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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?
Introducing sound to film
Being the longest motion picture, at 857 hours
Winning the most Oscars
4. With whom did Luis Buñuel collaborate on "An Andalusian Dog" (1929)?
Sigmund Freud
Louis Armstrong
Salvador Dalí
T.S. Eliot
5. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was famously adapted under a different name several times. Which is it?
Vlad Tepes
Blade
Edward Cullen
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)?
Orson Welles
George Orwell
H.G. Wells
9. Which Hitchcock movie is about a wheelchair-bound man who may or may not be witnessing a murder?
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
10. Which big Frenchman played the characters of Cyrano de Bergerac, Obélix and Jean Valjean?
Jean Dujardin
Jean Reno
Gérard Depardieu
Alain Delon
11. Who is the literary character most adapted to film?
Sherlock Holmes
Frankenstein's Monster
Tarzan
Elizabeth Bennet
12. Which is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time?
James Bond
Star Wars
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Harry Potter
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
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"