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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
Musical
Science fiction
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?
Being the longest motion picture, at 857 hours
Winning the most Oscars
Introducing sound to film
4. With whom did Luis Buñuel collaborate on "An Andalusian Dog" (1929)?
Salvador Dalí
Sigmund Freud
Louis Armstrong
T.S. Eliot
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Edward Cullen
Blade
Vlad Tepes
Nosferatu
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 Pirates
The Seven Samurai
The Seven Musketeers
The Seven Monks
8. Who directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in "Citizen Kane" (1941)?
George Orwell
H.G. Wells
Orson Welles
9. Which Hitchcock movie is about a wheelchair-bound man who may or may not be witnessing a murder?
Rear Window
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Jean Reno
Alain Delon
Jean Dujardin
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?
Walter Hill
Luc Besson
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
14. "The Wizard of Oz" quote: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in ___ anymore."
New Jersey
Kansas
Texas
Georgia
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Level 43
Mar 23, 2023
small nitpick, but it's just "Seven Samurai," not "The Seven Samurai"