Film - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | Charlie Wilson's War, Primary Colours, Working Girl, and The Graduate are all films directed by which American director? | Mike Nichols | 2023/04/16 |
| US | The paternal cousin of which two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner was the founder of an aircraft company famous for its Moth and Mosquito models? | Olivia de Havilland | 2023/04/16 |
| US | Which actress, most famous for her work with Alfred Hitchcock, is the mother of actress Melanie Griffiths, and grandmother of Dakota Johnson? | Tippi Hedren | 2023/04/16 |
| US | Which single-word 1981 box office flop, starring Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith, involved the use of over 150 big cats, took over 5 years to make, and saw 70 members of its cast and crew mauled by animals during its production, including Hedren having her ankle fractured by an elephant? | Roar | 2023/04/16 |
| US | The 1995 US comedy film Clueless, following the failed matchmaking attempts of Californian schoolgirl Cher Horowitz, is based on which Jane Austen novel? | Emma | 2023/04/16 |
| US | The character Jones, in the 1976 sci-fi film Alien, was what type of animal? | Cat | 2023/04/16 |
| US | In the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, in which the twelve jurors are only referred to by their juror number, what number is the only character to initially believe the defendant not guilty? | 8 *Juror 8 was played by Henry Fonda in the famous 1957 film. | 2023/04/28 |
| US | 'The Plastics' is a high school clique in which comedy film and later musical? | Mean Girls | 2024/10/22 |
| US | In the high school comedy film Mean Girls, members of the clique known as The Plastics must wear pink on which day of the week? | Wednesday | 2024/10/22 |
| US | In the 2011 film Contagion, widely viewed as predicting the Covid-19 outbreak, which American actress plays Beth, the woman who effectively becomes Patient Zero after shaking hands with a chef in a Hong Kong casino? | Gwyneth Paltrow | 2024/10/31 |
| US | In the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin and Marian’s wedding is interrupted by the return of which English king from the Third Crusade? | King Richard | 2024/10/31 |
| US | The title of which 1944 film starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman is now used as an English verb meaning to manipulate people by making them question their memory, perception of reality, or sanity? | Gaslight | 2024/11/14 |
| US | Which musical theatre star has been the singing voice of two Disney princesses, Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan, performances which led her to being entered into the Disney Legends Hall of Fame in 2011? | Lea Salonga | 2024/11/18 |
| US | Who is the named director on the films Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, both released in 1939 and named in the American Film Institute’s 100 best American films ever list? | Victor Fleming | 2024/12/07 |
| US | The 2003 film Lost in Translation has been described by its director Sofia Coppola as a love letter to which city? | Tokyo | 2024/12/07 |
| US | Which music superstar starred in the 1984 film Purple Rain, with his music for the film released on an album of the same name? | Prince | 2024/12/07 |
| US | Who directed and co-wrote the Pixar films Monsters Inc., Up, Inside Out, and Soul, and has writing credits for Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Wall-E? | Pete Docter | 2024/12/16 |
| US | In the 1990 film Pretty Woman, from what phobia does Richard Gere’s character Edward Lewis suffer? | Acrophobia / fear of heights | 2025/01/01 |
| US | What type of animal is Clyde in the 1978 film Every Which Way But Loose, and Dunston in the 1996 film Dunston Checks In? | Orangutan | 2025/01/09 |
| US | Which 1990s comedy film includes a scene in which weatherman Phil Conners enthusiastically greets old school classmate Ned Ryerson in the street, before punching him in the face? | Groundhog Day | 2025/01/09 |
| UK | Which 1992 British comedy drama starred Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh and Alphonsia Emmanuel amongst a group of university friends reuniting for a New Year weekend? | Peter's Friends | 2023/04/16 |
| UK | Which future action movie star represented England in diving at the 1990 Commonwealth Games? | Jason Statham | 2024/10/22 |
| UK | In the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, one of the poker players is played by actress Tsia Chin. In which Bond film had she appeared 39 years earlier, playing a woman to whom Bond asks ‘Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?’ moments before she instigates a fake assassination attempt utilising a Murphy bed? | You Only Live Twice | 2024/10/22 |
| UK | What is the single word title of the 2021 documentary film by English director Andrea Arnold that follows the life of a specific species of farmyard animal? | Cow | 2024/10/31 |
| UK | What film did the director Alfred Hitchcock make twice, reportedly telling the latter version’s scriptwriter not to watch the original so as to create a new story, and saying ‘let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur, and the second was made by a professional’? | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 2024/12/19 |
| UK | Film director Duncan Jones, who directed the films Moon, Source Code, and Warcraft, is the child of which British musician? | David Bowie *David Bowie’s real name was David Jones. | 2025/01/09 |
| France | Which French sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, was known by her initials B.B.? | Brigitte Bardot | 2023/04/16 |
| France | Which 1968 cult sci-fi fantasy stars Jane Fonda as a space-traveler tortured in a 'Exsexsive Machine', an instrument designed to kill through sexual pleasure? | Barbarella | 2023/04/16 |
| France | The 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar follows the mistreatment of what type of working animal? | Donkey | 2023/04/16 |
| France | The showing of which acclaimed French horror film at the 1960 Edinburgh Film Festival reportedly led to seven people fainting, prompting its director Georges Franju to quip ‘Now I know why Scotsmen wear skirts’? | Eyes Without a Face *Original French: Les Yeux sans visage | 2024/11/14 |
| Eastern Europe | Described by the New Yorker magazine as ‘one of the great outpourings of cinematic invention’, but by TV Guide as ‘incoherent’, what is the floral-themed name of the 1966 surreal Czechoslovakia New Wave film about two young women, both named Marie, who decide to act spoilt in a spoilt society? | Daisies | 2024/12/07 |
| Asia | Japanese film Wild Zero, South Korean film Train to Busan, Cambodian film Run!, and Taiwanese film The Sadness all feature humans fighting against what type of horror creature? | Zombies | 2024/12/07 |
| Academy Awards | Who in 2023 became the first director to have their first three solo directed films all nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award? | Greta Gerwig (Ladybird, 2017; Little Women, 2019; Barbie, 2023) *Gerwig had previously co-directed low-budget indie film Nights and Weekends in 2008. | 2024/12/07 |
| Academy Awards | Dennis Muren has the most Academy Award wins of any living person, with nine. In which category have eight of those wins occurred? | Best Visual Effects *Muren was part of teams that won for The Empire Strikes Back (1980), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Return of the Jedi (1983), Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom (1984), Innerspace (1987), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and Jurassic Park (1993). | 2024/12/14 |
| Miscellaneous | The films Strange Days, The Poseidon Adventure, Bridget Jones Diary, and Ghostbusters 2 all have parties celebrating which holiday? | New Year | 2023/04/16 |
| Miscellaneous | What name is shared by an Italian film about a child and a theatre projectionist that won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and a UK DVD rental service? | Cinema Paradiso | 2024/04/08 |
| Miscellaneous | In which European country was the actress Audrey Hepburn born? | Belgium | 2024/10/22 |
| Miscellaneous | Doran Godwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anya Taylor-Joy have all played on screen which Jane Austen heroine? | Emma | 2024/10/31 |
| Miscellaneous | The actress and World War 2 refugee Madeleine Lebeau, who died in 2016, was the last surviving cast member from which 1942 film, in which she famously cried real tears during a rendition of La Marseillaise? | Casablanca | 2024/11/14 |
| Miscellaneous | With titles such as Every Christmas has a Story, Christmas Cookies, Broadcasting Christmas, and My Christmas Love, the film studio arm of which card company has become synonymous with Yuletide romances in which overworked female executives fall in love with kind small-town men, and ultimately discover what truly matters in life? | Hallmark | 2024/12/19 |
| Miscellaneous | The initials A.S.C. are frequently seen after names during the closing credits of American films. To what invited membership organisation do the letters A.S.C. refer? | American Society of Cinematographers | 2025/01/09 |
Film - 2 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | Which two films directed by Victor Fleming, both released in 1939, were named amongst the 25 inaugural entries into the US National Film Registry in 1989? | 1. Gone with the Wind 2. The Wizard of Oz | 2024/05/30 |
| US | In the 1997 film Titanic, Rose and Jack prove their artistic taste by name-checking the skills of which two famous turn-of-the-20th century artists? | 1. Pablo Picasso 2. Claude Monet | 2024/10/22 |
| US | Which two future Academy Award winners starred in both Dazed and Confused and The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, having both graduated the University of Texas in Austin one year apart? | 1. Renée Zellweger 2. Matthew McConaughey | 2024/10/17 |
| UK | Roger Deakins has served as cinematographer on which two films named for years in the 20th century? | 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four 2. 1917 | 2023/04/16 |
| Academy Awards | For which two films did Marlon Brando receive Academy Awards for Best Actor, the second of which he famously declined? | 1. On the Waterfront 2. The Godfather | 2023/04/16 |
| Academy Awards | For which two films, both of which include years in their titles, has British cinematographer Roger Deakins won Best Cinematography Academy Awards? | 1. Blade Runner 2049 2. 1917 | 2023/04/16 |
| Awards | In 1999, who did the American Film Institute respectively name as the Greatest American Male Screen Legend and Greatest American Female Screen Legend, with the criteria being the actor must have been born in 1950 or before, or have already died? | 1. Humphrey Bogart 2. Katherine Hepburn | 2024/10/22 |
| Awards | Which two women have won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Director, picking up the awards in 2020 and 2021 respectively? | 1. Chloe Zhao (for Nomadland) 2. Jane Campion (for The Power of the Dog) | 2024/12/27 |
Film - 3 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | Which three actresses played the leads in the 1980 comedy 9 to 5, about three women taking revenge on their sexist boss? | 1 Dolly Parton 2. Lily Tomlin 3. Jane Fonda | 2023/04/16 |
| US | Which three future Academy Award winners were amongst the cast of 1993 cult film Dazed and Confused? | 1. Ben Affleck 2. Matthew McConaughey 3. Renée Zellweger | 2024/12/07 |
| Awards | Which three films are tied for the most Academy Awards wins, each having 11? | 1. Ben Hur (1959) 2. Titanic (1997) 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003) | 2024/12/09 |
Film - 4 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | Name the 4 films for which Renee Zellweger has been nominated for either a Best Actress of Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. | 1. Bridget Jones's Diary 2. Chicago 3. Cold Mountain 4. Judy | 2023/04/16 |
| US | What are the names of the four films to date in The Matrix franchise? | 1. The Matrix (1999) 2. The Matrix Reloaded (2003) 3. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 4. The Matrix Resurrections (2021) | 2024/12/09 |
| Academy Awards | Name the four musicals which won the Academy Award for Best Picture during the 1960s. | 1. West Side Story (1961) 2. My Fair Lady (1964) 3. The Sound of Music (1965) 4. Oliver! (1968) | 2023/04/16 |
| Academy Awards | Name the four 21st-century winners of the Academy Award for Best Actress that do not have a letter 'e' in their names. | 1. Hilary Swank (2004) 2. Marion Cotillard (2007) 3. Sandra Bullock (2009) 4. Olivia Colman (2018) | 2024/10/22 |
| Academy Awards | What four surnames have been shared by a winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actress? | 1. Crawford 2. Fonda 3. Colman 4. Smith *Joan Crawford (1945) and Broderick Crawford (1949); Jane Fonda (1971 and 1978) and her father Henry Fonda (1981); Ronald Colman (1947) and Oliva Colman (2018); Maggie Smith (1969) and Will Smith (2021). | 2024/10/22 |
| Academy Awards | Who are the only four actors to have won back-to-back Best Actor or Best Actress Academy Awards? | 1. Luise Rainer (1936,1937) 2. Spencer Tracy (1937,1938) 3. Katherine Hepburn (1967,1968) 4. Tom Hanks (1993, 1994) | 2024/10/31 |
Film - 5 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| US | Name the 5 film studios deemed The Big 5 during Hollywood's 1930 to 1960 Golden Age. | 1. RKO Pictures 2. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 3. 20th Century Fox 4. Paramount Pictures 5. Warner Bros. | 2023/04/16 |
| US | Name the five people who have directed Star Wars films in the Skywalker saga - that being the three trilogies of 1977-1983, 1999-2005, and 2015-2019, and excluding the films Rogue One and Solo. | 1. George Lucas 2. Irvin Kershner 3. Richard Marquand 4. JJ Abrams 5. Rian Johnson *Lucas: A New Hope (1977), The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), Revenge of the Sith (2005) Kershner: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Marquand: Return of the Jedi (1983) Abrams: The Force Awakens (2015), The rise of Skywalker (2019) Johnson: The Last Jedi (2017) | 2023/04/16 |
| US | What were the names of the five films in the Twilight film franchise? | 1. Twilight (2008) 2. New Moon (2009) 3. Eclipse (2010) 4. Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) 5. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) | 2024/12/14 |
| US | From the character's first appearance in 1990's The Hunt for Red October, which five American actors have portrayed CIA operative Jack Ryan in films? | 1. Alec Baldwin 2. Harrison Ford 3. Ben Affleck 4. Chris Pine 5. John Krasinski | 2024/12/16 |
| UK & Ireland | Which five films featuring Rowan Atkinson have Richard Curtis as a credited writer? | 1. Dead on Time (1983) 2. The Tall Guy (1989) 3. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 4. Bean (1997) 5. Love Actually (2003) *The sequel to Bean, Mr. Bean's Holiday, starred Atkinson but was not written by Curtis. | 2025/01/05 |
| UK & Ireland | Which five films written by Richard Curtis have starred Hugh Grant? | 1. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 2. Notting Hill (1999) 3. Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) 4. Love Actually (2003) 5. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) | 2025/01/09 |
| Miscellaneous | In the Dark Knight film trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan, which actors respectively played the villains of Joker, Bane, Two-face, Scarecrow, and Ra’s al Ghul? | 1. Heath Ledger 2. Tom Hardy 3.Aaron Eckhart 4. Cillian Murphy 5. Liam Neeson | 2025/01/01 |
Film - 6 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| US | Name the six films for which Tom Hanks has been nominated for either a Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. | 1. Big 2. Philadelphia 3. Forrest Gump 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. Cast Away 6. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | 2023/04/16 |
Film - 7 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Bond | What are the seven entries in the James Bond film series that have a single-word title? | 1. Goldfinger (1964) 2. Thunderball (1965) 3. Moonraker (1979) 4. Octopussy (1983) 5. GoldenEye (1995) 6. Skyfall (2012) 7. Spectre (2015) | 7 December 2024 |
Film - 10 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| US | Name the 10 films directed by Quentin Tarantino? | 1. Reservoir Dogs 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Jackie Brown 4. Kill Bill vol. 1 5. Kill Bill vol. 2 6. Death Proof 7. Inglourios Basterds 8. Django Unchained 9. The Hateful Eight 10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 2023/04/16 |
Film - 11 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Film Music | Which 11 James Bond films have their title songs sung by Americans? | 1. Die Another Day (Madonna) 2. Quantum of Solace (Jack White & Alicia Keys) 3. No Time to Die (Billie Eilish) 4. Octopussy (Rita Coolidge) 5. Casino Royale (Chris Cornell) 6. Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow) 7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Louis Armstrong) 8. Licence to Kill (Gladys Knight) 9. The Spy Who Loved Me (Carly Simon) 10. Goldeneye (Tina Turner) 11. You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra) | 2023/04/16 |