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