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