150 Movie Trivia Questions

1. Question: What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
Answer: "Rosebud"

2. Question: Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?

Answer: Anne Bancroft

3. Question: What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

4. Question: In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?
Answer: Red

5. Question: For what movie did Tom Hanks score his first Academy Award
nomination?
Answer: Big

6. Question: What 1927 musical was the first "talkie"?

Answer: The Jazz Singer

7. Question: What's the name of the skyscraper in Die Hard?

Answer: Nakatomi Plaza

8. Question: What flavor of Pop-Tarts does Buddy the Elf use in his spaghetti in Elf?
Answer: Chocolate

9. Question: What shocking Wes Craven horror movie carried the marketing tagline,
"To avoid fainting, keep repeating, 'It's only a movie...'"?
Answer: The Last House on the Left

10. Question: What pop vocal group performs at the wedding in Bridesmaids?
Answer: Wilson Phillips

11. Question: What real-life on-again off-again Hollywood power couple starred in the
film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

12. Question: What American writer/director starred in several iconic

European-produced "Spaghetti Westerns"?
Answer: Clint Eastwood
13. Question: Who played Juror Number 8 in 12 Angry Men?
Answer: Henry Fonda

14. Question: The head of what kind of animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene
from The Godfather?
Answer: A horse

15. Question: What TV show was Jack Nicholson referencing when he ad-libbed
"Here's Johnny!" in The Shining?
Answer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

16. Question: What critically panned 1984 country-musical comedy starring Dolly
Parton and Sylvester Stallone eventually became a cult classic?
Answer: Rhinestone

17. Question: Who played park owner John Hammond in Jurassic Park?
Answer: Richard Attenborough

18. Question: In what 1976 thriller does Robert De Niro famously say "You talkin' to
me?"
Answer: Taxi Driver

19. Question: What's the name of the anthemic dance near the beginning of The Rocky
Horror Picture Show?

Answer: "The Time Warp"

20. Question: For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best
Director?
Answer: Schindler's List

21. Question: What is the name of the courtesan played by Nicole Kidman in Moulin
Rouge!?
Answer: Satine

22. Question: In what 1950 drama does Bette Davis say, "Fasten your seatbelts; it's
going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: All About Eve

23. Question: The theme from The Third Man (also called "The Harry Lime Theme"
was performed on what instrument?
Answer: Zither
24. Question: Marlon Brando "could have been a contender" in what iconic 1954 crime
drama?
Answer: On the Waterfront

25. Question: What famous L.A. landmark is heavily featured in Rebel Without a
Cause?
Answer: Griffith Observatory

26. Question: Who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biopic Selma?
Answer: David Oyelowo

27. Question: Who directed Boris Karloff in the classics Frankenstein and Bride of
Frankenstein?
Answer: James Whale

28. Question: What infamous 1980 box-office bomb ruined the career of The Deer
Hunter director Michael Cimino?
Answer: Heaven's Gate

29. Question: What words are written on the knuckles of "Reverend" Harry Powell
(Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter?
Answer: "Love" and "hate."

30. Question: What Hollywood movie star plays himself in Zombieland?

Answer: Bill Murray

31. Question: In Risky Business, what song did Tom Cruise famously lip-sync to in his
underwear?
Answer: "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger

32. Question: Who is the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Lord
of the Rings movie?
Answer: Ian McKellen

33. Question: Who took over the role of Bruce Wayne's love interest Rachel Dawes
in The Dark Knight, following Katie Holmes's exit after Batman Begins?
Answer: Maggie Gyllenhaal

34. Question: What song plays over the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy?
Answer: "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone
35. Question: For which 1964 musical blockbuster did Julie Andrews win the Academy
Award for Best Actress?
Answer: Mary Poppins

36. Question: What is the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time?

Answer: Joker

37. Question: What 1994 crime film revitalized John Travolta's career?
Answer: Pulp Fiction

38. Question: Who voiced the sultry Jessica Rabbit in Who's Afraid of Roger Rabbit?
Answer: Kathleen Turner

39. Question: Which movie was incorrectly announced as the winner of Best Picture at
the 2017 Academy Awards, during one of the greatest Oscars flubs of all time?
Answer: La La Land

40. Question: Which 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie starred James Stewart and was shot
to look like one continuous take?
Answer: Rope

41. Question: "Well, nobody's perfect" is the final line (and punchline) from what classic
1959 comedy starring Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Some Like it Hot

42. Question: The stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's was adapted for the screen
to become what 1942 Best Picture winner?
Answer: Casablanca

43. Question: In what 1979 James Bond movie does the famous spy go to outer
space?
Answer: Moonraker

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44. Question: Who wrote the famous, scary theme music from Halloween?
Answer: John Carpenter

45. Question: What animated classic was the first film of the late 20th century "Disney
Renaissance?"
Answer: The Little Mermaid
46. Question: In Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall says, "I love the smell of _____ in
the morning."
Answer: Napalm

47. Question: What is the name of Quint's shark-hunting boat in Jaws?

Answer: The Orca

48. Question: What's the name of Charlie Chaplin's most famous, recurring character?
Answer: "The Tramp"

49. Question: Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for writing what 2010 drama about the
creation of Facebook?
Answer: The Social Network

50. Question: Who played iconic femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson in classic 1946 film
noir Double Indemnity?
Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

51. Question: What is the model of revolver made famous by Clint Eastwood's "Dirty"
Harry Callahan?
Answer: Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum

52. Question: Which 1927 war drama was the first movie to ever win Best Picture?
Answer: Wings

53. Question: Who is the first actor to play Jack Ryan on screen?
Answer: Alec Baldwin

54. Question: What was Audrey Hepburn's birth name?

Answer: Audrey Kathleen Ruston

55. Question: Joaquin Phoenix received his first Oscar nomination for playing Roman
emperor Commodus in what 2000 Oscar-winning epic?
Answer: Gladiator

56. Question: Who played the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown in Titanic?

Answer: Kathy Bates

57. Question: In the action thriller Speed, why is Annie (Sandra Bullock)'s driver's
license suspended?
Answer: She was speeding
58. Question: Jennifer Lawrence won a Best Actress Academy Award for what
2012 romantic comedy/drama?
Answer: Silver Linings Playbook

59. Question: The Battle of Thermopylae served as the basis of what highly stylized
2006 smash hit swords-and-sandals action flick?
Answer: 300

60. Question: Which famous film composer wrote the music for Tim Burton's
1989 Batman?
Answer: Danny Elfman

61. Question: Which Alfred Hitchcock thriller is notorious for its shocking "shower
scene"?
Answer: Psycho

62. Question: What is the highest-grossing foreign-language film at the U.S. box office?
Answer: The Passion of the Christ

63. Question: Who wrote the screenplay for Rocky?

Answer: Sylvester Stallone

64. Question: What national monument does Cary Grant climb in the heart-pounding
final moments of North by Northwest?
Answer: Mount Rushmore

65. Question: What was Quentin Tarantino's first feature as writer/director?

Answer: Reservoir Dogs

66. Question: Which Oscar-winning blonde bombshell played James Stewart's love
interest Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window?
Answer: Grace Kelly

67. Question: Who is the only person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in
a Star Wars movie?
Answer: Alec Guinness

68. Question: What actress' name, who voices Princess Elsa in the Frozen films, did
John Travolta botch at the 2014 Oscars?
Answer: Idina Menzel
69. Question: What is the real name of Uma Thurman's "The Bride" character from Kill
Bill?
Answer: Beatrix Kiddo

70. Question: What prominent American director won an Oscar for helming Forrest
Gump?
Answer: Robert Zemeckis

71. Question: Three of Jim Carrey's blockbusters—The Mask, Dumb and

Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective—were all released in what year?
Answer: 1994

72. Question: How many suns does Luke's home planet of Tatooine have in Star
Wars?
Answer: Two

73. Question: What movie holds the record for most Oscar wins without winning Best
Picture (eight wins total)?
Answer: Cabaret

74. Question: In what 1969 James Bond thriller does the famous spy fall in love and
get married?
Answer: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

75. Question: What 1970 movie marked the feature debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Hercules in New York

76. Question: What is the first movie ever to be rated PG-13?

Answer: Red Dawn (1984)

77. Question: What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when taking inflation into
account?
Answer: Gone With the Wind

78. Question: What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when not taking inflation
into account?
Answer: Avatar

79. Question: What's the Los Angeles hotel prominently featured in Pretty Woman?
Answer: The Beverly Wilshire by Four Seasons

80. Question: What is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy
81. Question: Who played detective Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?
Answer: Harrison Ford

82. Question: What is the name of the spaceship in Alien?

Answer: USCSS Nostromo

83. Question: This acclaimed, Oscar-winning filmmaker directed Happy Feet, Babe:
Pig in the City and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Answer: George Miller

84. Question: Who is the first and only woman of color to win the Oscar for Best
Actress?
Answer: Halle Berry

85. Question: What's the fictional brand of cigarettes in Quentin Tarantino's movies?
Answer: Red Apple cigarettes

86. Question: Who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Margaret Hamilton

87. Question: Which movie star is killed off in the opening scene of Scream?
Answer: Drew Barrymore

88. Question: What's the name of John Wayne's character in True Grit (played by Jeff
Bridges in the remake)?
Answer: Rooster Cogburn

89. Question: What is the highest-grossing war movie of all time and Clint Eastwood's
highest-grossing movie ever?
Answer: American Sniper

90. Question: How many Oscars has Meryl Streep won?

Answer: Three

91. Question: How many Oscars has Meryl Streep been nominated for?
Answer: 21

92. Question: Who played Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde?
Answer: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty

93. Question: What Martin Scorsese movie holds the all-time record for F-bombs?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street
94. Question: What is the name of the extended ballet sequence near the end
of Singin' in the Rain?
Answer: "Broadway Melody"

95. Question: What is the name of Riley's imaginary friend in Inside Out?
Answer: Bing Bong

96. Question: Who played the Green Goblin in 2002 box-office smash Spider-Man?
Answer: Willem Dafoe

97. Question: For what movie did George Clooney win his sole acting Oscar to date?
Answer: Syriana

98. Question: Near the end of Vertigo, when Judy transforms into Madeline, she is
bathed in what color light?
Answer: Green

99. Question: Who played Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist?

Answer: Linda Blair

100. Question: Only three movies in history have won the "big five" at the Oscars (Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress). Name them.
Answer: It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of
the Lambs.

101. Question: What was the first pandemic-era movie to gross over $1 billion at the
box office?
Answer: Spider-Man: No Way Home

102. Question: Who is the only actor to appear in Robert Wise’s 1961 West Side
Story movie and the 2021 remake?
Answer: Rita Moreno

103. Question: In the 1932 pre-Code film Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich famously
appears in a nightclub dressed as what animal?
Answer: A gorilla

104. Question: What internationally esteemed Malaysian actress has starred in a Bond
film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians, Shang-Chi and the Legend of
the Ten Rings, Everything Everywhere All At Once and more?
Answer: Michelle Yeoh
105. Question: Who won his second Best Actor Oscar in 2021, in the ceremony’s
biggest upset?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

106. Question: What indie horror movie boogeyman became an unexpected LGBTQ+
icon of the 21st century?
Answer: The Babadook

107. Question: What kind of bug is on the back of Ryan Gosling’s silk jacket in Drive?
Answer: Scorpion

108. Question: What actress was the queen of 1970s “Blaxploitation” cinema?
Answer: Pam Grier

109. Question: What is the first fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

110. Question: What is the second (and last) fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the
Oscars?
Answer: The Shape of Water

111. Question: What famous heartthrob is unrecognizable under layers of makeup as

The Penguin in 2021’s The Batman?
Answer: Colin Farrell

112. Question: In Clueless, what character said, “You’re a virgin who can’t drive?”
Answer: Tai (Brittany Murphy)

113. Question: What is the name of the love interest whose “hair looks sexy pushed
back” in Mean Girls?
Answer: Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett)

114. Question: What highly acclaimed Richard Linklater drama was filmed over and
produced over 12 years?

Answer: Boyhood

115. Question: What is the name of Humperdinck’s kingdom in The Princess Bride?
Answer: Florin

116. Question: How many screenwriting Oscars has Quentin Tarantino won?
Answer: Two
117. Question: What actress exited the set of the apocalyptic comedy This is the
End over objections to appearing in a scene that involved cannibalism?
Answer: Emma Watson

118. Question: Who won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for both Moonlight and Green
Book?
Answer: Mahershala Ali

119. Question: What critically maligned 2004 superhero film co-stars Sharon Stone as
an evil cosmetics executive?
Answer: Catwoman

120. Question: Which actress replaced Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O’Connor in The
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?
Answer: Maria Bello

121. Question: What is the name of the fictional boy band in Pixar's Turning Red?
Answer: 4*Town

122. Question: Who plays Duncan Idaho in Dune (2021)?

Answer: Jason Momoa

123. Question: Dakota Johnson dropped out of Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature Don’t
Worry Darling to appear in what critically acclaimed 2021 drama?
Answer: The Lost Daughter

124. Question: What legendary pop star judges a fashion “walk-off” between Ben Stiller
and Owen Wilson in Zoolander?
Answer: David Bowie

125. Question: What is the first foreign-language movie to win the Oscar for Best
Picture?
Answer: Parasite

126. Question: Who is the killer in Knives Out?

Answer: Hugh Ransom Drysdale (Chris Evans)

127. Question: Who is the killer in Glass Onion?

Answer: Miles Bron (Edward Norton)

128. Question: What was the first movie Steven Spielberg and John Williams
collaborated on?
Answer: The Sugarland Express
129. Question: What director scared the living hell out of everyone with horror
hits Hereditary and Midsommar?
Answer: Ari Aster

130. Question: Brendan Fraser shared the honor of Outstanding Cast in a Motion
Picture at the SAG Awards for what 2005 drama?
Answer: Crash

131. Question: What creator of The White Lotus wrote the screenplay of Beatriz at
Dinner starring Salma Hayek?
Answer: Mike White

132. Question: What Oscar-winning 1981 drama starred father and daughter Henry
and Jane Fonda?
Answer: On Golden Pond

133. Question: What basketball legend appeared in the cockpit of Airplane!?

Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

134. Question: Who won a Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love despite
having only eight minutes of screen time?
Answer: Judi Dench

135. Question: What was the name of the donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin?
Answer: Jenny

136. Question: What award-winning Canadian actor played the killer in Rear Window?
Answer: Raymond Burr

137. Question: What DC movie was shockingly canceled by Warner Bros. in 2022?
Answer: Batgirl

138. Question: What is the runtime (in minutes) of Avatar: The Way of Water?
Answer: 192 minutes

139. Question: Who wrote the novel All Quiet on the Western Front (the basis of
multiple film adaptations)?
Answer: Erich Maria Remarque

140. Question: Who did Oscar nominee Bill Nighy play in the Harry Potter movies?
Answer: Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour
141. Question: Who did Oscar nominee Bill Nighy play in the Pirates of the
Caribbean movies?
Answer: Davy Jones

142. Question: What household pet meets a horrific demise in Fatal Attraction?
Answer: A bunny rabbit

143. Question: What vocalist sang for Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Audrey
Hepburn in My Fair Lady and Deborah Kerr in The King and I?
Answer: Marni Nixon

144. Question: Ke Huy Quan made his first appearance in what 1984 movie?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

145. Question: What is the piece Lydia Tár aims to conduct as a career-high
achievement in Tár?
Answer: Mahler's Symphony No. 5

146. Question: In what 2002 Oscar-winning crime thriller classic did Denzel
Washington play a villain?
Answer: Training Day

147. Question: What Dawn of the Dead star directed the Oscar-nominated Women
Talking?
Answer: Sarah Polley

148. Question: What actress delivered the bone-chilling line "Who's hand was I
holding?" in 1963 horror classic The Haunting?
Answer: Julie Harris

149. Question: What is the first rule of Fight Club?

Answer: You do not talk about Fight Club.

150. Question: What visual effects and animation icon was behind the stop-motion
effects in Jason and the Argonauts and 1981's Clash of the Titans?
Answer: Ray Harryhausen