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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?
Western
Science fiction
Musical
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)?
Louis Armstrong
T.S. Eliot
Sigmund Freud
Salvador Dalí
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Vlad Tepes
Edward Cullen
Nosferatu
Blade
6. Which movie is said to have started the modern blockbuster era?
Titanic
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jaws
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)?
H.G. Wells
Orson Welles
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
Rear Window
Vertigo
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Jean Dujardin
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Gérard Depardieu
11. Who is the literary character most adapted to film?
Elizabeth Bennet
Tarzan
Sherlock Holmes
Frankenstein's Monster
12. Which is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time?
James Bond
Star Wars
Harry Potter
Marvel Cinematic Universe
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
Akira Kurosawa
Luc Besson
14. "The Wizard of Oz" quote: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in ___ anymore."
Georgia
Texas
New Jersey
Kansas
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Mar 23, 2023
small nitpick, but it's just "Seven Samurai," not "The Seven Samurai"