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In this article, we present 151+ movie trivia questions and answers designed to test your cinema IQ, covering everything from Old Hollywood classics to today’s blockbuster hits. Movie trivia serves as a delightful way to engage with friends and challenge your knowledge of the film world.
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Movie Trivia Questions and Answers
- Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Answer: Anne Bancroft - What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?
Answer: “Red” - What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
Answer: “Rosebud”
- What shocking Wes Craven horror movie carried the marketing tagline, “To avoid fainting, keep repeating, ‘It’s only a movie…'”?
Answer: The Last House on the Left - What pop vocal group performs at the wedding in Bridesmaids?
Answer: Wilson Phillips - What real-life on-again off-again Hollywood power couple starred in the film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - What American writer/director starred in several iconic European-produced “Spaghetti Westerns”?
Answer: Clint Eastwood - Who played Juror Number 8 in 12 Angry Men?
Answer: Henry Fonda - The head of what kind of animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene from The Godfather?
Answer: A horse - What TV show was Jack Nicholson referencing when he ad-libbed “Here’s Johnny!” in The Shining?
Answer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - For what movie did Tom Hanks score his first Academy Award nomination?
Answer: Big - What 1927 musical was the first “talkie”?
Answer: The Jazz Singer - What’s the name of the skyscraper in Die Hard?
Answer: Nakatomi Plaza - What flavor of Pop-Tarts does Buddy the Elf use in his spaghetti in Elf?
Answer: Chocolate - What famous L.A. landmark is heavily featured in Rebel Without a Cause?
Answer: Griffith Observatory - Who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biopic Selma?
Answer: David Oyelowo - Who directed Boris Karloff in the classics Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein?
Answer: James Whale
- What infamous 1980 box-office bomb ruined the career of The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino?
Answer: Heaven’s Gate - What words are written on the knuckles of “Reverend” Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter?
Answer: “Love” and “hate.” - What Hollywood movie star plays himself in Zombieland?
Answer: Bill Murray - In Risky Business, what song did Tom Cruise famously lip-sync to in his underwear?
Answer: “Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger - Who is the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Lord of the Rings movie?
Answer: Ian McKellen - Who took over the role of Bruce Wayne’s love interest Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, following Katie Holmes’ exit after Batman Begins?
Answer: Maggie Gyllenhaal - What song plays over the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy?
Answer: “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone - For which 1964 musical blockbuster did Julie Andrews win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Answer: Mary Poppins - What critically panned 1984 country-musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone eventually became a cult classic?
Answer: Rhinestone - Who played park owner John Hammond in Jurassic Park?
Answer: Richard Attenborough - In what 1976 thriller does Robert De Niro famously say “You talkin’ to me?”
Answer: Taxi Driver - What’s the name of the anthemic dance near the beginning of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Answer: “The Time Warp” - For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: Schindler’s List - What is the name of the courtesan played by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!?
Answer: Satine - In what 1950 drama does Bette Davis say, “Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy night”?
Answer: All About Eve - The theme from The Third Man (also called “The Harry Lime Theme”) was performed on what instrument?
Answer: Zither - Marlon Brando “could have been a contender” in what iconic 1954 crime drama?
Answer: On the Waterfront - “Well, nobody’s perfect” is the final line (and punchline) from what classic 1959 comedy starring Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Some Like it Hot - The stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s was adapted for the screen to become what 1942 Best Picture winner?
Answer: Casablanca - In what 1979 James Bond movie does the famous spy go to outer space?
Answer: Moonraker - Who wrote the famous, scary theme music from Halloween?
Answer: John Carpenter - What animated classic was the first film of the late 20th century “Disney Renaissance?”
Answer: The Little Mermaid - In Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall says, “I love the smell of _____ in the morning.”
Answer: Napalm - What is the name of Quint’s shark-hunting boat in Jaws?
Answer: The Orca - What’s the name of Charlie Chaplin’s most famous, recurring character?
Answer: “The Tramp” - Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for writing what 2010 drama about the creation of Facebook?
Answer: The Social Network - Who played iconic femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson in the classic 1946 film noir Double Indemnity?
Answer: Barbara Stanwyck - What is the model of revolver made famous by Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan?
Answer: Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum - Which 1927 war drama was the first movie to ever win Best Picture?
Answer: Wings - Who is the first actor to play Jack Ryan on screen?
Answer: Alec Baldwin - What was Audrey Hepburn’s birth name?
Answer: Audrey Kathleen Ruston - Joaquin Phoenix received his first Oscar nomination for playing Roman emperor Commodus in what 2000 Oscar-winning epic?
Answer: Gladiator - Who played the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown in Titanic?
Answer: Kathy Bates - In the action thriller Speed, why is Annie (Sandra Bullock)’s driver’s license suspended?
Answer: She was speeding - Jennifer Lawrence won a Best Actress Academy Award for what 2012 romantic comedy/drama?
Answer: Silver Linings Playbook - The Battle of Thermopylae served as the basis of what highly stylized 2006 smash hit swords-and-sandals action flick?
Answer: 300 - Which famous film composer wrote the music for Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman?
Answer: Danny Elfman - What is the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time?
Answer: Joker - What 1994 crime film revitalized John Travolta’s career?
Answer: Pulp Fiction - Who voiced the sultry Jessica Rabbit in Who’s Afraid of Roger Rabbit?
Answer: Kathleen Turner - Which movie was incorrectly announced as the winner of Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards, during one of the greatest Oscars flubs of all time?
Answer: La La Land - Which 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie starred James Stewart and was shot to look like one continuous take?
Answer: Rope - How many suns does Luke’s home planet of Tatooine have in Star Wars?
Answer: Two - What movie holds the record for most Oscar wins without winning Best Picture (eight wins total)?
Answer: Cabaret - In what 1969 James Bond thriller does the famous spy fall in love and get married?
Answer: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - What 1970 movie marked the feature debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Hercules in New York
- What is the first movie ever to be rated PG-13?
Answer: Red Dawn (1984) - What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when taking inflation into account?
Answer: Gone with the Wind - What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when not taking inflation into account?
Answer: Avatar - What’s the Los Angeles hotel prominently featured in Pretty Woman?
Answer: The Beverly Wilshire by Four Seasons - What is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy - Who played Detective Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?
Answer: Harrison Ford - What is the name of the spaceship in Alien?
Answer: USCSS Nostromo - Which Alfred Hitchcock thriller is notorious for its shocking “shower scene”?
Answer: Psycho - What is the highest-grossing foreign-language film at the U.S. box office?
Answer: The Passion of the Christ - Who wrote the screenplay for Rocky?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone - What national monument does Cary Grant climb in the heart-pounding final moments of North by Northwest?
Answer: Mount Rushmore - What was Quentin Tarantino’s first feature as writer/director?
Answer: Reservoir Dogs - Which Oscar-winning blonde bombshell played James Stewart’s love interest Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window?
Answer: Grace Kelly - Who is the only person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Star Wars movie?
Answer: Alec Guinness - Which actress’s name, who voices Princess Elsa in the Frozen films, did John Travolta botch at the 2014 Oscars?
Answer: Idina Menzel - What is the real name of Uma Thurman’s “The Bride” character from Kill Bill?
Answer: Beatrix Kiddo - What prominent American director won an Oscar for helming Forrest Gump?
Answer: Robert Zemeckis - Three of Jim Carrey’s blockbusters. The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, were all released in what year?
Answer: 1994 - Who holds the record for the most Academy Awards won with 22 Oscars?
Answer: Walt Disney - What famous heartthrob is unrecognizable under layers of makeup as The Penguin in 2021’s The Batman?
Answer: Colin Farrell - In Clueless, what character said, “You’re a virgin who can’t drive?”
Answer: Tai (Brittany Murphy) - What is the name of the love interest whose “hair looks sexy pushed back” in Mean Girls?
Answer: Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) - What highly acclaimed Richard Linklater drama was filmed over and produced over 12 years?
Answer: Boyhood - What is the name of Humperdinck’s kingdom in The Princess Bride?
Answer: Florin - How many screenwriting Oscars has Quentin Tarantino won?
Answer: Two - What actress exited the set of the apocalyptic comedy This Is the End over objections to appearing in a scene that involved cannibalism?
Answer: Emma Watson - Who won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for both Moonlight and Green Book?
Answer: Mahershala Ali - What critically maligned 2004 superhero film co-stars Sharon Stone as an evil cosmetics executive?
Answer: Catwoman - Which actress replaced Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O’Connor in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?
Answer: Maria Bello - What is the name of the fictional boy band in Pixar’s Turning Red?
Answer: 4*Town - Who plays Duncan Idaho in Dune (2021)?
Answer: Jason Momoa - Dakota Johnson dropped out of Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature Don’t Worry Darling to appear in what critically acclaimed 2021 drama?
Answer: The Lost Daughter - What legendary pop star judges a fashion “walk-off” between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Zoolander?
Answer: David Bowie - What is the first foreign-language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Parasite - Who is the killer in Knives Out?
Answer: Hugh Ransom Drysdale (Chris Evans) - Who is the killer in Glass Onion?
Answer: Miles Bron (Edward Norton) - What was the first movie Steven Spielberg and John Williams collaborated on?
Answer: The Sugarland Express - What director scared the living hell out of everyone with horror hits Hereditary and Midsommar?
Answer: Ari Aster - Brendan Fraser shared the honor of Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture at the SAG Awards for what 2005 drama?
Answer: Crash - What creator of The White Lotus wrote the screenplay of Beatriz at Dinner starring Salma Hayek?
Answer: Mike White - What Oscar-winning 1981 drama starred father and daughter Henry and Jane Fonda?
Answer: On Golden Pond - What basketball legend appeared in the cockpit of Airplane!?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love despite having only eight minutes of screen time?
Answer: Judi Dench - What was the name of the donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin?
Answer: Jenny - What award-winning Canadian actor played the killer in Rear Window?
Answer: Raymond Burr - What DC movie was shockingly canceled by Warner Bros. in 2022?
Answer: Batgirl - What is the runtime (in minutes) of Avatar: The Way of Water?
Answer: 192 minutes - Who wrote the novel All Quiet on the Western Front (the basis of multiple film adaptations)?
Answer: Erich Maria Remarque - Who did Oscar nominee Bill Nighy play in the Harry Potter movies?
Answer: Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour - Who did Oscar nominee Bill Nighy play in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
Answer: Davy Jones - What household pet meets a horrific demise in Fatal Attraction?
Answer: A bunny rabbit - What vocalist sang for Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and Deborah Kerr in The King and I?
Answer: Marni Nixon - Ke Huy Quan made his first appearance in what 1984 movie?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - What is the piece Lydia Tár aims to conduct as a career-high achievement in Tár?
Answer: Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 - In what 2002 Oscar-winning crime thriller classic did Denzel Washington play a villain?
Answer: Training Day - What Dawn of the Dead star directed the Oscar-nominated Women Talking?
Answer: Sarah Polley - What actress delivered the bone-chilling line “Who’s hand was I holding?” in the 1963 horror classic The Haunting?
Answer: Julie Harris - What is the first rule of Fight Club?
Answer: You do not talk about Fight Club. - Who was the visual effects and animation icon behind the stop-motion effects in Jason and the Argonauts and 1981’s Clash of the Titans?
Answer: Ray Harryhausen - This acclaimed, Oscar-winning filmmaker directed Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Answer: George Miller - Who is the first woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Actress?
Answer: Halle Berry - What’s the fictional brand of cigarettes in Quentin Tarantino’s movies?
Answer: Red Apple cigarettes - Who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Margaret Hamilton - Which movie star is killed off in the opening scene of Scream?
Answer: Drew Barrymore - What’s the name of John Wayne’s character in True Grit (played by Jeff Bridges in the remake)?
Answer: Rooster Cogburn - What is the highest-grossing war movie of all time?
Answer: Oppenheimer - How many Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Answer: Three - How many Oscars has Meryl Streep been nominated for?
Answer: 21 - Who played Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde?
Answer: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty - What Martin Scorsese movie holds the record for F-bombs?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street - What is the name of the extended ballet sequence near the end of Singin’ in the Rain?
Answer: “Broadway Melody” - What is the name of Riley’s imaginary friend in Inside Out?
Answer: Bing Bong - Who played the Green Goblin in the 2002 box-office smash Spider-Man?
Answer: Willem Dafoe - For what movie did George Clooney win his sole acting Oscar to date?
Answer: Syriana - Near the end of Vertigo, when Judy transforms into Madeline, she is bathed in what color light?
Answer: Green - Who played Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist?
Answer: Linda Blair - Only three movies in history have won the “big five” at the Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress). Name them.
Answer: It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Silence of the Lambs. - What was the first pandemic-era movie to gross over $1 billion at the box office?
Answer: Spider-Man: No Way Home - Who is the only actor to appear in Robert Wise’s 1961 West Side Story movie and the 2021 remake?
Answer: Rita Moreno - In the 1932 pre-Code film Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich famously appears in a nightclub dressed as what animal?
Answer: A gorilla - What internationally esteemed Malaysian actress has starred in a Bond film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Everything Everywhere All At Once and more?
Answer: Michelle Yeoh - Who won his second Best Actor Oscar in 2021, in that ceremony’s biggest upset?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins - What indie horror movie boogeyman became an unexpected LGBTQ+ icon of the 21st century?
Answer: The Babadook - What kind of creature is on the back of Ryan Gosling’s silk jacket in Drive?
Answer: Scorpion - What actress was the queen of 1970s “Blaxploitation” cinema?
Answer: Pam Grier - What is the first fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - What is the second (and last) fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: The Shape of Water
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Conclusion
Armed with 151+ intriguing questions and answers, you can spark conversations and ignite friendly debates about beloved movies and hidden gems alike. These trivia questions will keep everyone entertained and on their toes and you might just discover some surprising facts that deepen your love for cinema.
The world of cinema is vast and full of fascinating facts waiting to be uncovered. So gather your friends, put your film knowledge to the test, and let the movie trivia games begin!
