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