Medium Movie Trivia Questions

33 medium movie trivia questions with answers

1. Who directed The Godfather?

   Answer: Francis Ford Coppola He was in his early thirties and had to fight the studio over the casting.

2. Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?

   Answer: Shrek The category was introduced at the 2002 ceremony.

3. In The Matrix, which colour pill does Neo take?

   Answer: Red The choice has since become shorthand well beyond the film.

4. Which director is known for Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill?

   Answer: Quentin Tarantino He worked in a video rental shop before his first feature.

5. Which film features Hannibal Lecter opposite Clarice Starling?

   Answer: The Silence of the Lambs It swept the five main Oscar categories at the 1992 ceremony.

6. Which country produced the film Parasite?

   Answer: South Korea Bong Joon-ho directed it.

7. The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was directed by whom?

   Answer: Peter Jackson All three films were shot in his native New Zealand, largely back to back.

8. Which actor played the title role in Forrest Gump?

   Answer: Tom Hanks He won the Best Actor Oscar for it, his second in consecutive years.

9. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is set largely at what kind of business?

   Answer: A motel Hitchcock shot it cheaply in black and white using his television crew.

10. Which film introduced the character Indiana Jones?

    Answer: Raiders of the Lost Ark It came out in 1981, from a story by George Lucas.

11. The film Gladiator is set in which empire?

    Answer: The Roman Empire Ridley Scott directed it and it won Best Picture for 2000.

12. Which animation studio was co-founded in Japan by Hayao Miyazaki?

    Answer: Studio Ghibli Isao Takahata co-founded it with him in 1985.

13. The Godfather was adapted from a novel by which author?

    Answer: Mario Puzo He also co-wrote the screenplays for the films.

14. Casablanca is set in a city in which country?

    Answer: Morocco Casablanca is Morocco's largest city; the film was shot in California.

15. Who directed The Shawshank Redemption?

    Answer: Frank Darabont Darabont adapted a Stephen King novella and later filmed another King story, The Green Mile.

16. Meryl Streep won her first Academy Award for which film?

    Answer: Kramer vs. Kramer She won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and later Best Actress for Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady.

17. Who composed the strings-only score for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho?

    Answer: Bernard Herrmann Herrmann scored several Hitchcock films, including Vertigo and North by Northwest.

18. Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?

    Answer: Stanley Kubrick Kubrick's only competitive Oscar was for the film's visual effects.

19. Wallace and Gromit were created by which British animator?

    Answer: Nick Park Park's Aardman films, including The Wrong Trousers, are made with stop-motion clay animation.

20. In which decade was the stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas released?

    Answer: 1990s Released in 1993, it was directed by Henry Selick from a story and characters by Tim Burton.

21. The Bourne spy films were adapted from novels by which author?

    Answer: Robert Ludlum Ludlum's The Bourne Identity was published in 1980, 22 years before the Matt Damon film.

22. Which actress plays Ellen Ripley in the Alien films?

    Answer: Sigourney Weaver Weaver was nominated for Best Actress for Aliens (1986), a rare nomination for a science fiction role.

23. Which studio produced The Godfather?

    Answer: Paramount Pictures Paramount also produced the two sequels, released in 1974 and 1990.

24. Which Hollywood studio was founded by four brothers in 1923?

    Answer: Warner Bros. Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner incorporated the company in April 1923.

25. Who directed Leon (1994) and The Fifth Element (1997)?

    Answer: Luc Besson Both were French productions shot largely in English with international casts.

26. Which film about Elizabethan theatre won the Best Picture Oscar for 1998?

    Answer: Shakespeare in Love It beat Saving Private Ryan at the ceremony held in March 1999, a result still debated by film fans.

27. Which 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade was John Huston's directing debut?

    Answer: The Maltese Falcon It was the third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel and the first to become a classic.

28. Who starred opposite Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot?

    Answer: Marilyn Monroe Billy Wilder directed the film, which is set mostly in Prohibition-era Florida.

29. Marlon Brando won his first Best Actor Oscar for playing a dockworker in which 1954 film?

    Answer: On the Waterfront Elia Kazan directed the film, which won eight Academy Awards in total.

30. In film production, what is a storyboard?

    Answer: A sequence of drawings planning the shots Storyboarding was developed at the Disney studio in the early 1930s and spread to live-action films.

31. On a film set, what is the gaffer in charge of?

    Answer: Lighting The gaffer is the chief lighting technician and works under the director of photography.

32. In which year was the first Star Wars film released?

    Answer: 1977 It opened in May 1977 and was later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope.

33. Which Pixar film centres on a small robot left to clean up an abandoned Earth?

    Answer: WALL-E WALL-E won Best Animated Feature for 2008, Pixar's fourth win in the category.