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