Classic Movie Trivia

CLASSIC MOVIE TRIVIA

Sub-Categories: Breakfast at Tiffany's Trivia, Casablanca Trivia, Citizen Kane Trivia, The Godfather Trivia, Gone with the Wind Trivia, King Kong Trivia, The Wizard of Oz Trivia

1) What kind of samurai does Gisaku advise the villagers to hire in Seven Samurai?

HUNGRY RUTHLESS HONORABLE EXPERIENCED

Since they have no money and can only offer food as payment, Gisaku advises them to find hungry samurai.

2) How much does Rhett bid to dance with Scarlett in Gone With the Wind?

$75 $150 $25 $300

Rhett shocks the audience into silence by bidding $150 "in gold" for Scarlett as a dancing partner. Because she is in mourning, Rhett is told that it wouldn't be proper. But Scarlett scandalously accepts.

3) Which building does Kong scale in King Kong (1933)?

WOOLWORTH BUILDING CHRYSLER BUILDING GRAND CENTRAL STATION EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

After Fay Wray's death in 2004, the Empire State Building memorialized the actress by briefly dimming its lights in honor of her legendary climb with Kong.

4) Which character attempts suicide in Citizen Kane?

SUSAN EMILY JERRY KANE

After Susan attempts suicide, Kane releases her from her disastrous operatic career and retires to Xanadu.

5) What song does Ilsa ask Sam to play in Casablanca?

"AS TIME GOES BY""CHEEK TO CHEEK""LA MARSEILLAISE""IT HAD TO BE YOU"

When Ilsa, Rick's former lover, spots Sam in the nightclub, she asks him to play "As Time Goes By." Rick storms over, furious that Sam has disobeyed his order never to perform the song, and is stunned to see Ilsa.

6) What is the name of Margo Channing's Broadway play in All About Eve?

AGED IN WOOD FOOTSTEPS ON THE CEILING LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT THE EARTH BETWEEN

When Margo misses a performance of Aged in Wood, her devious young understudy plots to steal her career.

7) In which film did John Wayne first play U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn?

TRUE GRIT TWO-FISTED LAW ROOSTER COGBURN RED RIVER

Wayne won his only Oscar for his performance in True Grit and reprised his role for the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn.

8) Where does Paul get the ring he gives Holly in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

HIS MOTHER CRACKERJACK BOX TIFFANY'S HIS "DECORATOR"

Although the ring is engraved at Tiffany's, he gets it out of a Crackerjack box.

9) The musical score for Psycho consists entirely of _____.

STRINGS BRASS INSTRUMENTS WOODWINDS PERCUSSION

Despite Hitchcock's initial plan to use jazz, Bernard Herrmann's immortal Psycho score contains only stringed instruments.

10) Which film follows three U.S. Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor?

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS FROM HERE TO ETERNITY THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE A WALK IN THE SUN

The film's title comes from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers" about soldiers of the British Empire who had lost their way and were "damned from here to eternity".