Daily Trivia Quiz #71 - Film, Cinema, TV, and Movie Trivia

Trivia questions about the cinema, TV and movie and film stars.

1. Which actor won Oscars for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and
   Rain Man?
    
2. Why did The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, make history in 1927?
    
3. In which television series did Roger Moore star from 1962 to 1970?
    
4. Who introduced the Betamax video cassette system?
    
5. Who played the title roles in the films Henry V (1944) and Hamlet
   (1948)?
    
6. What is Bugs Bunny's catchphrase?
    
7. Which nuclear physicist was allegedly the model for the scientist in
   Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove?
    
8. Which Hollywood film maker produced a string of films in the 1950s
   and 1960s using animals as actors in a drama?
    
9. Which silent film comedian was nicknamed the 'Great Stone Face'?
    
10. Who wrote the theme music for Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight?
     
11. Who wrote the screen play for the film  A Private Function?
     
12. To whom is Mae West popularly (but wrongly) supposed to have said
    'Come up and see me some time' in She Done Him Wrong?
     
13. Which character made his debut in the silent film Plane Crazy in
    1928?
     
14. Which American directed the controversial 1988 film The Last
    Temptation of Christ?
     
15. Which film star did the Canadian Gladys Mary Smith grow up to be?
     
16. Which film director is said to have invented montage in his films
    "Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potemkin?
     
17. Which director's films include Witness and the Mosquito Coast?
     
18. Which 1971 film won Jane Fonda the first of her Oscars?
     
19. Who was noted for his cameo walk-ons in his own films?
     
20. Which film actor shot to fame in 1976 with his portrayal of the boxer
    Rocky Balboa?
     
21. Who was the film director responsible for popularizing 'spaghetti'
    westerns?
     
22. Who played the monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein?
     
23. What is 'celluloid'?
     
24. Which satellite successfully transmitted television signals across
    the Atlantic in 1962?
     
25. How did James Dean die?
     
26. Which world-famous cartoon cat was created in 1920 by Pat Sullivan?
     
27. In which year was Channel 4 launched in Britain?
     
28. By which names were Virginia McMath and Frederick Austerlitz better
    known?
     
29. Who co-starred  with Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra?
     
30. Which television sci-fi show of the late 1970s and early 1980s
    starred Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as two of the 115 'elements'?
     
31. What was Arnold Schwarzenegger's original nationality?
     
32. Who was the cartoon character married to Jessica in a film starring
    Bob Hoskins?
     
33. Which former reform school boy starred in Bullitt and The Magnificent
    Seven?
     
34. Who starred in The Elephant Man and the Silence of the Lambs?
     

    
    

 

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 71 - Cinema, Film, Movie and TV Trivia

1. Dustin Hoffman.
2. It was the first talking picture.
3. The Saint.
4. Sony.
5. Laurence Olivier.
6. Eh, what's up, Doc?
7. Edward Teller.
8. Walt Disney.
9. Buster Keaton.
10. Charlie Chaplin.
11. Alan Bennett.
12. Cary Grant.
13. Mickey Mouse.
14. Martin Scorsese.
15. Mary Pickford.
16. Sergei Eisenstein.
17. Peter Weir.
18. Klute.
19. Alfred Hitchcock.
20. Sylvester Stallone.
21. Sergio Leone.
22. Boris Karloff.
23. Cellulose Nitrate.
24. Telstar.
25. In a car accident.
26. Felix the Cat.
27. 1982.
28. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
29. Richard Burton.
30. Sapphire and Steel.
31. Austrian.
32. Roger Rabbit.
33. Steve McQueen.
34. Anthony Hopkins.