40 film quiz questions and answers

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Round 1: The Oscars

Which film won Best Picture at the 2004 Academy Awards ceremony?
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Who won the Best Actor Oscar for playing the title role in the 2012 film Lincoln?
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Which chariot-racing epic, released in 1959, won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
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Ben-Hur
Who won the Best Actor Oscar at the 2018 ceremony for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour?
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Gary Oldman
Which film won Best Picture at the 1996 Academy Awards ceremony?
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Braveheart
Who became the first Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar, at the 2002 ceremony?
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Halle Berry
Who became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, at the 2010 ceremony?
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Kathryn Bigelow
Which largely silent black-and-white film, released in 2011, won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
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The Artist
Which film won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony?
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Spotlight
Which musical, released in 1961, won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
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West Side Story

Round 2: Stars and directors

Who played Princess Leia in the 1977 film Star Wars?
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Carrie Fisher
Who played Indiana Jones in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark?
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Harrison Ford
Who directed the 1982 film Blade Runner?
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Ridley Scott
Who played Norman Bates in the 1960 film Psycho?
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Anthony Perkins
Who directed the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai?
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Akira Kurosawa
Which brothers wrote and directed the 1996 film Fargo?
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The Coen brothers
Who played Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind?
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Vivien Leigh
Who directed the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption?
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Frank Darabont
Who directed the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road?
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George Miller
Who played James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service?
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George Lazenby

Round 3: Film music and animation

In the 2009 Pixar film Up, what does Carl attach to his house to make it fly?
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Balloons
Who voiced the Genie in the 1992 Disney film Aladdin?
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Robin Williams
In the 2015 Pixar film Inside Out, which emotion is coloured blue?
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Sadness
Who sang the title song of the 2012 Bond film Skyfall?
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Adele
Who composed the score for the 1977 film Star Wars?
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John Williams
Who composed the score for the 1966 western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
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Ennio Morricone
Who is the tiny, no-nonsense superhero costume designer in the 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles?
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Edna Mode
Which piece by Richard Strauss is famously used at the opening of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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Also sprach Zarathustra
Which zither player composed and performed the famous theme of the 1949 film The Third Man?
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Anton Karas
What is the name of the boy who befriends a huge metal robot in the 1999 film The Iron Giant?
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Hogarth

Round 4: Movie mix

In the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, who is revealed to be Luke Skywalker's father?
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Darth Vader
Who played James Bond in the 1973 film Live and Let Die?
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Roger Moore
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, which character wants a heart?
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The Tin Man
Up which New York building does the giant ape climb at the end of the 1933 film King Kong?
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Empire State Building
In which country is the 2008 Colin Farrell film In Bruges set?
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Belgium
What was Pierce Brosnan's first film as James Bond, released in 1995?
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GoldenEye
Which bounty hunter takes the frozen Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back?
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Boba Fett
Which Danish actor played the villain Le Chiffre in the 2006 Bond film Casino Royale?
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Mads Mikkelsen
Which North African country provided desert locations for Tatooine in the 1977 film Star Wars?
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Tunisia
Which actor played Q in the Bond films from 1963's From Russia with Love to 1999's The World Is Not Enough?
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Desmond Llewelyn

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