Historical Figures in Movies #2

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