Can You Score 20/20? The Ultimate Mixed Movie Trivia Quiz Challenge!

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Think you’re a cinema buff? Test your knowledge across decades and genres with this ultimate mixed movie trivia quiz, featuring questions from easy warm-ups to devilishly hard brain-teasers. Grab a pen, no Googling, and see if you can ace all 20!

20 Trivia Questions on Mixed Film Knowledge

Question 1: Who directed the 1975 blockbuster Jaws?

A. George Lucas
B. Steven Spielberg
C. Martin Scorsese
D. Francis Ford Coppola

Question 2: In which year was the original Star Wars film released?

A. 1975
B. 1977
C. 1979
D. 1981

Question 3: What is the name of the fictional African country in Casablanca (1942)?

A. Morocco
B. Tunis
C. Algiers
D. Libya

Question 4: Who played the lead role of Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)?

A. Robert De Niro
B. Al Pacino
C. Marlon Brando
D. James Caan

Question 5: What is the name of the spaceship in Alien (1979)?

A. Nostromo
B. Sulaco
C. Prometheus
D. Enterprise

Question 6: Which film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994?

A. Pulp Fiction
B. Forrest Gump
C. The Shawshank Redemption
D. The Lion King

Question 7: Who directed The Shining (1980)?

A. Alfred Hitchcock
B. Stanley Kubrick
C. Roman Polanski
D. Wes Craven

Question 8: In Titanic (1997), what is the name of the diamond necklace?

A. Heart of the Ocean
B. Blue Diamond
C. Star of the Sea
D. Ocean’s Tear

Question 9: Which actor played the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008)?

A. Jack Nicholson
B. Jared Leto
C. Heath Ledger
D. Joaquin Phoenix

Question 10: What is the first rule of Fight Club in the 1999 film?

A. You do not talk about Fight Club
B. You must fight bare-knuckled
C. No shirts, no shoes
D. Winners buy the beer

Question 11: Who composed the score for Psycho (1960)?

A. John Williams
B. Bernard Herrmann
C. Ennio Morricone
D. Hans Zimmer

Question 12: In which film does the line “Here’s looking at you, kid” originate?

A. The Maltese Falcon
B. Casablanca
C. To Have and Have Not
D. The Big Sleep

Question 13: What year was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial released?

A. 1980
B. 1981
C. 1982
D. 1983

Question 14: Who directed Inception (2010)?

A. Guillermo del Toro
B. Christopher Nolan
C. Denis Villeneuve
D. Alfonso Cuarón

Question 15: In The Matrix (1999), what colour pill does Neo take?

A. Blue
B. Red
C. Green
D. Black

Question 16: Which film features the character Indiana Jones?

A. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
B. The Temple of Doom (1984)
C. The Last Crusade (1989)
D. All of the above

Question 17: What is the name of the shark in Finding Nemo (2003)?

A. Bruce
B. Marlin
C. Nemo
D. Crush

Question 18: Who played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939)?

A. Shirley Temple
B. Judy Garland
C. Deanna Durbin
D. Betty Grable

Question 19: In Back to the Future (1985), what flux capacitor power source is used?

A. Plutonium
B. Uranium
C. Lightning
D. Mr Fusion

Question 20: Which director helmed Parasite (2019), the first non-English film to win Best Picture?

A. Park Chan-wook
B. Bong Joon-ho
C. Kim Ki-duk
D. Lee Chang-dong

Answers

  1. B. Steven Spielberg – Spielberg directed the 1975 thriller about a man-eating great white shark off Amity Island. Lucas created Star Wars, Scorsese Taxi Driver, and Coppola The Godfather.
  2. B. 1977 – Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope premiered on 25 May 1977. The others are nearby years but incorrect for the original.
  3. A. Morocco – The film is set in Casablanca, Morocco, during World War II. The others are nearby North African locations but not the setting.
  4. C. Marlon Brando – Brando won an Oscar for portraying the mafia patriarch. De Niro played young Vito in Part II, Pacino his son Michael.
  5. A. Nostromo – The commercial towing spaceship USCSS Nostromo is the setting for the xenomorph’s terror. Sulaco is from Aliens, Prometheus from the prequel.
  6. B. Forrest Gump – It beat Pulp Fiction and Shawshank for the Oscar. The Lion King was animated and not nominated for Best Picture.
  7. B. Stanley Kubrick – Kubrick adapted Stephen King’s novel into the psychological horror classic starring Jack Nicholson. The others directed different horrors.
  8. A. Heart of the Ocean – The iconic blue diamond necklace central to the plot is called Heart of the Ocean. The others are fictional inventions.
  9. C. Heath Ledger – Ledger’s portrayal won a posthumous Oscar. Nicholson was in 1989’s Batman, Leto in 2016’s Suicide Squad.
  10. A. You do not talk about Fight Club – This is the first rule repeated throughout David Fincher’s film. The others are not official rules.
  11. B. Bernard Herrmann – Herrmann’s shrieking string score for the shower scene is legendary in Hitchcock’s film. Williams scored Star Wars, etc.
  12. B. Casablanca – Humphrey Bogart’s Rick says it to Ingrid Bergman’s Ilsa. It was ad-libbed from an earlier film but iconic here.
  13. C. 1982 – Steven Spielberg’s family sci-fi about an alien and a boy was released in June 1982. The others are adjacent years.
  14. B. Christopher Nolan – Nolan wrote and directed the dream-heist thriller. The others have sci-fi credits but not this film.
  15. B. Red – The red pill reveals the truth of the Matrix; blue would induce ignorance. Colours tie to the simulation theme.
  16. D. All of the above – Harrison Ford’s archaeologist stars in the 1981 original and its 1984 and 1989 sequels listed.
  17. A. Bruce – Bruce is the great white shark who befriends the fish in the Pixar film. Others are clownfish or turtle characters.
  18. B. Judy Garland – Garland’s performance as the Kansas girl transported to Oz is timeless. Temple was considered but too young.
  19. A. Plutonium – Stolen plutonium powers the DeLorean to 88 mph in the first film. Lightning is used later, Mr Fusion in sequels.
  20. B. Bong Joon-ho – Bong’s class satire made history at the 2020 Oscars. Park directed Oldboy, others acclaimed Korean films.

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