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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
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon
3. What is "The Jazz Singer" notable for?
Winning the most Oscars
Being the longest motion picture, at 857 hours
Introducing sound to film
4. With whom did Luis Buñuel collaborate on "An Andalusian Dog" (1929)?
T.S. Eliot
Salvador Dalí
Sigmund Freud
Louis Armstrong
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Blade
Edward Cullen
Vlad Tepes
Nosferatu
6. Which movie is said to have started the modern blockbuster era?
Jaws
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Titanic
2001: A Space Odyssey
7. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) is a remake of which film?
The Seven Musketeers
The Seven Monks
The Seven Samurai
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?
Psycho
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Rear Window
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Alain Delon
Jean Dujardin
Gérard Depardieu
Jean Reno
11. Who is the literary character most adapted to film?
Tarzan
Elizabeth Bennet
Frankenstein's Monster
Sherlock Holmes
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?
Walter Hill
Sergio Leone
Luc Besson
Akira Kurosawa
14. "The Wizard of Oz" quote: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in ___ anymore."
Georgia
Kansas
New Jersey
Texas
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Level 43
Mar 23, 2023
small nitpick, but it's just "Seven Samurai," not "The Seven Samurai"