Myers was made by spray painting a prop mask of which “Star Trek” captain? Answer: Kirk
• What mystical item, in this case taking the form of a goblet, appears in the title of a 1975 Monty Python movie parodying Arthurian legend? Answer: The Holy Grail
• In the movie Big, a suddenly-adult Josh Baskin plays a giant piano with his boss at what legendary New York City toy store? Answer: F.A.O. Schwarz
• Name the only dwarf in Snow White whose name doesn't include any of the letters in "Snow White." Answer: Grumpy
• What 1982 movie, directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, is about a group of research scientists in Antarctica being attacked by a shape shifting alien? Answer: The Thing
• Political activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is from what now-infamous Michigan city? Answer: Flint
• "Coreyography" is a memoir by what former child star who played Tommy Jarvis in "Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter"? Answer: Corey Feldman
• In "The Phantom Menace," Padmé Amidala, portrayed by Natalie Portman, becomes the 14-year-old queen of which bountiful green planet in the Star Wars universe? Answer: Naboo
• Although he had a much more famous actor providing his voice, David Prowse was inside the suit of what major villain of the original Star Wars trilogy? Answer: Darth Vader
• What kind of tree primarily made up the California forest land used for the Endor scenes in "Return of the Jedi?" Answer: Redwood
• Named in honor of a famous box opener, what is the name of the moon on which the movie "Avatar" takes place? Answer: Pandora
• What 2004 smash-hit teen comedy movie opened as a musical on Broadway in Spring 2018? The Hollywood Reporter noted in its review that one character changed from an "imperious arbiter of high school hotness to full-blown arch villainess." Answer: Mean Girls
• In the movie's opening, Thackery Binx sees his little sister being taken to the cottage of three witches on October 31, 1693. The remainder of the movie takes place in 300 years later, in 1993. What is his popular Halloween-themed film? Answer: Hocus Pocus
• In the 1980s film "Knight Rider," what was the name of David Hasselhoff's talking car? Answer: Kitt
• The Angelika, BAM Harvey, The Paris, and Magic Johnson Harlem are all names of what type of entertainment venue in NYC? Answer: Movie theater
• Featuring in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the scenes of the forest moon of Endor were shot in ànd around a national park in which US state? Answer: California
• Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Raising Helen, The Skeleton Key, and Bride Wars are all films on what American actress/author/fashion designer's resume? Answer: Kate Hudson
• Most movies filmed in D.C. are about politics. One exception is what legendary 1973 horror film starring Linda Blair, which was filmed (and set) in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood? Answer: The Exorcist
• What Minnesota-born actress left the television show "7th Heaven" in 2006 and had earlier starred in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Rules of Attraction?" Answer: Jessical Biel
• Credited with revitalizing the career of Burt Reynolds and launching Mark Wahlberg to stardom, what 1997 disco-era movie was an expansion of the mockumentary short film “The Dirk Diggler Story?” Answer: Boogie Nights
• Red-Rum and Garden Maze are cocktails at The Overlook Lodge, a Cincinnati bar designed as a tribute to what 1980 Stanley Kubrick film? Answer: The Shining
• “The Perks of Being a ______” was a 2012 movie starring Emma Watson and Ezra Miller that was based on the novel of the same name by Stephen Chbosky. Answer: Wallflower
• What "sweet" Canadian actor and comedian rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City, starred in major movies like "Uncle Buck," and died of a heart attack in Mexico at the age of 43? Answer: John Candy
• Indian author Vikas Swarup wrote a 2005 novel titled "Q & A" involving a game show that was (loosely) adapted into a 2008 British film that later won the Academy Award for Best Picture. What was the name of the adaptation? Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
• What dangerous-sounding 2019 film starred Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas and largely revolved around the events of an 85th birthday party at a mansion in Massachusetts? Shooting for the movie was done in many Massachusetts towns including Boston, Easton, Marlborough, Natick, Wellesley, Waltham, and Medfield. Answer: Knives Out
• Literally a shaggy dog story, the movie "Top Dog" teamed a dog named Reno and what "Walker, Texas Ranger" star to foil a terror plot in San Diego? Answer: Chuck Norris
• Played by Christopher Lee in "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith", what is the Sith name of former Jedi Master Count Dooku? Answer: Darth Tyranus
• Clocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes (according to its IMDB.com runtime), which of the 9 movies in the Skywalker Saga is the longest? Answer: The Last Jedi
• In a 2014 reddit AMA, Bill Murray admitted he only appeared in a particular 2004 movie because he (wrongly) believed it had been written by Joel Coen of the famous Coen brothers. In this live action adaptation of a classic comic strip, what titular feline character did Murray voice? Answer: Garfield
• Used as an alias of another major character in the original trilogy, what first name did Han Solo and Leia Organa give their son before he changed his name to Kylo Ren? Answer: Ben
• In “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,” on which planet does Obi-Wan uncover the clone army? Answer: Kamino
• In his 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan invoked the quote "Where we're going, we don't need roads." from what 1985 cult classic Robert Zemeckis-directed film? Answer: Back To The Future
• A pair of filmmaking brothers born in Minnesota in the 1950s have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards together, including a handful of wins for "No Country for Old Men." What is the surname of these brothers? Answer: Coen
• Charlie Babbitt abducts his older brother Raymond from a Cincinnati assisted-living facility at the start of what road-tripping '80s Best Picture Oscar winner? Answer: Rain Man
• "Exsqueeze me", "I spake", and "Oh, Gooberfish!" are lines spoken by which divisive character in "Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace?" Answer: Jar Jar Binks
• What is the name of the multi-sport event featuring thousands of athletes from the Americas in summer sports that Toronto hosted in 2015? Answer: Pan American Games
• If the star of the "Mission: Impossible" movies takes a nasty spill, he might get a CT scan. The C stands for "Computed," and what does the T stand for? Answer: Tomography
• In a 1987 film starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen, the city of Detroit signs a deal with the company Omni Consumer Products to re-build parts of the city into a utopia and introduce a law enforcement robot ED-209. What is this film? Answer: RoboCop
• Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas watch mostly bad movies and make fun of them on what inquisitively-named podcast? Answer: How Did This Get Made
• That's not a box office gross. THIS is a box office gross: what 1986 film is the highest grossing Australian movie of all time? Answer: Crocodile Dundee
• What 1995 coming-of-age comedy set in California is loosely based on Jane Austin's 1815 novel Emma? Answer: Clueless
• On which planet in the Outer Rim Territories do we see Ponda Baba (aka "Walrus Man") lose an arm while the song "Mad About Me" plays in the background? Answer: Tatooine (in the Mos Eisley Cantina)
• A dude named Steve on AirBNB offers tours of the Philadelphia Macy's in the Wanamaker Building, site of what 1987 movie with Andrew McCarthy dating an animated department store statue played by Kim Cattrall? Answer: Mannequin
• Both filmed and set in Sacramento, a 2017 coming-of-age film earned five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. What is this two-word film that is not about a former U.S. First Lady? Answer: Lady Bird
• Played on screen by such actors as Bernard Lee, Ralph Fiennes, and Judi Dench, what letter is used to refer to the Head of MI6 in the James Bond books and movies? Answer: M
• What 1990 Rob Reiner psychological thriller film gave Kathy Bates an Academy Award for playing a nurse that holds author James Caan hostage so he can rewrite one of his books? Based on a Stephen King book, the title implies that sad things are going to happen. Answer: Misery
• The annual "awards" given out around the same time as the Oscars that “honor” the best of the worst in film, acting, and directing celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2020. What is the name of these "awards?" Answer: The Golden Raspberries (Razzies)
• The 2009 Disney film "The Princess and the Frog" was loosely adapted from the novel "The Frog Princess" by E. D. Baker, which is in turn based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince." In what city was this film set? Answer: New Orleans
• Known for his distinctive bald-on-top, hair-on-the-sides hairstyle, what evil wizard is the main antagonist of the Smurfs in the cartoons and movies? Answer: Gargamel
• What “G” Rodian bounty with green skin famously cornered Han Solo in the Mos Eisley Cantina in “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope,” only to get shot for his efforts? His name kind of sounds like another word for avarice. Answer: Greedo
• In the 1980s, Ewoks got their own spin-offs, starting with “Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure” in 1984. That film was followed up with a sequel the next year entitled: “Ewoks: The Battle for ______.” Answer: Endor
• At the start of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” Obi-Wan is on the hunt for which villain he must defeat in order to end the war? (Hint: The alliteratively-named character was CGI-animated and voiced by Matthew Wood) Answer: General Grievous
• Which 1987 war drama directed by Stanley Kubrick starred Matthew Modine as "Joker" Davis and Vincent D'Onofrio as “Gomer Pyle" Lawrence, young marines during the Vietnam War? Answer: Full Metal Jacket
• Which 2005 “Star Wars” film marked the first appearance of Order 66? Answer: Revenge of the Sith
• What 1984 Wolfgang Peterson fantasy film is about Bastian getting sucked into the land of Fantasia while reading a book about it? The movie is an hour and half long, which is shorter than what the title implies. Answer: The Neverending Story
• Funny, it doesn't look like David Bowie: a barn owl is one of the forms of Jareth the Goblin King in what twisty 1986 fantasy film? Answer: Labyrinth
• The '60s documentary "Endless Summer" followed an around-the-world voyage involving what warm-weather sport? Answer: Surfing
• What type of bird is the subject of a discussion between King Arthur and the bridge-keeper in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail?" Both African and European varieties of the bird were mentioned repeatedly. The bird shares its name with a physical act performed in part by the medulla oblongata in humans. Answer: Swallow
• Costa Rica was one of two filming locations (along with Texas) for the second film in what American action-comedy-adventure film series? The movie was subtitled "The Island of Lost Dreams" and starred two very young espionage experts. Answer: Spy Kids
• At the top of Bleacher Report's top five cricket movies of all time is 2001's "Lagaan," which had the epic subtitle "Once Upon a Time in..." what country? Answer: India
• Directed by Ben Affleck, what 2012 film, centered on the Iran hostage crisis, surprised many by winning Best Picture at the 2013 Academy Awards? Answer: Argo
• In a 2021 poll by Slashfilm.com, what evil emperor also known as Darth Sidious was voted the worst "Star Wars" character of all time? Answer: Palpatine
• What classic Beatles song was belted out by Matthew Broderick in the famous parade float scene in the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", much to the chagrin of Paul McCartney? Answer: Twist & Shout
• Known by the letters VFX, for what area of film production have 12 movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe been nominated for Academy Awards (though none have won)? Answer: Visual Effects (Academy Award for Best Visual Effects)
• The original “Star Wars Holiday Special” aired on CBS in 1978 and marked the first appearance of which character? (Hint: The bounty hunter was voiced by Don Francks in the special and was later played by Jeremy Bulloch with voice acting by Jason Wingreen). Answer: Boba Fett
• Who played Hans Gruber in Die Hard and earned a spot on the AFI's "100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains" list as the 46th best villain in film history? He later revealed he almost did not take the role as he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make. Answer: Alan Rickman
• What Star Wars movie was the first to be released in the 1980s? Answer: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• You could buy a pretty awesome loom with the paychecks what actor picked up for his roles as Agent Smith in "The Matrix" movies and Elrond of Rivendell in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy? Answer: Hugo Weaving
• What hyperspace route passing by the Maw nebula did Han Solo traverse in the Millenium Falcon using a route that was roughly 40% shorter than was previously thought possible? Answer: The Kessel Run
• Emma Thompson's character discovers that the necklace she sees her husband purchasing for Christmas is for another woman, in one of the sadder plotlines of what 2003 holiday movie? Answer: Love Actually
• "Good Night, and Good Luck", "The Ides of March", and "The Monuments Men" are among the movies that have been directed by what man, who is better known as an actor? Answer: George Clooney
• What is the name of the coming-of-age 1982 comedy film, based on a 1981 book of the same name, that includes a famous pool scene that launched Phoebe Cates' career? Answer: Fast Times
• The 2001 film “Blackhawk Down”, directed by Ridley Scott, centers on a military operation that took place in which East African country in 1993? Answer: Somalia
• "We'll always have Paris" and "Here's looking at you, kid" are among the memorable quotes from what classic 1943 film? Answer: Casablanca
• What classic literary villain, described as a “Machiavellian schemer and manipulator” shares his name with an avian sidekick in the Disney film "Aladdin?" Answer: Iago
• What pizza restaurant, located on Main Street in its namesake Connecticut town, was also the name of a 1988 romantic comedy-drama directed by Donald Petrie, and starring Vincent D’Onofrio and a young Julia Roberts? Answer: Mystic Pizza
• To what year does Marty McFly get sent back to in the original Back to the Future? Answer: 1955
• First mentioned in "The Goblet of Fire," what is the name for a magically enchanted object in the Harry Potter universe that allows for the apparition-less transportation of multiple people at once upon touching the object? Answer: Portkey
• What spell in the world of Harry Potter is used to unlock and open doors? Answer: Alohomora
• Which musician, writer, and actor landed the role of Lando Calrissian in "Solo: A Star Wars Story?" Answer: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
• Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock earned himself the nickname “Master of Suspense" as he thrilled the masses with his movies, but Hitchcock himself was known to suffer from ovophobia. Ovophobia is a fear of what? Answer: Egg (he was particularly afraid of chicken eggs)
• Colorado Springs is one of the settings along with London in what magician-focused 2006 Christopher Nolan-directed movie? In the film, Colorado Springs serves as the homebase for the experiments of Nikola Tesla (played by none other than David Bowie!) during his ongoing professional rivalry with Thomas Edison. Answer: The Prestige
• What iconic actress plays lead female Ilsa Lund in the classic film "Casablanca"? Answer: Ingrid Bergman
• What single-word five-lettered 1927 film was the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture? Answer: Wings
• "Night Bus" was the original title for what Oscar-winning film from the 1930s? Answer: It Happened One Night
• At the end of "Annie Hall," what actress plays Woody Allen's girlfriend? This female actress later starred in "Alien." Answer: Sigourney Weaver
• After playing the title character in three "Karate Kid" movies, what actor went on to play Billy Gambini, the college student falsely accused of murder, in "My Cousin Vinny?" Answer: Ralph Macchio
• Orthopedic surgeon Scott Powell was a founding member of what rock and roll band, which appeared in the classic movies "Caddyshack" and "Grease?" Answer: Sha Na Na
• American impressionist paintings can be found in the Old Lyme, CT museum known as the Florence ______ Museum. Fill in the last name blank, which is coincidentally the same as the last name of the family from the National Lampoon Family movies. Answer: Florence Griswold Museum
• Hang ten: "The Firemen's Ball" and "Closely Watched Trains" are prominent, arty movies in a Czech film movement that shares what two-word name with the style of music played by New Order and Depeche Mode? Answer: New Wave
• Filmed on Thanksgiving by Martin Scorsese, "The Last Waltz" is a classic concert film about what classic rock band with about the most generic name ever? Answer: The Band
• What “M” Welsh director was at the helm of 1983’s “Return Of The Jedi?” His other movies include “Eye Of The Needle” and “Jagged Edge.” Answer: Richard Marquand
• Peter Billingsley, who played Ralphie May in "A Christmas Story," also makes an uncredited cameo appearance in Santa's workshop in what classic 2003 Christmas film? Answer: Elf
• The office that has the lead role in preparing materials requested in a developmental task can be referred to as the ______ Office. Fill in the one word “A” blank, a word also used to describe movies such as “Die Hard” and “The Fast And The Furious.” Answer: Action Office
• A major political party in Singapore, considered a conservative centre-right option, is the People’s ______ Party. Fill in the one word “A” blank, a word used to describe movies such as “Robocop” or “Commando.” Answer: People's Action Party
• What Northern Irish actor, known for “Schindler’s List” and the “Taken” franchise, played Qui-Gon Jinn in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace?” Answer: Liam Neeson
• What “G” Star Wars robot and General was known as a feared Jedi hunter with multiple robotic limbs in “Star Wars: Episode III” and the “Clone Wars” franchise? His name is also an adjective for a severe or serious blow. Answer: General Grievous
• In “Return Of The Jedi,” Oola is the dancer sent off to be killed by the rancor owned by what what fat, slimy, “J” Hutt? Answer: Jabba The Hut
• George Lucas said he came up with the “Star Wars” droid’s name after overhearing a member of the sound crew on a different movie ask for Reel #2 of the Second Dialogue track, which they had shortened to ______? Answer: R2-D2
• George Lucas originally dreamed that one of the most famous actor/directors of the era would voice Darth Vader. In the end, Lucas decided that the voice of which famous man—known for “Citizen Kane” and “The War of the Worlds”—was just too iconic and therefore too easy for audiences to recognize? Answer: Orson Welles
• The planet of Tatooine is part of a binary star system. Its two suns share what name, being distinguished only by Roman numerals following this name? Answer: Tatoo (Tatoo I and Tatoo II)
• Before she became known as S.H.I.E.L.D agent Maria Hill, which Canadian actress played Robin, one of Ted’s on-again-off-again romances on “How I Met Your Mother?” Answer: Cobie Smulders
• Before taking on the role of Vision, which London-born actor was the voice of JARVIS in “Iron Man” and “Avengers?” Answer: Paul Bettany
• As well as directing "Thor: Ragnarok", Taika Waititi played the left head of which character? Answer: Hajo
• The first film in the Skywalker Saga, which Star Wars movie (Episode I) was released in 1999 and starred Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, and Natalie Portman? Answer: The Phantom Menace
• “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the ______” was released in 2002 and welcomed back an all-star cast, including Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, and Samuel L. Jackson. Answer: Clones
• What is the name of the carnivorous creature from Tatooine that C-3PO is talking about when he says "In its belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you are slowly digested over a thousand years?" Answer: Sarlacc
• In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, what is the name of the Xexto podracer pilot who finishes second to Anakin Skywalker in the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace? Answer: Gasgano
• Despite the name, he seems to do quite a lot. Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy, and Robert Downey Jnr. have all portrayed which fictional veterinarian in movies? Answer: Doctor Dolittle
• A sign reading "Hope You Have What She Had!" still hangs over a booth in Manhattan's Katz's Delicatessen where a scene from what romantic comedy was filmed? Answer: When Harry Met Sally
• In "The Lost Boys", what amphibian is also the surname shared by the teenage vampire hunters Edgar and Alan? Answer: Frog
• Sheev Palpatine is better known by his Sith name, Darth ______. Answer: Sidious
• Also the number of years separating the births of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, how many years old is Padme when she is elected Queen of Naboo in The Phantom Menace? Answer: 14
• The screenplay for “Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones” (2002) was co-written by George Lucas and which British screenwriter who had written for the British TV war drama “Manhunt” in the ‘70s? Answer: Jonathan Hales
• Which single-named superstar won an Oscar for “Moonstruck” (1987)? Answer: Cher
• Tom Hanks had two consecutive Academy Awards nominations and wins for Best Actor in 1993 and 1994. The first was for “Philadelphia”—what was the second? Answer: Forest Gump
• Real-life couple Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner met (and perhaps did a little canoodling) on the set of which 1982 comedic mystery movie directed by Sidney Poitier? Answer: Hanky Panky
• Taking place over the course of a whole day (rather than just the morning), which 1986 movie stars Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Judd Nelson as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal? Answer: The Breakfast Club
• Henry Jones Senior, a character in a 1989 action-adventure film who accompanies his son on a quest to find the Holy Grail, was played by which "Untouchable" Oscar-winning actor? Answer: Sean Connery (in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
• “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was the first film in the franchise to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures instead of which studio? Answer: 20th Century Fox
• Which 2009 horror film starring Megan Fox as a literal man-eating cheerleader and Amanda Seyfried as her geeky forever bestie became a feminist cult classic? Answer: Jennifer's Body
• It is a name applied to a geologic period of glaciation, the most recent of which finished ~12,000 years ago. Continental Drift is the fourth installment of animated movie franchise? Answer: Ice Age
• At a running time of 2 hours 32 minutes, what is the longest movie of the nine-movie ‘Skywalker Saga’, made up of the prequel, original and sequel trilogies? Answer: The Last Jedi
• Director of New Zealand’s two highest grossing domestically-produced films, Taika Waititi is probably best known internationally for his helming the two most recent Marvel movies named for what blond-maned hammer enthusiast? Answer: Thor
• There can only be one! Which 1986 action-adventure film was the first in a franchise starring Christopher Lambert as a Scottish warrior in the 16th century who must fight for the Prize? Answer: Highlander
• As of June 2020, there is one movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that features Washington DC as a prominent setting in the film. On-site filming took place at the National Mall, the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, the Willard Hotel, and Dupont Circle. What is this 2014 film? Answer: Captain America: The Winter Solider
• Director George Romero is best known for his movies about which mythological beings associated with Haitian folklore? Answer: Zombies
• In the affectionate Star Wars parody, “Space Balls,” the film renames the slimy crime lord “Jabba” to something far less sinister and perhaps a bit more delicious. What is this character’s new name? Answer: Pizza the Hut
• Within Washington DC, near where M Street becomes Canal Road in Georgetown, lies a long, steep staircase resting between a stone wall and a brick warehouse. This structure was featured in a climactic final scene in what 1973 horror movie? Answer: The Exorcist
• Sparking one of the most enduring memes on the internet, who says "One does not simply walk into Mordor" in the movie Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring?" (Either the actor's or character's name is acceptable) Answer: Sean Bean / Boromir
• Starring Heath Ledger, "10 Things I Hate About You" is a film loosely based on which Shakespearean play? Answer: The Taming of the Shrew
• A 1903 Tribeca Beaux-Art building, home to the real-life Hook & Ladder Company 8, famously featured as the firehouse in what 1984 film? Answer: Ghostbusters
• Although John Williams is known for writing original film scores, he also won an Oscar for adapting the score in the 1971 film version of what Broadway musical that's set in a shtetl? Answer: Fiddler on the Roof
• Considering that protagonist Chuck Noland is a systems analyst working for FedEx, it is not too surprising that the 2000 drama directed by Robert Zemeckis was set partly in Memphis. What is this film with impressively few lines of inter-character dialogue? Answer: Cast Away
• What surname is shared by the actress who plays Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series, and the family that Mary Poppins works for in Mary Poppins? Answer: Banks
• What British actor played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, and in real life married someone he met at a Wizarding World of Harry Potter event? Answer: Matthew Lewis
• What alliterative actor came to fame as Hawkeye Pierce in MASH and more recently had a supporting role in Noah Baumbach's Netflix-produced film "Marriage Story"? Answer: Alan Alda
• Despite poor reviews and even poorer performance at the box office, what 1999 movie set in Boston (though mostly filmed in Toronto) followed fraternal-twins turned vigilante killers became a cult favorite in part due to an exclusive partnership with Blockbuster? Answer: The Boondock Saints
• What 1988 Ron Howard fantasy film stars Warwick Davis as the titular aspiring sorcerer who tries to save a prophesied baby from harm? Val Kilmer plays a mercenary who helps the hero. Answer: Willow
• The opening scene of which 1992 movie by Quentin Tarantino includes eight men eating breakfast in a Los Angeles diner discussing the Madonna song "Like a Virgin?" Answer: Reservoir Dogs
• Despite being named "Endgame", it was not in fact the final film in Marvel's "Phase Three" of MCU films. What film was the final film in this series of superhero movies? Answer: Spider-Man: Far from Home
• In “Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi”, what actress plays Vice-Admiral Amilyn Holdo, a Rebel officer who briefly takes over for Admiral Leia after Leia is exposed to space? She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Marriage Story” in 2020. Answer: Laura Dern
• According to the Harry Potter books, how many total balls are used in a standard Quidditch match? Answer: Four
• "The Cowboy and The Spaceman" was a rejected title for what movie that eventually won an Academy Award for Special Achievement? Answer: Toy Story
• The bittersweet song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is originally from what Judy Garland movie musical with a US city in its name? Answer: Meet Me in St. Louis
• Winner of three Oscars, including Best Picture, what 2021 film's title refers to people whose parents are Deaf? Answer: CODA
• Queen Victoria in "Victoria and Abdul" and Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love" are among the royal roles played by which esteemed British actress and Dame? Answer: Judi Dench
• Iron Man is famously known as the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What Louis Leterrier-directed film was the second? It was released only six weeks after Iron Man. Answer: The Incredible Hulk
• What retired FIFA Women’s World Cup champion goalkeeper for Team USA has a name made of words from the titles of two different “Star Wars” movies? Answer: Hope Solo
• What “B” Star Wars character is a childhood acquaintance of Luke Skywalker’s who flies in his X-Wing Squadron at the end of “Episode IV: A New Hope?” His name is the same as the last name of actor Jason who starred in “American Pie.” Answer: Biggs Darklighter
• One of many other movies to reference "Star Wars," what 1998 disaster film features Ben Affleck's character declaring, "I'm Han and you're Chewbacca?" Answer: Armageddon
• "Scent of a Woman" and "Batman and Robin," in which he played the Caped Crusader's titular sidekick, were 1990s movies starring what heartthrob actor? Answer: Chris O'Donnell
• When it came out in 1980, critics gave it mixed reviews. At 94% positive in 2022, which Star Wars film currently has the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes? Answer: The Empire Strikes Back
• Which 2015 Star Wars movie directed by J.J. Abrams was the first film in the franchise that didn’t have a video game tie-in when it came out? (Fun Fact: It did eventually get a video game…but just the Lego version). Answer: The Force Awakens
• Which Kenyan-Mexican, Oscar-winning actress played Maz Kanata, who we first meet in “The Force Awakens” (2015)? Answer: Lupita Nyong'o
• In Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts, there are only three girls on the Gryffindor quidditch team and they all play the same position. What position do they play? Answer: Chaser
• What 2002 Disney animated film is a sci-fi adaptation of one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous adventure novels? (Name the movie, not the book.) Answer: Treasure Planet
• What 2016 psychological thriller starred Emily Blunt as a woman struggling with alcohol-related blackouts who finds herself the key suspect in a murder? (Hint: It was based on the novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins which was published the year before—in fact, DreamWorks bought the film rights before the book had even come out). Answer: The Girl on the Train
• Which Star Wars movie was given the working title “Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination” to disguise it from fans and the press while in production? Answer: Return of the Jedi
• What is the name of the department store in the movie "Elf" that is modeled after the real-life Macy's in New York City? Answer: Gimbels
• Before his death in 2018, Stan Lee famously made cameo appearances in all the MCU movies - which movie, in which he appeared as a digitally de-aged car driver, marked his final cameo appearance? Answer: Avengers: Endgame
• Not counting the special achievement award won for the movie’s sound, how many competitive Oscars did Star Wars Episode IV (A New Hope) win at the 50th Academy Awards from its ten nominations? Answer: Six
• What 1986 teen movie is about Andie, a high school social outcast played by Molly Ringwald, who is courted by her best friend Duckie, as well as the rich Blane? Directed by Howard Deutch and written by John Hughes, it shares its name with a Psychedelic Furs song that is the movie’s theme song. Answer: Pretty In Pink
• How many standard times zones are within Canadian borders? Answer: Six
• Who won a record four Academy Awards for Best Actress for “Morning Glory” in 1934, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” in 1968, “The Lion in Winter” in 1969 and “On Golden Pond” in 1982? This actress had the middle name Houghton. Answer: Katherine Hepburn
• Which 1957 war movie directed by David Lean centers on the construction of a bridge that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon? Answer: The Bridge on the River Kwai
• In the 2014 film “Guardians of The Galaxy”, what is the mononymous name of Star-Lord’s ship which shares its name with the surname of the character’s childhood crush on the actor who played Samantha Micelli on “Who’s The Boss”? Answer: The "Milano"
• An Algonquin or Ojibwe word meaning "where the river narrows" became the name of what province where the Saint Lawrence does actually narrow? Answer: Québec
• Twelve years after his character fell and died in Mount Doom in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”, what actor voiced the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke in the 2015 film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”? Answer: Andy Serkis
• In 2016’s “Rogue One”, Felicity Jones played what character, the daughter of the designer of the Death Star who becomes a leader in the Rebel Alliance after being rescued from detention by the Empire? Answer: Jyn Erso
• Adapted for the big screen in 1991, Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown" novels kicked off with a 1987 book about what titular Dublin soul band who presumably always showed up to their gigs on time? Answer: The Commitments
• In “Total Recall,” Arnold Schwarzenegger played a construction worker who gets swept up in action heroics on Mars. What “rocky” actress, also star of “Basic Instinct” and “Casino,” played Arnold’s wife? Answer: Sharon Stone
• What character is responsible for the death of Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi? Answer: Leia
• The film Fanboys (2009) tells the tale of a group of friends who travel across the country to break into Skywalker Ranch and steal a copy of what Star Wars film before its release? Please give just the name, not the episode number, and no need to include the words "Star Wars." Answer: The Phantom Menace
• What was Luke Skywalker's last name in the original script for "Star Wars: A New Hope?" The name went on to be used for a military base similar to the Death Star in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Answer: Starkiller
• Presumably not a favorite amongst arachnophobes, Cate Shortland became the first woman to direct a movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe when she took the helm for which 2021 release? Answer: Black Widow
• Which 2005 addition to the Star Wars movie universe was the first of the films to be entirely shot in a studio? Answer: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
• In the 1986 film "Stand by Me," what candy is missing from the following quote? "If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy: _________. Cherry-flavored _________. No question about it." Answer: Pez
• What California-set 1982 film was the highest grossing film of the 1980s at the U.S. box office? Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• In the 2018 Wes Anderson animated film "Isle of Dogs," the dogs speak English, whereas the humans, for the most part, speak what language? Answer: Japanese
• What was the “Friends”ly name of the horse in the 2011 epic film “War Horse”? Answer: Joey
• What was the real first name of Indiana Jones? Hint: it's not Illinois or Iowa; it's much more boring than that. Answer: Henry
• If you sum the total box offices sales of all of the movies made by each Canadian film director in history, which Canadian director has the highest total? Answer: James Cameron
• What is the name of the critically-acclaimed 2014 film starring Steve Carell that portrays the eccentric, dangerous behavior of multimillionaire John du Pont? The protagonist became infamous after his overzealous recruitment of Olympic wrestlers led to grisly results. Answer: Foxcatcher
• What graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology filmed many of his iconic zombie movies, like Night of the Living Dead (in Butler County) and Dawn of the Dead (at the Monroeville Mall) in Pittsburgh and its surrounding environs? Answer: George Romero
• What time of day links a movie of 1969 starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight and a movie of 1978 in which an American student is imprisoned in Turkey? Answer: Midnight
• What 1992 film depicts the lives of 4 real estate salesmen after their corporate owner sends Alec Baldwin's character to tell them all but the top two salesman will be fired at the end of the week? Always be closing. Answer: Glengarry Glen Ross
• Which 2015 fantasy film starred Blake Lively as a woman who is “frozen in time” at the age of 29 after being in an accident? Answer: The Age of Adaline
• "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" was ranked 12th on The American Film Institute's top 100 film quotes. Which actor, the only person to receive an Academy Award nomination for acting in the movie, said the line? Answer: Robert Duvall
• Roger Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer for Criticism while thumbing movies for what Windy City daily? Answer: Chicago Sun-Times
• Arlo is the titular apatosaurus in what 2015 Disney Pixar film that imagines an alternate universe in which creatures like him never became extinct? Answer: The Good Dinosaur
• Which Star Wars villain was originally played by Declan Mulholland in A New Hope, before the scene was cut and the character completely reimagined? Answer: Jabba the Hutt
• What is the name of the character played by Laura Dern in The Last Jedi whose namesake "manouevre" is essentially kamikaze attack done at lightspeed? Answer: Amilyn Holdo
• The Best Picture-winning film "Driving Miss Daisy," was mostly set in 1960s Georgia and featured a Best Actress performance by what English-American actress in the titular role? Answer: Jessica Tandy
• For her performance in “The Aviator” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett became the first person to win an Oscar for playing an Oscar winner. Which Hollywood legend did she portray? Answer: Katherine Hepburn
• What is the fictional movie referenced many times in Seinfeld with a title that is simply a woman's name repeated? The movie's tagline is revealed as "A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk." Answer: Rochelle Rochelle
• In 2002, which movie became the first to win the 'Best Animated Feature' award at the Oscars? In the broadcast of the event, this movie's main characters were shown attending the ceremony despite not being human- or real. Answer: Shrek
• A silent airplane engine in Hitchcock's Notorious, the shining briefcase in Pulp Fiction, the titular statue in The Maltese Falcon: these are examples of what Scottish-sounding movie trope, which refers to an object necessary to the plot, but which is in and of itself irrelevant or unimportant? Answer: MacGuffin
• What 1994 blockbuster action comedy with a very wacky sense of humor is about bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, who, after discovering the titular artifact, appears to be affected by the spirit of the Norse god Loki? Answer: The Mask
• What was the original title of Return of the Jedi? This title was used in a teaser trailer in 1982, as well as promotional posters, until George Lucas changed his mind. Answer: Revenge of the Jedi
• Which 2019 Star Wars sequel directed by J.J. Abrams centered on the epic showdown between the Resistance and Kylo Ren, and starred Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, and Daisy Ridley? Answer: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• In the 2013 drama Saving Mr. Banks, Hanks plays an aging Walt Disney trying to secure the rights to what 1934 novel? Answer: Mary Poppins
• "Blue Velvet" is 1986 neo-noir film that was directed and written by what popular "surrealist?" Answer: David Lynch
• What actor, who plays a character credited as "the stranger", also served as the narrator in the beginning of the Coen brothers film "The Big Lebowski"? Answer: Sam Elliot
• The son of a literature professor and a dancer/choreographer, Cage has family roots in the movies through his uncle. What famous director is the brother of Nicolas Cage's father? Answer: Francis Ford Coppola
• As Air Force Colonel "Chappy" Sinclair, Louis Gossett Jr. helps a teen gank a couple of F-16s for a clandestine rescue mission in what definitely-not-"Top Gun" 1986 movie? Answer: Iron Eagle
• “Before Sunrise”, a 1995 romantic drama written and directed by Richard Linklater, stars Julie Delpy as a French student travelling across Europe named Celine, and what American actor as Jesse, her love interest? He is also known for his roles in “Gattaca” and “Reality Bites”. Answer: Ethan Hawke
• What first name--the second-most popular given to baby girls in the year 2001--can trace its popularity back to the Tom Hanks-Daryl Hannah movie Splash? Answer: Madison
• The 1940 noir film "They Drive by Night" featured an independent truck driver struggling to become economically stable during the Great Depression. The film co-starred what American film star that was named the "greatest male star" of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute? Answer: Humphrey Bogart
• What creatively-named solar company was founded by Shawn Qu in Ontario in 2001? The company has more than 13,000 employees today, is publicly traded on the NASDAQ, and manufactures solar PV modules. Answer: Canadian Solar
• In the first of The Avengers movies, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, Iron Man and what other member of the group defend New York City against the Chitauri while evacuating civilians? Answer: Hawkeye
• The 1994 action movie "Speed", starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, featured a bus rigged with a bomb that would explode if the bus dropped below ____ MPH. Answer: 50
• The 1939 film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" helped make Jimmy Stewart a star. What man directed "Mr Smith" and also directed Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life?" Answer: Frank Capra
• Aside from being a tabloid publication, TMZ also stands for what area of Southern California where movies can be shot without having to pay union employees added "on location" payments? Answer: Thirty Mile Zone
• Who is the Portland-raised actress and producer that is arguably most well-known for her seven-season run on Mad Men as well as roles in various feature films such as voice acting at Gabby Gabby in "Toy Story 4"? Answer: Christina Hendricks
• The Ariel Awards, or Premio Ariel, is considered which country’s equivalent to the Oscars? Answer: Mexico
• In the Season 8 episode of Seinfeld "The Little Kicks," Jerry and Kramer film bootleg copies of movies for Kramer's friend with what B-name? Answer: Brody
• What is the two-word name of the 2020 American "rom com" that debuted on Hulu and features Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Alison Brie? Answer: Happiest Season
• In this infamous 1978 “Star Wars Holiday Special”, Han Solo joins Chewbacca on the Wookiee’s home planet Kashyyyk to celebrate what holiday? Answer: Life Day
• Before he played young Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” (1999), which actor got his big break playing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son in the holiday comedy, “Jingle All the Way” (1996)? Answer: Jake Lloyd
• Though she gave it to Obi-Wan shortly before she died, Padmé was buried with a good luck charm that had been made by Anakin. It was made from japor ivory wood, a type of wood from what planet? Answer: Tatooine
• Which 1998 movie directed by Steven Spielberg includes a reading of the Bixby letter, a famous letter of condolence written by Abraham Lincoln to Lydia Bixby who lost her five sons during the American Civil War? Answer: Saving Private Ryan
• What is the name of the large omnivorous cephalopods from the planet Vodran, having seven suckered tentacles, an eyestalk, a mouth of sharp teeth and several hearts? Answer: Dianoga
• What 2021 film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi is based on Haruki Murakami's short story with the same title. A title that also appears on The Beatles' Rubber Soul album. Answer: Drive My Car
• What film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1983? (Hint: the film actually came out in 1982.) Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Grand Moff Tarkin, the commander of the Death Star and loyal advisor to Darth Vader in "Star Wars: Episode IV", was played by legendary British actor, probably otherwise best known for dueling with Christopher Lee in a series of Hammer horror films? Answer: Peter Cushing
• Not every Hanks movie is a success: Hanks starred The Bonfire of the Vanities, a box office bomb based on a novel by what author? Answer: Tom Wolfe
• Said by a minor character to Vito Corleone, what four word sentence is the first line of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece “The Godfather” (1971)? Answer: I believe in America
• Who directed the 1986 film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", which showcased the disasters of Thanksgiving weekend traveling that starred John Candy and Steve Martin? Answer: John Hughes
• Which movie of 1993 starring Liam Neeson in the titular role and directed by Steven Spielberg is based on a novel of 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally? Answer: Schindler's List
• “Mallrats”—the 1995 follow-up to “Clerks”—starred two actors with the same initials: JL. Who were they? Answer: Jason Lee and Jeremy London
• The Brady Bunch spawned several movies, though only two of them featured the entire original cast. One was “A Very Brady Christmas.” What was the other? Answer: The Brady Girls Get Married
• What “Pulp Fiction” actor was George Lucas’ second choice to play Han Solo and would have taken the role had Harrison Ford declined it? Answer: Christopher Walken
• Featuring Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning rendition of "Wind Beneath My Wings," the 1988 tear-jerking film "Beaches" is based on what author’s namesake novel released in 1985? Answer: Iris Rainer Dart
• Jane Campion, who, for “Power of the Dog,” became the first woman to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar twice, was born in which country? Answer: New Zealand
• The language spoken by the Ewoks is a combination of two real-life languages. With one guess, name either of these languages. Answer: Tibetan and Nepalese
• Perfect for this movie due to its themes of love and illness, what 3 letter acronym, sometimes preceded by a 3 digit number, is the title of the 2017 Queer Palm award winner? Answer: BPM

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100 Movies Questions

Join us on a cinematic adventure with our 100 movie quiz questions with answers, neatly divided into five exciting rounds.

From Movie Superstars to The Brits, each round features 20 film questions and answers to test your film knowledge.

Whether you’re a casual movie buff or a seasoned cinephile, our quiz promises entertainment, challenge, and a celebration of cinema. So, grab your popcorn and let the ultimate film quiz begin!

Movie Quiz Round 1: Superstars

1. Who played the head of the Corleone family in “The Godfather”?

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2. Which Welsh actor starred opposite Debra Winger in “Shadowlands”?

3. Who played Han Solo in “Star Wars”?

4. Which Jack starred with Shirley Maclaine in “Terms Endearment”?

5. Which British actress has starred in “Titanic”, “Enigma” and “Finding Neverland”?

6. Which British Michael won an Oscar for “Hannah and Her Sisters”?

7. Which Jack’s films vary from “Some Like It Hot” to “The Odd Couple”?

8. Which Mrs Bruce Willis starred in “Ghost”?

9. Which Katharine has received a record 12 Oscar nominations?

10. Who starred in and wrote the song “Evergreen” for “A Star is Born”?

11. Which Warren starred in “Dick Tracy” and “Bugsy Malone”?

12. Which Paul was in “The Sting” and “The Color of Money”?

13. Although born in the US, where was Mel Gibson brought up?

14. Who won Oscars for “Philadelphia” in ’93 and “Forrest Gump” in ’94?

15. Who was the female Kramer in “Kramer vs Kramer”?

16. In which decade did Sylvester Stallone first play Rambo?

17. Which country was Sean Connery born in?

18. Which Al won an Oscar for his role in “Scent of a Woman”?

19. Who was in “Rain Man” and was one of Four Good Men?

20. What “Color” is in the title of Whoopi Goldberg’s first major film?

Round 2: Who’s Who?

21. Who played opposite Ewan McGregor in the comedy “Down with Love”?

22. Who played Cruella the Vil in the “real” version of the “101 Dalmatians”?

23. Which Martin Scorsese film was about the life of Howard Hughes?

24. Who played the aunts in “James and the Giant Peach”?

25. Who directed “Born on the Fourth of July” and “Natural Born Killers”?

26. Who played the Saint in the 90s movie?

27. Who was chosen to play Heathcliff in the 90s “Wuthering Heights”?

28. Who was the British star of “Fierce Creatures”?

29. Who starred as the Elephant Man?

30. Who married Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra?

31. Who insured whose legs for a million dollars with Lloyd’s of London?

32. Who was the heroine in the 30s version of “King Kong”?

33. Who played the mother in “Mermaids”?

34. Whom did Alan Rickman play in “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves”?

35. Who played opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Gangs of New York”?

36. Whose film production company is called Jagged Films?

37. Who played Batman in the 1997 “Batman and Robin”?

38. Which blonde screen legend made only 11 films, three for Hitchcock?

39. Which rock star did Angela Bassett play in a 1993 biopic?

40. Who was Jack Somersby in “Somersby”?

Film Quiz Round 3: The Oscars

41. Which film ends, “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”?

42. Whom did Jodie Foster play in “The Silence of the Lambs”?

43. What was Henry Fonda’s last film, for which he won an Oscar?

44. Who said, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”?

45. James Stewart won his only Best Actor Oscar for which classic?

46. The film documentary “When We Were Kings” told of which sports clash?

47. In which city is “The Sting” set?

48. What does the male figure stand on, on the Oscar statuette?

49. Which Whoopi Goldberg film had 14 nominations and no win at all?

50. Which film was the first all-colour winner of the Best Picture award?

51. From 1952 to 1977, which Brit had 10 nominations and never won?

52. Who was the oldest Best Actress award recipient when she won in 1989?

53. Which British star was the first Best Actor award winner of the 1990s?

54. What did Marlon Brando do with his 1972 Oscar?

55. Who played Katharine Clifton in “The English Patient”?

56. Best Director Bob Fosse was the only 70s winner whose film was not Best Picture that year. Which picture was it?

57. Who danced together for the last time at the 1966 Oscar ceremony?

58. Kevin Costner was nominated for Best Director and Best Actor for “Dances with Wolves” – which did he win?

59. Which cancer sufferer’s last public appearance was at the 1979 Oscar ceremony?

60. Which was the first black-and-white film to win Best Picture after “The Apartment” in 1960?

Round 4: Animation Movies

61. Which of the Seven Dwarfs had the longest name?

62. Who created Wallace and Gromit?

63. What was Mickey Mouse originally called?

64. What was Disney’s first full-length cartoon called?

65. Which film takes place in Pepperland?

66. Who wrote the song lyrics for “Aladdin”?

67. Who provided the voice of PC Mackintosh in “Curse of the Were-Rabbit”?

68. “When You Wish Upon a Star” is from which Disney film?

69. What is Simba’s uncle called in “The Lion King”?

70. “The Sword in the Stone” centres on the legend of which King?

71. Which film has the signal of the “twilight bark”?

72. Which character was the star of Disney’s “Steamboat Willie”?

73. Which song from “Aladdin” in 1992 won an Oscar?

74. In which Disney film are Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra seen?

75. What sort of animal is King Louie in “The Jungle Book”?

76. What is the Princess called in “Aladdin”?

77. Who were the original two Dalmatians in the 1961 classic?

78. What sort of creature was Thumper in “Bambi”?

79. Which was the first major Disney cartoon film released after Walt Disney’s death in 1966?

80. What was the name of Disney’s Great Mouse Detective?

Movie Quiz Round 5: The Brits

81. For what did “Four Weddings and a Funeral” win Oscar nominations?

82. What was the movie “Billy Elliot” called when it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival?

83. How many roles did Alec Guinness play in “Kind Hearts and Coronets”?

84. Who was Jane Seymour’s first father-in-law?

85. What was Anthony Hopkins’s role in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”?

86. Who played Stephen Ward in “Scandal”?

87. In which film did Emma Thompson play a 1940s European and a present-day Californian?

88. Which actor won a BAFTA for “Chariots on Fire”?

89. Which was Julie Andrew’s first film with her husband Black Edwards?

90. Who appeared with Robert Redford, when just six, in “The Great Gatsby”?

91. Who played Schilndler’s Jewish accountant in “Schindler’s List”?

92. What was Roger Moore’s second movie as James Bond?

93. Who starred in and composed the score for “Bedazzled”?

94. Which actor has been co-owner of London’s Langan’s Brasserie?

95. Who played General Allenby in “Lawrence of Arabia”?

96. The reciting of whose poem in “Four Weddings and a Funeral” resulted in a book of his poetry becoming a best-seller?

97. Who won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1968, which his nephew also starred in?

98. Who played Anne Boleyn in “A Man for All Seasons”?

99. What was Glenda Jackson’s film debut?

100. What was Cilla Black’s first feature film?

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Bad Bunny Answers Vogue ’s 73 Questions

By Maya Layne

If you’ve ever dreamed of heading backstage at a Bad Bunny concert—and who hasn’t?—you’re in luck: Vogue recently stole a glimpse behind the curtain at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where Benito’s Most Wanted tour stopped for a string of sold-out dates earlier this month.

With just four hours to go before showtime, one would expect a little chaos—or, at the very least, a few nerves. But Bad Bunny is cool as they come; he checks his watch and merely shrugs. While on tour, his normal routine goes like this: He wakes up, he has a little breakfast, he works out, and he’s on his way. Oh, and he doesn’t need more than four or five hours of sleep. As it turns out, the Latin rap superstar (and 2024 Met Gala co-chair ) is also very nearly superhuman.

Yet not even he was immune to the anxieties of turning 30. When asked why he wanted to release his fifth solo studio album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana , before exiting his 20s, he replies, rather sagely, “There are things that I say in the album that I don’t want to say after I’m 30…. In my 30s, I want to focus on new things.”

Among the other treats in this round of 73 Questions ? Our faithful interviewer, Joe, throwing out a few questions in Spanish; Bad Bunny reciting—or attempting to recite, anyway—a list of tongue twisters on the spot (“So random,” is his hilarious reaction); and the Puerto Rico native discussing the finer points of puertorriqueño slang, as well as what he loves most about his hometown of Vega Baja. Watch the full thing above.

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10 Confusing Movie Questions We Still Don't Understand

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There are plenty of films that are designed not just to entertain, but to provide a thought-provoking experience. 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Blade Runner refused to spoon-feed their audiences, leaving them with more questions than answers. Though this form of storytelling can be frustrating, it's allowed such features to endure, since it encourages the masses to debate over their deeper meaning for decades.

Of course, not all of these enigmas were deliberate. Sometimes, a film leaves a few questions unanswered, purely because of bad writing or plotholes. Other times, moviegoers become fixated on a minor issue that was never meant to be important. Whether or not these mysteries were intentional, it hasn't stopped them from lingering ever since.

Now, not every moment of ambiguity is worth dwelling on, especially when a subplot or ending was supposed to remain ambiguous. And when the directors and writers state they're never going to spill the beans on one or two unexplained plot points, it's best not to hyper-focus on them.

With that said, here are those big movie questions that continue to provoke debate...

10. What Happened to Tiamat? - Eternals

The 26th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chloé Zhao's The Eternals focused on a group of immortals tasked with safeguarding humanity for millennia from alien predators called Deviants. 

Unfortunately, our titular heroes are unaware their creators, the Celestials, want humanity's population to thrive so their collective energy can awaken a Celestial called Tiamat from the Earth's core. When the Eternals learn Tiamat's birth will result in mankind's destruction, they do everything they can to prevent it.

Luckily, the Eternals stop Tiamat's emergence, just as his body breaks through the planet's crust. But since there is a space god sticking out of the Indian Ocean, it should have some major impact on the world.

And yet, Tiamat has never been referenced again. Even though there have been seven MCU films since, nobody has mentioned the 300-mile tall robot poking out of the sea, despite the fact it's probably visible from 20 countries. Considering this cosmic being has been hibernating inside the core for who knows how long, society should be freaking out.

With so many projects going at once, the Marvel franchise can't be expected to tie up every loose end. Having said that, it'd be refreshing if  something was mentioned about Tiamat given just how freaking big he is.

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A Plan to Remake the Middle East

While talks for a cease-fire between israel and hamas continue, another set of negotiations is happening behind the scenes..

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From New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

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Today, if and when Israel and Hamas reach a deal for a ceasefire fire, the United States will immediately turn to a different set of negotiations over a grand diplomatic bargain that it believes could rebuild Gaza and remake the Middle East. My colleague Michael Crowley has been reporting on that plan and explains why those involved in it believe they have so little time left to get it done.

It’s Wednesday, May 8.

Michael, I want to start with what feels like a pretty dizzying set of developments in this conflict over the past few days. Just walk us through them?

Well, over the weekend, there was an intense round of negotiations in an effort, backed by the United States, to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza war.

The latest ceasefire proposal would reportedly see as many as 33 Israeli hostages released in exchange for potentially hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

US officials were very eager to get this deal.

Pressure for a ceasefire has been building ahead of a threatened Israeli assault on Rafah.

Because Israel has been threatening a military offensive in the Southern Palestinian city of Rafah, where a huge number of people are crowded.

Fleeing the violence to the North. And now they’re packed into Rafah. Exposed and vulnerable, they need to be protected.

And the US says it would be a humanitarian catastrophe on top of the emergency that’s already underway.

Breaking news this hour — very important breaking news. An official Hamas source has told The BBC that it does accept a proposal for a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

And for a few hours on Monday, it looked like there might have been a major breakthrough when Hamas put out a statement saying that it had accepted a negotiating proposal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the ceasefire proposal does not meet his country’s requirements. But Netanyahu says he will send a delegation of mediators to continue those talks. Now, the terms —

But those hopes were dashed pretty quickly when the Israelis took a look at what Hamas was saying and said that it was not a proposal that they had agreed to. It had been modified.

And overnight —

Israeli troops stormed into Rafah. Video showing tanks crashing over a sign at the entrance of the city.

— the Israelis launched a partial invasion of Rafah.

It says Hamas used the area to launch a deadly attack on Israeli troops over the weekend.

And they have now secured a border crossing at the Southern end of Gaza and are conducting targeted strikes. This is not yet the full scale invasion that President Biden has adamantly warned Israel against undertaking, but it is an escalation by Israel.

So while all that drama might suggest that these talks are in big trouble, these talks are very much still alive and ongoing and there is still a possibility of a ceasefire deal.

And the reason that’s so important is not just to stop the fighting in Gaza and relieve the suffering there, but a ceasefire also opens the door to a grand diplomatic bargain, one that involves Israel and its Arab neighbors and the Palestinians, and would have very far-reaching implications.

And what is that grand bargain. Describe what you’re talking about?

Well, it’s incredibly ambitious. It would reshape Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbors, principally Saudi Arabia. But it’s important to understand that this is a vision that has actually been around since well before October 7. This was a diplomatic project that President Biden had been investing in and negotiating actually in a very real and tangible way long before the Hamas attacks and the Gaza war.

And President Biden was looking to build on something that President Trump had done, which was a series of agreements that the Trump administration struck in which Israel and some of its Arab neighbors agreed to have normal diplomatic relations for the first time.

Right, they’re called the Abraham Accords.

That’s right. And, you know, Biden doesn’t like a lot of things, most things that Trump did. But he actually likes this, because the idea is that they contribute to stability and economic integration in the Middle East, the US likes Israel having friends and likes having a tight-knit alliance against Iran.

President Biden agrees with the Saudis and with the Israelis, that Iran is really the top threat to everybody here. So, how can you build on this? How can you expand it? Well, the next and biggest step would be normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

And the Saudis have made clear that they want to do this and that they’re ready to do this. They weren’t ready to do it in the Trump years. But Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, has made clear he wants to do it now.

So this kind of triangular deal began to take shape before October 7, in which the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia would enter this three way agreement in which everyone would get something that they wanted.

And just walk through what each side gets in this pre-October 7th version of these negotiations?

So for Israel, you get normalized ties with its most important Arab neighbor and really the country that sets the tone for the whole Muslim world, which is Saudi Arabia of course. It makes Israel feel safer and more secure. Again, it helps to build this alliance against Iran, which Israel considers its greatest threat, and it comes with benefits like economic ties and travel and tourism. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been very open, at least before October 7th, that this was his highest diplomatic and foreign policy priority.

For the Saudis, the rationale is similar when it comes to Israel. They think that it will bring stability. They like having a more explicitly close ally against Iran. There are economic and cultural benefits. Saudi Arabia is opening itself up in general, encouraging more tourism.

But I think that what’s most important to the Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is what he can get from the United States. And what he has been asking for are a couple of essential things. One is a security agreement whose details have always been a little bit vague, but I think essentially come down to reliable arms supplies from the United States that are not going to be cut off or paused on a whim, as he felt happened when President Biden stopped arms deliveries in 2021 because of how Saudi was conducting its war in Yemen. The Saudis were furious about that.

Saudi Arabia also wants to start a domestic nuclear power program. They are planning for a very long-term future, possibly a post-oil future. And they need help getting a nuclear program off the ground.

And they want that from the US?

And they want that from the US.

Now, those are big asks from the us. But from the perspective of President Biden, there are some really enticing things about this possible agreement. One is that it will hopefully produce more stability in the region. Again, the US likes having a tight-knit alliance against Iran.

The US also wants to have a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia. You know, despite the anger at Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, the Biden administration recognizes that given the Saudis control over global oil production and their strategic importance in the Middle East, they need to have a good relationship with them. And the administration has been worried about the influence of China in the region and with the Saudis in particular.

So this is an opportunity for the US to draw the Saudis closer. Whatever our moral qualms might be about bin Salman and the Saudi government, this is an opportunity to bring the Saudis closer, which is something the Biden administration sees as a strategic benefit.

All three of these countries — big, disparate countries that normally don’t see eye-to-eye, this was a win-win-win on a military, economic, and strategic front.

That’s right. But there was one important actor in the region that did not see itself as winning, and that was the Palestinians.

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First, it’s important to understand that the Palestinians have always expected that the Arab countries in the Middle East would insist that Israel recognize a Palestinian state before those countries were willing to essentially make total peace and have normal relations with Israel.

So when the Abraham Accords happened in the Trump administration, the Palestinians felt like they’d been thrown under the bus because the Abraham Accords gave them virtually nothing. But the Palestinians did still hold out hope that Saudi Arabia would be their savior. And for years, Saudi Arabia has said that Israel must give the Palestinians a state if there’s going to be a normal relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Now the Palestinians see the Saudis in discussions with the US and Israel about a normalization agreement, and there appears to be very little on offer for the Palestinians. And they are feeling like they’re going to be left out in the cold here.

Right. And in the minds of the Palestinians, having already been essentially sold out by all their other Arab neighbors, the prospect that Saudi Arabia, of all countries, the most important Muslim Arab country in the region, would sell them out, had to be extremely painful.

It was a nightmare scenario for them. And in the minds of many analysts and US officials, this was a factor, one of many, in Hamas’s decision to stage the October 7th attacks.

Hamas, like other Palestinian leaders, was seeing the prospect that the Middle East was moving on and essentially, in their view, giving up on the Palestinian cause, and that Israel would be able to have friendly, normal relations with Arab countries around the region, and that it could continue with hardline policies toward the Palestinians and a refusal, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said publicly, to accept a Palestinian state.

Right. So Michael, once Hamas carries out the October 7th attacks in an effort to destroy a status quo that it thinks is leaving them less and less relevant, more and more hopeless, including potentially this prospect that Saudi Arabia is going to normalize relations with Israel, what happens to these pre-October 7th negotiations between the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel?

Well, I think there was a snap assumption that these talks were dead and buried. That they couldn’t possibly survive a cataclysm like this.

But then something surprising happened. It became clear that all the parties were still determined to pull-off the normalization.

And most surprisingly of all, perhaps, was the continued eagerness of Saudi Arabia, which publicly was professing outrage over the Israeli response to the Hamas attacks, but privately was still very much engaged in these conversations and trying to move them forward.

And in fact, what has happened is that the scope of this effort has grown substantially. October 7th didn’t kill these talks. It actually made them bigger, more complicated, and some people would argue, more important than ever.

We’ll be right back.

Michael, walk us through what exactly happens to these three-way negotiations after October 7th that ends up making them, as you just said, more complicated and more important than ever?

Well, it’s more important than ever because of the incredible need in Gaza. And it’s going to take a deal like this and the approval of Saudi Arabia to unlock the kind of massive reconstruction project required to essentially rebuild Gaza from the rubble. Saudi Arabia and its Arab friends are also going to be instrumental in figuring out how Gaza is governed, and they might even provide troops to help secure it. None of those things are going to happen without a deal like this.

Fascinating.

But this is all much more complicated now because the price for a deal like this has gone up.

And by price, you mean?

What Israel would have to give up. [MUSIC PLAYING]

From Saudi Arabia’s perspective, you have an Arab population that is furious at Israel. It now feels like a really hard time to do a normalization deal with the Israelis. It was never going to be easy, but this is about as bad a time to do it as there has been in a generation at least. And I think that President Biden and the people around him understand that the status quo between Israel and the Palestinians is intolerable and it is going to lead to chaos and violence indefinitely.

So now you have two of the three parties to this agreement, the Saudis and the Americans, basically asking a new price after October 7th, and saying to the Israelis, if we’re going to do this deal, it has to not only do something for the Palestinians, it has to do something really big. You have to commit to the creation of a Palestinian state. Now, I’ll be specific and say that what you hear the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, say is that the agreement has to include an irreversible time-bound path to a Palestinian state.

We don’t know exactly what that looks like, but it’s some kind of a firm commitment, the likes of which the world and certainly the Israelis have not made before.

Something that was very much not present in the pre-October 7th vision of this negotiation. So much so that, as we just talked about, the Palestinians were left feeling completely out in the cold and furious at it.

That’s right. There was no sign that people were thinking that ambitiously about the Palestinians in this deal before October 7th. And the Palestinians certainly felt like they weren’t going to get much out of it. And that has completely changed now.

So, Michael, once this big new dimension after October 7th, which is the insistence by Saudi Arabia and the US that there be a Palestinian state or a path to a Palestinian state, what is the reaction specifically from Israel, which is, of course, the third major party to this entire conversation?

Well, Israel, or at least its political leadership, hates it. You know, this is just an extremely tough sell in Israel. It would have been a tough sell before October 7th. It’s even harder now.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is completely unrepentantly open in saying that there’s not going to be a Palestinian state on his watch. He won’t accept it. He says that it’s a strategic risk to his country. He says that it would, in effect, reward Hamas.

His argument is that terrorism has forced a conversation about statehood onto the table that wasn’t there before October 7th. Sure, it’s always in the background. It’s a perennial issue in global affairs, but it was not something certainly that the US and Israel’s Arab neighbors were actively pushing. Netanyahu also has — you know, he governs with the support of very right-wing members of a political coalition that he has cobbled together. And that coalition is quite likely to fall apart if he does embrace a Palestinian state or a path to a Palestinian state.

Now, he might be able to cobble together some sort of alternative, but it creates a political crisis for him.

And finally, you know, I think in any conversation about Israel, it’s worth bearing in mind something you hear from senior US officials these days, which is that although there is often finger pointing at Netanyahu and a desire to blame Netanyahu as this obstructionist who won’t agree to deals, what they say is Netanyahu is largely reflecting his population and the political establishment of his country, not just the right-wingers in his coalition who are clearly extremist.

But actually the prevailing views of the Israeli public. And the Israeli public and their political leaders across the spectrum right now with few exceptions, are not interested in talking about a Palestinian state when there are still dozens and dozens of Israeli hostages in tunnels beneath Gaza.

So it very much looks like this giant agreement that once seemed doable before October 7th might be more important to everyone involved than ever, given that it’s a plan for rebuilding Gaza and potentially preventing future October 7th’s from happening, but because of this higher price that Israel would have to pay, which is the acceptance of a Palestinian state, it seems from everything you’re saying, that this is more and more out of reach than ever before and hard to imagine happening in the immediate future. So if the people negotiating it are being honest, Michael, are they ready to acknowledge that it doesn’t look like this is going to happen?

Well, not quite yet. As time goes by, they certainly say it’s getting harder and harder, but they’re still trying, and they still think there’s a chance. But both the Saudis and the Biden administration understand that there’s very little time left to do this.

Well, what do you mean there’s very little time left? It would seem like time might benefit this negotiation in that it might give Israel distance from October 7th to think potentially differently about a Palestinian state?

Potentially. But Saudi Arabia wants to get this deal done in the Biden administration because Mohammed bin Salman has concluded this has to be done under a Democratic president.

Because Democrats in Congress are going to be very reluctant to approve a security agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

It’s important to understand that if there is a security agreement, that’s something Congress is going to have to approve. And you’re just not going to get enough Democrats in Congress to support a deal with Saudi Arabia, who a lot of Democrats don’t like to begin with, because they see them as human rights abusers.

But if a Democratic president is asking them to do it, they’re much more likely to go along.

Right. So Saudi Arabia fears that if Biden loses and Trump is president, that those same Democrats would balk at this deal in a way that they wouldn’t if it were being negotiated under President Biden?

Exactly. Now, from President Biden’s perspective, politically, think about a president who’s running for re-election, who is presiding right now over chaos in the Middle East, who doesn’t seem to have good answers for the Israeli-Palestinian question, this is an opportunity for President Biden to deliver what could be at least what he would present as a diplomatic masterstroke that does multiple things at once, including creating a new pathway for Israel and the Palestinians to coexist, to break through the logjam, even as he is also improving Israel’s relations with Saudi Arabia.

So Biden and the Crown Prince hope that they can somehow persuade Bibi Netanyahu that in spite of all the reasons that he thinks this is a terrible idea, that this is a bet worth taking on Israel’s and the region’s long-term security and future?

That’s right. Now, no one has explained very clearly exactly how this is going to work, and it’s probably going to require artful diplomacy, possibly even a scenario where the Israelis would agree to something that maybe means one thing to them and means something else to other people. But Biden officials refuse to say that it’s hopeless and they refuse to essentially take Netanyahu’s preliminary no’s for an answer. And they still see some way that they can thread this incredibly narrow needle.

Michael, I’m curious about a constituency that we haven’t been talking about because they’re not at the table in these discussions that we are talking about here. And that would be Hamas. How does Hamas feel about the prospect of such a deal like this ever taking shape. Do they see it as any kind of a victory and vindication for what they did on October 7th?

So it’s hard to know exactly what Hamas’s leadership is thinking. I think they can feel two things. I think they can feel on the one hand, that they have established themselves as the champions of the Palestinian people who struck a blow against Israel and against a diplomatic process that was potentially going to leave the Palestinians out in the cold.

At the same time, Hamas has no interest in the kind of two-state solution that the US is trying to promote. They think Israel should be destroyed. They think the Palestinian state should cover the entire geography of what is now Israel, and they want to lead a state like that. And that’s not something that the US, Saudi Arabia, or anyone else is going to tolerate.

So what Hamas wants is to fight, to be the leader of the Palestinian people, and to destroy Israel. And they’re not interested in any sort of a peace process or statehood process.

It seems very clear from everything you’ve said here that neither Israel nor Hamas is ready to have the conversation about a grand bargain diplomatic program. And I wonder if that inevitably has any bearing on the ceasefire negotiations that are going on right now between the two of them that are supposed to bring this conflict to some sort of an end, even if it’s just temporary?

Because if, as you said, Michael, a ceasefire opens the door to this larger diplomatic solution, and these two players don’t necessarily want that larger diplomatic solution, doesn’t that inevitably impact their enthusiasm for even reaching a ceasefire?

Well, it certainly doesn’t help. You know, this is such a hellish problem. And of course, you first have the question of whether Israel and Hamas can make a deal on these immediate issues, including the hostages, Palestinian prisoners, and what the Israeli military is going to do, how long a ceasefire might last.

But on top of that, you have these much bigger diplomatic questions that are looming over them. And it’s not clear that either side is ready to turn and face those bigger questions.

So while for the Biden administration and for Saudi Arabia, this is a way out of this crisis, these larger diplomatic solutions, it’s not clear that it’s a conversation that the two parties that are actually at war here are prepared to start having.

Well, Michael, thank you very much. We appreciate it.

On Tuesday afternoon, under intense pressure from the US, delegations from Israel and Hamas arrived in Cairo to resume negotiations over a potential ceasefire. But in a statement, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear that even with the talks underway, his government would, quote, “continue to wage war against Hamas.”

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Today’s episode was produced by Nina Feldman, Clare Toeniskoetter, and Rikki Novetsky. It was edited by Liz O. Baylen, contains original music by Marion Lozano, Elisheba Ittoop, and Dan Powell, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly.

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If and when Israel and Hamas reach a deal for a cease-fire, the United States will immediately turn to a different set of negotiations over a grand diplomatic bargain that it believes could rebuild Gaza and remake the Middle East.

Michael Crowley, who covers the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The Times, explains why those involved in this plan believe they have so little time left to get it done.

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Talks on a cease-fire in the Gaza war are once again at an uncertain stage .

Here’s how the push for a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia looked before Oct. 7 .

From early in the war, President Biden has said that a lasting resolution requires a “real” Palestinian state .

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