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