Film & Television Trivia Questions
- What is the title of the upbeat, recurring theme song featured in the 2014 animated film The LEGO Movie?
- What Joss Whedon-created 'space western' was famously cancelled by Fox after one season, only to be concluded in the 2005 film Serenity?
- What legendary British naturalist and broadcaster is the narrator for the influential BBC nature documentary series Planet Earth?
- What long-running British show features a blue police box?
- What performer is the creator, writer, and star of the mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, in which she plays the optimistic teacher Janine Teagues?
- What popular British animated children's series features a title character who enjoys jumping in 'muddy puddles' and has been credited with influencing the accents of American children?
- What slapstick comedy duo, consisting of a thin Englishman and a heavy American, was known for the catchphrase, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"?
- What subgenre of comedy, exemplified by plays like 'Noises Off', is characterized by highly improbable situations, physical humor, and horseplay?
- What subgenre of science fiction blends futuristic technology with the aesthetics and tropes of the American Old West?
- What television show popularized the phrase "Winter is coming"?
- What term describes background actors without speaking roles?
- What term, now used to describe a highly successful and popular movie, originally referred to large aerial bombs used by the Royal Air Force in World War II?
- What term refers to a short promotional film clip for a movie or television show, originally shown after the feature film?
- What was the first cel-animated feature-length movie, released by Disney in 1937?
- What was the first movie released with a PG-13 rating?
- Which 1925 Sergei Eisenstein film is famous for its "Odessa Steps" sequence, a foundational example of the use of montage in cinema?
- Which 1927 silent film directed by Fritz Lang is a landmark of science fiction, featuring a futuristic city divided by class and a famous female robot named Maria?
- Which 1939 film features the famous line, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'?
- Which 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, was once the highest-grossing film of all time?
- Which 1939 film was the first to win the Academy Award for Best Picture while being filmed in Technicolor?
- Which 1939 musical fantasy film features a yellow brick road and a wizard?
- Which 1940 Disney film was the first major motion picture to be released with stereophonic sound?
- Which 1941 film is frequently cited by critics as the greatest movie ever made?
- Which 1941 Orson Welles film is famous for the dying word 'Rosebud'?
- Which 1945 Roberto Rossellini film, shot shortly after the Allied liberation, is credited with launching the Italian Neorealist movement?
- Which 1949 film noir set in Allied-occupied Vienna features a famous zither score and Orson Welles' improvised 'cuckoo clock' speech?
- Which 1950s sitcom starring Lucille Ball featured a major character's pregnancy as a central plot point?
- Which 1954 film by Akira Kurosawa inspired the American western 'The Magnificent Seven'?
- Which 1956 French short film, directed by Albert Lamorisse, follows the adventures of a young boy and a sentient, bright red toy?
- Which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film features the famous shower scene?
- Which 1960 Federico Fellini film is responsible for coining the term "paparazzi," derived from the name of a news photographer character?
- Which 1960 movie, directed by Billy Wilder, stars Jack Lemmon as an office worker who lets executives use his apartment for affairs?
- Which 1960 thriller was famously the first American film to show a toilet flushing?
- Which 1962 film features Peter O'Toole as a British officer during World War I?
- Which 1967 crime film directed by Arthur Penn is famous for its groundbreaking, violent 'ambush' finale involving a barrage of bullets?
- Which 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman pioneered the use of a pop-song soundtrack in a non-musical film?
- Which 1968 film directed by Stanley Kubrick depicts a voyage to Jupiter with a sentient computer named HAL 9000?
- Which 1969 road movie starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper is credited with launching the New Hollywood era by capturing the 1960s counterculture movement?
- Which 1970s sitcom set in a Minneapolis newsroom was groundbreaking for its depiction of an independent, professional woman who was never married?
- Which 1970s TV show followed the life of a Korean War mobile army surgical hospital?
- Which 1972 movie is about the Corleone crime family?
- Which 1973 dystopian film starring Charlton Heston is famous for the shocking final reveal that its titular food source is made of people?
- Which 1975 film features a giant shark terrorizing the fictional Amity Island?
- Which 1975 film is credited with being the first summer blockbuster?
- Which 1975 musical comedy horror film, featuring the character Dr. Frank-N-Furter, holds the record for the longest-running theatrical release due to its dedicated "midnight movie" following?
- Which 1976 satirical film features the character Howard Beale, a news anchor who becomes a populist icon after shouting, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"?
- Which 1977 film, later subtitled 'A New Hope', first introduced the character Darth Vader?
- Which 1977 film, later subtitled 'A New Hope', introduced the phrase 'May the Force be with you'?
- Which 1977 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, beating Star Wars?
- Which 1979 Ridley Scott film had the tagline 'In space no one can hear you scream'?