Can You Score 20/20? Guess the Movie From the Storyline Ultimate Trivia Quiz Challenge!

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Think you can identify iconic films just from their plot summaries? This ultimate challenge features 20 questions ranging from easy classics to tougher brain-teasers, testing your movie knowledge across genres. Grab a pen, no Googling, and see if you can ace it!

20 Trivia Questions on Guess the Movie From the Storyline

Question 1: In a small New England beach town, a police chief, marine biologist, and old shark hunter team up aboard a boat to track and kill a massive man-eating great white shark terrorising swimmers?

A. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
B. Jaws (1975)
C. The Shallows (2016)
D. Open Water (2003)

Question 2: A 12-year-old girl exhibits disturbing behaviour and levitation after playing with a Ouija board, prompting her mother to enlist two priests for a dangerous exorcism ritual?

A. The Conjuring (2013)
B. The Possession (2012)
C. The Exorcist (1973)
D. The Rite (2011)

Question 3: A real estate secretary steals $40,000 from her boss and checks into a secluded roadside motel managed by a shy young man who lives with his domineering mother?

A. Misery (1990)
B. Psycho (1960)
C. The Birds (1963)
D. Rear Window (1954)

Question 4: The all-female crew of a deep-space commercial towing ship answers a distress beacon on a derelict planet, awakening a lethal parasitic creature that stalks and impregnates them?

A. Prometheus (2012)
B. Alien (1979)
C. Life (2017)
D. Event Horizon (1997)

Question 5: After a Mafia don is nearly assassinated in New York, his youngest son reluctantly steps into the family business, orchestrating revenge while navigating codes of honour and betrayal?

A. Scarface (1983)
B. The Godfather (1972)
C. Casino (1995)
D. Goodfellas (1990)

Question 6: A young moisture farmer discovers his father’s lightsaber and joins a princess, smuggler, and wise hermit in a rebellion to destroy the Empire’s planet-killing Death Star?

A. Rogue One (2016)
B. Star Wars (1977)
C. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
D. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Question 7: On its maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in 1912, forcing a class-divided romance between a penniless artist and a first-class woman amid the sinking chaos?

A. Pearl Harbor (2001)
B. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
C. Titanic (1997)
D. A Night to Remember (1958)

Question 8: A wealthy palaeontologist invites scientists and grandkids to his Costa Rican island theme park populated with cloned dinosaurs, which turns deadly when electric fences fail during a storm?

A. King Kong (2005)
B. Jurassic Park (1993)
C. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
D. Godzilla (2014)

Question 9: In nonlinear vignettes, two hitmen discuss burgers, a boxer throws a fight, a gangster’s wife overdoses, and a gold watch holder seeks revenge in 1970s Los Angeles?

A. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
B. True Romance (1993)
C. Pulp Fiction (1994)
D. Snatch (2000)

Question 10: An unassuming Alabama man with an IQ of 75 unwittingly influences Elvis, desegregates the University of Alabama, runs across America, and reveals a box of chocolates philosophy?

A. Rain Man (1988)
B. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
C. Forrest Gump (1994)
D. Big Fish (2003)

Question 11: A disillusioned hacker meets enigmatic rebels who reveal his world is a simulated prison run by intelligent machines, offering him a red pill to awaken?

A. Dark City (1998)
B. The Matrix (1999)
C. eXistenZ (1999)
D. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Question 12: A frustrated office drone starts an underground bare-knuckle fight club with soap salesman Tyler Durden, which spirals into anarchic Project Mayhem bombings?

A. Se7en (1995)
B. The Game (1997)
C. Fight Club (1999)
D. American Psycho (2000)

Question 13: Expert thief Dom Cobb specialises in dream infiltration to steal secrets but accepts a job to plant an idea of corporate dissolution into a grieving heir’s mind?

A. Source Code (2011)
B. Paprika (2006)
C. Inception (2010)
D. The Cell (2000)

Question 14: FBI cadet Clarice Starling consults imprisoned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter for insights to catch Buffalo Bill, a killer who skins plus-sized women for a garment?

A. Se7en (1995)
B. Red Dragon (2002)
C. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
D. Copycat (1995)

Question 15: Brooklyn hustler Henry Hill rises through the Lucchese crime family in the 1950s-1980s, indulging in excess until drugs and betrayal lead to his FBI testimony?

A. Donnie Brasco (1997)
B. Casino (1995)
C. The Irishman (2019)
D. Goodfellas (1990)

Question 16: American expatriate Rick Blaine runs a Casablanca nightclub during WWII, torn between his love for singer Ilsa Lund and aiding her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, escape Nazis?

A. Notorious (1946)
B. Casablanca (1942)
C. To Have and Have Not (1944)
D. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Question 17: Through flashbacks, reporters unravel the life of isolated media tycoon Charles Foster Kane, whose dying word “Rosebud” unlocks the mystery of his lost happiness?

A. There Will Be Blood (2007)
B. Citizen Kane (1941)
C. The Great Gatsby (2013)
D. Amadeus (1984)

Question 18: Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale is whisked by cyclone to Munchkinland’s technicolour Oz, joining Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion on the yellow brick road to the Wizard?

A. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
B. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
C. Hook (1991)
D. Return to Oz (1985)

Question 19: In suburban California, 10-year-old Elliott discovers a stranded extraterrestrial botanist in his shed, befriending it and evading federal agents to help it “phone home”?

A. Explorers (1985)
B. Flight of the Navigator (1986)
C. Mac and Me (1988)
D. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Question 20: High schooler Marty McFly is sent 30 years to 1955 in his eccentric friend Doc Brown’s plutonium-powered DeLorean, racing to unite his teen parents before fading from existence?

A. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
B. Back to the Future (1985)
C. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
D. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Answers

  1. B. Jaws (1975) – Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster features Chief Brody, Hooper, and Quint hunting the shark in Amity Island; others involve sharks or ocean peril but lack the trio or town setting.
  2. C. The Exorcist (1973) – William Friedkin’s horror classic centres on Regan MacNeil’s demonic possession and the exorcism by Fathers Karras and Merrin; the others feature exorcisms but different child victims or timelines.
  3. B. Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller stars Janet Leigh as Marion Crane at the Bates Motel; wrongs are Hitchcockian or captivity tales but without the shower scene or mother twist.
  4. B. Alien (1979) – Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror has Nostromo crew vs. xenomorph on LV-426; sequels/prequels expand the universe, others mimic isolation horror differently.
  5. B. The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola’s epic follows Michael Corleone’s ascension after Vito’s shooting; others are mob films but focus on different families or eras.
  6. B. Star Wars (1977) – The original Episode IV introduces Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star; others are franchise entries or space operas with varied rebel plots.
  7. C. Titanic (1997) – James Cameron’s romance-disaster depicts Jack and Rose aboard the real RMS Titanic; others are sinkings or sea dramas without the iceberg maiden voyage.
  8. B. Jurassic Park (1993) – Steven Spielberg adapts Michael Crichton’s novel with Hammond’s park and T. rex breakout; sequels revisit Jurassic but start later, others lack dinos.
  9. C. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino’s nonlinear crime saga links Vincent, Jules, Butch, and Mia; influences like Reservoir Dogs share style but linear heists.
  10. C. Forrest Gump (1994) – Tom Hanks’ titular character lives through US history via Jenny and Lt. Dan; others feature quirky journeys but no shrimp boat or ping-pong.
  11. B. The Matrix (1999) – The Wachowskis’ cyberpunk has Neo taking Morpheus’ red pill; contemporaries explore simulation but lack agents or Zion rebellion.
  12. C. Fight Club (1999) – David Fincher’s adaptation reveals Tyler Durden as dissociative; similar dark thrillers like Se7en lack the soap/fight anarchy.
  13. C. Inception (2010) – Christopher Nolan’s heist flips to inception for Saito via limbo; anime/mind films inspired it but differ in dream-sharing tech.
  14. C. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winner pairs Clarice with Lecter vs. Buffalo Bill; Lecter prequels expand but original trainee plot is unique.
  15. D. Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese’s biopic of Henry Hill’s Lucchese tenure ends in witness protection; others mob tales lack “As far back as I can remember” narration.
  16. B. Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz’s romance ends “We’ll always have Paris” with letters of transit; Bogart films share wartime intrigue but not Ilsa/Victor dynamic.
  17. B. Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles’ innovative biopic reveals Rosebud as Kane’s sled; biopics echo ambition but none use newsreel/flashback structure.
  18. B. The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Victor Fleming’s musical fantasy has ruby slippers and wicked witches; adaptations twist Oz without Kansas origins or “Over the Rainbow.”
  19. D. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – Spielberg’s family sci-fi features glow-finger healing and bike chase; 80s kids’ films mimic alien friendship sans Reese’s Pieces.
  20. B. Back to the Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis’ comedy requires 88mph and 1.21 gigawatts for Marty/Lorraine/George; time-travel spoofs copy flux capacitor less precisely.

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