Film History Multiple Choice

How much do you know about film history?
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1. Which genre are John Ford, Roy Rogers and Ennio Morricone most associated with?
Musical
Western
Science fiction
2. Who played Bonnie and Clyde?
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon
Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
3. What is "The Jazz Singer" notable for?
Being the longest motion picture, at 857 hours
Introducing sound to film
Winning the most Oscars
4. With whom did Luis Buñuel collaborate on "An Andalusian Dog" (1929)?
Salvador Dalí
Louis Armstrong
Sigmund Freud
T.S. Eliot
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Vlad Tepes
Edward Cullen
Blade
Nosferatu
6. Which movie is said to have started the modern blockbuster era?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jaws
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Titanic
7. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) is a remake of which film?
The Seven Pirates
The Seven Monks
The Seven Musketeers
The Seven Samurai
8. Who directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in "Citizen Kane" (1941)?
Orson Welles
George Orwell
H.G. Wells
9. Which Hitchcock movie is about a wheelchair-bound man who may or may not be witnessing a murder?
North by Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
Vertigo
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Dujardin
Gérard Depardieu
11. Who is the literary character most adapted to film?
Frankenstein's Monster
Elizabeth Bennet
Sherlock Holmes
Tarzan
12. Which is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time?
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Harry Potter
Star Wars
James Bond
13. An outsider comes to a small town to play off two rivalling gangs against each other. Which director did NOT make a version of this story, based on a Dashiell Hammett novel?
Walter Hill
Sergio Leone
Luc Besson
Akira Kurosawa
14. "The Wizard of Oz" quote: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in ___ anymore."
Kansas
Georgia
New Jersey
Texas
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Level 48
Mar 23, 2023
small nitpick, but it's just "Seven Samurai," not "The Seven Samurai"